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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 358 388
Rank change year-on-year -122 +30 +7
Contract jobs citing Maven 158 146 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.53% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.00% 3.52% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 120 82
10th Percentile £329 £275 £363
25th Percentile £442 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £495 £539
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -8.12% -10.21%
75th Percentile £602 £575 £685
90th Percentile £646 £643 £861
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £535
% change year-on-year -1.52% -7.48% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 5,270 4,147 4,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 15.05% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,335 2,875 2,739
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £634
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 96 163
10th Percentile £24.15 £38.13 £38.54
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.56 £54.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -100 64 £488 -7.14% 50
Midlands -16 53 £575 +32.09% 13
West Midlands -10 50 £575 +15.00% 11
North of England -77 32 £517 +29.33% 16
Yorkshire -31 23 £514 -1.05% 3
North West -63 8 £537 +50.00% 12
South East -66 7 £270 -53.85% 4
East Midlands -26 2 £335 -1.47% 2
South West -43 2 £300 -45.45% 7
North East - 1 £520 - 1
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 22 (13.92%) Confluence
2 11 (6.96%) WebLogic
3 9 (5.70%) Camunda
4 5 (3.16%) Apache
5 3 (1.90%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.63%) nginx
7 1 (0.63%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 90 (56.96%) AWS
2 41 (25.95%) Azure
3 32 (20.25%) GCP
3 32 (20.25%) GitHub
4 20 (12.66%) Amazon SQS
5 17 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (10.13%) Amazon S3
7 15 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (8.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (8.86%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (8.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (6.96%) OpenShift
11 10 (6.33%) Kong
12 9 (5.70%) AWS KMS
12 9 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (5.70%) Route 53
12 9 (5.70%) Serverless
13 7 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (4.43%) Apigee
13 7 (4.43%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.90%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) SSL
3 1 (0.63%) DNS
3 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.63%) Internet
3 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (28.48%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (20.89%) Relational Database
3 17 (10.76%) SQL Server
4 13 (8.23%) DynamoDB
4 13 (8.23%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (6.96%) NoSQL
7 8 (5.06%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (5.06%) Metadata
7 8 (5.06%) MySQL
8 6 (3.80%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.16%) Hazelcast
9 5 (3.16%) Oracle Database
9 5 (3.16%) Redis
10 4 (2.53%) Flink
11 3 (1.90%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.90%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.90%) Weaviate
12 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 98 (62.03%) Git
2 91 (57.59%) Jenkins
3 74 (46.84%) JUnit
4 60 (37.97%) SonarQube
5 58 (36.71%) Gradle
6 56 (35.44%) GitLab
6 56 (35.44%) Mockito
7 26 (16.46%) JIRA
8 17 (10.76%) Cucumber
8 17 (10.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (9.49%) REST Assured
10 14 (8.86%) Bitbucket Server
11 13 (8.23%) Selenium
12 6 (3.80%) DbUnit
13 5 (3.16%) jMock
13 5 (3.16%) Postman
13 5 (3.16%) Snyk
13 5 (3.16%) TestNG
14 4 (2.53%) Gatling
14 4 (2.53%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.62%) Finance
3 27 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (15.82%) Banking
4 25 (15.82%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.06%) Publishing
6 6 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.63%) Military
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (55.06%) Developer
2 72 (45.57%) Java Developer
3 31 (19.62%) Senior
4 30 (18.99%) Java Engineer
5 22 (13.92%) Senior Developer
5 22 (13.92%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (10.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (6.96%) Lead
8 10 (6.33%) Lead Developer
9 8 (5.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 7 (4.43%) Lead Java Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.53%) Architect
12 4 (2.53%) Python Engineer
12 4 (2.53%) Senior Backend Developer
13 3 (1.90%) Java Software Engineer
13 3 (1.90%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (65.19%) Spring Boot
2 102 (64.56%) Spring
3 58 (36.71%) REST
4 57 (36.08%) JPA
5 39 (24.68%) Kafka
6 36 (22.78%) RESTful
7 34 (21.52%) Hibernate
8 31 (19.62%) Terraform
9 29 (18.35%) React
10 28 (17.72%) HTML
10 28 (17.72%) SOAP
11 25 (15.82%) ActiveMQ
11 25 (15.82%) AngularJS
12 24 (15.19%) CSS
12 24 (15.19%) Node.js
12 24 (15.19%) Web Services
13 22 (13.92%) OpenAPI
14 19 (12.03%) Spring Cloud
15 16 (10.13%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (8.86%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.92%) Cloud Native
2 21 (13.29%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (10.76%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (6.33%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (5.70%) Data Structures
7 7 (4.43%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (3.16%) Client/Server
10 4 (2.53%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.63%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.63%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.52%) Linux
2 11 (6.96%) Unix
3 2 (1.27%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.27%) VMS
4 1 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (65.82%) CI/CD
2 87 (55.06%) Agile
2 87 (55.06%) Microservices
3 81 (51.27%) DevOps
4 63 (39.87%) Scrum
5 60 (37.97%) Containerisation
6 55 (34.81%) Test Automation
7 48 (30.38%) TDD
8 37 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (20.25%) Clean Code
10 31 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (18.99%) Front End Development
12 27 (17.09%) Code Quality
12 27 (17.09%) Software Engineering
13 26 (16.46%) Event-Driven
14 23 (14.56%) User Stories
15 21 (13.29%) Computer Science
16 20 (12.66%) Kanban
16 20 (12.66%) Observability
17 19 (12.03%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 150 (94.94%) Java
2 75 (47.47%) SQL
3 36 (22.78%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.09%) Python
5 26 (16.46%) Shell Script
6 19 (12.03%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.96%) Groovy
8 7 (4.43%) Bash
9 6 (3.80%) Scala
10 3 (1.90%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.63%) R
11 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 64 (40.51%) Security Cleared
2 59 (37.34%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.56%) Degree
4 22 (13.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.82%) QA
2 8 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.16%) SEPA
4 4 (2.53%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.53%) PSD2
5 2 (1.27%) WCAG
6 1 (0.63%) ITGC
6 1 (0.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 75 (47.47%) Docker
2 4 (2.53%) Postfix
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 74 (46.84%) Kubernetes
2 36 (22.78%) Grafana
3 27 (17.09%) Prometheus
4 16 (10.13%) Kibana
5 10 (6.33%) Argo
6 8 (5.06%) Ansible
7 3 (1.90%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.63%) Istio
9 1 (0.63%) Podman
9 1 (0.63%) Puppet
9 1 (0.63%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (18.99%) Oracle
2 10 (6.33%) Google
2 10 (6.33%) IBM
3 9 (5.70%) Sonatype
3 9 (5.70%) Veracode
4 8 (5.06%) Splunk
5 7 (4.43%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (3.80%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.80%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.53%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.90%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.27%) Adobe
9 2 (1.27%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.27%) Checkmarx
9 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.27%) SAP
9 2 (1.27%) Sybase
10 1 (0.63%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.63%) webMethods