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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 361 467
Rank change year-on-year -67 +106 -218
Contract jobs citing Maven 115 128 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.48% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.44% 3.58% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 71 73
10th Percentile £373 £360 £400
25th Percentile £475 £456 £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 £725 £735
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 - £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 4,712 3,577 4,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.33% 13.50% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,268 2,208 3,178
10th Percentile £340 £340 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 61 200
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.00 £44.26
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.70 £76.25 £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 1 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Maven in England over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Maven in England

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 1 February 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 -42 56 £575 +4.55% 17
North of England -62 20 £498 +13.83% 7
West Midlands -34 15 £571 +17.73% 7
Midlands -47 15 £571 +17.73% 7
South East -11 13 £450 -30.10% 5
Yorkshire -42 11 £425 -23.43% 4
South West -25 10 £550 -15.38% 3
North West -36 9 £575 +31.43% 3
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 (6.96%) Confluence
2 5 (4.35%) Apache
2 5 (4.35%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.74%) Camunda
4 2 (1.74%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.87%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.87%) JBoss
5 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.35%) AWS
2 32 (27.83%) GitHub
3 28 (24.35%) Azure
4 18 (15.65%) GCP
5 16 (13.91%) OpenShift
6 15 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (12.17%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (12.17%) Serverless
8 13 (11.30%) npm
9 12 (10.43%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (10.43%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (8.70%) Datadog
11 9 (7.83%) Apigee
11 9 (7.83%) AWS Fargate
12 8 (6.96%) Amazon S3
12 8 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (6.09%) Azure AKS
14 6 (5.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.09%) AMQP
2 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.87%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.87%) HTTP
3 1 (0.87%) Multicast
3 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.78%) Relational Database
2 15 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (11.30%) RDBMS
4 12 (10.43%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (10.43%) NoSQL
5 11 (9.57%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.57%) MySQL
6 10 (8.70%) DynamoDB
7 9 (7.83%) SQL Server
8 7 (6.09%) Redis
8 7 (6.09%) Tick Data
9 6 (5.22%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (5.22%) Oracle Database
10 5 (4.35%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.61%) InfluxDB
11 3 (2.61%) Metadata
12 2 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 69 (60.00%) Git
2 50 (43.48%) Gradle
2 50 (43.48%) Jenkins
3 39 (33.91%) JUnit
4 34 (29.57%) GitLab
5 25 (21.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 23 (20.00%) SonarQube
7 19 (16.52%) JIRA
7 19 (16.52%) Mockito
8 17 (14.78%) Selenium
9 15 (13.04%) Bitbucket
10 14 (12.17%) Cucumber
11 11 (9.57%) Postman
12 9 (7.83%) Artifactory
12 9 (7.83%) Cypress.io
13 6 (5.22%) IntelliJ
13 6 (5.22%) webpack
14 5 (4.35%) CircleCI
14 5 (4.35%) Snyk
14 5 (4.35%) SonarLint
General
1 34 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.26%) Finance
3 19 (16.52%) Banking
4 8 (6.96%) Front Office
5 7 (6.09%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.61%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Publishing
11 1 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.87%) Law
11 1 (0.87%) Retail
11 1 (0.87%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (47.83%) Developer
2 48 (41.74%) Java Developer
3 24 (20.87%) Senior
4 16 (13.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.17%) Senior Developer
6 12 (10.43%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (9.57%) Java Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Lead
8 8 (6.96%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Applications Support
9 7 (6.09%) Applications Support Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Fidessa Developer
9 7 (6.09%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Architect
10 5 (4.35%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.35%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (49.57%) Spring
2 45 (39.13%) Spring Boot
3 21 (18.26%) React
4 20 (17.39%) JSON
4 20 (17.39%) REST
5 18 (15.65%) HTML
6 16 (13.91%) RESTful
7 15 (13.04%) AngularJS
7 15 (13.04%) JPA
8 13 (11.30%) CSS
8 13 (11.30%) Kafka
9 12 (10.43%) Hibernate
10 9 (7.83%) Gherkin
10 9 (7.83%) Node.js
11 8 (6.96%) Bootstrap
11 8 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (6.96%) YAML
12 7 (6.09%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (6.09%) OAuth
12 7 (6.09%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.96%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.96%) Equities
4 7 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.22%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.35%) Derivative
6 5 (4.35%) N-Tier
7 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.61%) TWAP
8 3 (2.61%) VWAP
9 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.74%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.61%) Linux
2 9 (7.83%) Unix
3 7 (6.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.48%) CentOS
5 3 (2.61%) Solaris
6 1 (0.87%) Windows
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (53.04%) CI/CD
2 46 (40.00%) Microservices
3 44 (38.26%) DevOps
4 43 (37.39%) Agile
5 34 (29.57%) Test Automation
6 33 (28.70%) Containerisation
7 30 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (19.13%) Software Engineering
9 20 (17.39%) Mentoring
9 20 (17.39%) TDD
10 19 (16.52%) Scrum
11 17 (14.78%) SDLC
12 16 (13.91%) Design Patterns
12 16 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (13.91%) OOP
12 16 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (13.91%) Unit Testing
13 14 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (12.17%) OO
14 12 (10.43%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 93 (80.87%) Java
2 29 (25.22%) Python
3 24 (20.87%) SQL
4 13 (11.30%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 9 (7.83%) Bash
6 9 (7.83%) Groovy
7 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.48%) Go
8 4 (3.48%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.74%) C#
9 2 (1.74%) C++
9 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.74%) Rust
9 2 (1.74%) Scala
10 1 (0.87%) Clojure
10 1 (0.87%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.48%) Degree
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.87%) OCP
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.09%) WCAG
2 6 (5.22%) QA
3 3 (2.61%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (2.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.74%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 47 (40.87%) Kubernetes
2 30 (26.09%) Terraform
3 22 (19.13%) Grafana
4 21 (18.26%) Ansible
5 12 (10.43%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.96%) Kibana
7 7 (6.09%) Progress Chef
8 6 (5.22%) Puppet
9 5 (4.35%) Podman
10 2 (1.74%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.87%) Argo
11 1 (0.87%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (20.87%) Oracle
2 13 (11.30%) Splunk
3 9 (7.83%) Solace
4 5 (4.35%) Gigya
4 5 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.48%) Sybase
6 3 (2.61%) Sonatype
6 3 (2.61%) VMware
7 2 (1.74%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.87%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.87%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.87%) Thales
8 1 (0.87%) TOWER Software