Maven Contract Job Trends in England

Apache Maven
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Maven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 345 431
Rank change year-on-year -159 +86 -145
Contract jobs citing Maven 119 158 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.60% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.29% 4.20% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 125 79
10th Percentile £366 £272 £400
25th Percentile £456 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -3.06% -20.97%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £575
90th Percentile £748 £644 £780
UK median daily rate £517 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.91% -5.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £59.00 £63.25 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
75th Percentile - £69.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year +40.74% - -

All Development Application Skills
England

Maven falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,189 3,765 4,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.75% 14.18% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,336 2,566 3,060
10th Percentile £350 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £637
90th Percentile £688 £707 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 81 234
10th Percentile £28.53 £28.41 £33.02
25th Percentile £58.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Maven relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Maven job vacancy trend in England

Maven
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Maven.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Maven

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in England

Maven
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Maven.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Maven

Maven
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Maven in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Maven in England

Maven
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the England region over the 6 months to 6 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -92 54 £575 +9.00% 14
Midlands -72 28 £543 +27.82% 6
North of England -88 27 £488 +21.27% 6
West Midlands -57 25 £543 +12.01% 3
Yorkshire -44 22 £488 -6.20% 3
South East -43 13 £355 -39.32% 4
North West -60 4 £475 +32.68% 3
South West -27 2 £525 +2.44% 3
East Midlands -31 2 - - 3
North East -39 1 £520 +11.83%
Maven
UK

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.56%) Confluence
2 6 (5.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (4.20%) Apache
4 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.68%) CMS
5 2 (1.68%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.84%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.84%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (53.78%) AWS
2 37 (31.09%) GitHub
3 29 (24.37%) Azure
4 24 (20.17%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (19.33%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (19.33%) Amazon S3
6 21 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (15.97%) GCP
7 19 (15.97%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (15.13%) AWS KMS
8 18 (15.13%) Route 53
9 8 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.88%) OCI
11 6 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (3.36%) Apigee
12 4 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.36%) Cloud Run
12 4 (3.36%) Kong
12 4 (3.36%) Serverless
13 3 (2.52%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.84%) Internet
2 1 (0.84%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (30.25%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (21.01%) DynamoDB
3 22 (18.49%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (15.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (10.92%) SQL Server
6 11 (9.24%) Metadata
7 10 (8.40%) Relational Database
8 9 (7.56%) MongoDB
9 7 (5.88%) MySQL
10 4 (3.36%) Flink
10 4 (3.36%) Hazelcast
10 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.36%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.36%) Redis
11 3 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.52%) Tick Data
12 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 69 (57.98%) Jenkins
2 59 (49.58%) Git
3 46 (38.66%) JUnit
4 41 (34.45%) Gradle
5 38 (31.93%) SonarQube
6 29 (24.37%) Mockito
7 20 (16.81%) GitLab
8 14 (11.76%) DbUnit
9 13 (10.92%) JIRA
9 13 (10.92%) jMock
10 12 (10.08%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (9.24%) REST Assured
12 9 (7.56%) Cucumber
12 9 (7.56%) Gatling
13 8 (6.72%) Postman
13 8 (6.72%) TestNG
14 7 (5.88%) Artifactory
14 7 (5.88%) Selenium
14 7 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (5.04%) Eclipse
General
1 37 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.49%) Public Sector
3 21 (17.65%) Finance
4 12 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.08%) Banking
5 7 (5.88%) Publishing
6 5 (4.20%) Front Office
7 4 (3.36%) Retail
8 3 (2.52%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (58.82%) Developer
2 60 (50.42%) Java Developer
3 29 (24.37%) Senior
4 23 (19.33%) Senior Developer
4 23 (19.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (10.08%) Java Engineer
6 10 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Lead
7 7 (5.88%) Lead Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Applications Developer
8 6 (5.04%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Architect
9 5 (4.20%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Backend Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.36%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (62.18%) Spring
2 56 (47.06%) Spring Boot
3 38 (31.93%) REST
4 35 (29.41%) JPA
5 25 (21.01%) Hibernate
6 24 (20.17%) RESTful
6 24 (20.17%) Web Services
7 22 (18.49%) AngularJS
7 22 (18.49%) Node.js
7 22 (18.49%) SOAP
8 21 (17.65%) Spring Cloud
9 20 (16.81%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (15.13%) Spring Batch
10 18 (15.13%) Spring Integration
11 16 (13.45%) Bootstrap
12 14 (11.76%) Kafka
13 13 (10.92%) JSON
13 13 (10.92%) Playwright
13 13 (10.92%) PowerMock
14 10 (8.40%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.01%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.52%) Equities
5 3 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.68%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.84%) Derivative
7 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.84%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.84%) TWAP
7 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.84%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.21%) Linux
2 9 (7.56%) Unix
3 4 (3.36%) Windows
4 1 (0.84%) Android
4 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (63.03%) CI/CD
2 65 (54.62%) DevOps
3 57 (47.90%) Microservices
4 39 (32.77%) Agile
5 36 (30.25%) TDD
6 34 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 33 (27.73%) Scrum
8 32 (26.89%) Test Automation
9 24 (20.17%) Performance Tuning
10 21 (17.65%) Event-Driven
11 19 (15.97%) BDD
11 19 (15.97%) Software Engineering
12 17 (14.29%) Kanban
13 15 (12.61%) Observability
14 14 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (10.92%) Unit Testing
16 12 (10.08%) BPMN
16 12 (10.08%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 109 (91.60%) Java
2 51 (42.86%) SQL
3 25 (21.01%) Python
4 11 (9.24%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.40%) Groovy
6 8 (6.72%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.04%) Scala
8 2 (1.68%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.84%) Bash
9 1 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (34.45%) Security Cleared
2 36 (30.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.72%) Degree
4 6 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.20%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.20%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.13%) QA
2 5 (4.20%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.36%) SLA
4 3 (2.52%) SEPA
5 2 (1.68%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.68%) PSD2
6 1 (0.84%) GDPR
6 1 (0.84%) ITGC
6 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (43.70%) Docker
2 11 (9.24%) Postfix
3 3 (2.52%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 39 (32.77%) Kubernetes
2 26 (21.85%) Grafana
3 24 (20.17%) Terraform
4 13 (10.92%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.04%) Argo
5 6 (5.04%) HAProxy
6 4 (3.36%) Kibana
7 3 (2.52%) Ansible
8 1 (0.84%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 18 (15.13%) Atlassian
2 17 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
3 13 (10.92%) Microsoft
4 11 (9.24%) Oracle
5 10 (8.40%) Sonatype
6 8 (6.72%) Splunk
7 6 (5.04%) Solace
8 5 (4.20%) Sybase
9 3 (2.52%) IBM
10 2 (1.68%) Adobe
10 2 (1.68%) Google
10 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.68%) SAP
10 2 (1.68%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.84%) Thales
11 1 (0.84%) Veracode
11 1 (0.84%) VMware