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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 377 448
Rank change year-on-year -54 +71 -202
Contract jobs citing Maven 108 128 107
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.29% 3.39% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 69 76
10th Percentile £359 £360 £409
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year - +4.07% -18.69%
75th Percentile £615 £685 £621
90th Percentile £675 £853 £738
UK median daily rate £542 £539 £525
% change year-on-year +0.51% +2.62% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +9.47%

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 4,712 3,775 4,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.92% 13.27% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,267 2,364 3,166
10th Percentile £331 £337 £375
25th Percentile £409 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.20% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 72 197
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £43.26
25th Percentile £54.00 £54.27 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.06 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.10 £75.23 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 -27 58 £542 -1.55% 18
North of England -45 17 £387 -11.54% 20
West Midlands -17 11 £575 - 3
Midlands -31 11 £575 - 3
South West -5 10 £550 -15.38% 12
South East -11 10 £450 -29.41% 12
Yorkshire -37 9 £372 -25.60% 9
North West -33 8 £402 -8.11% 11
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 (6.48%) Confluence
2 5 (4.63%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.70%) Apache
4 3 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.93%) Camunda
5 1 (0.93%) CICS
5 1 (0.93%) JBoss
5 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 42 (38.89%) AWS
2 36 (33.33%) Azure
3 26 (24.07%) GitHub
4 20 (18.52%) GCP
5 16 (14.81%) OpenShift
6 14 (12.96%) npm
7 13 (12.04%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (10.19%) Serverless
9 10 (9.26%) Apigee
9 10 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (9.26%) Datadog
10 9 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (8.33%) Azure AKS
10 9 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.41%) AMQP
2 2 (1.85%) MQTT
2 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.93%) Firewall
3 1 (0.93%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.93%) HTTP
3 1 (0.93%) Multicast
3 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.74%) Relational Database
2 16 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (12.96%) RDBMS
4 12 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 12 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 11 (10.19%) MongoDB
6 10 (9.26%) Redis
7 9 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (7.41%) Oracle Database
9 7 (6.48%) DynamoDB
9 7 (6.48%) MySQL
10 6 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (4.63%) BigQuery
12 4 (3.70%) InfluxDB
12 4 (3.70%) Tick Data
13 2 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.93%) Big Data
14 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 63 (58.33%) Git
2 47 (43.52%) Jenkins
3 43 (39.81%) Gradle
4 38 (35.19%) GitLab
5 35 (32.41%) JUnit
6 26 (24.07%) SonarQube
6 26 (24.07%) Sonatype Nexus
7 22 (20.37%) Selenium
8 20 (18.52%) Mockito
9 19 (17.59%) JIRA
10 16 (14.81%) Postman
11 15 (13.89%) Cucumber
12 14 (12.96%) Bitbucket
13 9 (8.33%) Artifactory
14 8 (7.41%) Cypress.io
14 8 (7.41%) REST Assured
15 7 (6.48%) SoapUI
15 7 (6.48%) Subversion
16 6 (5.56%) webpack
17 5 (4.63%) SonarLint
General
1 35 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.44%) Banking
3 20 (18.52%) Finance
4 7 (6.48%) Investment Banking
5 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.56%) Front Office
6 5 (4.63%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.78%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (49.07%) Developer
2 45 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 19 (17.59%) Senior
4 14 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (12.04%) Senior Developer
6 11 (10.19%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (7.41%) Support Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Applications Support
8 7 (6.48%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Lead
9 5 (4.63%) Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Java Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Java Technical Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.70%) Fidessa Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Software Engineer
11 3 (2.78%) Data Modeller
11 3 (2.78%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (41.67%) Spring
2 44 (40.74%) Spring Boot
3 24 (22.22%) REST
4 23 (21.30%) HTML
5 19 (17.59%) AngularJS
6 18 (16.67%) JPA
6 18 (16.67%) JSON
6 18 (16.67%) Kafka
6 18 (16.67%) React
7 17 (15.74%) CSS
7 17 (15.74%) Hibernate
8 13 (12.04%) RESTful
9 11 (10.19%) Node.js
10 10 (9.26%) Bootstrap
10 10 (9.26%) J2EE
11 9 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (8.33%) HTML5
12 8 (7.41%) CSS3
12 8 (7.41%) Gherkin
12 8 (7.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Data Centre
1 11 (10.19%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.26%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.63%) Equities
5 5 (4.63%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.70%) Derivative
7 3 (2.78%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.85%) Clustering
8 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.85%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.85%) IoT
8 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.85%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.85%) TWAP
8 2 (1.85%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.00%) Linux
2 13 (12.04%) Unix
3 8 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.63%) CentOS
5 3 (2.78%) Solaris
6 2 (1.85%) Windows
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 47 (43.52%) Microservices
3 45 (41.67%) Agile
4 40 (37.04%) DevOps
5 32 (29.63%) Containerisation
6 31 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (28.70%) Test Automation
7 25 (23.15%) TDD
8 24 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 19 (17.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (17.59%) SDLC
10 18 (16.67%) Scrum
10 18 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (15.74%) Design Patterns
11 17 (15.74%) Software Engineering
12 16 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (12.96%) OO
14 13 (12.04%) Unit Testing
15 12 (11.11%) BDD
15 12 (11.11%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 86 (79.63%) Java
2 27 (25.00%) SQL
3 24 (22.22%) Python
4 22 (20.37%) JavaScript
5 11 (10.19%) Bash
5 11 (10.19%) Shell Script
6 9 (8.33%) Groovy
7 8 (7.41%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.78%) Go
10 2 (1.85%) C
10 2 (1.85%) C#
10 2 (1.85%) C++
10 2 (1.85%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.85%) Rust
10 2 (1.85%) Scala
11 1 (0.93%) Clojure
11 1 (0.93%) COBOL
11 1 (0.93%) JCL
11 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.89%) DV Cleared
2 15 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.70%) Degree
4 2 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.93%) OCP
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) WCAG
2 4 (3.70%) QA
3 3 (2.78%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (44.44%) Docker
2 3 (2.78%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.85%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 52 (48.15%) Kubernetes
2 31 (28.70%) Terraform
3 25 (23.15%) Grafana
4 22 (20.37%) Ansible
5 15 (13.89%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.48%) Kibana
6 7 (6.48%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.48%) Puppet
7 5 (4.63%) Podman
8 3 (2.78%) Argo
9 2 (1.85%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.93%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.93%) Control-M
10 1 (0.93%) Istio
10 1 (0.93%) logstash
10 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (23.15%) Oracle
2 13 (12.04%) Splunk
3 8 (7.41%) Solace
4 5 (4.63%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (4.63%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.63%) Gigya
5 4 (3.70%) Google
5 4 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.70%) Sybase
6 3 (2.78%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.78%) VMware
7 2 (1.85%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.85%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.85%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.85%) Veracode
8 1 (0.93%) Adobe
8 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.93%) TOWER Software