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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 113 117
Rank change year-on-year -27 +4 +22
Contract jobs citing Maven 6 15 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.25% 0.79% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.03% 5.24% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 9
10th Percentile £332 - £393
25th Percentile £338 £359 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £495 £700
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -29.29% -
75th Percentile £697 £615 £925
90th Percentile £714 - £963
London median daily rate £498 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.78% -5.00% -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 296 286 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.35% 15.03% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 203 197
10th Percentile £363 £352 £363
25th Percentile £457 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £649 £642 £688
90th Percentile £738 £710 £785
London median daily rate £532 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £78.75 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £58.25 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +29.44% +20.00% -44.24%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 £508 -16.72% 6
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) Gradle
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) JUnit
3 2 (33.33%) Mockito
3 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Back Office
4 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
3 4 (66.67%) REST
4 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (50.00%) JPA
4 3 (50.00%) RESTful
5 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (33.33%) JSF
5 2 (33.33%) JSP
5 2 (33.33%) SOAP
5 2 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (33.33%) Terraform
5 2 (33.33%) Web Services
6 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
6 1 (16.67%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Derivative
2 1 (16.67%) Equities
2 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Front End Development
2 5 (83.33%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) Memory Management
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes