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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 354 437
Rank change year-on-year -44 +83 -202
Contract jobs citing Maven 142 159 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.04% 3.91% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 91 93
10th Percentile £293 £363 £425
25th Percentile £375 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £588 £685 £713
90th Percentile £668 £863 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile - - £67.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £74.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.95%

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 4,678 4,069 4,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.35% 13.10% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,263 2,538 3,486
10th Percentile £328 £347 £375
25th Percentile £408 £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 £650
90th Percentile £693 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 120 226
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £46.03
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £50.31
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 £82.55 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.97%

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 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 20 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 -34 76 £528 -4.09% 27
North of England -42 24 £358 -10.50% 15
Midlands -7 22 £500 -33.33% 5
North West -18 18 £358 -10.50% 6
West Midlands -18 15 £538 - 5
South East -2 10 £450 -25.00% 8
South West -11 10 £550 -15.38% 6
East Midlands -13 7 £340 -54.67%
Yorkshire -34 6 £575 +27.78% 9
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 (9.15%) Confluence
2 8 (5.63%) JBoss
2 8 (5.63%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.82%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.11%) Apache
4 3 (2.11%) CICS
4 3 (2.11%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.41%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 65 (45.77%) AWS
2 43 (30.28%) Azure
3 29 (20.42%) GitHub
4 22 (15.49%) GCP
4 22 (15.49%) OpenShift
5 19 (13.38%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (12.68%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (10.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (9.86%) npm
8 14 (9.86%) Serverless
9 13 (9.15%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (9.15%) Amazon S3
9 13 (9.15%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (8.45%) AWS Fargate
10 12 (8.45%) Route 53
11 10 (7.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (6.34%) Azure AKS
12 9 (6.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.93%) AMQP
2 2 (1.41%) Calico
2 2 (1.41%) Firewall
2 2 (1.41%) MQTT
2 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.41%) VPN
3 1 (0.70%) DMZ
3 1 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.70%) HTTP
3 1 (0.70%) Internet
3 1 (0.70%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.70%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.42%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.08%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (12.68%) Relational Database
4 17 (11.97%) DynamoDB
4 17 (11.97%) SQL Server
5 14 (9.86%) RDBMS
6 13 (9.15%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (9.15%) MongoDB
6 13 (9.15%) NoSQL
7 10 (7.04%) Oracle Database
7 10 (7.04%) Redis
8 7 (4.93%) MySQL
9 5 (3.52%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.82%) DB2
10 4 (2.82%) InfluxDB
10 4 (2.82%) Tick Data
11 3 (2.11%) Big Data
11 3 (2.11%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.11%) HPCC
12 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 88 (61.97%) Git
2 64 (45.07%) Jenkins
3 55 (38.73%) JUnit
4 53 (37.32%) Gradle
5 47 (33.10%) GitLab
6 43 (30.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 41 (28.87%) SonarQube
8 29 (20.42%) JIRA
9 27 (19.01%) Cucumber
10 26 (18.31%) Mockito
11 24 (16.90%) Selenium
12 17 (11.97%) Bitbucket
13 16 (11.27%) Postman
14 12 (8.45%) IntelliJ
15 11 (7.75%) Artifactory
15 11 (7.75%) REST Assured
16 7 (4.93%) Eclipse
16 7 (4.93%) Subversion
17 6 (4.23%) Cypress.io
17 6 (4.23%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.72%) Finance
3 26 (18.31%) Banking
4 18 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.63%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.93%) Front Office
6 7 (4.93%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.11%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.70%) Aviation
9 1 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Law
9 1 (0.70%) Publishing
9 1 (0.70%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (56.34%) Developer
2 63 (44.37%) Java Developer
3 22 (15.49%) Senior
4 15 (10.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.86%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.15%) AWS Developer
6 13 (9.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (7.75%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (7.04%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (4.93%) Support Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Architect
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Lead
12 5 (3.52%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Applications Support
12 5 (3.52%) Applications Support Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Java Technical Architect
12 5 (3.52%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (44.37%) Spring
2 62 (43.66%) Spring Boot
3 35 (24.65%) REST
4 29 (20.42%) JPA
5 28 (19.72%) HTML
5 28 (19.72%) RESTful
6 27 (19.01%) Hibernate
7 21 (14.79%) React
7 21 (14.79%) SOAP
8 20 (14.08%) CSS
8 20 (14.08%) Kafka
9 19 (13.38%) AngularJS
9 19 (13.38%) JSON
10 17 (11.97%) Spring Cloud
11 16 (11.27%) Node.js
12 15 (10.56%) Web Services
13 14 (9.86%) J2EE
14 13 (9.15%) Bootstrap
15 12 (8.45%) Jest
16 9 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.75%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.52%) Equities
4 5 (3.52%) N-Tier
4 5 (3.52%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.82%) Derivative
5 4 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.11%) Clustering
6 3 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.11%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.11%) VSAM
7 2 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.41%) IoT
7 2 (1.41%) IVR
7 2 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.41%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 42 (29.58%) Linux
2 27 (19.01%) Unix
3 10 (7.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.52%) CentOS
5 4 (2.82%) Solaris
5 4 (2.82%) Windows
6 2 (1.41%) Android
6 2 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (52.11%) CI/CD
2 65 (45.77%) Microservices
3 64 (45.07%) Agile
4 55 (38.73%) DevOps
5 40 (28.17%) Containerisation
5 40 (28.17%) TDD
5 40 (28.17%) Test Automation
6 35 (24.65%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (20.42%) Design Patterns
8 26 (18.31%) Mentoring
9 21 (14.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (14.08%) SDLC
11 19 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (12.68%) Code Quality
12 18 (12.68%) OO
12 18 (12.68%) Scrum
13 17 (11.97%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (11.97%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (11.97%) Software Engineering
14 16 (11.27%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 116 (81.69%) Java
2 42 (29.58%) SQL
3 35 (24.65%) Python
4 33 (23.24%) JavaScript
5 22 (15.49%) Shell Script
6 13 (9.15%) Bash
6 13 (9.15%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.63%) Groovy
7 8 (5.63%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.52%) C
9 4 (2.82%) C++
10 3 (2.11%) C#
10 3 (2.11%) COBOL
10 3 (2.11%) JCL
11 2 (1.41%) Go
11 2 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.41%) Rust
11 2 (1.41%) Scala
12 1 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.15%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.82%) Degree
5 3 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) OCP
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.45%) QA
2 9 (6.34%) WCAG
3 4 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.11%) Def Stans
System Software
1 67 (47.18%) Docker
2 4 (2.82%) Postfix
3 2 (1.41%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 54 (38.03%) Kubernetes
2 32 (22.54%) Terraform
3 26 (18.31%) Grafana
4 22 (15.49%) Ansible
5 18 (12.68%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.63%) Puppet
7 6 (4.23%) Kibana
7 6 (4.23%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.52%) Podman
9 4 (2.82%) Argo
9 4 (2.82%) Istio
10 3 (2.11%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.41%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.70%) Control-M
12 1 (0.70%) logstash
12 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (23.24%) Oracle
2 13 (9.15%) Splunk
3 11 (7.75%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (6.34%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.34%) Solace
5 6 (4.23%) Google
5 6 (4.23%) Veracode
6 5 (3.52%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.52%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.52%) Gigya
6 5 (3.52%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.52%) Sybase
7 4 (2.82%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.82%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.82%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.11%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.11%) Refinitiv
8 3 (2.11%) VMware
9 2 (1.41%) IBM
9 2 (1.41%) Salesforce