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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 388 441
Rank change year-on-year -43 +53 -201
Contract jobs citing Maven 148 180 182
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.49% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.69% 3.80% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 100 122
10th Percentile £313 £363 £378
25th Percentile £381 £413 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% -1.59% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £685 £675
90th Percentile £675 £863 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile - - £67.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 5,498 4,743 6,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.33% 13.00% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,789 2,951 4,197
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £510
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.41% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 130 236
10th Percentile £29.00 £24.54 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.06 £46.25 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £89.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -34 140 £520 -5.45% 55
London -32 76 £531 -3.55% 23
UK excluding London -39 68 £475 - 42
Work from Home -14 43 £450 -16.08% 28
Midlands -11 22 £500 -33.33% 5
North of England -39 22 £363 -9.38% 12
North West -10 18 £358 -10.50% 6
West Midlands -8 16 £538 - 5
South East 0 10 £450 -25.00% 8
South West -8 10 £550 -15.38% 9
East Midlands -10 6 £308 -58.93%
Scotland -13 4 £438 +4.17% 8
Yorkshire -38 4 £586 +30.28% 6
Northern Ireland -7 1 £425 - 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 13 (8.78%) Confluence
2 8 (5.41%) JBoss
2 8 (5.41%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.70%) Apache
3 4 (2.70%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.03%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.03%) CICS
4 3 (2.03%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.35%) Apache TomEE
5 2 (1.35%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.68%) Mule
6 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 67 (45.27%) AWS
2 42 (28.38%) Azure
3 30 (20.27%) GitHub
4 23 (15.54%) GCP
5 21 (14.19%) OpenShift
6 19 (12.84%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (12.84%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (10.14%) npm
9 14 (9.46%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (9.46%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (9.46%) Serverless
10 13 (8.78%) Amazon S3
10 13 (8.78%) Route 53
11 12 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (8.11%) AWS Fargate
12 10 (6.76%) Datadog
12 10 (6.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.73%) AMQP
2 2 (1.35%) Calico
2 2 (1.35%) Firewall
2 2 (1.35%) HTTP
2 2 (1.35%) MQTT
2 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.35%) VPN
3 1 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.68%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.27%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (14.19%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (13.51%) Relational Database
4 18 (12.16%) SQL Server
5 17 (11.49%) DynamoDB
6 15 (10.14%) RDBMS
7 13 (8.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (8.78%) NoSQL
8 11 (7.43%) MongoDB
9 10 (6.76%) Oracle Database
9 10 (6.76%) Redis
10 8 (5.41%) MySQL
11 5 (3.38%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.70%) DB2
12 4 (2.70%) InfluxDB
12 4 (2.70%) Tick Data
13 3 (2.03%) Big Data
13 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
13 3 (2.03%) HPCC
14 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 88 (59.46%) Git
2 66 (44.59%) Jenkins
3 57 (38.51%) JUnit
4 54 (36.49%) Gradle
5 47 (31.76%) GitLab
6 42 (28.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 41 (27.70%) SonarQube
8 30 (20.27%) JIRA
9 27 (18.24%) Mockito
10 26 (17.57%) Cucumber
11 23 (15.54%) Selenium
12 18 (12.16%) Bitbucket
13 15 (10.14%) Postman
14 11 (7.43%) Artifactory
14 11 (7.43%) IntelliJ
15 10 (6.76%) REST Assured
16 8 (5.41%) Eclipse
17 7 (4.73%) Subversion
18 6 (4.05%) Cypress.io
18 6 (4.05%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.27%) Finance
3 27 (18.24%) Banking
4 17 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.41%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.05%) Front Office
8 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.03%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Aviation
11 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.68%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Marketing
11 1 (0.68%) Publishing
11 1 (0.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (56.08%) Developer
2 68 (45.95%) Java Developer
