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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 353 443
Rank change year-on-year -32 +90 -210
Contract jobs citing Maven 149 158 144
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.51% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.29% 3.86% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 91 99
10th Percentile £305 £363 £406
25th Percentile £375 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £586 £685 £719
90th Percentile £645 £863 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile - - £67.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £74.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.95%

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 4,529 4,095 5,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.39% 13.28% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,164 2,570 3,606
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £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 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 124 229
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.88 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £74.83 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 9 November 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 9 November 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 -12 79 £520 -5.45% 59
North of England -22 28 £367 -8.25% 11
Midlands -2 26 £488 -35.00% 4
North West -6 18 £358 -10.50% 6
West Midlands -11 18 £531 - 4
Yorkshire -20 10 £475 +5.56% 4
South East +1 9 £450 -25.00% 54
South West 0 9 £550 -15.38% 4
East Midlands -4 8 £345 -54.00%
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 13 (8.72%) Confluence
2 8 (5.37%) JBoss
2 8 (5.37%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.68%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.01%) CICS
4 3 (2.01%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.34%) Apache
5 2 (1.34%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.67%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 68 (45.64%) AWS
2 46 (30.87%) Azure
3 30 (20.13%) GitHub
4 23 (15.44%) GCP
5 22 (14.77%) OpenShift
6 21 (14.09%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (13.42%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (10.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (10.07%) Amazon S3
9 13 (8.72%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (8.72%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (8.72%) npm
9 13 (8.72%) Serverless
10 12 (8.05%) AWS Fargate
10 12 (8.05%) Route 53
11 11 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (7.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (6.71%) Apigee
12 10 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.03%) AMQP
2 2 (1.34%) Calico
2 2 (1.34%) DMZ
2 2 (1.34%) Internet
2 2 (1.34%) MQTT
2 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.67%) Firewall
3 1 (0.67%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.67%) Multicast
3 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.15%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (15.44%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (12.08%) DynamoDB
3 18 (12.08%) Relational Database
4 17 (11.41%) SQL Server
5 16 (10.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (9.40%) MongoDB
6 14 (9.40%) RDBMS
7 13 (8.72%) NoSQL
8 11 (7.38%) Oracle Database
8 11 (7.38%) Redis
9 7 (4.70%) MySQL
10 5 (3.36%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.68%) DB2
11 4 (2.68%) Tick Data
12 3 (2.01%) Big Data
12 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.01%) HPCC
12 3 (2.01%) InfluxDB
13 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 89 (59.73%) Git
2 72 (48.32%) Jenkins
3 61 (40.94%) JUnit
4 54 (36.24%) Gradle
5 52 (34.90%) GitLab
6 44 (29.53%) SonarQube
6 44 (29.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 31 (20.81%) Cucumber
8 30 (20.13%) JIRA
9 29 (19.46%) Mockito
10 28 (18.79%) Selenium
11 21 (14.09%) Postman
12 16 (10.74%) REST Assured
13 15 (10.07%) Bitbucket
14 12 (8.05%) IntelliJ
15 11 (7.38%) Artifactory
16 10 (6.71%) Cypress.io
17 8 (5.37%) Subversion
18 7 (4.70%) Eclipse
18 7 (4.70%) JMeter
General
1 38 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.13%) Finance
3 27 (18.12%) Banking
4 18 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.04%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.03%) Front Office
8 3 (2.01%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Retail
10 1 (0.67%) Aviation
10 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.67%) Law
10 1 (0.67%) Publishing
10 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (54.36%) Developer
2 64 (42.95%) Java Developer
3 22 (14.77%) Senior
4 16 (10.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (8.72%) AWS Developer
5 13 (8.72%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (8.05%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.71%) Java Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (5.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (5.37%) Lead
9 7 (4.70%) Architect
9 7 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Support Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Java Architect
11 5 (3.36%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (3.36%) Lead Developer
11 5 (3.36%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.36%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (44.30%) Spring
2 65 (43.62%) Spring Boot
3 38 (25.50%) REST
4 32 (21.48%) JPA
5 29 (19.46%) HTML
6 28 (18.79%) Hibernate
6 28 (18.79%) RESTful
7 25 (16.78%) SOAP
8 21 (14.09%) AngularJS
8 21 (14.09%) CSS
8 21 (14.09%) Kafka
8 21 (14.09%) React
9 20 (13.42%) Spring Cloud
10 18 (12.08%) JSON
10 18 (12.08%) Web Services
11 17 (11.41%) Node.js
12 16 (10.74%) Bootstrap
13 15 (10.07%) J2EE
14 12 (8.05%) Jest
14 12 (8.05%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.38%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.71%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.36%) N-Tier
4 5 (3.36%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.68%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.68%) Equities
6 3 (2.01%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.01%) Clustering
6 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.01%) Derivative
6 3 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.01%) IVR
6 3 (2.01%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.01%) VSAM
7 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.34%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.34%) IoT
7 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (28.86%) Linux
2 29 (19.46%) Unix
3 10 (6.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.36%) CentOS
5 4 (2.68%) Solaris
5 4 (2.68%) Windows
6 2 (1.34%) Android
6 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (53.02%) CI/CD
2 69 (46.31%) Agile
3 68 (45.64%) Microservices
4 57 (38.26%) DevOps
5 46 (30.87%) TDD
6 42 (28.19%) Containerisation
6 42 (28.19%) Test Automation
7 35 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (20.13%) Design Patterns
9 27 (18.12%) Mentoring
10 21 (14.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (14.09%) Scrum
10 21 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (13.42%) SDLC
12 19 (12.75%) BDD
12 19 (12.75%) Code Quality
12 19 (12.75%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (11.41%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (11.41%) OO
13 17 (11.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 122 (81.88%) Java
2 42 (28.19%) SQL
3 38 (25.50%) JavaScript
4 35 (23.49%) Python
5 23 (15.44%) Shell Script
6 13 (8.72%) Bash
6 13 (8.72%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.04%) Groovy
8 8 (5.37%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.36%) C
10 4 (2.68%) C++
11 3 (2.01%) C#
11 3 (2.01%) COBOL
11 3 (2.01%) JCL
12 2 (1.34%) Go
12 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.34%) Rust
12 2 (1.34%) Scala
13 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.12%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.05%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.01%) Degree
5 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.67%) OCP
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.72%) WCAG
2 12 (8.05%) QA
3 8 (5.37%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.01%) Def Stans
System Software
1 76 (51.01%) Docker
2 4 (2.68%) Postfix
3 2 (1.34%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 55 (36.91%) Kubernetes
2 31 (20.81%) Terraform
3 27 (18.12%) Grafana
4 21 (14.09%) Ansible
5 20 (13.42%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.04%) Puppet
7 6 (4.03%) Kibana
7 6 (4.03%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.36%) Istio
8 5 (3.36%) Podman
9 4 (2.68%) Argo
10 3 (2.01%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.67%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.67%) Control-M
11 1 (0.67%) logstash
11 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (22.15%) Oracle
2 15 (10.07%) Splunk
3 12 (8.05%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (6.04%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.04%) Solace
5 7 (4.70%) Google
6 6 (4.03%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.03%) Veracode
7 5 (3.36%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.36%) Gigya
7 5 (3.36%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.36%) Sybase
8 4 (2.68%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (2.68%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.68%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.01%) Bloomberg
9 3 (2.01%) Refinitiv
9 3 (2.01%) VMware
10 2 (1.34%) IBM
11 1 (0.67%) Adobe