Apache Maven
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Maven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Maven over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 716 480
Rank change year-on-year +336 -236 -152
Permanent jobs citing Maven 367 198 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.19% 0.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.12% 2.08% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 72 98 311
10th Percentile £50,500 £43,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £59,441
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,288 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.31% +10.71%
75th Percentile £82,751 £91,934 £99,375
90th Percentile £146,300 £150,000 £117,236
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,905 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +28.18% -7.69% +13.04%

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 5,999 9,508 13,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.83% 9.21% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,533 6,588 8,414
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Maven.

Salary trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Maven over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Top 17 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 30 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +312 299 £76,905 +28.18% 290
Work from Home +306 293 £78,810 +12.59% 307
England +315 291 £70,000 -3.83% 287
North of England +153 119 £78,810 +31.35% 59
North West +104 113 £78,810 +12.59% 23
Midlands +150 72 £72,500 +26.09% 62
London +129 68 £60,000 -42.86% 39
Scotland +98 67 £127,680 +126.71% 9
East Midlands - 40 £70,000 - 30
West Midlands +83 32 £72,500 +26.09% 29
South East +84 16 £72,500 +3.57% 87
East of England - 16 - - 37
Northern Ireland - 6 £55,000 - 11
South West +92 3 £78,810 +43.95% 27
North East +46 3 - - 8
Yorkshire - 3 £78,810 - 28
Wales +48 2 £75,000 -9.09% 8

