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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 357 407
Rank change year-on-year -140 +50 -79
Contract jobs citing Maven 125 155 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.56% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.34% 3.85% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 126 76
10th Percentile £400 £273 £400
25th Percentile £461 £358 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £680 £629 £850
UK median daily rate £498 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +4.74% -9.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

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 5,335 4,022 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.45% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,779 2,837
10th Percentile £353 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 97 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.30 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.44% - +0.97%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -103 57 £535 +5.42% 44
Midlands -46 34 £475 +13.10% 10
West Midlands -36 31 £475 -5.00% 9
North of England -77 26 £500 +24.38% 5
Yorkshire -31 24 £500 -3.80% 2
South East -68 9 £272 -53.59% 7
East Midlands -21 2 - - 1
South West -44 1 - - 1
North East -44 1 £520 +11.83%
North West -66 1 £475 +32.68% 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 7 (5.60%) WebLogic
2 6 (4.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (4.80%) Confluence
3 5 (4.00%) Apache
4 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.60%) Camunda
5 2 (1.60%) CMS
6 1 (0.80%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.80%) nginx
6 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 68 (54.40%) AWS
2 39 (31.20%) Azure
3 32 (25.60%) GitHub
4 25 (20.00%) GCP
5 22 (17.60%) Amazon SQS
6 20 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (14.40%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (14.40%) Amazon S3
8 17 (13.60%) AWS KMS
8 17 (13.60%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (13.60%) Route 53
9 16 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.20%) OCI
11 8 (6.40%) Kong
12 7 (5.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (4.00%) Apigee
14 4 (3.20%) Cloud Run
15 3 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 3 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) SSL
2 1 (0.80%) DNS
2 1 (0.80%) Firewall
2 1 (0.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.80%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.80%) Internet
2 1 (0.80%) Multicast
2 1 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (30.40%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.00%) DynamoDB
3 16 (12.80%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (12.80%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (12.80%) Relational Database
4 15 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 11 (8.80%) Metadata
6 8 (6.40%) MySQL
7 7 (5.60%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.20%) Flink
8 4 (3.20%) Hazelcast
8 4 (3.20%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.20%) Redis
9 3 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.60%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 76 (60.80%) Jenkins
2 68 (54.40%) Git
3 46 (36.80%) SonarQube
4 39 (31.20%) Gradle
4 39 (31.20%) JUnit
5 26 (20.80%) Mockito
6 25 (20.00%) GitLab
7 13 (10.40%) Bitbucket Server
8 12 (9.60%) DbUnit
9 11 (8.80%) jMock
9 11 (8.80%) REST Assured
10 10 (8.00%) JIRA
10 10 (8.00%) Selenium
11 9 (7.20%) Cucumber
11 9 (7.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (6.40%) Artifactory
12 8 (6.40%) Gatling
12 8 (6.40%) Postman
13 7 (5.60%) Subversion
14 6 (4.80%) TestNG
General
1 34 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.20%) Public Sector
3 23 (18.40%) Finance
4 19 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (12.00%) Banking
6 10 (8.00%) Publishing
7 4 (3.20%) Retail
8 3 (2.40%) Front Office
8 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.80%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 69 (55.20%) Developer
2 55 (44.00%) Java Developer
3 29 (23.20%) Senior
4 24 (19.20%) Senior Developer
4 24 (19.20%) Senior Java Developer
5 14 (11.20%) Java Engineer
6 13 (10.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Lead
8 8 (6.40%) Lead Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Architect
9 6 (4.80%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Applications Developer
11 4 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Service Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.20%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (52.80%) Spring
2 59 (47.20%) Spring Boot
3 41 (32.80%) REST
4 30 (24.00%) JPA
5 27 (21.60%) RESTful
6 25 (20.00%) Node.js
7 23 (18.40%) AngularJS
7 23 (18.40%) Kafka
8 22 (17.60%) ActiveMQ
9 21 (16.80%) Hibernate
9 21 (16.80%) Web Services
10 20 (16.00%) SOAP
10 20 (16.00%) Spring Cloud
11 16 (12.80%) Bootstrap
11 16 (12.80%) Spring Batch
11 16 (12.80%) Spring Integration
12 15 (12.00%) CSS
13 14 (11.20%) JSON
14 12 (9.60%) HTML
14 12 (9.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.60%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.20%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.40%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (5.60%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (5.60%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.80%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.20%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.80%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (28.80%) Linux
2 10 (8.00%) Unix
3 4 (3.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.80%) Android
4 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 70 (56.00%) DevOps
3 59 (47.20%) Microservices
4 46 (36.80%) Agile
5 41 (32.80%) Containerisation
6 35 (28.00%) Scrum
7 34 (27.20%) Test Automation
8 33 (26.40%) TDD
9 24 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (18.40%) Event-Driven
10 23 (18.40%) Performance Tuning
11 19 (15.20%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (13.60%) BDD
13 17 (13.60%) Software Engineering
14 16 (12.80%) Clean Code
14 16 (12.80%) Design Patterns
14 16 (12.80%) Kanban
15 14 (11.20%) Observability
16 13 (10.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 114 (91.20%) Java
2 61 (48.80%) SQL
3 24 (19.20%) Python
4 23 (18.40%) JavaScript
5 14 (11.20%) Shell Script
6 11 (8.80%) Groovy
7 6 (4.80%) Scala
7 6 (4.80%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.60%) Bash
9 1 (0.80%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.80%) R
9 1 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (46.40%) Security Cleared
2 53 (42.40%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (7.20%) Degree
5 7 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.60%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.40%) QA
2 6 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.00%) SEPA
4 4 (3.20%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.20%) PSD2
4 4 (3.20%) SLA
5 1 (0.80%) ITGC
5 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (47.20%) Docker
2 9 (7.20%) Postfix
3 3 (2.40%) GridGain
4 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (42.40%) Kubernetes
2 28 (22.40%) Terraform
3 27 (21.60%) Grafana
4 16 (12.80%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.40%) Argo
6 6 (4.80%) HAProxy
7 5 (4.00%) Ansible
8 3 (2.40%) Kibana
9 1 (0.80%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.80%) Podman
9 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.80%) Puppet
9 1 (0.80%) systemd
Vendors
1 21 (16.80%) Oracle
2 16 (12.80%) Atlassian
3 15 (12.00%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (8.80%) Sonatype
5 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.60%) Splunk
7 5 (4.00%) Sybase
8 4 (3.20%) Solace
9 3 (2.40%) Google
9 3 (2.40%) IBM
10 2 (1.60%) Adobe
10 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.60%) SAP
10 2 (1.60%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.60%) Veracode
11 1 (0.80%) Confluent
11 1 (0.80%) Databricks
11 1 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.80%) VMware