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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 108 121
Rank change year-on-year -33 +13 +27
Contract jobs citing Maven 7 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.28% 0.92% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.52% 6.34% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 10
10th Percentile - £359 £396
25th Percentile £513 £361 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £495 £625
Median % change year-on-year +23.13% -20.80% -10.71%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £922
90th Percentile £690 - £963
London median daily rate £525 £505 £545
% change year-on-year +3.96% -7.34% -16.15%

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 278 284 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.18% 14.51% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 193 208
10th Percentile £413 £352 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £649 £638 £678
90th Percentile £736 £700 £777
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £17.98 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -
75th Percentile £42.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £49.00 £50.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year -3.45% +35.33% -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 8 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 8 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 -20 7 £610 -0.08% 3
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 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Gradle
2 3 (42.86%) 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
4 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Front Office
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Java Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
1 6 (85.71%) Senior Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
3 3 (42.86%) Kafka
3 3 (42.86%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 2 (28.57%) JPA
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) SOAP
4 2 (28.57%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
5 1 (14.29%) Java Concurrency
5 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
4 3 (42.86%) API Design
4 3 (42.86%) Observability
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (42.86%) Secure Coding
4 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (28.57%) API Development
5 2 (28.57%) API Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 2 (28.57%) Kanban
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Grafana
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Solace
1 1 (14.29%) Sybase