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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 397 448
Rank change year-on-year -69 +51 -186
Contract jobs citing Maven 112 137 133
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.07% 3.21% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 74 86
10th Percentile £377 £357 £355
25th Percentile £475 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +3.10% -16.67%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £600
90th Percentile £695 £835 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £542 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +8.30% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.59%

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 5,413 4,269 5,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.59% 13.41% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,711 2,694 3,674
10th Percentile £338 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -6.84% -4.02%
75th Percentile £594 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £513
% change year-on-year -0.42% -6.93% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 72 199
10th Percentile £39.00 £28.88 £43.93
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.15 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 15 January 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
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 15 January 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 -64 105 £550 - 41
London -32 56 £575 - 12
UK excluding London -77 51 £542 +8.30% 34
Work from Home -25 23 £450 -11.98% 22
North of England -48 15 £489 +11.66% 10
West Midlands -25 13 £575 +9.52% 6
Midlands -28 13 £575 +9.52% 6
South East -12 10 £450 -29.41% 9
South West -23 9 £550 -15.38% 9
Yorkshire -38 9 £372 -25.60% 7
North West -35 6 £575 +31.43% 3
Scotland -5 3 £438 +3.55%
Northern Ireland -5 1 £425 +30.77%

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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 5 (4.46%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.57%) Apache
3 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.79%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.79%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.79%) Camunda
5 1 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.89%) JBoss
5 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.89%) Mule
5 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 46 (41.07%) AWS
2 33 (29.46%) Azure
3 30 (26.79%) GitHub
4 20 (17.86%) GCP
5 16 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 14 (12.50%) npm
7 13 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (9.82%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (9.82%) Datadog
8 11 (9.82%) Serverless
9 10 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (8.93%) Apigee
9 10 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (8.04%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (8.04%) Azure AKS
10 9 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (6.25%) Route 53
13 6 (5.36%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) AMQP
2 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) Firewall
3 1 (0.89%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.89%) HTTP
3 1 (0.89%) Multicast
3 1 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.07%) Relational Database
2 14 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (11.61%) NoSQL
3 13 (11.61%) RDBMS
4 11 (9.82%) MongoDB
5 10 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (8.93%) MySQL
6 9 (8.04%) SQL Server
7 7 (6.25%) DynamoDB
7 7 (6.25%) Redis
7 7 (6.25%) Tick Data
8 6 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.46%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.46%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.68%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.89%) Big Data
12 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 64 (57.14%) Git
2 47 (41.96%) Jenkins
3 44 (39.29%) Gradle
4 40 (35.71%) GitLab
5 32 (28.57%) JUnit
6 27 (24.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 21 (18.75%) SonarQube
8 18 (16.07%) Selenium
9 17 (15.18%) JIRA
10 16 (14.29%) Mockito
11 15 (13.39%) Cucumber
12 12 (10.71%) Bitbucket
12 12 (10.71%) Postman
13 10 (8.93%) Artifactory
13 10 (8.93%) Cypress.io
14 7 (6.25%) webpack
15 5 (4.46%) CircleCI
15 5 (4.46%) REST Assured
15 5 (4.46%) Snyk
15 5 (4.46%) SonarLint
General
1 33 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.07%) Banking
2 18 (16.07%) Finance
3 8 (7.14%) Front Office
4 7 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.68%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.89%) Law
9 1 (0.89%) Marketing
9 1 (0.89%) Publishing
9 1 (0.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (48.21%) Developer
2 46 (41.07%) Java Developer
3 23 (20.54%) Senior
4 15 (13.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.61%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.82%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (7.14%) Lead
8 7 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Applications Support
8 7 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Fidessa Developer
8 7 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Technical Architect
11 3 (2.68%) Data Modeller
11 3 (2.68%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (46.43%) Spring
2 41 (36.61%) Spring Boot
3 21 (18.75%) REST
4 19 (16.96%) HTML
4 19 (16.96%) React
5 17 (15.18%) JSON
6 15 (13.39%) AngularJS
6 15 (13.39%) RESTful
7 14 (12.50%) JPA
7 14 (12.50%) Kafka
8 13 (11.61%) CSS
9 11 (9.82%) Hibernate
10 8 (7.14%) Bootstrap
10 8 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (7.14%) Gherkin
10 8 (7.14%) Playwright
11 7 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (6.25%) Node.js
11 7 (6.25%) OAuth
11 7 (6.25%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.93%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.04%) Data Centre
4 8 (7.14%) Equities
5 6 (5.36%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.46%) Derivative
6 5 (4.46%) N-Tier
7 4 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.68%) TWAP
8 3 (2.68%) VWAP
9 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.79%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.89%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.43%) Linux
2 10 (8.93%) Unix
3 7 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.57%) CentOS
5 3 (2.68%) Solaris
6 2 (1.79%) Windows
7 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (52.68%) CI/CD
2 45 (40.18%) Microservices
3 44 (39.29%) Agile
4 40 (35.71%) DevOps
5 36 (32.14%) Containerisation
6 31 (27.68%) Test Automation
7 30 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (19.64%) Mentoring
9 20 (17.86%) Software Engineering
10 19 (16.96%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (16.96%) TDD
11 18 (16.07%) Design Patterns
11 18 (16.07%) Scrum
12 17 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (14.29%) SDLC
14 15 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (12.50%) OO
16 12 (10.71%) OOP
17 11 (9.82%) Front End Development
17 11 (9.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 87 (77.68%) Java
2 28 (25.00%) Python
3 22 (19.64%) SQL
4 15 (13.39%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.82%) Bash
6 10 (8.93%) Shell Script
7 7 (6.25%) Groovy
7 7 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.46%) Go
8 5 (4.46%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.68%) Scala
10 2 (1.79%) C#
10 2 (1.79%) C++
10 2 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.79%) Rust
11 1 (0.89%) C
11 1 (0.89%) Clojure
11 1 (0.89%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.96%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.57%) Degree
5 3 (2.68%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.89%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.89%) OCP
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) WCAG
2 5 (4.46%) QA
3 3 (2.68%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (41.96%) Docker
2 3 (2.68%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.79%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 53 (47.32%) Kubernetes
2 32 (28.57%) Terraform
3 22 (19.64%) Grafana
4 21 (18.75%) Ansible
5 13 (11.61%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.14%) Kibana
7 7 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 7 (6.25%) Puppet
8 5 (4.46%) Podman
9 2 (1.79%) Argo
9 2 (1.79%) CloudHub
9 2 (1.79%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.89%) Istio
10 1 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (18.75%) Oracle
2 11 (9.82%) Splunk
3 9 (8.04%) Solace
4 5 (4.46%) Gigya
4 5 (4.46%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.57%) Sybase
6 3 (2.68%) Google
6 3 (2.68%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.68%) VMware
7 2 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.89%) Adobe
8 1 (0.89%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.89%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.89%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.89%) TOWER Software