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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 353 447
Rank change year-on-year -98 +94 -202
Contract jobs citing Maven 122 130 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.47% 3.77% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 78 77
10th Percentile £381 £355 £400
25th Percentile £469 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -22.66%
75th Percentile £612 £655 £588
90th Percentile £691 £708 £710
UK median daily rate £542 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +5.15% -1.90% -16.00%
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 4,942 3,444 4,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.97% 13.37% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,387 2,192 3,054
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.61% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 58 199
10th Percentile £30.11 £39.75 £39.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.87 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £88.75
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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -34 54 £575 +5.99% 9
Midlands -43 25 £542 +28.17% 7
West Midlands -40 23 £542 +19.01% 7
South East -23 18 £450 -30.10% 4
North of England -73 16 £425 -5.56% 5
Yorkshire -55 12 £438 -14.22% 2
South West -27 10 £550 -17.60% 4
North West -44 4 £402 -8.11% 3
East Midlands -29 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 12 (9.84%) Confluence
2 5 (4.10%) Apache
3 4 (3.28%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.64%) Camunda
5 2 (1.64%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.82%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.82%) JBoss
6 1 (0.82%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.74%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 56 (45.90%) AWS
2 30 (24.59%) GitHub
3 26 (21.31%) Azure
4 19 (15.57%) Amazon S3
5 17 (13.93%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (11.48%) OpenShift
8 13 (10.66%) GCP
9 12 (9.84%) npm
10 11 (9.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (8.20%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (8.20%) Route 53
11 10 (8.20%) Serverless
12 9 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (7.38%) AWS KMS
12 9 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (4.10%) Azure AKS
15 4 (3.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.74%) AMQP
2 3 (2.46%) HTTP
3 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.82%) Firewall
4 1 (0.82%) Multicast
4 1 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.11%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (12.30%) DynamoDB
4 13 (10.66%) Relational Database
5 10 (8.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (7.38%) MongoDB
6 9 (7.38%) SQL Server
7 8 (6.56%) MySQL
7 8 (6.56%) NoSQL
7 8 (6.56%) RDBMS
8 7 (5.74%) Tick Data
9 4 (3.28%) Metadata
9 4 (3.28%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.46%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.82%) HBase
11 1 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 69 (56.56%) Git
2 56 (45.90%) Jenkins
3 48 (39.34%) JUnit
4 43 (35.25%) Gradle
5 31 (25.41%) GitLab
6 27 (22.13%) Mockito
7 25 (20.49%) SonarQube
8 23 (18.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 20 (16.39%) JIRA
10 15 (12.30%) Cucumber
11 14 (11.48%) Selenium
12 13 (10.66%) Bitbucket
13 12 (9.84%) Postman
14 8 (6.56%) Cypress.io
14 8 (6.56%) jMock
15 7 (5.74%) Artifactory
15 7 (5.74%) DbUnit
15 7 (5.74%) REST Assured
16 6 (4.92%) Subversion
17 5 (4.10%) webpack
General
1 40 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.21%) Finance
3 16 (13.11%) Banking
4 12 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.92%) Front Office
7 5 (4.10%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.46%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.46%) Publishing
10 2 (1.64%) Retail
11 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.82%) Law
11 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (54.92%) Developer
2 57 (46.72%) Java Developer
3 27 (22.13%) Senior
4 17 (13.93%) Senior Developer
5 16 (13.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (12.30%) Senior Java Developer
7 10 (8.20%) Java Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) Lead
9 8 (6.56%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.74%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Fidessa Developer
10 7 (5.74%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Support Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Applications Developer
11 6 (4.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 5 (4.10%) Senior Java Engineer
13 4 (3.28%) Lead Developer
14 3 (2.46%) Lead Java Developer
14 3 (2.46%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (56.56%) Spring
2 50 (40.98%) Spring Boot
3 32 (26.23%) REST
4 24 (19.67%) AngularJS
4 24 (19.67%) JPA
5 22 (18.03%) JSON
6 21 (17.21%) Hibernate
7 20 (16.39%) React
8 19 (15.57%) RESTful
9 16 (13.11%) HTML
9 16 (13.11%) Node.js
10 15 (12.30%) SOAP
10 15 (12.30%) Web Services
11 14 (11.48%) Bootstrap
11 14 (11.48%) Spring Cloud
12 13 (10.66%) CSS
12 13 (10.66%) Kafka
13 12 (9.84%) XML
14 10 (8.20%) ActiveMQ
15 9 (7.38%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.20%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.74%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (5.74%) Equities
3 7 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.10%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.28%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.28%) Derivative
6 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.64%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.64%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.64%) TWAP
7 2 (1.64%) VWAP
8 1 (0.82%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.82%) Replication
8 1 (0.82%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 36 (29.51%) Linux
2 10 (8.20%) Unix
3 7 (5.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.28%) CentOS
5 3 (2.46%) Solaris
5 3 (2.46%) Windows
6 1 (0.82%) Android
6 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (54.10%) CI/CD
2 53 (43.44%) DevOps
3 51 (41.80%) Microservices
4 46 (37.70%) Agile
5 37 (30.33%) Test Automation
6 36 (29.51%) Containerisation
7 27 (22.13%) Scrum
8 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (17.21%) TDD
10 19 (15.57%) Software Engineering
11 16 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (13.11%) Mentoring
12 15 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (12.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (10.66%) OOP
15 12 (9.84%) Design Patterns
15 12 (9.84%) Performance Tuning
15 12 (9.84%) Unit Testing
16 11 (9.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 100 (81.97%) Java
2 33 (27.05%) SQL
3 23 (18.85%) Python
4 12 (9.84%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.38%) Groovy
6 7 (5.74%) Bash
6 7 (5.74%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.10%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.28%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.46%) Go
10 2 (1.64%) Rust
10 2 (1.64%) Scala
11 1 (0.82%) C#
11 1 (0.82%) C++
11 1 (0.82%) Clojure
11 1 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (37.70%) Security Cleared
2 32 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.48%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.46%) Degree
7 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.82%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.82%) OCP
8 1 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) QA
2 7 (5.74%) WCAG
3 3 (2.46%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.64%) NCSC
4 2 (1.64%) SLA
5 1 (0.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 47 (38.52%) Docker
2 6 (4.92%) Postfix
3 3 (2.46%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (1.64%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 39 (31.97%) Kubernetes
2 31 (25.41%) Grafana
3 26 (21.31%) Terraform
4 20 (16.39%) Ansible
5 12 (9.84%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.56%) Kibana
7 6 (4.92%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.10%) Puppet
9 4 (3.28%) Podman
10 3 (2.46%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.82%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (18.03%) Oracle
2 10 (8.20%) Atlassian
2 10 (8.20%) Splunk
3 9 (7.38%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (6.56%) Solace
5 5 (4.10%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.10%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.28%) Sonatype
6 4 (3.28%) Sybase
7 3 (2.46%) VMware
8 2 (1.64%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.82%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.82%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.82%) Google
9 1 (0.82%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.82%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.82%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.82%) Thales
9 1 (0.82%) TOWER Software