Maven Contracts in England

Apache Maven
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Maven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Maven over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 431 286
Rank change year-on-year +91 -145 -66
Contract jobs citing Maven 159 121 418
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.33% 0.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.22% 2.64% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 79 322
10th Percentile £273 £400 £450
25th Percentile £358 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £620
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -20.97% -0.80%
75th Percentile £559 £575 £738
90th Percentile £639 £780 £773
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 18
10th Percentile £63.25 - £65.13
25th Percentile £64.38 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £69.38 - £78.00
90th Percentile £69.75 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +17.90%

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 3,766 4,584 6,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.18% 12.32% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,567 3,060 4,799
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £637 £675
90th Percentile £707 £730 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 234 208
10th Percentile £28.41 £33.02 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.83 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +15.74%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Maven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Maven in England

Maven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Maven in England.

Daily rate trend for Maven in England

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in England

Maven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Maven in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 2025. 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 +26 74 £530 +6.00% 51
Midlands +50 40 £425 -27.35% 9
North of England +33 40 £402 -7.80% 13
West Midlands +32 25 £485 +15.48% 4
North West +25 21 £358 -22.68% 10
Yorkshire +14 15 £520 +20.31% 1
East Midlands +13 15 £333 -55.60% 5
South East +37 5 £585 +1.74% 8
North East - 4 £465 - 2
South West +30 2 £513 +13.89% 9
Maven
UK

