Maven Contract Job Trends

Apache Maven
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Maven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 376 447
Rank change year-on-year -137 +71 -157
Contract jobs citing Maven 117 150 132
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.52% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.02% 3.60% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 107 88
10th Percentile £368 £325 £400
25th Percentile £462 £406 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £617 £575 £575
90th Percentile £754 £685 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £525
% change year-on-year +2.15% -11.43% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,797 4,162 5,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.01% 14.30% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,787 3,445
10th Percentile £350 £338 £353
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 71 207
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.00 £32.48
25th Percentile £56.40 £47.21 £46.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £71.94 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £78.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Maven job vacancy trend in the UK

Maven
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Maven

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Maven

Maven
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Maven over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 May 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
England -118 111 £537 +7.30% 25
UK excluding London -112 72 £475 +2.15% 19
London -72 43 £610 +14.35% 7
North of England -73 28 £461 -2.89% 6
Midlands -58 27 £537 +26.24% 7
Yorkshire -43 24 £473 -9.09% 4
West Midlands -52 24 £537 +17.91% 6
Work from Home -83 21 £475 -9.09% 20
South East -48 14 £360 -44.58% 1
North West -47 4 £402 -7.27% 2
South West - 3 £550 - 3
East Midlands -34 2 - - 1
Scotland -11 1 - - 1

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (5.98%) Apache
1 7 (5.98%) Confluence
2 5 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.56%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.71%) Camunda
5 2 (1.71%) JBoss
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 65 (55.56%) AWS
2 35 (29.91%) GitHub
3 30 (25.64%) Azure
4 26 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 24 (20.51%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (19.66%) Amazon SQS
7 22 (18.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (16.24%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (15.38%) AWS KMS
9 18 (15.38%) Route 53
10 17 (14.53%) GCP
11 7 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.98%) OpenShift
11 7 (5.98%) Serverless
12 6 (5.13%) Apigee
12 6 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.27%) OCI
14 4 (3.42%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) AMQP
1 2 (1.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.91%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 22 (18.80%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 10 (8.55%) MySQL
6 10 (8.55%) SQL Server
7 9 (7.69%) Metadata
7 9 (7.69%) MongoDB
8 6 (5.13%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.42%) Flink
9 4 (3.42%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.42%) Redis
10 3 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.56%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 68 (58.12%) Jenkins
2 58 (49.57%) Git
3 43 (36.75%) JUnit
4 40 (34.19%) Gradle
5 38 (32.48%) SonarQube
6 26 (22.22%) Mockito
7 16 (13.68%) GitLab
8 14 (11.97%) DbUnit
9 13 (11.11%) JIRA
9 13 (11.11%) jMock
10 11 (9.40%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (7.69%) Artifactory
11 9 (7.69%) Cucumber
11 9 (7.69%) Gatling
11 9 (7.69%) Selenium
11 9 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (6.84%) Postman
13 7 (5.98%) REST Assured
14 6 (5.13%) Bitbucket
14 6 (5.13%) Cypress.io
General
1 39 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.80%) Public Sector
3 18 (15.38%) Finance
4 12 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.26%) Banking
5 5 (4.27%) Front Office
5 5 (4.27%) Publishing
6 4 (3.42%) Retail
7 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (53.85%) Developer
2 55 (47.01%) Java Developer
3 33 (28.21%) Senior
4 25 (21.37%) Senior Developer
5 24 (20.51%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (10.26%) Java Engineer
7 11 (9.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.84%) Lead
10 6 (5.13%) Applications Developer
11 5 (4.27%) Architect
11 5 (4.27%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.42%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Senior Backend Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (59.83%) Spring
2 54 (46.15%) Spring Boot
3 34 (29.06%) REST
4 30 (25.64%) JPA
5 26 (22.22%) AngularJS
6 25 (21.37%) Web Services
7 24 (20.51%) Hibernate
7 24 (20.51%) RESTful
8 23 (19.66%) SOAP
9 22 (18.80%) Spring Cloud
10 21 (17.95%) Node.js
11 19 (16.24%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (15.38%) Spring Batch
12 18 (15.38%) Spring Integration
13 17 (14.53%) Bootstrap
14 13 (11.11%) JSON
14 13 (11.11%) Kafka
14 13 (11.11%) PowerMock
15 12 (10.26%) Playwright
16 10 (8.55%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.56%) Equities
4 3 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.71%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.85%) Derivative
6 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.85%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (0.85%) TWAP
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.85%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 33 (28.21%) Linux
2 8 (6.84%) Unix
3 5 (4.27%) Windows
4 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.85%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (56.41%) CI/CD
2 61 (52.14%) DevOps
3 53 (45.30%) Microservices
4 40 (34.19%) Agile
5 38 (32.48%) Containerisation
6 33 (28.21%) TDD
7 30 (25.64%) Scrum
7 30 (25.64%) Test Automation
8 23 (19.66%) Performance Tuning
8 23 (19.66%) Software Engineering
9 18 (15.38%) BDD
10 17 (14.53%) Event-Driven
10 17 (14.53%) Kanban
10 17 (14.53%) Observability
11 16 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (11.97%) BPMN
12 14 (11.97%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (11.97%) Design Patterns
12 14 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (9.40%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 103 (88.03%) Java
2 49 (41.88%) SQL
3 23 (19.66%) Python
4 12 (10.26%) Groovy
5 8 (6.84%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.98%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.13%) Scala
8 3 (2.56%) Bash
8 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 33 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.98%) Degree
4 5 (4.27%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.27%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.27%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (3.42%) SLA
3 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.56%) SEPA
4 2 (1.71%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.71%) NCSC
4 2 (1.71%) PSD2
5 1 (0.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) ITGC
5 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (51.28%) Docker
2 11 (9.40%) Postfix
3 3 (2.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.56%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 42 (35.90%) Kubernetes
2 30 (25.64%) Grafana
3 27 (23.08%) Terraform
4 16 (13.68%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.13%) Ansible
5 6 (5.13%) Argo
5 6 (5.13%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.56%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.71%) Kibana
7 2 (1.71%) Podman
7 2 (1.71%) Puppet
8 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (15.38%) Atlassian
2 17 (14.53%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.26%) Oracle
4 9 (7.69%) Sonatype
5 7 (5.98%) Splunk
6 5 (4.27%) Solace
7 3 (2.56%) Sybase
8 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.85%) Google
9 1 (0.85%) IBM
9 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.85%) Thales
9 1 (0.85%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.85%) VMware