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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 365 463
Rank change year-on-year -73 +98 -213
Contract jobs citing Maven 113 123 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.41% 3.43% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 69 71
10th Percentile £373 £360 £400
25th Percentile £484 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -19.23%
75th Percentile £618 £663 £600
90th Percentile £695 £705 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -16.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 4,694 3,585 4,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.48% 13.45% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,262 2,221 3,146
10th Percentile £340 £340 £375
25th Percentile £411 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.70% -6.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 67 206
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.71 £44.80
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.94 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.65 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -25 59 £575 +4.55% 12
North of England -63 16 £571 +30.51% 9
Midlands -36 15 £571 +17.73% 4
West Midlands -37 15 £571 +17.73% 4
South East -14 13 £450 -30.10% 11
Yorkshire -39 10 £472 -15.06% 4
South West -19 9 £550 -15.38% 4
North West -39 6 £575 +31.43% 5
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 8 (7.08%) Confluence
2 5 (4.42%) Apache
2 5 (4.42%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.77%) Camunda
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 47 (41.59%) AWS
2 32 (28.32%) GitHub
3 30 (26.55%) Azure
4 20 (17.70%) GCP
5 16 (14.16%) OpenShift
6 14 (12.39%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (11.50%) npm
8 11 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (9.73%) Serverless
9 10 (8.85%) Apigee
9 10 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.85%) Datadog
10 9 (7.96%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (7.96%) Azure AKS
11 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (7.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (5.31%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (5.31%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.19%) AMQP
2 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) Multicast
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.04%) Relational Database
2 14 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (11.50%) RDBMS
4 12 (10.62%) NoSQL
5 11 (9.73%) MongoDB
6 10 (8.85%) MySQL
7 9 (7.96%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (7.96%) SQL Server
8 7 (6.19%) DynamoDB
8 7 (6.19%) Redis
8 7 (6.19%) Tick Data
9 6 (5.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (4.42%) BigQuery
10 5 (4.42%) Oracle Database
11 3 (2.65%) InfluxDB
12 2 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.77%) Metadata
13 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 67 (59.29%) Git
2 48 (42.48%) Gradle
3 47 (41.59%) Jenkins
4 38 (33.63%) GitLab
4 38 (33.63%) JUnit
5 27 (23.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 22 (19.47%) SonarQube
7 19 (16.81%) JIRA
8 18 (15.93%) Mockito
8 18 (15.93%) Selenium
9 14 (12.39%) Bitbucket
10 13 (11.50%) Cucumber
11 11 (9.73%) Postman
12 9 (7.96%) Artifactory
12 9 (7.96%) Cypress.io
13 6 (5.31%) webpack
14 5 (4.42%) CircleCI
14 5 (4.42%) IntelliJ
14 5 (4.42%) Snyk
14 5 (4.42%) SonarLint
General
1 33 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.58%) Finance
3 20 (17.70%) Banking
4 8 (7.08%) Front Office
5 7 (6.19%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.65%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Publishing
10 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.88%) Law
11 1 (0.88%) Retail
11 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (47.79%) Developer
2 46 (40.71%) Java Developer
3 21 (18.58%) Senior
4 15 (13.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.50%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.73%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (7.08%) Java Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Lead
8 7 (6.19%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Applications Support
8 7 (6.19%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Fidessa Developer
8 7 (6.19%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Architect
10 5 (4.42%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.42%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.42%) Technical Architect
11 3 (2.65%) Senior Java Engineer
11 3 (2.65%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (46.02%) Spring
2 41 (36.28%) Spring Boot
3 20 (17.70%) REST
4 19 (16.81%) JSON
5 18 (15.93%) HTML
5 18 (15.93%) React
6 15 (13.27%) AngularJS
6 15 (13.27%) RESTful
7 14 (12.39%) JPA
8 13 (11.50%) CSS
8 13 (11.50%) Kafka
9 11 (9.73%) Hibernate
10 9 (7.96%) Node.js
11 8 (7.08%) Bootstrap
11 8 (7.08%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (7.08%) Gherkin
12 7 (6.19%) OAuth
12 7 (6.19%) OpenID
12 7 (6.19%) Playwright
12 7 (6.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.96%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.08%) Equities
4 7 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.31%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.42%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.42%) Derivative
6 5 (4.42%) N-Tier
7 4 (3.54%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.65%) TWAP
8 3 (2.65%) VWAP
9 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.77%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.01%) Linux
2 9 (7.96%) Unix
3 7 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.54%) CentOS
5 3 (2.65%) Solaris
6 1 (0.88%) Windows
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (52.21%) CI/CD
2 46 (40.71%) Microservices
3 42 (37.17%) Agile
3 42 (37.17%) DevOps
4 35 (30.97%) Containerisation
5 32 (28.32%) Test Automation
6 29 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (17.70%) Mentoring
7 20 (17.70%) TDD
8 19 (16.81%) Software Engineering
9 18 (15.93%) Scrum
10 17 (15.04%) Design Patterns
10 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (15.04%) SDLC
10 17 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (13.27%) OOP
11 15 (13.27%) Unit Testing
12 14 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (12.39%) OO
13 11 (9.73%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 88 (77.88%) Java
2 29 (25.66%) Python
3 23 (20.35%) SQL
4 13 (11.50%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.73%) Bash
6 10 (8.85%) Shell Script
7 8 (7.08%) Groovy
8 6 (5.31%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.54%) Go
9 4 (3.54%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.77%) C#
10 2 (1.77%) C++
10 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.77%) Rust
10 2 (1.77%) Scala
11 1 (0.88%) Clojure
11 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (31.86%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.27%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.54%) Degree
5 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.88%) OCP
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) WCAG
2 6 (5.31%) QA
3 3 (2.65%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.77%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (38.94%) Docker
2 3 (2.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.77%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 51 (45.13%) Kubernetes
2 31 (27.43%) Terraform
3 22 (19.47%) Ansible
3 22 (19.47%) Grafana
4 12 (10.62%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.08%) Kibana
6 7 (6.19%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.19%) Puppet
7 5 (4.42%) Podman
8 2 (1.77%) Argo
8 2 (1.77%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.88%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.88%) Istio
9 1 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (19.47%) Oracle
2 14 (12.39%) Splunk
3 9 (7.96%) Solace
4 5 (4.42%) Gigya
4 5 (4.42%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.42%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.54%) Sybase
6 3 (2.65%) Google
6 3 (2.65%) VMware
7 2 (1.77%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.77%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.77%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.77%) Sonatype
8 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.88%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.88%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.88%) TOWER Software