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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 365 455
Rank change year-on-year -72 +90 -200
Contract jobs citing Maven 115 128 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.42% 3.69% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 76 74
10th Percentile £372 £355 £400
25th Percentile £475 £430 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% +6.10% -23.08%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £588
90th Percentile £695 £700 £718
UK median daily rate £542 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +4.13% -0.95% -16.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 4,745 3,472 4,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.95% 13.46% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,267 2,175 3,082
10th Percentile £339 £338 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.21% -7.35%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 60 206
10th Percentile £28.84 £27.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £48.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.19
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.00 £88.75
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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -51 52 £575 +5.99% 5
Midlands -46 19 £542 +28.17% 9
West Midlands -40 18 £542 +19.01% 8
South East -21 17 £407 -36.78% 3
North of England -69 16 £425 -3.13% 3
Yorkshire -47 12 £438 -21.18% 2
South West -24 10 £550 -17.60% 4
North West -44 4 £402 -8.11% 1
East Midlands -22 1 - - 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 11 (9.57%) Confluence
2 5 (4.35%) Apache
3 4 (3.48%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.61%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.74%) Camunda
5 2 (1.74%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.87%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.87%) JBoss
6 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.35%) AWS
2 27 (23.48%) GitHub
3 25 (21.74%) Azure
4 15 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (12.17%) Amazon S3
5 14 (12.17%) OpenShift
6 13 (11.30%) GCP
7 12 (10.43%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (10.43%) npm
8 10 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (8.70%) Serverless
9 9 (7.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (4.35%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.35%) Route 53
14 4 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (3.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.09%) AMQP
2 2 (1.74%) HTTP
2 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.87%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.87%) Multicast
3 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.17%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.43%) Relational Database
3 11 (9.57%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (9.57%) MongoDB
4 10 (8.70%) DynamoDB
5 9 (7.83%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.96%) NoSQL
6 8 (6.96%) RDBMS
7 7 (6.09%) MySQL
7 7 (6.09%) Tick Data
8 5 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.48%) Metadata
9 4 (3.48%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.61%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.87%) HBase
11 1 (0.87%) Power BI
11 1 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 67 (58.26%) Git
2 48 (41.74%) Jenkins
3 44 (38.26%) Gradle
3 44 (38.26%) JUnit
4 31 (26.96%) GitLab
5 23 (20.00%) Mockito
5 23 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 21 (18.26%) JIRA
7 20 (17.39%) SonarQube
8 15 (13.04%) Selenium
9 14 (12.17%) Cucumber
10 13 (11.30%) Bitbucket
11 10 (8.70%) Postman
12 8 (6.96%) Artifactory
12 8 (6.96%) Cypress.io
13 6 (5.22%) IntelliJ
14 5 (4.35%) Eclipse
14 5 (4.35%) REST Assured
14 5 (4.35%) Subversion
14 5 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 34 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.26%) Finance
3 17 (14.78%) Banking
4 8 (6.96%) Front Office
5 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.22%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.61%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Publishing
9 2 (1.74%) Retail
10 1 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.87%) Law
10 1 (0.87%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (53.04%) Developer
2 52 (45.22%) Java Developer
3 24 (20.87%) Senior
4 16 (13.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.17%) Senior Developer
6 12 (10.43%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (9.57%) Java Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Lead
8 8 (6.96%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Applications Support
9 7 (6.09%) Applications Support Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Fidessa Developer
9 7 (6.09%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Applications Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (2.61%) Lead Developer
12 3 (2.61%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (2.61%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (53.91%) Spring
2 44 (38.26%) Spring Boot
3 25 (21.74%) REST
4 21 (18.26%) JSON
5 20 (17.39%) JPA
5 20 (17.39%) React
6 19 (16.52%) AngularJS
7 17 (14.78%) Hibernate
8 16 (13.91%) HTML
9 13 (11.30%) Node.js
9 13 (11.30%) RESTful
10 12 (10.43%) CSS
10 12 (10.43%) Kafka
11 10 (8.70%) SOAP
11 10 (8.70%) XML
12 9 (7.83%) Bootstrap
12 9 (7.83%) Gherkin
12 9 (7.83%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (7.83%) Web Services
13 8 (6.96%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.96%) Equities
3 7 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.22%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.35%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.35%) Derivative
5 5 (4.35%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.61%) TWAP
6 3 (2.61%) VWAP
7 2 (1.74%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.87%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.87%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 30 (26.09%) Linux
2 9 (7.83%) Unix
3 7 (6.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.48%) CentOS
5 3 (2.61%) Solaris
6 2 (1.74%) Windows
7 1 (0.87%) Android
7 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (51.30%) CI/CD
2 47 (40.87%) DevOps
3 46 (40.00%) Microservices
4 41 (35.65%) Agile
5 33 (28.70%) Test Automation
6 29 (25.22%) Containerisation
7 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (19.13%) Scrum
9 20 (17.39%) Software Engineering
10 19 (16.52%) TDD
11 15 (13.04%) Mentoring
12 14 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (12.17%) Design Patterns
12 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (12.17%) OO
12 14 (12.17%) Unit Testing
13 13 (11.30%) OOP
13 13 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (9.57%) SDLC
15 10 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 95 (82.61%) Java
2 26 (22.61%) SQL
3 24 (20.87%) Python
4 12 (10.43%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.83%) Groovy
6 7 (6.09%) Bash
6 7 (6.09%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.48%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.48%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.61%) Go
10 2 (1.74%) C#
10 2 (1.74%) C++
10 2 (1.74%) Rust
10 2 (1.74%) Scala
11 1 (0.87%) Clojure
11 1 (0.87%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (33.91%) Security Cleared
2 26 (22.61%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.17%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.48%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.61%) Degree
6 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.87%) OCP
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.09%) QA
1 7 (6.09%) WCAG
2 3 (2.61%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.74%) NCSC
4 1 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (36.52%) Docker
2 3 (2.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (2.61%) Postfix
3 2 (1.74%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 38 (33.04%) Kubernetes
2 26 (22.61%) Grafana
3 24 (20.87%) Terraform
4 20 (17.39%) Ansible
5 11 (9.57%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.96%) Kibana
7 6 (5.22%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.35%) Puppet
9 4 (3.48%) Podman
10 3 (2.61%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.87%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (19.13%) Oracle
2 10 (8.70%) Splunk
3 8 (6.96%) Solace
4 5 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.48%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (3.48%) Sonatype
5 4 (3.48%) Sybase
6 3 (2.61%) VMware
7 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.87%) Google
8 1 (0.87%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.87%) Thales
8 1 (0.87%) TOWER Software