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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 383 454
Rank change year-on-year -106 +71 -192
Contract jobs citing Maven 123 136 148
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.46% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.14% 3.35% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 77 97
10th Percentile £400 £340 £400
25th Percentile £450 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -2.86% -16.33%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £594
90th Percentile £695 £730 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +10.53% +1.33% -14.77%
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 5,760 4,054 5,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.58% 13.71% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 2,661 3,613
10th Percentile £342 £330 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £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 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 70 209
10th Percentile £34.53 £24.59 £37.50
25th Percentile £54.69 £47.63 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £73.65
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -89 116 £546 +7.01% 30
UK excluding London -79 69 £525 +10.53% 22
London -49 50 £575 +5.50% 2
Midlands -59 24 £542 +28.93% 10
Work from Home -51 22 £536 +3.08% 10
West Midlands -52 22 £542 +27.41% 10
South East -29 19 £450 -30.10% 2
North of England -68 14 £414 -11.55% 7
South West -20 10 £550 +6.28% 2
Yorkshire -50 10 £425 -19.81% 4
North West -43 4 £402 -8.11% 3
Scotland +2 3 £438 -16.27%
East Midlands -32 2 - -

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 (9.76%) Confluence
2 5 (4.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (4.07%) Apache
3 4 (3.25%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.44%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.63%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.63%) Apache TomEE
5 2 (1.63%) Camunda
5 2 (1.63%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.81%) JBoss
6 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.81%) Mule
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 58 (47.15%) AWS
2 30 (24.39%) GitHub
3 20 (16.26%) Azure
4 19 (15.45%) Amazon S3
5 18 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (13.01%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (11.38%) OpenShift
8 11 (8.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (8.94%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (8.94%) GCP
8 11 (8.94%) npm
9 10 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.13%) Serverless
10 9 (7.32%) AWS KMS
10 9 (7.32%) Route 53
11 8 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (3.25%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.69%) AMQP
2 3 (2.44%) HTTP
3 2 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) Firewall
4 1 (0.81%) Multicast
4 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.89%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (12.20%) DynamoDB
3 12 (9.76%) Relational Database
4 11 (8.94%) MySQL
5 10 (8.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (7.32%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.69%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.69%) Tick Data
8 6 (4.88%) RDBMS
8 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
9 5 (4.07%) Metadata
10 4 (3.25%) Oracle Database
11 3 (2.44%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.81%) HBase
12 1 (0.81%) Power BI
12 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (52.85%) Git
2 58 (47.15%) Jenkins
3 46 (37.40%) JUnit
4 39 (31.71%) Gradle
5 29 (23.58%) GitLab
6 25 (20.33%) Mockito
7 23 (18.70%) SonarQube
8 20 (16.26%) JIRA
9 17 (13.82%) Cucumber
10 16 (13.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (11.38%) Selenium
12 12 (9.76%) Bitbucket
13 11 (8.94%) Postman
14 8 (6.50%) Cypress.io
14 8 (6.50%) jMock
15 7 (5.69%) DbUnit
15 7 (5.69%) Eclipse
15 7 (5.69%) REST Assured
16 6 (4.88%) Ant
17 5 (4.07%) Subversion
General
1 43 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.26%) Finance
3 15 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.38%) Banking
5 9 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.07%) Front Office
7 4 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.25%) Publishing
7 4 (3.25%) Retail
8 3 (2.44%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Law
9 1 (0.81%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (53.66%) Developer
2 55 (44.72%) Java Developer
3 26 (21.14%) Senior
4 15 (12.20%) Senior Developer
5 13 (10.57%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Java Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Lead
7 9 (7.32%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.50%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (5.69%) Applications Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Applications Support
9 7 (5.69%) Applications Support Engineer
9 7 (5.69%) Fidessa Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (4.07%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.25%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.25%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (58.54%) Spring
2 50 (40.65%) Spring Boot
3 34 (27.64%) REST
4 25 (20.33%) AngularJS
4 25 (20.33%) JPA
5 22 (17.89%) Hibernate
6 21 (17.07%) JSON
7 19 (15.45%) React
7 19 (15.45%) RESTful
8 17 (13.82%) Web Services
9 16 (13.01%) Bootstrap
9 16 (13.01%) HTML
10 15 (12.20%) CSS
10 15 (12.20%) Node.js
10 15 (12.20%) SOAP
11 13 (10.57%) Kafka
12 12 (9.76%) Spring Cloud
12 12 (9.76%) XML
13 10 (8.13%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (8.13%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.94%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.69%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (5.69%) Equities
5 5 (4.07%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.25%) Derivative
7 3 (2.44%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.63%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.63%) TWAP
8 2 (1.63%) VWAP
9 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.81%) Replication
9 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.81%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 35 (28.46%) Linux
2 8 (6.50%) Unix
3 6 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.07%) Windows
5 4 (3.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.81%) Android
6 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.81%) Solaris
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (55.28%) CI/CD
2 52 (42.28%) Microservices
3 48 (39.02%) Agile
3 48 (39.02%) DevOps
4 36 (29.27%) Test Automation
5 30 (24.39%) Containerisation
6 27 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (21.95%) Scrum
7 23 (18.70%) TDD
8 20 (16.26%) Software Engineering
9 17 (13.82%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (10.57%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (10.57%) OOP
12 12 (9.76%) MVC
12 12 (9.76%) OO
12 12 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (9.76%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (9.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 102 (82.93%) Java
2 33 (26.83%) SQL
3 20 (16.26%) Python
4 13 (10.57%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.32%) Groovy
6 6 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.07%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.25%) Bash
8 4 (3.25%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.44%) Go
9 3 (2.44%) Scala
10 1 (0.81%) C#
10 1 (0.81%) C++
10 1 (0.81%) Clojure
10 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.81%) R
10 1 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (37.40%) Security Cleared
2 33 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.57%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.25%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.44%) Degree
6 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.50%) QA
2 7 (5.69%) WCAG
3 4 (3.25%) SLA
4 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.44%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.63%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.63%) NCSC
6 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 47 (38.21%) Docker
2 6 (4.88%) Postfix
3 3 (2.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 38 (30.89%) Kubernetes
2 31 (25.20%) Grafana
3 24 (19.51%) Terraform
4 19 (15.45%) Ansible
5 14 (11.38%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.50%) Kibana
7 5 (4.07%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.25%) Puppet
9 3 (2.44%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.44%) Podman
10 2 (1.63%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (16.26%) Oracle
2 11 (8.94%) Atlassian
3 10 (8.13%) Splunk
4 9 (7.32%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (4.88%) Solace
6 5 (4.07%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.07%) Sonatype
7 3 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.44%) VMware
8 2 (1.63%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.63%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.63%) Sybase
9 1 (0.81%) Adobe
9 1 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.81%) IBM
9 1 (0.81%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.81%) Thales
9 1 (0.81%) TOWER Software