Maven Contracts in England

Apache Maven
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Maven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Maven over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 460 263
Rank change year-on-year +118 -197 -42
Contract jobs citing Maven 138 91 463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.25% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.05% 2.12% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 62 351
10th Percentile £316 £400 £450
25th Percentile £402 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -18.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £553 £540 £738
90th Percentile £689 £599 £750
UK median daily rate £483 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -3.50% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 17
10th Percentile £63.25 - £70.75
25th Percentile £64.38 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £69.38 - £78.00
90th Percentile £69.75 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.43%

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 3,405 4,300 6,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.13% 11.65% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,302 2,912 4,846
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 208 199
10th Percentile £27.59 £31.57 £45.87
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +22.51%
75th Percentile £74.38 £70.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £79.75 £77.65 £83.36
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.14%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Maven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Maven in England

Maven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Maven in England.

Daily rate trend for Maven in England

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in England

Maven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Maven in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 June 2025. 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 +49 69 £508 +1.50% 71
Midlands +41 33 £435 +3.64% 89
North of England +40 33 £465 +6.65% 86
West Midlands +41 24 £480 +14.29% 49
Yorkshire +22 15 £520 +19.76% 38
North West +21 14 £400 -13.61% 37
East Midlands - 9 £333 - 36
North East - 4 £465 - 11
South East +48 3 £575 - 94
Maven
UK

