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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 395 452
Rank change year-on-year -76 +57 -198
Contract jobs citing Maven 124 140 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.44% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.24% 3.28% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 75 93
10th Percentile £375 £352 £400
25th Percentile £450 £433 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -16.00%
75th Percentile £615 £656 £600
90th Percentile £695 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +7.50% +2.56% -10.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 5,534 4,271 5,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.38% 13.57% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,677 3,735
10th Percentile £345 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.63%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 70 209
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.48 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.38 £89.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -79 117 £550 +1.85% 36
UK excluding London -70 61 £538 +7.50% 29
London -29 58 £575 +4.55% 14
Work from Home -31 26 £536 +9.95% 15
North of England -63 20 £498 +13.83% 11
West Midlands -28 15 £571 +17.73% 6
Midlands -49 15 £571 +17.73% 6
South East -23 13 £450 -30.10% 7
Yorkshire -43 11 £425 -23.43% 5
South West -18 10 £550 -15.38% 3
North West -32 9 £575 +31.43% 6
Scotland -4 3 £438 -16.27% 2
Northern Ireland -6 1 £425 +30.77%

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 8 (6.45%) Confluence
2 5 (4.03%) Apache
2 5 (4.03%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.61%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.61%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.61%) Camunda
4 2 (1.61%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.81%) JBoss
5 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.81%) Mule
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.65%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.55%) AWS
2 33 (26.61%) GitHub
3 31 (25.00%) Azure
4 19 (15.32%) GCP
5 16 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (12.90%) OpenShift
6 14 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (11.29%) npm
6 14 (11.29%) Serverless
7 13 (10.48%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (8.87%) Datadog
10 10 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (7.26%) Apigee
11 9 (7.26%) AWS Fargate
11 9 (7.26%) Azure AKS
12 8 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (6.45%) Amazon S3
12 8 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (5.65%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) AMQP
2 2 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) Firewall
3 1 (0.81%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.81%) HTTP
3 1 (0.81%) Multicast
3 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.52%) Relational Database
2 17 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.48%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (10.48%) MySQL
3 13 (10.48%) NoSQL
3 13 (10.48%) RDBMS
4 11 (8.87%) MongoDB
5 10 (8.06%) DynamoDB
6 9 (7.26%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.65%) Redis
7 7 (5.65%) Tick Data
8 6 (4.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (4.84%) Oracle Database
9 5 (4.03%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.42%) InfluxDB
10 3 (2.42%) Metadata
11 2 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 74 (59.68%) Git
2 54 (43.55%) Jenkins
3 52 (41.94%) Gradle
4 39 (31.45%) JUnit
5 37 (29.84%) GitLab
6 27 (21.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 24 (19.35%) SonarQube
8 19 (15.32%) JIRA
8 19 (15.32%) Mockito
9 17 (13.71%) Selenium
10 15 (12.10%) Bitbucket
10 15 (12.10%) Cucumber
11 11 (8.87%) Postman
12 10 (8.06%) Artifactory
12 10 (8.06%) Cypress.io
13 7 (5.65%) webpack
14 6 (4.84%) IntelliJ
15 5 (4.03%) CircleCI
15 5 (4.03%) Snyk
15 5 (4.03%) SonarLint
General
1 34 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.55%) Finance
3 20 (16.13%) Banking
4 8 (6.45%) Front Office
5 7 (5.65%) Investment Banking
5 7 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.42%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Publishing
10 1 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Marketing
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (46.77%) Developer
2 51 (41.13%) Java Developer
3 25 (20.16%) Senior
4 17 (13.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.29%) Senior Developer
6 12 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (8.87%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.06%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Lead
10 7 (5.65%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.65%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Fidessa Developer
10 7 (5.65%) Support Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Architect
12 5 (4.03%) Java Architect
12 5 (4.03%) Java Technical Architect
12 5 (4.03%) Senior Java Engineer
12 5 (4.03%) Technical Architect
13 4 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (49.19%) Spring
2 47 (37.90%) Spring Boot
3 22 (17.74%) React
4 21 (16.94%) REST
5 20 (16.13%) JSON
6 18 (14.52%) HTML
6 18 (14.52%) RESTful
7 17 (13.71%) JPA
8 15 (12.10%) AngularJS
9 14 (11.29%) Hibernate
9 14 (11.29%) Kafka
10 13 (10.48%) CSS
11 9 (7.26%) Gherkin
11 9 (7.26%) Node.js
12 8 (6.45%) Bootstrap
12 8 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (6.45%) YAML
13 7 (5.65%) J2EE
13 7 (5.65%) OAuth
13 7 (5.65%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.87%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.45%) Equities
4 7 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.84%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.03%) Derivative
6 5 (4.03%) N-Tier
7 4 (3.23%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.42%) TWAP
8 3 (2.42%) VWAP
9 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.61%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.97%) Linux
2 9 (7.26%) Unix
3 7 (5.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.23%) CentOS
5 3 (2.42%) Solaris
6 1 (0.81%) Windows
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (55.65%) CI/CD
2 49 (39.52%) Microservices
3 47 (37.90%) DevOps
4 45 (36.29%) Agile
5 35 (28.23%) Test Automation
6 34 (27.42%) Containerisation
7 32 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (19.35%) Software Engineering
9 22 (17.74%) Mentoring
10 21 (16.94%) TDD
11 19 (15.32%) Scrum
12 18 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (13.71%) Design Patterns
13 17 (13.71%) SDLC
14 16 (12.90%) OOP
14 16 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (12.90%) Unit Testing
15 15 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (11.29%) OO
17 13 (10.48%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 98 (79.03%) Java
2 31 (25.00%) Python
3 25 (20.16%) SQL
4 14 (11.29%) JavaScript
5 12 (9.68%) Bash
6 10 (8.06%) Groovy
6 10 (8.06%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.65%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.03%) Go
8 5 (4.03%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.42%) Scala
10 2 (1.61%) C#
10 2 (1.61%) C++
10 2 (1.61%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.61%) Rust
11 1 (0.81%) Clojure
11 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (29.84%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.10%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.23%) Degree
5 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.81%) OCP
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) WCAG
2 6 (4.84%) QA
3 3 (2.42%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 49 (39.52%) Docker
2 3 (2.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.61%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 51 (41.13%) Kubernetes
2 33 (26.61%) Terraform
3 22 (17.74%) Grafana
4 21 (16.94%) Ansible
5 13 (10.48%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.45%) Kibana
7 7 (5.65%) Progress Chef
8 6 (4.84%) Puppet
9 5 (4.03%) Podman
10 2 (1.61%) CloudHub
10 2 (1.61%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.81%) Argo
11 1 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (20.16%) Oracle
2 13 (10.48%) Splunk
3 9 (7.26%) Solace
4 5 (4.03%) Gigya
4 5 (4.03%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.03%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.23%) Sybase
6 3 (2.42%) Sonatype
6 3 (2.42%) VMware
7 2 (1.61%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.61%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.81%) Adobe
8 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.81%) Google
8 1 (0.81%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.81%) TOWER Software