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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 378 420
Rank change year-on-year -122 +42 -98
Contract jobs citing Maven 158 168 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.51% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.55% 3.47% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 135 98
10th Percentile £329 £276 £379
25th Percentile £447 £358 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £523
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.09% -8.13%
75th Percentile £588 £571 £634
90th Percentile £659 £623 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £422 £508
% change year-on-year +12.10% -16.95% -0.98%
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 6,199 4,843 5,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 14.76% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,977 3,281 3,331
10th Percentile £350 £322 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 105 220
10th Percentile £26.10 £23.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.23
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £84.65 £74.00
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 30 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 30 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 -140 125 £513 +7.89% 36
UK excluding London -90 88 £473 +12.10% 22
London -90 53 £550 +6.54% 17
Work from Home -77 40 £475 - 17
Midlands -53 37 £475 +13.10% 7
West Midlands -48 33 £475 -2.56% 7
North of England -83 26 £500 +24.38% 6
Yorkshire -37 24 £500 -3.80% 1
Scotland -8 13 £353 -14.42% 2
South East -62 11 £273 -53.33% 5
East Midlands -23 3 - -
South West -38 1 - - 2
North East -48 1 £520 +11.83%
North West -71 1 £475 +32.68% 5

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 9 (5.70%) Confluence
2 7 (4.43%) WebLogic
3 6 (3.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (3.16%) Apache
5 4 (2.53%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.27%) Camunda
6 2 (1.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.63%) JBoss
7 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 97 (61.39%) AWS
2 48 (30.38%) Azure
3 38 (24.05%) GitHub
4 30 (18.99%) GCP
5 25 (15.82%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (13.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (13.29%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (13.29%) Amazon S3
8 18 (11.39%) AWS KMS
8 18 (11.39%) Route 53
9 13 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (5.70%) OCI
11 7 (4.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (3.80%) Kong
12 6 (3.80%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.16%) Amazon Cognito
13 5 (3.16%) Apigee
14 4 (2.53%) Cloud Run
15 3 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) HTTP
2 1 (0.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.63%) Internet
2 1 (0.63%) Multicast
2 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (32.28%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (15.19%) Relational Database
3 23 (14.56%) DynamoDB
4 21 (13.29%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (12.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (9.49%) Metadata
6 15 (9.49%) MySQL
6 15 (9.49%) SQL Server
7 13 (8.23%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.80%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.53%) Flink
9 4 (2.53%) Hazelcast
9 4 (2.53%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.53%) Redis
10 3 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 95 (60.13%) Git
1 95 (60.13%) Jenkins
2 56 (35.44%) Gradle
3 54 (34.18%) JUnit
4 48 (30.38%) SonarQube
5 30 (18.99%) Mockito
6 28 (17.72%) GitLab
7 17 (10.76%) JIRA
8 14 (8.86%) DbUnit
9 13 (8.23%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (8.23%) jMock
10 12 (7.59%) REST Assured
11 11 (6.96%) Postman
11 11 (6.96%) Subversion
12 10 (6.33%) Cucumber
12 10 (6.33%) Selenium
13 9 (5.70%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.70%) Gatling
14 8 (5.06%) JProfiler
14 8 (5.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.15%) Public Sector
3 23 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.56%) Finance
4 15 (9.49%) Banking
5 9 (5.70%) Publishing
6 4 (2.53%) Retail
7 3 (1.90%) Front Office
7 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (60.76%) Developer
2 79 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 33 (20.89%) Senior
4 29 (18.35%) Senior Developer
5 28 (17.72%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (10.76%) Lead
7 16 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (9.49%) Lead Developer
9 13 (8.23%) Java Engineer
10 9 (5.70%) Lead Java Developer
11 8 (5.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 7 (4.43%) Architect
12 7 (4.43%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.16%) Lead Software Developer
13 5 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.16%) Software Engineer
14 4 (2.53%) Applications Developer
14 4 (2.53%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (59.49%) Spring
2 88 (55.70%) Spring Boot
3 60 (37.97%) REST
4 42 (26.58%) JPA
4 42 (26.58%) RESTful
5 37 (23.42%) Node.js
6 31 (19.62%) AngularJS
7 30 (18.99%) Web Services
8 29 (18.35%) Hibernate
9 24 (15.19%) ActiveMQ
9 24 (15.19%) Kafka
9 24 (15.19%) SOAP
10 23 (14.56%) Spring Cloud
11 22 (13.92%) React
12 21 (13.29%) CSS
13 20 (12.66%) Bootstrap
14 19 (12.03%) HTML
15 18 (11.39%) Spring Batch
15 18 (11.39%) Spring Integration
15 18 (11.39%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.19%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (12.66%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.70%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.43%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.80%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.27%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (24.05%) Linux
2 10 (6.33%) Unix
3 5 (3.16%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Android
4 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (65.82%) CI/CD
2 82 (51.90%) Microservices
3 81 (51.27%) DevOps
4 68 (43.04%) Agile
5 55 (34.81%) Scrum
6 50 (31.65%) Containerisation
7 44 (27.85%) TDD
8 41 (25.95%) Test Automation
9 32 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (15.82%) Design Patterns
11 25 (15.82%) Performance Tuning
12 22 (13.92%) Event-Driven
13 21 (13.29%) BDD
13 21 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (12.03%) MVC
15 18 (11.39%) Kanban
15 18 (11.39%) Software Engineering
16 17 (10.76%) OO
16 17 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (92.41%) Java
2 71 (44.94%) SQL
3 31 (19.62%) JavaScript
4 26 (16.46%) Python
5 15 (9.49%) Shell Script
6 14 (8.86%) Groovy
7 6 (3.80%) Scala
7 6 (3.80%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.53%) Ruby
9 3 (1.90%) Bash
10 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 67 (42.41%) Security Cleared
2 61 (38.61%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.70%) Degree
5 7 (4.43%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.16%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.46%) QA
2 13 (8.23%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.16%) SEPA
4 4 (2.53%) PSD2
4 4 (2.53%) SLA
5 2 (1.27%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) ITGC
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 73 (46.20%) Docker
2 11 (6.96%) Postfix
3 3 (1.90%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 67 (42.41%) Kubernetes
2 30 (18.99%) Grafana
2 30 (18.99%) Terraform
3 18 (11.39%) Prometheus
4 13 (8.23%) Ansible
5 8 (5.06%) Argo
6 6 (3.80%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.90%) Kibana
8 2 (1.27%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.27%) Podman
8 2 (1.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (22.78%) Oracle
2 18 (11.39%) Atlassian
3 17 (10.76%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (6.96%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.96%) Sonatype
5 8 (5.06%) Splunk
6 7 (4.43%) Google
6 7 (4.43%) MuleSoft
7 5 (3.16%) Sybase
8 4 (2.53%) IBM
8 4 (2.53%) Solace
9 2 (1.27%) Adobe
9 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.27%) SAP
9 2 (1.27%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.27%) Veracode
9 2 (1.27%) VMware
10 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.63%) TOWER Software