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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 346 447
Rank change year-on-year -138 +101 -179
Contract jobs citing Maven 109 127 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.53% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.19% 3.81% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 95 67
10th Percentile £363 £312 £400
25th Percentile £463 £404 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +2.04% -18.33%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £558
90th Percentile £758 £690 £596
UK median daily rate £533 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +7.73% -1.00% -16.67%
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 4,976 3,334 4,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.02% 13.91% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,272 2,263 2,904
10th Percentile £348 £343 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 62 200
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.54 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.50 £54.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -11.35% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.88 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -92 43 £610 +15.55% 5
Midlands -65 27 £537 +25.64% 4
North of England -83 27 £461 -3.40% 7
West Midlands -60 24 £537 +11.77% 3
Yorkshire -53 23 £473 -9.09% 5
South East -52 13 £360 -44.58% 1
North West -49 4 £402 +5.79% 2
South West - 3 £550 - 3
East Midlands -31 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 7 (6.42%) Confluence
2 5 (4.59%) Apache
3 4 (3.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.75%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.83%) Camunda
6 1 (0.92%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.92%) JBoss
6 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (54.13%) AWS
2 33 (30.28%) GitHub
3 27 (24.77%) Azure
4 24 (22.02%) Amazon S3
5 23 (21.10%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (21.10%) Amazon SQS
6 21 (19.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (16.51%) AWS KMS
7 18 (16.51%) Route 53
8 17 (15.60%) GCP
8 17 (15.60%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.59%) Apigee
10 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.59%) OCI
10 5 (4.59%) OpenShift
10 5 (4.59%) Serverless
11 4 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.67%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) AMQP
1 2 (1.83%) HTTP
2 1 (0.92%) Internet
2 1 (0.92%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (31.19%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (23.85%) DynamoDB
3 22 (20.18%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (16.51%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (11.01%) Relational Database
6 10 (9.17%) MySQL
6 10 (9.17%) SQL Server
7 9 (8.26%) Metadata
7 9 (8.26%) MongoDB
8 6 (5.50%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.67%) Flink
9 4 (3.67%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.67%) Redis
10 3 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.75%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.92%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 63 (57.80%) Jenkins
2 53 (48.62%) Git
3 41 (37.61%) JUnit
4 38 (34.86%) Gradle
5 36 (33.03%) SonarQube
6 26 (23.85%) Mockito
7 14 (12.84%) DbUnit
7 14 (12.84%) GitLab
8 13 (11.93%) jMock
9 12 (11.01%) JIRA
10 11 (10.09%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (8.26%) Gatling
12 8 (7.34%) Artifactory
12 8 (7.34%) Cucumber
12 8 (7.34%) Postman
12 8 (7.34%) Selenium
12 8 (7.34%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (6.42%) REST Assured
14 6 (5.50%) Eclipse
15 5 (4.59%) Subversion
General
1 36 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.27%) Public Sector
3 17 (15.60%) Finance
4 12 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.09%) Banking
6 5 (4.59%) Front Office
6 5 (4.59%) Publishing
7 4 (3.67%) Retail
8 3 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (53.21%) Developer
2 51 (46.79%) Java Developer
3 30 (27.52%) Senior
4 23 (21.10%) Senior Developer
4 23 (21.10%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (11.01%) Java Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Lead
8 6 (5.50%) Applications Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Architect
9 5 (4.59%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Backend Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Lead Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Service Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (59.63%) Spring
2 49 (44.95%) Spring Boot
3 33 (30.28%) REST
4 29 (26.61%) JPA
5 24 (22.02%) AngularJS
5 24 (22.02%) Hibernate
5 24 (22.02%) Web Services
6 23 (21.10%) SOAP
7 22 (20.18%) RESTful
7 22 (20.18%) Spring Cloud
8 19 (17.43%) ActiveMQ
8 19 (17.43%) Node.js
9 18 (16.51%) Spring Batch
9 18 (16.51%) Spring Integration
10 17 (15.60%) Bootstrap
11 13 (11.93%) PowerMock
12 12 (11.01%) JSON
12 12 (11.01%) Playwright
13 11 (10.09%) Kafka
14 10 (9.17%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.27%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.42%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.50%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.50%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.75%) Equities
5 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.83%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.92%) Derivative
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.92%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.92%) TWAP
7 1 (0.92%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 32 (29.36%) Linux
2 8 (7.34%) Unix
3 4 (3.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.92%) Android
4 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.92%) CentOS
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (55.05%) CI/CD
2 57 (52.29%) DevOps
3 50 (45.87%) Microservices
4 36 (33.03%) Agile
4 36 (33.03%) Containerisation
5 31 (28.44%) TDD
6 30 (27.52%) Test Automation
7 29 (26.61%) Scrum
8 22 (20.18%) Performance Tuning
9 21 (19.27%) Software Engineering
10 17 (15.60%) Event-Driven
10 17 (15.60%) Kanban
11 16 (14.68%) BDD
11 16 (14.68%) Observability
12 15 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (12.84%) BPMN
13 14 (12.84%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (11.01%) Design Patterns
16 11 (10.09%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 96 (88.07%) Java
2 47 (43.12%) SQL
3 21 (19.27%) Python
4 9 (8.26%) Groovy
5 7 (6.42%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.42%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.50%) Scala
7 2 (1.83%) Go
7 2 (1.83%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.92%) Bash
Qualifications
1 39 (35.78%) Security Cleared
2 33 (30.28%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.42%) Degree
4 5 (4.59%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.59%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.59%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.93%) QA
2 4 (3.67%) SLA
3 3 (2.75%) SEPA
4 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.83%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.83%) NCSC
4 2 (1.83%) PSD2
5 1 (0.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.92%) ITGC
5 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (50.46%) Docker
2 11 (10.09%) Postfix
3 3 (2.75%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.75%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 37 (33.94%) Kubernetes
2 30 (27.52%) Grafana
3 24 (22.02%) Terraform
4 15 (13.76%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.50%) Argo
5 6 (5.50%) HAProxy
6 4 (3.67%) Ansible
7 2 (1.83%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.83%) Kibana
8 1 (0.92%) Podman
8 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (16.51%) Atlassian
2 17 (15.60%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (10.09%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.09%) Oracle
4 8 (7.34%) Sonatype
5 6 (5.50%) Splunk
6 5 (4.59%) Solace
7 3 (2.75%) Sybase
8 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.92%) Google
9 1 (0.92%) IBM
9 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.92%) Thales
9 1 (0.92%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.92%) VMware