Maven Contracts

Apache Maven
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 456 280
Rank change year-on-year +72 -176 -45
Contract jobs citing Maven 135 144 566
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.33% 0.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.29% 2.78% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 87 433
10th Percentile £325 £403 £445
25th Percentile £414 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -18.37% +2.08%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £725
90th Percentile £700 £629 £772
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +0.51% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £70.50
25th Percentile £62.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £76.50
90th Percentile - - £85.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +33.93%

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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Maven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Maven.

Daily rate trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Maven.

Hourly rate trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Top 15 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +72 115 £520 +3.95% 67
UK excluding London +76 63 £493 +0.51% 48
London +9 57 £550 +7.32% 30
Work from Home +44 47 £541 +10.53% 91
North of England +43 25 £500 +14.68% 9
Midlands +42 21 £425 +1.19% 15
West Midlands +28 15 £493 +17.26% 11
North West +17 12 £475 -3.06% 5
Yorkshire +20 9 £520 +19.76% 3
South East +48 7 £650 +85.71% 3
East Midlands - 6 £311 - 4
Scotland -3 5 £358 -42.49% 6
Northern Ireland -8 4 £325 -35.00% 2
North East - 4 £465 - 1
South West +44 1 £550 -4.35% 4

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (9.63%) Confluence
2 6 (4.44%) WebLogic
3 4 (2.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (2.96%) WebSphere
4 3 (2.22%) Apache
4 3 (2.22%) JBoss
5 2 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.48%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.48%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.48%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.74%) Mule
6 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (48.15%) AWS
2 22 (16.30%) Azure
3 10 (7.41%) GitHub
3 10 (7.41%) Kong
4 8 (5.93%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (5.93%) GCP
5 7 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (5.19%) AWS KMS
5 7 (5.19%) Route 53
6 6 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (4.44%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.70%) Serverless
8 4 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.96%) PaaS
9 3 (2.22%) IaaS
9 3 (2.22%) SaaS
10 2 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.48%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.70%) SSL
2 4 (2.96%) Firewall
3 3 (2.22%) HTTP
3 3 (2.22%) IPsec
3 3 (2.22%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.48%) Calico
4 2 (1.48%) DHCP
4 2 (1.48%) DNS
4 2 (1.48%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.48%) SAN
4 2 (1.48%) VLAN
5 1 (0.74%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.74%) VPN
5 1 (0.74%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.19%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (19.26%) MongoDB
3 17 (12.59%) MySQL
4 16 (11.85%) NoSQL
5 9 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 8 (5.93%) Redis
7 7 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (3.70%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.22%) Hazelcast
10 3 (2.22%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.74%) Aerospike
11 1 (0.74%) DB2
11 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.74%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 69 (51.11%) Jenkins
2 62 (45.93%) Git
3 41 (30.37%) JUnit
4 37 (27.41%) Gradle
5 35 (25.93%) GitLab
6 25 (18.52%) IntelliJ
7 24 (17.78%) JIRA
8 21 (15.56%) Selenium
8 21 (15.56%) SonarQube
9 20 (14.81%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (14.07%) Mockito
11 15 (11.11%) Cucumber
12 13 (9.63%) Subversion
13 11 (8.15%) Ant
14 9 (6.67%) Artifactory
14 9 (6.67%) Bitbucket
14 9 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
15 8 (5.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (5.93%) HP UFT
15 8 (5.93%) Postman
General
1 29 (21.48%) Finance
2 20 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.33%) Banking
3 18 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 17 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.93%) Front Office
6 6 (4.44%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.70%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (2.22%) Back Office
8 3 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.48%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Electronics
10 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) Military
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (51.85%) Developer
2 42 (31.11%) Java Developer
3 21 (15.56%) Lead
4 14 (10.37%) Senior
5 13 (9.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 12 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.67%) Lead Developer
9 8 (5.93%) Architect
9 8 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Tester
10 7 (5.19%) Java Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Lead Java Developer
10 7 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
12 5 (3.70%) .NET Developer
12 5 (3.70%) .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (3.70%) C# Software Developer
12 5 (3.70%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (54.81%) Spring
2 67 (49.63%) Spring Boot
3 33 (24.44%) Hibernate
4 27 (20.00%) Kafka
5 26 (19.26%) AngularJS
5 26 (19.26%) REST
6 23 (17.04%) JPA
7 22 (16.30%) Web Services
8 19 (14.07%) React
9 18 (13.33%) Node.js
10 17 (12.59%) CSS
10 17 (12.59%) HTML
11 15 (11.11%) RESTful
12 14 (10.37%) J2EE
12 14 (10.37%) SOAP
13 13 (9.63%) Bootstrap
14 10 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
14 10 (7.41%) Spring Integration
15 9 (6.67%) JAX-RS
15 9 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.93%) Equities
1 8 (5.93%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.70%) Derivative
3 5 (3.70%) Equity Derivative
3 5 (3.70%) PKI
4 4 (2.96%) Mainframe
4 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.48%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.74%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.74%) Linux
2 13 (9.63%) Unix
3 11 (8.15%) Windows
4 3 (2.22%) Android
5 2 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.48%) CentOS
5 2 (1.48%) Debian
5 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.74%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (40.00%) Microservices
2 51 (37.78%) CI/CD
3 48 (35.56%) DevOps
4 38 (28.15%) Agile
5 30 (22.22%) TDD
6 28 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (18.52%) Test Automation
8 23 (17.04%) Software Engineering
9 20 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (14.07%) Scrum
11 18 (13.33%) Event-Driven
12 17 (12.59%) Containerisation
13 16 (11.85%) Design Patterns
13 16 (11.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 14 (10.37%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (10.37%) Open Source
15 13 (9.63%) Mentoring
15 13 (9.63%) Unit Testing
16 12 (8.89%) BDD
16 12 (8.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 109 (80.74%) Java
2 52 (38.52%) SQL
3 34 (25.19%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.11%) Python
5 14 (10.37%) Shell Script
6 13 (9.63%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.93%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.19%) Bash
9 6 (4.44%) C#
10 5 (3.70%) Groovy
10 5 (3.70%) Perl
11 2 (1.48%) Go
11 2 (1.48%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.48%) XPath
12 1 (0.74%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.74%) COBOL
12 1 (0.74%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.74%) JCL
12 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (27.41%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.70%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.41%) Degree
4 8 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.48%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.85%) QA
2 3 (2.22%) SLA
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (36.30%) Docker
2 5 (3.70%) Postfix
3 3 (2.22%) RACF
4 2 (1.48%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 30 (22.22%) Terraform
3 15 (11.11%) Grafana
3 15 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 11 (8.15%) Puppet
5 10 (7.41%) Ansible
5 10 (7.41%) Istio
6 8 (5.93%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.19%) Argo
8 4 (2.96%) Control-M
8 4 (2.96%) Packer
9 3 (2.22%) Kibana
9 3 (2.22%) Rundeck
9 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.48%) CloudHub
10 2 (1.48%) Nessus
10 2 (1.48%) Rancher
11 1 (0.74%) Graylog
11 1 (0.74%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (11.85%) Oracle
2 12 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.93%) Splunk
4 7 (5.19%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (4.44%) Jaspersoft
6 5 (3.70%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.96%) Google
7 4 (2.96%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.96%) Sybase
8 3 (2.22%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.22%) IBM
8 3 (2.22%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.22%) Veracode
9 2 (1.48%) Remedy
9 2 (1.48%) SAP
9 2 (1.48%) Sophos
9 2 (1.48%) Sun
9 2 (1.48%) VMware
10 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg