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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 368 396
Rank change year-on-year -134 +28 -48
Contract jobs citing Maven 131 146 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.53% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.52% 3.57% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 117 82
10th Percentile £353 £270 £363
25th Percentile £459 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £539
Median % change year-on-year +8.34% -11.83% -1.60%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £683
90th Percentile £680 £626 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

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 5,199 4,087 4,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.82% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,834 2,844
10th Percentile £356 £325 £355
25th Percentile £414 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 96 172
10th Percentile £36.75 £42.38 £36.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.58 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £73.19 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.36 £82.98 £71.84
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -97 55 £530 +4.95% 93
Midlands -45 36 £575 +32.09% 11
North of England -73 34 £507 +26.75% 17
West Midlands -31 33 £575 +15.00% 10
Yorkshire -20 27 £500 -3.80% 6
North West -74 6 £519 +44.83% 10
South East -62 5 £270 -53.85% 9
East Midlands -24 2 £335 -1.47% 1
South West -40 1 - - 19
North East -47 1 £520 +11.83% 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 13 (9.92%) Confluence
2 7 (5.34%) Camunda
2 7 (5.34%) WebLogic
3 5 (3.82%) Apache
4 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.53%) CMS
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.76%) nginx
7 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 74 (56.49%) AWS
2 41 (31.30%) Azure
3 33 (25.19%) GitHub
4 31 (23.66%) GCP
5 17 (12.98%) Amazon SQS
5 17 (12.98%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (9.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (9.16%) Amazon S3
9 11 (8.40%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (7.63%) AWS KMS
10 10 (7.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (7.63%) Kong
10 10 (7.63%) OCI
10 10 (7.63%) Route 53
11 9 (6.87%) OpenShift
12 7 (5.34%) Apigee
13 5 (3.82%) Cloud Run
14 4 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (3.05%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Firewall
1 2 (1.53%) SSL
2 1 (0.76%) DNS
2 1 (0.76%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.76%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) Multicast
2 1 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.19%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (16.79%) Relational Database
3 21 (16.03%) SQL Server
4 13 (9.92%) DynamoDB
5 12 (9.16%) Metadata
6 9 (6.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (6.87%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (6.11%) MongoDB
8 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
9 6 (4.58%) MySQL
9 6 (4.58%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.82%) Hazelcast
10 5 (3.82%) Redis
11 4 (3.05%) Flink
12 3 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 83 (63.36%) Jenkins
2 76 (58.02%) Git
3 53 (40.46%) SonarQube
4 48 (36.64%) Gradle
4 48 (36.64%) JUnit
5 39 (29.77%) GitLab
6 32 (24.43%) Mockito
7 17 (12.98%) JIRA
8 16 (12.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (9.92%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (9.92%) REST Assured
10 12 (9.16%) Selenium
11 8 (6.11%) Artifactory
11 8 (6.11%) Cucumber
12 7 (5.34%) DbUnit
12 7 (5.34%) Gatling
13 6 (4.58%) jMock
14 5 (3.82%) Postman
14 5 (3.82%) Snyk
14 5 (3.82%) TestNG
General
1 28 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.61%) Finance
3 22 (16.79%) Banking
4 20 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (14.50%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.40%) Publishing
7 3 (2.29%) Front Office
8 2 (1.53%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (54.20%) Developer
2 57 (43.51%) Java Developer
3 27 (20.61%) Senior
4 22 (16.79%) Senior Developer
4 22 (16.79%) Senior Java Developer
5 20 (15.27%) Java Engineer
6 15 (11.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.34%) Lead
8 7 (5.34%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Lead Developer
9 6 (4.58%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Architect
10 5 (3.82%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.05%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 4 (3.05%) Senior Backend Developer
12 3 (2.29%) Lead Java Developer
12 3 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (55.73%) Spring
1 73 (55.73%) Spring Boot
2 38 (29.01%) REST
3 36 (27.48%) JPA
4 32 (24.43%) Kafka
4 32 (24.43%) Terraform
5 28 (21.37%) RESTful
6 23 (17.56%) Node.js
7 22 (16.79%) Hibernate
8 21 (16.03%) HTML
8 21 (16.03%) React
9 20 (15.27%) CSS
10 18 (13.74%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (12.98%) AngularJS
11 17 (12.98%) SOAP
12 16 (12.21%) Web Services
13 15 (11.45%) JSON
13 15 (11.45%) Spring Cloud
14 13 (9.92%) YAML
15 12 (9.16%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.74%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.16%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.63%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.87%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (6.11%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (5.34%) Data Structures
6 7 (5.34%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.53%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.76%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.85%) Linux
2 8 (6.11%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.76%) VMS
3 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (66.41%) CI/CD
2 76 (58.02%) DevOps
3 70 (53.44%) Microservices
4 55 (41.98%) Agile
5 43 (32.82%) Scrum
6 41 (31.30%) Test Automation
7 40 (30.53%) Containerisation
8 36 (27.48%) TDD
9 27 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (19.85%) Event-Driven
11 23 (17.56%) Clean Code
12 20 (15.27%) Performance Tuning
12 20 (15.27%) Software Engineering
13 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (13.74%) Design Patterns
14 18 (13.74%) Observability
15 17 (12.98%) Code Quality
16 15 (11.45%) BDD
16 15 (11.45%) DevSecOps
16 15 (11.45%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 122 (93.13%) Java
2 62 (47.33%) SQL
3 30 (22.90%) JavaScript
4 28 (21.37%) Python
5 18 (13.74%) Shell Script
6 13 (9.92%) Groovy
7 9 (6.87%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.58%) Scala
9 4 (3.05%) Bash
10 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.76%) R
10 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (40.46%) Security Cleared
2 48 (36.64%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (11.45%) Degree
5 12 (9.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.53%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.50%) QA
2 7 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.82%) SEPA
4 4 (3.05%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.05%) PSD2
5 1 (0.76%) ITGC
5 1 (0.76%) NIST
5 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (48.09%) Docker
2 5 (3.82%) Postfix
3 3 (2.29%) GridGain
4 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (49.62%) Kubernetes
2 27 (20.61%) Grafana
3 21 (16.03%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.87%) Argo
5 7 (5.34%) Ansible
5 7 (5.34%) Kibana
6 6 (4.58%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.76%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.76%) Istio
8 1 (0.76%) Podman
8 1 (0.76%) Puppet
8 1 (0.76%) systemd
Vendors
1 23 (17.56%) Oracle
2 12 (9.16%) Sonatype
3 10 (7.63%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.11%) IBM
4 8 (6.11%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (6.11%) Splunk
5 7 (5.34%) Atlassian
5 7 (5.34%) Veracode
6 5 (3.82%) Google
6 5 (3.82%) Sybase
7 4 (3.05%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.05%) Solace
8 2 (1.53%) Adobe
8 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.53%) SAP
8 2 (1.53%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.76%) VMware