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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 397 445
Rank change year-on-year -91 +48 -175
Contract jobs citing Maven 118 136 143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.03% 3.36% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 77 94
10th Percentile £389 £326 £400
25th Percentile £450 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.39% - -18.40%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £588
90th Percentile £695 £730 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% -11.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 5,819 4,048 5,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 13.81% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,919 2,684 3,558
10th Percentile £340 £335 £356
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 67 197
10th Percentile £35.00 £23.34 £37.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -110 111 £542 +4.64% 31
UK excluding London -77 65 £500 +5.26% 25
London -58 48 £575 +5.99% 11
Midlands -54 23 £540 +27.69% 7
Work from Home -54 23 £518 +1.57% 9
West Midlands -48 21 £540 +26.94% 6
South East -38 19 £450 -30.10% 3
North of England -69 14 £414 -12.95% 11
Yorkshire -53 10 £425 -19.81% 7
South West -17 8 £550 - 1
North West -45 4 £402 -11.89% 4
Scotland +6 2 £438 - 2
East Midlands -40 2 - - 1

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 12 (10.17%) Confluence
2 5 (4.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (4.24%) Apache
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.69%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.69%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.69%) Camunda
4 2 (1.69%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.69%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.85%) Mule
5 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 55 (46.61%) AWS
2 29 (24.58%) GitHub
3 19 (16.10%) Amazon S3
4 18 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (14.41%) Azure
6 15 (12.71%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (10.17%) OpenShift
8 11 (9.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (9.32%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.47%) Serverless
10 9 (7.63%) AWS KMS
10 9 (7.63%) Route 53
11 8 (6.78%) GCP
11 8 (6.78%) npm
12 6 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.39%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.08%) AMQP
2 3 (2.54%) HTTP
3 1 (0.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.85%) Multicast
3 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.71%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (12.71%) DynamoDB
3 11 (9.32%) MySQL
4 10 (8.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (8.47%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.78%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.93%) Tick Data
7 6 (5.08%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.24%) Metadata
8 5 (4.24%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.39%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.54%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.85%) HBase
11 1 (0.85%) Power BI
11 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 61 (51.69%) Git
2 56 (47.46%) Jenkins
3 45 (38.14%) JUnit
4 36 (30.51%) Gradle
5 26 (22.03%) GitLab
6 25 (21.19%) Mockito
7 22 (18.64%) SonarQube
8 20 (16.95%) JIRA
9 16 (13.56%) Cucumber
10 13 (11.02%) Selenium
10 13 (11.02%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (9.32%) Bitbucket
12 10 (8.47%) Postman
13 8 (6.78%) jMock
14 7 (5.93%) DbUnit
14 7 (5.93%) Eclipse
14 7 (5.93%) REST Assured
15 6 (5.08%) Ant
15 6 (5.08%) Cypress.io
16 5 (4.24%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 43 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.25%) Finance
3 15 (12.71%) Public Sector
4 13 (11.02%) Banking
5 8 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.24%) Front Office
7 4 (3.39%) Publishing
7 4 (3.39%) Retail
8 3 (2.54%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (55.93%) Developer
2 55 (46.61%) Java Developer
3 26 (22.03%) Senior
4 15 (12.71%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.02%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (8.47%) Java Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Lead
7 8 (6.78%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Applications Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Fidessa Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.08%) Applications Support Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.39%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.39%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (60.17%) Spring
2 50 (42.37%) Spring Boot
3 33 (27.97%) REST
4 26 (22.03%) JPA
5 24 (20.34%) AngularJS
6 21 (17.80%) Hibernate
7 20 (16.95%) JSON
8 17 (14.41%) React
8 17 (14.41%) RESTful
8 17 (14.41%) Web Services
9 16 (13.56%) Bootstrap
9 16 (13.56%) HTML
10 15 (12.71%) CSS
10 15 (12.71%) Node.js
10 15 (12.71%) SOAP
11 12 (10.17%) Kafka
11 12 (10.17%) Spring Cloud
11 12 (10.17%) XML
12 10 (8.47%) ActiveMQ
12 10 (8.47%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.47%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.93%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (5.93%) Equities
3 7 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.39%) Derivative
5 3 (2.54%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.69%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) TWAP
6 2 (1.69%) VWAP
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
7 1 (0.85%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.27%) Linux
2 7 (5.93%) Unix
3 4 (3.39%) Windows
4 3 (2.54%) CentOS
4 3 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (52.54%) CI/CD
2 49 (41.53%) Microservices
3 47 (39.83%) Agile
4 44 (37.29%) DevOps
5 33 (27.97%) Test Automation
6 28 (23.73%) Containerisation
7 27 (22.88%) Scrum
8 24 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (19.49%) TDD
10 18 (15.25%) Software Engineering
11 15 (12.71%) Mentoring
11 15 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (11.02%) Unit Testing
13 12 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (10.17%) Design Patterns
13 12 (10.17%) MVC
13 12 (10.17%) OO
13 12 (10.17%) OOP
13 12 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (9.32%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 100 (84.75%) Java
2 33 (27.97%) SQL
3 18 (15.25%) Python
4 12 (10.17%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.63%) Groovy
6 5 (4.24%) Shell Script
6 5 (4.24%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.39%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.54%) Go
8 3 (2.54%) Scala
9 2 (1.69%) Bash
10 1 (0.85%) C#
10 1 (0.85%) C++
10 1 (0.85%) Clojure
10 1 (0.85%) R
10 1 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 43 (36.44%) Security Cleared
2 32 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.32%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.39%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.54%) Degree
6 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) QA
2 7 (5.93%) WCAG
3 4 (3.39%) SLA
4 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.54%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.69%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (36.44%) Docker
2 6 (5.08%) Postfix
3 3 (2.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 34 (28.81%) Kubernetes
2 29 (24.58%) Grafana
3 20 (16.95%) Terraform
4 16 (13.56%) Ansible
5 13 (11.02%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.78%) Kibana
7 4 (3.39%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.54%) HP Fortify
8 3 (2.54%) Puppet
9 2 (1.69%) CloudHub
9 2 (1.69%) Podman
10 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (15.25%) Oracle
2 11 (9.32%) Atlassian
3 9 (7.63%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (7.63%) Splunk
4 6 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.08%) Solace
5 5 (4.24%) Sonatype
6 3 (2.54%) VMware
7 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.69%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.69%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.69%) Sybase
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe
8 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.85%) Google
8 1 (0.85%) IBM
8 1 (0.85%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) Thales