Maven Contracts

Apache Maven
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Maven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Maven over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 414 313
Rank change year-on-year +41 -101 -94
Contract jobs citing Maven 179 161 457
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.37% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.86% 2.99% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 106 342
10th Percentile £276 £400 £450
25th Percentile £358 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £738
90th Percentile £622 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -13.67% -4.39% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 19
10th Percentile £63.25 - £65.50
25th Percentile £64.38 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £69.38 - £78.00
90th Percentile £69.75 - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £73.75
% change year-on-year - - +47.50%

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 4,633 5,388 7,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.57% 12.43% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,104 3,565 5,580
10th Percentile £330 £351 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £693 £725 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 251 238
10th Percentile £21.10 £31.25 £45.83
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.44 £85.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Maven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Maven.

Daily rate trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Maven.

Hourly rate trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Top 15 Contract 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 5 July 2025. 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 +90 159 £475 -3.06% 263
UK excluding London +75 96 £423 -13.67% 155
London +35 74 £530 +6.00% 137
Work from Home +41 67 £500 - 94
Midlands +45 40 £425 -27.35% 24
North of England +35 40 £402 -7.80% 39
West Midlands +31 25 £485 +15.48% 13
North West +21 21 £358 -22.68% 25
East Midlands +16 15 £333 -55.60% 11
Yorkshire +13 15 £520 +20.31% 12
Scotland -5 9 £413 -33.73% 15
South East +31 5 £585 +1.74% 28
North East - 4 £465 - 2
South West +27 2 £513 +13.89% 23
Northern Ireland -20 2 £325 -45.83% 11

