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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 354 449
Rank change year-on-year -62 +95 -208
Contract jobs citing Maven 121 158 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.51% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.61% 3.88% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 89 94
10th Percentile £321 £363 £416
25th Percentile £388 £456 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £612 £700 £688
90th Percentile £675 £863 £738
UK median daily rate £537 £543 £531
% change year-on-year -1.06% +2.17% -15.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £58.38
25th Percentile - - £63.44
Median hourly rate - - £68.75
75th Percentile - - £72.00
90th Percentile - - £75.60
UK median hourly rate - - £68.75
% change year-on-year - - +30.95%

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 4,631 4,074 4,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.16% 13.21% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,238 2,530 3,500
10th Percentile £325 £347 £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 £645
90th Percentile £700 £732 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 111 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £44.49 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.63 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.60 £75.00 £89.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 30 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 30 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 -27 62 £554 +0.73% 8
North of England -48 20 £358 -10.50% 3
Midlands -16 17 £525 -30.00% 2
North West -22 14 £345 -13.75% 1
South East -5 11 £450 -30.10% 5
West Midlands -11 11 £542 - 2
South West +2 10 £550 -15.38% 8
East Midlands -14 6 £308 -58.93%
Yorkshire -28 6 £586 +30.28% 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 12 (9.92%) Confluence
2 7 (5.79%) Tomcat
3 6 (4.96%) JBoss
4 4 (3.31%) Apache
4 4 (3.31%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.48%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.48%) CICS
6 2 (1.65%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 51 (42.15%) AWS
2 36 (29.75%) Azure
3 27 (22.31%) GitHub
4 19 (15.70%) GCP
4 19 (15.70%) OpenShift
5 13 (10.74%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (10.74%) Serverless
6 12 (9.92%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (9.92%) npm
7 11 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (8.26%) Apigee
9 9 (7.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (7.44%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (7.44%) Datadog
9 9 (7.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (6.61%) Amazon S3
10 8 (6.61%) AWS Fargate
10 8 (6.61%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.79%) AMQP
2 2 (1.65%) Firewall
2 2 (1.65%) MQTT
2 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.65%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (14.88%) Relational Database
3 17 (14.05%) SQL Server
4 14 (11.57%) RDBMS
5 12 (9.92%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (9.92%) NoSQL
6 11 (9.09%) MongoDB
7 10 (8.26%) DynamoDB
7 10 (8.26%) Oracle Database
7 10 (8.26%) Redis
8 8 (6.61%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (4.96%) MySQL
10 5 (4.13%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.31%) DB2
11 4 (3.31%) InfluxDB
11 4 (3.31%) Tick Data
12 3 (2.48%) Big Data
12 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.48%) HPCC
13 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 73 (60.33%) Git
2 53 (43.80%) Jenkins
3 48 (39.67%) Gradle
4 44 (36.36%) GitLab
4 44 (36.36%) JUnit
5 35 (28.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 33 (27.27%) SonarQube
7 27 (22.31%) JIRA
8 25 (20.66%) Selenium
9 24 (19.83%) Mockito
10 23 (19.01%) Cucumber
11 18 (14.88%) Bitbucket
12 14 (11.57%) Postman
13 9 (7.44%) REST Assured
14 8 (6.61%) Artifactory
14 8 (6.61%) IntelliJ
15 7 (5.79%) Subversion
16 6 (4.96%) Cypress.io
16 6 (4.96%) Eclipse
16 6 (4.96%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (30.58%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.01%) Banking
3 20 (16.53%) Finance
4 10 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.79%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.96%) Front Office
7 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.48%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.83%) Law
10 1 (0.83%) Publishing
10 1 (0.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (55.37%) Developer
2 57 (47.11%) Java Developer
3 19 (15.70%) Senior
4 14 (11.57%) Senior Developer
5 12 (9.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (6.61%) Java Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) AWS Developer
8 7 (5.79%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Applications Support
10 5 (4.13%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Architect
10 5 (4.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.13%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.13%) Lead
10 5 (4.13%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 54 (44.63%) Spring
3 30 (24.79%) REST
4 28 (23.14%) HTML
5 24 (19.83%) JPA
6 23 (19.01%) Hibernate
7 21 (17.36%) JSON
7 21 (17.36%) React
8 20 (16.53%) CSS
9 19 (15.70%) AngularJS
9 19 (15.70%) Kafka
9 19 (15.70%) RESTful
10 16 (13.22%) Node.js
11 15 (12.40%) SOAP
12 13 (10.74%) Spring Cloud
13 11 (9.09%) J2EE
14 10 (8.26%) Bootstrap
14 10 (8.26%) Jest
14 10 (8.26%) XML
15 9 (7.44%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 11 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 10 (8.26%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.13%) Equities
4 5 (4.13%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.13%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.31%) Derivative
6 3 (2.48%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.48%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.48%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.48%) VSAM
7 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.65%) IoT
7 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.65%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 32 (26.45%) Linux
2 22 (18.18%) Unix
3 8 (6.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.13%) CentOS
5 4 (3.31%) Windows
6 3 (2.48%) Solaris
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (52.07%) CI/CD
2 58 (47.93%) Microservices
3 54 (44.63%) Agile
4 47 (38.84%) DevOps
5 34 (28.10%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (28.10%) TDD
6 33 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 33 (27.27%) Test Automation
7 24 (19.83%) Mentoring
8 23 (19.01%) Design Patterns
9 20 (16.53%) SDLC
10 19 (15.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (14.05%) Software Engineering
13 16 (13.22%) OO
14 15 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (12.40%) Scrum
15 14 (11.57%) BDD
16 13 (10.74%) OOP
16 13 (10.74%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 101 (83.47%) Java
2 38 (31.40%) SQL
3 29 (23.97%) JavaScript
4 25 (20.66%) Python
5 17 (14.05%) Shell Script
6 11 (9.09%) Bash
7 10 (8.26%) TypeScript
8 8 (6.61%) Groovy
9 5 (4.13%) C
10 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.48%) C++
11 3 (2.48%) COBOL
11 3 (2.48%) JCL
12 2 (1.65%) C#
12 2 (1.65%) Go
12 2 (1.65%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.65%) Rust
12 2 (1.65%) Scala
13 1 (0.83%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 31 (25.62%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.57%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.31%) Degree
5 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) OCP
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) QA
1 7 (5.79%) WCAG
2 3 (2.48%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 52 (42.98%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) GridGain
3 1 (0.83%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 50 (41.32%) Kubernetes
2 30 (24.79%) Terraform
3 23 (19.01%) Grafana
4 20 (16.53%) Ansible
5 14 (11.57%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.79%) Kibana
7 6 (4.96%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.96%) Puppet
8 4 (3.31%) Argo
8 4 (3.31%) Podman
9 2 (1.65%) CloudHub
9 2 (1.65%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.65%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.83%) Control-M
10 1 (0.83%) Istio
10 1 (0.83%) logstash
10 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (25.62%) Oracle
2 12 (9.92%) Splunk
3 8 (6.61%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.61%) Solace
4 7 (5.79%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (4.96%) Veracode
6 5 (4.13%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.13%) Gigya
6 5 (4.13%) Google
6 5 (4.13%) Sybase
7 3 (2.48%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.48%) VMware
8 2 (1.65%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.65%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.83%) Adobe
9 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.83%) TOWER Software