Maven Contract Job Trends in London

Apache Maven
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Maven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 299 334
Rank change year-on-year +6 +35 -158
Contract jobs citing Maven 78 94 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.59% 0.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.67% 4.04% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 55 80
10th Percentile £358 £378 £425
25th Percentile £440 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -18.52% -3.57%
75th Percentile £615 £800 £738
90th Percentile £693 £890 £753
England median daily rate £495 £538 £570
% change year-on-year -7.91% -5.70% -12.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £73.75
% change year-on-year - - +40.48%

All Development Application Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,125 2,325 2,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.87% 14.49% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 1,563 2,175
10th Percentile £356 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 29
10th Percentile £36.63 £25.99 £31.00
25th Percentile £41.69 £28.62 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -34.78% +35.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.34 £75.00
90th Percentile £107.88 £71.88 £87.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Maven job vacancy trend in London

Maven
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Maven

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in London

Maven
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Maven

Maven
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 16 October 2025. 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
Central London +9 16 £495 -36.13% 2
South London - 5 £850 -
East London - 3 £540 -
Maven
England

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.28%) Apache
2 1 (1.28%) CICS
2 1 (1.28%) JBoss
2 1 (1.28%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.28%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.90%) Azure
2 26 (33.33%) AWS
3 15 (19.23%) GitHub
4 10 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (11.54%) GCP
6 8 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (10.26%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (8.97%) AWS Fargate
7 7 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (8.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (8.97%) Serverless
8 6 (7.69%) Azure AKS
8 6 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (6.41%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (6.41%) Apigee
9 5 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.28%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (1.28%) MQTT
2 1 (1.28%) Multicast
2 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.36%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (14.10%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (10.26%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.97%) DynamoDB
4 7 (8.97%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.97%) Oracle Database
5 6 (7.69%) Redis
6 4 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.13%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.85%) Big Data
7 3 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.85%) HPCC
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.56%) DB2
8 2 (2.56%) Tick Data
9 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.28%) HBase
9 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (47.44%) Git
2 28 (35.90%) Gradle
2 28 (35.90%) Jenkins
3 25 (32.05%) JUnit
4 24 (30.77%) GitLab
5 21 (26.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 19 (24.36%) SonarQube
7 13 (16.67%) Mockito
8 12 (15.38%) Cucumber
9 11 (14.10%) JIRA
10 10 (12.82%) IntelliJ
10 10 (12.82%) Postman
11 9 (11.54%) REST Assured
12 7 (8.97%) SoapUI
13 6 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (7.69%) Selenium
13 6 (7.69%) Subversion
13 6 (7.69%) Xcode
13 6 (7.69%) XCTest
14 5 (6.41%) Eclipse
General
1 21 (26.92%) Banking
2 18 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 17 (21.79%) Finance
4 9 (11.54%) Investment Banking
5 7 (8.97%) Front Office
6 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.28%) Aviation
8 1 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.28%) Law
8 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Publishing
8 1 (1.28%) Retail
8 1 (1.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (57.69%) Developer
2 33 (42.31%) Java Developer
3 10 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (11.54%) Senior
5 7 (8.97%) AWS Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (5.13%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Lead
8 4 (5.13%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Azure Software Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (47.44%) Spring
2 25 (32.05%) Spring Boot
3 17 (21.79%) JPA
4 16 (20.51%) AngularJS
4 16 (20.51%) REST
5 15 (19.23%) Hibernate
6 14 (17.95%) Kafka
7 13 (16.67%) HTML
8 12 (15.38%) SOAP
9 11 (14.10%) Bootstrap
10 10 (12.82%) CSS
10 10 (12.82%) Web Services
11 9 (11.54%) J2EE
11 9 (11.54%) Node.js
11 9 (11.54%) RESTful
11 9 (11.54%) Spring Cloud
12 8 (10.26%) CSS3
12 8 (10.26%) HTML5
13 7 (8.97%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (8.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.85%) Clustering
4 3 (3.85%) Derivative
4 3 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.85%) IVR
4 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.56%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.56%) Equities
5 2 (2.56%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.28%) IoT
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.28%) Replication
6 1 (1.28%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.92%) Unix
2 20 (25.64%) Linux
3 5 (6.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.41%) Solaris
4 4 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (44.87%) CI/CD
2 33 (42.31%) DevOps
3 30 (38.46%) Agile
4 26 (33.33%) Microservices
5 21 (26.92%) Containerisation
5 21 (26.92%) TDD
6 14 (17.95%) Mentoring
7 13 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 12 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 12 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (14.10%) Design Patterns
9 11 (14.10%) Front End Development
9 11 (14.10%) Multithreading
10 10 (12.82%) Low Latency
10 10 (12.82%) Unit Testing
11 9 (11.54%) Integration Testing
11 9 (11.54%) Migration
11 9 (11.54%) SDLC
11 9 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (75.64%) Java
2 24 (30.77%) Python
3 22 (28.21%) SQL
4 18 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 13 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 12 (15.38%) Bash
6 12 (15.38%) TypeScript
7 9 (11.54%) PowerShell
8 8 (10.26%) Groovy
9 4 (5.13%) C++
10 3 (3.85%) C
10 3 (3.85%) C#
11 2 (2.56%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.56%) Scala
12 1 (1.28%) Ada
12 1 (1.28%) Clojure
12 1 (1.28%) COBOL
12 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.28%) R
12 1 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.56%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (51.28%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) GridGain
3 1 (1.28%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 31 (39.74%) Kubernetes
2 12 (15.38%) Terraform
3 8 (10.26%) Ansible
3 8 (10.26%) Prometheus
4 5 (6.41%) Grafana
5 4 (5.13%) Argo
5 4 (5.13%) Puppet
6 3 (3.85%) Istio
6 3 (3.85%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (1.28%) Control-M
7 1 (1.28%) Kibana
7 1 (1.28%) logstash
7 1 (1.28%) Podman
7 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (19.23%) Oracle
2 12 (15.38%) CA Agile Central
3 10 (12.82%) Splunk
4 8 (10.26%) Solace
5 7 (8.97%) Google
6 6 (7.69%) Dynatrace
7 5 (6.41%) Red Hat
7 5 (6.41%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.13%) Microsoft
8 4 (5.13%) Sybase
9 3 (3.85%) Bloomberg
9 3 (3.85%) MuleSoft
9 3 (3.85%) Refinitiv
10 1 (1.28%) Adobe
10 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.28%) ION Trading
10 1 (1.28%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (1.28%) Remedy
10 1 (1.28%) Sonatype