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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 397 406
Rank change year-on-year -89 +9 -29
Contract jobs citing Maven 197 163 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.12% 3.25% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 130 104
10th Percentile £322 £275 £363
25th Percentile £409 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £536
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -11.42% -1.38%
75th Percentile £587 £575 £675
90th Percentile £650 £621 £843
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £442 £523
% change year-on-year +7.56% -15.48% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 6,318 5,013 5,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.56% 15.22% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,049 3,372 3,242
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £691 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 112 175
10th Percentile £25.68 £31.28 £28.09
25th Percentile £51.31 £50.75 £51.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.05 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 September 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 17 September 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 -120 155 £500 +5.26% 177
UK excluding London -83 111 £475 +7.56% 88
London -107 65 £511 +0.84% 116
Work from Home -52 59 £473 +4.54% 67
Midlands -27 47 £550 +28.21% 14
West Midlands -23 44 £563 +12.50% 13
North of England -83 35 £507 +26.12% 21
Yorkshire -33 27 £500 -3.80% 7
Scotland -11 20 £375 -9.09% 12
North West -56 7 £519 +44.83% 13
South East -68 7 £270 -53.85% 13
East Midlands -16 2 £335 -1.47% 1
South West -45 2 £300 -45.45% 13
North East -43 1 £520 +11.83% 1

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 21 (10.66%) Confluence
2 8 (4.06%) Camunda
2 8 (4.06%) WebLogic
3 7 (3.55%) Apache
4 4 (2.03%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.02%) CMS
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.51%) JBoss
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Finacle
1 1 (0.51%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 121 (61.42%) AWS
2 56 (28.43%) Azure
3 40 (20.30%) GCP
3 40 (20.30%) GitHub
4 22 (11.17%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (10.15%) Amazon SQS
6 17 (8.63%) Amazon S3
6 17 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (7.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (7.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 13 (6.60%) OpenShift
10 10 (5.08%) AWS KMS
10 10 (5.08%) Kong
10 10 (5.08%) Route 53
11 9 (4.57%) OCI
12 8 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.06%) Serverless
13 7 (3.55%) Apigee
13 7 (3.55%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.03%) Firewall
2 3 (1.52%) SSL
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.51%) Internet
3 1 (0.51%) Multicast
3 1 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (29.95%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (20.81%) Relational Database
3 25 (12.69%) SQL Server
4 20 (10.15%) MongoDB
5 17 (8.63%) MySQL
6 16 (8.12%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (7.61%) Metadata
8 13 (6.60%) DynamoDB
8 13 (6.60%) NoSQL
9 12 (6.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (3.05%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.54%) Flink
11 5 (2.54%) Hazelcast
11 5 (2.54%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.54%) Redis
12 3 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.52%) MariaDB
13 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.02%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 132 (67.01%) Git
2 123 (62.44%) Jenkins
3 80 (40.61%) Gradle
4 73 (37.06%) JUnit
5 64 (32.49%) SonarQube
6 51 (25.89%) GitLab
7 48 (24.37%) Mockito
8 36 (18.27%) JIRA
9 21 (10.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (8.63%) Selenium
11 14 (7.11%) Bitbucket Server
11 14 (7.11%) Cucumber
11 14 (7.11%) REST Assured
12 9 (4.57%) Artifactory
12 9 (4.57%) GoCD
12 9 (4.57%) JProfiler
13 7 (3.55%) DbUnit
13 7 (3.55%) Gatling
13 7 (3.55%) Postman
13 7 (3.55%) Subversion
General
1 48 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.29%) Finance
3 37 (18.78%) Public Sector
4 36 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (15.23%) Banking
6 10 (5.08%) Publishing
7 6 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.52%) Front Office
