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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 358 452
Rank change year-on-year -94 +94 -202
Contract jobs citing Maven 114 121 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.49% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.28% 3.62% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 72 76
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% +3.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £588
90th Percentile £695 £738 £650
UK median daily rate £537 £510 £523
% change year-on-year +5.29% -2.39% -16.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 4,994 3,338 4,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.67% 13.53% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,373 2,183 2,993
10th Percentile £338 £335 £360
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -8.18%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 63 184
10th Percentile £32.39 £26.08 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.72 £48.23
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £72.50 £71.56
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £86.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -60 49 £575 +5.50% 9
Midlands -59 24 £542 +28.17% 9
West Midlands -53 22 £542 +27.41% 8
South East -42 19 £450 -30.10% 3
North of England -72 14 £414 -11.55% 10
Yorkshire -49 10 £425 -19.81% 6
South West -19 9 £550 +6.28% 1
North West -44 4 £402 -8.11% 4
East Midlands -35 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 12 (10.53%) Confluence
2 5 (4.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (4.39%) Apache
3 3 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.63%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.75%) Camunda
4 2 (1.75%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 53 (46.49%) AWS
2 28 (24.56%) GitHub
3 19 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 18 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (15.79%) Azure
5 14 (12.28%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (10.53%) OpenShift
7 10 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (8.77%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (8.77%) Serverless
8 9 (7.89%) AWS KMS
8 9 (7.89%) GCP
8 9 (7.89%) npm
8 9 (7.89%) Route 53
9 8 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.51%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) AMQP
2 3 (2.63%) HTTP
3 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.88%) Firewall
4 1 (0.88%) Multicast
4 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (13.16%) DynamoDB
3 10 (8.77%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (8.77%) MySQL
4 9 (7.89%) Relational Database
5 8 (7.02%) MongoDB
6 7 (6.14%) Tick Data
7 5 (4.39%) Metadata
7 5 (4.39%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.39%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.39%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.51%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.63%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.88%) Power BI
10 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 61 (53.51%) Git
2 53 (46.49%) Jenkins
3 44 (38.60%) JUnit
4 36 (31.58%) Gradle
5 28 (24.56%) GitLab
6 25 (21.93%) Mockito
7 23 (20.18%) SonarQube
8 20 (17.54%) JIRA
9 16 (14.04%) Cucumber
9 16 (14.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (12.28%) Selenium
11 12 (10.53%) Bitbucket
12 11 (9.65%) Postman
13 8 (7.02%) jMock
14 7 (6.14%) Cypress.io
14 7 (6.14%) DbUnit
14 7 (6.14%) REST Assured
15 5 (4.39%) Artifactory
15 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket Server
15 5 (4.39%) Eclipse
General
1 41 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.79%) Finance
3 13 (11.40%) Banking
4 12 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.39%) Front Office
7 4 (3.51%) Publishing
7 4 (3.51%) Retail
8 3 (2.63%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Law
9 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (54.39%) Developer
2 51 (44.74%) Java Developer
3 24 (21.05%) Senior
4 14 (12.28%) Senior Developer
5 12 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.77%) Java Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) Lead
8 7 (6.14%) Applications Developer
8 7 (6.14%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Fidessa Developer
8 7 (6.14%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.26%) Applications Support Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (5.26%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.51%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (57.89%) Spring
2 47 (41.23%) Spring Boot
3 32 (28.07%) REST
4 24 (21.05%) AngularJS
5 23 (20.18%) JPA
6 21 (18.42%) JSON
7 19 (16.67%) Hibernate
8 17 (14.91%) React
9 16 (14.04%) Bootstrap
9 16 (14.04%) HTML
9 16 (14.04%) RESTful
9 16 (14.04%) Web Services
10 15 (13.16%) CSS
10 15 (13.16%) Node.js
10 15 (13.16%) SOAP
11 12 (10.53%) Spring Cloud
11 12 (10.53%) XML
12 10 (8.77%) ActiveMQ
12 10 (8.77%) Gherkin
12 10 (8.77%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.77%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.14%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (6.14%) Equities
3 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.51%) Derivative
5 3 (2.63%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.75%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.75%) TWAP
6 2 (1.75%) VWAP
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Replication
7 1 (0.88%) State Machine
7 1 (0.88%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.82%) Linux
2 8 (7.02%) Unix
3 5 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.39%) Windows
4 3 (2.63%) CentOS
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.88%) Solaris
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (51.75%) CI/CD
2 46 (40.35%) Microservices
3 45 (39.47%) DevOps
4 44 (38.60%) Agile
5 34 (29.82%) Test Automation
6 29 (25.44%) Containerisation
7 26 (22.81%) Scrum
8 23 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (17.54%) TDD
10 18 (15.79%) Software Engineering
11 14 (12.28%) Mentoring
11 14 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (11.40%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (10.53%) Unit Testing
14 11 (9.65%) OOP
14 11 (9.65%) Root Cause Analysis
15 10 (8.77%) MVC
15 10 (8.77%) OO
Programming Languages
1 94 (82.46%) Java
2 32 (28.07%) SQL
3 20 (17.54%) Python
4 12 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.89%) Groovy
6 5 (4.39%) Shell Script
6 5 (4.39%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.51%) Bash
7 4 (3.51%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.75%) Go
8 2 (1.75%) Scala
9 1 (0.88%) C#
9 1 (0.88%) C++
9 1 (0.88%) Clojure
9 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.88%) R
9 1 (0.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 33 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.63%) Degree
5 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) QA
2 7 (6.14%) WCAG
3 4 (3.51%) SLA
4 3 (2.63%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.75%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 41 (35.96%) Docker
2 6 (5.26%) Postfix
3 3 (2.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 33 (28.95%) Kubernetes
2 30 (26.32%) Grafana
3 21 (18.42%) Terraform
4 18 (15.79%) Ansible
5 12 (10.53%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.02%) Kibana
7 5 (4.39%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.51%) Puppet
9 3 (2.63%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.63%) Podman
10 1 (0.88%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (14.91%) Oracle
2 11 (9.65%) Atlassian
3 9 (7.89%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (7.89%) Splunk
4 6 (5.26%) Solace
5 5 (4.39%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.39%) Sonatype
6 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.63%) VMware
7 2 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.75%) Sybase
8 1 (0.88%) Adobe
8 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.88%) Thales