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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 357 447
Rank change year-on-year -74 +90 -207
Contract jobs citing Maven 113 152 124
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.41% 3.78% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 88 87
10th Percentile £332 £363 £410
25th Percentile £450 £461 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +0.46% -15.77%
75th Percentile £615 £689 £675
90th Percentile £685 £863 £738
UK median daily rate £541 £543 £530
% change year-on-year -0.32% +2.36% -15.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £57.25
25th Percentile - - £60.63
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £73.38
90th Percentile - - £76.15
UK median hourly rate - - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +28.57%

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 4,684 4,020 4,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.13% 13.26% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,521 3,424
10th Percentile £330 £345 £375
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 101 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

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 7 December 2025.

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
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 7 December 2025. 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 -38 62 £543 -1.27% 12
North of England -48 15 £473 +12.84% 11
Midlands -23 13 £542 -27.80% 3
South East -12 11 £450 -30.77% 6
South West -17 10 £550 -15.38% 10
West Midlands -18 10 £558 - 3
North West -23 9 £342 -18.45% 1
Yorkshire -37 6 £586 +30.28% 10
East Midlands -16 3 £270 -64.00%
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 12 (10.62%) Confluence
2 4 (3.54%) Apache
2 4 (3.54%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.77%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.77%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.88%) CICS
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 43 (38.05%) AWS
2 35 (30.97%) Azure
3 26 (23.01%) GitHub
4 19 (16.81%) GCP
5 14 (12.39%) OpenShift
6 13 (11.50%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (11.50%) Serverless
7 12 (10.62%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (10.62%) npm
8 11 (9.73%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (9.73%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (9.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.85%) Apigee
10 9 (7.96%) Datadog
10 9 (7.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (7.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (7.08%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (7.08%) AWS Fargate
11 8 (7.08%) Azure AKS
11 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.19%) AMQP
2 2 (1.77%) Firewall
2 2 (1.77%) MQTT
2 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.77%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.93%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (15.04%) Relational Database
3 16 (14.16%) SQL Server
4 14 (12.39%) RDBMS
5 12 (10.62%) NoSQL
6 11 (9.73%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (9.73%) MongoDB
7 10 (8.85%) Redis
8 9 (7.96%) DynamoDB
9 8 (7.08%) Oracle Database
10 7 (6.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (5.31%) MySQL
12 5 (4.42%) BigQuery
13 4 (3.54%) InfluxDB
13 4 (3.54%) Tick Data
14 2 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.77%) Big Data
14 2 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (1.77%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 64 (56.64%) Git
2 46 (40.71%) Jenkins
3 43 (38.05%) GitLab
4 42 (37.17%) Gradle
5 38 (33.63%) JUnit
6 32 (28.32%) SonarQube
7 30 (26.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 23 (20.35%) Mockito
8 23 (20.35%) Selenium
9 22 (19.47%) JIRA
10 21 (18.58%) Cucumber
11 18 (15.93%) Bitbucket
12 14 (12.39%) Postman
13 8 (7.08%) Artifactory
13 8 (7.08%) REST Assured
14 7 (6.19%) Subversion
15 6 (5.31%) Cypress.io
15 6 (5.31%) IntelliJ
15 6 (5.31%) SoapUI
16 5 (4.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 34 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.47%) Banking
3 21 (18.58%) Finance
4 7 (6.19%) Investment Banking
5 6 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Front Office
6 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.65%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) Law
9 1 (0.88%) Publishing
9 1 (0.88%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (53.98%) Developer
2 51 (45.13%) Java Developer
3 19 (16.81%) Senior
4 14 (12.39%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.73%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (6.19%) Java Engineer
7 7 (6.19%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Applications Support
9 5 (4.42%) Applications Support Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Architect
9 5 (4.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Java Architect
9 5 (4.42%) Java Technical Architect
9 5 (4.42%) Lead
9 5 (4.42%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.54%) Fidessa Developer
10 4 (3.54%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (43.36%) Spring Boot
2 47 (41.59%) Spring
3 27 (23.89%) HTML
4 24 (21.24%) REST
5 23 (20.35%) JPA
6 22 (19.47%) Hibernate
7 21 (18.58%) React
8 20 (17.70%) CSS
8 20 (17.70%) JSON
9 19 (16.81%) Kafka
10 18 (15.93%) AngularJS
11 17 (15.04%) RESTful
12 16 (14.16%) Node.js
13 11 (9.73%) J2EE
14 10 (8.85%) Jest
15 9 (7.96%) Bootstrap
15 9 (7.96%) HTML5
15 9 (7.96%) SOAP
15 9 (7.96%) XML
16 8 (7.08%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.73%) Cloud Native
1 11 (9.73%) Data Centre
1 11 (9.73%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.42%) Equities
3 5 (4.42%) N-Tier
3 5 (4.42%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.54%) Derivative
5 3 (2.65%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.77%) Clustering
6 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.77%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.77%) IoT
6 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.77%) TWAP
6 2 (1.77%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.01%) Linux
2 16 (14.16%) Unix
3 8 (7.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.42%) CentOS
5 3 (2.65%) Solaris
5 3 (2.65%) Windows
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (54.87%) CI/CD
2 52 (46.02%) Agile
2 52 (46.02%) Microservices
3 44 (38.94%) DevOps
4 32 (28.32%) Containerisation
4 32 (28.32%) TDD
5 31 (27.43%) Test Automation
6 30 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (21.24%) Mentoring
8 20 (17.70%) SDLC
9 19 (16.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (15.93%) Design Patterns
10 18 (15.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (14.16%) OO
11 16 (14.16%) Software Engineering
12 14 (12.39%) Scrum
13 13 (11.50%) BDD
13 13 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (11.50%) Unit Testing
14 12 (10.62%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 92 (81.42%) Java
2 34 (30.09%) SQL
3 29 (25.66%) JavaScript
4 25 (22.12%) Python
5 12 (10.62%) Shell Script
6 11 (9.73%) Bash
7 10 (8.85%) TypeScript
8 9 (7.96%) Groovy
9 4 (3.54%) C
9 4 (3.54%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.77%) C#
10 2 (1.77%) C++
10 2 (1.77%) Go
10 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.77%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.77%) Rust
10 2 (1.77%) Scala
11 1 (0.88%) Clojure
11 1 (0.88%) COBOL
11 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.39%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.54%) Degree
5 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) OCP
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) WCAG
2 6 (5.31%) QA
3 3 (2.65%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
System Software
1 51 (45.13%) Docker
2 2 (1.77%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 51 (45.13%) Kubernetes
2 30 (26.55%) Terraform
3 23 (20.35%) Grafana
4 20 (17.70%) Ansible
5 14 (12.39%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.19%) Kibana
7 6 (5.31%) Progress Chef
7 6 (5.31%) Puppet
8 4 (3.54%) Argo
8 4 (3.54%) Podman
9 2 (1.77%) CloudHub
9 2 (1.77%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.77%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.88%) Control-M
10 1 (0.88%) Istio
10 1 (0.88%) logstash
10 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (22.12%) Oracle
2 12 (10.62%) Splunk
3 8 (7.08%) Solace
4 7 (6.19%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (5.31%) Veracode
6 5 (4.42%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.42%) Gigya
6 5 (4.42%) Google
6 5 (4.42%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.42%) Sybase
7 3 (2.65%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.65%) VMware
8 2 (1.77%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.77%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.88%) Adobe
9 1 (0.88%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.88%) TOWER Software