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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 372 454
Rank change year-on-year -59 +82 -197
Contract jobs citing Maven 108 117 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.31% 3.25% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 64 67
10th Percentile £372 £360 £410
25th Percentile £488 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -19.23%
75th Percentile £625 £678 £610
90th Percentile £695 £793 £743
UK median daily rate £550 £539 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% +2.62% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.76%

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 4,670 3,603 4,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.68% 13.41% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,241 2,237 3,112
10th Percentile £334 £338 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.72% -4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 67 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.63 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.65 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 18 January 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
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 18 January 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 -15 57 £575 +2.22% 13
North of England -58 15 £489 +11.66% 10
West Midlands -28 13 £575 +9.52% 7
Midlands -36 13 £575 +9.52% 7
South East -15 12 £450 -29.41% 12
South West -8 9 £550 -15.38% 6
Yorkshire -41 9 £372 -25.60% 8
North West -39 6 £575 +31.43% 2
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 8 (7.41%) Confluence
2 5 (4.63%) Apache
2 5 (4.63%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.85%) Camunda
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.93%) JBoss
5 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 44 (40.74%) AWS
2 32 (29.63%) Azure
3 31 (28.70%) GitHub
4 19 (17.59%) GCP
5 16 (14.81%) OpenShift
6 13 (12.04%) npm
7 12 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (10.19%) Serverless
9 10 (9.26%) Apigee
9 10 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (9.26%) Datadog
10 9 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (8.33%) Azure AKS
10 9 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) AMQP
2 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.93%) Firewall
3 1 (0.93%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.93%) HTTP
3 1 (0.93%) Multicast
3 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.74%) Relational Database
2 13 (12.04%) RDBMS
3 12 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 12 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (10.19%) MongoDB
5 9 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 8 (7.41%) MySQL
7 7 (6.48%) DynamoDB
7 7 (6.48%) Redis
7 7 (6.48%) Tick Data
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.63%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.63%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.78%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.93%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 63 (58.33%) Git
2 44 (40.74%) Gradle
2 44 (40.74%) Jenkins
3 39 (36.11%) GitLab
4 34 (31.48%) JUnit
5 27 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 20 (18.52%) SonarQube
7 18 (16.67%) JIRA
7 18 (16.67%) Selenium
8 16 (14.81%) Mockito
9 14 (12.96%) Cucumber
10 13 (12.04%) Bitbucket
11 12 (11.11%) Postman
12 9 (8.33%) Artifactory
12 9 (8.33%) Cypress.io
13 6 (5.56%) webpack
14 5 (4.63%) CircleCI
14 5 (4.63%) REST Assured
14 5 (4.63%) Snyk
14 5 (4.63%) SonarLint
General
1 34 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.59%) Banking
2 19 (17.59%) Finance
3 8 (7.41%) Front Office
4 7 (6.48%) Investment Banking
5 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.63%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.78%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (48.15%) Developer
2 44 (40.74%) Java Developer
3 22 (20.37%) Senior
4 14 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (12.04%) Senior Developer
6 11 (10.19%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (7.41%) Lead
8 7 (6.48%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Applications Support
8 7 (6.48%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Fidessa Developer
8 7 (6.48%) Java Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Technical Architect
11 3 (2.78%) Senior Java Engineer
11 3 (2.78%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (46.30%) Spring
2 39 (36.11%) Spring Boot
3 20 (18.52%) REST
4 19 (17.59%) HTML
5 18 (16.67%) JSON
5 18 (16.67%) React
6 15 (13.89%) AngularJS
7 13 (12.04%) CSS
7 13 (12.04%) Kafka
7 13 (12.04%) RESTful
8 12 (11.11%) JPA
9 9 (8.33%) Hibernate
10 8 (7.41%) Bootstrap
10 8 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (7.41%) Gherkin
10 8 (7.41%) Node.js
10 8 (7.41%) Playwright
10 8 (7.41%) XML
11 7 (6.48%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (6.48%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.41%) Equities
4 6 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.63%) Derivative
5 5 (4.63%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.78%) TWAP
7 3 (2.78%) VWAP
8 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.85%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.93%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.15%) Linux
2 10 (9.26%) Unix
3 7 (6.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.70%) CentOS
5 3 (2.78%) Solaris
6 2 (1.85%) Windows
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.93%) CI/CD
2 44 (40.74%) Microservices
3 43 (39.81%) Agile
4 40 (37.04%) DevOps
5 35 (32.41%) Containerisation
6 32 (29.63%) Test Automation
7 29 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (18.52%) Mentoring
8 20 (18.52%) TDD
9 19 (17.59%) Scrum
9 19 (17.59%) Software Engineering
10 17 (15.74%) Design Patterns
10 17 (15.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (14.81%) SDLC
12 14 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (12.96%) OO
13 12 (11.11%) OOP
13 12 (11.11%) Unit Testing
14 11 (10.19%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 85 (78.70%) Java
2 27 (25.00%) Python
3 22 (20.37%) SQL
4 14 (12.96%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.26%) Bash
5 10 (9.26%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.56%) Groovy
6 6 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.70%) Go
7 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.85%) C#
8 2 (1.85%) C++
8 2 (1.85%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.85%) Rust
8 2 (1.85%) Scala
9 1 (0.93%) C
9 1 (0.93%) Clojure
9 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (32.41%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.59%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.89%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.70%) Degree
5 2 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.93%) OCP
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) WCAG
2 5 (4.63%) QA
3 3 (2.78%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (40.74%) Docker
2 3 (2.78%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.85%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 51 (47.22%) Kubernetes
2 29 (26.85%) Terraform
3 22 (20.37%) Grafana
4 21 (19.44%) Ansible
5 12 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.41%) Kibana
7 7 (6.48%) Progress Chef
7 7 (6.48%) Puppet
8 5 (4.63%) Podman
9 2 (1.85%) Argo
9 2 (1.85%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.93%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.93%) Istio
10 1 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (18.52%) Oracle
2 13 (12.04%) Splunk
3 9 (8.33%) Solace
4 5 (4.63%) Gigya
4 5 (4.63%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.63%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.70%) Sybase
6 3 (2.78%) Google
6 3 (2.78%) VMware
7 2 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.85%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.85%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.93%) Adobe
8 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.93%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.93%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.93%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.93%) TOWER Software