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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 453 294
Rank change year-on-year +101 -159 -65
Contract jobs citing Maven 171 137 498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.32% 0.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.00% 2.61% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 85 365
10th Percentile £325 £400 £450
25th Percentile £362 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £553 £580 £725
90th Percentile £622 £665 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £508 £516
% change year-on-year -16.26% -1.69% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 20
10th Percentile £63.25 - £69.25
25th Percentile £64.38 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £69.38 - £78.00
90th Percentile £69.75 - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

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 4,270 5,240 7,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.56% 12.05% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 3,499 5,618
10th Percentile £338 £353 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £596 £625 £662
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 229 223
10th Percentile £20.52 £30.60 £45.24
25th Percentile £47.07 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +5.69% +17.70%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.20 £75.70 £82.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +11.82%

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 8 June 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 14 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 8 June 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 +127 147 £475 - 112
UK excluding London +75 89 £425 -16.26% 85
London +54 71 £525 +5.00% 49
Work from Home +62 67 £500 - 89
North of England +44 37 £460 +5.50% 21
Midlands +43 37 £427 +1.67% 19
West Midlands +39 25 £485 +15.48% 14
North West +23 18 £358 -22.68% 10
Yorkshire +22 15 £520 +19.76% 11
East Midlands +21 12 £340 - 5
Scotland +1 10 £413 -33.73% 2
Northern Ireland -11 4 £325 -45.83% 9
North East - 4 £465 -
South East +48 3 £575 +9.52% 22

