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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 390 454
Rank change year-on-year -112 +64 -193
Contract jobs citing Maven 128 142 149
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.46% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.20% 3.40% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 79 99
10th Percentile £378 £345 £400
25th Percentile £450 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -2.86% -16.00%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £597
90th Percentile £687 £728 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -12.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
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 5,830 4,177 5,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.65% 13.63% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,952 2,709 3,694
10th Percentile £343 £330 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -1.66% -3.40% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 70 214
10th Percentile £34.05 £25.23 £37.50
25th Percentile £53.13 £48.81 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £73.13 £71.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -106 120 £550 +4.76% 30
UK excluding London -73 71 £525 +10.53% 23
London -53 52 £575 +5.02% 9
Work from Home -51 25 £506 -2.79% 9
Midlands -57 24 £542 +28.93% 11
West Midlands -46 22 £542 +27.41% 11
South East -22 19 £450 -30.10% 1
North of England -72 16 £438 -6.42% 8
Yorkshire -52 12 £450 -15.09% 4
South West -22 10 £550 - 2
North West -46 4 £402 -8.11% 4
Scotland +6 3 £438 -16.27%
East Midlands -31 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 12 (9.38%) Confluence
2 5 (3.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (3.91%) Apache
3 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.34%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.56%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.56%) Apache TomEE
5 2 (1.56%) Camunda
5 2 (1.56%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.78%) JBoss
6 1 (0.78%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.78%) Mule
6 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 62 (48.44%) AWS
2 32 (25.00%) GitHub
3 23 (17.97%) Azure
4 19 (14.84%) Amazon S3
5 18 (14.06%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (10.94%) OpenShift
7 13 (10.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (10.16%) GCP
8 11 (8.59%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (8.59%) npm
8 11 (8.59%) Route 53
9 10 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (7.81%) Serverless
10 9 (7.03%) AWS KMS
11 8 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.47%) AMQP
2 3 (2.34%) HTTP
3 2 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) Firewall
4 1 (0.78%) Multicast
4 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.28%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (11.72%) DynamoDB
4 14 (10.94%) Relational Database
5 11 (8.59%) MySQL
6 10 (7.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (7.03%) MongoDB
7 9 (7.03%) NoSQL
8 8 (6.25%) RDBMS
9 7 (5.47%) Tick Data
10 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
11 5 (3.91%) Metadata
12 4 (3.13%) Oracle Database
13 3 (2.34%) InfluxDB
14 1 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.78%) HBase
14 1 (0.78%) Power BI
14 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (53.91%) Git
2 60 (46.88%) Jenkins
3 48 (37.50%) JUnit
4 42 (32.81%) Gradle
5 32 (25.00%) GitLab
6 27 (21.09%) Mockito
7 25 (19.53%) SonarQube
8 20 (15.63%) JIRA
9 17 (13.28%) Cucumber
9 17 (13.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (10.94%) Selenium
11 12 (9.38%) Bitbucket
12 11 (8.59%) Postman
13 8 (6.25%) Cypress.io
13 8 (6.25%) jMock
14 7 (5.47%) Artifactory
14 7 (5.47%) DbUnit
14 7 (5.47%) Eclipse
14 7 (5.47%) REST Assured
14 7 (5.47%) Subversion
General
1 44 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.19%) Finance
3 15 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.94%) Banking
5 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.91%) Front Office
7 4 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.13%) Publishing
7 4 (3.13%) Retail
8 3 (2.34%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (53.13%) Developer
2 57 (44.53%) Java Developer
3 27 (21.09%) Senior
4 16 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.94%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (10.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.81%) Java Engineer
7 10 (7.81%) Lead
8 9 (7.03%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (5.47%) Applications Developer
10 7 (5.47%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.47%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (5.47%) Fidessa Developer
10 7 (5.47%) Support Engineer
11 6 (4.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 5 (3.91%) Senior Java Engineer
13 4 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
13 4 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (3.13%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (58.59%) Spring
2 52 (40.63%) Spring Boot
3 34 (26.56%) REST
4 26 (20.31%) AngularJS
5 25 (19.53%) JPA
6 22 (17.19%) Hibernate
7 21 (16.41%) JSON
7 21 (16.41%) React
7 21 (16.41%) RESTful
8 18 (14.06%) Web Services
9 16 (12.50%) Bootstrap
9 16 (12.50%) HTML
9 16 (12.50%) Node.js
10 15 (11.72%) CSS
10 15 (11.72%) Kafka
10 15 (11.72%) SOAP
11 14 (10.94%) Spring Cloud
12 12 (9.38%) XML
13 10 (7.81%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (7.81%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.59%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.03%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.47%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (5.47%) Equities
5 6 (4.69%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.13%) Derivative
7 3 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.34%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.56%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.56%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.56%) TWAP
8 2 (1.56%) VWAP
9 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.78%) Replication
9 1 (0.78%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 36 (28.13%) Linux
2 9 (7.03%) Unix
3 7 (5.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.91%) Windows
5 4 (3.13%) CentOS
6 2 (1.56%) Solaris
7 1 (0.78%) Android
7 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 54 (42.19%) Microservices
3 51 (39.84%) DevOps
4 48 (37.50%) Agile
5 36 (28.13%) Test Automation
6 34 (26.56%) Containerisation
7 27 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (21.09%) Scrum
8 23 (17.97%) TDD
9 20 (15.63%) Software Engineering
10 17 (13.28%) Mentoring
11 15 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (10.94%) Design Patterns
12 14 (10.94%) OOP
12 14 (10.94%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (9.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 105 (82.03%) Java
2 34 (26.56%) SQL
3 23 (17.97%) Python
4 14 (10.94%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.59%) Groovy
6 7 (5.47%) Bash
7 6 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.91%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.13%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.34%) Go
10 3 (2.34%) Scala
11 1 (0.78%) C#
11 1 (0.78%) C++
11 1 (0.78%) Clojure
11 1 (0.78%) R
11 1 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (36.72%) Security Cleared
2 33 (25.78%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.16%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.47%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (2.34%) Degree
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) QA
2 7 (5.47%) WCAG
3 4 (3.13%) SLA
4 3 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.34%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (38.28%) Docker
2 6 (4.69%) Postfix
3 3 (2.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 39 (30.47%) Kubernetes
2 31 (24.22%) Grafana
3 27 (21.09%) Terraform
4 19 (14.84%) Ansible
5 14 (10.94%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.25%) Kibana
7 5 (3.91%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.13%) Puppet
9 3 (2.34%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.34%) Podman
10 2 (1.56%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.63%) Oracle
2 11 (8.59%) Atlassian
3 10 (7.81%) Splunk
4 9 (7.03%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (4.69%) Solace
6 5 (3.91%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.91%) Sonatype
7 4 (3.13%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.34%) VMware
9 2 (1.56%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.56%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.56%) Sybase
10 1 (0.78%) Adobe
10 1 (0.78%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.78%) IBM
10 1 (0.78%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.78%) Thales
10 1 (0.78%) TOWER Software