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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 396 379
Rank change year-on-year -89 -17 +30
Contract jobs citing Maven 205 162 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.49% 0.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.21% 3.19% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 130 105
10th Percentile £324 £310 £363
25th Percentile £413 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.06% -7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £625 £627 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
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 6,393 5,082 5,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.71% 15.43% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,091 3,451 3,151
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £493
% change year-on-year - -3.55% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 111 169
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £30.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.08 £75.00 £71.88
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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -114 161 £510 +3.03% 133
UK excluding London -73 113 £475 +5.56% 71
London -97 69 £498 -4.33% 75
Work from Home -49 61 £473 +11.31% 45
Midlands -16 51 £575 +21.05% 13
West Midlands -16 48 £575 +12.20% 10
North of England -66 32 £520 +40.54% 20
Scotland -7 22 £375 -9.09% 16
Yorkshire -21 22 £515 -0.99% 4
North West -57 9 £537 +50.00% 15
South East -68 6 £270 -43.16% 7
East Midlands -20 2 £335 -1.47% 3
South West -35 2 £300 -45.45% 7
North East - 1 £520 - 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 23 (11.22%) Confluence
2 12 (5.85%) WebLogic
3 9 (4.39%) Camunda
4 6 (2.93%) Apache
5 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.98%) CMS
7 1 (0.49%) JBoss
7 1 (0.49%) nginx
7 1 (0.49%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Finacle
1 1 (0.49%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.49%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 126 (61.46%) AWS
2 55 (26.83%) Azure
3 44 (21.46%) GCP
4 39 (19.02%) GitHub
5 21 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (9.27%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (7.80%) Amazon S3
7 16 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (7.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 14 (6.83%) OpenShift
10 12 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.85%) Serverless
11 10 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (4.88%) Kong
12 9 (4.39%) npm
13 7 (3.41%) Apigee
13 7 (3.41%) AWS KMS
13 7 (3.41%) Cloud Run
13 7 (3.41%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.44%) Firewall
2 3 (1.46%) SSL
3 1 (0.49%) DNS
3 1 (0.49%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.49%) Internet
3 1 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (29.27%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (22.44%) Relational Database
3 22 (10.73%) MongoDB
4 21 (10.24%) SQL Server
5 20 (9.76%) MySQL
6 15 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (5.85%) NoSQL
8 11 (5.37%) Metadata
9 10 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (4.39%) DynamoDB
11 7 (3.41%) Oracle Database
12 6 (2.93%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.93%) Redis
13 5 (2.44%) Hazelcast
14 4 (1.95%) Flink
15 3 (1.46%) BigQuery
15 3 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (1.46%) MariaDB
15 3 (1.46%) Pinecone
15 3 (1.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 135 (65.85%) Git
2 121 (59.02%) Jenkins
3 85 (41.46%) Gradle
4 84 (40.98%) JUnit
5 63 (30.73%) GitLab
6 61 (29.76%) SonarQube
7 60 (29.27%) Mockito
8 38 (18.54%) JIRA
9 22 (10.73%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (10.24%) Cucumber
11 17 (8.29%) Selenium
12 14 (6.83%) REST Assured
13 13 (6.34%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (4.39%) GoCD
14 9 (4.39%) JProfiler
15 6 (2.93%) Postman
15 6 (2.93%) Subversion
16 5 (2.44%) Artifactory
16 5 (2.44%) DbUnit
16 5 (2.44%) Snyk
General
1 50 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.00%) Finance
3 40 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (17.56%) Public Sector
5 33 (16.10%) Banking
6 8 (3.90%) Publishing
7 6 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.46%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.46%) Military
9 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Back Office
10 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Front Office
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Retail
10 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 123 (60.00%) Developer
2 103 (50.24%) Java Developer
3 39 (19.02%) Senior
4 29 (14.15%) Java Engineer
5 26 (12.68%) Senior Developer
6 25 (12.20%) Senior Java Developer
7 23 (11.22%) Lead
8 21 (10.24%) Lead Developer
9 20 (9.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.83%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (6.83%) Lead Java Developer
11 10 (4.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 9 (4.39%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 5 (2.44%) AWS DevOps
14 5 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (2.44%) GCP DevOps
14 5 (2.44%) Python Engineer
14 5 (2.44%) Software Developer
14 5 (2.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (67.32%) Spring Boot
2 135 (65.85%) Spring
3 82 (40.00%) REST
4 68 (33.17%) JPA
5 58 (28.29%) RESTful
6 48 (23.41%) Kafka
6 48 (23.41%) React
7 42 (20.49%) HTML
8 41 (20.00%) Node.js
9 39 (19.02%) Hibernate
9 39 (19.02%) Terraform
10 36 (17.56%) AngularJS
10 36 (17.56%) CSS
11 31 (15.12%) Web Services
12 30 (14.63%) SOAP
13 26 (12.68%) Spring MVC
14 25 (12.20%) ActiveMQ
15 22 (10.73%) OpenAPI
16 21 (10.24%) Redux
17 19 (9.27%) FreeMarker
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.66%) Product Ownership
2 27 (13.17%) Cloud Native
3 21 (10.24%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (5.85%) Data Structures
6 11 (5.37%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.44%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.44%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.98%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.49%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 44 (21.46%) Linux
2 15 (7.32%) Unix
3 4 (1.95%) macOS
3 4 (1.95%) VMS
4 3 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (69.27%) CI/CD
2 121 (59.02%) Agile
3 115 (56.10%) Microservices
4 97 (47.32%) DevOps
5 85 (41.46%) Scrum
6 75 (36.59%) Containerisation
7 71 (34.63%) Test Automation
8 58 (28.29%) TDD
9 54 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (22.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (17.56%) Clean Code
12 34 (16.59%) Front End Development
12 34 (16.59%) Software Engineering
13 31 (15.12%) Design Patterns
14 30 (14.63%) Code Quality
15 27 (13.17%) Event-Driven
15 27 (13.17%) MVC
16 24 (11.71%) Observability
16 24 (11.71%) OO
16 24 (11.71%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 194 (94.63%) Java
2 90 (43.90%) SQL
3 58 (28.29%) JavaScript
4 34 (16.59%) Python
4 34 (16.59%) Shell Script
5 24 (11.71%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.80%) Groovy
7 15 (7.32%) Bash
8 7 (3.41%) Scala
9 5 (2.44%) Ruby
10 3 (1.46%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 84 (40.98%) Security Cleared
2 75 (36.59%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (12.20%) Degree
5 21 (10.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.41%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.95%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.59%) QA
2 16 (7.80%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.44%) ISO 20022
3 5 (2.44%) PSD2
4 4 (1.95%) SEPA
5 2 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.98%) WCAG
6 1 (0.49%) ITGC
6 1 (0.49%) NIST
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (46.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) Postfix
2 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 94 (45.85%) Kubernetes
2 36 (17.56%) Grafana
3 26 (12.68%) Prometheus
4 21 (10.24%) Ansible
5 16 (7.80%) Kibana
6 10 (4.88%) Argo
7 3 (1.46%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.98%) Podman
8 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.98%) Puppet
8 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.49%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.49%) Istio
9 1 (0.49%) systemd
Vendors
1 54 (26.34%) Oracle
2 17 (8.29%) Google
3 10 (4.88%) IBM
4 9 (4.39%) MuleSoft
4 9 (4.39%) Veracode
5 8 (3.90%) Sonatype
5 8 (3.90%) Splunk
6 7 (3.41%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.44%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.44%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.95%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.98%) Adobe
10 2 (0.98%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.98%) SAP
10 2 (0.98%) Sybase
11 1 (0.49%) TIBCO