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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 353 451
Rank change year-on-year -114 +98 -204
Contract jobs citing Maven 118 123 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.50% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.33% 3.70% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 76 76
10th Percentile £400 £356 £405
25th Percentile £463 £421 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.30% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £591 £588
90th Percentile £733 £731 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.31% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +46.15% - -

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 5,054 3,324 4,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.33% 13.59% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,396 2,218 2,943
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.86%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 67 165
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.17 £34.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.72 £46.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.28 £86.25
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -70 49 £600 +11.11% 6
Midlands -59 24 £540 +27.69% 4
West Midlands -45 22 £540 +26.94% 3
North of England -75 20 £450 -3.23% 10
South East -42 19 £450 -30.10%
Yorkshire -50 16 £461 -12.97% 5
South West -20 7 £550 - 2
North West -51 4 £402 -8.11% 4
East Midlands -38 2 - - 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 11 (9.32%) Confluence
2 6 (5.08%) Apache
3 4 (3.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.54%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.69%) Camunda
5 2 (1.69%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.85%) JBoss
6 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 61 (51.69%) AWS
2 30 (25.42%) GitHub
3 20 (16.95%) Amazon S3
3 20 (16.95%) Azure
4 19 (16.10%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (12.71%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (10.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (9.32%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (9.32%) GCP
8 10 (8.47%) AWS KMS
8 10 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (8.47%) OpenShift
8 10 (8.47%) Route 53
8 10 (8.47%) Serverless
9 7 (5.93%) npm
10 6 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.24%) OCI
12 4 (3.39%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) AMQP
2 3 (2.54%) HTTP
3 2 (1.69%) Multicast
4 1 (0.85%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.34%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (14.41%) DynamoDB
3 16 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (9.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (9.32%) SQL Server
5 10 (8.47%) MySQL
5 10 (8.47%) Relational Database
6 8 (6.78%) Metadata
6 8 (6.78%) MongoDB
7 6 (5.08%) Tick Data
8 5 (4.24%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.39%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.54%) InfluxDB
10 3 (2.54%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.85%) Flink
11 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 59 (50.00%) Git
2 58 (49.15%) Jenkins
3 43 (36.44%) JUnit
4 35 (29.66%) Gradle
5 25 (21.19%) GitLab
5 25 (21.19%) Mockito
5 25 (21.19%) SonarQube
6 19 (16.10%) JIRA
7 16 (13.56%) Cucumber
8 14 (11.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (11.02%) Selenium
10 11 (9.32%) Bitbucket
11 9 (7.63%) jMock
11 9 (7.63%) Postman
12 8 (6.78%) Artifactory
12 8 (6.78%) DbUnit
13 6 (5.08%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (5.08%) Cypress.io
13 6 (5.08%) Gatling
13 6 (5.08%) REST Assured
General
1 43 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.95%) Finance
3 14 (11.86%) Banking
3 14 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.78%) Front Office
5 5 (4.24%) Publishing
6 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.39%) Retail
7 3 (2.54%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (54.24%) Developer
2 53 (44.92%) Java Developer
3 29 (24.58%) Senior
4 19 (16.10%) Senior Developer
5 17 (14.41%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (10.17%) Java Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Lead
7 9 (7.63%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Applications Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Fidessa Developer
9 6 (5.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Applications Support
10 5 (4.24%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (55.93%) Spring
2 49 (41.53%) Spring Boot
3 30 (25.42%) REST
4 23 (19.49%) AngularJS
4 23 (19.49%) JPA
5 22 (18.64%) JSON
6 19 (16.10%) Hibernate
6 19 (16.10%) RESTful
7 17 (14.41%) Node.js
8 16 (13.56%) React
8 16 (13.56%) Web Services
9 15 (12.71%) Bootstrap
9 15 (12.71%) SOAP
10 14 (11.86%) HTML
11 13 (11.02%) CSS
11 13 (11.02%) Spring Cloud
12 12 (10.17%) Playwright
12 12 (10.17%) XML
13 11 (9.32%) ActiveMQ
14 10 (8.47%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.02%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.63%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.08%) Equities
4 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.39%) Derivative
6 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.69%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.69%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) TWAP
6 2 (1.69%) VWAP
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.97%) Linux
2 8 (6.78%) Unix
3 4 (3.39%) Windows
4 2 (1.69%) CentOS
4 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (49.15%) CI/CD
2 50 (42.37%) DevOps
3 47 (39.83%) Microservices
4 43 (36.44%) Agile
5 34 (28.81%) Test Automation
6 32 (27.12%) Containerisation
7 28 (23.73%) Scrum
8 22 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (17.80%) Software Engineering
9 21 (17.80%) TDD
10 14 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (11.02%) Mentoring
12 12 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (9.32%) Design Patterns
13 11 (9.32%) Event-Driven
13 11 (9.32%) OOP
13 11 (9.32%) Unit Testing
14 10 (8.47%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 102 (86.44%) Java
2 35 (29.66%) SQL
3 22 (18.64%) Python
4 11 (9.32%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.47%) Groovy
6 7 (5.93%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.24%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.39%) Scala
9 3 (2.54%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.69%) Bash
10 2 (1.69%) Go
11 1 (0.85%) C#
11 1 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (39.83%) Security Cleared
2 36 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.47%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.24%) Degree
5 3 (2.54%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) QA
2 6 (5.08%) WCAG
3 4 (3.39%) SLA
4 3 (2.54%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.69%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 46 (38.98%) Docker
2 7 (5.93%) Postfix
3 3 (2.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.54%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 38 (32.20%) Kubernetes
2 30 (25.42%) Grafana
3 23 (19.49%) Terraform
4 15 (12.71%) Ansible
5 13 (11.02%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.78%) Kibana
7 4 (3.39%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.54%) HAProxy
8 3 (2.54%) HP Fortify
8 3 (2.54%) Puppet
9 2 (1.69%) Podman
10 1 (0.85%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 18 (15.25%) Oracle
2 12 (10.17%) Atlassian
3 10 (8.47%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (7.63%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.93%) Solace
5 7 (5.93%) Sonatype
5 7 (5.93%) Splunk
6 4 (3.39%) Sybase
6 4 (3.39%) VMware
7 2 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.85%) Google
8 1 (0.85%) IBM
8 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.85%) Thales
8 1 (0.85%) TIBCO