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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 367 381
Rank change year-on-year -111 +14 +33
Contract jobs citing Maven 160 148 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.53% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.02% 3.52% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 121 85
10th Percentile £330 £276 £363
25th Percentile £447 £360 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £495 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -7.91% -10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £685
90th Percentile £650 £643 £858
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £530
% change year-on-year +2.63% -10.38% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 5,305 4,206 4,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.45% 15.15% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,915 2,710
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £694 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 98 164
10th Percentile £22.68 £34.43 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.21 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.12 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £75.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -101 67 £498 -4.78% 95
Midlands -16 52 £575 +32.09% 20
West Midlands -13 49 £575 +15.00% 16
North of England -75 32 £520 +35.06% 24
Yorkshire -28 22 £515 -0.99% 5
North West -59 9 £537 +50.00% 17
South East -57 7 £270 -43.16% 12
East Midlands -17 2 £335 -1.47% 4
South West -39 2 £300 -45.45% 8
North East - 1 £520 - 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 23 (14.38%) Confluence
2 12 (7.50%) WebLogic
3 9 (5.63%) Camunda
4 5 (3.13%) Apache
5 3 (1.88%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.63%) nginx
7 1 (0.63%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 92 (57.50%) AWS
2 41 (25.63%) Azure
3 36 (22.50%) GCP
4 32 (20.00%) GitHub
5 19 (11.88%) Amazon SQS
6 17 (10.63%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 14 (8.75%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (8.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (6.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (6.88%) OpenShift
10 10 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (6.25%) Kong
10 10 (6.25%) Serverless
11 8 (5.00%) AWS KMS
11 8 (5.00%) Route 53
12 7 (4.38%) Apigee
12 7 (4.38%) Cloud Run
12 7 (4.38%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) Firewall
2 2 (1.25%) SSL
3 1 (0.63%) DNS
3 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.63%) Internet
3 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (29.38%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (23.13%) Relational Database
3 18 (11.25%) SQL Server
4 12 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 10 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 9 (5.63%) MySQL
6 9 (5.63%) NoSQL
7 8 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (4.38%) Metadata
9 6 (3.75%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.13%) Hazelcast
10 5 (3.13%) Oracle Database
10 5 (3.13%) Redis
11 4 (2.50%) Flink
12 3 (1.88%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.88%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.88%) Weaviate
13 1 (0.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 100 (62.50%) Git
2 92 (57.50%) Jenkins
3 74 (46.25%) JUnit
4 60 (37.50%) SonarQube
5 58 (36.25%) Gradle
6 57 (35.63%) Mockito
7 56 (35.00%) GitLab
8 28 (17.50%) JIRA
9 19 (11.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (11.25%) Cucumber
11 14 (8.75%) REST Assured
12 13 (8.13%) Bitbucket Server
13 12 (7.50%) Selenium
14 5 (3.13%) DbUnit
14 5 (3.13%) Snyk
15 4 (2.50%) Artifactory
15 4 (2.50%) Bitbucket
15 4 (2.50%) jMock
15 4 (2.50%) Postman
15 4 (2.50%) TestNG
General
1 39 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.00%) Finance
3 30 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (15.63%) Banking
4 25 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.00%) Publishing
6 6 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.25%) Military
8 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Back Office
9 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (56.25%) Developer
2 75 (46.88%) Java Developer
3 31 (19.38%) Senior
4 29 (18.13%) Java Engineer
5 20 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 20 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (10.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (6.88%) Lead
8 10 (6.25%) Lead Developer
9 8 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 7 (4.38%) Lead Java Developer
11 5 (3.13%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (3.13%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.50%) Architect
12 4 (2.50%) GCP DevOps
12 4 (2.50%) Python Engineer
12 4 (2.50%) Senior Backend Developer
13 3 (1.88%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (64.38%) Spring Boot
2 102 (63.75%) Spring
3 58 (36.25%) REST
4 57 (35.63%) JPA
5 38 (23.75%) RESTful
6 36 (22.50%) Kafka
7 34 (21.25%) Hibernate
8 33 (20.63%) Terraform
9 32 (20.00%) HTML
10 30 (18.75%) React
11 27 (16.88%) AngularJS
11 27 (16.88%) CSS
11 27 (16.88%) SOAP
12 25 (15.63%) ActiveMQ
12 25 (15.63%) Web Services
13 24 (15.00%) Node.js
14 21 (13.13%) OpenAPI
15 18 (11.25%) Spring Cloud
16 16 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
17 14 (8.75%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.13%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.88%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (6.88%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (6.25%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.38%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.13%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.50%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.25%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.63%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.50%) Linux
2 13 (8.13%) Unix
3 3 (1.88%) Mac OS X
3 3 (1.88%) VMS
4 1 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (66.25%) CI/CD
2 93 (58.13%) Agile
3 87 (54.38%) Microservices
4 79 (49.38%) DevOps
5 65 (40.63%) Scrum
6 61 (38.13%) Containerisation
7 54 (33.75%) Test Automation
8 49 (30.63%) TDD
9 40 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (20.00%) Clean Code
10 32 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (20.00%) Front End Development
11 27 (16.88%) Software Engineering
12 26 (16.25%) Code Quality
13 24 (15.00%) User Stories
14 22 (13.75%) Computer Science
14 22 (13.75%) Event-Driven
15 20 (12.50%) Design Patterns
15 20 (12.50%) Kanban
16 19 (11.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 151 (94.38%) Java
2 77 (48.13%) SQL
3 41 (25.63%) JavaScript
4 28 (17.50%) Shell Script
5 27 (16.88%) Python
6 19 (11.88%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.88%) Groovy
8 8 (5.00%) Bash
9 6 (3.75%) Scala
10 3 (1.88%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.63%) R
11 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 68 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 61 (38.13%) SC Cleared
3 24 (15.00%) Degree
4 23 (14.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.25%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.38%) QA
2 8 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.50%) PSD2
3 4 (2.50%) SEPA
4 2 (1.25%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.25%) WCAG
5 1 (0.63%) ITGC
5 1 (0.63%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (47.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.88%) Postfix
2 3 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (46.88%) Kubernetes
2 34 (21.25%) Grafana
3 24 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 16 (10.00%) Kibana
5 10 (6.25%) Argo
6 9 (5.63%) Ansible
7 3 (1.88%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.63%) Istio
9 1 (0.63%) Podman
9 1 (0.63%) Puppet
9 1 (0.63%) systemd
Vendors
1 31 (19.38%) Oracle
2 12 (7.50%) Google
3 10 (6.25%) IBM
4 9 (5.63%) Veracode
5 8 (5.00%) Sonatype
6 7 (4.38%) Splunk
7 6 (3.75%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (3.13%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.13%) Microsoft
9 4 (2.50%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.88%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.88%) Checkmarx
10 3 (1.88%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.25%) Adobe
11 2 (1.25%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.25%) SAP
11 2 (1.25%) Sybase
12 1 (0.63%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.63%) webMethods