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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 374 429
Rank change year-on-year -140 +55 -109
Contract jobs citing Maven 150 178 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.55% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.41% 3.75% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 139 108
10th Percentile £334 £276 £400
25th Percentile £425 £358 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £571 £608
90th Percentile £637 £629 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £490
% change year-on-year +11.76% -13.27% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -

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 6,236 4,742 5,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 14.57% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,007 3,193 3,481
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 103 238
10th Percentile £25.68 £22.64 £26.00
25th Percentile £55.94 £49.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -158 120 £511 +8.72% 25
UK excluding London -128 79 £475 +11.76% 19
London -79 55 £550 +8.37% 9
Work from Home -86 37 £475 - 13
Midlands -63 28 £524 +23.91% 9
North of England -93 27 £488 +21.27% 4
West Midlands -56 25 £524 +9.06% 8
Yorkshire -35 22 £488 -6.20% 1
South East -50 12 £299 -50.98% 3
Scotland -8 11 £353 -14.42% 3
North West -69 4 £475 +32.68% 3
East Midlands -25 2 - - 1
South West -39 2 £525 -4.55%
North East -36 1 £520 +11.83%

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 7 (4.67%) Confluence
2 6 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (3.33%) Apache
4 4 (2.67%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.33%) Camunda
5 2 (1.33%) CMS
5 2 (1.33%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.33%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.67%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.67%) JBoss
6 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 95 (63.33%) AWS
2 43 (28.67%) Azure
3 39 (26.00%) GitHub
4 27 (18.00%) GCP
5 25 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
6 24 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (16.00%) Amazon S3
6 24 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (14.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (12.00%) AWS KMS
8 18 (12.00%) Route 53
9 9 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.67%) OCI
11 6 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (4.00%) Kong
12 5 (3.33%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (3.33%) Apigee
12 5 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.33%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (17.33%) DynamoDB
3 24 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (15.33%) Relational Database
5 19 (12.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 17 (11.33%) MySQL
7 15 (10.00%) Metadata
7 15 (10.00%) SQL Server
8 12 (8.00%) MongoDB
9 6 (4.00%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.67%) Flink
10 4 (2.67%) Hazelcast
10 4 (2.67%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.67%) Redis
11 3 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.00%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 90 (60.00%) Git
2 88 (58.67%) Jenkins
3 61 (40.67%) Gradle
4 54 (36.00%) JUnit
5 44 (29.33%) SonarQube
6 30 (20.00%) Mockito
7 26 (17.33%) GitLab
8 15 (10.00%) JIRA
9 14 (9.33%) DbUnit
10 13 (8.67%) Bitbucket Server
10 13 (8.67%) jMock
11 12 (8.00%) REST Assured
12 11 (7.33%) Cucumber
13 10 (6.67%) Postman
14 9 (6.00%) Gatling
14 9 (6.00%) Selenium
14 9 (6.00%) Subversion
15 8 (5.33%) Artifactory
15 8 (5.33%) TestNG
16 7 (4.67%) JProfiler
General
1 45 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.00%) Public Sector
3 22 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (14.67%) Finance
4 14 (9.33%) Banking
5 7 (4.67%) Publishing
6 4 (2.67%) Retail
7 3 (2.00%) Front Office
7 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (62.67%) Developer
2 77 (51.33%) Java Developer
3 33 (22.00%) Senior
4 27 (18.00%) Senior Developer
5 26 (17.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 15 (10.00%) Lead
7 14 (9.33%) Lead Developer
8 13 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.00%) Java Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) Lead Java Developer
10 8 (5.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 8 (5.33%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Applications Developer
12 5 (3.33%) Architect
12 5 (3.33%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) Lead Software Developer
12 5 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) Software Developer
13 4 (2.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (63.33%) Spring
2 87 (58.00%) Spring Boot
3 54 (36.00%) REST
4 42 (28.00%) RESTful
5 40 (26.67%) JPA
6 33 (22.00%) Node.js
7 29 (19.33%) Hibernate
7 29 (19.33%) Web Services
8 28 (18.67%) AngularJS
9 24 (16.00%) Kafka
10 22 (14.67%) ActiveMQ
10 22 (14.67%) SOAP
11 21 (14.00%) React
11 21 (14.00%) Spring Cloud
12 20 (13.33%) Bootstrap
12 20 (13.33%) Spring MVC
13 19 (12.67%) CSS
14 18 (12.00%) Spring Batch
14 18 (12.00%) Spring Integration
15 17 (11.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (10.67%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.67%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.33%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.67%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.00%) Linux
2 9 (6.00%) Unix
3 5 (3.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.67%) Android
4 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 81 (54.00%) DevOps
3 78 (52.00%) Microservices
4 63 (42.00%) Agile
5 50 (33.33%) Scrum
6 42 (28.00%) Containerisation
6 42 (28.00%) TDD
7 39 (26.00%) Test Automation
8 27 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
10 24 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (15.33%) Design Patterns
11 23 (15.33%) Event-Driven
12 22 (14.67%) BDD
13 21 (14.00%) MVC
14 20 (13.33%) Software Engineering
15 19 (12.67%) OOP
16 18 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
17 16 (10.67%) Kanban
17 16 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (92.67%) Java
2 67 (44.67%) SQL
3 28 (18.67%) JavaScript
4 26 (17.33%) Python
5 14 (9.33%) Groovy
6 10 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.00%) Scala
8 4 (2.67%) Bash
8 4 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.00%) Ruby
10 2 (1.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 57 (38.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (34.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (6.00%) Degree
5 7 (4.67%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.33%) QA
2 12 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.67%) SLA
4 3 (2.00%) SEPA
5 2 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.33%) PSD2
6 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) GDPR
6 1 (0.67%) ITGC
6 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (46.00%) Docker
2 11 (7.33%) Postfix
3 3 (2.00%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 56 (37.33%) Kubernetes
2 27 (18.00%) Grafana
2 27 (18.00%) Terraform
3 15 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 11 (7.33%) Ansible
5 6 (4.00%) Argo
5 6 (4.00%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.33%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.33%) Kibana
7 1 (0.67%) Podman
7 1 (0.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (22.00%) Oracle
2 18 (12.00%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.33%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (8.00%) Microsoft
5 11 (7.33%) Sonatype
6 8 (5.33%) Splunk
7 7 (4.67%) Google
8 6 (4.00%) MuleSoft
9 5 (3.33%) Sybase
10 4 (2.67%) IBM
10 4 (2.67%) Solace
11 2 (1.33%) Adobe
11 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.33%) SAP
11 2 (1.33%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.33%) Veracode
11 2 (1.33%) VMware
12 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.67%) Thales
12 1 (0.67%) TOWER Software