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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 372 433
Rank change year-on-year -101 +61 -179
Contract jobs citing Maven 111 113 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.46% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.21% 3.42% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 81 73
10th Percentile £366 £326 £402
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% +3.95% -20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £599
UK median daily rate £533 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +2.98% -18.37%
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 5,012 3,304 4,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.42% 13.57% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,344 2,217 2,908
10th Percentile £340 £350 £355
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £691 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 61 182
10th Percentile £38.39 £27.50 £31.84
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -3.85% +5.97%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £82.35
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -67 42 £600 +9.59% 10
North of England -65 26 £461 -7.75% 3
Midlands -74 23 £524 +23.18% 5
Yorkshire -39 22 £473 -9.09% 2
West Midlands -56 21 £524 +6.29% 3
South East -46 17 £360 -44.58% 5
South West - 6 £550 - 2
North West -49 4 £402 -15.37% 1
East Midlands -34 2 - - 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 9 (8.11%) Confluence
2 7 (6.31%) Apache
3 5 (4.50%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (2.70%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.80%) Camunda
7 1 (0.90%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.90%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.90%) JBoss
7 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 58 (52.25%) AWS
2 30 (27.03%) GitHub
3 24 (21.62%) Amazon S3
4 22 (19.82%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (18.92%) Azure
6 17 (15.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (15.32%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (12.61%) AWS KMS
8 14 (12.61%) Route 53
9 12 (10.81%) GCP
10 9 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (8.11%) Serverless
11 6 (5.41%) npm
11 6 (5.41%) OpenShift
12 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.50%) OCI
13 4 (3.60%) Apigee
13 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) AMQP
2 3 (2.70%) HTTP
3 1 (0.90%) Firewall
3 1 (0.90%) Internet
3 1 (0.90%) Multicast
3 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.13%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (20.72%) DynamoDB
3 18 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (12.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (9.01%) MySQL
5 10 (9.01%) Relational Database
5 10 (9.01%) SQL Server
6 9 (8.11%) Metadata
7 7 (6.31%) MongoDB
8 5 (4.50%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.50%) Tick Data
9 4 (3.60%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.70%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.80%) Flink
11 2 (1.80%) Hazelcast
11 2 (1.80%) Redis
12 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 60 (54.05%) Jenkins
2 56 (50.45%) Git
3 39 (35.14%) Gradle
4 38 (34.23%) JUnit
5 28 (25.23%) SonarQube
6 23 (20.72%) Mockito
7 16 (14.41%) JIRA
8 14 (12.61%) GitLab
9 11 (9.91%) DbUnit
9 11 (9.91%) jMock
10 10 (9.01%) Bitbucket
10 10 (9.01%) Cucumber
10 10 (9.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (8.11%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (8.11%) Gatling
12 8 (7.21%) Artifactory
12 8 (7.21%) Postman
12 8 (7.21%) Selenium
13 7 (6.31%) REST Assured
14 5 (4.50%) Subversion
General
1 39 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.12%) Public Sector
3 16 (14.41%) Finance
4 12 (10.81%) Banking
5 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.41%) Front Office
7 5 (4.50%) Publishing
8 4 (3.60%) Retail
9 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (53.15%) Developer
2 50 (45.05%) Java Developer
3 27 (24.32%) Senior
4 20 (18.02%) Senior Developer
5 19 (17.12%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (11.71%) Java Engineer
7 10 (9.01%) Software Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) Lead
10 6 (5.41%) Applications Developer
10 6 (5.41%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Applications Support
11 5 (4.50%) Applications Support Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Fidessa Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Support Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (56.76%) Spring
2 45 (40.54%) Spring Boot
3 30 (27.03%) REST
4 25 (22.52%) AngularJS
5 24 (21.62%) JPA
6 23 (20.72%) RESTful
7 21 (18.92%) Hibernate
8 20 (18.02%) Web Services
9 19 (17.12%) Node.js
10 18 (16.22%) SOAP
10 18 (16.22%) Spring Cloud
11 15 (13.51%) ActiveMQ
11 15 (13.51%) Bootstrap
11 15 (13.51%) JSON
12 14 (12.61%) Spring Batch
12 14 (12.61%) Spring Integration
13 11 (9.91%) Playwright
13 11 (9.91%) PowerMock
14 10 (9.01%) CSS
14 10 (9.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.11%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.31%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.41%) Equities
4 6 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.80%) Derivative
6 2 (1.80%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.80%) TWAP
6 2 (1.80%) VWAP
7 1 (0.90%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.90%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (27.93%) Linux
2 8 (7.21%) Unix
3 4 (3.60%) Windows
4 2 (1.80%) CentOS
4 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.90%) Android
5 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (54.95%) CI/CD
2 55 (49.55%) DevOps
3 48 (43.24%) Microservices
4 39 (35.14%) Agile
5 35 (31.53%) Containerisation
6 34 (30.63%) Test Automation
7 27 (24.32%) Scrum
8 26 (23.42%) TDD
9 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (17.12%) Performance Tuning
10 19 (17.12%) Software Engineering
11 15 (13.51%) Event-Driven
12 14 (12.61%) BDD
12 14 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (12.61%) Kanban
13 13 (11.71%) Observability
14 12 (10.81%) BPMN
14 12 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (9.91%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 99 (89.19%) Java
2 41 (36.94%) SQL
3 22 (19.82%) Python
4 10 (9.01%) Groovy
5 8 (7.21%) Shell Script
6 7 (6.31%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.41%) Scala
8 3 (2.70%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.80%) Bash
9 2 (1.80%) Go
9 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (36.94%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.41%) Degree
5 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) SLA
3 2 (1.80%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.80%) NCSC
4 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.90%) SEPA
System Software
1 51 (45.95%) Docker
2 10 (9.01%) Postfix
3 3 (2.70%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.70%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 34 (30.63%) Kubernetes
2 28 (25.23%) Grafana
3 27 (24.32%) Terraform
4 13 (11.71%) Prometheus
5 10 (9.01%) Ansible
6 6 (5.41%) HAProxy
7 3 (2.70%) HP Fortify
7 3 (2.70%) Kibana
8 2 (1.80%) Argo
9 1 (0.90%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.90%) Podman
9 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) Atlassian
2 14 (12.61%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (12.61%) Oracle
3 11 (9.91%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.21%) Sonatype
5 6 (5.41%) Solace
5 6 (5.41%) Splunk
6 3 (2.70%) Sybase
7 2 (1.80%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.90%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.90%) Google
8 1 (0.90%) IBM
8 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.90%) Thales
8 1 (0.90%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.90%) VMware