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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 351 450
Rank change year-on-year -161 +99 -163
Contract jobs citing Maven 121 169 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.58% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.05% 3.98% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 126 85
10th Percentile £380 £325 £400
25th Percentile £462 £360 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £548 £575
90th Percentile £746 £623 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £508
% change year-on-year +11.76% -16.26% -0.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £59.00 £63.25 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
75th Percentile - £69.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -

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 5,890 4,242 5,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.93% 14.61% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,830 2,830 3,467
10th Percentile £350 £340 £352
25th Percentile £409 £410 £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 £686 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 76 227
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.86 £29.95
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.48 £76.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -135 114 £525 +10.53% 23
UK excluding London -116 73 £475 +11.76% 21
London -95 46 £600 +18.23% 6
North of England -81 29 £475 +3.26% 5
Midlands -65 27 £537 +25.64% 5
Yorkshire -54 24 £475 -8.61% 5
West Midlands -58 24 £537 +10.62% 5
Work from Home -88 21 £475 -5.00% 18
South East -51 13 £360 -37.35% 2
North West -54 5 £439 +22.49%
South West - 3 £550 - 3
Scotland -17 2 - - 5
East Midlands -34 2 - -

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 8 (6.61%) Confluence
2 6 (4.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (4.96%) Apache
3 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.48%) Camunda
4 3 (2.48%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.65%) CMS
5 2 (1.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (54.55%) AWS
2 35 (28.93%) GitHub
3 30 (24.79%) Azure
4 23 (19.01%) Amazon EC2
4 23 (19.01%) Amazon S3
4 23 (19.01%) Amazon SQS
5 22 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 20 (16.53%) GCP
7 19 (15.70%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (14.88%) AWS KMS
8 18 (14.88%) Route 53
9 8 (6.61%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (5.79%) OCI
11 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.31%) Apigee
12 4 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.31%) Cloud Run
12 4 (3.31%) Kong
12 4 (3.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) AMQP
1 2 (1.65%) HTTP
2 1 (0.83%) Internet
2 1 (0.83%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (29.75%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (20.66%) DynamoDB
3 22 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (14.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (10.74%) Relational Database
6 11 (9.09%) Metadata
6 11 (9.09%) SQL Server
7 10 (8.26%) MongoDB
7 10 (8.26%) MySQL
8 6 (4.96%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.31%) Flink
9 4 (3.31%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.31%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.31%) Redis
10 3 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.48%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.83%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 72 (59.50%) Jenkins
2 62 (51.24%) Git
3 46 (38.02%) JUnit
4 41 (33.88%) Gradle
5 39 (32.23%) SonarQube
6 28 (23.14%) Mockito
7 15 (12.40%) GitLab
8 14 (11.57%) DbUnit
8 14 (11.57%) JIRA
9 13 (10.74%) jMock
10 12 (9.92%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (8.26%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (7.44%) Artifactory
12 9 (7.44%) Gatling
13 8 (6.61%) Postman
13 8 (6.61%) REST Assured
14 7 (5.79%) Cucumber
14 7 (5.79%) Selenium
15 6 (4.96%) Eclipse
15 6 (4.96%) Subversion
General
1 41 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.01%) Public Sector
3 18 (14.88%) Finance
4 12 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.09%) Banking
6 7 (5.79%) Publishing
7 5 (4.13%) Front Office
8 4 (3.31%) Retail
9 3 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (54.55%) Developer
2 56 (46.28%) Java Developer
3 33 (27.27%) Senior
4 25 (20.66%) Senior Developer
5 24 (19.83%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (9.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.92%) Java Engineer
7 9 (7.44%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Lead
9 6 (4.96%) Applications Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Architect
10 5 (4.13%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 4 (3.31%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.31%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.31%) Senior Backend Developer
11 4 (3.31%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (3.31%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (57.85%) Spring
2 55 (45.45%) Spring Boot
3 37 (30.58%) REST
4 32 (26.45%) JPA
5 26 (21.49%) Web Services
6 25 (20.66%) Hibernate
7 24 (19.83%) RESTful
8 23 (19.01%) AngularJS
8 23 (19.01%) SOAP
9 22 (18.18%) Node.js
9 22 (18.18%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (15.70%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (14.88%) Spring Batch
11 18 (14.88%) Spring Integration
12 17 (14.05%) Bootstrap
13 15 (12.40%) JSON
14 14 (11.57%) Kafka
15 13 (10.74%) PowerMock
16 12 (9.92%) Playwright
16 12 (9.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.36%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.79%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.96%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.13%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.48%) Equities
5 3 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.65%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.83%) Derivative
7 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.83%) TWAP
7 1 (0.83%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.27%) Linux
2 8 (6.61%) Unix
3 5 (4.13%) Windows
4 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Android
5 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.83%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (59.50%) CI/CD
2 63 (52.07%) DevOps
3 56 (46.28%) Microservices
4 41 (33.88%) Agile
5 37 (30.58%) Containerisation
6 36 (29.75%) TDD
7 33 (27.27%) Scrum
8 32 (26.45%) Test Automation
9 25 (20.66%) Performance Tuning
10 22 (18.18%) Software Engineering
11 17 (14.05%) Event-Driven
11 17 (14.05%) Kanban
12 16 (13.22%) BDD
12 16 (13.22%) Observability
13 15 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (11.57%) BPMN
14 14 (11.57%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (11.57%) Design Patterns
14 14 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (9.92%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 107 (88.43%) Java
2 50 (41.32%) SQL
3 24 (19.83%) Python
4 12 (9.92%) Groovy
5 10 (8.26%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.79%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.96%) Scala
8 2 (1.65%) Bash
8 2 (1.65%) Go
8 2 (1.65%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (33.06%) Security Cleared
2 33 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.61%) Degree
4 6 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.13%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.13%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.40%) QA
2 5 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.31%) SLA
4 3 (2.48%) SEPA
5 2 (1.65%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.65%) NCSC
5 2 (1.65%) PSD2
6 1 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) ITGC
6 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (47.11%) Docker
2 11 (9.09%) Postfix
3 3 (2.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.48%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 40 (33.06%) Kubernetes
2 29 (23.97%) Grafana
3 27 (22.31%) Terraform
4 15 (12.40%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.96%) Ansible
5 6 (4.96%) Argo
5 6 (4.96%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.65%) Kibana
6 2 (1.65%) Podman
6 2 (1.65%) Puppet
7 1 (0.83%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (14.88%) Atlassian
2 17 (14.05%) Jaspersoft
3 13 (10.74%) Oracle
4 12 (9.92%) Microsoft
5 11 (9.09%) Sonatype
6 7 (5.79%) Splunk
7 5 (4.13%) Solace
8 4 (3.31%) Sybase
9 2 (1.65%) Adobe
9 2 (1.65%) IBM
9 2 (1.65%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.65%) SAP
10 1 (0.83%) Google
10 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.83%) Thales
10 1 (0.83%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.83%) Veracode
10 1 (0.83%) VMware