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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 389 397
Rank change year-on-year -100 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Maven 196 164 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.09% 3.29% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 133 102
10th Percentile £322 £276 £363
25th Percentile £406 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -11.63% -1.15%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £632 £620 £848
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £458 £511
% change year-on-year +3.83% -10.51% -0.24%
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 6,341 4,984 5,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.56% 15.24% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,050 3,353 3,183
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 109 175
10th Percentile £24.11 £28.88 £28.09
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.60 £73.90
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 23 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 23 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 -105 154 £500 +5.26% 135
UK excluding London -81 111 £475 +3.83% 76
London -97 64 £495 -4.12% 78
Work from Home -63 58 £470 +3.98% 55
Midlands -25 51 £575 +32.09% 14
West Midlands -8 48 £575 +15.00% 13
North of England -86 31 £514 +27.94% 22
Yorkshire -36 23 £514 -1.11% 3
Scotland -9 20 £375 -9.09% 13
South East -61 7 £270 -53.85% 6
North West -64 7 £519 +44.83% 17
East Midlands -28 2 £335 -1.47% 1
South West -41 2 £300 -45.45% 10
North East -40 1 £520 +11.83% 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 21 (10.71%) Confluence
2 8 (4.08%) Camunda
2 8 (4.08%) WebLogic
3 7 (3.57%) Apache
4 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.02%) CMS
6 1 (0.51%) JBoss
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
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
1 124 (63.27%) AWS
2 54 (27.55%) Azure
3 41 (20.92%) GCP
4 36 (18.37%) GitHub
5 22 (11.22%) Amazon SQS
6 20 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (9.18%) Amazon S3
8 17 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (7.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 13 (6.63%) OpenShift
13 11 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (5.61%) Serverless
14 10 (5.10%) AWS KMS
14 10 (5.10%) Kong
14 10 (5.10%) Route 53
15 9 (4.59%) OCI
16 7 (3.57%) Apigee
16 7 (3.57%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.04%) Firewall
2 3 (1.53%) SSL
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.51%) Internet
3 1 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (29.08%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (20.41%) Relational Database
3 21 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 18 (9.18%) MySQL
4 18 (9.18%) SQL Server
5 17 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (7.14%) DynamoDB
6 14 (7.14%) Metadata
7 13 (6.63%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (3.57%) Oracle Database
10 6 (3.06%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.55%) Flink
11 5 (2.55%) Hazelcast
11 5 (2.55%) Redis
12 3 (1.53%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.53%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.53%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.53%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 133 (67.86%) Git
2 118 (60.20%) Jenkins
3 81 (41.33%) Gradle
3 81 (41.33%) JUnit
4 65 (33.16%) SonarQube
5 56 (28.57%) GitLab
5 56 (28.57%) Mockito
6 35 (17.86%) JIRA
7 18 (9.18%) Cucumber
7 18 (9.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 17 (8.67%) Selenium
9 14 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
9 14 (7.14%) REST Assured
10 9 (4.59%) GoCD
10 9 (4.59%) JProfiler
11 7 (3.57%) DbUnit
11 7 (3.57%) Postman
12 6 (3.06%) JMeter
12 6 (3.06%) jMock
12 6 (3.06%) Subversion
General
1 47 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (18.37%) Public Sector
3 35 (17.86%) Finance
4 28 (14.29%) Banking
5 10 (5.10%) Publishing
6 6 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Marketing
9 1 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 116 (59.18%) Developer
2 96 (48.98%) Java Developer
3 39 (19.90%) Senior
4 29 (14.80%) Senior Developer
5 28 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 28 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 22 (11.22%) Lead
7 20 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (10.20%) Lead Developer
8 13 (6.63%) Lead Java Developer
9 12 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (4.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (4.59%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (3.57%) Python Engineer
12 5 (2.55%) Automation Tester
12 5 (2.55%) Backend Developer
12 5 (2.55%) Lead Software Developer
12 5 (2.55%) Software Developer
12 5 (2.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (68.37%) Spring Boot
2 133 (67.86%) Spring
3 81 (41.33%) REST
4 67 (34.18%) JPA
5 53 (27.04%) RESTful
6 47 (23.98%) Kafka
7 46 (23.47%) React
8 45 (22.96%) Node.js
9 39 (19.90%) Hibernate
10 37 (18.88%) HTML
11 36 (18.37%) Terraform
12 35 (17.86%) AngularJS
13 32 (16.33%) CSS
13 32 (16.33%) SOAP
14 31 (15.82%) Web Services
15 26 (13.27%) ActiveMQ
16 23 (11.73%) Spring MVC
17 21 (10.71%) OpenAPI
17 21 (10.71%) Spring Cloud
18 20 (10.20%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 25 (12.76%) Cloud Native
3 22 (11.22%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (8.67%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.59%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (2.55%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
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 (19.39%) Linux
2 12 (6.12%) Unix
3 3 (1.53%) VMS
4 2 (1.02%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (70.92%) CI/CD
2 113 (57.65%) Agile
3 111 (56.63%) Microservices
4 97 (49.49%) DevOps
5 83 (42.35%) Scrum
6 68 (34.69%) Containerisation
7 67 (34.18%) Test Automation
8 58 (29.59%) TDD
9 48 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (17.86%) Clean Code
11 35 (17.86%) Software Engineering
12 31 (15.82%) Event-Driven
12 31 (15.82%) Front End Development
13 30 (15.31%) Code Quality
14 28 (14.29%) Design Patterns
15 25 (12.76%) Observability
16 24 (12.24%) MVC
17 22 (11.22%) BDD
17 22 (11.22%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 187 (95.41%) Java
2 86 (43.88%) SQL
3 52 (26.53%) JavaScript
4 34 (17.35%) Python
5 28 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 23 (11.73%) TypeScript
7 19 (9.69%) Groovy
8 13 (6.63%) Bash
9 6 (3.06%) Scala
10 5 (2.55%) Ruby
11 3 (1.53%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (38.78%) Security Cleared
2 69 (35.20%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (11.73%) Degree
5 19 (9.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.04%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.86%) QA
2 16 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.57%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.55%) PSD2
4 5 (2.55%) 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 94 (47.96%) Docker
2 5 (2.55%) Postfix
3 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 87 (44.39%) Kubernetes
2 40 (20.41%) Grafana
3 30 (15.31%) Prometheus
4 19 (9.69%) Ansible
5 15 (7.65%) Kibana
6 9 (4.59%) Argo
7 3 (1.53%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.02%) Podman
8 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.02%) Puppet
8 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.51%) Istio
9 1 (0.51%) systemd
Vendors
1 48 (24.49%) Oracle
2 14 (7.14%) Google
3 12 (6.12%) Sonatype
4 9 (4.59%) IBM
4 9 (4.59%) MuleSoft
4 9 (4.59%) Splunk
5 8 (4.08%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (4.08%) Veracode
6 7 (3.57%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.06%) Microsoft
8 5 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.04%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.53%) Checkmarx
10 3 (1.53%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.02%) Adobe
11 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.02%) SAP
11 2 (1.02%) Sybase
12 1 (0.51%) TIBCO