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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 356 436
Rank change year-on-year -122 +80 -180
Contract jobs citing Maven 110 113 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.47% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.21% 3.39% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 84 69
10th Percentile £366 £330 £400
25th Percentile £463 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £489
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +4.29% -20.16%
75th Percentile £628 £575 £538
90th Percentile £765 £700 £588
UK median daily rate £537 £500 £495
% change year-on-year +7.30% +1.01% -17.50%
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 4,969 3,330 4,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.20% 13.76% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,273 2,244 2,880
10th Percentile £343 £341 £353
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £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 220 64 191
10th Percentile £37.15 £27.63 £31.71
25th Percentile £59.81 £49.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.75 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.45% -7.31% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -74 44 £625 +15.74% 5
North of England -62 28 £461 -3.91% 4
Yorkshire -43 24 £473 -9.09% 3
Midlands -66 23 £524 +24.64% 7
West Midlands -56 21 £524 +7.94% 5
South East -50 14 £360 -44.58% 2
North West -42 4 £402 -7.27%
South West - 4 £575 - 3
East Midlands -33 2 - - 2
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 (6.36%) Apache
1 7 (6.36%) Confluence
2 5 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.73%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.82%) Camunda
6 1 (0.91%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.91%) JBoss
6 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 58 (52.73%) AWS
2 33 (30.00%) GitHub
3 25 (22.73%) Azure
4 22 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 20 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (17.27%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (15.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (15.45%) GCP
7 17 (15.45%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (12.73%) AWS KMS
8 14 (12.73%) Route 53
9 7 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (6.36%) Serverless
10 6 (5.45%) Apigee
10 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (4.55%) OCI
11 5 (4.55%) OpenShift
12 4 (3.64%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) AMQP
2 2 (1.82%) HTTP
3 1 (0.91%) Internet
3 1 (0.91%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (20.91%) DynamoDB
3 18 (16.36%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (12.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (10.91%) Relational Database
6 10 (9.09%) MySQL
6 10 (9.09%) SQL Server
7 9 (8.18%) Metadata
7 9 (8.18%) MongoDB
8 6 (5.45%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.64%) Flink
9 4 (3.64%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.64%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.64%) Redis
10 3 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.73%) Tick Data
11 2 (1.82%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 61 (55.45%) Jenkins
2 52 (47.27%) Git
3 40 (36.36%) Gradle
4 37 (33.64%) JUnit
5 32 (29.09%) SonarQube
6 23 (20.91%) Mockito
7 16 (14.55%) GitLab
8 13 (11.82%) JIRA
9 11 (10.00%) DbUnit
9 11 (10.00%) jMock
10 9 (8.18%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (8.18%) Cucumber
10 9 (8.18%) Gatling
11 8 (7.27%) Artifactory
11 8 (7.27%) Selenium
11 8 (7.27%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (6.36%) Bitbucket
12 7 (6.36%) Postman
13 6 (5.45%) REST Assured
14 5 (4.55%) Snyk
General
1 38 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Finance
2 18 (16.36%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.82%) Banking
4 9 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.45%) Front Office
6 5 (4.55%) Publishing
7 4 (3.64%) Retail
8 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (52.73%) Developer
2 51 (46.36%) Java Developer
3 30 (27.27%) Senior
4 23 (20.91%) Senior Developer
4 23 (20.91%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (10.91%) Java Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Lead
9 6 (5.45%) Applications Developer
10 5 (4.55%) Architect
10 5 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 4 (3.64%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.64%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 4 (3.64%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 4 (3.64%) Senior Backend Developer
11 4 (3.64%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (58.18%) Spring
2 48 (43.64%) Spring Boot
3 30 (27.27%) REST
4 26 (23.64%) JPA
5 23 (20.91%) AngularJS
6 21 (19.09%) Hibernate
6 21 (19.09%) RESTful
7 20 (18.18%) Spring Cloud
7 20 (18.18%) Web Services
8 19 (17.27%) Node.js
9 18 (16.36%) SOAP
10 15 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
10 15 (13.64%) Bootstrap
11 14 (12.73%) JSON
11 14 (12.73%) Spring Batch
11 14 (12.73%) Spring Integration
12 11 (10.00%) Kafka
12 11 (10.00%) Playwright
12 11 (10.00%) PowerMock
13 10 (9.09%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.36%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.64%) Equities
6 3 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.82%) Derivative
7 2 (1.82%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.82%) TWAP
7 2 (1.82%) VWAP
8 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.91%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.27%) Linux
2 8 (7.27%) Unix
3 4 (3.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.91%) Android
4 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.91%) CentOS
4 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (52.73%) CI/CD
2 56 (50.91%) DevOps
3 49 (44.55%) Microservices
4 35 (31.82%) Agile
4 35 (31.82%) Containerisation
5 30 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 27 (24.55%) Scrum
6 27 (24.55%) TDD
7 23 (20.91%) Software Engineering
8 19 (17.27%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (15.45%) Event-Driven
10 15 (13.64%) Observability
10 15 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (12.73%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (12.73%) Kanban
12 13 (11.82%) BDD
12 13 (11.82%) Design Patterns
12 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (10.91%) BPMN
14 10 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 97 (88.18%) Java
2 44 (40.00%) SQL
3 20 (18.18%) Python
4 10 (9.09%) Groovy
5 8 (7.27%) Shell Script
6 7 (6.36%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.45%) Scala
8 3 (2.73%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.82%) Bash
9 2 (1.82%) Go
9 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (34.55%) Security Cleared
2 30 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.36%) Degree
3 7 (6.36%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.64%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.91%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) SLA
3 3 (2.73%) SEPA
4 2 (1.82%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.82%) NCSC
4 2 (1.82%) PSD2
5 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.91%) GDPR
5 1 (0.91%) ITGC
5 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (48.18%) Docker
2 10 (9.09%) Postfix
3 3 (2.73%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.73%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 39 (35.45%) Kubernetes
2 28 (25.45%) Grafana
3 27 (24.55%) Terraform
4 15 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.45%) Ansible
5 6 (5.45%) Argo
5 6 (5.45%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.73%) HP Fortify
6 3 (2.73%) Kibana
7 1 (0.91%) Podman
7 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.91%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (13.64%) Atlassian
2 14 (12.73%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (10.91%) Oracle
4 11 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 8 (7.27%) Sonatype
6 6 (5.45%) Splunk
7 5 (4.55%) Solace
8 3 (2.73%) Sybase
9 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.91%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.91%) Google
10 1 (0.91%) IBM
10 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.91%) Thales
10 1 (0.91%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.91%) VMware