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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 397 452
Rank change year-on-year -69 +55 -205
Contract jobs citing Maven 112 138 145
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.43% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.06% 3.21% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 72 96
10th Percentile £364 £356 £355
25th Percentile £450 £446 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £541 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +3.10% -16.00%
75th Percentile £615 £678 £600
90th Percentile £675 £845 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £493 £525
% change year-on-year +11.68% -6.19% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.59%

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 5,436 4,296 5,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.77% 13.26% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,737 2,703 3,790
10th Percentile £338 £330 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.37% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 72 201
10th Percentile £39.00 £28.88 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.60 £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 4 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 4 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 -65 105 £550 - 30
London -23 57 £543 -5.57% 5
UK excluding London -62 50 £550 +11.68% 25
Work from Home -30 26 £426 -14.80% 15
North of England -56 15 £489 +11.66% 11
West Midlands -33 11 £575 - 2
Midlands -33 11 £575 - 2
South West -10 10 £550 -15.38% 6
South East -16 10 £450 -29.41% 6
Yorkshire -37 9 £372 -25.60% 6
North West -33 6 £575 +31.43% 5
Scotland -8 3 £438 +3.55%
Northern Ireland -10 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 5 (4.46%) Confluence
1 5 (4.46%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.57%) Apache
2 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.79%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.79%) Apache TomEE
3 2 (1.79%) Camunda
4 1 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.89%) CICS
4 1 (0.89%) JBoss
4 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.89%) Mule
4 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 45 (40.18%) AWS
2 37 (33.04%) Azure
3 26 (23.21%) GitHub
4 21 (18.75%) GCP
5 17 (15.18%) OpenShift
6 15 (13.39%) npm
7 13 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (9.82%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (9.82%) Datadog
8 11 (9.82%) Serverless
9 10 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (8.93%) Apigee
9 10 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (8.04%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (8.04%) Azure AKS
10 9 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (8.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (6.25%) Route 53
13 6 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) AMQP
2 2 (1.79%) MQTT
2 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) Firewall
3 1 (0.89%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.89%) HTTP
3 1 (0.89%) Multicast
3 1 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) Relational Database
2 18 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 13 (11.61%) NoSQL
5 10 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (8.93%) MongoDB
5 10 (8.93%) MySQL
5 10 (8.93%) Redis
5 10 (8.93%) SQL Server
6 8 (7.14%) Oracle Database
7 7 (6.25%) DynamoDB
8 6 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.46%) BigQuery
10 4 (3.57%) InfluxDB
10 4 (3.57%) Tick Data
11 2 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.89%) Big Data
12 1 (0.89%) HBase
Development Applications
1 67 (59.82%) Git
2 51 (45.54%) Jenkins
3 46 (41.07%) Gradle
4 37 (33.04%) GitLab
5 33 (29.46%) JUnit
6 25 (22.32%) SonarQube
7 24 (21.43%) Sonatype Nexus
8 20 (17.86%) Selenium
9 18 (16.07%) Mockito
10 17 (15.18%) JIRA
11 16 (14.29%) Postman
12 15 (13.39%) Cucumber
13 12 (10.71%) Bitbucket
14 10 (8.93%) Artifactory
14 10 (8.93%) Cypress.io
15 8 (7.14%) REST Assured
16 7 (6.25%) SoapUI
16 7 (6.25%) Subversion
16 7 (6.25%) webpack
17 5 (4.46%) Xcode
General
1 34 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.86%) Banking
2 20 (17.86%) Finance
3 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.36%) Front Office
4 6 (5.36%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.68%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.89%) Law
8 1 (0.89%) Marketing
8 1 (0.89%) Publishing
8 1 (0.89%) Retail
8 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (46.43%) Developer
2 44 (39.29%) Java Developer
3 21 (18.75%) Senior
4 15 (13.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.61%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.82%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (7.14%) Support Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Applications Support
8 7 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Lead
8 7 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.57%) Fidessa Developer
12 3 (2.68%) Data Modeller
12 3 (2.68%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (43.75%) Spring
2 44 (39.29%) Spring Boot
3 25 (22.32%) REST
4 22 (19.64%) HTML
5 19 (16.96%) AngularJS
5 19 (16.96%) Kafka
6 18 (16.07%) JSON
6 18 (16.07%) React
7 17 (15.18%) JPA
8 16 (14.29%) CSS
8 16 (14.29%) Hibernate
9 15 (13.39%) RESTful
10 11 (9.82%) Bootstrap
11 10 (8.93%) J2EE
12 9 (8.04%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (8.04%) HTML5
13 8 (7.14%) CSS3
13 8 (7.14%) Gherkin
13 8 (7.14%) Node.js
13 8 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.82%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.36%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.46%) Equities
4 5 (4.46%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.57%) Derivative
6 3 (2.68%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.79%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.79%) IoT
7 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.79%) TWAP
7 2 (1.79%) VWAP
8 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.21%) Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Unix
3 8 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.46%) CentOS
5 3 (2.68%) Solaris
6 2 (1.79%) Windows
7 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (52.68%) CI/CD
2 48 (42.86%) Microservices
3 46 (41.07%) Agile
4 41 (36.61%) DevOps
5 34 (30.36%) Containerisation
6 33 (29.46%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (27.68%) Test Automation
8 25 (22.32%) Mentoring
9 24 (21.43%) TDD
10 21 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (17.86%) Software Engineering
12 19 (16.96%) SDLC
13 18 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (16.07%) Design Patterns
13 18 (16.07%) Scrum
13 18 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (12.50%) OO
15 13 (11.61%) BDD
15 13 (11.61%) MVC
16 12 (10.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 87 (77.68%) Java
2 25 (22.32%) Python
2 25 (22.32%) SQL
3 20 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.71%) Bash
5 11 (9.82%) Shell Script
6 10 (8.93%) Groovy
7 8 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.46%) Go
8 5 (4.46%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.68%) Scala
10 2 (1.79%) C
10 2 (1.79%) C#
10 2 (1.79%) C++
10 2 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.79%) Rust
11 1 (0.89%) Clojure
11 1 (0.89%) COBOL
11 1 (0.89%) JCL
11 1 (0.89%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.39%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.57%) Degree
5 3 (2.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.89%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.89%) OCP
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) WCAG
2 4 (3.57%) QA
3 3 (2.68%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (46.43%) Docker
2 3 (2.68%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.79%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 55 (49.11%) Kubernetes
2 34 (30.36%) Terraform
3 25 (22.32%) Grafana
4 22 (19.64%) Ansible
5 15 (13.39%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.25%) Kibana
6 7 (6.25%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.25%) Puppet
7 5 (4.46%) Podman
8 3 (2.68%) Argo
9 2 (1.79%) CloudHub
9 2 (1.79%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.89%) Control-M
10 1 (0.89%) Istio
10 1 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.89%) logstash
10 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (23.21%) Oracle
2 13 (11.61%) Splunk
3 7 (6.25%) Solace
4 5 (4.46%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (4.46%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.46%) Gigya
4 5 (4.46%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.57%) Google
5 4 (3.57%) Sybase
6 3 (2.68%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.68%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.68%) VMware
7 1 (0.89%) Adobe
7 1 (0.89%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.89%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.89%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.89%) TOWER Software