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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 349 440
Rank change year-on-year -132 +91 -187
Contract jobs citing Maven 114 123 100
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.51% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.26% 3.70% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 78 70
10th Percentile £400 £355 £412
25th Percentile £475 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% +3.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £584
90th Percentile £729 £738 £621
UK median daily rate £542 £510 £523
% change year-on-year +6.18% -2.39% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +46.15% - -

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 5,054 3,320 4,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.92% 13.63% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,378 2,226 2,909
10th Percentile £338 £344 £358
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £692 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 64 160
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.63 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.95 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +3.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.51 £83.13
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%

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 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -82 46 £600 +10.60% 6
Midlands -54 25 £537 +27.10% 4
West Midlands -48 23 £537 +26.35% 3
North of England -72 21 £450 -5.26% 10
Yorkshire -43 17 £461 -16.14% 5
South East -44 16 £364 -43.46%
South West -19 7 £550 - 2
North West -40 4 £402 -11.89% 4
East Midlands -35 2 - - 1
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 10 (8.77%) Confluence
2 6 (5.26%) Apache
3 4 (3.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.63%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.75%) Camunda
6 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.88%) JBoss
6 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (53.51%) AWS
2 26 (22.81%) GitHub
3 21 (18.42%) Amazon S3
3 21 (18.42%) Azure
4 20 (17.54%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (12.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (9.65%) AWS KMS
7 11 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (9.65%) Route 53
8 9 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (7.89%) GCP
8 9 (7.89%) Serverless
9 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.26%) npm
9 6 (5.26%) OpenShift
10 5 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.39%) OCI
11 4 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) AMQP
2 3 (2.63%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) Multicast
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.93%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (17.54%) DynamoDB
3 16 (14.04%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (8.77%) MySQL
5 10 (8.77%) SQL Server
6 9 (7.89%) Metadata
6 9 (7.89%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.26%) MongoDB
7 6 (5.26%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.39%) Tick Data
9 4 (3.51%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.63%) InfluxDB
10 3 (2.63%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.88%) Flink
11 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 60 (52.63%) Git
2 57 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 43 (37.72%) JUnit
4 36 (31.58%) Gradle
5 26 (22.81%) Mockito
5 26 (22.81%) SonarQube
6 20 (17.54%) GitLab
7 17 (14.91%) JIRA
8 15 (13.16%) Cucumber
9 13 (11.40%) Selenium
10 11 (9.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (8.77%) jMock
12 9 (7.89%) Bitbucket
12 9 (7.89%) DbUnit
12 9 (7.89%) Postman
13 7 (6.14%) Artifactory
13 7 (6.14%) Bitbucket Server
13 7 (6.14%) Gatling
13 7 (6.14%) REST Assured
14 5 (4.39%) Cypress.io
General
1 44 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.79%) Finance
3 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.53%) Banking
5 9 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.26%) Front Office
7 5 (4.39%) Publishing
8 4 (3.51%) Retail
9 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (54.39%) Developer
2 51 (44.74%) Java Developer
3 31 (27.19%) Senior
4 21 (18.42%) Senior Developer
5 19 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (11.40%) Java Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.14%) Applications Developer
9 7 (6.14%) Lead
10 6 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (4.39%) Applications Support
11 5 (4.39%) Applications Support Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Fidessa Developer
11 5 (4.39%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Support Engineer
12 4 (3.51%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 4 (3.51%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (59.65%) Spring
2 50 (43.86%) Spring Boot
3 30 (26.32%) REST
4 24 (21.05%) JPA
5 23 (20.18%) AngularJS
6 22 (19.30%) JSON
7 21 (18.42%) RESTful
8 19 (16.67%) Hibernate
9 18 (15.79%) Node.js
10 17 (14.91%) SOAP
10 17 (14.91%) Web Services
11 16 (14.04%) Bootstrap
12 14 (12.28%) HTML
12 14 (12.28%) Spring Cloud
13 13 (11.40%) CSS
13 13 (11.40%) Playwright
13 13 (11.40%) React
14 12 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
14 12 (10.53%) XML
15 11 (9.65%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.04%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.14%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.26%) Equities
4 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.75%) Derivative
6 2 (1.75%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.75%) TWAP
6 2 (1.75%) VWAP
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (27.19%) Linux
2 8 (7.02%) Unix
3 4 (3.51%) Windows
4 2 (1.75%) CentOS
4 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (51.75%) CI/CD
2 50 (43.86%) DevOps
3 47 (41.23%) Microservices
4 43 (37.72%) Agile
5 35 (30.70%) Test Automation
6 31 (27.19%) Containerisation
7 29 (25.44%) Scrum
8 22 (19.30%) TDD
9 21 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (17.54%) Software Engineering
11 17 (14.91%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (12.28%) Event-Driven
14 13 (11.40%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (10.53%) BDD
16 11 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (9.65%) Design Patterns
16 11 (9.65%) Kanban
16 11 (9.65%) OOP
16 11 (9.65%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 101 (88.60%) Java
2 36 (31.58%) SQL
3 21 (18.42%) Python
4 11 (9.65%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.77%) Groovy
6 7 (6.14%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.51%) Scala
8 3 (2.63%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.75%) Bash
9 2 (1.75%) Go
10 1 (0.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (38.60%) Security Cleared
2 34 (29.82%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.51%) Degree
5 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.28%) QA
2 6 (5.26%) WCAG
3 4 (3.51%) SLA
4 2 (1.75%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.75%) NCSC
5 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (41.23%) Docker
2 8 (7.02%) Postfix
3 3 (2.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.63%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 36 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 29 (25.44%) Grafana
3 23 (20.18%) Terraform
4 13 (11.40%) Ansible
5 11 (9.65%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.02%) Kibana
7 3 (2.63%) HAProxy
7 3 (2.63%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.88%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.88%) Podman
8 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (14.91%) Oracle
2 13 (11.40%) Atlassian
3 11 (9.65%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (8.77%) Microsoft
5 8 (7.02%) Sonatype
6 6 (5.26%) Solace
6 6 (5.26%) Splunk
7 4 (3.51%) Sybase
8 2 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.88%) Google
9 1 (0.88%) IBM
9 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.88%) Thales
9 1 (0.88%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.88%) VMware