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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 398 396
Rank change year-on-year -75 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Maven 208 161 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.49% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.26% 3.17% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 129 102
10th Percentile £324 £283 £363
25th Percentile £413 £360 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £495 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% -6.60% -3.20%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £627 £643 £848
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £446 £493
% change year-on-year +6.55% -9.48% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
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 6,385 5,078 5,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.63% 15.33% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 3,421 3,180
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £689 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 111 172
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.05 £31.43
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £73.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -102 165 £511 +2.61% 147
UK excluding London -65 118 £475 +6.55% 73
London -93 68 £500 -5.66% 91
Work from Home -65 60 £473 -0.53% 56
Midlands -26 54 £575 +32.09% 15
West Midlands -5 51 £575 +15.00% 14
North of England -74 34 £520 +30.00% 20
Yorkshire -24 24 £515 -0.99% 3
Scotland -15 21 £376 -8.85% 15
North West -62 9 £537 +50.00% 14
South East -61 7 £270 -53.85% 4
East Midlands -23 2 £335 -1.47% 1
South West -39 2 £300 -45.45% 9
North East - 1 £520 - 3

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 23 (11.06%) Confluence
2 12 (5.77%) WebLogic
3 9 (4.33%) Camunda
4 6 (2.88%) Apache
5 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.96%) CMS
7 1 (0.48%) JBoss
7 1 (0.48%) nginx
7 1 (0.48%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Finacle
1 1 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 126 (60.58%) AWS
2 55 (26.44%) Azure
3 41 (19.71%) GCP
4 39 (18.75%) GitHub
5 21 (10.10%) Amazon SQS
6 20 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (8.65%) Amazon S3
8 17 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (7.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (6.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (6.73%) OpenShift
12 12 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.77%) Serverless
13 10 (4.81%) Kong
14 9 (4.33%) AWS KMS
14 9 (4.33%) Route 53
15 8 (3.85%) npm
16 7 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (3.37%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.40%) Firewall
2 3 (1.44%) SSL
3 1 (0.48%) DNS
3 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.48%) Internet
3 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (27.88%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (20.67%) Relational Database
3 21 (10.10%) MongoDB
4 20 (9.62%) SQL Server
5 18 (8.65%) MySQL
6 17 (8.17%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (6.25%) DynamoDB
7 13 (6.25%) NoSQL
8 12 (5.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (5.77%) Metadata
9 7 (3.37%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.88%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.40%) Hazelcast
11 5 (2.40%) Redis
12 4 (1.92%) Flink
13 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.44%) MariaDB
13 3 (1.44%) Pinecone
13 3 (1.44%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 138 (66.35%) Git
2 122 (58.65%) Jenkins
3 85 (40.87%) Gradle
4 84 (40.38%) JUnit
5 63 (30.29%) SonarQube
6 62 (29.81%) GitLab
7 59 (28.37%) Mockito
8 38 (18.27%) JIRA
9 21 (10.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 20 (9.62%) Cucumber
11 17 (8.17%) Selenium
12 15 (7.21%) REST Assured
13 14 (6.73%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (4.33%) GoCD
14 9 (4.33%) JProfiler
15 7 (3.37%) Postman
16 6 (2.88%) DbUnit
16 6 (2.88%) JMeter
16 6 (2.88%) Subversion
17 5 (2.40%) IntelliJ
General
1 49 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (18.75%) Finance
3 37 (17.79%) Public Sector
4 32 (15.38%) Banking
5 8 (3.85%) Publishing
6 6 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.96%) Military
8 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Back Office
9 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 123 (59.13%) Developer
2 103 (49.52%) Java Developer
3 42 (20.19%) Senior
4 30 (14.42%) Java Engineer
5 29 (13.94%) Senior Developer
6 28 (13.46%) Senior Java Developer
7 22 (10.58%) Lead
8 21 (10.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (9.62%) Lead Developer
10 13 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
11 10 (4.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 9 (4.33%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 5 (2.40%) Automation Tester
14 5 (2.40%) AWS DevOps
14 5 (2.40%) GCP DevOps
14 5 (2.40%) Lead Software Developer
14 5 (2.40%) Software Developer
14 5 (2.40%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (66.35%) Spring Boot
2 136 (65.38%) Spring
3 85 (40.87%) REST
4 69 (33.17%) JPA
5 57 (27.40%) RESTful
6 48 (23.08%) Kafka
7 47 (22.60%) React
8 43 (20.67%) Node.js
9 41 (19.71%) HTML
10 40 (19.23%) Hibernate
10 40 (19.23%) Terraform
11 36 (17.31%) AngularJS
12 35 (16.83%) CSS
13 31 (14.90%) SOAP
13 31 (14.90%) Web Services
14 25 (12.02%) ActiveMQ
14 25 (12.02%) Spring MVC
15 22 (10.58%) OpenAPI
16 21 (10.10%) Redux
17 19 (9.13%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.46%) Product Ownership
2 27 (12.98%) Cloud Native
3 22 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (8.17%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (5.29%) Data Structures
5 11 (5.29%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (2.40%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.92%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.48%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.67%) Linux
2 13 (6.25%) Unix
3 4 (1.92%) VMS
4 3 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.96%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.48%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (69.71%) CI/CD
2 120 (57.69%) Agile
3 115 (55.29%) Microservices
4 100 (48.08%) DevOps
5 87 (41.83%) Scrum
6 75 (36.06%) Containerisation
7 71 (34.13%) Test Automation
8 58 (27.88%) TDD
9 51 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (17.31%) Clean Code
12 34 (16.35%) Front End Development
12 34 (16.35%) Software Engineering
13 31 (14.90%) Code Quality
13 31 (14.90%) Design Patterns
14 30 (14.42%) Event-Driven
15 26 (12.50%) MVC
15 26 (12.50%) Observability
16 24 (11.54%) User Stories
17 23 (11.06%) OO
Programming Languages
1 198 (95.19%) Java
2 93 (44.71%) SQL
3 57 (27.40%) JavaScript
4 35 (16.83%) Python
4 35 (16.83%) Shell Script
5 23 (11.06%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.65%) Groovy
7 15 (7.21%) Bash
8 6 (2.88%) Scala
9 5 (2.40%) Ruby
10 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (39.42%) Security Cleared
2 73 (35.10%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (11.06%) Degree
5 19 (9.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.92%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.83%) QA
2 16 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.37%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.40%) PSD2
4 5 (2.40%) SEPA
5 2 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.96%) WCAG
6 1 (0.48%) ITGC
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 97 (46.63%) Docker
2 4 (1.92%) Postfix
3 3 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 94 (45.19%) Kubernetes
2 40 (19.23%) Grafana
3 29 (13.94%) Prometheus
4 21 (10.10%) Ansible
5 16 (7.69%) Kibana
6 10 (4.81%) Argo
7 3 (1.44%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.96%) Podman
8 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.96%) Puppet
8 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.48%) Istio
9 1 (0.48%) systemd
Vendors
1 52 (25.00%) Oracle
2 15 (7.21%) Google
3 10 (4.81%) IBM
3 10 (4.81%) Sonatype
4 9 (4.33%) MuleSoft
4 9 (4.33%) Splunk
4 9 (4.33%) Veracode
5 7 (3.37%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (3.37%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.88%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.40%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.92%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.96%) Adobe
10 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.96%) SAP
10 2 (0.96%) Sybase
11 1 (0.48%) Temenos