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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 366 418
Rank change year-on-year -142 +52 -116
Contract jobs citing Maven 124 152 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.55% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.36% 3.85% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 123 77
10th Percentile £389 £271 £400
25th Percentile £458 £358 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £465 £520
Median % change year-on-year +9.84% -10.58% -13.33%
75th Percentile £597 £566 £600
90th Percentile £682 £637 £835
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -7.69%
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 5,263 3,948 4,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.30% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,357 2,719 2,886
10th Percentile £350 £321 £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 £588 £600 £631
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 235 93 205
10th Percentile £28.08 £40.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.63 £51.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £73.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -79 53 £550 +6.54% 15
Midlands -51 35 £475 +13.10% 9
West Midlands -39 31 £475 -2.56% 9
North of England -86 27 £500 +24.38% 5
Yorkshire -36 25 £500 -3.80%
South East -66 11 £273 -53.33% 5
East Midlands -24 3 - -
South West -42 1 - - 1
North East -43 1 £520 +11.83%
North West -68 1 £475 +32.68% 5
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 8 (6.45%) Confluence
2 7 (5.65%) WebLogic
3 6 (4.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (3.23%) Apache
4 4 (3.23%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.61%) Camunda
5 2 (1.61%) CMS
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.81%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 69 (55.65%) AWS
2 38 (30.65%) Azure
3 32 (25.81%) GitHub
4 26 (20.97%) GCP
5 25 (20.16%) Amazon SQS
6 21 (16.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (16.94%) Amazon S3
7 20 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (14.52%) AWS KMS
8 18 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (14.52%) Route 53
9 12 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.26%) OCI
11 7 (5.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (4.84%) Kong
13 5 (4.03%) Apigee
14 4 (3.23%) Cloud Run
15 3 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 3 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.81%) Firewall
2 1 (0.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.81%) Multicast
2 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (33.06%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (18.55%) DynamoDB
3 19 (15.32%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (14.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (12.90%) Relational Database
6 15 (12.10%) SQL Server
7 12 (9.68%) Metadata
8 9 (7.26%) MySQL
9 7 (5.65%) MongoDB
10 5 (4.03%) NoSQL
11 4 (3.23%) Flink
11 4 (3.23%) Hazelcast
11 4 (3.23%) RDBMS
11 4 (3.23%) Redis
12 3 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.61%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 75 (60.48%) Jenkins
2 68 (54.84%) Git
3 46 (37.10%) SonarQube
4 43 (34.68%) JUnit
5 39 (31.45%) Gradle
6 28 (22.58%) Mockito
7 22 (17.74%) GitLab
8 14 (11.29%) DbUnit
9 13 (10.48%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (10.48%) jMock
10 12 (9.68%) REST Assured
11 10 (8.06%) JIRA
12 9 (7.26%) Gatling
12 9 (7.26%) Postman
13 8 (6.45%) Artifactory
13 8 (6.45%) Cucumber
13 8 (6.45%) Selenium
14 7 (5.65%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (5.65%) Subversion
14 7 (5.65%) TestNG
General
1 36 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.16%) Public Sector
3 20 (16.13%) Finance
4 17 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.68%) Banking
6 9 (7.26%) Publishing
7 4 (3.23%) Retail
8 3 (2.42%) Front Office
8 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 71 (57.26%) Developer
2 59 (47.58%) Java Developer
3 25 (20.16%) Senior
4 23 (18.55%) Senior Developer
4 23 (18.55%) Senior Java Developer
5 14 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.68%) Java Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Lead
8 7 (5.65%) Lead Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Architect
9 6 (4.84%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Applications Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (3.23%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) Senior Backend Developer
11 4 (3.23%) Service Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.23%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (54.84%) Spring
2 61 (49.19%) Spring Boot
3 44 (35.48%) REST
4 33 (26.61%) JPA
5 28 (22.58%) RESTful
6 25 (20.16%) Hibernate
6 25 (20.16%) Node.js
7 24 (19.35%) AngularJS
7 24 (19.35%) Web Services
8 23 (18.55%) ActiveMQ
8 23 (18.55%) SOAP
9 22 (17.74%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (15.32%) Kafka
11 18 (14.52%) Spring Batch
11 18 (14.52%) Spring Integration
12 16 (12.90%) Bootstrap
13 14 (11.29%) CSS
13 14 (11.29%) JSON
14 13 (10.48%) PowerMock
15 12 (9.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.35%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.26%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.65%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.03%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.23%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.61%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.81%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.81%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (29.03%) Linux
2 10 (8.06%) Unix
3 4 (3.23%) Windows
4 1 (0.81%) Android
4 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 68 (54.84%) DevOps
3 62 (50.00%) Microservices
4 44 (35.48%) Agile
5 43 (34.68%) Containerisation
6 35 (28.23%) Scrum
6 35 (28.23%) TDD
7 32 (25.81%) Test Automation
8 24 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
9 22 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (16.94%) Event-Driven
11 20 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (14.52%) BDD
12 18 (14.52%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (14.52%) Design Patterns
13 17 (13.71%) Kanban
14 16 (12.90%) Software Engineering
15 15 (12.10%) Clean Code
15 15 (12.10%) Observability
15 15 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (91.94%) Java
2 60 (48.39%) SQL
3 24 (19.35%) Python
4 19 (15.32%) JavaScript
5 12 (9.68%) Groovy
5 12 (9.68%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.84%) Scala
7 4 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.61%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.81%) Bash
9 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 51 (41.13%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (7.26%) Degree
4 7 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.52%) QA
2 6 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.23%) SEPA
3 4 (3.23%) SLA
4 3 (2.42%) PSD2
5 2 (1.61%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.81%) GDPR
6 1 (0.81%) ITGC
6 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (46.77%) Docker
2 11 (8.87%) Postfix
3 3 (2.42%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 52 (41.94%) Kubernetes
2 28 (22.58%) Grafana
3 27 (21.77%) Terraform
4 15 (12.10%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.65%) Argo
6 6 (4.84%) HAProxy
7 4 (3.23%) Ansible
8 2 (1.61%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.61%) Kibana
9 1 (0.81%) Podman
9 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (16.13%) Oracle
2 18 (14.52%) Atlassian
3 17 (13.71%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (8.87%) Sonatype
5 10 (8.06%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.65%) Splunk
7 5 (4.03%) Sybase
8 4 (3.23%) Google
8 4 (3.23%) IBM
8 4 (3.23%) Solace
9 2 (1.61%) Adobe
9 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.61%) SAP
9 2 (1.61%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.61%) Veracode
10 1 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.81%) VMware