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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 355 452
Rank change year-on-year -128 +97 -187
Contract jobs citing Maven 112 137 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.57% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.23% 4.00% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 103 62
10th Percentile £368 £315 £400
25th Percentile £462 £402 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £485 £490
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -0.92% -20.08%
75th Percentile £617 £550 £540
90th Percentile £754 £693 £599
UK median daily rate £530 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -4.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £59.00 £63.25 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
75th Percentile - £69.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year +40.74% - -

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 5,031 3,427 4,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.03% 14.14% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,296 2,319 2,910
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £527
Median % change year-on-year - -5.12% -4.18%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £638
90th Percentile £681 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 63 208
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.59 £31.57
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -89 46 £600 +19.11% 9
Midlands -59 27 £537 +23.25% 4
North of England -79 27 £473 +1.61% 4
West Midlands -55 24 £537 +11.77% 3
Yorkshire -52 22 £473 -9.09% 4
South East -51 13 £360 -37.35%
North West -53 5 £439 +9.63%
South West - 3 £550 - 2
East Midlands -34 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 8 (7.14%) Confluence
2 6 (5.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (4.46%) Apache
4 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.68%) Camunda
5 3 (2.68%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.79%) CMS
7 1 (0.89%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.89%) JBoss
7 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 58 (51.79%) AWS
2 33 (29.46%) GitHub
3 27 (24.11%) Azure
4 23 (20.54%) Amazon EC2
4 23 (20.54%) Amazon S3
4 23 (20.54%) Amazon SQS
5 21 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (16.07%) AWS KMS
6 18 (16.07%) GCP
6 18 (16.07%) Route 53
7 17 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.36%) OpenShift
10 5 (4.46%) OCI
11 4 (3.57%) Apigee
11 4 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.57%) Cloud Run
11 4 (3.57%) Kong
11 4 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.79%) AMQP
1 2 (1.79%) HTTP
2 1 (0.89%) Internet
2 1 (0.89%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (22.32%) DynamoDB
3 22 (19.64%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (16.07%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (10.71%) Relational Database
6 11 (9.82%) SQL Server
7 10 (8.93%) MySQL
8 9 (8.04%) Metadata
8 9 (8.04%) MongoDB
9 6 (5.36%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.57%) Flink
10 4 (3.57%) Hazelcast
10 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.57%) Redis
11 3 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.68%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.89%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 65 (58.04%) Jenkins
2 56 (50.00%) Git
3 43 (38.39%) JUnit
4 39 (34.82%) Gradle
5 36 (32.14%) SonarQube
6 28 (25.00%) Mockito
7 14 (12.50%) DbUnit
7 14 (12.50%) GitLab
8 13 (11.61%) JIRA
8 13 (11.61%) jMock
9 12 (10.71%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (8.04%) Gatling
10 9 (8.04%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (7.14%) Artifactory
11 8 (7.14%) Postman
11 8 (7.14%) REST Assured
12 7 (6.25%) Cucumber
12 7 (6.25%) Selenium
13 6 (5.36%) Eclipse
14 5 (4.46%) Subversion
General
1 38 (33.93%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 18 (16.07%) Finance
4 12 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.71%) Banking
5 5 (4.46%) Front Office
5 5 (4.46%) Publishing
6 4 (3.57%) Retail
7 3 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (54.46%) Developer
2 52 (46.43%) Java Developer
3 30 (26.79%) Senior
4 23 (20.54%) Senior Developer
4 23 (20.54%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (10.71%) Java Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Applications Developer
7 6 (5.36%) Lead
8 5 (4.46%) Architect
8 5 (4.46%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 4 (3.57%) Backend Developer
9 4 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Senior Java Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Service Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.57%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (58.04%) Spring
2 50 (44.64%) Spring Boot
3 34 (30.36%) REST
4 30 (26.79%) JPA
5 25 (22.32%) Hibernate
6 24 (21.43%) Web Services
7 23 (20.54%) AngularJS
7 23 (20.54%) SOAP
8 22 (19.64%) RESTful
8 22 (19.64%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (16.96%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (16.07%) Node.js
10 18 (16.07%) Spring Batch
10 18 (16.07%) Spring Integration
11 17 (15.18%) Bootstrap
12 13 (11.61%) PowerMock
13 12 (10.71%) JSON
13 12 (10.71%) Kafka
13 12 (10.71%) Playwright
14 11 (9.82%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.68%) Equities
5 3 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.79%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.89%) Derivative
7 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.89%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.89%) TWAP
7 1 (0.89%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 32 (28.57%) Linux
2 8 (7.14%) Unix
3 4 (3.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.89%) Android
4 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.89%) CentOS
4 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 58 (51.79%) DevOps
3 52 (46.43%) Microservices
4 36 (32.14%) Agile
4 36 (32.14%) Containerisation
5 32 (28.57%) TDD
6 31 (27.68%) Test Automation
7 30 (26.79%) Scrum
8 22 (19.64%) Performance Tuning
9 21 (18.75%) Software Engineering
10 17 (15.18%) Event-Driven
10 17 (15.18%) Kanban
11 16 (14.29%) Observability
12 15 (13.39%) BDD
13 14 (12.50%) BPMN
13 14 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (10.71%) Design Patterns
15 11 (9.82%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 99 (88.39%) Java
2 49 (43.75%) SQL
3 21 (18.75%) Python
4 9 (8.04%) Groovy
5 8 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.36%) Scala
8 2 (1.79%) Go
8 2 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.89%) Bash
9 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (34.82%) Security Cleared
2 33 (29.46%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) Degree
4 6 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.46%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.89%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.61%) QA
2 4 (3.57%) SLA
3 3 (2.68%) SEPA
4 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.79%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.79%) NCSC
4 2 (1.79%) PSD2
5 1 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.89%) ITGC
5 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (48.21%) Docker
2 11 (9.82%) Postfix
3 3 (2.68%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.68%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 37 (33.04%) Kubernetes
2 30 (26.79%) Grafana
3 24 (21.43%) Terraform
4 15 (13.39%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.36%) Argo
5 6 (5.36%) HAProxy
6 4 (3.57%) Ansible
7 2 (1.79%) Kibana
8 1 (0.89%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.89%) Podman
8 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (16.07%) Atlassian
2 17 (15.18%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (9.82%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.82%) Oracle
4 8 (7.14%) Sonatype
5 6 (5.36%) Splunk
6 5 (4.46%) Solace
7 4 (3.57%) Sybase
8 2 (1.79%) Adobe
8 2 (1.79%) IBM
8 2 (1.79%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.79%) SAP
9 1 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.89%) Google
9 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.89%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.89%) Veracode
9 1 (0.89%) VMware