3 24 (16.22%) Senior
4 16 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (10.14%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.78%) AWS Developer
6 13 (8.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (6.76%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (5.41%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Support Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) Architect
11 6 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) Lead
12 5 (3.38%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Applications Support Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Java Architect
12 5 (3.38%) Java Technical Architect
12 5 (3.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (45.27%) Spring
2 64 (43.24%) Spring Boot
3 38 (25.68%) REST
4 31 (20.95%) JPA
5 30 (20.27%) Hibernate
6 29 (19.59%) HTML
7 28 (18.92%) RESTful
8 22 (14.86%) JSON
8 22 (14.86%) Kafka
8 22 (14.86%) React
9 21 (14.19%) CSS
9 21 (14.19%) SOAP
10 19 (12.84%) AngularJS
11 17 (11.49%) Spring Cloud
12 16 (10.81%) Node.js
13 15 (10.14%) J2EE
14 13 (8.78%) Bootstrap
14 13 (8.78%) Jest
14 13 (8.78%) Web Services
15 10 (6.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.11%) Cloud Native
1 12 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.43%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.38%) Equities
3 5 (3.38%) N-Tier
3 5 (3.38%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.70%) Derivative
4 4 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.03%) Clustering
5 3 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.03%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.03%) VSAM
6 2 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.35%) IoT
6 2 (1.35%) IVR
6 2 (1.35%) TWAP
6 2 (1.35%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 43 (29.05%) Linux
2 27 (18.24%) Unix
3 10 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.38%) CentOS
5 4 (2.70%) Solaris
5 4 (2.70%) Windows
6 2 (1.35%) Android
6 2 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (53.38%) CI/CD
2 68 (45.95%) Microservices
3 67 (45.27%) Agile
4 60 (40.54%) DevOps
5 42 (28.38%) Containerisation
6 41 (27.70%) TDD
7 40 (27.03%) Test Automation
8 37 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (20.95%) Design Patterns
10 27 (18.24%) Mentoring
11 23 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (14.19%) Scrum
13 20 (13.51%) SDLC
13 20 (13.51%) Software Engineering
14 19 (12.84%) Code Quality
14 19 (12.84%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (12.84%) OO
15 18 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (11.49%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 120 (81.08%) Java
2 43 (29.05%) SQL
3 36 (24.32%) Python
4 33 (22.30%) JavaScript
5 23 (15.54%) Shell Script
6 14 (9.46%) Bash
6 14 (9.46%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.08%) Groovy
7 9 (6.08%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.38%) C
9 4 (2.70%) C++
10 3 (2.03%) C#
10 3 (2.03%) COBOL
10 3 (2.03%) Go
10 3 (2.03%) JCL
10 3 (2.03%) Scala
11 2 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.35%) Rust
12 1 (0.68%) Ada
Qualifications
1 35 (23.65%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.46%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.70%) Degree
5 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.68%) OCP
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.43%) QA
2 8 (5.41%) WCAG
3 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.03%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 67 (45.27%) Docker
2 4 (2.70%) Postfix
3 2 (1.35%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 57 (38.51%) Kubernetes
2 35 (23.65%) Terraform
3 26 (17.57%) Grafana
4 21 (14.19%) Ansible
5 19 (12.84%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.41%) Puppet
7 7 (4.73%) Kibana
8 6 (4.05%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.38%) Podman
10 4 (2.70%) Argo
10 4 (2.70%) Istio
11 3 (2.03%) CloudHub
11 3 (2.03%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.68%) Control-M
12 1 (0.68%) logstash
12 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (23.65%) Oracle
2 13 (8.78%) Splunk
3 11 (7.43%) CA Agile Central
4 10 (6.76%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.08%) Solace
6 6 (4.05%) Google
6 6 (4.05%) Veracode
7 5 (3.38%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.38%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.38%) Gigya
7 5 (3.38%) MuleSoft
7 5 (3.38%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.38%) Sybase
8 4 (2.70%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (2.70%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.03%) Bloomberg
9 3 (2.03%) IBM
9 3 (2.03%) Refinitiv
9 3 (2.03%) VMware
10 2 (1.35%) Salesforce