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (10.14%) Confluence
2 6 (4.35%) WebSphere
3 5 (3.62%) JBoss
4 4 (2.90%) WebLogic
4 4 (2.90%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.45%) Apache
5 2 (1.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.72%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.72%) CICS
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (53.62%) AWS
2 28 (20.29%) Azure
3 18 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
4 16 (11.59%) Amazon S3
5 11 (7.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (7.97%) AWS KMS
5 11 (7.97%) Route 53
6 10 (7.25%) GCP
6 10 (7.25%) OpenShift
7 8 (5.80%) GitHub
7 8 (5.80%) Kong
7 8 (5.80%) Serverless
8 7 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.90%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (2.90%) IBM Cloud
10 4 (2.90%) npm
11 3 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.90%) Calico
1 4 (2.90%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.90%) SSL
2 3 (2.17%) Firewall
2 3 (2.17%) HTTP
3 2 (1.45%) DHCP
3 2 (1.45%) DMZ
3 2 (1.45%) DNS
3 2 (1.45%) Internet
3 2 (1.45%) IPsec
3 2 (1.45%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (1.45%) SAN
3 2 (1.45%) VLAN
4 1 (0.72%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.72%) VPN
4 1 (0.72%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (31.88%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (15.94%) MongoDB
3 19 (13.77%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (10.87%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (10.87%) DynamoDB
5 14 (10.14%) MySQL
6 13 (9.42%) NoSQL
7 9 (6.52%) Redis
7 9 (6.52%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.90%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.17%) Hazelcast
9 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.72%) Aerospike
10 1 (0.72%) DB2
10 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.72%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 81 (58.70%) Jenkins
2 73 (52.90%) Git
3 57 (41.30%) JUnit
4 39 (28.26%) Gradle
5 32 (23.19%) SonarQube
6 31 (22.46%) GitLab
6 31 (22.46%) IntelliJ
7 26 (18.84%) JIRA
8 25 (18.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 24 (17.39%) Cucumber
9 24 (17.39%) Mockito
10 23 (16.67%) Selenium
11 15 (10.87%) Postman
12 12 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (7.97%) REST Assured
14 10 (7.25%) Subversion
15 9 (6.52%) Artifactory
15 9 (6.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (6.52%) Bitbucket
16 8 (5.80%) TestNG
General
1 33 (23.91%) Finance
2 24 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 23 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.04%) Banking
5 6 (4.35%) Front Office
5 6 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.17%) Back Office
7 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.45%) Retail
7 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.72%) Advertising
8 1 (0.72%) Aviation
8 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Military
8 1 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (56.52%) Developer
2 51 (36.96%) Java Developer
3 18 (13.04%) Senior
4 15 (10.87%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (9.42%) Lead
5 13 (9.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 11 (7.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (7.97%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.25%) Lead Developer
8 9 (6.52%) Architect
8 9 (6.52%) AWS Developer
8 9 (6.52%) Lead Java Developer
9 8 (5.80%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (5.80%) Tester
10 7 (5.07%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Automation Tester
12 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.62%) DevOps Specialist
12 5 (3.62%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (56.52%) Spring
2 68 (49.28%) Spring Boot
3 36 (26.09%) Hibernate
4 33 (23.91%) JPA
4 33 (23.91%) REST
5 30 (21.74%) Web Services
6 29 (21.01%) AngularJS
7 27 (19.57%) RESTful
8 22 (15.94%) SOAP
9 21 (15.22%) Kafka
10 19 (13.77%) Bootstrap
10 19 (13.77%) Node.js
11 18 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (12.32%) J2EE
13 15 (10.87%) Spring Cloud
13 15 (10.87%) Spring Integration
14 13 (9.42%) CSS
14 13 (9.42%) React
15 11 (7.97%) HTML
15 11 (7.97%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.62%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.62%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.90%) Equities
4 3 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.17%) PKI
4 3 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.45%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.45%) IVR
5 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.72%) Clustering
6 1 (0.72%) Derivative
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.72%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.72%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 31 (22.46%) Linux
2 17 (12.32%) Unix
3 6 (4.35%) Windows
4 5 (3.62%) Android
5 4 (2.90%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.45%) CentOS
6 2 (1.45%) Debian
6 2 (1.45%) Solaris
6 2 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (44.93%) Microservices
2 55 (39.86%) CI/CD
3 52 (37.68%) DevOps
4 49 (35.51%) Agile
5 39 (28.26%) TDD
6 32 (23.19%) Test Automation
7 27 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (17.39%) Containerisation
9 22 (15.94%) Scrum
10 21 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (14.49%) Design Patterns
12 18 (13.04%) BDD
13 17 (12.32%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (12.32%) Open Source
14 16 (11.59%) Mentoring
14 16 (11.59%) Software Engineering
15 15 (10.87%) Unit Testing
16 14 (10.14%) Code Quality
17 13 (9.42%) Risk Management
18 12 (8.70%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 112 (81.16%) Java
2 47 (34.06%) SQL
3 31 (22.46%) JavaScript
4 23 (16.67%) Python
5 18 (13.04%) Shell Script
6 13 (9.42%) TypeScript
7 10 (7.25%) Bash
7 10 (7.25%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.35%) Groovy
9 4 (2.90%) Perl
10 3 (2.17%) C#
11 2 (1.45%) COBOL
11 2 (1.45%) JCL
11 2 (1.45%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.45%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.72%) Ada
12 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 41 (29.71%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (4.35%) Degree
4 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.32%) QA
2 6 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.35%) WCAG
3 2 (1.45%) SLA
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 67 (48.55%) Docker
2 8 (5.80%) Postfix
3 2 (1.45%) RACF
Systems Management
1 38 (27.54%) Kubernetes
2 23 (16.67%) Terraform
3 18 (13.04%) Grafana
3 18 (13.04%) Prometheus
4 14 (10.14%) Puppet
5 13 (9.42%) Ansible
6 9 (6.52%) Istio
7 7 (5.07%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.90%) Control-M
9 3 (2.17%) Packer
9 3 (2.17%) Rundeck
10 2 (1.45%) Argo
10 2 (1.45%) Nessus
10 2 (1.45%) Podman
10 2 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.72%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.72%) Graylog
11 1 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.72%) Kibana
11 1 (0.72%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (10.87%) Oracle
2 12 (8.70%) CA Agile Central
3 11 (7.97%) Splunk
4 9 (6.52%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (6.52%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.80%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.62%) Google
6 5 (3.62%) IBM
6 5 (3.62%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.90%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.90%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.17%) Sybase
8 3 (2.17%) Veracode
9 2 (1.45%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.45%) Remedy
9 2 (1.45%) Sophos
9 2 (1.45%) Sun
9 2 (1.45%) VMware