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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 382 456
Rank change year-on-year -144 +74 -175
Contract jobs citing Maven 119 134 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.46% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.04% 3.27% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 93 87
10th Percentile £375 £325 £403
25th Percentile £460 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% +3.95% -18.37%
75th Percentile £617 £575 £578
90th Percentile £749 £700 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £490
% change year-on-year -3.55% +0.51% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 5,825 4,097 5,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.35% 14.02% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,858 2,742 3,476
10th Percentile £347 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 66 195
10th Percentile £37.93 £26.77 £32.23
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.30 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.38 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.40% -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 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Maven over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Top 13 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 April 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 -110 111 £550 +5.82% 22
UK excluding London -90 74 £475 -3.55% 17
London -64 42 £600 +9.59% 9
North of England -75 26 £461 -7.75% 3
Midlands -67 23 £524 +23.18% 5
Yorkshire -44 22 £473 -9.09% 2
West Midlands -53 21 £524 +6.29% 3
Work from Home -63 21 £475 -11.38% 17
South East -40 17 £360 -44.58% 5
South West -26 6 £550 - 2
North West -46 4 £402 -15.37% 1
Scotland -3 3 £438 +22.21% 1
East Midlands -32 2 - - 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 9 (7.56%) Confluence
2 8 (6.72%) Apache
3 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (2.52%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.68%) Apache TomEE
6 2 (1.68%) Camunda
6 2 (1.68%) JBoss
7 1 (0.84%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.84%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.84%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (52.10%) AWS
2 32 (26.89%) GitHub
3 24 (20.17%) Amazon S3
3 24 (20.17%) Azure
4 22 (18.49%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (15.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
6 17 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (11.76%) AWS KMS
7 14 (11.76%) Route 53
8 12 (10.08%) GCP
9 9 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (7.56%) Serverless
10 8 (6.72%) OpenShift
11 6 (5.04%) npm
12 5 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.20%) OCI
13 4 (3.36%) Apigee
13 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) AMQP
2 3 (2.52%) HTTP
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) