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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 387 413
Rank change year-on-year -108 +26 -76
Contract jobs citing Maven 166 170 158
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 3.47% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 135 96
10th Percentile £324 £276 £391
25th Percentile £422 £358 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -9.52% -3.45%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £620 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £425 £508
% change year-on-year +10.59% -16.26% -0.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 6,312 4,903 4,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 14.91% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,046 3,312 3,269
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 112 214
10th Percentile £31.50 £26.23 £28.98
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.34 £85.10 £73.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +4.00%

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 8 August 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
Top 14 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 8 August 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 -136 127 £511 +7.53% 56
UK excluding London -96 90 £470 +10.59% 30
London -88 57 £535 +5.68% 35
Work from Home -77 46 £475 - 20
Midlands -47 34 £475 +13.10% 10
West Midlands -38 31 £475 -5.00% 9
North of England -95 27 £500 +24.38% 5
Yorkshire -29 25 £500 -3.80% 2
Scotland +1 18 £353 -14.42% 6
South East -58 10 £272 -53.59% 7
East Midlands -23 2 - - 1
North East -45 1 £520 +11.83%
South West -46 1 - - 1
North West -69 1 £475 +32.68% 3

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 (4.22%) WebLogic
2 6 (3.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (3.61%) Apache
2 6 (3.61%) Confluence
3 4 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.20%) Camunda
4 2 (1.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.60%) JBoss
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
5 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.60%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 99 (59.64%) AWS
2 50 (30.12%) Azure
3 37 (22.29%) GitHub
4 30 (18.07%) GCP
5 23 (13.86%) Amazon SQS
6 21 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (12.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (12.05%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (11.45%) Amazon S3
9 18 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (10.24%) AWS KMS
10 17 (10.24%) Route 53
11 10 (6.02%) OCI
12 8 (4.82%) Kong
13 7 (4.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (3.61%) OpenShift
15 5 (3.01%) Amazon Cognito
15 5 (3.01%) Apigee
16 4 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (2.41%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) SSL
2 1 (0.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.60%) HTTP
2 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) Multicast
2 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (28.92%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (13.86%) Relational Database
3 21 (12.65%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (12.65%) DynamoDB
4 19 (11.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (10.24%) MySQL
6 16 (9.64%) Metadata
7 15 (9.04%) SQL Server
8 14 (8.43%) MongoDB
9 5 (3.01%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.41%) Flink
10 4 (2.41%) Hazelcast
10 4 (2.41%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.41%) Redis
11 3 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.81%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.81%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 104 (62.65%) Jenkins
2 100 (60.24%) Git
3 61 (36.75%) Gradle
4 51 (30.72%) JUnit
5 48 (28.92%) SonarQube
6 29 (17.47%) GitLab
7 28 (16.87%) Mockito
8 20 (12.05%) JIRA
9 14 (8.43%) Selenium
10 13 (7.83%) Bitbucket Server
11 12 (7.23%) DbUnit
12 11 (6.63%) Cucumber
12 11 (6.63%) jMock
12 11 (6.63%) REST Assured
12 11 (6.63%) Subversion
13 10 (6.02%) Postman
13 10 (6.02%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (5.42%) Artifactory
14 9 (5.42%) GoCD
14 9 (5.42%) JProfiler
General
1 45 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.48%) Public Sector
3 27 (16.27%) Finance
4 26 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (11.45%) Banking
6 11 (6.63%) Publishing
7 4 (2.41%) Retail
8 3 (1.81%) Front Office
8 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 97 (58.43%) Developer
2 78 (46.99%) Java Developer
3 38 (22.89%) Senior
4 31 (18.67%) Senior Developer
5 30 (18.07%) Senior Java Developer
6 20 (12.05%) Lead
7 17 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (10.24%) Lead Developer
8 14 (8.43%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.02%) Lead Java Developer
10 9 (5.42%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 7 (4.22%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.61%) Architect
13 6 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.01%) Automation Tester
14 5 (3.01%) Lead Software Developer
14 5 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.01%) Software Developer
14 5 (3.01%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (57.83%) Spring
2 90 (54.22%) Spring Boot
3 63 (37.95%) REST
4 43 (25.90%) Node.js
5 42 (25.30%) RESTful
6 41 (24.70%) JPA
7 31 (18.67%) AngularJS
8 30 (18.07%) Kafka
9 28 (16.87%) React
10 26 (15.66%) Hibernate
10 26 (15.66%) Web Services
11 24 (14.46%) CSS
12 23 (13.86%) ActiveMQ
13 22 (13.25%) HTML
14 21 (12.65%) SOAP
14 21 (12.65%) Spring Cloud
15 20 (12.05%) Bootstrap
15 20 (12.05%) Spring MVC
16 18 (10.84%) FreeMarker
17 16 (9.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.25%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (12.05%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.63%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.22%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.22%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (2.41%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (24.70%) Linux
2 10 (6.02%) Unix
3 5 (3.01%) Windows
4 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (68.07%) CI/CD
2 86 (51.81%) DevOps
3 83 (50.00%) Microservices
4 75 (45.18%) Agile
5 56 (33.73%) Scrum
6 49 (29.52%) Containerisation
7 47 (28.31%) Test Automation
8 43 (25.90%) TDD
9 35 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (16.27%) Design Patterns
12 25 (15.06%) Performance Tuning
13 24 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (14.46%) Event-Driven
13 24 (14.46%) Software Engineering
14 21 (12.65%) MVC
15 19 (11.45%) BDD
15 19 (11.45%) Clean Code
16 17 (10.24%) Observability
16 17 (10.24%) OO
Programming Languages
1 153 (92.17%) Java
2 73 (43.98%) SQL
3 40 (24.10%) JavaScript
4 30 (18.07%) Python
5 18 (10.84%) Shell Script
6 17 (10.24%) Groovy
7 9 (5.42%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.61%) Bash
8 6 (3.61%) Scala
9 5 (3.01%) Ruby
10 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 70 (42.17%) Security Cleared
2 64 (38.55%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.42%) Degree
5 7 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.01%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.41%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.66%) QA
2 14 (8.43%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.61%) ISO 20022
4 5 (3.01%) SEPA
5 4 (2.41%) PSD2
5 4 (2.41%) SLA
6 2 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.60%) ITGC
7 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 74 (44.58%) Docker
2 9 (5.42%) Postfix
3 3 (1.81%) GridGain
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (39.76%) Kubernetes
2 32 (19.28%) Terraform
3 29 (17.47%) Grafana
4 19 (11.45%) Prometheus
5 15 (9.04%) Ansible
6 8 (4.82%) Argo
7 6 (3.61%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.81%) Kibana
9 2 (1.20%) Podman
9 2 (1.20%) Puppet
10 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 40 (24.10%) Oracle
2 16 (9.64%) Atlassian
3 15 (9.04%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (7.83%) Sonatype
5 11 (6.63%) Microsoft
6 9 (5.42%) MuleSoft
7 7 (4.22%) Splunk
8 6 (3.61%) Google
9 5 (3.01%) Sybase
10 4 (2.41%) Solace
11 3 (1.81%) IBM
12 2 (1.20%) Adobe
12 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.20%) SAP
12 2 (1.20%) TIBCO
12 2 (1.20%) Veracode
12 2 (1.20%) VMware
13 1 (0.60%) Confluent
13 1 (0.60%) Databricks
13 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace