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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 381 420
Rank change year-on-year -120 +39 -98
Contract jobs citing Maven 149 180 168
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.40% 3.82% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 141 107
10th Percentile £350 £276 £400
25th Percentile £448 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £588
90th Percentile £680 £625 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £424 £490
% change year-on-year +12.03% -13.47% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £59.00 £63.25 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
75th Percentile - £69.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -

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 6,212 4,717 5,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 14.54% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,004 3,168 3,532
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 101 247
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.05 £29.95
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +5.69%

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 July 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 15 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Maven in the UK

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 15 July 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 -151 122 £513 +7.89% 42
UK excluding London -122 79 £475 +12.03% 42
London -86 55 £550 +6.54% 10
Work from Home -93 36 £488 +2.63% 39
Midlands -64 28 £524 +23.91% 11
North of England -86 27 £488 +21.27% 8
West Midlands -61 25 £524 +9.06% 7
Yorkshire -47 22 £488 -6.20% 2
South East -56 14 £325 -46.72% 7
Scotland -8 9 £353 -14.42% 6
North West -61 4 £475 +32.68% 6
East Midlands -25 2 - - 4
South West -33 2 £525 -4.55% 3
North East -42 1 £520 +11.83%

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 6 (4.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 6 (4.03%) Apache
1 6 (4.03%) Confluence
2 4 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.34%) CMS
3 2 (1.34%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.34%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.67%) Camunda
4 1 (0.67%) JBoss
4 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 94 (63.09%) AWS
2 42 (28.19%) Azure
3 40 (26.85%) GitHub
4 27 (18.12%) GCP
5 25 (16.78%) Amazon SQS
6 24 (16.11%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (16.11%) Amazon S3
7 23 (15.44%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (14.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (12.08%) AWS KMS
9 18 (12.08%) Route 53
10 9 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.70%) OCI
12 6 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (4.03%) Kong
13 5 (3.36%) Amazon Cognito
13 5 (3.36%) Apigee
13 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.36%) Serverless
14 4 (2.68%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (32.89%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (17.45%) DynamoDB
3 24 (16.11%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (14.77%) Relational Database
5 19 (12.75%) Amazon Aurora
6 16 (10.74%) MySQL
7 15 (10.07%) Metadata
8 14 (9.40%) SQL Server
9 10 (6.71%) MongoDB
10 5 (3.36%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.68%) Flink
11 4 (2.68%) Hazelcast
11 4 (2.68%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.68%) Redis
12 3 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 89 (59.73%) Git
2 85 (57.05%) Jenkins
3 60 (40.27%) Gradle
4 53 (35.57%) JUnit
5 43 (28.86%) SonarQube
6 28 (18.79%) Mockito
7 25 (16.78%) GitLab
8 14 (9.40%) DbUnit
8 14 (9.40%) JIRA
9 13 (8.72%) jMock
10 12 (8.05%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (7.38%) Cucumber
11 11 (7.38%) REST Assured
12 10 (6.71%) Postman
13 9 (6.04%) Gatling
13 9 (6.04%) Selenium
13 9 (6.04%) Subversion
14 8 (5.37%) Artifactory
14 8 (5.37%) TestNG
15 7 (4.70%) Bitbucket
General
1 46 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.15%) Public Sector
3 23 (15.44%) Finance
4 21 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.40%) Banking
6 7 (4.70%) Publishing
7 4 (2.68%) Retail
8 3 (2.01%) Front Office
8 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (61.07%) Developer
2 75 (50.34%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.48%) Senior
4 26 (17.45%) Senior Developer
5 25 (16.78%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (9.40%) Lead
7 13 (8.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.72%) Java Engineer
7 13 (8.72%) Lead Developer
8 9 (6.04%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 7 (4.70%) Lead Java Developer
11 6 (4.03%) Applications Developer
12 5 (3.36%) Architect
12 5 (3.36%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) Lead Software Developer
12 5 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) Software Developer
13 4 (2.68%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (63.09%) Spring
2 83 (55.70%) Spring Boot
3 51 (34.23%) REST
4 41 (27.52%) RESTful
5 37 (24.83%) JPA
6 32 (21.48%) Node.js
7 29 (19.46%) Web Services
8 28 (18.79%) AngularJS
8 28 (18.79%) Hibernate
9 22 (14.77%) ActiveMQ
9 22 (14.77%) Kafka
9 22 (14.77%) SOAP
10 21 (14.09%) Spring Cloud
11 20 (13.42%) Bootstrap
12 18 (12.08%) React
12 18 (12.08%) Spring Batch
12 18 (12.08%) Spring Integration
12 18 (12.08%) Spring MVC
13 17 (11.41%) CSS
14 15 (10.07%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.45%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (9.40%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.68%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.34%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.34%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.67%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.82%) Linux
2 9 (6.04%) Unix
3 5 (3.36%) Windows
4 1 (0.67%) Android
4 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (67.11%) CI/CD
2 82 (55.03%) DevOps
3 76 (51.01%) Microservices
4 60 (40.27%) Agile
5 47 (31.54%) Scrum
6 42 (28.19%) TDD
7 41 (27.52%) Containerisation
8 38 (25.50%) Test Automation
9 27 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (16.78%) Performance Tuning
11 24 (16.11%) Event-Driven
12 22 (14.77%) BDD
12 22 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (14.77%) Design Patterns
13 21 (14.09%) Software Engineering
14 19 (12.75%) MVC
15 18 (12.08%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (12.08%) OOP
16 17 (11.41%) Kanban
17 16 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (92.62%) Java
2 66 (44.30%) SQL
3 26 (17.45%) JavaScript
3 26 (17.45%) Python
4 14 (9.40%) Groovy
5 10 (6.71%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.03%) Scala
7 4 (2.68%) Bash
7 4 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (38.93%) Security Cleared
2 52 (34.90%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.37%) Degree
5 7 (4.70%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.36%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.78%) QA
2 11 (7.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.68%) SLA
4 3 (2.01%) SEPA
5 2 (1.34%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.34%) PSD2
6 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) GDPR
6 1 (0.67%) ITGC
6 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (45.64%) Docker
2 11 (7.38%) Postfix
3 3 (2.01%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 55 (36.91%) Kubernetes
2 27 (18.12%) Terraform
3 26 (17.45%) Grafana
4 14 (9.40%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.71%) Ansible
6 6 (4.03%) Argo
6 6 (4.03%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.34%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.34%) Kibana
8 1 (0.67%) Podman
8 1 (0.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (20.81%) Oracle
2 18 (12.08%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.41%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (8.72%) Microsoft
5 11 (7.38%) Sonatype
6 10 (6.71%) Splunk
7 7 (4.70%) Google
8 5 (3.36%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.36%) Sybase
9 4 (2.68%) Solace
10 3 (2.01%) IBM
11 2 (1.34%) Adobe
11 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.34%) SAP
11 2 (1.34%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.34%) VMware
12 1 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
12 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.67%) TOWER Software
12 1 (0.67%) Veracode