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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 395 370
Rank change year-on-year +41 -25 -142
Contract jobs citing Maven 149 139 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.43% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.60% 3.19% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 84 167
10th Percentile £270 £363 £450
25th Percentile £359 £450 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £539 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -8.30% -9.62%
75th Percentile £575 £685 £738
90th Percentile £618 £859 £760
UK median daily rate £475 £536 £544
% change year-on-year -11.42% -1.38% -13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile £63.25 - £67.38
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 - - +46.34%

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 4,134 4,364 5,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.89% 13.35% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,803 3,930
10th Percentile £325 £353 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.74%
75th Percentile £603 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 168 227
10th Percentile £44.63 £37.31 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.27 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.75
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.83 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +17 79 £506 -7.95% 16
North of England +15 39 £402 +5.79% 11
Midlands +11 26 £429 -42.80% 2
North West -2 22 £358 -0.56% 3
West Midlands - 15 £500 - 2
Yorkshire +1 14 £520 +15.50% 8
East Midlands +3 11 £340 -54.67%
South East +19 5 £585 +1.74% 8
South West +6 4 £550 +7.58% 2
North East - 3 £465 -
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 13 (8.72%) Confluence
2 10 (6.71%) JBoss
3 9 (6.04%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.68%) CICS
5 3 (2.01%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.34%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.34%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.34%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.67%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 66 (44.30%) AWS
2 42 (28.19%) Azure
3 22 (14.77%) Amazon SQS
4 21 (14.09%) Amazon EC2
4 21 (14.09%) GCP
4 21 (14.09%) GitHub
5 17 (11.41%) OpenShift
6 16 (10.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (10.74%) Amazon S3
7 14 (9.40%) Route 53
8 12 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (7.38%) AWS Fargate
9 11 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (7.38%) Serverless
10 9 (6.04%) Apigee
10 9 (6.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.37%) AWS KMS
11 8 (5.37%) Azure AKS
11 8 (5.37%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) AMQP
2 2 (1.34%) Calico
2 2 (1.34%) DMZ
2 2 (1.34%) Internet
2 2 (1.34%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.34%) MQTT
3 1 (0.67%) Firewall
3 1 (0.67%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (27.52%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (15.44%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (13.42%) DynamoDB
4 17 (11.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (10.07%) Relational Database
5 15 (10.07%) SQL Server
6 14 (9.40%) NoSQL
7 13 (8.72%) MongoDB
8 11 (7.38%) MySQL
8 11 (7.38%) RDBMS
8 11 (7.38%) Redis
9 10 (6.71%) Oracle Database
10 5 (3.36%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.36%) DB2
11 3 (2.01%) Big Data
11 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.01%) HPCC
12 2 (1.34%) InfluxDB
13 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 94 (63.09%) Git
2 77 (51.68%) Jenkins
3 59 (39.60%) JUnit
4 55 (36.91%) Gradle
5 48 (32.21%) SonarQube
6 44 (29.53%) GitLab
6 44 (29.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 32 (21.48%) JIRA
8 30 (20.13%) Cucumber
8 30 (20.13%) Selenium
9 28 (18.79%) Mockito
10 20 (13.42%) IntelliJ
11 19 (12.75%) Postman
12 16 (10.74%) REST Assured
13 13 (8.72%) Bitbucket
14 11 (7.38%) Artifactory
14 11 (7.38%) Eclipse
14 11 (7.38%) Subversion
15 8 (5.37%) Cypress.io
16 7 (4.70%) SoapUI
General
1 31 (20.81%) Finance
2 30 (20.13%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.45%) Banking
4 18 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (10.74%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.37%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.70%) Front Office
8 3 (2.01%) Back Office
8 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.34%) Retail
10 1 (0.67%) Advertising
10 1 (0.67%) Aviation
10 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (52.35%) Developer
2 58 (38.93%) Java Developer
3 15 (10.07%) AWS Developer
