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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 400 397
Rank change year-on-year -83 -3 -28
Contract jobs citing Maven 188 168 167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.51% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.00% 3.34% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 133 102
10th Percentile £326 £271 £363
25th Percentile £422 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £536
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.42% -0.69%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £675
90th Percentile £650 £620 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £442 £524
% change year-on-year +7.56% -15.68% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
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 6,271 5,023 5,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.49% 15.21% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,024 3,390 3,273
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 111 178
10th Percentile £33.74 £30.75 £27.40
25th Percentile £52.29 £50.50 £50.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.10 £87.50 £71.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -126 146 £510 +7.42% 55
UK excluding London -77 107 £475 +7.56% 29
London -95 60 £525 +3.96% 38
Work from Home -77 57 £475 +11.90% 21
Midlands -30 45 £550 +26.35% 7
West Midlands -20 42 £563 +12.50% 6
North of England -75 35 £507 +26.12% 7
Yorkshire -25 27 £500 -3.80% 3
Scotland -4 19 £375 -9.09% 3
North West -57 7 £519 +44.83% 4
South East -57 7 £270 -53.85% 3
East Midlands -23 2 £335 -1.47% 1
North East -48 1 £520 +11.83%
South West -50 1 - - 6

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 21 (11.17%) Confluence
2 8 (4.26%) Camunda
3 7 (3.72%) WebLogic
4 6 (3.19%) Apache
5 4 (2.13%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.06%) CMS
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.53%) JBoss
7 1 (0.53%) nginx
7 1 (0.53%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Finacle
1 1 (0.53%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.53%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 116 (61.70%) AWS
2 56 (29.79%) Azure
3 40 (21.28%) GCP
3 40 (21.28%) GitHub
4 22 (11.70%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (9.57%) Amazon SQS
6 17 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.98%) Amazon S3
8 14 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (7.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 13 (6.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (6.91%) OpenShift
10 10 (5.32%) AWS KMS
10 10 (5.32%) Kong
10 10 (5.32%) Route 53
11 9 (4.79%) OCI
12 7 (3.72%) Apigee
12 7 (3.72%) Cloud Run
13 6 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.13%) Firewall
2 3 (1.60%) SSL
3 1 (0.53%) DNS
3 1 (0.53%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.53%) Internet
3 1 (0.53%) Multicast
3 1 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (28.19%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (19.68%) Relational Database
3 23 (12.23%) SQL Server
4 19 (10.11%) MongoDB
5 15 (7.98%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (7.98%) Metadata
5 15 (7.98%) MySQL
6 13 (6.91%) DynamoDB
7 12 (6.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (6.38%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.19%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.66%) Hazelcast
9 5 (2.66%) Redis
10 4 (2.13%) Flink
10 4 (2.13%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.60%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.60%) MariaDB
12 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.06%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 126 (67.02%) Git
2 121 (64.36%) Jenkins
3 76 (40.43%) Gradle
4 72 (38.30%) JUnit
5 63 (33.51%) SonarQube
6 49 (26.06%) GitLab
7 46 (24.47%) Mockito
8 35 (18.62%) JIRA
9 21 (11.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (9.04%) Selenium
11 14 (7.45%) Bitbucket Server
11 14 (7.45%) Cucumber
11 14 (7.45%) REST Assured
12 9 (4.79%) Artifactory
12 9 (4.79%) GoCD
12 9 (4.79%) JProfiler
13 7 (3.72%) DbUnit
13 7 (3.72%) Gatling
13 7 (3.72%) Postman
13 7 (3.72%) Subversion
General
1 48 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.68%) Public Sector
3 35 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (17.55%) Finance
5 28 (14.89%) Banking
6 10 (5.32%) Publishing
7 6 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.60%) Front Office
9 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 113 (60.11%) Developer
2 94 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 42 (22.34%) Senior
4 33 (17.55%) Senior Developer
5 32 (17.02%) Senior Java Developer
6 22 (11.70%) Lead
7 20 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (10.64%) Java Engineer
7 20 (10.64%) Lead Developer
8 13 (6.91%) Lead Java Developer
9 10 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.32%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.26%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (2.66%) Architect
11 5 (2.66%) Automation Tester
11 5 (2.66%) Backend Developer
11 5 (2.66%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (2.66%) Software Developer
11 5 (2.66%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (63.83%) Spring Boot
2 119 (63.30%) Spring
3 70 (37.23%) REST
4 59 (31.38%) JPA
5 52 (27.66%) RESTful
6 44 (23.40%) Kafka
7 43 (22.87%) Node.js
7 43 (22.87%) React
8 38 (20.21%) Terraform
9 37 (19.68%) Hibernate
10 35 (18.62%) HTML
11 32 (17.02%) AngularJS
12 30 (15.96%) CSS
13 29 (15.43%) Web Services
14 27 (14.36%) SOAP
15 25 (13.30%) ActiveMQ
16 21 (11.17%) Spring Cloud
17 20 (10.64%) Redux
17 20 (10.64%) Spring MVC
18 19 (10.11%) FreeMarker
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.23%) Product Ownership
2 22 (11.70%) Cloud Native
3 19 (10.11%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.45%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.79%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.06%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.53%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.53%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.55%) Linux
2 10 (5.32%) Unix
3 3 (1.60%) VMS
4 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (70.74%) CI/CD
2 107 (56.91%) Microservices
3 101 (53.72%) Agile
4 96 (51.06%) DevOps
5 76 (40.43%) Scrum
6 64 (34.04%) Test Automation
7 62 (32.98%) Containerisation
8 56 (29.79%) TDD
9 46 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (16.49%) Event-Driven
11 31 (16.49%) Software Engineering
12 30 (15.96%) Design Patterns
13 29 (15.43%) Clean Code
13 29 (15.43%) Code Quality
14 24 (12.77%) Front End Development
15 23 (12.23%) Observability
16 22 (11.70%) OO
17 21 (11.17%) Kanban
17 21 (11.17%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 179 (95.21%) Java
2 79 (42.02%) SQL
3 51 (27.13%) JavaScript
4 35 (18.62%) Python
5 25 (13.30%) Shell Script
6 21 (11.17%) TypeScript
7 19 (10.11%) Groovy
8 12 (6.38%) Bash
9 8 (4.26%) Scala
10 5 (2.66%) Ruby
11 2 (1.06%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 73 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 66 (35.11%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (10.11%) Degree
5 16 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.13%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.96%) QA
2 16 (8.51%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.72%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.66%) PSD2
4 5 (2.66%) SEPA
5 2 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.06%) WCAG
6 1 (0.53%) ITGC
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (49.47%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) Postfix
3 3 (1.60%) GridGain
4 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 88 (46.81%) Kubernetes
2 39 (20.74%) Grafana
3 29 (15.43%) Prometheus
4 19 (10.11%) Ansible
5 9 (4.79%) Argo
5 9 (4.79%) Kibana
6 6 (3.19%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.06%) Podman
7 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.06%) Puppet
8 1 (0.53%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.53%) Istio
8 1 (0.53%) systemd
Vendors
1 46 (24.47%) Oracle
2 13 (6.91%) Google
3 12 (6.38%) Sonatype
4 11 (5.85%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.79%) IBM
5 9 (4.79%) MuleSoft
6 8 (4.26%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (4.26%) Splunk
6 8 (4.26%) Veracode
7 7 (3.72%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.66%) Sybase
9 4 (2.13%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.13%) Solace
10 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.60%) Checkmarx
11 2 (1.06%) Adobe
11 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.06%) SAP
11 2 (1.06%) TIBCO