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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 353 445
Rank change year-on-year -113 +92 -199
Contract jobs citing Maven 118 119 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.49% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.33% 3.63% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 73 76
10th Percentile £400 £356 £403
25th Percentile £463 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% +2.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £610 £588
90th Percentile £702 £735 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +7.50% -3.85% -16.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +46.15% - -

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 5,066 3,282 4,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.51% 13.52% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,423 2,183 2,930
10th Percentile £340 £340 £360
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 65 172
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.12 £37.50
25th Percentile £58.75 £52.18 £48.23
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.13 £75.00 £70.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £88.13
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -82 51 £588 +9.20% 9
Midlands -60 24 £540 +27.69% 3
West Midlands -42 22 £540 +26.94% 2
South East -36 19 £450 -30.10%
North of England -72 18 £450 -5.26% 12
Yorkshire -49 14 £450 -15.09% 7
South West -14 7 £550 - 2
North West -46 4 £402 -11.89% 4
East Midlands -35 2 - - 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 12 (10.17%) Confluence
2 5 (4.24%) Apache
3 4 (3.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.54%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.69%) Camunda
5 2 (1.69%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.85%) JBoss
6 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 58 (49.15%) AWS
2 31 (26.27%) GitHub
3 20 (16.95%) Amazon S3
4 19 (16.10%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (16.10%) Azure
5 15 (12.71%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (10.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (9.32%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (8.47%) AWS KMS
8 10 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (8.47%) OpenShift
8 10 (8.47%) Route 53
8 10 (8.47%) Serverless
9 8 (6.78%) GCP
10 7 (5.93%) npm
11 6 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.39%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) AMQP
2 3 (2.54%) HTTP
3 2 (1.69%) Multicast
4 1 (0.85%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.34%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (14.41%) DynamoDB
3 16 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (10.17%) SQL Server
5 11 (9.32%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (8.47%) MySQL
6 10 (8.47%) Relational Database
7 9 (7.63%) MongoDB
8 7 (5.93%) Tick Data
9 6 (5.08%) Metadata
9 6 (5.08%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.39%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.54%) InfluxDB
11 3 (2.54%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.85%) HBase
13 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 59 (50.00%) Git
1 59 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 43 (36.44%) JUnit
3 35 (29.66%) Gradle
4 25 (21.19%) GitLab
4 25 (21.19%) Mockito
5 22 (18.64%) SonarQube
6 20 (16.95%) JIRA
7 16 (13.56%) Cucumber
7 16 (13.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (11.02%) Selenium
9 11 (9.32%) Bitbucket
10 9 (7.63%) jMock
10 9 (7.63%) Postman
11 8 (6.78%) Artifactory
11 8 (6.78%) DbUnit
12 6 (5.08%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (5.08%) Cypress.io
12 6 (5.08%) Gatling
12 6 (5.08%) REST Assured
General
1 43 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.95%) Finance
3 14 (11.86%) Banking
3 14 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.78%) Front Office
5 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.39%) Retail
6 3 (2.54%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.54%) Publishing
7 1 (0.85%) Law
7 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (55.08%) Developer
2 55 (46.61%) Java Developer
3 28 (23.73%) Senior
4 18 (15.25%) Senior Developer
5 16 (13.56%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (10.17%) Java Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Lead
7 9 (7.63%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Applications Developer
8 7 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Fidessa Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Applications Support
10 5 (4.24%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.39%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (56.78%) Spring
2 48 (40.68%) Spring Boot
3 30 (25.42%) REST
4 23 (19.49%) AngularJS
4 23 (19.49%) JPA
5 20 (16.95%) JSON
6 19 (16.10%) Hibernate
6 19 (16.10%) RESTful
7 16 (13.56%) React
7 16 (13.56%) Web Services
8 15 (12.71%) Bootstrap
8 15 (12.71%) Node.js
8 15 (12.71%) SOAP
9 14 (11.86%) HTML
10 13 (11.02%) CSS
11 12 (10.17%) Playwright
11 12 (10.17%) Spring Cloud
11 12 (10.17%) XML
12 11 (9.32%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (8.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.02%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.63%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.93%) Equities
4 6 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.39%) Derivative
6 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.69%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.69%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) TWAP
6 2 (1.69%) VWAP
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 34 (28.81%) Linux
2 9 (7.63%) Unix
3 4 (3.39%) Windows
4 2 (1.69%) CentOS
4 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (48.31%) CI/CD
2 48 (40.68%) DevOps
3 46 (38.98%) Microservices
4 43 (36.44%) Agile
5 34 (28.81%) Test Automation
6 31 (26.27%) Containerisation
7 28 (23.73%) Scrum
8 22 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (16.95%) Software Engineering
9 20 (16.95%) TDD
10 14 (11.86%) Mentoring
10 14 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (9.32%) OOP
12 11 (9.32%) Unit Testing
13 10 (8.47%) BDD
13 10 (8.47%) OO
13 10 (8.47%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 102 (86.44%) Java
2 35 (29.66%) SQL
3 21 (17.80%) Python
4 11 (9.32%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.78%) Groovy
6 7 (5.93%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.24%) Scala
7 5 (4.24%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.39%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.69%) Bash
9 2 (1.69%) Go
10 1 (0.85%) C#
10 1 (0.85%) C++
10 1 (0.85%) Clojure
10 1 (0.85%) R
10 1 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (39.83%) Security Cleared
2 36 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.47%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.39%) Degree
5 3 (2.54%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) QA
2 6 (5.08%) WCAG
3 4 (3.39%) SLA
4 3 (2.54%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.69%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 46 (38.98%) Docker
2 7 (5.93%) Postfix
3 3 (2.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.54%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 37 (31.36%) Kubernetes
2 30 (25.42%) Grafana
3 21 (17.80%) Terraform
4 15 (12.71%) Ansible
5 13 (11.02%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.78%) Kibana
7 4 (3.39%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.54%) HAProxy
8 3 (2.54%) HP Fortify
8 3 (2.54%) Puppet
9 2 (1.69%) Podman
10 1 (0.85%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 19 (16.10%) Oracle
2 12 (10.17%) Atlassian
3 10 (8.47%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (7.63%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.63%) Solace
5 7 (5.93%) Splunk
6 5 (4.24%) Sonatype
6 5 (4.24%) Sybase
7 4 (3.39%) VMware
8 2 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.85%) Google
9 1 (0.85%) IBM
9 1 (0.85%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.85%) Thales
9 1 (0.85%) TIBCO