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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 389 403
Rank change year-on-year -97 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing Maven 196 164 171
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.10% 3.24% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 134 101
10th Percentile £322 £276 £363
25th Percentile £406 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £478 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -11.16% -2.27%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £675
90th Percentile £631 £624 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +3.83% -8.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 6,331 5,063 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 15.31% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,047 3,408 3,229
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 110 176
10th Percentile £22.68 £28.94 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.75 £73.88
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 26 September 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 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 26 September 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 -109 154 £510 +4.62% 141
UK excluding London -75 110 £475 +3.83% 74
London -95 65 £495 -5.71% 83
Work from Home -47 58 £470 -1.05% 58
Midlands -21 51 £575 +32.09% 17
West Midlands -13 48 £575 +15.00% 16
North of England -80 30 £517 +28.69% 22
Yorkshire -34 21 £514 -1.05% 3
Scotland -11 20 £375 -9.09% 13
North West -58 8 £537 +50.00% 16
South East -68 7 £270 -53.85% 5
East Midlands -24 2 £335 -1.47% 1
South West -43 2 £300 -45.45% 8
North East -41 1 £520 +11.83% 3

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 22 (11.22%) Confluence
2 9 (4.59%) Camunda
3 8 (4.08%) WebLogic
4 7 (3.57%) Apache
5 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.02%) CMS
7 1 (0.51%) JBoss
7 1 (0.51%) nginx
7 1 (0.51%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Finacle
1 1 (0.51%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 123 (62.76%) AWS
2 54 (27.55%) Azure
3 39 (19.90%) GCP
4 36 (18.37%) GitHub
5 21 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
6 20 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (8.67%) Amazon S3
7 17 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (7.65%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 14 (7.14%) OpenShift
10 11 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (5.61%) Serverless
11 10 (5.10%) Kong
12 9 (4.59%) AWS KMS
12 9 (4.59%) Route 53
13 7 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.57%) Apigee
13 7 (3.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.04%) Firewall
2 3 (1.53%) SSL
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.51%) Internet
3 1 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (20.41%) Relational Database
3 21 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 19 (9.69%) SQL Server
5 18 (9.18%) MySQL
6 16 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (6.63%) DynamoDB
7 13 (6.63%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.12%) Metadata
9 11 (5.61%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (3.57%) Oracle Database
11 6 (3.06%) RDBMS
12 5 (2.55%) Flink
12 5 (2.55%) Hazelcast
12 5 (2.55%) Redis
13 3 (1.53%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.53%) MariaDB
13 3 (1.53%) Pinecone
13 3 (1.53%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 132 (67.35%) Git
2 116 (59.18%) Jenkins
3 83 (42.35%) JUnit
4 82 (41.84%) Gradle
5 63 (32.14%) SonarQube
6 58 (29.59%) GitLab
6 58 (29.59%) Mockito
7 36 (18.37%) JIRA
8 19 (9.69%) Cucumber
8 19 (9.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 17 (8.67%) Selenium
10 15 (7.65%) REST Assured
11 14 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (4.59%) GoCD
12 9 (4.59%) JProfiler
13 7 (3.57%) Postman
14 6 (3.06%) DbUnit
14 6 (3.06%) JMeter
14 6 (3.06%) Subversion
15 5 (2.55%) IntelliJ
General
1 47 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.39%) Finance
3 36 (18.37%) Public Sector
4 35 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (15.82%) Banking
6 8 (4.08%) Publishing
7 6 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Military
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (59.18%) Developer
2 96 (48.98%) Java Developer
3 40 (20.41%) Senior
4 29 (14.80%) Java Engineer
4 29 (14.80%) Senior Developer
5 28 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 22 (11.22%) Lead
7 20 (10.20%) Lead Developer
8 18 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (6.63%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (6.63%) Lead Java Developer
10 9 (4.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (4.59%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 5 (2.55%) Automation Tester
12 5 (2.55%) Backend Developer
12 5 (2.55%) Lead Software Developer
12 5 (2.55%) Python Engineer
12 5 (2.55%) Software Developer
12 5 (2.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (69.39%) Spring Boot
2 134 (68.37%) Spring
3 81 (41.33%) REST
4 68 (34.69%) JPA
5 53 (27.04%) RESTful
6 48 (24.49%) Kafka
7 47 (23.98%) React
8 43 (21.94%) Node.js
9 39 (19.90%) Hibernate
10 38 (19.39%) HTML
11 34 (17.35%) AngularJS
11 34 (17.35%) Terraform
12 33 (16.84%) CSS
13 31 (15.82%) SOAP
14 30 (15.31%) Web Services
15 25 (12.76%) ActiveMQ
16 23 (11.73%) Spring MVC
17 22 (11.22%) OpenAPI
18 21 (10.71%) Redux
19 20 (10.20%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 26 (13.27%) Cloud Native
3 22 (11.22%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (8.67%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (5.10%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (2.55%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.04%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.51%) Equities
12 1 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.51%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (18.88%) Linux
2 12 (6.12%) Unix
3 3 (1.53%) VMS
4 2 (1.02%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (70.41%) CI/CD
2 114 (58.16%) Agile
3 113 (57.65%) Microservices
4 95 (48.47%) DevOps
5 84 (42.86%) Scrum
6 69 (35.20%) Containerisation
6 69 (35.20%) Test Automation
7 58 (29.59%) TDD
8 48 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (18.37%) Clean Code
11 35 (17.86%) Software Engineering
12 32 (16.33%) Front End Development
13 31 (15.82%) Code Quality
13 31 (15.82%) Event-Driven
14 28 (14.29%) Design Patterns
15 25 (12.76%) Observability
16 24 (12.24%) MVC
17 23 (11.73%) User Stories
18 22 (11.22%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 187 (95.41%) Java
2 87 (44.39%) SQL
3 53 (27.04%) JavaScript
4 32 (16.33%) Python
5 29 (14.80%) Shell Script
6 23 (11.73%) TypeScript
7 17 (8.67%) Groovy
8 13 (6.63%) Bash
9 6 (3.06%) Scala
10 5 (2.55%) Ruby
11 3 (1.53%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (38.27%) Security Cleared
2 68 (34.69%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (12.24%) Degree
5 20 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.04%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.86%) QA
2 16 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.57%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.55%) PSD2
4 5 (2.55%) SEPA
5 2 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.02%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) ITGC
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (47.45%) Docker
2 4 (2.04%) Postfix
3 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 88 (44.90%) Kubernetes
2 39 (19.90%) Grafana
3 29 (14.80%) Prometheus
4 19 (9.69%) Ansible
5 16 (8.16%) Kibana
6 10 (5.10%) Argo
7 3 (1.53%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.02%) Podman
8 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.02%) Puppet
8 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.51%) Istio
9 1 (0.51%) systemd
Vendors
1 48 (24.49%) Oracle
2 14 (7.14%) Google
3 10 (5.10%) IBM
3 10 (5.10%) Sonatype
4 9 (4.59%) MuleSoft
4 9 (4.59%) Splunk
4 9 (4.59%) Veracode
5 7 (3.57%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (3.06%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.06%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.55%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.04%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.53%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.53%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.02%) Adobe
10 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.02%) SAP
10 2 (1.02%) Sybase
11 1 (0.51%) TIBCO