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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 385 467
Rank change year-on-year -91 +82 -206
Contract jobs citing Maven 121 143 139
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.46% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.19% 3.39% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 76 94
10th Percentile £375 £353 £400
25th Percentile £450 £431 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +2.24% -16.00%
75th Percentile £618 £656 £598
90th Percentile £695 £713 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +7.40% +2.56% -10.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 5,519 4,214 5,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.13% 13.62% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,784 2,648 3,765
10th Percentile £344 £337 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £630
90th Percentile £698 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 67 211
10th Percentile £35.43 £26.40 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £50.63
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 £75.89
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £88.75
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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -93 113 £550 +1.85% 27
UK excluding London -67 60 £537 +7.40% 20
London -46 55 £575 +4.55% 12
Work from Home -43 26 £536 +7.20% 13
North of England -62 20 £498 +13.83% 4
West Midlands -38 14 £556 +14.69% 6
Midlands -48 14 £556 +14.69% 6
South East -19 13 £450 -30.10% 4
Yorkshire -41 11 £425 -23.43% 2
South West -19 10 £550 -15.38% 3
North West -37 9 £575 +31.43% 2
Scotland +4 3 £438 -16.27% 2
Northern Ireland -4 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 (6.61%) Confluence
2 5 (4.13%) Apache
3 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.31%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.65%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.65%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.65%) Camunda
4 2 (1.65%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 7 (5.79%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 54 (44.63%) AWS
2 33 (27.27%) GitHub
3 28 (23.14%) Azure
4 19 (15.70%) GCP
5 16 (13.22%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (12.40%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (12.40%) OpenShift
6 15 (12.40%) Serverless
7 13 (10.74%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (10.74%) npm
8 12 (9.92%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (8.26%) Datadog
10 9 (7.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (7.44%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (7.44%) AWS Fargate
11 8 (6.61%) Apigee
12 7 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (5.79%) Route 53
13 6 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.79%) AMQP
2 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) Multicast
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.70%) Relational Database
2 18 (14.88%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.74%) MySQL
3 13 (10.74%) NoSQL
3 13 (10.74%) RDBMS
4 12 (9.92%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (9.09%) MongoDB
6 10 (8.26%) DynamoDB
7 9 (7.44%) SQL Server
8 7 (5.79%) Redis
8 7 (5.79%) Tick Data
9 6 (4.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (4.96%) Oracle Database
10 5 (4.13%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.48%) InfluxDB
11 3 (2.48%) Metadata
12 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 72 (59.50%) Git
2 53 (43.80%) Jenkins
3 52 (42.98%) Gradle
4 39 (32.23%) JUnit
5 34 (28.10%) GitLab
6 23 (19.01%) SonarQube
6 23 (19.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 19 (15.70%) JIRA
7 19 (15.70%) Mockito
8 16 (13.22%) Selenium
9 15 (12.40%) Cucumber
10 14 (11.57%) Bitbucket
11 10 (8.26%) Postman
12 9 (7.44%) Artifactory
12 9 (7.44%) Cypress.io
13 6 (4.96%) Ant
13 6 (4.96%) IntelliJ
13 6 (4.96%) webpack
14 5 (4.13%) Eclipse
14 5 (4.13%) SonarLint
General
1 35 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.18%) Finance
3 19 (15.70%) Banking
4 8 (6.61%) Front Office
4 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.79%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.48%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Publishing
10 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.83%) Law
10 1 (0.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (48.76%) Developer
2 52 (42.98%) Java Developer
3 25 (20.66%) Senior
4 16 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.57%) Senior Developer
6 12 (9.92%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (9.09%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.26%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Lead
10 7 (5.79%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.79%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Architect
10 7 (5.79%) Fidessa Developer
10 7 (5.79%) Support Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Java Architect
11 5 (4.13%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (4.13%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (51.24%) Spring
2 48 (39.67%) Spring Boot
3 22 (18.18%) React
4 21 (17.36%) REST
5 19 (15.70%) JSON
5 19 (15.70%) RESTful
6 18 (14.88%) HTML
7 17 (14.05%) JPA
8 15 (12.40%) AngularJS
9 14 (11.57%) Hibernate
9 14 (11.57%) Kafka
10 13 (10.74%) CSS
11 9 (7.44%) Gherkin
11 9 (7.44%) Node.js
12 8 (6.61%) Bootstrap
12 8 (6.61%) J2EE
13 7 (5.79%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (5.79%) OAuth
13 7 (5.79%) XML
13 7 (5.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.92%) Cloud Native
1 12 (9.92%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.61%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.61%) Equities
3 7 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.13%) Derivative
4 5 (4.13%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.13%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.48%) TWAP
5 3 (2.48%) VWAP
6 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.65%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.83%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.66%) Linux
2 9 (7.44%) Unix
3 7 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.31%) CentOS
5 3 (2.48%) Solaris
6 1 (0.83%) Windows
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 50 (41.32%) Microservices
3 47 (38.84%) DevOps
4 45 (37.19%) Agile
5 34 (28.10%) Test Automation
6 33 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 32 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 22 (18.18%) TDD
9 21 (17.36%) Mentoring
10 19 (15.70%) Scrum
11 18 (14.88%) Design Patterns
12 17 (14.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (13.22%) OOP
13 16 (13.22%) SDLC
13 16 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (13.22%) Unit Testing
14 15 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (11.57%) OO
16 13 (10.74%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 100 (82.64%) Java
2 29 (23.97%) Python
3 25 (20.66%) SQL
4 14 (11.57%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.26%) Groovy
5 10 (8.26%) Shell Script
6 8 (6.61%) Bash
7 7 (5.79%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.31%) Go
10 3 (2.48%) Scala
11 2 (1.65%) C#
11 2 (1.65%) C++
11 2 (1.65%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.65%) Rust
12 1 (0.83%) Clojure
12 1 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (29.75%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.57%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.31%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.65%) Degree
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.83%) OCP
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) WCAG
2 6 (4.96%) QA
3 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.48%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.65%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.65%) NCSC
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (40.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.65%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 49 (40.50%) Kubernetes
2 32 (26.45%) Terraform
3 21 (17.36%) Grafana
4 20 (16.53%) Ansible
5 12 (9.92%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.61%) Kibana
7 6 (4.96%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.13%) Puppet
9 4 (3.31%) Podman
10 3 (2.48%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.65%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.83%) Argo
12 1 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (21.49%) Oracle
2 13 (10.74%) Splunk
3 9 (7.44%) Solace
4 5 (4.13%) Gigya
4 5 (4.13%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.13%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.31%) Sybase
6 3 (2.48%) Sonatype
6 3 (2.48%) VMware
7 2 (1.65%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.65%) Google
7 2 (1.65%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.83%) Adobe
8 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.83%) IBM
8 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow