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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 368 444
Rank change year-on-year -41 +76 -201
Contract jobs citing Maven 136 156 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.50% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.92% 3.79% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 88 96
10th Percentile £325 £363 £425
25th Percentile £400 £455 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.05% -15.35%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £700
90th Percentile £675 £863 £738
UK median daily rate £523 £539 £540
% change year-on-year -3.02% -0.23% -13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £59.50
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

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 4,660 4,111 4,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 13.08% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,248 2,544 3,538
10th Percentile £328 £348 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £647
90th Percentile £695 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 118 223
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.94
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.00 £88.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% -2.69% +5.69%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 -13 73 £540 -1.82% 8
North of England -34 22 £363 -9.38% 6
Midlands -15 20 £500 -33.33% 2
North West -18 18 £358 -10.50% 3
West Midlands -7 14 £542 - 2
South East +3 11 £450 -29.41% 5
South West -9 10 £550 -15.38% 7
East Midlands -7 6 £308 -58.93%
Yorkshire -29 4 £586 +30.28% 3
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 13 (9.56%) Confluence
2 8 (5.88%) JBoss
2 8 (5.88%) Tomcat
3 5 (3.68%) Apache
4 4 (2.94%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.21%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.21%) CICS
5 3 (2.21%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.47%) Anypoint
6 2 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 61 (44.85%) AWS
2 41 (30.15%) Azure
3 29 (21.32%) GitHub
4 22 (16.18%) GCP
5 21 (15.44%) OpenShift
6 18 (13.24%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (11.03%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (11.03%) Serverless
9 14 (10.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (10.29%) npm
10 13 (9.56%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (9.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (9.56%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (8.82%) Amazon S3
11 12 (8.82%) AWS Fargate
12 10 (7.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (7.35%) Route 53
13 9 (6.62%) Azure AKS
13 9 (6.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.15%) AMQP
2 2 (1.47%) Calico
2 2 (1.47%) Firewall
2 2 (1.47%) MQTT
2 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.74%) HTTP
3 1 (0.74%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.12%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (13.24%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (13.24%) Relational Database
3 17 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 15 (11.03%) DynamoDB
5 14 (10.29%) RDBMS
6 12 (8.82%) NoSQL
7 11 (8.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (8.09%) MongoDB
8 10 (7.35%) Oracle Database
8 10 (7.35%) Redis
9 6 (4.41%) MySQL
10 5 (3.68%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.94%) DB2
11 4 (2.94%) InfluxDB
11 4 (2.94%) Tick Data
12 3 (2.21%) Big Data
12 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.21%) HPCC
13 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 82 (60.29%) Git
2 59 (43.38%) Jenkins
3 53 (38.97%) Gradle
3 53 (38.97%) JUnit
4 46 (33.82%) GitLab
5 40 (29.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 36 (26.47%) SonarQube
7 30 (22.06%) JIRA
8 26 (19.12%) Mockito
9 25 (18.38%) Cucumber
10 23 (16.91%) Selenium
11 19 (13.97%) Bitbucket
12 14 (10.29%) Postman
13 10 (7.35%) Artifactory
14 9 (6.62%) IntelliJ
14 9 (6.62%) REST Assured
15 7 (5.15%) Subversion
16 6 (4.41%) Eclipse
16 6 (4.41%) SoapUI
17 5 (3.68%) webpack
General
1 39 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.59%) Banking
3 26 (19.12%) Finance
4 14 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.41%) Front Office
8 3 (2.21%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.21%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Aviation
10 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.74%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Publishing
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (55.88%) Developer
2 61 (44.85%) Java Developer
3 22 (16.18%) Senior
4 15 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (11.03%) Senior Developer
5 12 (8.82%) AWS Developer
5 12 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (8.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (6.62%) Java Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (4.41%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Applications Support
10 5 (3.68%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Java Architect
10 5 (3.68%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (3.68%) Lead
10 5 (3.68%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (44.85%) Spring
2 58 (42.65%) Spring Boot
3 34 (25.00%) REST
4 28 (20.59%) HTML
5 27 (19.85%) JPA
6 26 (19.12%) Hibernate
7 23 (16.91%) RESTful
8 21 (15.44%) JSON
8 21 (15.44%) React
9 20 (14.71%) CSS
9 20 (14.71%) Kafka
10 19 (13.97%) AngularJS
10 19 (13.97%) SOAP
11 16 (11.76%) Node.js
11 16 (11.76%) Spring Cloud
12 12 (8.82%) Bootstrap
12 12 (8.82%) J2EE
12 12 (8.82%) Jest
13 11 (8.09%) Web Services
14 10 (7.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Cloud Native
1 11 (8.09%) Data Centre
1 11 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.62%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.68%) Equities
3 5 (3.68%) N-Tier
3 5 (3.68%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.94%) Derivative
4 4 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.21%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.21%) Clustering
5 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.21%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.21%) VSAM
6 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.47%) IoT
6 2 (1.47%) IVR
6 2 (1.47%) TWAP
6 2 (1.47%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 42 (30.88%) Linux
2 25 (18.38%) Unix
3 10 (7.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.68%) CentOS
5 4 (2.94%) Solaris
5 4 (2.94%) Windows
6 2 (1.47%) Android
6 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (52.21%) CI/CD
2 63 (46.32%) Agile
2 63 (46.32%) Microservices
3 56 (41.18%) DevOps
4 41 (30.15%) Containerisation
5 37 (27.21%) TDD
5 37 (27.21%) Test Automation
6 36 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (19.85%) Design Patterns
8 25 (18.38%) Mentoring
9 21 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (14.71%) SDLC
11 18 (13.24%) Scrum
11 18 (13.24%) Software Engineering
11 18 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (12.50%) Code Quality
12 17 (12.50%) OO
13 16 (11.76%) Clean Code
14 15 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 110 (80.88%) Java
2 41 (30.15%) SQL
3 34 (25.00%) Python
4 29 (21.32%) JavaScript
5 21 (15.44%) Shell Script
6 13 (9.56%) Bash
7 12 (8.82%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.88%) Groovy
8 8 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.68%) C
10 4 (2.94%) C++
11 3 (2.21%) C#
11 3 (2.21%) COBOL
11 3 (2.21%) JCL
12 2 (1.47%) Go
12 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.47%) Rust
12 2 (1.47%) Scala
13 1 (0.74%) Clojure
13 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 33 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.29%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.94%) Degree
5 3 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) OCP
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.35%) QA
2 7 (5.15%) WCAG
3 3 (2.21%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 61 (44.85%) Docker
2 3 (2.21%) Postfix
3 2 (1.47%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 56 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 33 (24.26%) Terraform
3 25 (18.38%) Grafana
4 22 (16.18%) Ansible
5 17 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.88%) Puppet
7 7 (5.15%) Kibana
8 6 (4.41%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.68%) Podman
10 4 (2.94%) Argo
10 4 (2.94%) Istio
11 3 (2.21%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.47%) CloudHub
13 1 (0.74%) Control-M
13 1 (0.74%) logstash
13 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (24.26%) Oracle
2 13 (9.56%) Splunk
3 11 (8.09%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (6.62%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.62%) Solace
5 6 (4.41%) Google
5 6 (4.41%) Veracode
6 5 (3.68%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.68%) Gigya
6 5 (3.68%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.68%) Sybase
7 4 (2.94%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.94%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.94%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.21%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.21%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (2.21%) Refinitiv
8 3 (2.21%) VMware
9 2 (1.47%) IBM
9 2 (1.47%) Salesforce