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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 401 424
Rank change year-on-year -113 +23 -63
Contract jobs citing Maven 166 159 152
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.49% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.70% 3.21% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 127 90
10th Percentile £324 £270 £381
25th Percentile £423 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £536
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.42% -0.69%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £651 £632 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £508
% change year-on-year +11.76% -16.26% -0.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
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 6,143 4,948 5,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.45% 15.12% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,944 3,336 3,259
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £623
90th Percentile £690 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 115 189
10th Percentile £35.75 £28.13 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - +0.48%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.35 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 August 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 August 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 -132 126 £517 +8.91% 40
UK excluding London -75 93 £475 +11.76% 29
London -99 52 £530 +4.43% 21
Work from Home -71 47 £474 +4.81% 19
Midlands -45 34 £575 +34.66% 8
North of England -79 33 £507 +26.43% 5
West Midlands -42 31 £575 +15.00% 7
Yorkshire -24 26 £500 -3.80% 1
Scotland -5 19 £375 -9.09% 2
North West -68 6 £519 +44.83% 4
South East -71 6 £270 -53.85% 2
East Midlands -25 2 £335 -1.47% 1
North East -43 1 £520 +11.83%
South West -46 1 - - 12

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 (5.42%) Confluence
2 7 (4.22%) WebLogic
3 6 (3.61%) Apache
4 5 (3.01%) Camunda
5 4 (2.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (2.41%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
7 1 (0.60%) nginx
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.60%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 101 (60.84%) AWS
2 51 (30.72%) Azure
3 37 (22.29%) GitHub
4 33 (19.88%) GCP
5 21 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (10.24%) Amazon SQS
6 17 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (7.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (7.23%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.02%) AWS KMS
9 10 (6.02%) Kong
9 10 (6.02%) OCI
9 10 (6.02%) OpenShift
9 10 (6.02%) Route 53
10 8 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (3.61%) Apigee
11 6 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.01%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (3.01%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.81%) SSL
2 1 (0.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) Multicast
2 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (24.10%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (15.66%) Relational Database
3 20 (12.05%) SQL Server
4 16 (9.64%) Metadata
5 15 (9.04%) MongoDB
5 15 (9.04%) MySQL
6 13 (7.83%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (7.83%) DynamoDB
7 12 (7.23%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (4.22%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.61%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.01%) Hazelcast
10 5 (3.01%) Redis
11 4 (2.41%) Flink
12 3 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.81%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.81%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 103 (62.05%) Git
2 102 (61.45%) Jenkins
3 67 (40.36%) Gradle
4 53 (31.93%) JUnit
5 47 (28.31%) SonarQube
6 42 (25.30%) GitLab
7 29 (17.47%) Mockito
8 23 (13.86%) JIRA
9 16 (9.64%) Selenium
10 14 (8.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (6.63%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (6.63%) REST Assured
12 9 (5.42%) Artifactory
12 9 (5.42%) Cucumber
12 9 (5.42%) GoCD
12 9 (5.42%) JProfiler
13 8 (4.82%) Subversion
14 7 (4.22%) DbUnit
14 7 (4.22%) Gatling
14 7 (4.22%) Postman
General
1 40 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.07%) Finance
3 29 (17.47%) Public Sector
4 25 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (13.86%) Banking
6 11 (6.63%) Publishing
7 3 (1.81%) Front Office
8 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Retail
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (57.23%) Developer
2 75 (45.18%) Java Developer
3 35 (21.08%) Senior
4 28 (16.87%) Senior Developer
5 27 (16.27%) Senior Java Developer
6 20 (12.05%) Java Engineer
7 19 (11.45%) Lead
8 17 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (9.64%) Lead Developer
10 10 (6.02%) Software Engineer
11 9 (5.42%) Lead Java Developer
12 8 (4.82%) Python Engineer
13 7 (4.22%) Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (3.61%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 5 (3.01%) Architect
15 5 (3.01%) Automation Tester
15 5 (3.01%) Backend Developer
15 5 (3.01%) Lead Software Developer
15 5 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
15 5 (3.01%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (59.04%) Spring
1 98 (59.04%) Spring Boot
2 57 (34.34%) REST
3 42 (25.30%) JPA
4 41 (24.70%) RESTful
5 40 (24.10%) Node.js
6 36 (21.69%) Kafka
7 35 (21.08%) React
8 33 (19.88%) Terraform
9 28 (16.87%) HTML
10 27 (16.27%) CSS
11 23 (13.86%) AngularJS
12 22 (13.25%) Hibernate
13 20 (12.05%) Spring MVC
14 19 (11.45%) FreeMarker
15 18 (10.84%) Web Services
16 17 (10.24%) Redux
17 16 (9.64%) ActiveMQ
17 16 (9.64%) JSON
18 15 (9.04%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.65%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.43%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (6.02%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (4.22%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.61%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.67%) Linux
2 8 (4.82%) Unix
3 3 (1.81%) Windows
4 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (68.07%) CI/CD
2 87 (52.41%) DevOps
2 87 (52.41%) Microservices
3 77 (46.39%) Agile
4 59 (35.54%) Scrum
5 50 (30.12%) Test Automation
6 44 (26.51%) Containerisation
7 40 (24.10%) TDD
8 36 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (16.87%) Design Patterns
11 27 (16.27%) Software Engineering
12 26 (15.66%) Event-Driven
13 24 (14.46%) Clean Code
14 21 (12.65%) MVC
14 21 (12.65%) Observability
14 21 (12.65%) OO
14 21 (12.65%) Performance Tuning
15 20 (12.05%) Continuous Integration
16 17 (10.24%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 156 (93.98%) Java
2 72 (43.37%) SQL
3 45 (27.11%) JavaScript
4 32 (19.28%) Python
5 22 (13.25%) Shell Script
6 17 (10.24%) Groovy
7 10 (6.02%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.22%) Bash
9 6 (3.61%) Scala
10 5 (3.01%) Ruby
11 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (39.76%) Security Cleared
2 59 (35.54%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (7.23%) Degree
5 9 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.41%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.27%) QA
2 15 (9.04%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.61%) ISO 20022
4 5 (3.01%) SEPA
5 4 (2.41%) PSD2
6 2 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.20%) SLA
7 1 (0.60%) ITGC
7 1 (0.60%) NIST
7 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 73 (43.98%) Docker
2 5 (3.01%) Postfix
3 3 (1.81%) GridGain
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (45.18%) Kubernetes
2 25 (15.06%) Grafana
3 21 (12.65%) Prometheus
4 16 (9.64%) Ansible
5 9 (5.42%) Argo
6 7 (4.22%) Kibana
7 6 (3.61%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.20%) Podman
8 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 42 (25.30%) Oracle
2 13 (7.83%) Sonatype
3 11 (6.63%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.42%) MuleSoft
5 8 (4.82%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.82%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (4.82%) Splunk
6 6 (3.61%) Google
6 6 (3.61%) IBM
7 5 (3.01%) Sybase
7 5 (3.01%) Veracode
8 4 (2.41%) Solace
9 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.20%) Adobe
10 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.20%) SAP
10 2 (1.20%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.20%) VMware
11 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.60%) TOWER Software