Maven Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 355 295
Rank change year-on-year +81 -60 -3
Contract jobs citing Maven 62 44 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.21% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.62% 1.94% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 28 128
10th Percentile £325 £407 £440
25th Percentile £402 £429 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -8.10% -
75th Percentile £538 £634 £628
90th Percentile £600 £646 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +3.95% -18.37% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £70.13
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £77.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.47%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Maven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Maven in the UK excluding London

Maven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Maven in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Maven in the UK excluding London

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in the UK excluding London

Maven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Maven in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Maven in the UK excluding London

Maven
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +34 25 £500 +14.68% 9
Midlands +40 21 £425 +1.19% 15
West Midlands +26 15 £493 +17.26% 11
North West +23 12 £475 -3.06% 5
Yorkshire +13 9 £520 +19.76% 3
South East +51 7 £650 +85.71% 12
East Midlands - 6 £311 - 4
Scotland +1 5 £358 -42.49% 6
Northern Ireland -9 4 £325 -40.91% 2
North East - 4 £465 - 1
Maven
UK

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (17.74%) Confluence
2 6 (9.68%) WebLogic
3 4 (6.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (3.23%) Apache
4 2 (3.23%) Apache Solr
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (3.23%) WebSphere
4 2 (3.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.71%) AWS
2 9 (14.52%) GitHub
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon S3
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (8.06%) Kong
4 4 (6.45%) AWS KMS
4 4 (6.45%) Azure
4 4 (6.45%) Route 53
5 3 (4.84%) GCP
6 2 (3.23%) IBM Cloud
6 2 (3.23%) npm
6 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.61%) Datadog
7 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.61%) PaaS
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Firewall
2 2 (3.23%) Calico
2 2 (3.23%) DHCP
2 2 (3.23%) DNS
2 2 (3.23%) HTTP
2 2 (3.23%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (3.23%) SAN
2 2 (3.23%) SSL
2 2 (3.23%) VLAN
3 1 (1.61%) PuTTY
3 1 (1.61%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (17.74%) NoSQL
3 10 (16.13%) MongoDB
4 7 (11.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (8.06%) DynamoDB
6 5 (8.06%) MySQL
7 4 (6.45%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.61%) Aerospike
9 1 (1.61%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 36 (58.06%) Jenkins
2 31 (50.00%) Git
3 21 (33.87%) GitLab
3 21 (33.87%) JUnit
4 20 (32.26%) Selenium
5 18 (29.03%) JIRA
6 14 (22.58%) IntelliJ
7 13 (20.97%) Cucumber
7 13 (20.97%) Gradle
7 13 (20.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (17.74%) Mockito
8 11 (17.74%) SonarQube
9 8 (12.90%) HP UFT
9 8 (12.90%) Subversion
10 5 (8.06%) Ant
10 5 (8.06%) Artifactory
10 5 (8.06%) gulp
10 5 (8.06%) Postman
11 4 (6.45%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (6.45%) CA Release Automation
General
1 15 (24.19%) Public Sector
2 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Banking
2 8 (12.90%) Finance
3 4 (6.45%) Front Office
3 4 (6.45%) Wholesale Banking
4 3 (4.84%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Electronics
6 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Marketing
6 1 (1.61%) Military
6 1 (1.61%) Retail
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (43.55%) Developer
2 18 (29.03%) Java Developer
3 7 (11.29%) Tester
4 6 (9.68%) Java Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) Automation Tester
5 5 (8.06%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Senior
5 5 (8.06%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.45%) .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Build and Release Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Build Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) C# Developer
6 4 (6.45%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (6.45%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (6.45%) Release Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (33.87%) Spring Boot
2 20 (32.26%) Spring
3 18 (29.03%) Hibernate
4 15 (24.19%) AngularJS
5 13 (20.97%) REST
5 13 (20.97%) Web Services
6 12 (19.35%) React
7 11 (17.74%) Kafka
7 11 (17.74%) Node.js
8 10 (16.13%) SOAP
8 10 (16.13%) Spring Integration
9 9 (14.52%) Bootstrap
9 9 (14.52%) JPA
10 7 (11.29%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (11.29%) JAX-RS
10 7 (11.29%) RESTful
11 6 (9.68%) CSS
11 6 (9.68%) HTML
11 6 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (9.68%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.06%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.45%) Derivative
3 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.45%) Equities
3 4 (6.45%) Equity Derivative
3 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.84%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.03%) Linux
2 6 (9.68%) Windows
3 5 (8.06%) Unix
4 2 (3.23%) Android
4 2 (3.23%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.23%) CentOS
4 2 (3.23%) Debian
4 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.94%) DevOps
2 22 (35.48%) Agile
3 21 (33.87%) Microservices
4 19 (30.65%) CI/CD
5 18 (29.03%) TDD
5 18 (29.03%) Test Automation
6 14 (22.58%) Scrum
7 12 (19.35%) Open Source
8 11 (17.74%) BDD
9 10 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (9.68%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (9.68%) Event-Driven
11 6 (9.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (9.68%) Risk Management
11 6 (9.68%) Workflow
12 5 (8.06%) Decision-Making
12 5 (8.06%) Operational Stability
12 5 (8.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (79.03%) Java
2 29 (46.77%) SQL
3 15 (24.19%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.13%) Shell Script
5 7 (11.29%) Python
6 4 (6.45%) C#
6 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.23%) XPath
9 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.61%) Bash
9 1 (1.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.23%) Degree
3 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) QA
System Software
1 17 (27.42%) Docker
2 5 (8.06%) Postfix
3 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.52%) Terraform
3 7 (11.29%) Prometheus
3 7 (11.29%) Puppet
4 6 (9.68%) Grafana
5 4 (6.45%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.23%) Istio
6 2 (3.23%) Nessus
7 1 (1.61%) Ansible
7 1 (1.61%) Graylog
7 1 (1.61%) Packer
7 1 (1.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) Oracle
3 6 (9.68%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (8.06%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (6.45%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.84%) Veracode
7 2 (3.23%) IBM
7 2 (3.23%) Sophos
7 2 (3.23%) VMware
8 1 (1.61%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.61%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.61%) Google
8 1 (1.61%) New Relic
8 1 (1.61%) Remedy
8 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.61%) SAP
8 1 (1.61%) Splunk
8 1 (1.61%) Sybase
8 1 (1.61%) Virgin Media