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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 399 470
Rank change year-on-year -70 +71 -219
Contract jobs citing Maven 119 139 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.44% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.20% 3.28% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 75 93
10th Percentile £375 £352 £375
25th Percentile £463 £433 £425
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 £542 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +8.30% +5.26% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £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 5,416 4,239 5,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.36% 13.55% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,719 2,663 3,765
10th Percentile £350 £332 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 72 209
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.60 £41.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £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 £82.40 £76.15 £90.00
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 26 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
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 26 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 -81 112 £550 +1.85% 36
London -15 58 £575 +4.55% 12
UK excluding London -64 56 £542 +8.30% 29
Work from Home -35 24 £536 +9.95% 19
North of England -56 16 £571 +30.51% 7
West Midlands -31 15 £571 +17.73% 5
Midlands -38 15 £571 +17.73% 5
South East -27 13 £450 -30.10% 11
Yorkshire -37 10 £472 -15.06% 3
South West -21 9 £550 -15.38% 4
North West -32 6 £575 +31.43% 4
Scotland +1 3 £438 -16.27% 2
Northern Ireland -7 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 (6.72%) Confluence
2 5 (4.20%) Apache
2 5 (4.20%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.68%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.68%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.68%) Camunda
5 1 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.84%) JBoss
5 1 (0.84%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.84%) Mule
5 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 50 (42.02%) AWS
2 33 (27.73%) GitHub
3 31 (26.05%) Azure
4 20 (16.81%) GCP
5 16 (13.45%) OpenShift
6 15 (12.61%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (11.76%) npm
8 11 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (9.24%) Datadog
8 11 (9.24%) Serverless
9 10 (8.40%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (8.40%) Apigee
9 10 (8.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (7.56%) Azure AKS
11 8 (6.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (5.88%) Route 53
13 6 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.88%) AMQP
2 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.84%) HTTP
3 1 (0.84%) Multicast
3 1 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.13%) Relational Database
2 16 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.92%) NoSQL
3 13 (10.92%) RDBMS
4 12 (10.08%) MySQL
5 11 (9.24%) MongoDB
6 10 (8.40%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (7.56%) SQL Server
8 7 (5.88%) DynamoDB
8 7 (5.88%) Redis
8 7 (5.88%) Tick Data
9 6 (5.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (4.20%) BigQuery
10 5 (4.20%) Oracle Database
11 3 (2.52%) InfluxDB
12 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.68%) Metadata
13 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 70 (58.82%) Git
2 51 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 49 (41.18%) Gradle
4 38 (31.93%) GitLab
4 38 (31.93%) JUnit
5 27 (22.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 22 (18.49%) SonarQube
7 19 (15.97%) JIRA
8 18 (15.13%) Mockito
9 17 (14.29%) Selenium
10 14 (11.76%) Bitbucket
10 14 (11.76%) Cucumber
11 11 (9.24%) Postman
12 10 (8.40%) Artifactory
12 10 (8.40%) Cypress.io
13 7 (5.88%) webpack
14 5 (4.20%) CircleCI
14 5 (4.20%) Eclipse
14 5 (4.20%) IntelliJ
14 5 (4.20%) SonarLint
General
1 33 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.49%) Finance
3 20 (16.81%) Banking
4 8 (6.72%) Front Office
5 7 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.52%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Publishing
9 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.84%) Law
10 1 (0.84%) Marketing
10 1 (0.84%) Retail
10 1 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (47.90%) Developer
2 49 (41.18%) Java Developer
3 22 (18.49%) Senior
4 16 (13.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (10.92%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.24%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (6.72%) Java Engineer
7 8 (6.72%) Lead
7 8 (6.72%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Applications Support
8 7 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Fidessa Developer
8 7 (5.88%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Architect
10 5 (4.20%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.20%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.20%) Technical Architect
11 3 (2.52%) Data Modeller
11 3 (2.52%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (47.06%) Spring
2 43 (36.13%) Spring Boot
3 21 (17.65%) REST
4 19 (15.97%) JSON
4 19 (15.97%) React
5 18 (15.13%) HTML
6 17 (14.29%) RESTful
7 16 (13.45%) JPA
8 15 (12.61%) AngularJS
9 14 (11.76%) Kafka
10 13 (10.92%) CSS
10 13 (10.92%) Hibernate
11 9 (7.56%) Node.js
12 8 (6.72%) Bootstrap
12 8 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (6.72%) Gherkin
13 7 (5.88%) J2EE
13 7 (5.88%) OAuth
13 7 (5.88%) XML
13 7 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.24%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.56%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.72%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.72%) Equities
4 7 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.04%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.20%) Derivative
6 5 (4.20%) N-Tier
7 4 (3.36%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.52%) TWAP
8 3 (2.52%) VWAP
9 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.68%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.85%) Linux
2 9 (7.56%) Unix
3 7 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.36%) CentOS
5 3 (2.52%) Solaris
6 1 (0.84%) Windows
6 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (53.78%) CI/CD
2 49 (41.18%) Microservices
3 44 (36.97%) Agile
3 44 (36.97%) DevOps
4 35 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 33 (27.73%) Test Automation
6 31 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.49%) Mentoring
8 21 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 21 (17.65%) TDD
9 18 (15.13%) Design Patterns
9 18 (15.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (15.13%) Scrum
10 17 (14.29%) SDLC
11 16 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (12.61%) OOP
12 15 (12.61%) Unit Testing
13 14 (11.76%) OO
14 12 (10.08%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 92 (77.31%) Java
2 30 (25.21%) Python
3 23 (19.33%) SQL
4 14 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.08%) Bash
6 10 (8.40%) Shell Script
7 9 (7.56%) Groovy
8 7 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.20%) Go
9 5 (4.20%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.52%) Scala
11 2 (1.68%) C#
11 2 (1.68%) C++
11 2 (1.68%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.68%) Rust
12 1 (0.84%) Clojure
12 1 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (31.09%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.81%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.61%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.36%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.36%) Degree
5 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.84%) OCP
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) WCAG
2 6 (5.04%) QA
3 3 (2.52%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.68%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (38.66%) Docker
2 3 (2.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.68%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 52 (43.70%) Kubernetes
2 33 (27.73%) Terraform
3 22 (18.49%) Ansible
3 22 (18.49%) Grafana
4 13 (10.92%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.72%) Kibana
6 7 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 7 (5.88%) Puppet
7 5 (4.20%) Podman
8 2 (1.68%) CloudHub
8 2 (1.68%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.84%) Argo
9 1 (0.84%) Istio
9 1 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (19.33%) Oracle
2 14 (11.76%) Splunk
3 9 (7.56%) Solace
4 5 (4.20%) Gigya
4 5 (4.20%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.20%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.36%) Sybase
6 3 (2.52%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.52%) VMware
7 2 (1.68%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.68%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.68%) Google
7 2 (1.68%) Sonatype
8 1 (0.84%) Adobe
8 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.84%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.84%) TOWER Software