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
1 183 (49.86%) Confluence
2 9 (2.45%) nginx
3 8 (2.18%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 308 (83.92%) AWS
2 281 (76.57%) Azure
3 178 (48.50%) GCP
4 29 (7.90%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (7.90%) Amazon S3
5 20 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
6 17 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (4.63%) Serverless
7 15 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (3.81%) Datadog
9 11 (3.00%) Apigee
9 11 (3.00%) AWS KMS
9 11 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (2.72%) Route 53
11 9 (2.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 8 (2.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (1.63%) GitHub
14 5 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.18%) Internet
2 2 (0.54%) HTTP
2 2 (0.54%) RTP
2 2 (0.54%) SSL
3 1 (0.27%) DHCP
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.27%) SAN
3 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (67.85%) SQL Server
2 37 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (5.99%) NoSQL
5 21 (5.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (3.54%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.27%) DynamoDB
8 11 (3.00%) MySQL
9 9 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.09%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.82%) Redis
12 2 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.54%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.54%) Big Data
12 2 (0.54%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.54%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.54%) HBase
12 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 299 (81.47%) SonarQube
2 281 (76.57%) JIRA
3 277 (75.48%) Sonatype Nexus
4 275 (74.93%) Cucumber
5 266 (72.48%) GitLab
6 259 (70.57%) Selenium
7 256 (69.75%) Bitbucket
8 98 (26.70%) Jenkins
9 74 (20.16%) Git
10 59 (16.08%) JUnit
11 40 (10.90%) Mockito
12 19 (5.18%) TeamCity
13 18 (4.90%) Ant
14 17 (4.63%) Gradle
15 15 (4.09%) IntelliJ
16 12 (3.27%) TestNG
17 11 (3.00%) Bitbucket Server
17 11 (3.00%) DbUnit
17 11 (3.00%) jMock
17 11 (3.00%) Postman
General
1 311 (84.74%) Finance
2 283 (77.11%) Banking
3 257 (70.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 96 (26.16%) Investment Banking
5 93 (25.34%) Retail
6 90 (24.52%) Corporate Banking
7 30 (8.17%) Social Skills
8 24 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
9 21 (5.72%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.18%) Law
10 8 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.63%) Front Office
11 6 (1.63%) Games
12 2 (0.54%) Marketing
12 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.27%) iGaming
13 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 266 (72.48%) Software Engineer
2 56 (15.26%) Developer
3 44 (11.99%) Java Developer
4 37 (10.08%) Senior
5 26 (7.08%) Lead
6 25 (6.81%) Senior Developer
7 23 (6.27%) Java Engineer
8 20 (5.45%) Senior Java Developer
9 17 (4.63%) Architect
9 17 (4.63%) DevOps Architect
9 17 (4.63%) Pricing Developer
10 16 (4.36%) AWS Developer
11 15 (4.09%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (4.09%) Java Pricing Developer
12 14 (3.81%) DevOps Developer
12 14 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (3.27%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (3.00%) Lead Developer
15 9 (2.45%) Lead Java Developer
15 9 (2.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (88.01%) Spring
2 307 (83.65%) Spring Boot
3 271 (73.84%) Kafka
4 269 (73.30%) JPA
5 263 (71.66%) React
6 256 (69.75%) HTML
7 254 (69.21%) CSS
8 247 (67.30%) Redux
9 195 (53.13%) Hibernate
10 141 (38.42%) RESTful
11 126 (34.33%) REST
12 95 (25.89%) CSS3
12 95 (25.89%) HTML5
13 90 (24.52%) Jest
13 90 (24.52%) Sass
14 28 (7.63%) ActiveMQ
15 25 (6.81%) AngularJS
16 20 (5.45%) SOAP
17 18 (4.90%) Bootstrap
17 18 (4.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 261 (71.12%) Enterprise Software
2 257 (70.03%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.09%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.81%) Credit Derivative
5 12 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.45%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.18%) Life Science
7 8 (2.18%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.18%) Online Banking
8 7 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.63%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.63%) Mobile Games
10 3 (0.82%) Derivative
11 2 (0.54%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.54%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.54%) Equities
12 1 (0.27%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.27%) Online Games
12 1 (0.27%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.35%) Linux
2 18 (4.90%) Unix
3 8 (2.18%) Android
4 2 (0.54%) Windows
5 1 (0.27%) CentOS
5 1 (0.27%) Debian
5 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (88.83%) DevOps
2 316 (86.10%) CI/CD
3 315 (85.83%) Agile
4 299 (81.47%) Microservices
5 296 (80.65%) Test Automation
6 286 (77.93%) Software Engineering
7 277 (75.48%) Containerisation
8 274 (74.66%) SDLC
9 260 (70.84%) Front End Development
10 259 (70.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 252 (68.66%) Performance Optimisation
12 203 (55.31%) TDD
13 167 (45.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 165 (44.96%) Clean Code
15 101 (27.52%) User Experience
16 97 (26.43%) Migration
17 95 (25.89%) Mentoring
18 91 (24.80%) Strategic Thinking
19 90 (24.52%) Responsive Web Design
20 40 (10.90%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 337 (91.83%) Java
2 296 (80.65%) JavaScript
3 289 (78.75%) SQL
4 95 (25.89%) TypeScript
5 21 (5.72%) Python
6 16 (4.36%) C++
7 11 (3.00%) Go
8 8 (2.18%) Groovy
8 8 (2.18%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.18%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.27%) Bash
11 1 (0.27%) C#
11 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (3.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (3.27%) Degree
2 12 (3.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.36%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.54%) PhD
6 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (70.30%) QA
2 90 (24.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 306 (83.38%) Docker
2 4 (1.09%) Postfix
3 2 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 294 (80.11%) Kubernetes
2 42 (11.44%) Terraform
3 24 (6.54%) Ansible
4 11 (3.00%) Istio
5 9 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.18%) Kustomize
6 8 (2.18%) Packer
7 7 (1.91%) Grafana
8 6 (1.63%) Argo
9 2 (0.54%) Puppet
10 1 (0.27%) Kibana
10 1 (0.27%) Nessus
10 1 (0.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 248 (67.57%) Solace
2 14 (3.81%) IBM
3 11 (3.00%) Oracle
4 10 (2.72%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.18%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.91%) Google
7 6 (1.63%) Splunk
8 5 (1.36%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (1.36%) New Relic
9 3 (0.82%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.54%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.54%) Databricks
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.27%) Sophos
11 1 (0.27%) Sybase
11 1 (0.27%) VMware