Maven Contract Job Trends in Central London

Apache Maven
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Maven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 115 120
Rank change year-on-year -27 +5 +28
Contract jobs citing Maven 7 14 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.28% 0.73% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.42% 5.02% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 10
10th Percentile £334 - £396
25th Percentile £341 £359 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -20.80% -10.71%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £922
90th Percentile £690 - £963
London median daily rate £495 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -4.58% -5.68% -18.52%

All Development Application Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 289 279 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.75% 14.55% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 197 206
10th Percentile £366 £346 £375
25th Percentile £463 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.95%
75th Percentile £649 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £700 £775
London median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £17.79 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £52.88 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £76.25 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.78% +20.00% -44.44%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Maven relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Maven job vacancy trend in Central London

Maven
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Maven.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Maven

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in Central London over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in Central London

Maven
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Maven.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Maven

Maven
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
City of London -24 7 £525 -13.93% 5
Maven
London

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) Gradle
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) JUnit
3 2 (28.57%) Mockito
3 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
3 4 (57.14%) REST
3 4 (57.14%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 2 (28.57%) JPA
4 2 (28.57%) JSF
4 2 (28.57%) JSP
4 2 (28.57%) Kafka
4 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (28.57%) SOAP
4 2 (28.57%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
5 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (14.29%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
3 4 (57.14%) Front End Development
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) User Stories
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) API Design
5 2 (28.57%) API Development
5 2 (28.57%) API Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
5 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible