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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 376 449
Rank change year-on-year -130 +73 -164
Contract jobs citing Maven 117 146 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.50% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.02% 3.47% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 103 86
10th Percentile £372 £325 £400
25th Percentile £462 £406 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £575
90th Percentile £763 £695 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £490
% change year-on-year +2.15% -5.10% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 5,802 4,203 5,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.06% 14.31% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 2,814 3,452
10th Percentile £349 £334 £353
25th Percentile £408 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 72 205
10th Percentile £35.13 £25.03 £32.23
25th Percentile £59.06 £47.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.75 £58.88 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% -9.42% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £78.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -125 110 £550 +10.00% 26
UK excluding London -109 70 £475 +2.15% 18
London -73 44 £625 +16.60% 8
North of England -69 28 £461 -2.89% 4
Yorkshire -47 24 £473 -9.09% 3
Midlands -69 23 £524 +23.91% 7
West Midlands -58 21 £524 +15.05% 5
Work from Home -59 21 £475 -9.09% 77
South East -53 14 £360 -44.58% 2
North West -46 4 £402 -7.27%
South West - 4 £575 - 3
Scotland -7 2 £438 +13.56% 1
East Midlands -29 2 - - 2

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 (6.84%) Apache
2 7 (5.98%) Confluence
3 5 (4.27%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (2.56%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.71%) Camunda
6 2 (1.71%) JBoss
7 1 (0.85%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.85%) Apache TomEE
7 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (52.99%) AWS
2 35 (29.91%) GitHub
3 28 (23.93%) Azure
4 22 (18.80%) Amazon S3
5 20 (17.09%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (16.24%) Amazon SQS
6 19 (16.24%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (14.53%) GCP
9 14 (11.97%) AWS KMS
9 14 (11.97%) Route 53
10 7 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.98%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.98%) Serverless
11 6 (5.13%) Apigee
11 6 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.27%) OCI
13 4 (3.42%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) AMQP
2 2 (1.71%) HTTP
3 1 (0.85%) Internet
3 1 (0.85%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (26.50%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (19.66%) DynamoDB
3 18 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (11.97%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 10 (8.55%) MySQL
6 10 (8.55%) SQL Server
7 9 (7.69%) Metadata
7 9 (7.69%) MongoDB
8 6 (5.13%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.42%) Flink
9 4 (3.42%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.42%) Redis
10 3 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.56%) Tick Data
11 2 (1.71%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (56.41%) Jenkins
2 56 (47.86%) Git
3 41 (35.04%) Gradle
4 39 (33.33%) JUnit
5 33 (28.21%) SonarQube
6 23 (19.66%) Mockito
7 17 (14.53%) GitLab
8 14 (11.97%) JIRA
9 11 (9.40%) DbUnit
9 11 (9.40%) jMock
10 9 (7.69%) Artifactory
10 9 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (7.69%) Cucumber
10 9 (7.69%) Gatling
10 9 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (6.84%) Selenium
12 7 (5.98%) Bitbucket
12 7 (5.98%) Postman
13 6 (5.13%) Eclipse
13 6 (5.13%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (34.19%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.09%) Public Sector
3 19 (16.24%) Finance
4 13 (11.11%) Banking
5 9 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.13%) Front Office
7 5 (4.27%) Publishing
8 4 (3.42%) Retail
9 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (52.99%) Developer
2 54 (46.15%) Java Developer
3 33 (28.21%) Senior
4 25 (21.37%) Senior Developer
5 24 (20.51%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (10.26%) Java Engineer
7 11 (9.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.55%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.84%) Lead
10 6 (5.13%) Applications Developer
11 5 (4.27%) Architect
11 5 (4.27%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Applications Engineer
12 4 (3.42%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (58.12%) Spring
2 51 (43.59%) Spring Boot
3 31 (26.50%) REST
4 28 (23.93%) JPA
5 23 (19.66%) AngularJS
6 22 (18.80%) Hibernate
6 22 (18.80%) RESTful
7 21 (17.95%) Web Services
8 20 (17.09%) Node.js
8 20 (17.09%) Spring Cloud
9 18 (15.38%) SOAP
10 15 (12.82%) ActiveMQ
10 15 (12.82%) Bootstrap
10 15 (12.82%) JSON
11 14 (11.97%) Spring Batch
11 14 (11.97%) Spring Integration
12 13 (11.11%) Kafka
13 11 (9.40%) Playwright
13 11 (9.40%) PowerMock
14 10 (8.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.98%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.42%) Equities
5 3 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.71%) Derivative
6 2 (1.71%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.71%) TWAP
6 2 (1.71%) VWAP
7 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.50%) Linux
2 8 (6.84%) Unix
3 5 (4.27%) Windows
4 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.85%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (54.70%) CI/CD
2 59 (50.43%) DevOps
3 51 (43.59%) Microservices
4 38 (32.48%) Agile
5 36 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 30 (25.64%) Test Automation
7 29 (24.79%) TDD
8 28 (23.93%) Scrum
9 24 (20.51%) Software Engineering
10 20 (17.09%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (14.53%) Event-Driven
12 16 (13.68%) Observability
13 15 (12.82%) Design Patterns
13 15 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (11.97%) BDD
14 14 (11.97%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (11.97%) Kanban
14 14 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (10.26%) BPMN
16 11 (9.40%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 103 (88.03%) Java
2 45 (38.46%) SQL
3 22 (18.80%) Python
4 12 (10.26%) Groovy
5 8 (6.84%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.98%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.13%) Scala
8 3 (2.56%) Bash
8 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.71%) Go
9 2 (1.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (32.48%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.98%) Degree
3 7 (5.98%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.42%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.42%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.26%) QA
2 4 (3.42%) SLA
3 3 (2.56%) SEPA
4 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.71%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.71%) NCSC
4 2 (1.71%) PSD2
5 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) ITGC
5 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (47.86%) Docker
2 10 (8.55%) Postfix
3 3 (2.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.56%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 43 (36.75%) Kubernetes
2 28 (23.93%) Grafana
2 28 (23.93%) Terraform
3 16 (13.68%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.98%) Ansible
5 6 (5.13%) Argo
5 6 (5.13%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.56%) HP Fortify
6 3 (2.56%) Kibana
7 2 (1.71%) Podman
7 2 (1.71%) Puppet
8 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (12.82%) Atlassian
2 14 (11.97%) Jaspersoft
3 13 (11.11%) Oracle
4 12 (10.26%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.69%) Sonatype
6 7 (5.98%) Splunk
7 5 (4.27%) Solace
8 3 (2.56%) Sybase
9 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.85%) Google
10 1 (0.85%) IBM
10 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.85%) Thales
10 1 (0.85%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.85%) VMware