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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 361 438
Rank change year-on-year -31 +77 -203
Contract jobs citing Maven 145 159 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.51% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.15% 3.89% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 91 101
10th Percentile £296 £363 £406
25th Percentile £376 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £587 £685 £713
90th Percentile £647 £863 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -6.70% -1.59% -12.84%
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 4,596 4,092 5,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.30% 13.15% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,212 2,554 3,595
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 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £539
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.53% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 122 228
10th Percentile £39.00 £38.04 £46.09
25th Percentile £54.81 £51.25 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £69.69 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.75 £74.94 £89.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +7.44%

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 16 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 16 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 -25 78 £525 -4.55% 34
Midlands -12 26 £488 -35.00% 4
North of England -30 24 £358 -10.50% 7
West Midlands -7 18 £531 - 4
North West -17 18 £358 -10.50% 4
South East +1 10 £450 -25.00% 7
South West -1 9 £550 -15.38% 6
East Midlands -4 8 £345 -54.00%
Yorkshire -36 6 £575 +27.78% 3
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 (8.97%) Confluence
2 8 (5.52%) JBoss
2 8 (5.52%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.76%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.07%) Apache
4 3 (2.07%) CICS
4 3 (2.07%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.38%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.38%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 69 (47.59%) AWS
2 45 (31.03%) Azure
3 29 (20.00%) GitHub
4 22 (15.17%) Amazon EC2
4 22 (15.17%) GCP
4 22 (15.17%) OpenShift
5 20 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
6 16 (11.03%) Amazon S3
7 15 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (9.66%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (9.66%) Serverless
9 13 (8.97%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (8.97%) npm
10 12 (8.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (8.28%) AWS Fargate
10 12 (8.28%) Route 53
11 10 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (6.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.14%) AMQP
2 2 (1.38%) Calico
2 2 (1.38%) DMZ
2 2 (1.38%) Firewall
2 2 (1.38%) Internet
2 2 (1.38%) MQTT
2 2 (1.38%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.38%) VPN
3 1 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.69%) HTTP
3 1 (0.69%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.69%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.07%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (15.86%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (12.41%) DynamoDB
3 18 (12.41%) Relational Database
4 17 (11.72%) SQL Server
5 16 (11.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (9.66%) MongoDB
6 14 (9.66%) RDBMS
7 13 (8.97%) NoSQL
8 10 (6.90%) Oracle Database
8 10 (6.90%) Redis
9 7 (4.83%) MySQL
10 5 (3.45%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.76%) DB2
11 4 (2.76%) Tick Data
12 3 (2.07%) Big Data
12 3 (2.07%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.07%) HPCC
12 3 (2.07%) InfluxDB
13 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 90 (62.07%) Git
2 68 (46.90%) Jenkins
3 57 (39.31%) JUnit
4 54 (37.24%) Gradle
5 47 (32.41%) GitLab
6 44 (30.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 43 (29.66%) SonarQube
8 29 (20.00%) JIRA
9 28 (19.31%) Mockito
10 27 (18.62%) Cucumber
11 24 (16.55%) Selenium
12 17 (11.72%) Bitbucket
13 16 (11.03%) Postman
14 12 (8.28%) IntelliJ
15 11 (7.59%) Artifactory
15 11 (7.59%) REST Assured
16 7 (4.83%) Eclipse
16 7 (4.83%) Subversion
17 6 (4.14%) Cypress.io
17 6 (4.14%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.00%) Finance
3 27 (18.62%) Banking
4 18 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.21%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.14%) Front Office
8 3 (2.07%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Retail
9 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.69%) Aviation
10 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Publishing
10 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (56.55%) Developer
2 65 (44.83%) Java Developer
3 21 (14.48%) Senior
4 16 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (8.97%) AWS Developer
5 13 (8.97%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (8.97%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.90%) Java Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (5.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (5.52%) Lead
8 7 (4.83%) Architect
8 7 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.14%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Java Architect
10 5 (3.45%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (3.45%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (3.45%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (45.52%) Spring
2 65 (44.83%) Spring Boot
3 38 (26.21%) REST
4 31 (21.38%) JPA
5 29 (20.00%) RESTful
6 28 (19.31%) HTML
7 27 (18.62%) Hibernate
8 24 (16.55%) SOAP
9 21 (14.48%) AngularJS
9 21 (14.48%) React
10 20 (13.79%) CSS
10 20 (13.79%) Kafka
11 19 (13.10%) JSON
11 19 (13.10%) Spring Cloud
12 17 (11.72%) Web Services
13 16 (11.03%) Node.js
14 15 (10.34%) Bootstrap
15 14 (9.66%) J2EE
16 12 (8.28%) Jest
17 11 (7.59%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.59%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.45%) N-Tier
4 5 (3.45%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.76%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.76%) Equities
6 3 (2.07%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.07%) Clustering
6 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.07%) Derivative
6 3 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.07%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.07%) VSAM
7 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.38%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.38%) IoT
7 2 (1.38%) IVR
7 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (29.66%) Linux
2 28 (19.31%) Unix
3 10 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.45%) CentOS
5 4 (2.76%) Solaris
5 4 (2.76%) Windows
6 2 (1.38%) Android
6 2 (1.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (53.10%) CI/CD
2 68 (46.90%) Microservices
3 66 (45.52%) Agile
4 58 (40.00%) DevOps
5 42 (28.97%) Containerisation
5 42 (28.97%) TDD
6 39 (26.90%) Test Automation
7 35 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (20.00%) Design Patterns
9 25 (17.24%) Mentoring
10 21 (14.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (14.48%) Scrum
10 21 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (13.10%) SDLC
12 18 (12.41%) Code Quality
12 18 (12.41%) OO
13 17 (11.72%) BDD
13 17 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (11.72%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (11.72%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 118 (81.38%) Java
2 42 (28.97%) SQL
3 35 (24.14%) Python
4 33 (22.76%) JavaScript
5 22 (15.17%) Shell Script
6 13 (8.97%) Bash
6 13 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.52%) Groovy
7 8 (5.52%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.45%) C
9 4 (2.76%) C++
10 3 (2.07%) C#
10 3 (2.07%) COBOL
10 3 (2.07%) JCL
11 2 (1.38%) Go
11 2 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.38%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.38%) Rust
11 2 (1.38%) Scala
12 1 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.55%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.28%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.76%) Degree
5 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.69%) OCP
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.28%) QA
2 9 (6.21%) WCAG
3 4 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.07%) Def Stans
System Software
1 71 (48.97%) Docker
2 4 (2.76%) Postfix
3 2 (1.38%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 54 (37.24%) Kubernetes
2 31 (21.38%) Terraform
3 27 (18.62%) Grafana
4 21 (14.48%) Ansible
5 20 (13.79%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.52%) Puppet
7 6 (4.14%) Kibana
7 6 (4.14%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.45%) Podman
9 4 (2.76%) Argo
9 4 (2.76%) Istio
10 3 (2.07%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.38%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.69%) Control-M
12 1 (0.69%) logstash
12 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (22.07%) Oracle
2 13 (8.97%) Splunk
3 11 (7.59%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (6.21%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.21%) Solace
5 6 (4.14%) Google
5 6 (4.14%) Veracode
6 5 (3.45%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.45%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.45%) Gigya
6 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.45%) Sybase
7 4 (2.76%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.76%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.07%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.07%) Refinitiv
8 3 (2.07%) VMware
9 2 (1.38%) IBM
9 2 (1.38%) Salesforce