Maven Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Apache Maven
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Maven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 108 149
Rank change year-on-year -25 +41 -25
Contract jobs citing Maven 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.12% 0.072%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.20% 0.98% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £566 - -
25th Percentile £572 £619 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £638 £350
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% +82.14% -27.08%
75th Percentile £597 £656 -
90th Percentile £599 - -
South East median daily rate £450 £644 £438
% change year-on-year -30.10% +47.14% -20.45%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 227 205 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.15% 12.52% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 119 164
10th Percentile £322 £350 £350
25th Percentile £398 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £638
90th Percentile £635 £651 £688
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 9
10th Percentile £80.75 £49.63 -
25th Percentile £81.53 £52.41 £46.25
Median hourly rate £83.29 £56.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.78% +3.17% -21.43%
75th Percentile £88.00 £57.62 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £68.81 £66.00
South East median hourly rate £81.50 £60.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +34.71% -3.20% +11.87%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Maven job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Maven
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Maven.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Maven

Maven
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Maven.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Maven

Maven
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
Berkshire - 4 £588 - 2
Buckinghamshire -10 1 - -
Maven
South East

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (60.00%) Subversion
2 2 (40.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Gradle
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Thymeleaf
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Component Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Biometrics
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Atlassian