Maven Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Maven
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Maven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Maven over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 326 301
Rank change year-on-year +48 -25 -13
Contract jobs citing Maven 86 53 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.29% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.92% 2.44% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 37 82
10th Percentile £274 £393 £446
25th Percentile £356 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £516 £634 £562
90th Percentile £577 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% -13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +53.85%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,195 2,173 2,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.29% 11.97% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 1,377 1,881
10th Percentile £312 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £670 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 171 169
10th Percentile £27.94 £40.94 £46.18
25th Percentile £51.53 £54.18 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.27%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Maven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Maven in the UK excluding London

Maven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Maven in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Maven in the UK excluding London

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in the UK excluding London

Maven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Maven in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Maven in the UK excluding London

Maven
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
North of England +19 42 £402 -17.96% 11
Midlands +16 29 £427 -27.01% 6
North West +16 25 £358 -29.46% 6
West Midlands +4 16 £500 +19.05% 4
Yorkshire +5 14 £520 +29.94% 4
East Midlands +13 13 £340 -54.67% 2
Scotland -8 7 £413 -21.24% 7
South East +19 6 £585 +1.74% 9
South West +17 3 £550 +22.22% 5
North East - 3 £465 - 1
Northern Ireland -22 1 £425 -29.17% 7
Maven
UK

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (16.28%) Confluence
2 9 (10.47%) JBoss
2 9 (10.47%) Tomcat
3 4 (4.65%) WebSphere
3 4 (4.65%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (3.49%) CICS
5 2 (2.33%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.16%) Anypoint
6 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (55.81%) AWS
2 17 (19.77%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (18.60%) Amazon SQS
4 15 (17.44%) Azure
5 14 (16.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (16.28%) OpenShift
5 14 (16.28%) Route 53
6 12 (13.95%) Amazon S3
6 12 (13.95%) GCP
7 9 (10.47%) AWS KMS
7 9 (10.47%) GitHub
8 7 (8.14%) npm
9 6 (6.98%) Datadog
9 6 (6.98%) PaaS
10 5 (5.81%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (5.81%) Apigee
10 5 (5.81%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.81%) Loggly
10 5 (5.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) Calico
2 3 (3.49%) Firewall
3 2 (2.33%) AMQP
3 2 (2.33%) DMZ
3 2 (2.33%) Internet
4 1 (1.16%) HTTP
4 1 (1.16%) MQTT
4 1 (1.16%) PuTTY
4 1 (1.16%) VPN
4 1 (1.16%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (31.40%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (20.93%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (19.77%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (17.44%) DynamoDB
4 15 (17.44%) NoSQL
5 14 (16.28%) MySQL
6 11 (12.79%) MongoDB
6 11 (12.79%) Relational Database
7 10 (11.63%) SQL Server
8 8 (9.30%) RDBMS
9 5 (5.81%) BigQuery
9 5 (5.81%) Redis
10 4 (4.65%) Oracle Database
11 3 (3.49%) DB2
12 2 (2.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 66 (76.74%) Jenkins
2 65 (75.58%) Git
3 44 (51.16%) JUnit
4 31 (36.05%) Gradle
4 31 (36.05%) SonarQube
5 27 (31.40%) JIRA
5 27 (31.40%) Selenium
6 25 (29.07%) Sonatype Nexus
7 24 (27.91%) GitLab
8 20 (23.26%) Mockito
9 19 (22.09%) Cucumber
10 15 (17.44%) IntelliJ
11 12 (13.95%) Bitbucket
12 11 (12.79%) Postman
13 7 (8.14%) Artifactory
13 7 (8.14%) Bitbucket Server
13 7 (8.14%) DbUnit
13 7 (8.14%) jMock
13 7 (8.14%) REST Assured
14 6 (6.98%) HP UFT
General
1 18 (20.93%) Public Sector
2 15 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.47%) Banking
4 9 (10.47%) Finance
5 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (52.33%) Developer
2 37 (43.02%) Java Developer
3 9 (10.47%) Architect
3 9 (10.47%) Senior
4 8 (9.30%) AWS Developer
4 8 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (9.30%) Tester
5 7 (8.14%) Automation Tester
6 6 (6.98%) Java Architect
6 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Java Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Java Technical Architect
7 5 (5.81%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.81%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (58.14%) Spring Boot
2 38 (44.19%) Spring
3 28 (32.56%) REST
4 27 (31.40%) Hibernate
5 25 (29.07%) RESTful
6 22 (25.58%) SOAP
7 21 (24.42%) JPA
8 19 (22.09%) AngularJS
9 17 (19.77%) Web Services
10 16 (18.60%) Spring Cloud
11 15 (17.44%) React
12 14 (16.28%) Node.js
13 13 (15.12%) ActiveMQ
13 13 (15.12%) CSS
13 13 (15.12%) HTML
13 13 (15.12%) Spring Integration
14 12 (13.95%) Bootstrap
15 11 (12.79%) Kafka
16 10 (11.63%) Dropwizard
16 10 (11.63%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.81%) Mainframe
2 5 (5.81%) N-Tier
3 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.49%) VSAM
5 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.16%) IoT
6 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (27.91%) Linux
2 11 (12.79%) Unix
3 4 (4.65%) Android
3 4 (4.65%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.33%) CentOS
4 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.14%) Microservices
2 47 (54.65%) CI/CD
3 45 (52.33%) Agile
4 39 (45.35%) TDD
5 37 (43.02%) DevOps
6 34 (39.53%) Test Automation
7 21 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (24.42%) Scrum
8 20 (23.26%) BDD
8 20 (23.26%) Design Patterns
9 18 (20.93%) Containerisation
10 17 (19.77%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (17.44%) Open Source
12 12 (13.95%) MVC
12 12 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (12.79%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (12.79%) Risk Management
14 10 (11.63%) API Testing
14 10 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (11.63%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 78 (90.70%) Java
2 35 (40.70%) SQL
3 24 (27.91%) JavaScript
4 15 (17.44%) Shell Script
5 10 (11.63%) Python
6 3 (3.49%) COBOL
6 3 (3.49%) Go
6 3 (3.49%) JCL
6 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.33%) C
7 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.16%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 30 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.49%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.16%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.28%) QA
2 5 (5.81%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (46.51%) Docker
2 7 (8.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.93%) Terraform
3 13 (15.12%) Grafana
4 11 (12.79%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.65%) Istio
5 4 (4.65%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.65%) Puppet
6 3 (3.49%) Ansible
7 1 (1.16%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (22.09%) Oracle
2 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.30%) Atlassian
3 8 (9.30%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (8.14%) Veracode
5 5 (5.81%) Gigya
5 5 (5.81%) IBM
6 4 (4.65%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.33%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.33%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.33%) Splunk
8 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.16%) Remedy