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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 371 447
Rank change year-on-year -61 +76 -199
Contract jobs citing Maven 110 133 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.46% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.33% 3.45% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 74 83
10th Percentile £359 £363 £408
25th Percentile £469 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £532
Median % change year-on-year - +3.38% -18.15%
75th Percentile £615 £683 £638
90th Percentile £675 £843 £738
UK median daily rate £542 £541 £525
% change year-on-year +0.18% +3.10% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +24.80%

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 4,715 3,855 4,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.09% 13.31% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,426 3,312
10th Percentile £338 £340 £375
25th Percentile £411 £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 £644
90th Percentile £700 £733 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 82 207
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.64 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.20 £75.00 £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 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 18 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 -21 60 £540 -1.82% 8
North of England -55 17 £387 -11.54% 12
South West -5 11 £550 -15.38% 9
West Midlands -23 11 £575 - 2
Midlands -30 11 £575 - 2
South East -19 10 £450 -30.77% 6
Yorkshire -32 9 £372 -25.60% 5
North West -28 8 £402 -8.11% 7
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 7 (6.36%) Confluence
2 5 (4.55%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.64%) Apache
4 3 (2.73%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.91%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.91%) CICS
5 1 (0.91%) JBoss
5 1 (0.91%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 42 (38.18%) AWS
2 36 (32.73%) Azure
3 26 (23.64%) GitHub
4 21 (19.09%) GCP
5 16 (14.55%) OpenShift
6 15 (13.64%) npm
7 13 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (11.82%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (11.82%) Serverless
8 12 (10.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (9.09%) Apigee
10 10 (9.09%) Datadog
10 10 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (8.18%) Azure AKS
11 9 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (7.27%) AWS Fargate
13 7 (6.36%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.18%) AMQP
2 2 (1.82%) MQTT
2 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.91%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.91%) HTTP
3 1 (0.91%) Multicast
3 1 (0.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.27%) Relational Database
2 17 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (14.55%) RDBMS
4 12 (10.91%) NoSQL
4 12 (10.91%) SQL Server
5 11 (10.00%) MongoDB
6 10 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (9.09%) Redis
7 9 (8.18%) DynamoDB
8 8 (7.27%) Oracle Database
9 6 (5.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (4.55%) BigQuery
10 5 (4.55%) InfluxDB
10 5 (4.55%) MySQL
11 4 (3.64%) Tick Data
12 2 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.82%) DB2
12 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.91%) HBase
Development Applications
1 62 (56.36%) Git
2 47 (42.73%) Jenkins
3 42 (38.18%) Gradle
4 39 (35.45%) GitLab
5 36 (32.73%) JUnit
6 27 (24.55%) SonarQube
7 26 (23.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 23 (20.91%) Selenium
9 19 (17.27%) JIRA
9 19 (17.27%) Mockito
10 16 (14.55%) Cucumber
10 16 (14.55%) Postman
11 14 (12.73%) Bitbucket
12 9 (8.18%) Artifactory
13 8 (7.27%) REST Assured
14 7 (6.36%) Cypress.io
14 7 (6.36%) SoapUI
14 7 (6.36%) Subversion
15 6 (5.45%) webpack
16 5 (4.55%) SonarLint
General
1 37 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.09%) Banking
3 20 (18.18%) Finance
4 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.36%) Investment Banking
5 6 (5.45%) Front Office
6 4 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.73%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.91%) Law
9 1 (0.91%) Publishing
9 1 (0.91%) Retail
9 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (49.09%) Developer
2 46 (41.82%) Java Developer
3 18 (16.36%) Senior
4 14 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.82%) Senior Developer
6 11 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (8.18%) Support Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Lead
9 7 (6.36%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Applications Support
9 7 (6.36%) Applications Support Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Architect
11 5 (4.55%) Java Architect
11 5 (4.55%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (4.55%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.64%) Fidessa Developer
12 4 (3.64%) GCP Engineer
13 3 (2.73%) Data Modeller
13 3 (2.73%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (40.91%) Spring
2 43 (39.09%) Spring Boot
3 24 (21.82%) REST
4 21 (19.09%) HTML
5 19 (17.27%) Kafka
6 18 (16.36%) AngularJS
6 18 (16.36%) JPA
6 18 (16.36%) JSON
7 17 (15.45%) React
8 16 (14.55%) Hibernate
9 15 (13.64%) CSS
10 13 (11.82%) RESTful
11 12 (10.91%) Node.js
12 10 (9.09%) J2EE
13 9 (8.18%) Bootstrap
13 9 (8.18%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (8.18%) HTML5
14 8 (7.27%) CSS3
14 8 (7.27%) Gherkin
14 8 (7.27%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.82%) Data Centre
2 11 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.45%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.55%) Equities
5 5 (4.55%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.64%) Derivative
7 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.73%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.82%) Clustering
8 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.82%) IoT
8 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.82%) TWAP
8 2 (1.82%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.45%) Linux
2 13 (11.82%) Unix
3 9 (8.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.45%) CentOS
5 3 (2.73%) Solaris
6 2 (1.82%) Windows
7 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (53.64%) CI/CD
2 48 (43.64%) Microservices
3 46 (41.82%) Agile
4 40 (36.36%) DevOps
5 33 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 32 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (29.09%) Test Automation
7 24 (21.82%) Mentoring
7 24 (21.82%) TDD
8 21 (19.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (18.18%) SDLC
10 19 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (15.45%) Design Patterns
11 17 (15.45%) Scrum
12 16 (14.55%) Software Engineering
13 15 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (12.73%) OO
15 13 (11.82%) Unit Testing
16 12 (10.91%) BDD
16 12 (10.91%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 89 (80.91%) Java
2 27 (24.55%) SQL
3 24 (21.82%) Python
4 22 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (10.00%) Bash
5 11 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 10 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.18%) Groovy
8 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.73%) C
10 2 (1.82%) C#
10 2 (1.82%) C++
10 2 (1.82%) Go
10 2 (1.82%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.82%) Rust
10 2 (1.82%) Scala
11 1 (0.91%) Clojure
11 1 (0.91%) COBOL
11 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.91%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (28.18%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.55%) DV Cleared
3 14 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.64%) Degree
5 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.91%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.91%) OCP
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) WCAG
2 5 (4.55%) QA
3 3 (2.73%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 51 (46.36%) Docker
2 3 (2.73%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.82%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 52 (47.27%) Kubernetes
2 33 (30.00%) Terraform
3 26 (23.64%) Grafana
4 23 (20.91%) Ansible
5 15 (13.64%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.36%) Kibana
6 7 (6.36%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.36%) Puppet
7 5 (4.55%) Podman
8 4 (3.64%) Argo
9 2 (1.82%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.82%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.91%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.91%) Control-M
10 1 (0.91%) Istio
10 1 (0.91%) logstash
10 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (23.64%) Oracle
2 13 (11.82%) Splunk
3 8 (7.27%) Solace
4 7 (6.36%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.55%) Gigya
5 5 (4.55%) Google
5 5 (4.55%) Sybase
6 3 (2.73%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.73%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.73%) VMware
7 2 (1.82%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.82%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.82%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.82%) Veracode
8 1 (0.91%) Adobe
8 1 (0.91%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.91%) TOWER Software