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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 343 435
Rank change year-on-year -144 +92 -169
Contract jobs citing Maven 115 153 107
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.62% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.27% 4.40% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 118 70
10th Percentile £400 £312 £400
25th Percentile £455 £364 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -4.04% -19.35%
75th Percentile £604 £550 £575
90th Percentile £749 £674 £741
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £59.00 £63.25 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
75th Percentile - £69.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.75 -
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 5,070 3,480 4,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.84% 14.09% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,299 2,360 2,985
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £681 £715 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 70 225
10th Percentile £32.24 £27.35 £33.03
25th Percentile £59.13 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.26%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -89 50 £575 +9.52% 3
North of England -86 28 £475 +15.57% 4
Midlands -66 27 £537 +26.24% 2
West Midlands -62 24 £537 +10.62% 2
Yorkshire -44 23 £475 -8.61% 3
South East -53 12 £357 -39.06% 2
North West -55 5 £439 +22.49% 1
South West -26 2 £563 +18.42% 3
East Midlands -33 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 8 (6.96%) Confluence
2 6 (5.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (4.35%) Apache
4 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.61%) Camunda
5 3 (2.61%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.74%) CMS
7 1 (0.87%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.87%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (53.91%) AWS
2 34 (29.57%) GitHub
3 28 (24.35%) Azure
4 24 (20.87%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 21 (18.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (15.65%) AWS KMS
7 18 (15.65%) GCP
7 18 (15.65%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (15.65%) Route 53
8 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.09%) OCI
9 6 (5.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (3.48%) Apigee
10 4 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.48%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.48%) Kong
10 4 (3.48%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) HTTP
2 1 (0.87%) AMQP
2 1 (0.87%) Internet
2 1 (0.87%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (31.30%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (21.74%) DynamoDB
3 22 (19.13%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (15.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (10.43%) SQL Server
6 11 (9.57%) Metadata
6 11 (9.57%) Relational Database
7 10 (8.70%) MySQL
8 9 (7.83%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.48%) Flink
9 4 (3.48%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.48%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.48%) Redis
10 3 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.61%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.87%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 68 (59.13%) Jenkins
2 57 (49.57%) Git
3 44 (38.26%) JUnit
4 40 (34.78%) Gradle
5 37 (32.17%) SonarQube
6 29 (25.22%) Mockito
7 16 (13.91%) GitLab
8 14 (12.17%) DbUnit
9 13 (11.30%) jMock
10 12 (10.43%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (10.43%) JIRA
11 10 (8.70%) REST Assured
12 9 (7.83%) Cucumber
12 9 (7.83%) Gatling
13 8 (6.96%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (6.09%) Artifactory
14 7 (6.09%) Selenium
14 7 (6.09%) TestNG
15 6 (5.22%) Bitbucket
15 6 (5.22%) Eclipse
General
1 37 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.26%) Public Sector
3 18 (15.65%) Finance
4 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.70%) Banking
6 7 (6.09%) Publishing
7 5 (4.35%) Front Office
8 4 (3.48%) Retail
9 3 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (55.65%) Developer
2 55 (47.83%) Java Developer
3 30 (26.09%) Senior
4 23 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 23 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (10.43%) Java Engineer
6 9 (7.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.83%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Applications Developer
7 6 (5.22%) Lead
8 5 (4.35%) Architect
8 5 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 4 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.48%) Lead Developer
9 4 (3.48%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Senior Java Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Service Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.48%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (59.13%) Spring
2 53 (46.09%) Spring Boot
3 34 (29.57%) REST
4 33 (28.70%) JPA
5 25 (21.74%) Hibernate
6 24 (20.87%) Web Services
7 23 (20.00%) AngularJS
7 23 (20.00%) SOAP
8 22 (19.13%) RESTful
8 22 (19.13%) Spring Cloud
9 21 (18.26%) Node.js
10 20 (17.39%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (15.65%) Spring Batch
11 18 (15.65%) Spring Integration
12 17 (14.78%) Bootstrap
13 13 (11.30%) JSON
13 13 (11.30%) Kafka
13 13 (11.30%) PowerMock
14 12 (10.43%) CSS
14 12 (10.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.13%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.09%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.22%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.61%) Equities
6 3 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.74%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.87%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.87%) Derivative
8 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.87%) TWAP
8 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.87%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.96%) Linux
2 9 (7.83%) Unix
3 4 (3.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.87%) Android
4 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (58.26%) CI/CD
2 61 (53.04%) DevOps
3 53 (46.09%) Microservices
4 37 (32.17%) Agile
5 36 (31.30%) Containerisation
6 34 (29.57%) TDD
7 32 (27.83%) Scrum
8 31 (26.96%) Test Automation
9 24 (20.87%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (17.39%) Software Engineering
11 18 (15.65%) Event-Driven
12 17 (14.78%) BDD
12 17 (14.78%) Kanban
13 15 (13.04%) Observability
14 14 (12.17%) BPMN
15 13 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
16 12 (10.43%) Design Patterns
17 11 (9.57%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 103 (89.57%) Java
2 50 (43.48%) SQL
3 24 (20.87%) Python
4 10 (8.70%) Groovy
4 10 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.96%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.22%) Scala
7 2 (1.74%) Go
7 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.87%) Bash
8 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (33.91%) Security Cleared
2 34 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.96%) Degree
4 6 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.91%) QA
2 4 (3.48%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.48%) SLA
3 3 (2.61%) SEPA
4 2 (1.74%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.74%) NCSC
4 2 (1.74%) PSD2
5 1 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.87%) ITGC
5 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (45.22%) Docker
2 11 (9.57%) Postfix
3 3 (2.61%) GridGain
4 2 (1.74%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 36 (31.30%) Kubernetes
2 27 (23.48%) Grafana
3 24 (20.87%) Terraform
4 13 (11.30%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.22%) Argo
5 6 (5.22%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.61%) Kibana
7 2 (1.74%) Ansible
8 1 (0.87%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 18 (15.65%) Atlassian
2 17 (14.78%) Jaspersoft
3 13 (11.30%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.70%) Oracle
4 10 (8.70%) Sonatype
5 6 (5.22%) Solace
6 5 (4.35%) Splunk
6 5 (4.35%) Sybase
7 3 (2.61%) IBM
8 2 (1.74%) Adobe
8 2 (1.74%) Google
8 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.74%) SAP
8 2 (1.74%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.87%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.87%) Thales
9 1 (0.87%) Veracode
9 1 (0.87%) VMware