Maven Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache Maven
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Maven skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 428 534
Rank change year-on-year -85 +106 -76
Permanent jobs citing Maven 60 57 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.100% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.46% 2.18% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 14 30 109
10th Percentile £50,375 £49,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,188 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% +11.63%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £146,300 £91,934
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,435 2,609 6,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.05% 10.11% 9.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 1,883 4,601
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Maven relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Maven job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Maven
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Maven.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Maven

Maven
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Maven in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Maven in the UK excluding London

Maven
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -47 40 £78,750 -0.08% 10
Yorkshire -23 39 £80,000 +1.51% 5
Midlands -42 9 £57,500 - 4
West Midlands -9 8 - - 3
South West -45 7 £68,750 -16.19% 2
South East -39 3 £60,000 -
North East -30 1 £55,000 - 1
Wales -31 1 £45,000 -
Maven
UK

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) JBoss
3 1 (1.67%) Camunda
3 1 (1.67%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 48 (80.00%) AWS
2 40 (66.67%) Serverless
3 39 (65.00%) Amazon ECR
3 39 (65.00%) Amazon ECS
3 39 (65.00%) Amazon S3
3 39 (65.00%) Apigee
3 39 (65.00%) AWS Lambda
3 39 (65.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 38 (63.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (35.00%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (11.67%) Azure
7 3 (5.00%) GitHub
8 2 (3.33%) Slack
9 1 (1.67%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) HTTP
1 1 (1.67%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (65.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.00%) CockroachDB
3 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.33%) MySQL
5 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.67%) Metadata
5 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (76.67%) Jenkins
2 43 (71.67%) Cypress.io
3 42 (70.00%) GitLab
3 42 (70.00%) SonarQube
4 10 (16.67%) Gradle
4 10 (16.67%) JUnit
5 9 (15.00%) Mockito
6 7 (11.67%) Git
6 7 (11.67%) Selenium
7 6 (10.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (5.00%) JIRA
8 3 (5.00%) TestNG
9 2 (3.33%) Checkstyle
9 2 (3.33%) ESLint
10 1 (1.67%) Ant
10 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.67%) Eclipse
10 1 (1.67%) JMeter
10 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (10.00%) Finance
2 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (1.67%) Automotive
4 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (71.67%) Developer
2 38 (63.33%) Java Developer
3 14 (23.33%) Lead
4 11 (18.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 9 (15.00%) AWS Developer
6 9 (15.00%) Senior
7 8 (13.33%) Senior Developer
8 7 (11.67%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (11.67%) Technical Leader
9 5 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (6.67%) Lead Developer
11 2 (3.33%) Lead Java Developer
11 2 (3.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
12 1 (1.67%) Automation Tester
12 1 (1.67%) Functional Tester
12 1 (1.67%) Java Engineer
12 1 (1.67%) Senior Java Engineer
12 1 (1.67%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (81.67%) Spring Boot
2 42 (70.00%) AngularJS
3 39 (65.00%) Gherkin
3 39 (65.00%) Jest
4 22 (36.67%) Spring
5 13 (21.67%) REST
6 6 (10.00%) Spring MVC
7 5 (8.33%) React
8 4 (6.67%) JPA
8 4 (6.67%) Node.js
9 3 (5.00%) Drools
9 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
9 3 (5.00%) RESTful
9 3 (5.00%) Spring Security
9 3 (5.00%) XML
10 2 (3.33%) CSS
10 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (3.33%) HTML
10 2 (3.33%) OAuth
10 2 (3.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (83.33%) Agile
2 45 (75.00%) DevOps
3 39 (65.00%) CI/CD
4 29 (48.33%) SDLC
5 26 (43.33%) Secure Coding
6 23 (38.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (36.67%) ITIL
7 22 (36.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 16 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (23.33%) Clean Code
9 14 (23.33%) Microservices
10 13 (21.67%) Prototyping
11 12 (20.00%) Scrum
12 11 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
13 9 (15.00%) TDD
14 8 (13.33%) Computer Science
15 7 (11.67%) Code Quality
15 7 (11.67%) SOA
15 7 (11.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (96.67%) Java
2 45 (75.00%) Bash
3 42 (70.00%) TypeScript
4 40 (66.67%) Groovy
5 13 (21.67%) SQL
6 8 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (10.00%) PL/SQL
8 4 (6.67%) C
8 4 (6.67%) R
9 3 (5.00%) Kotlin
9 3 (5.00%) Python
10 1 (1.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (51.67%) AWS Certification
2 22 (36.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (36.67%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 13 (21.67%) SC Cleared
5 9 (15.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (86.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (65.00%) HP Fortify
2 13 (21.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.67%) Terraform
4 3 (5.00%) Grafana
4 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.33%) Kibana
6 1 (1.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (5.00%) Google
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.33%) Splunk
4 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.67%) Sonatype