3 15 (10.07%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (10.07%) Senior
4 14 (9.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (7.38%) Architect
6 10 (6.71%) Java Engineer
6 10 (6.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 8 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (5.37%) Lead
7 8 (5.37%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (4.03%) Java Architect
9 6 (4.03%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Automation Tester
10 5 (3.36%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.36%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (48.32%) Spring Boot
2 67 (44.97%) Spring
3 39 (26.17%) Hibernate
4 36 (24.16%) JPA
5 33 (22.15%) REST
6 32 (21.48%) RESTful
7 27 (18.12%) SOAP
8 24 (16.11%) AngularJS
8 24 (16.11%) Web Services
9 23 (15.44%) Node.js
9 23 (15.44%) Spring Cloud
10 21 (14.09%) HTML
11 20 (13.42%) CSS
12 19 (12.75%) Kafka
12 19 (12.75%) React
13 16 (10.74%) J2EE
13 16 (10.74%) Jest
14 14 (9.40%) Bootstrap
15 13 (8.72%) ActiveMQ
16 10 (6.71%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.74%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.38%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.70%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.36%) Mainframe
5 5 (3.36%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.68%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.68%) VSAM
7 3 (2.01%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.01%) Clustering
7 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.01%) Equities
7 3 (2.01%) IVR
7 3 (2.01%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.01%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.34%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.34%) IoT
8 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.67%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 39 (26.17%) Linux
2 31 (20.81%) Unix
3 8 (5.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.36%) Solaris
5 4 (2.68%) Windows
6 3 (2.01%) CentOS
7 2 (1.34%) Android
7 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (46.98%) CI/CD
2 66 (44.30%) Microservices
3 64 (42.95%) Agile
4 58 (38.93%) DevOps
5 54 (36.24%) TDD
6 44 (29.53%) Test Automation
7 37 (24.83%) Containerisation
8 35 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (21.48%) Design Patterns
10 24 (16.11%) BDD
11 23 (15.44%) Mentoring
12 22 (14.77%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (14.09%) Code Quality
13 21 (14.09%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (12.75%) Scrum
14 19 (12.75%) SDLC
15 18 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (11.41%) Infrastructure as Code
17 16 (10.74%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 122 (81.88%) Java
2 58 (38.93%) SQL
3 40 (26.85%) JavaScript
4 28 (18.79%) Python
5 25 (16.78%) Shell Script
6 13 (8.72%) Bash
6 13 (8.72%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.04%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.37%) Groovy
9 5 (3.36%) C
9 5 (3.36%) COBOL
9 5 (3.36%) JCL
10 4 (2.68%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.01%) C++
12 2 (1.34%) C#
12 2 (1.34%) Go
13 1 (0.67%) Ada
13 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.12%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.01%) Degree
6 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.67%) OCP
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.74%) QA
2 6 (4.03%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.03%) WCAG
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 66 (44.30%) Docker
2 6 (4.03%) Postfix
3 2 (1.34%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 43 (28.86%) Kubernetes
2 29 (19.46%) Terraform
3 15 (10.07%) Grafana
3 15 (10.07%) Prometheus
4 11 (7.38%) Ansible
5 7 (4.70%) Puppet
6 5 (3.36%) Istio
7 4 (2.68%) Argo
8 3 (2.01%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (2.01%) Podman
8 3 (2.01%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.67%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.67%) Control-M
9 1 (0.67%) Kibana
9 1 (0.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 31 (20.81%) Oracle
2 13 (8.72%) CA Agile Central
3 12 (8.05%) Splunk
4 10 (6.71%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.37%) Veracode
6 7 (4.70%) Atlassian
6 7 (4.70%) Google
7 6 (4.03%) Dynatrace
7 6 (4.03%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (3.36%) Gigya
8 5 (3.36%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.36%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.36%) Solace
8 5 (3.36%) Sybase
9 4 (2.68%) MuleSoft
10 3 (2.01%) Bloomberg
10 3 (2.01%) Refinitiv
11 2 (1.34%) IBM
12 1 (0.67%) Remedy
12 1 (0.67%) Salesforce