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 14 (8.19%) Confluence
2 12 (7.02%) JBoss
3 8 (4.68%) Tomcat
4 7 (4.09%) WebSphere
5 4 (2.34%) WebLogic
5 4 (2.34%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.75%) CICS
7 2 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (1.17%) Anypoint
7 2 (1.17%) Apache
8 1 (0.58%) Mule
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 93 (54.39%) AWS
2 34 (19.88%) Azure
3 20 (11.70%) Amazon SQS
4 19 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (10.53%) OpenShift
6 17 (9.94%) Amazon S3
7 14 (8.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (7.60%) AWS KMS
8 13 (7.60%) GCP
8 13 (7.60%) GitHub
8 13 (7.60%) Route 53
9 10 (5.85%) Kong
10 9 (5.26%) Serverless
11 8 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.92%) PaaS
14 4 (2.34%) IBM Cloud
14 4 (2.34%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.92%) Firewall
1 5 (2.92%) Kerberos
1 5 (2.92%) SSL
2 4 (2.34%) Calico
2 4 (2.34%) HTTP
3 3 (1.75%) IPsec
4 2 (1.17%) DHCP
4 2 (1.17%) DMZ
4 2 (1.17%) DNS
4 2 (1.17%) Internet
4 2 (1.17%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.17%) SAN
4 2 (1.17%) VLAN
5 1 (0.58%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.58%) VPN
5 1 (0.58%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (29.24%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (18.13%) MongoDB
3 21 (12.28%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (11.70%) MySQL
5 18 (10.53%) NoSQL
6 16 (9.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 16 (9.36%) DynamoDB
7 12 (7.02%) Relational Database
8 9 (5.26%) Redis
9 7 (4.09%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.92%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.75%) DB2
11 3 (1.75%) Hazelcast
12 2 (1.17%) Big Data
12 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.17%) HPCC
12 2 (1.17%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.58%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 105 (61.40%) Jenkins
2 94 (54.97%) Git
3 70 (40.94%) JUnit
4 55 (32.16%) Gradle
5 38 (22.22%) GitLab
6 35 (20.47%) SonarQube
7 34 (19.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 33 (19.30%) IntelliJ
9 32 (18.71%) JIRA
10 29 (16.96%) Mockito
11 25 (14.62%) Cucumber
12 24 (14.04%) Selenium
13 15 (8.77%) Postman
14 14 (8.19%) Subversion
15 13 (7.60%) Bitbucket Server
16 11 (6.43%) Ant
16 11 (6.43%) Artifactory
16 11 (6.43%) REST Assured
17 10 (5.85%) Eclipse
18 9 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 39 (22.81%) Finance
2 29 (16.96%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.37%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (14.62%) Banking
5 23 (13.45%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.85%) Front Office
7 6 (3.51%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.92%) Wholesale Banking
9 3 (1.75%) Back Office
10 2 (1.17%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.17%) Retail
10 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Aviation
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 99 (57.89%) Developer
2 62 (36.26%) Java Developer
3 21 (12.28%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (11.70%) Senior
5 17 (9.94%) Lead
6 14 (8.19%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 13 (7.60%) AWS Developer
7 13 (7.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (7.60%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.43%) Lead Developer
9 10 (5.85%) Architect
9 10 (5.85%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (5.85%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Java Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
10 9 (5.26%) Tester
11 7 (4.09%) Automation Tester
11 7 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 6 (3.51%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (57.89%) Spring
2 88 (51.46%) Spring Boot
3 42 (24.56%) REST
4 41 (23.98%) Hibernate
5 36 (21.05%) JPA
6 35 (20.47%) AngularJS
7 33 (19.30%) RESTful
7 33 (19.30%) Web Services
8 29 (16.96%) SOAP
9 26 (15.20%) Kafka
10 22 (12.87%) Node.js
11 20 (11.70%) Bootstrap
11 20 (11.70%) HTML
11 20 (11.70%) Spring Cloud
12 19 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
12 19 (11.11%) J2EE
13 18 (10.53%) CSS
13 18 (10.53%) React
14 16 (9.36%) Spring Integration
15 13 (7.60%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.68%) Equities
3 7 (4.09%) Mainframe
3 7 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.92%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.92%) Derivative
4 5 (2.92%) Equity Derivative
4 5 (2.92%) PKI
5 3 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.75%) VSAM
6 2 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.17%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.17%) IVR
6 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.17%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.58%) Clustering
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (26.90%) Linux
2 28 (16.37%) Unix
3 12 (7.02%) Windows
4 5 (2.92%) Android
5 4 (2.34%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.17%) CentOS
6 2 (1.17%) Debian
6 2 (1.17%) Solaris
6 2 (1.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (44.44%) Microservices
2 70 (40.94%) CI/CD
3 69 (40.35%) DevOps
4 62 (36.26%) Agile
5 48 (28.07%) TDD
6 37 (21.64%) Test Automation
7 34 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (19.30%) Design Patterns
9 30 (17.54%) Containerisation
10 29 (16.96%) Scrum
11 28 (16.37%) Continuous Integration
12 24 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (14.04%) Software Engineering
13 20 (11.70%) Open Source
14 19 (11.11%) BDD
15 17 (9.94%) Code Quality
15 17 (9.94%) Mentoring
15 17 (9.94%) Unit Testing
16 16 (9.36%) MVC
17 15 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 140 (81.87%) Java
2 64 (37.43%) SQL
3 39 (22.81%) JavaScript
4 26 (15.20%) Shell Script
5 25 (14.62%) Python
6 16 (9.36%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.85%) Bash
7 10 (5.85%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.09%) C#
9 6 (3.51%) Groovy
10 4 (2.34%) COBOL
10 4 (2.34%) JCL
10 4 (2.34%) Perl
11 2 (1.17%) C
11 2 (1.17%) C++
11 2 (1.17%) Go
11 2 (1.17%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.17%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.58%) Ada
12 1 (0.58%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 44 (25.73%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.98%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.09%) Degree
4 6 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.28%) QA
2 6 (3.51%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.51%) WCAG
3 3 (1.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 77 (45.03%) Docker
2 9 (5.26%) Postfix
3 3 (1.75%) RACF
Systems Management
1 46 (26.90%) Kubernetes
2 30 (17.54%) Terraform
3 19 (11.11%) Grafana
3 19 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 14 (8.19%) Ansible
4 14 (8.19%) Puppet
5 9 (5.26%) Istio
6 7 (4.09%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.34%) Control-M
7 4 (2.34%) Packer
8 3 (1.75%) Kibana
8 3 (1.75%) Rundeck
8 3 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.17%) Argo
9 2 (1.17%) CloudHub
9 2 (1.17%) Nessus
9 2 (1.17%) Podman
10 1 (0.58%) Graylog
10 1 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.58%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (14.62%) Oracle
2 19 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.02%) CA Agile Central
4 11 (6.43%) Splunk
5 10 (5.85%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (5.26%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.51%) IBM
8 5 (2.92%) Google
8 5 (2.92%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.92%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.75%) Sybase
10 3 (1.75%) Veracode
11 2 (1.17%) Bloomberg
11 2 (1.17%) Remedy
11 2 (1.17%) Sophos
11 2 (1.17%) Sun
11 2 (1.17%) VMware