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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 363 410
Rank change year-on-year -139 +47 -80
Contract jobs citing Maven 122 150 123
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.54% 0.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.30% 3.71% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 121 71
10th Percentile £358 £270 £400
25th Percentile £459 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £592 £575 £650
90th Percentile £680 £643 £850
UK median daily rate £495 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +4.21% -9.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

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 5,306 4,045 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.61% 14.55% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 2,797 2,845
10th Percentile £355 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 95 183
10th Percentile £36.25 £40.90 £33.01
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.03 £54.18
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 17 August 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
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 August 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 -92 55 £533 +3.15% 14
Midlands -42 33 £475 +11.24% 8
West Midlands -38 30 £475 -5.00% 7
North of England -83 28 £500 +24.38% 2
Yorkshire -23 25 £500 -3.80%
South East -61 7 £270 -53.85% 4
East Midlands -27 2 - - 1
North West -62 2 £488 +36.17% 2
North East -44 1 £520 +11.83%
South West -44 1 - - 4
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 7 (5.74%) Confluence
1 7 (5.74%) WebLogic
2 5 (4.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (4.10%) Apache
3 4 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.64%) Camunda
4 2 (1.64%) CMS
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.82%) nginx
5 1 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.82%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 69 (56.56%) AWS
2 40 (32.79%) Azure
3 31 (25.41%) GitHub
4 28 (22.95%) GCP
5 21 (17.21%) Amazon SQS
6 18 (14.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (13.93%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (13.11%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (13.11%) Amazon S3
9 15 (12.30%) AWS KMS
9 15 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (12.30%) Route 53
10 10 (8.20%) OCI
11 9 (7.38%) Kong
12 8 (6.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (4.92%) Apigee
14 5 (4.10%) Cloud Run
15 3 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 3 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (2.46%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) SSL
2 1 (0.82%) DNS
2 1 (0.82%) Firewall
2 1 (0.82%) HTTP
2 1 (0.82%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.82%) Internet
2 1 (0.82%) Multicast
2 1 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (30.33%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (15.57%) Relational Database
3 18 (14.75%) DynamoDB
4 16 (13.11%) SQL Server
5 14 (11.48%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (9.84%) Metadata
7 8 (6.56%) MongoDB
8 7 (5.74%) MySQL
9 5 (4.10%) Hazelcast
9 5 (4.10%) NoSQL
9 5 (4.10%) RDBMS
9 5 (4.10%) Redis
10 4 (3.28%) Flink
11 3 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.64%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 76 (62.30%) Jenkins
2 70 (57.38%) Git
3 46 (37.70%) SonarQube
4 41 (33.61%) Gradle
5 38 (31.15%) JUnit
6 27 (22.13%) GitLab
7 24 (19.67%) Mockito
8 12 (9.84%) Bitbucket Server
9 11 (9.02%) DbUnit
9 11 (9.02%) JIRA
10 10 (8.20%) jMock
10 10 (8.20%) Selenium
11 9 (7.38%) REST Assured
11 9 (7.38%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (6.56%) Artifactory
12 8 (6.56%) Gatling
13 7 (5.74%) Cucumber
14 6 (4.92%) Postman
14 6 (4.92%) TestNG
15 5 (4.10%) Snyk
General
1 31 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.85%) Finance
3 22 (18.03%) Public Sector
4 21 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (13.11%) Banking
6 11 (9.02%) Publishing
7 3 (2.46%) Front Office
7 3 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Retail
8 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 68 (55.74%) Developer
2 56 (45.90%) Java Developer
3 29 (23.77%) Senior
4 24 (19.67%) Senior Developer
4 24 (19.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 15 (12.30%) Java Engineer
6 14 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Lead
8 7 (5.74%) Lead Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (4.92%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Architect
10 5 (4.10%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.28%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Senior Backend Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (54.10%) Spring
2 61 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 41 (33.61%) REST
4 30 (24.59%) JPA
5 29 (23.77%) RESTful
6 25 (20.49%) Kafka
7 24 (19.67%) Node.js
8 20 (16.39%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (16.39%) AngularJS
9 19 (15.57%) Hibernate
9 19 (15.57%) Web Services
10 18 (14.75%) SOAP
10 18 (14.75%) Spring Cloud
11 16 (13.11%) JSON
12 14 (11.48%) Bootstrap
12 14 (11.48%) CSS
12 14 (11.48%) Spring Batch
12 14 (11.48%) Spring Integration
13 13 (10.66%) HTML
13 13 (10.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.03%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.20%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.38%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (7.38%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (5.74%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.74%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.64%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (26.23%) Linux
2 9 (7.38%) Unix
3 3 (2.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (65.57%) CI/CD
2 73 (59.84%) DevOps
3 60 (49.18%) Microservices
4 45 (36.89%) Agile
5 40 (32.79%) Containerisation
6 34 (27.87%) Scrum
6 34 (27.87%) Test Automation
7 32 (26.23%) TDD
8 26 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (19.67%) Event-Driven
10 23 (18.85%) Performance Tuning
11 20 (16.39%) Software Engineering
12 18 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (14.75%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (13.93%) BDD
13 17 (13.93%) Clean Code
13 17 (13.93%) Design Patterns
14 15 (12.30%) Kanban
15 14 (11.48%) Observability
16 13 (10.66%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 113 (92.62%) Java
2 61 (50.00%) SQL
3 25 (20.49%) Python
4 23 (18.85%) JavaScript
5 14 (11.48%) Shell Script
6 12 (9.84%) Groovy
7 6 (4.92%) Scala
7 6 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.64%) Bash
9 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.82%) R
9 1 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (45.08%) Security Cleared
2 50 (40.98%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.56%) Degree
5 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.28%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.64%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.39%) QA
2 6 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.10%) SEPA
4 4 (3.28%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.28%) PSD2
5 3 (2.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.82%) ITGC
6 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (50.00%) Docker
2 8 (6.56%) Postfix
3 3 (2.46%) GridGain
4 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (47.54%) Kubernetes
2 30 (24.59%) Terraform
3 26 (21.31%) Grafana
4 17 (13.93%) Prometheus
5 9 (7.38%) Argo
6 6 (4.92%) HAProxy
7 5 (4.10%) Ansible
8 3 (2.46%) Kibana
9 1 (0.82%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.82%) Podman
9 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.82%) Puppet
9 1 (0.82%) systemd
Vendors
1 22 (18.03%) Oracle
2 13 (10.66%) Atlassian
2 13 (10.66%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (9.84%) Sonatype
4 10 (8.20%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.56%) Splunk
6 5 (4.10%) Sybase
7 4 (3.28%) Solace
8 3 (2.46%) Google
8 3 (2.46%) IBM
9 2 (1.64%) Adobe
9 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.64%) SAP
9 2 (1.64%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.64%) Veracode
10 1 (0.82%) Confluent
10 1 (0.82%) Databricks
10 1 (0.82%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.82%) VMware