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (13.21%) Confluence
2 11 (6.92%) JBoss
3 9 (5.66%) Tomcat
4 6 (3.77%) WebSphere
5 4 (2.52%) WebLogic
5 4 (2.52%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.89%) CICS
7 2 (1.26%) Anypoint
7 2 (1.26%) Apache
8 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (53.46%) AWS
2 30 (18.87%) Azure
3 20 (12.58%) Amazon EC2
3 20 (12.58%) Amazon SQS
4 19 (11.95%) Amazon S3
5 17 (10.69%) OpenShift
6 12 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (6.92%) GCP
7 11 (6.92%) GitHub
8 10 (6.29%) AWS KMS
8 10 (6.29%) Route 53
9 8 (5.03%) Kong
10 7 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.40%) Serverless
11 6 (3.77%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.14%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.52%) Calico
1 4 (2.52%) Firewall
2 3 (1.89%) HTTP
3 2 (1.26%) DHCP
3 2 (1.26%) DMZ
3 2 (1.26%) DNS
3 2 (1.26%) Internet
3 2 (1.26%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.26%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (1.26%) SAN
3 2 (1.26%) SSL
3 2 (1.26%) VLAN
3 2 (1.26%) VPN
4 1 (0.63%) AMQP
4 1 (0.63%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.63%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (30.82%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (13.21%) MongoDB
3 20 (12.58%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (11.32%) DynamoDB
5 17 (10.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (8.81%) MySQL
7 13 (8.18%) Relational Database
8 11 (6.92%) NoSQL
9 10 (6.29%) SQL Server
10 9 (5.66%) Redis
11 6 (3.77%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.52%) DB2
13 3 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.89%) Hazelcast
13 3 (1.89%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.26%) Big Data
14 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
14 2 (1.26%) HPCC
15 1 (0.63%) Aerospike
15 1 (0.63%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 91 (57.23%) Jenkins
2 89 (55.97%) Git
3 75 (47.17%) JUnit
4 48 (30.19%) Gradle
5 42 (26.42%) SonarQube
6 38 (23.90%) JIRA
7 37 (23.27%) GitLab
7 37 (23.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 34 (21.38%) Cucumber
8 34 (21.38%) IntelliJ
9 32 (20.13%) Mockito
10 31 (19.50%) Selenium
11 16 (10.06%) Bitbucket
12 15 (9.43%) Postman
13 13 (8.18%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (6.92%) Eclipse
14 11 (6.92%) REST Assured
15 9 (5.66%) Artifactory
15 9 (5.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (5.66%) Subversion
General
1 33 (20.75%) Finance
2 30 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (17.61%) Social Skills
4 23 (14.47%) Public Sector
5 22 (13.84%) Banking
6 7 (4.40%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.14%) Front Office
8 3 (1.89%) Back Office
9 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Aviation
10 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Military
10 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 97 (61.01%) Developer
2 70 (44.03%) Java Developer
3 19 (11.95%) Full-Stack Developer
3 19 (11.95%) Senior
4 16 (10.06%) AWS Developer
5 14 (8.81%) Lead
5 14 (8.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 12 (7.55%) Senior Developer
7 11 (6.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.92%) Lead Developer
8 10 (6.29%) Java Engineer
8 10 (6.29%) Lead Java Developer
9 9 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (5.66%) Tester
10 8 (5.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (4.40%) Architect
11 7 (4.40%) Automation Tester
11 7 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) DevOps Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (55.97%) Spring
2 84 (52.83%) Spring Boot
3 46 (28.93%) Hibernate
4 42 (26.42%) JPA
5 38 (23.90%) REST
6 33 (20.75%) RESTful
7 30 (18.87%) AngularJS
7 30 (18.87%) SOAP
8 29 (18.24%) Web Services
9 25 (15.72%) Node.js
10 22 (13.84%) Kafka
11 21 (13.21%) HTML
11 21 (13.21%) Spring Cloud
12 20 (12.58%) ActiveMQ
12 20 (12.58%) CSS
13 19 (11.95%) Bootstrap
13 19 (11.95%) React
14 17 (10.69%) J2EE
14 17 (10.69%) Spring Integration
15 16 (10.06%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.40%) Mainframe
3 5 (3.14%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.89%) Equities
5 3 (1.89%) PKI
5 3 (1.89%) VSAM
6 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.26%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.26%) Clustering
6 2 (1.26%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.26%) IVR
6 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.26%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (23.27%) Linux
2 25 (15.72%) Unix
3 6 (3.77%) Windows
4 5 (3.14%) Android
4 5 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.52%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.89%) CentOS
7 2 (1.26%) Debian
7 2 (1.26%) Solaris
7 2 (1.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (49.06%) Microservices
2 64 (40.25%) CI/CD
3 61 (38.36%) Agile
3 61 (38.36%) DevOps
4 50 (31.45%) TDD
5 43 (27.04%) Test Automation
6 31 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (16.98%) Containerisation
8 24 (15.09%) Design Patterns
8 24 (15.09%) Scrum
9 22 (13.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (13.21%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (12.58%) BDD
12 19 (11.95%) Code Quality
13 18 (11.32%) Open Source
14 16 (10.06%) Mentoring
14 16 (10.06%) Software Engineering
14 16 (10.06%) Unit Testing
15 14 (8.81%) Risk Management
16 13 (8.18%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 135 (84.91%) Java
2 60 (37.74%) SQL
3 38 (23.90%) JavaScript
4 25 (15.72%) Python
4 25 (15.72%) Shell Script
5 16 (10.06%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.29%) Bash
6 10 (6.29%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.77%) Groovy
8 4 (2.52%) COBOL
8 4 (2.52%) JCL
8 4 (2.52%) Perl
9 3 (1.89%) C
9 3 (1.89%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.26%) C#
10 2 (1.26%) C++
10 2 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.63%) Ada
11 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 44 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 40 (25.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.77%) Degree
4 5 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.58%) QA
2 6 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.77%) WCAG
3 1 (0.63%) GDPR
3 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (44.03%) Docker
2 9 (5.66%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (23.90%) Kubernetes
2 22 (13.84%) Terraform
3 20 (12.58%) Grafana
3 20 (12.58%) Prometheus
4 14 (8.81%) Puppet
5 12 (7.55%) Ansible
6 9 (5.66%) Istio
7 7 (4.40%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.52%) Control-M
9 3 (1.89%) Argo
9 3 (1.89%) Rundeck
10 2 (1.26%) CloudHub
10 2 (1.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.26%) Nessus
10 2 (1.26%) Podman
11 1 (0.63%) Graylog
11 1 (0.63%) Kibana
11 1 (0.63%) Packer
11 1 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (15.09%) Oracle
2 14 (8.81%) CA Agile Central
3 13 (8.18%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.92%) Splunk
5 10 (6.29%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (5.66%) Atlassian
6 9 (5.66%) Veracode
7 6 (3.77%) Google
8 5 (3.14%) IBM
8 5 (3.14%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.14%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.14%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.52%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.52%) Sybase
10 3 (1.89%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.26%) Remedy
11 2 (1.26%) Solace
11 2 (1.26%) Sophos
11 2 (1.26%) VMware