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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 364 431
Rank change year-on-year -143 +67 -115
Contract jobs citing Maven 137 177 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.57% 0.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.25% 3.88% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 136 106
10th Percentile £356 £276 £400
25th Percentile £450 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £597 £553 £588
90th Percentile £736 £620 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £423 £490
% change year-on-year +12.29% -13.67% -4.39%
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 6,098 4,565 5,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 14.60% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,927 3,062 3,565
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £693 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 92 248
10th Percentile £26.05 £20.98 £30.28
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% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +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 3 July 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 3 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Maven in the UK

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 3 July 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 -157 118 £525 +10.53% 35
UK excluding London -122 77 £475 +12.29% 21
London -86 54 £575 +9.52% 14
Midlands -73 28 £543 +27.82% 6
North of England -84 27 £488 +21.27% 6
West Midlands -62 25 £543 +12.01% 3
Work from Home -88 25 £475 -2.56% 16
Yorkshire -45 22 £488 -6.20% 3
South East -52 13 £355 -39.32% 4
Scotland -6 9 £353 -14.42% 2
North West -59 4 £475 +32.68% 3
East Midlands -27 2 - - 3
South West -27 1 £525 +2.44% 3
North East -40 1 £520 +11.83%

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 9 (6.57%) Confluence
2 6 (4.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (4.38%) Apache
3 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.46%) CMS
4 2 (1.46%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.73%) Camunda
5 1 (0.73%) JBoss
5 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (56.93%) AWS
2 40 (29.20%) GitHub
3 32 (23.36%) Azure
4 24 (17.52%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (17.52%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (16.79%) Amazon S3
6 22 (16.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (15.33%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (13.87%) GCP
9 18 (13.14%) AWS KMS
9 18 (13.14%) Route 53
10 8 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.11%) OCI
12 6 (4.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (2.92%) Apigee
13 4 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.92%) Cloud Run
13 4 (2.92%) Kong
13 4 (2.92%) Serverless
14 3 (2.19%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) HTTP
2 1 (0.73%) Internet
2 1 (0.73%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.74%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (18.25%) DynamoDB
3 24 (17.52%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (13.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (9.49%) Metadata
5 13 (9.49%) SQL Server
6 12 (8.76%) MongoDB
7 11 (8.03%) Relational Database
8 9 (6.57%) MySQL
9 4 (2.92%) Flink
9 4 (2.92%) Hazelcast
9 4 (2.92%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.92%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.92%) Redis
10 3 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.19%) Tick Data
11 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.73%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 80 (58.39%) Jenkins
2 71 (51.82%) Git
3 52 (37.96%) JUnit
4 48 (35.04%) Gradle
5 39 (28.47%) SonarQube
6 29 (21.17%) Mockito
7 23 (16.79%) GitLab
8 17 (12.41%) JIRA
9 14 (10.22%) DbUnit
10 13 (9.49%) jMock
11 12 (8.76%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (8.03%) Cucumber
12 11 (8.03%) REST Assured
13 10 (7.30%) Postman
14 9 (6.57%) Gatling
14 9 (6.57%) Selenium
14 9 (6.57%) Subversion
15 8 (5.84%) Artifactory
15 8 (5.84%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (5.84%) TestNG
General
1 44 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.71%) Public Sector
3 22 (16.06%) Finance
4 13 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.49%) Banking
5 7 (5.11%) Publishing
6 5 (3.65%) Front Office
7 4 (2.92%) Retail
8 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (58.39%) Developer
2 67 (48.91%) Java Developer
3 33 (24.09%) Senior
4 25 (18.25%) Senior Developer
5 24 (17.52%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (9.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (8.76%) Java Engineer
8 11 (8.03%) Lead
9 10 (7.30%) Lead Developer
10 9 (6.57%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Lead Java Developer
12 6 (4.38%) Applications Developer
13 5 (3.65%) Architect
13 5 (3.65%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.65%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.65%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 4 (2.92%) Service Delivery Manager
14 4 (2.92%) Service Manager
14 4 (2.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (62.77%) Spring
2 67 (48.91%) Spring Boot
3 45 (32.85%) REST
4 38 (27.74%) JPA
5 30 (21.90%) RESTful
6 29 (21.17%) Node.js
6 29 (21.17%) Web Services
7 27 (19.71%) Hibernate
8 25 (18.25%) AngularJS
9 22 (16.06%) SOAP
10 21 (15.33%) Spring Cloud
11 20 (14.60%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (13.14%) Bootstrap
12 18 (13.14%) Spring Batch
12 18 (13.14%) Spring Integration
13 16 (11.68%) Kafka
14 15 (10.95%) React
15 14 (10.22%) JSON
16 13 (9.49%) Playwright
16 13 (9.49%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.25%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.30%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.11%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.11%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.92%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.19%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.19%) Equities
6 3 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.46%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.73%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.73%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.73%) TWAP
8 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.73%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.36%) Linux
2 9 (6.57%) Unix
3 5 (3.65%) Windows
4 1 (0.73%) Android
4 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (63.50%) CI/CD
2 73 (53.28%) DevOps
3 63 (45.99%) Microservices
4 49 (35.77%) Agile
5 41 (29.93%) TDD
6 39 (28.47%) Scrum
7 37 (27.01%) Containerisation
7 37 (27.01%) Test Automation
8 25 (18.25%) Performance Tuning
9 22 (16.06%) BDD
9 22 (16.06%) Software Engineering
10 21 (15.33%) Event-Driven
11 17 (12.41%) Kanban
12 16 (11.68%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (11.68%) Observability
12 16 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (10.95%) Design Patterns
13 15 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (10.22%) Unit Testing
15 13 (9.49%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 126 (91.97%) Java
2 55 (40.15%) SQL
3 28 (20.44%) Python
4 16 (11.68%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.49%) Groovy
6 10 (7.30%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.38%) Scala
8 3 (2.19%) Bash
8 3 (2.19%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.46%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (31.39%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.74%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.84%) Degree
4 7 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.38%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.65%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.79%) QA
2 10 (7.30%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.92%) SLA
4 3 (2.19%) SEPA
5 2 (1.46%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.46%) PSD2
6 1 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.73%) GDPR
6 1 (0.73%) ITGC
6 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (41.61%) Docker
2 11 (8.03%) Postfix
3 3 (2.19%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 45 (32.85%) Kubernetes
2 26 (18.98%) Grafana
3 25 (18.25%) Terraform
4 14 (10.22%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.57%) Ansible
6 6 (4.38%) Argo
6 6 (4.38%) HAProxy
7 4 (2.92%) Kibana
8 1 (0.73%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.73%) Podman
8 1 (0.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (13.14%) Atlassian
2 17 (12.41%) Jaspersoft
2 17 (12.41%) Oracle
3 14 (10.22%) Microsoft
4 11 (8.03%) Sonatype
5 9 (6.57%) Splunk
6 6 (4.38%) Solace
7 5 (3.65%) Sybase
8 4 (2.92%) MuleSoft
9 3 (2.19%) IBM
10 2 (1.46%) Adobe
10 2 (1.46%) Google
10 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.46%) SAP
10 2 (1.46%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.46%) VMware
11 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.73%) Thales
11 1 (0.73%) TOWER Software
11 1 (0.73%) Veracode