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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 376 399
Rank change year-on-year -139 +23 -82
Contract jobs citing Maven 150 178 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.55% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.42% 3.74% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 139 112
10th Percentile £330 £276 £400
25th Percentile £447 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £575 £571 £634
90th Percentile £642 £629 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
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 6,197 4,759 5,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 14.60% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,974 3,197 3,430
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 £596 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 102 234
10th Percentile £26.20 £22.45 £26.60
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.75 £64.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -1.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.68 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +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 21 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
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 21 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 -127 119 £513 +9.04% 39
UK excluding London -120 81 £475 +11.76% 24
London -87 52 £550 +8.37% 19
Work from Home -87 36 £475 - 17
North of England -83 30 £500 +24.38% 4
Midlands -57 27 £493 +16.63% 12
Yorkshire -43 25 £500 -3.80% 1
West Midlands -51 24 £493 +2.66% 11
Scotland -13 11 £353 -14.42% 3
South East -65 11 £273 -55.25% 5
North West -64 4 £475 +32.68% 3
East Midlands -25 2 - - 1
South West -38 2 £525 -4.55%
North East -45 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 7 (4.67%) Confluence
2 6 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (3.33%) Apache
4 4 (2.67%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.33%) Camunda
5 2 (1.33%) CMS
5 2 (1.33%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.33%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.67%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.67%) JBoss
6 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (64.00%) AWS
2 44 (29.33%) Azure
3 36 (24.00%) GitHub
4 29 (19.33%) GCP
5 25 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
6 24 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (16.00%) Amazon S3
7 22 (14.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (12.00%) AWS KMS
8 18 (12.00%) Route 53
9 9 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.00%) OCI
10 6 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (4.00%) Kong
11 5 (3.33%) Amazon Cognito
11 5 (3.33%) Apigee
11 5 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.33%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (32.67%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (17.33%) DynamoDB
3 24 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (15.33%) Relational Database
5 19 (12.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 16 (10.67%) Metadata
6 16 (10.67%) MySQL
7 15 (10.00%) SQL Server
8 12 (8.00%) MongoDB
9 6 (4.00%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.67%) Flink
10 4 (2.67%) Hazelcast
10 4 (2.67%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.67%) Redis
11 3 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.00%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 90 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 89 (59.33%) Git
3 58 (38.67%) Gradle
4 51 (34.00%) JUnit
5 45 (30.00%) SonarQube
6 28 (18.67%) Mockito
7 26 (17.33%) GitLab
8 15 (10.00%) JIRA
9 14 (9.33%) DbUnit
10 13 (8.67%) Bitbucket Server
10 13 (8.67%) jMock
11 12 (8.00%) REST Assured
12 11 (7.33%) Cucumber
12 11 (7.33%) Subversion
13 10 (6.67%) Postman
14 9 (6.00%) Gatling
14 9 (6.00%) Selenium
15 8 (5.33%) Artifactory
15 8 (5.33%) TestNG
16 7 (4.67%) JProfiler
General
1 45 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.00%) Public Sector
3 22 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.00%) Finance
5 14 (9.33%) Banking
6 9 (6.00%) Publishing
7 4 (2.67%) Retail
8 3 (2.00%) Front Office
8 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (62.67%) Developer
2 77 (51.33%) Java Developer
3 33 (22.00%) Senior
4 27 (18.00%) Senior Developer
5 26 (17.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 15 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.00%) Lead
7 14 (9.33%) Lead Developer
8 10 (6.67%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) Lead Java Developer
9 8 (5.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 7 (4.67%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Applications Developer
11 5 (3.33%) Architect
11 5 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.33%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Lead Software Developer
11 5 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (62.00%) Spring
2 86 (57.33%) Spring Boot
3 55 (36.67%) REST
4 41 (27.33%) RESTful
5 39 (26.00%) JPA
6 36 (24.00%) Node.js
7 29 (19.33%) AngularJS
7 29 (19.33%) Web Services
8 28 (18.67%) Hibernate
9 24 (16.00%) Kafka
10 22 (14.67%) ActiveMQ
10 22 (14.67%) React
10 22 (14.67%) SOAP
11 21 (14.00%) Spring Cloud
12 20 (13.33%) Bootstrap
12 20 (13.33%) CSS
13 18 (12.00%) HTML
13 18 (12.00%) Spring Batch
13 18 (12.00%) Spring Integration
13 18 (12.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.33%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (10.67%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.67%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.33%) 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 32 (21.33%) Linux
2 9 (6.00%) Unix
3 5 (3.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.67%) Android
4 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (68.67%) CI/CD
2 81 (54.00%) DevOps
3 77 (51.33%) Microservices
4 63 (42.00%) Agile
5 51 (34.00%) Scrum
6 42 (28.00%) Containerisation
7 41 (27.33%) TDD
8 40 (26.67%) Test Automation
9 29 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (18.00%) Performance Tuning
11 24 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (15.33%) Design Patterns
13 22 (14.67%) BDD
13 22 (14.67%) Event-Driven
14 20 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (12.67%) MVC
15 19 (12.67%) Software Engineering
16 17 (11.33%) OO
16 17 (11.33%) OOP
17 16 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (94.00%) Java
2 66 (44.00%) SQL
3 29 (19.33%) JavaScript
4 26 (17.33%) Python
5 15 (10.00%) Groovy
6 10 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.00%) Scala
8 4 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.00%) Bash
9 3 (2.00%) Ruby
10 2 (1.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 58 (38.67%) Security Cleared
2 53 (35.33%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (6.00%) Degree
5 7 (4.67%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.33%) QA
2 12 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.67%) SLA
4 3 (2.00%) SEPA
5 2 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.33%) 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 70 (46.67%) Docker
2 11 (7.33%) Postfix
3 3 (2.00%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 60 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 28 (18.67%) Terraform
3 27 (18.00%) Grafana
4 15 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.67%) Ansible
6 6 (4.00%) Argo
6 6 (4.00%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.33%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.33%) Kibana
8 1 (0.67%) Podman
8 1 (0.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (21.33%) Oracle
2 18 (12.00%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.33%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (8.00%) Sonatype
5 11 (7.33%) Microsoft
6 7 (4.67%) Google
6 7 (4.67%) Splunk
7 6 (4.00%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.33%) Sybase
9 4 (2.67%) IBM
9 4 (2.67%) Solace
10 2 (1.33%) Adobe
10 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.33%) SAP
10 2 (1.33%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.33%) Veracode
10 2 (1.33%) VMware
11 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.67%) Thales
11 1 (0.67%) TOWER Software