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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 356 437
Rank change year-on-year -113 +81 -181
Contract jobs citing Maven 118 123 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.32% 3.70% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 77 73
10th Percentile £400 £355 £402
25th Percentile £480 £410 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £625 £585 £575
90th Percentile £712 £730 £620
UK median daily rate £542 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.30% - -16.67%
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 5,083 3,324 4,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.12% 13.64% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,405 2,223 2,922
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £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 206 65 159
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.12 £32.74
25th Percentile £60.25 £51.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.31 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -74 49 £600 +11.11% 6
Midlands -56 26 £538 +27.22% 4
West Midlands -44 24 £538 +26.47% 3
North of England -77 21 £450 -5.26% 10
Yorkshire -45 17 £461 -16.14% 5
South East -41 16 £364 -43.46%
South West -19 7 £550 - 2
North West -53 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 10 (8.47%) Confluence
2 6 (5.08%) Apache
3 4 (3.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.39%) 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 5 (4.24%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (54.24%) AWS
2 27 (22.88%) GitHub
3 23 (19.49%) Azure
4 21 (17.80%) Amazon S3
5 20 (16.95%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (12.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (10.17%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (9.32%) AWS KMS
8 11 (9.32%) GCP
8 11 (9.32%) Route 53
9 10 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.47%) Serverless
10 7 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.93%) npm
10 7 (5.93%) OpenShift
11 6 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.24%) OCI
13 4 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
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 25 (21.19%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.95%) DynamoDB
3 17 (14.41%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (10.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (9.32%) SQL Server
6 10 (8.47%) MySQL
6 10 (8.47%) Relational Database
7 9 (7.63%) Metadata
8 7 (5.93%) MongoDB
8 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
9 5 (4.24%) Tick Data
10 4 (3.39%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.54%) InfluxDB
11 3 (2.54%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.85%) Flink
12 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 63 (53.39%) Git
2 59 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 45 (38.14%) JUnit
4 38 (32.20%) Gradle
5 27 (22.88%) SonarQube
6 26 (22.03%) Mockito
7 22 (18.64%) GitLab
8 17 (14.41%) JIRA
9 16 (13.56%) Cucumber
10 14 (11.86%) Selenium
11 12 (10.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (8.47%) Bitbucket
12 10 (8.47%) jMock
12 10 (8.47%) Postman
13 9 (7.63%) DbUnit
14 8 (6.78%) Artifactory
15 7 (5.93%) Bitbucket Server
15 7 (5.93%) Gatling
15 7 (5.93%) REST Assured
16 6 (5.08%) Cypress.io
General
1 45 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.10%) Finance
3 15 (12.71%) Public Sector
4 13 (11.02%) Banking
5 9 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.93%) Front Office
7 5 (4.24%) Publishing
8 4 (3.39%) Retail
9 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (54.24%) Developer
2 53 (44.92%) Java Developer
3 32 (27.12%) Senior
4 22 (18.64%) Senior Developer
5 20 (16.95%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (11.02%) Java Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Applications Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Lead
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%) Fidessa Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.39%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (58.47%) Spring
2 50 (42.37%) Spring Boot
3 32 (27.12%) REST
4 24 (20.34%) AngularJS
4 24 (20.34%) JPA
5 23 (19.49%) JSON
6 22 (18.64%) RESTful
7 20 (16.95%) Hibernate
8 18 (15.25%) Node.js
9 17 (14.41%) SOAP
9 17 (14.41%) Web Services
10 16 (13.56%) Bootstrap
11 15 (12.71%) React
12 14 (11.86%) HTML
12 14 (11.86%) Spring Cloud
13 13 (11.02%) CSS
13 13 (11.02%) Playwright
14 12 (10.17%) ActiveMQ
14 12 (10.17%) XML
15 11 (9.32%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.56%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.63%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.93%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.08%) Equities
5 3 (2.54%) Derivative
5 3 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.69%) Fixed Income
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%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.97%) Linux
2 8 (6.78%) 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 62 (52.54%) CI/CD
2 53 (44.92%) DevOps
3 50 (42.37%) Microservices
4 44 (37.29%) Agile
5 37 (31.36%) Test Automation
6 33 (27.97%) Containerisation
7 29 (24.58%) Scrum
8 22 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.64%) TDD
9 21 (17.80%) Software Engineering
10 17 (14.41%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (12.71%) Event-Driven
11 15 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (11.02%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (10.17%) BDD
13 12 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (10.17%) Design Patterns
13 12 (10.17%) Mentoring
13 12 (10.17%) OOP
14 11 (9.32%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 103 (87.29%) Java
2 37 (31.36%) SQL
3 22 (18.64%) Python
4 11 (9.32%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.47%) Groovy
6 7 (5.93%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.39%) Scala
7 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.54%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.69%) Bash
9 2 (1.69%) Go
10 1 (0.85%) C#
10 1 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 34 (28.81%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.47%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.24%) Degree
5 3 (2.54%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.86%) QA
2 6 (5.08%) WCAG
3 4 (3.39%) SLA
4 2 (1.69%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.69%) NCSC
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (42.37%) Docker
2 8 (6.78%) Postfix
3 3 (2.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.54%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 38 (32.20%) Kubernetes
2 30 (25.42%) Grafana
3 24 (20.34%) Terraform
4 14 (11.86%) Ansible
5 12 (10.17%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.78%) Kibana
7 3 (2.54%) HAProxy
7 3 (2.54%) HP Fortify
7 3 (2.54%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.69%) Podman
8 2 (1.69%) Puppet
9 1 (0.85%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 18 (15.25%) Oracle
2 13 (11.02%) Atlassian
3 11 (9.32%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (8.47%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.78%) Sonatype
6 7 (5.93%) Splunk
7 6 (5.08%) Solace
8 4 (3.39%) Sybase
9 2 (1.69%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.85%) Google
10 1 (0.85%) IBM
10 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.85%) Thales
10 1 (0.85%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.85%) VMware