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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 375 446
Rank change year-on-year -87 +71 -210
Contract jobs citing Maven 120 171 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.19% 3.63% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 95 113
10th Percentile £346 £363 £370
25th Percentile £436 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £543 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% +2.36% -15.20%
75th Percentile £615 £685 £620
90th Percentile £677 £858 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £493 £530
% change year-on-year +9.54% -7.08% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £57.25
25th Percentile - - £60.63
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £73.38
90th Percentile - - £76.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - -6.90%

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 5,481 4,716 5,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 13.21% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,957 4,102
10th Percentile £331 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £693 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £514
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.07% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 109 224
10th Percentile £30.35 £34.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.50 £50.00 £50.00
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 £85.00 £75.00 £89.63
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 12 December 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 12 December 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 -74 113 £542 -1.41% 24
London -38 62 £543 -1.27% 4
UK excluding London -57 53 £540 +9.54% 23
Work from Home -31 31 £419 -21.91% 15
North of England -48 15 £473 +12.84% 8
Midlands -23 13 £542 -27.80% 2
South East -12 11 £450 -30.77% 3
South West -17 10 £550 -15.38% 8
West Midlands -18 10 £558 - 2
North West -23 9 £342 -18.45%
Yorkshire -37 6 £586 +30.28% 8
Scotland -5 3 £438 +4.17% 2
East Midlands -16 3 £270 -64.00%
Northern Ireland -6 1 £425 -

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 12 (10.00%) Confluence
2 4 (3.33%) Apache
2 4 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.33%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.50%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.67%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.67%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.83%) CICS
5 1 (0.83%) JBoss
5 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.83%) Mule
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.33%) AWS
2 36 (30.00%) Azure
3 27 (22.50%) GitHub
4 20 (16.67%) GCP
5 14 (11.67%) OpenShift
6 13 (10.83%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (10.83%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (10.83%) npm
6 13 (10.83%) Serverless
7 12 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (9.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.33%) Apigee
9 10 (8.33%) Datadog
10 9 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (7.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
11 8 (6.67%) Azure AKS
11 8 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.83%) AMQP
2 2 (1.67%) Firewall
2 2 (1.67%) MQTT
2 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.67%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 16 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 14 (11.67%) RDBMS
5 13 (10.83%) NoSQL
6 12 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (9.17%) MongoDB
8 10 (8.33%) Redis
9 9 (7.50%) DynamoDB
10 8 (6.67%) MySQL
10 8 (6.67%) Oracle Database
11 7 (5.83%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (4.17%) BigQuery
13 4 (3.33%) InfluxDB
13 4 (3.33%) Tick Data
14 2 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
14 2 (1.67%) DB2
14 2 (1.67%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 67 (55.83%) Git
2 50 (41.67%) Jenkins
3 44 (36.67%) GitLab
3 44 (36.67%) Gradle
4 38 (31.67%) JUnit
5 33 (27.50%) SonarQube
6 30 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 23 (19.17%) Mockito
7 23 (19.17%) Selenium
8 22 (18.33%) Cucumber
8 22 (18.33%) JIRA
9 18 (15.00%) Bitbucket
10 14 (11.67%) Postman
11 9 (7.50%) Artifactory
12 8 (6.67%) REST Assured
13 7 (5.83%) Cypress.io
13 7 (5.83%) Subversion
14 6 (5.00%) Eclipse
14 6 (5.00%) SoapUI
14 6 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 34 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.33%) Banking
2 22 (18.33%) Finance
3 7 (5.83%) Investment Banking
4 6 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.00%) Front Office
4 6 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Publishing
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
8 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (53.33%) Developer
2 54 (45.00%) Java Developer
3 20 (16.67%) Senior
4 14 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (11.67%) Senior Developer
5 11 (9.17%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (5.83%) Java Engineer
6 7 (5.83%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Architect
7 6 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Applications Support
8 5 (4.17%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (4.17%) Java Architect
8 5 (4.17%) Java Technical Architect
8 5 (4.17%) Lead
8 5 (4.17%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.33%) Fidessa Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (42.50%) Spring
1 51 (42.50%) Spring Boot
2 27 (22.50%) HTML
3 25 (20.83%) JPA
3 25 (20.83%) REST
4 24 (20.00%) Hibernate
5 22 (18.33%) React
6 20 (16.67%) CSS
6 20 (16.67%) JSON
6 20 (16.67%) Kafka
7 19 (15.83%) RESTful
8 18 (15.00%) AngularJS
9 16 (13.33%) Node.js
10 11 (9.17%) J2EE
10 11 (9.17%) Jest
11 9 (7.50%) Bootstrap
11 9 (7.50%) HTML5
11 9 (7.50%) SOAP
11 9 (7.50%) XML
12 8 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 12 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.17%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.17%) Equities
4 5 (4.17%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.33%) Derivative
6 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.67%) Clustering
7 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.67%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.67%) IoT
7 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.67%) TWAP
7 2 (1.67%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.67%) Linux
2 16 (13.33%) Unix
3 8 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.17%) CentOS
5 3 (2.50%) Solaris
5 3 (2.50%) Windows
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (56.67%) CI/CD
2 55 (45.83%) Microservices
3 54 (45.00%) Agile
4 47 (39.17%) DevOps
5 33 (27.50%) Containerisation
5 33 (27.50%) TDD
6 32 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (26.67%) Test Automation
7 26 (21.67%) Mentoring
8 21 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (16.67%) SDLC
10 19 (15.83%) Design Patterns
11 18 (15.00%) Software Engineering
11 18 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (13.33%) OO
13 14 (11.67%) BDD
13 14 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (11.67%) Scrum
14 13 (10.83%) Migration
14 13 (10.83%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 97 (80.83%) Java
2 34 (28.33%) SQL
3 30 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 26 (21.67%) Python
5 12 (10.00%) Bash
5 12 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 11 (9.17%) TypeScript
7 10 (8.33%) Groovy
8 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.33%) C
10 3 (2.50%) Go
10 3 (2.50%) Scala
11 2 (1.67%) C#
11 2 (1.67%) C++
11 2 (1.67%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.67%) Rust
12 1 (0.83%) Clojure
12 1 (0.83%) COBOL
12 1 (0.83%) JCL
Qualifications
1 31 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.33%) Degree
5 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) OCP
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) WCAG
2 6 (5.00%) QA
3 3 (2.50%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 54 (45.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.67%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 53 (44.17%) Kubernetes
2 33 (27.50%) Terraform
3 23 (19.17%) Grafana
4 20 (16.67%) Ansible
5 15 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.83%) Kibana
7 6 (5.00%) Progress Chef
7 6 (5.00%) Puppet
8 4 (3.33%) Argo
8 4 (3.33%) Podman
9 3 (2.50%) CloudHub
10 2 (1.67%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.83%) Control-M
11 1 (0.83%) Istio
11 1 (0.83%) logstash
11 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (21.67%) Oracle
2 12 (10.00%) Splunk
3 8 (6.67%) Solace
4 7 (5.83%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (5.00%) Veracode
6 5 (4.17%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.17%) Gigya
6 5 (4.17%) Google
6 5 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.17%) Sybase
7 4 (3.33%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.50%) VMware
9 2 (1.67%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.67%) Refinitiv
9 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.83%) TOWER Software