9 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 117 (59.39%) Developer
2 97 (49.24%) Java Developer
3 42 (21.32%) Senior
4 32 (16.24%) Senior Developer
5 31 (15.74%) Senior Java Developer
6 25 (12.69%) Java Engineer
7 22 (11.17%) Lead
8 20 (10.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (10.15%) Lead Developer
9 13 (6.60%) Lead Java Developer
10 12 (6.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.58%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.06%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 7 (3.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 5 (2.54%) Automation Tester
14 5 (2.54%) Backend Developer
14 5 (2.54%) Java Software Engineer
14 5 (2.54%) Lead Software Developer
14 5 (2.54%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (64.97%) Spring Boot
2 127 (64.47%) Spring
3 77 (39.09%) REST
4 62 (31.47%) JPA
5 54 (27.41%) RESTful
6 46 (23.35%) Kafka
7 45 (22.84%) React
8 44 (22.34%) Node.js
9 39 (19.80%) Terraform
10 38 (19.29%) Hibernate
11 36 (18.27%) HTML
12 34 (17.26%) AngularJS
13 31 (15.74%) CSS
14 29 (14.72%) SOAP
14 29 (14.72%) Web Services
15 25 (12.69%) ActiveMQ
16 22 (11.17%) Spring MVC
17 21 (10.66%) Spring Cloud
18 20 (10.15%) Redux
19 19 (9.64%) FreeMarker
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.21%) Product Ownership
2 25 (12.69%) Cloud Native
3 23 (11.68%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (8.63%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.57%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.06%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (2.54%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.02%) Fixed Income
11 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.51%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 38 (19.29%) Linux
2 14 (7.11%) Unix
3 3 (1.52%) VMS
4 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (70.56%) CI/CD
2 110 (55.84%) Microservices
3 108 (54.82%) Agile
4 99 (50.25%) DevOps
5 79 (40.10%) Scrum
6 68 (34.52%) Containerisation
7 66 (33.50%) Test Automation
8 56 (28.43%) TDD
9 48 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (18.78%) Software Engineering
12 33 (16.75%) Clean Code
12 33 (16.75%) Event-Driven
13 30 (15.23%) Code Quality
14 29 (14.72%) Design Patterns
14 29 (14.72%) Front End Development
15 24 (12.18%) Observability
16 23 (11.68%) MVC
16 23 (11.68%) Performance Tuning
16 23 (11.68%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 188 (95.43%) Java
2 87 (44.16%) SQL
3 52 (26.40%) JavaScript
4 36 (18.27%) Python
5 27 (13.71%) Shell Script
6 23 (11.68%) TypeScript
7 19 (9.64%) Groovy
8 13 (6.60%) Bash
9 8 (4.06%) Scala
10 5 (2.54%) Ruby
11 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 77 (39.09%) Security Cleared
2 69 (35.03%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (11.17%) Degree
5 17 (8.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.03%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.78%) QA
2 16 (8.12%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.55%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.54%) PSD2
4 5 (2.54%) SEPA
5 2 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.02%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) ITGC
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (50.25%) Docker
2 5 (2.54%) Postfix
3 3 (1.52%) GridGain
4 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 92 (46.70%) Kubernetes
2 40 (20.30%) Grafana
3 30 (15.23%) Prometheus
4 19 (9.64%) Ansible
5 11 (5.58%) Kibana
6 9 (4.57%) Argo
7 6 (3.05%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.02%) Podman
8 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.02%) Puppet
9 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.51%) Istio
9 1 (0.51%) systemd
Vendors
1 49 (24.87%) Oracle
2 13 (6.60%) Google
3 12 (6.09%) Sonatype
4 10 (5.08%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.57%) IBM
5 9 (4.57%) MuleSoft
5 9 (4.57%) Splunk
6 8 (4.06%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (4.06%) Veracode
7 7 (3.55%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.54%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.54%) Sybase
9 4 (2.03%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.03%) Solace
10 3 (1.52%) Checkmarx
11 2 (1.02%) Adobe
11 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.02%) SAP
11 2 (1.02%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.02%) VMware