Apache Maven
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Maven skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Maven over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 280 239
Rank change year-on-year -179 -41 -52
Contract jobs citing Maven 139 569 1,114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.95% 1.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.71% 6.28% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 437 746
10th Percentile £406 £448 £428
25th Percentile £450 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £582 £725 £736
90th Percentile £631 £765 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 17
10th Percentile - £70.50 £48.50
25th Percentile - £71.25 £56.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +14.50% +14.41%
75th Percentile - £76.50 £65.54
90th Percentile - £85.20 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +33.93% -2.18%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Maven is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England -170 101 £500 -20.00% 48
London -114 80 £520 -22.96% 19
Work from Home -29 51 £489 -16.77% 34
UK excluding London -63 40 £508 -3.33% 29
Scotland +37 17 £623 +3.75% 1
North of England +2 10 £436 -16.95% 7
North West -1 6 £490 +5.40% 7
Yorkshire +19 4 £434 -15.32%
Northern Ireland +11 4 £500 - 3
West Midlands +20 3 £420 -22.22% 2
Midlands +12 3 £420 -22.22% 2
East of England +11 3 - - 2
South East -31 2 £350 -39.66% 7
South West -11 1 £700 +55.56% 7

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (8.63%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.60%) Apache
2 5 (3.60%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.88%) nginx
4 3 (2.16%) Confluence
5 2 (1.44%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.44%) JBoss
5 2 (1.44%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.44%) WildFly
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.72%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.72%) InDesign
1 1 (0.72%) InVision
1 1 (0.72%) Marvel
1 1 (0.72%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.72%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Shopify
2 1 (0.72%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 69 (49.64%) AWS
2 45 (32.37%) Azure
3 24 (17.27%) Amazon S3
4 19 (13.67%) GitHub
5 18 (12.95%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (12.95%) GCP
6 17 (12.23%) Serverless
7 15 (10.79%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (9.35%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (9.35%) OpenShift
9 11 (7.91%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (7.19%) CloudFront
11 8 (5.76%) Apigee
12 7 (5.04%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (4.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (3.60%) BigCommerce
15 4 (2.88%) IaaS
16 3 (2.16%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.04%) Firewall
2 3 (2.16%) SSL
3 2 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.72%) MQTT
4 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.79%) SQL Server
3 13 (9.35%) Oracle Database
3 13 (9.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (7.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (6.47%) DynamoDB
5 9 (6.47%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (5.76%) Big Data
6 8 (5.76%) Hadoop
6 8 (5.76%) MySQL
7 7 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.04%) Apache Hive
8 6 (4.32%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (4.32%) HBase
8 6 (4.32%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.88%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (2.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (51.80%) Jenkins
2 58 (41.73%) Git
3 31 (22.30%) JIRA
4 30 (21.58%) Gradle
5 25 (17.99%) JUnit
6 20 (14.39%) Postman
7 19 (13.67%) Cucumber
8 17 (12.23%) Selenium
9 16 (11.51%) GitLab
9 16 (11.51%) SoapUI
10 15 (10.79%) TestNG
11 14 (10.07%) Bitbucket
12 12 (8.63%) TeamCity
13 11 (7.91%) Cypress.io
13 11 (7.91%) SonarQube
13 11 (7.91%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (7.19%) Mockito
14 10 (7.19%) REST Assured
15 9 (6.47%) Subversion
16 8 (5.76%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.11%) Finance
3 19 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.23%) Banking
5 15 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.04%) Retail
7 5 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.60%) Law
7 5 (3.60%) Marketing
8 3 (2.16%) Aviation
8 3 (2.16%) Front Office
8 3 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (41.73%) Developer
2 31 (22.30%) Java Developer
3 18 (12.95%) Senior
4 14 (10.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (8.63%) Java Engineer
6 10 (7.19%) Software Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) Node.js Developer
8 7 (5.04%) DBA
8 7 (5.04%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (5.04%) Lead
8 7 (5.04%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (5.04%) Oracle Developer
8 7 (5.04%) SQL DBA
8 7 (5.04%) SQL Developer
8 7 (5.04%) Tester
9 5 (3.60%) Automation Tester
9 5 (3.60%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (3.60%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.60%) Site Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (32.37%) REST
2 39 (28.06%) Spring
3 35 (25.18%) Spring Boot
4 27 (19.42%) Node.js
5 16 (11.51%) Kafka
6 14 (10.07%) AngularJS
7 13 (9.35%) Web Services
8 12 (8.63%) RESTful
9 11 (7.91%) Hibernate
10 10 (7.19%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (7.19%) JPA
10 10 (7.19%) Swagger
11 9 (6.47%) JAX-RS
11 9 (6.47%) WireMock
12 8 (5.76%) .NET
12 8 (5.76%) Jest
12 8 (5.76%) JSON
13 7 (5.04%) CSS
13 7 (5.04%) React
13 7 (5.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.19%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.76%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.04%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.60%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.16%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.16%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.44%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) IoT
7 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.72%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.55%) Linux
2 19 (13.67%) Unix
3 13 (9.35%) Windows
4 5 (3.60%) Android
4 5 (3.60%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.72%) AIX
5 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (53.96%) Agile
2 65 (46.76%) CI/CD
3 45 (32.37%) DevOps
4 27 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (19.42%) Test Automation
5 25 (17.99%) Software Engineering
6 21 (15.11%) Containerisation
6 21 (15.11%) Microservices
7 16 (11.51%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (10.79%) MVC
8 15 (10.79%) Scrum
8 15 (10.79%) SDLC
9 13 (9.35%) BDD
9 13 (9.35%) Design Patterns
10 12 (8.63%) Mentoring
11 11 (7.91%) Privileged Access Management
12 10 (7.19%) Unit Testing
13 9 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (6.47%) TDD
14 8 (5.76%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 93 (66.91%) Java
2 38 (27.34%) SQL
3 29 (20.86%) Python
4 19 (13.67%) JavaScript
5 18 (12.95%) Shell Script
6 12 (8.63%) Groovy
6 12 (8.63%) Ruby
7 11 (7.91%) Scala
8 10 (7.19%) Bash
9 6 (4.32%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.60%) C#
11 4 (2.88%) C
12 3 (2.16%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.44%) C++
13 2 (1.44%) Go
13 2 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.72%) PHP
14 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.91%) Degree
4 5 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) OCP
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.51%) QA
2 3 (2.16%) SLA
3 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 50 (35.97%) Docker
2 6 (4.32%) HDFS
3 2 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.72%) iptables
Systems Management
1 36 (25.90%) Kubernetes
2 32 (23.02%) Terraform
3 22 (15.83%) Ansible
4 6 (4.32%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.16%) Consul
6 3 (2.16%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.16%) Packer
6 3 (2.16%) Podman
6 3 (2.16%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.44%) Grafana
7 2 (1.44%) Kibana
7 2 (1.44%) Puppet
8 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.72%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.72%) Istio
8 1 (0.72%) logstash
8 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (18.71%) Oracle
2 19 (13.67%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.91%) Salesforce
3 11 (7.91%) SAP
4 7 (5.04%) Adobe
5 6 (4.32%) Google
5 6 (4.32%) MuleSoft
5 6 (4.32%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.60%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.88%) Splunk
7 4 (2.88%) Talend
8 3 (2.16%) Dell
8 3 (2.16%) Intel
8 3 (2.16%) MKS
9 2 (1.44%) IBM
9 2 (1.44%) Informatica
9 2 (1.44%) Mercator
9 2 (1.44%) New Relic
10 1 (0.72%) Confluent
10 1 (0.72%) ForgeRock