Maven Contracts in England

Apache Maven
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Maven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Maven over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 433 254
Rank change year-on-year +62 -179 -33
Contract jobs citing Maven 114 109 523
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.29% 1.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.45% 2.56% 6.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 73 407
10th Percentile £329 £402 £450
25th Percentile £429 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -20.00% +1.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £730
90th Percentile £700 £599 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +3.95% -18.37% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 14
10th Percentile - - £70.38
25th Percentile £62.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £77.25
90th Percentile - - £86.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.47%

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 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Maven in England.

Daily rate trend for Maven in England

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in England

Maven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Maven in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +10 57 £550 +10.00% 38
North of England +34 25 £500 +14.68% 9
Midlands +40 21 £425 +1.19% 15
West Midlands +26 15 £493 +17.26% 11
North West +23 12 £475 -3.06% 5
Yorkshire +13 9 £520 +19.76% 3
South East +51 7 £650 +85.71% 9
East Midlands - 6 £311 - 4
North East - 4 £465 - 1
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 (11.40%) Confluence
2 6 (5.26%) WebLogic
3 4 (3.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (2.63%) Apache
4 3 (2.63%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.75%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.75%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.75%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.88%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (49.12%) AWS
2 20 (17.54%) Azure
3 8 (7.02%) Kong
4 7 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (6.14%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (6.14%) GCP
5 6 (5.26%) AWS KMS
5 6 (5.26%) GitHub
5 6 (5.26%) Route 53
6 5 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (4.39%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.39%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.51%) Serverless
8 3 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.75%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (1.75%) IaaS
9 2 (1.75%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (1.75%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) SSL
2 3 (2.63%) Firewall
2 3 (2.63%) HTTP
3 2 (1.75%) Calico
3 2 (1.75%) DHCP
3 2 (1.75%) DNS
3 2 (1.75%) IPsec
3 2 (1.75%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (1.75%) SAN
3 2 (1.75%) VLAN
4 1 (0.88%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.88%) VPN
4 1 (0.88%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (27.19%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (17.54%) MongoDB
3 13 (11.40%) MySQL
3 13 (11.40%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (7.02%) Redis
4 8 (7.02%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (4.39%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.63%) Hazelcast
8 3 (2.63%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.88%) Aerospike
9 1 (0.88%) DB2
9 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.88%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 58 (50.88%) Jenkins
2 54 (47.37%) Git
3 39 (34.21%) JUnit
4 31 (27.19%) GitLab
4 31 (27.19%) Gradle
5 25 (21.93%) IntelliJ
6 23 (20.18%) JIRA
7 21 (18.42%) Selenium
8 19 (16.67%) Mockito
8 19 (16.67%) SonarQube
9 18 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 15 (13.16%) Cucumber
11 9 (7.89%) Bitbucket
11 9 (7.89%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (7.89%) Subversion
12 8 (7.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (7.02%) HP UFT
12 8 (7.02%) Postman
13 7 (6.14%) Artifactory
13 7 (6.14%) Eclipse
General
1 25 (21.93%) Finance
2 19 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 17 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (12.28%) Banking
6 6 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.51%) Front Office
8 3 (2.63%) Back Office
8 3 (2.63%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.75%) Retail
10 1 (0.88%) Advertising
10 1 (0.88%) Electronics
10 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Military
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.88%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (52.63%) Developer
2 42 (36.84%) Java Developer
3 17 (14.91%) Lead
4 13 (11.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 13 (11.40%) Senior
5 10 (8.77%) Senior Developer
6 8 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (7.02%) Lead Developer
6 8 (7.02%) Tester
7 7 (6.14%) Architect
7 7 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) Java Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) Lead Java Developer
7 7 (6.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (4.39%) Automation Tester
8 5 (4.39%) DevOps Specialist
9 4 (3.51%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.63%) Data Architect
10 3 (2.63%) Junior
10 3 (2.63%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (55.26%) Spring
2 56 (49.12%) Spring Boot
3 31 (27.19%) Hibernate
4 25 (21.93%) Kafka
5 24 (21.05%) AngularJS
5 24 (21.05%) REST
6 23 (20.18%) JPA
7 20 (17.54%) Web Services
8 17 (14.91%) React
9 15 (13.16%) Node.js
10 14 (12.28%) RESTful
11 13 (11.40%) Bootstrap
11 13 (11.40%) CSS
11 13 (11.40%) J2EE
11 13 (11.40%) SOAP
12 11 (9.65%) HTML
13 10 (8.77%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (8.77%) Spring Integration
14 8 (7.02%) Spring MVC
15 7 (6.14%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.39%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.51%) Equities
3 4 (3.51%) Mainframe
3 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.63%) PKI
5 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.88%) Derivative
6 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.79%) Linux
2 9 (7.89%) Unix
3 7 (6.14%) Windows
4 3 (2.63%) Android
5 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.75%) CentOS
5 2 (1.75%) Debian
5 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.11%) Microservices
2 42 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 39 (34.21%) DevOps
4 31 (27.19%) Agile
5 26 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (22.81%) TDD
6 24 (21.05%) Test Automation
7 16 (14.04%) Scrum
8 15 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (13.16%) Event-Driven
8 15 (13.16%) Software Engineering
9 14 (12.28%) Containerisation
10 13 (11.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 13 (11.40%) Unit Testing
11 12 (10.53%) BDD
11 12 (10.53%) Mentoring
11 12 (10.53%) Open Source
12 10 (8.77%) Design Patterns
12 10 (8.77%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 94 (82.46%) Java
2 43 (37.72%) SQL
3 26 (22.81%) JavaScript
4 15 (13.16%) Python
5 10 (8.77%) Shell Script
5 10 (8.77%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.02%) PowerShell
7 7 (6.14%) Bash
8 5 (4.39%) Groovy
8 5 (4.39%) Perl
9 2 (1.75%) C#
9 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.75%) XPath
10 1 (0.88%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.88%) COBOL
10 1 (0.88%) Go
10 1 (0.88%) JCL
10 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.89%) Degree
4 7 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.75%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.28%) QA
2 2 (1.75%) SLA
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (37.72%) Docker
2 5 (4.39%) Postfix
3 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.75%) RACF
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.05%) Terraform
3 15 (13.16%) Grafana
3 15 (13.16%) Prometheus
4 11 (9.65%) Puppet
5 10 (8.77%) Istio
6 9 (7.89%) Ansible
7 8 (7.02%) Progress Chef
8 7 (6.14%) Argo
9 4 (3.51%) Control-M
10 3 (2.63%) Packer
10 3 (2.63%) Rundeck
11 2 (1.75%) Nessus
11 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.88%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.88%) Graylog
12 1 (0.88%) Kibana
12 1 (0.88%) Podman
12 1 (0.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (13.16%) Oracle
2 8 (7.02%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) Splunk
3 7 (6.14%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (5.26%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (3.51%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.51%) Google
5 4 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.51%) Sybase
6 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.63%) IBM
6 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.63%) Veracode
7 2 (1.75%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.75%) Remedy
7 2 (1.75%) SAP
7 2 (1.75%) Sophos
7 2 (1.75%) Sun
7 2 (1.75%) VMware
8 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg