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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 360 450
Rank change year-on-year -94 +90 -203
Contract jobs citing Maven 118 120 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.49% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.33% 3.61% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 71 75
10th Percentile £397 £356 £400
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% +2.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile £625 £611 £588
90th Percentile £699 £738 £640
UK median daily rate £537 £505 £510
% change year-on-year +6.34% -0.98% -18.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 5,057 3,326 4,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.61% 13.61% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,434 2,195 2,949
10th Percentile £338 £340 £359
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £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 184 62 179
10th Percentile £36.20 £26.06 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.48 £48.16
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.13 £73.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.66 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +5.20% +0.81% +0.81%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -64 52 £575 +6.24% 12
Midlands -57 23 £540 +27.69% 3
West Midlands -55 21 £540 +26.94% 2
South East -46 19 £450 -30.10% 2
North of England -76 18 £450 -5.26% 11
Yorkshire -49 14 £450 -15.09% 7
South West -21 7 £550 - 2
North West -43 4 £402 -11.89% 4
East Midlands -38 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (4.24%) Apache
3 3 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.54%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.69%) Camunda
4 2 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 56 (47.46%) AWS
2 31 (26.27%) GitHub
3 19 (16.10%) Amazon S3
3 19 (16.10%) Azure
4 18 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (8.47%) Amazon SQS
6 10 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.47%) OpenShift
6 10 (8.47%) Serverless
7 9 (7.63%) AWS KMS
7 9 (7.63%) Route 53
8 8 (6.78%) GCP
9 7 (5.93%) npm
10 6 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.39%) AWS Fargate
12 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 15 (12.71%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (12.71%) DynamoDB
3 12 (10.17%) SQL Server
4 10 (8.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (8.47%) MySQL
4 10 (8.47%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.78%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.93%) Tick Data
7 6 (5.08%) Metadata
8 5 (4.24%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.39%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.39%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.54%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.85%) HBase
11 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 59 (50.00%) Git
1 59 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 43 (36.44%) JUnit
3 34 (28.81%) Gradle
4 25 (21.19%) GitLab
4 25 (21.19%) Mockito
5 22 (18.64%) SonarQube
6 21 (17.80%) JIRA
7 16 (13.56%) Cucumber
7 16 (13.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (11.02%) Selenium
9 11 (9.32%) Bitbucket
10 10 (8.47%) Postman
11 8 (6.78%) Artifactory
11 8 (6.78%) jMock
12 7 (5.93%) DbUnit
12 7 (5.93%) REST Assured
13 6 (5.08%) Cypress.io
13 6 (5.08%) Gatling
13 6 (5.08%) Subversion
General
1 43 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.80%) Finance
3 15 (12.71%) Banking
4 13 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.78%) Front Office
6 7 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.39%) Publishing
7 4 (3.39%) Retail
8 3 (2.54%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (55.08%) Developer
2 54 (45.76%) Java Developer
3 26 (22.03%) Senior
4 16 (13.56%) Senior Developer
5 14 (11.86%) 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 66 (55.93%) Spring
2 47 (39.83%) Spring Boot
3 31 (26.27%) REST
4 24 (20.34%) AngularJS
5 23 (19.49%) JPA
6 20 (16.95%) JSON
7 19 (16.10%) Hibernate
8 17 (14.41%) React
8 17 (14.41%) RESTful
9 16 (13.56%) Bootstrap
9 16 (13.56%) HTML
9 16 (13.56%) Web Services
10 15 (12.71%) CSS
10 15 (12.71%) Node.js
10 15 (12.71%) SOAP
11 12 (10.17%) Playwright
11 12 (10.17%) Spring Cloud
11 12 (10.17%) XML
12 10 (8.47%) ActiveMQ
12 10 (8.47%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.63%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.93%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (5.93%) Equities
4 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.39%) Derivative
6 3 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.69%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) TWAP
7 2 (1.69%) VWAP
8 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.85%) Replication
8 1 (0.85%) State Machine
8 1 (0.85%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.97%) Linux
2 10 (8.47%) 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 46 (38.98%) DevOps
3 45 (38.14%) Microservices
4 44 (37.29%) Agile
5 33 (27.97%) Test Automation
6 29 (24.58%) Containerisation
7 27 (22.88%) Scrum
8 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (16.95%) Software Engineering
9 20 (16.95%) TDD
10 14 (11.86%) Mentoring
11 13 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (10.17%) Unit Testing
13 11 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (9.32%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (9.32%) OOP
14 10 (8.47%) MVC
14 10 (8.47%) OO
14 10 (8.47%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 101 (85.59%) Java
2 35 (29.66%) SQL
3 21 (17.80%) Python
4 13 (11.02%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.63%) Groovy
6 8 (6.78%) 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 46 (38.98%) Security Cleared
2 35 (29.66%) 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 11 (9.32%) QA
2 7 (5.93%) WCAG
3 4 (3.39%) SLA
4 3 (2.54%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.69%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (38.14%) Docker
2 6 (5.08%) Postfix
3 3 (2.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.54%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 37 (31.36%) Kubernetes
2 28 (23.73%) Grafana
3 21 (17.80%) Terraform
4 15 (12.71%) Ansible
5 11 (9.32%) 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
10 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (16.95%) Oracle
2 11 (9.32%) Atlassian
3 9 (7.63%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.63%) Solace
4 8 (6.78%) Splunk
5 5 (4.24%) Sonatype
5 5 (4.24%) Sybase
6 4 (3.39%) VMware
7 2 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe
8 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.85%) Thales
8 1 (0.85%) TIBCO