Maven Job Trends

Apache Maven
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Maven skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 533 434
Rank change year-on-year -63 -99 -59
Permanent jobs citing Maven 53 178 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.33% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.44% 3.23% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 9 71 233
10th Percentile £53,200 £52,500 £50,686
25th Percentile £66,250 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - £93,778 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +10.71% -0.82% +4.94%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,668 5,517 6,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.08% 10.29% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 3,171 5,211
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.35% +4.55%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Maven job vacancy trend in the UK

Maven
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Maven.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Maven

Maven
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Maven over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -62 50 £77,500 +29.17% 42
UK excluding London +11 39 £77,500 +10.71% 35
North of England +21 23 £77,500 +40.91% 10
Yorkshire +1 20 £77,500 +31.65% 7
Midlands +27 10 £58,000 -17.14% 6
Work from Home +45 9 £77,500 -9.09% 23
West Midlands +25 9 - - 6
London -44 9 £40,000 -33.33% 12
South West -12 5 £80,000 +4.58% 9
North West +20 2 - - 3
South East +12 1 - - 10
North East +10 1 £67,500 +22.73%
Scotland +3 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £58,000 -

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 6 (11.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.66%) JBoss
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
3 2 (3.77%) Confluence
3 2 (3.77%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.89%) Camunda
4 1 (1.89%) CMS
4 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.66%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 41 (77.36%) AWS
2 20 (37.74%) Amazon ECR
2 20 (37.74%) Amazon ECS
2 20 (37.74%) Amazon S3
2 20 (37.74%) Apigee
2 20 (37.74%) AWS Lambda
2 20 (37.74%) AWS Step Functions
2 20 (37.74%) Serverless
3 19 (35.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (30.19%) Azure
5 7 (13.21%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (9.43%) OpenShift
7 4 (7.55%) Adobe Analytics
7 4 (7.55%) GitHub
8 3 (5.66%) Datadog
9 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.77%) Logz.io
9 2 (3.77%) Slack
10 1 (1.89%) ChatGPT
10 1 (1.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) PuTTY
2 2 (3.77%) SSL
3 1 (1.89%) AMQP
3 1 (1.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.74%) DynamoDB
2 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.66%) CockroachDB
3 3 (5.66%) Mixpanel
3 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.77%) GIS
4 2 (3.77%) MySQL
4 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.77%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 35 (66.04%) Jenkins
2 24 (45.28%) GitLab
3 23 (43.40%) Cypress.io
3 23 (43.40%) SonarQube
4 18 (33.96%) Git
5 16 (30.19%) JUnit
6 13 (24.53%) Mockito
7 12 (22.64%) JIRA
8 9 (16.98%) Gradle
9 7 (13.21%) Selenium
9 7 (13.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (11.32%) TestNG
11 5 (9.43%) Artifactory
12 3 (5.66%) Ant
12 3 (5.66%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (5.66%) Charles Proxy
12 3 (5.66%) Fiddler
12 3 (5.66%) Postman
12 3 (5.66%) WebDriver
12 3 (5.66%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (26.42%) Finance
2 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Electronics
3 3 (5.66%) Law
3 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.77%) Military
5 1 (1.89%) Marketing
5 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (62.26%) Developer
2 26 (49.06%) Java Developer
3 17 (32.08%) Senior
4 12 (22.64%) Lead
5 11 (20.75%) Senior Developer
6 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (13.21%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (11.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (11.32%) Technical Leader
9 5 (9.43%) AWS Developer
10 4 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (5.66%) IT Engineer
11 3 (5.66%) Lead Developer
11 3 (5.66%) Quality Engineer
11 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 3 (5.66%) Senior IT Engineer
11 3 (5.66%) Senior Quality Engineer
11 3 (5.66%) Senior Systems Developer
11 3 (5.66%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (52.83%) Spring Boot
2 25 (47.17%) Spring
3 24 (45.28%) AngularJS
4 20 (37.74%) Gherkin
4 20 (37.74%) Jest
5 16 (30.19%) REST
6 8 (15.09%) React
7 6 (11.32%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (9.43%) CSS
8 5 (9.43%) HTML
9 4 (7.55%) SOAP
9 4 (7.55%) Spring MVC
10 3 (5.66%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (5.66%) Kafka
10 3 (5.66%) Node.js
10 3 (5.66%) RAML
10 3 (5.66%) RESTful
11 2 (3.77%) JWT
11 2 (3.77%) OpenAPI
11 2 (3.77%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Management Information System
2 7 (13.21%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.66%) NHS
4 3 (5.66%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.66%) W3C
5 2 (3.77%) Equities
6 1 (1.89%) Life Science
6 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.30%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Windows
3 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (67.92%) Agile
2 31 (58.49%) DevOps
3 30 (56.60%) CI/CD
4 19 (35.85%) SDLC
5 18 (33.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (28.30%) Microservices
8 13 (24.53%) Scrum
9 11 (20.75%) Computer Science
9 11 (20.75%) Secure Coding
10 10 (18.87%) TDD
11 9 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (16.98%) Decision-Making
12 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
13 7 (13.21%) Clean Code
13 7 (13.21%) Containerisation
13 7 (13.21%) ITIL
13 7 (13.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 6 (11.32%) Code Quality
14 6 (11.32%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 48 (90.57%) Java
2 31 (58.49%) Bash
3 26 (49.06%) TypeScript
4 21 (39.62%) Groovy
5 14 (26.42%) SQL
6 12 (22.64%) Python
7 8 (15.09%) PL/SQL
8 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
9 4 (7.55%) C
9 4 (7.55%) R
10 3 (5.66%) Go
10 3 (5.66%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) AWS Certification
1 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.87%) Degree
2 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (9.43%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.64%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.77%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.89%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (69.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (37.74%) HP Fortify
2 16 (30.19%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.55%) Ansible
3 4 (7.55%) Grafana
3 4 (7.55%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.77%) Argo
4 2 (3.77%) Podman
4 2 (3.77%) Puppet
4 2 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Oracle
2 4 (7.55%) Adobe
2 4 (7.55%) Google
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.66%) MuleSoft
3 3 (5.66%) Tealium
4 2 (3.77%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.77%) Solace
4 2 (3.77%) Splunk
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat