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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 377 452
Rank change year-on-year -60 +75 -204
Contract jobs citing Maven 98 115 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.43% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.14% 3.20% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 64 68
10th Percentile £373 £360 £421
25th Percentile £475 £463 £489
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 £859 £741
UK median daily rate £543 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +0.56% +2.86% -16.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.59%

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 4,583 3,592 4,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.72% 13.33% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,164 2,240 3,097
10th Percentile £333 £337 £375
25th Percentile £410 £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 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £538
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.58% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 65 192
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.73
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.90 £75.85 £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 11 January 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
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 11 January 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 -21 52 £554 -1.51% 12
North of England -46 15 £489 +11.66% 11
West Midlands -20 11 £575 - 5
Midlands -30 11 £575 - 5
South East -4 9 £450 -29.41% 16
South West -19 9 £550 -15.38% 8
Yorkshire -38 9 £372 -25.60% 7
North West -37 6 £575 +31.43% 4
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 5 (5.10%) Confluence
1 5 (5.10%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.08%) Apache
3 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.04%) Camunda
5 1 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.02%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.02%) CICS
5 1 (1.02%) JBoss
5 1 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.86%) AWS
2 33 (33.67%) Azure
3 25 (25.51%) GitHub
4 19 (19.39%) GCP
5 16 (16.33%) OpenShift
6 13 (13.27%) npm
7 12 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (11.22%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (11.22%) Serverless
9 10 (10.20%) Apigee
9 10 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (10.20%) Datadog
10 9 (9.18%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (9.18%) Azure AKS
10 9 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (8.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (6.12%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (6.12%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.14%) AMQP
2 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.02%) Firewall
3 1 (1.02%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (1.02%) HTTP
3 1 (1.02%) Multicast
3 1 (1.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.35%) Relational Database
2 14 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (13.27%) RDBMS
4 12 (12.24%) NoSQL
5 10 (10.20%) MongoDB
6 9 (9.18%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (9.18%) SQL Server
7 8 (8.16%) MySQL
7 8 (8.16%) Redis
8 7 (7.14%) DynamoDB
9 6 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (6.12%) Oracle Database
10 5 (5.10%) BigQuery
11 4 (4.08%) Tick Data
12 3 (3.06%) InfluxDB
13 2 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (1.02%) Big Data
14 1 (1.02%) DB2
14 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 60 (61.22%) Git
2 42 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 40 (40.82%) Gradle
4 35 (35.71%) GitLab
5 31 (31.63%) JUnit
6 24 (24.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 21 (21.43%) SonarQube
8 18 (18.37%) Selenium
9 16 (16.33%) Mockito
10 15 (15.31%) JIRA
11 14 (14.29%) Cucumber
12 13 (13.27%) Postman
13 12 (12.24%) Bitbucket
14 9 (9.18%) Artifactory
14 9 (9.18%) Cypress.io
15 6 (6.12%) REST Assured
15 6 (6.12%) webpack
16 5 (5.10%) CircleCI
16 5 (5.10%) Snyk
16 5 (5.10%) SonarLint
General
1 32 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.37%) Banking
3 17 (17.35%) Finance
4 6 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.12%) Front Office
4 6 (6.12%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.06%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.02%) Law
9 1 (1.02%) Publishing
9 1 (1.02%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (46.94%) Developer
2 38 (38.78%) Java Developer
3 20 (20.41%) Senior
4 14 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (13.27%) Senior Developer
6 11 (11.22%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Applications Support
7 7 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Lead
7 7 (7.14%) Support Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Java Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Java Technical Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Fidessa Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Data Modeller
10 3 (3.06%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (42.86%) Spring
2 39 (39.80%) Spring Boot
3 21 (21.43%) REST
4 19 (19.39%) HTML
5 17 (17.35%) AngularJS
5 17 (17.35%) JSON
5 17 (17.35%) React
6 14 (14.29%) Kafka
7 13 (13.27%) CSS
7 13 (13.27%) RESTful
8 12 (12.24%) JPA
9 11 (11.22%) Hibernate
10 9 (9.18%) Bootstrap
11 8 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (8.16%) Gherkin
11 8 (8.16%) J2EE
11 8 (8.16%) Node.js
12 7 (7.14%) HTML5
12 7 (7.14%) OAuth
12 7 (7.14%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.18%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.12%) Private Cloud
4 5 (5.10%) Equities
4 5 (5.10%) N-Tier
5 4 (4.08%) Derivative
5 4 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.06%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.04%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.04%) TWAP
7 2 (2.04%) VWAP
8 1 (1.02%) IVR
8 1 (1.02%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.51%) Linux
2 11 (11.22%) Unix
3 7 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.08%) CentOS
5 3 (3.06%) Solaris
6 2 (2.04%) Windows
7 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.02%) CI/CD
2 40 (40.82%) Agile
2 40 (40.82%) Microservices
3 36 (36.73%) DevOps
4 32 (32.65%) Containerisation
5 29 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 19 (19.39%) Mentoring
8 18 (18.37%) TDD
9 17 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (17.35%) SDLC
9 17 (17.35%) Software Engineering
9 17 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (16.33%) Design Patterns
10 16 (16.33%) Scrum
11 15 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (14.29%) OO
13 12 (12.24%) OOP
14 11 (11.22%) Task Automation
15 10 (10.20%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (76.53%) Java
2 24 (24.49%) Python
3 22 (22.45%) SQL
4 16 (16.33%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.22%) Bash
6 9 (9.18%) Shell Script
7 7 (7.14%) Groovy
7 7 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.08%) Go
8 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.04%) C#
9 2 (2.04%) C++
9 2 (2.04%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.04%) Rust
9 2 (2.04%) Scala
10 1 (1.02%) C
10 1 (1.02%) Clojure
10 1 (1.02%) COBOL
10 1 (1.02%) JCL
10 1 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (31.63%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) Degree
5 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.02%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.02%) OCP
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) WCAG
2 4 (4.08%) QA
3 3 (3.06%) Def Stans
4 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (43.88%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (2.04%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 48 (48.98%) Kubernetes
2 29 (29.59%) Terraform
3 22 (22.45%) Grafana
4 21 (21.43%) Ansible
5 12 (12.24%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.14%) Progress Chef
6 7 (7.14%) Puppet
7 6 (6.12%) Kibana
8 5 (5.10%) Podman
9 2 (2.04%) Argo
9 2 (2.04%) HP Fortify
10 1 (1.02%) CloudHub
10 1 (1.02%) Control-M
10 1 (1.02%) Istio
10 1 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (21.43%) Oracle
2 11 (11.22%) Splunk
3 7 (7.14%) Solace
4 5 (5.10%) Gigya
4 5 (5.10%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.08%) Sybase
6 3 (3.06%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (3.06%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.06%) Google
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.06%) VMware
7 2 (2.04%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.02%) Adobe
8 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.02%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.02%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.02%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.02%) TOWER Software