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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 344 440
Rank change year-on-year -118 +96 -203
Contract jobs citing Maven 116 123 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.51% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.29% 3.71% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 77 75
10th Percentile £400 £355 £404
25th Percentile £472 £410 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £585 £581
90th Percentile £716 £730 £623
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +7.90% -1.96% -15.00%
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 5,058 3,318 4,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 13.68% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,403 2,206 2,930
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -5.44% -6.42%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 66 162
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.15 £33.38
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.48 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £88.13
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -81 48 £588 +9.20% 6
Midlands -54 25 £540 +27.69% 4
West Midlands -51 23 £540 +26.94% 3
North of England -73 20 £450 -5.26% 10
South East -45 17 £407 -36.78%
Yorkshire -45 16 £461 -16.14% 5
South West -19 7 £550 - 2
North West -43 4 £402 -11.89% 4
East Midlands -36 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 (8.62%) Confluence
2 6 (5.17%) Apache
3 4 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.59%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.72%) Camunda
5 2 (1.72%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.86%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.86%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.86%) JBoss
6 1 (0.86%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 63 (54.31%) AWS
2 27 (23.28%) GitHub
3 21 (18.10%) Amazon S3
3 21 (18.10%) Azure
4 20 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (12.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (11.21%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (9.48%) AWS KMS
8 11 (9.48%) GCP
8 11 (9.48%) Route 53
9 10 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.62%) Serverless
10 8 (6.90%) OpenShift
11 7 (6.03%) npm
12 6 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (4.31%) OCI
14 4 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) AMQP
2 3 (2.59%) HTTP
3 2 (1.72%) Multicast
4 1 (0.86%) Firewall
4 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.55%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.38%) DynamoDB
3 17 (14.66%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (9.48%) SQL Server
6 10 (8.62%) MySQL
6 10 (8.62%) Relational Database
7 8 (6.90%) Metadata
8 7 (6.03%) MongoDB
9 6 (5.17%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.31%) Tick Data
11 4 (3.45%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.59%) InfluxDB
12 3 (2.59%) Oracle Database
13 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.86%) Flink
14 1 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 61 (52.59%) Git
2 57 (49.14%) Jenkins
3 44 (37.93%) JUnit
4 36 (31.03%) Gradle
5 26 (22.41%) Mockito
5 26 (22.41%) SonarQube
6 22 (18.97%) GitLab
7 17 (14.66%) JIRA
8 15 (12.93%) Cucumber
9 13 (11.21%) Selenium
10 12 (10.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (8.62%) Bitbucket
11 10 (8.62%) jMock
12 9 (7.76%) DbUnit
12 9 (7.76%) Postman
13 8 (6.90%) Artifactory
14 7 (6.03%) Bitbucket Server
15 6 (5.17%) Cypress.io
15 6 (5.17%) Gatling
15 6 (5.17%) REST Assured
General
1 44 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.38%) Finance
3 15 (12.93%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.34%) Banking
5 9 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.03%) Front Office
7 5 (4.31%) Publishing
8 4 (3.45%) Retail
9 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (54.31%) Developer
2 52 (44.83%) Java Developer
3 31 (26.72%) Senior
4 21 (18.10%) Senior Developer
5 19 (16.38%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (11.21%) Java Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Lead
9 7 (6.03%) Applications Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Applications Support
11 5 (4.31%) Applications Support Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Fidessa Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Support Engineer
12 4 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (58.62%) Spring
2 50 (43.10%) Spring Boot
3 31 (26.72%) REST
4 24 (20.69%) AngularJS
4 24 (20.69%) JPA
5 22 (18.97%) JSON
6 21 (18.10%) RESTful
7 20 (17.24%) Hibernate
8 17 (14.66%) Node.js
8 17 (14.66%) Web Services
9 16 (13.79%) Bootstrap
9 16 (13.79%) SOAP
10 15 (12.93%) React
11 14 (12.07%) HTML
11 14 (12.07%) Spring Cloud
12 13 (11.21%) CSS
13 12 (10.34%) ActiveMQ
13 12 (10.34%) Playwright
13 12 (10.34%) XML
14 11 (9.48%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.76%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.03%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.17%) Equities
4 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.59%) Derivative
7 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.72%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) TWAP
7 2 (1.72%) VWAP
8 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (28.45%) Linux
2 8 (6.90%) Unix
3 4 (3.45%) Windows
4 2 (1.72%) CentOS
4 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.86%) Android
5 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (50.86%) CI/CD
2 50 (43.10%) DevOps
3 49 (42.24%) Microservices
4 44 (37.93%) Agile
5 35 (30.17%) Test Automation
6 32 (27.59%) Containerisation
7 29 (25.00%) Scrum
8 22 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.97%) TDD
9 21 (18.10%) Software Engineering
10 15 (12.93%) Performance Tuning
10 15 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (11.21%) Event-Driven
12 12 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (10.34%) Mentoring
13 11 (9.48%) BDD
13 11 (9.48%) Design Patterns
13 11 (9.48%) Kanban
13 11 (9.48%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 101 (87.07%) Java
2 36 (31.03%) SQL
3 21 (18.10%) Python
4 11 (9.48%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.76%) Groovy
6 7 (6.03%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.45%) Scala
7 4 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.59%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.72%) Bash
9 2 (1.72%) Go
10 1 (0.86%) C#
10 1 (0.86%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (39.66%) Security Cleared
2 35 (30.17%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.62%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.31%) Degree
5 3 (2.59%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.59%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.21%) QA
2 6 (5.17%) WCAG
3 4 (3.45%) SLA
4 2 (1.72%) NCSC
5 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.86%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.86%) GDPR
5 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.86%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (41.38%) Docker
2 8 (6.90%) Postfix
3 3 (2.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.59%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 37 (31.90%) Kubernetes
2 30 (25.86%) Grafana
3 23 (19.83%) Terraform
4 14 (12.07%) Ansible
5 12 (10.34%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.90%) Kibana
7 3 (2.59%) HAProxy
7 3 (2.59%) HP Fortify
7 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.72%) Podman
8 2 (1.72%) Puppet
9 1 (0.86%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 18 (15.52%) Oracle
2 13 (11.21%) Atlassian
3 11 (9.48%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (7.76%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.03%) Sonatype
6 6 (5.17%) Solace
6 6 (5.17%) Splunk
7 4 (3.45%) Sybase
8 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.72%) VMware
9 1 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.86%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.86%) Google
9 1 (0.86%) IBM
9 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.86%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.86%) Thales
9 1 (0.86%) TIBCO