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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 345 420
Rank change year-on-year -144 +75 -126
Contract jobs citing Maven 118 160 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.58% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.25% 4.11% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 128 83
10th Percentile £366 £274 £400
25th Percentile £456 £358 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.72% -6.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £564 £581
90th Percentile £680 £643 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year +40.74% - -

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 5,245 3,891 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.19% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,355 2,664 2,962
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 90 218
10th Percentile £26.30 £35.70 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.08 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.54% -2.31% +4.00%

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 20 July 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
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 20 July 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 -90 55 £550 +8.37% 14
Midlands -53 27 £511 +20.83% 11
North of England -90 26 £475 +18.16% 4
West Midlands -59 24 £511 +6.35% 10
Yorkshire -46 21 £475 -8.61% 1
South East -64 11 £273 -55.25% 4
North West -66 4 £475 +32.68% 3
East Midlands -26 2 - - 1
South West -37 2 £525 -4.55%
North East -39 1 £520 +11.83%
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 (5.93%) Confluence
2 6 (5.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.39%) Apache
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.69%) Camunda
4 2 (1.69%) CMS
4 2 (1.69%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.69%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 69 (58.47%) AWS
2 35 (29.66%) Azure
3 32 (27.12%) GitHub
4 25 (21.19%) Amazon SQS
5 24 (20.34%) Amazon S3
6 23 (19.49%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (18.64%) GCP
8 21 (17.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (16.10%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (15.25%) AWS KMS
10 18 (15.25%) Route 53
11 9 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (5.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (5.08%) Kong
12 6 (5.08%) OCI
13 5 (4.24%) Apigee
13 5 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.24%) Serverless
14 4 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (3.39%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) HTTP
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (34.75%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (22.03%) DynamoDB
3 22 (18.64%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (15.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (12.71%) Relational Database
5 15 (12.71%) SQL Server
6 11 (9.32%) MySQL
7 10 (8.47%) Metadata
8 7 (5.93%) MongoDB
9 5 (4.24%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.39%) Flink
10 4 (3.39%) Hazelcast
10 4 (3.39%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.39%) Redis
11 3 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 70 (59.32%) Jenkins
2 65 (55.08%) Git
3 44 (37.29%) Gradle
3 44 (37.29%) JUnit
4 42 (35.59%) SonarQube
5 29 (24.58%) Mockito
6 21 (17.80%) GitLab
7 14 (11.86%) DbUnit
8 13 (11.02%) Bitbucket Server
8 13 (11.02%) jMock
9 12 (10.17%) REST Assured
10 10 (8.47%) JIRA
11 9 (7.63%) Cucumber
11 9 (7.63%) Gatling
12 8 (6.78%) Postman
12 8 (6.78%) TestNG
13 7 (5.93%) Artifactory
13 7 (5.93%) Selenium
14 5 (4.24%) JMeter
14 5 (4.24%) Subversion
General
1 35 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.34%) Public Sector
3 19 (16.10%) Finance
4 17 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (10.17%) Banking
6 6 (5.08%) Publishing
7 4 (3.39%) Retail
8 3 (2.54%) Front Office
8 3 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (61.02%) Developer
2 60 (50.85%) Java Developer
3 27 (22.88%) Senior
4 23 (19.49%) Senior Developer
4 23 (19.49%) Senior Java Developer
5 11 (9.32%) Java Engineer
6 9 (7.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Lead
7 7 (5.93%) Lead Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Applications Developer
8 6 (5.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Architect
9 5 (4.24%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Service Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.39%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (61.02%) Spring
2 64 (54.24%) Spring Boot
3 41 (34.75%) REST
4 34 (28.81%) JPA
5 29 (24.58%) RESTful
6 26 (22.03%) Hibernate
7 24 (20.34%) Web Services
8 23 (19.49%) AngularJS
9 22 (18.64%) ActiveMQ
9 22 (18.64%) Node.js
9 22 (18.64%) SOAP
10 21 (17.80%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (16.10%) Kafka
12 18 (15.25%) Spring Batch
12 18 (15.25%) Spring Integration
13 16 (13.56%) Bootstrap
14 14 (11.86%) CSS
15 13 (11.02%) PowerMock
15 13 (11.02%) Spring MVC
16 12 (10.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.49%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.54%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.85%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.27%) Linux
2 9 (7.63%) Unix
3 4 (3.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.85%) Android
4 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (66.10%) CI/CD
2 66 (55.93%) DevOps
3 61 (51.69%) Microservices
4 43 (36.44%) Agile
5 35 (29.66%) Containerisation
5 35 (29.66%) Scrum
6 34 (28.81%) TDD
7 30 (25.42%) Test Automation
8 23 (19.49%) Performance Tuning
9 21 (17.80%) Event-Driven
10 19 (16.10%) BDD
11 18 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (14.41%) Software Engineering
13 16 (13.56%) Design Patterns
13 16 (13.56%) Kanban
14 15 (12.71%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (12.71%) Observability
15 14 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (11.86%) MVC
15 14 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (91.53%) Java
2 57 (48.31%) SQL
3 22 (18.64%) Python
4 18 (15.25%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.47%) Groovy
6 8 (6.78%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.08%) Scala
8 3 (2.54%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.69%) Bash
9 2 (1.69%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (39.83%) Security Cleared
2 43 (36.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.63%) Degree
4 7 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.08%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.24%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.25%) QA
2 6 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.39%) SLA
4 3 (2.54%) SEPA
5 2 (1.69%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.69%) PSD2
6 1 (0.85%) GDPR
6 1 (0.85%) ITGC
6 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (48.31%) Docker
2 11 (9.32%) Postfix
3 3 (2.54%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 43 (36.44%) Kubernetes
2 26 (22.03%) Grafana
3 23 (19.49%) Terraform
4 13 (11.02%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.08%) Argo
5 6 (5.08%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.54%) Ansible
7 2 (1.69%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (15.25%) Atlassian
1 18 (15.25%) Oracle
2 17 (14.41%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.63%) Sonatype
5 6 (5.08%) Splunk
6 5 (4.24%) Sybase
7 4 (3.39%) Google
7 4 (3.39%) IBM
7 4 (3.39%) Solace
8 2 (1.69%) Adobe
8 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.69%) SAP
8 2 (1.69%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.69%) Veracode
9 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.85%) Thales
9 1 (0.85%) VMware