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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 375 459
Rank change year-on-year -100 +84 -189
Contract jobs citing Maven 125 152 140
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.23% 3.64% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 87 94
10th Percentile £374 £335 £400
25th Percentile £450 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -0.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £592
90th Percentile £695 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £485 £475
% change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 5,611 4,180 5,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.83% 13.63% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 2,661 3,710
10th Percentile £340 £331 £362
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 65 218
10th Percentile £29.50 £25.65 £39.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £79.39 £85.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 18 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Maven over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Top 13 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 18 February 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 -88 118 £550 +4.76% 33
UK excluding London -81 65 £525 +8.25% 29
London -48 55 £575 +6.24% 6
Work from Home -51 25 £536 +5.10% 17
Midlands -49 20 £542 +28.17% 13
West Midlands -41 19 £542 +19.01% 12
South East -19 17 £407 -36.78% 2
North of England -65 16 £425 -3.13% 7
Yorkshire -42 12 £438 -21.18% 5
South West -22 10 £550 -17.60% 4
North West -43 4 £402 -8.11% 2
Scotland -1 3 £438 -16.27% 1
East Midlands -24 1 - - 1

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 11 (8.80%) Confluence
2 5 (4.00%) Apache
3 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.20%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.60%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.60%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.60%) Camunda
4 2 (1.60%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.80%) JBoss
5 1 (0.80%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.80%) Mule
5 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 56 (44.80%) AWS
2 31 (24.80%) GitHub
3 26 (20.80%) Azure
4 17 (13.60%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (12.00%) Amazon S3
6 14 (11.20%) GCP
6 14 (11.20%) OpenShift
7 13 (10.40%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (10.40%) npm
8 10 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (8.00%) Serverless
9 9 (7.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (7.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (5.60%) Route 53
12 5 (4.00%) AWS KMS
12 5 (4.00%) Azure AKS
12 5 (4.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.60%) AMQP
2 2 (1.60%) HTTP
2 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.80%) Firewall
3 1 (0.80%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.80%) Multicast
3 1 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.60%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.40%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (10.40%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.80%) DynamoDB
3 11 (8.80%) MongoDB
4 9 (7.20%) NoSQL
4 9 (7.20%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.40%) MySQL
5 8 (6.40%) RDBMS
6 7 (5.60%) Tick Data
7 6 (4.80%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (3.20%) Metadata
8 4 (3.20%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.40%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.80%) HBase
10 1 (0.80%) Power BI
10 1 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (56.80%) Git
2 56 (44.80%) Jenkins
3 46 (36.80%) Gradle
4 45 (36.00%) JUnit
5 33 (26.40%) GitLab
6 24 (19.20%) Mockito
7 23 (18.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (17.60%) SonarQube
9 21 (16.80%) JIRA
10 17 (13.60%) Cucumber
11 15 (12.00%) Selenium
12 13 (10.40%) Bitbucket
13 12 (9.60%) Postman
14 9 (7.20%) Artifactory
14 9 (7.20%) Cypress.io
15 7 (5.60%) Eclipse
15 7 (5.60%) REST Assured
16 6 (4.80%) Ant
16 6 (4.80%) IntelliJ
16 6 (4.80%) webpack
General
1 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.60%) Finance
3 17 (13.60%) Banking
4 11 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.40%) Front Office
6 7 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.80%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.40%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Publishing
10 2 (1.60%) Retail
11 1 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.80%) Law
11 1 (0.80%) Marketing
11 1 (0.80%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (52.00%) Developer
2 56 (44.80%) Java Developer
3 25 (20.00%) Senior
4 17 (13.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.20%) Senior Developer
6 12 (9.60%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (8.80%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.00%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Lead
10 7 (5.60%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.60%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Fidessa Developer
10 7 (5.60%) Support Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Applications Developer
11 5 (4.00%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (2.40%) Architect
13 3 (2.40%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (53.60%) Spring
2 47 (37.60%) Spring Boot
3 27 (21.60%) REST
4 23 (18.40%) JPA
5 21 (16.80%) JSON
5 21 (16.80%) React
6 20 (16.00%) AngularJS
6 20 (16.00%) Hibernate
7 16 (12.80%) HTML
7 16 (12.80%) RESTful
8 14 (11.20%) Node.js
9 13 (10.40%) Kafka
10 12 (9.60%) CSS
11 11 (8.80%) SOAP
11 11 (8.80%) Web Services
12 10 (8.00%) Bootstrap
12 10 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
12 10 (8.00%) XML
13 9 (7.20%) Gherkin
14 8 (6.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) Data Centre
1 9 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (7.20%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.40%) Equities
3 6 (4.80%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.80%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.00%) Derivative
4 5 (4.00%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.40%) TWAP
5 3 (2.40%) VWAP
6 2 (1.60%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.80%) Replication
7 1 (0.80%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 31 (24.80%) Linux
2 9 (7.20%) Unix
3 7 (5.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.20%) CentOS
5 3 (2.40%) Solaris
6 2 (1.60%) Windows
7 1 (0.80%) Android
7 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (54.40%) CI/CD
2 51 (40.80%) DevOps
3 50 (40.00%) Microservices
4 45 (36.00%) Agile
5 36 (28.80%) Test Automation
6 31 (24.80%) Containerisation
7 26 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (19.20%) Scrum
9 22 (17.60%) Software Engineering
9 22 (17.60%) TDD
10 17 (13.60%) Mentoring
11 16 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (12.00%) Design Patterns
13 14 (11.20%) OO
13 14 (11.20%) Unit Testing
14 13 (10.40%) OOP
14 13 (10.40%) SDLC
14 13 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (9.60%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 101 (80.80%) Java
2 28 (22.40%) SQL
3 25 (20.00%) Python
4 13 (10.40%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.00%) Groovy
6 8 (6.40%) Bash
7 7 (5.60%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.60%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.20%) Go
9 4 (3.20%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.40%) Scala
11 2 (1.60%) C#
11 2 (1.60%) C++
11 2 (1.60%) Rust
12 1 (0.80%) Clojure
12 1 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.20%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.40%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.40%) Degree
7 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.80%) OCP
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) QA
1 7 (5.60%) WCAG
2 3 (2.40%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.40%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.60%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.60%) NCSC
4 1 (0.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (37.60%) Docker
2 3 (2.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (2.40%) Postfix
3 2 (1.60%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 41 (32.80%) Kubernetes
2 27 (21.60%) Grafana
2 27 (21.60%) Terraform
3 20 (16.00%) Ansible
4 12 (9.60%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.40%) Kibana
6 6 (4.80%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.00%) Puppet
8 4 (3.20%) Podman
9 3 (2.40%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.60%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (18.40%) Oracle
2 11 (8.80%) Splunk
3 8 (6.40%) Solace
4 6 (4.80%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
5 5 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.20%) Sonatype
6 4 (3.20%) Sybase
7 3 (2.40%) VMware
8 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.60%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.80%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.80%) Google
9 1 (0.80%) IBM
9 1 (0.80%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.80%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.80%) Thales