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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 329 446
Rank change year-on-year -145 +117 -173
Contract jobs citing Maven 114 158 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.63% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.22% 4.44% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 123 71
10th Percentile £402 £290 £400
25th Percentile £462 £361 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -3.06% -20.33%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £563
90th Percentile £751 £653 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £59.00 £63.25 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
75th Percentile - £69.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year +40.74% - -

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 5,134 3,557 4,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.86% 14.25% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,333 2,414 3,014
10th Percentile £350 £335 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 73 236
10th Percentile £28.97 £27.59 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.25 £48.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% -9.23% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +4.00%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -89 52 £575 +9.52% 5
Midlands -68 27 £537 +26.24% 3
North of England -85 27 £488 +18.61% 2
West Midlands -59 24 £537 +10.62% 2
Yorkshire -47 22 £488 -6.20% 2
South East -55 12 £357 -39.06% 4
North West -53 4 £475 +32.68%
East Midlands -31 2 - - 1
South West -34 1 £525 +2.44% 2
North East -41 1 £520 +11.83%
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 9 (7.89%) Confluence
2 6 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (4.39%) Apache
4 4 (3.51%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.63%) Camunda
6 2 (1.75%) CMS
6 2 (1.75%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (54.39%) AWS
2 34 (29.82%) GitHub
3 28 (24.56%) Azure
4 24 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (20.18%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (20.18%) Amazon S3
6 21 (18.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (16.67%) GCP
8 18 (15.79%) AWS KMS
8 18 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (15.79%) Route 53
9 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (6.14%) OCI
10 6 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (3.51%) Apigee
11 4 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.51%) Cloud Run
11 4 (3.51%) Kong
11 4 (3.51%) Serverless
12 3 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.88%) Internet
2 1 (0.88%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (32.46%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (21.93%) DynamoDB
3 22 (19.30%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (10.53%) SQL Server
6 11 (9.65%) Metadata
6 11 (9.65%) Relational Database
7 9 (7.89%) MongoDB
7 9 (7.89%) MySQL
8 4 (3.51%) Flink
8 4 (3.51%) Hazelcast
8 4 (3.51%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.51%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.51%) Redis
9 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.63%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 57 (50.00%) Git
3 42 (36.84%) JUnit
4 39 (34.21%) Gradle
5 37 (32.46%) SonarQube
6 29 (25.44%) Mockito
7 17 (14.91%) GitLab
8 14 (12.28%) DbUnit
9 13 (11.40%) jMock
10 12 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (10.53%) JIRA
11 10 (8.77%) Cucumber
11 10 (8.77%) REST Assured
12 9 (7.89%) Gatling
13 7 (6.14%) Artifactory
13 7 (6.14%) Postman
13 7 (6.14%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (6.14%) TestNG
14 6 (5.26%) Eclipse
14 6 (5.26%) Selenium
General
1 35 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 19 (16.67%) Finance
4 10 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.77%) Banking
5 7 (6.14%) Publishing
6 5 (4.39%) Front Office
7 4 (3.51%) Retail
8 3 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (57.02%) Developer
2 55 (48.25%) Java Developer
3 30 (26.32%) Senior
4 22 (19.30%) Senior Developer
4 22 (19.30%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (10.53%) Java Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Applications Developer
8 5 (4.39%) Architect
8 5 (4.39%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Lead
8 5 (4.39%) Lead Developer
8 5 (4.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Backend Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Service Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.51%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (61.40%) Spring
2 54 (47.37%) Spring Boot
3 35 (30.70%) REST
4 33 (28.95%) JPA
5 24 (21.05%) AngularJS
5 24 (21.05%) Hibernate
5 24 (21.05%) Web Services
6 23 (20.18%) RESTful
7 22 (19.30%) SOAP
8 21 (18.42%) Node.js
8 21 (18.42%) Spring Cloud
9 20 (17.54%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (15.79%) Bootstrap
10 18 (15.79%) Spring Batch
10 18 (15.79%) Spring Integration
11 13 (11.40%) JSON
11 13 (11.40%) Kafka
11 13 (11.40%) PowerMock
12 12 (10.53%) Playwright
13 11 (9.65%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.18%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.14%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.14%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.51%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.63%) Equities
4 3 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.75%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.88%) Derivative
6 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.88%) TWAP
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.88%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 30 (26.32%) Linux
2 9 (7.89%) Unix
3 4 (3.51%) Windows
4 1 (0.88%) Android
4 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (59.65%) CI/CD
2 62 (54.39%) DevOps
3 52 (45.61%) Microservices
4 38 (33.33%) Agile
5 35 (30.70%) Containerisation
5 35 (30.70%) TDD
6 30 (26.32%) Test Automation
7 29 (25.44%) Scrum
8 24 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
9 21 (18.42%) Software Engineering
10 19 (16.67%) Event-Driven
11 18 (15.79%) BDD
12 17 (14.91%) Kanban
13 15 (13.16%) Observability
14 14 (12.28%) BPMN
15 13 (11.40%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
16 11 (9.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 11 (9.65%) Multithreading
16 11 (9.65%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 102 (89.47%) Java
2 51 (44.74%) SQL
3 24 (21.05%) Python
4 10 (8.77%) Groovy
4 10 (8.77%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.14%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.26%) Scala
7 2 (1.75%) Go
7 2 (1.75%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.88%) Bash
8 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 36 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) Degree
4 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.39%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.39%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.91%) QA
2 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.51%) SLA
3 3 (2.63%) SEPA
4 2 (1.75%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.75%) NCSC
4 2 (1.75%) PSD2
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) ITGC
5 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (46.49%) Docker
2 11 (9.65%) Postfix
3 3 (2.63%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 38 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 26 (22.81%) Grafana
3 23 (20.18%) Terraform
4 13 (11.40%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.26%) Argo
5 6 (5.26%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.63%) Kibana
7 1 (0.88%) Ansible
7 1 (0.88%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 18 (15.79%) Atlassian
2 17 (14.91%) Jaspersoft
3 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.77%) Sonatype
5 9 (7.89%) Oracle
6 6 (5.26%) Solace
6 6 (5.26%) Splunk
7 5 (4.39%) Sybase
8 3 (2.63%) IBM
9 2 (1.75%) Adobe
9 2 (1.75%) Google
9 2 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.75%) SAP
9 2 (1.75%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.88%) Thales
10 1 (0.88%) Veracode
10 1 (0.88%) VMware