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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 369 435
Rank change year-on-year -154 +66 -149
Contract jobs citing Maven 116 151 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.52% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.99% 3.63% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 109 91
10th Percentile £368 £323 £400
25th Percentile £462 £381 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -1.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £617 £575 £578
90th Percentile £754 £665 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £525
% change year-on-year +2.15% -11.43% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
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 5,843 4,164 5,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 14.45% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,819 2,803 3,447
10th Percentile £350 £338 £353
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 71 216
10th Percentile £34.74 £25.00 £29.63
25th Percentile £54.06 £47.21 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £71.94 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £77.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -136 110 £537 +7.30% 23
UK excluding London -104 71 £475 +2.15% 17
London -78 43 £610 +15.55% 7
North of England -79 28 £461 -3.40% 7
Midlands -74 27 £537 +25.64% 4
Yorkshire -49 24 £473 -9.09% 5
West Midlands -60 24 £537 +11.77% 3
Work from Home -82 21 £475 -5.00% 14
South East -50 13 £360 -44.58% 1
North West -47 4 £402 +5.79% 2
South West - 3 £550 - 3
East Midlands -35 2 - - 1
Scotland -10 1 - - 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 7 (6.03%) Confluence
2 6 (5.17%) Apache
3 4 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.59%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.72%) Camunda
5 2 (1.72%) JBoss
6 1 (0.86%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (55.17%) AWS
2 35 (30.17%) GitHub
3 30 (25.86%) Azure
4 25 (21.55%) Amazon S3
5 23 (19.83%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (19.83%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (18.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (16.38%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (15.52%) AWS KMS
8 18 (15.52%) Route 53
9 17 (14.66%) GCP
10 7 (6.03%) OpenShift
11 6 (5.17%) Apigee
11 6 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (5.17%) Serverless
12 5 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.31%) OCI
13 4 (3.45%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) AMQP
1 2 (1.72%) HTTP
2 1 (0.86%) Internet
2 1 (0.86%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (30.17%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (23.28%) DynamoDB
3 22 (18.97%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (15.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (11.21%) Relational Database
6 10 (8.62%) MySQL
6 10 (8.62%) SQL Server
7 9 (7.76%) Metadata
7 9 (7.76%) MongoDB
8 6 (5.17%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.45%) Flink
9 4 (3.45%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.45%) Redis
10 3 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.59%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.86%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 68 (58.62%) Jenkins
2 57 (49.14%) Git
3 43 (37.07%) JUnit
4 39 (33.62%) Gradle
5 38 (32.76%) SonarQube
6 26 (22.41%) Mockito
7 16 (13.79%) GitLab
8 14 (12.07%) DbUnit
9 13 (11.21%) JIRA
9 13 (11.21%) jMock
10 11 (9.48%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (7.76%) Artifactory
11 9 (7.76%) Cucumber
11 9 (7.76%) Gatling
11 9 (7.76%) Selenium
11 9 (7.76%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (6.90%) Postman
13 7 (6.03%) REST Assured
14 6 (5.17%) Cypress.io
14 6 (5.17%) Eclipse
General
1 38 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.97%) Public Sector
3 18 (15.52%) Finance
4 12 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.48%) Banking
6 5 (4.31%) Front Office
6 5 (4.31%) Publishing
7 4 (3.45%) Retail
8 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (53.45%) Developer
2 54 (46.55%) Java Developer
3 33 (28.45%) Senior
4 25 (21.55%) Senior Developer
5 24 (20.69%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (10.34%) Java Engineer
7 11 (9.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.76%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.90%) Lead
10 6 (5.17%) Applications Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Architect
11 5 (4.31%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.45%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Senior Backend Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (59.48%) Spring
2 53 (45.69%) Spring Boot
3 34 (29.31%) REST
4 30 (25.86%) JPA
5 25 (21.55%) AngularJS
5 25 (21.55%) Web Services
6 24 (20.69%) Hibernate
7 23 (19.83%) RESTful
7 23 (19.83%) SOAP
8 22 (18.97%) Spring Cloud
9 21 (18.10%) Node.js
10 19 (16.38%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (15.52%) Spring Batch
11 18 (15.52%) Spring Integration
12 17 (14.66%) Bootstrap
13 13 (11.21%) JSON
13 13 (11.21%) Kafka
13 13 (11.21%) PowerMock
14 12 (10.34%) Playwright
15 10 (8.62%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.10%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.03%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.17%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.59%) Equities
4 3 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.72%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.86%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.86%) Derivative
6 1 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.86%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (0.86%) TWAP
6 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.86%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 33 (28.45%) Linux
2 8 (6.90%) Unix
3 5 (4.31%) Windows
4 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.86%) Android
5 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.86%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (56.03%) CI/CD
2 60 (51.72%) DevOps
3 52 (44.83%) Microservices
4 39 (33.62%) Agile
5 37 (31.90%) Containerisation
6 33 (28.45%) TDD
7 30 (25.86%) Scrum
7 30 (25.86%) Test Automation
8 23 (19.83%) Performance Tuning
8 23 (19.83%) Software Engineering
9 18 (15.52%) BDD
10 17 (14.66%) Event-Driven
10 17 (14.66%) Kanban
10 17 (14.66%) Observability
11 16 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (12.07%) BPMN
12 14 (12.07%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (12.07%) Design Patterns
13 13 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (9.48%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 102 (87.93%) Java
2 48 (41.38%) SQL
3 23 (19.83%) Python
4 12 (10.34%) Groovy
5 8 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.03%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.17%) Scala
8 3 (2.59%) Bash
8 3 (2.59%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.59%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (33.62%) Security Cleared
2 33 (28.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.03%) Degree
4 5 (4.31%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.31%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.31%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.21%) QA
2 4 (3.45%) SLA
3 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.59%) SEPA
4 2 (1.72%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.72%) NCSC
4 2 (1.72%) PSD2
5 1 (0.86%) GDPR
5 1 (0.86%) ITGC
5 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (50.86%) Docker
2 11 (9.48%) Postfix
3 3 (2.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.59%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 41 (35.34%) Kubernetes
2 30 (25.86%) Grafana
3 26 (22.41%) Terraform
4 16 (13.79%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.17%) Argo
5 6 (5.17%) HAProxy
6 5 (4.31%) Ansible
7 3 (2.59%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.72%) Kibana
8 2 (1.72%) Podman
8 2 (1.72%) Puppet
9 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (15.52%) Atlassian
2 17 (14.66%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.34%) Oracle
4 9 (7.76%) Sonatype
5 7 (6.03%) Splunk
6 5 (4.31%) Solace
7 3 (2.59%) Sybase
8 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.86%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.86%) Google
9 1 (0.86%) IBM
9 1 (0.86%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.86%) Thales
9 1 (0.86%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.86%) VMware