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (11.73%) Confluence
2 13 (7.26%) JBoss
3 10 (5.59%) Tomcat
4 7 (3.91%) WebSphere
5 4 (2.23%) WebLogic
5 4 (2.23%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.68%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.68%) CICS
7 2 (1.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.56%) Mule
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 95 (53.07%) AWS
2 34 (18.99%) Azure
3 20 (11.17%) Amazon EC2
3 20 (11.17%) Amazon SQS
3 20 (11.17%) OpenShift
4 19 (10.61%) Amazon S3
5 14 (7.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (7.82%) GCP
6 13 (7.26%) GitHub
7 10 (5.59%) AWS KMS
7 10 (5.59%) Kong
7 10 (5.59%) Route 53
8 7 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.91%) Serverless
9 6 (3.35%) AWS Fargate
9 6 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.79%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.79%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.35%) Firewall
2 4 (2.23%) Calico
2 4 (2.23%) HTTP
3 2 (1.12%) DHCP
3 2 (1.12%) DMZ
3 2 (1.12%) DNS
3 2 (1.12%) Internet
3 2 (1.12%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.12%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (1.12%) SAN
3 2 (1.12%) SSL
3 2 (1.12%) VLAN
3 2 (1.12%) VPN
4 1 (0.56%) AMQP
4 1 (0.56%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.56%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (30.17%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (16.20%) MongoDB
3 20 (11.17%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (11.17%) MySQL
4 18 (10.06%) DynamoDB
5 17 (9.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (8.38%) NoSQL
6 15 (8.38%) Relational Database
7 11 (6.15%) SQL Server
8 9 (5.03%) Redis
9 7 (3.91%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.23%) DB2
10 4 (2.23%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.68%) Hazelcast
12 2 (1.12%) Big Data
12 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.12%) HPCC
13 1 (0.56%) Aerospike
13 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 105 (58.66%) Jenkins
2 98 (54.75%) Git
3 82 (45.81%) JUnit
4 57 (31.84%) Gradle
5 44 (24.58%) SonarQube
6 41 (22.91%) GitLab
6 41 (22.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 39 (21.79%) JIRA
8 36 (20.11%) Mockito
9 34 (18.99%) Cucumber
9 34 (18.99%) IntelliJ
10 31 (17.32%) Selenium
11 16 (8.94%) Bitbucket
12 15 (8.38%) Postman
13 13 (7.26%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (6.15%) Artifactory
14 11 (6.15%) Eclipse
14 11 (6.15%) REST Assured
14 11 (6.15%) Subversion
15 9 (5.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 37 (20.67%) Finance
2 31 (17.32%) Social Skills
3 30 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.97%) Banking
5 23 (12.85%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.91%) Front Office
6 7 (3.91%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.68%) Back Office
8 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.12%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Advertising
9 1 (0.56%) Aviation
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Military
9 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (61.45%) Developer
2 75 (41.90%) Java Developer
3 25 (13.97%) Full-Stack Developer
4 21 (11.73%) Senior
5 18 (10.06%) Lead
6 16 (8.94%) AWS Developer
7 14 (7.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 14 (7.82%) Senior Developer
8 13 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.70%) Lead Developer
10 11 (6.15%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (5.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (5.59%) Java Engineer
11 10 (5.59%) Lead Java Developer
12 9 (5.03%) Tester
13 7 (3.91%) Architect
13 7 (3.91%) Automation Tester
13 7 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Software Engineer
14 5 (2.79%) DevOps Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (56.42%) Spring
2 97 (54.19%) Spring Boot
3 50 (27.93%) Hibernate
4 44 (24.58%) JPA
5 41 (22.91%) REST
6 37 (20.67%) RESTful
7 35 (19.55%) AngularJS
8 31 (17.32%) SOAP
9 30 (16.76%) Web Services
10 28 (15.64%) HTML
11 27 (15.08%) Kafka
11 27 (15.08%) Node.js
12 25 (13.97%) CSS
13 24 (13.41%) React
14 21 (11.73%) Spring Cloud
15 20 (11.17%) ActiveMQ
16 19 (10.61%) Bootstrap
16 19 (10.61%) J2EE
17 17 (9.50%) Spring Integration
18 16 (8.94%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.91%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.79%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.79%) Equities
3 5 (2.79%) PKI
4 4 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.68%) VSAM
6 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.12%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.12%) Clustering
6 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.12%) Derivative
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.12%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.12%) IVR
6 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (24.02%) Linux
2 27 (15.08%) Unix
3 8 (4.47%) Windows
4 5 (2.79%) Android
4 5 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.23%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.68%) CentOS
7 2 (1.12%) Debian
7 2 (1.12%) Solaris
7 2 (1.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (47.49%) Microservices
2 77 (43.02%) CI/CD
3 72 (40.22%) DevOps
4 70 (39.11%) Agile
5 55 (30.73%) TDD
6 46 (25.70%) Test Automation
7 34 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (17.88%) Containerisation
9 30 (16.76%) Scrum
10 29 (16.20%) Design Patterns
10 29 (16.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 26 (14.53%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (11.17%) BDD
12 20 (11.17%) Code Quality
12 20 (11.17%) Open Source
12 20 (11.17%) Software Engineering
13 18 (10.06%) Unit Testing
14 17 (9.50%) Mentoring
15 16 (8.94%) MVC
16 15 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 151 (84.36%) Java
2 69 (38.55%) SQL
3 45 (25.14%) JavaScript
4 27 (15.08%) Shell Script
5 25 (13.97%) Python
6 19 (10.61%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.59%) Bash
7 10 (5.59%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.35%) Groovy
9 4 (2.23%) C#
9 4 (2.23%) COBOL
9 4 (2.23%) JCL
9 4 (2.23%) Perl
10 3 (1.68%) C
10 3 (1.68%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.12%) C++
11 2 (1.12%) Go
11 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.56%) Ada
12 1 (0.56%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 46 (25.70%) Security Cleared
2 42 (23.46%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.91%) Degree
4 6 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.85%) QA
2 6 (3.35%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.35%) WCAG
3 2 (1.12%) SLA
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 78 (43.58%) Docker
2 9 (5.03%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 46 (25.70%) Kubernetes
2 28 (15.64%) Terraform
3 20 (11.17%) Grafana
3 20 (11.17%) Prometheus
4 14 (7.82%) Puppet
5 12 (6.70%) Ansible
6 9 (5.03%) Istio
7 7 (3.91%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.23%) Control-M
9 3 (1.68%) Argo
9 3 (1.68%) CloudHub
9 3 (1.68%) Kibana
9 3 (1.68%) Rundeck
10 2 (1.12%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.12%) Nessus
10 2 (1.12%) Podman
11 1 (0.56%) Graylog
11 1 (0.56%) Packer
11 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (15.64%) Oracle
2 17 (9.50%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.82%) CA Agile Central
4 11 (6.15%) Splunk
5 10 (5.59%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (5.03%) Atlassian
6 9 (5.03%) Veracode
7 6 (3.35%) Google
7 6 (3.35%) IBM
7 6 (3.35%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.79%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.23%) Sybase
10 3 (1.68%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.68%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.12%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.12%) Remedy
11 2 (1.12%) Sophos
11 2 (1.12%) VMware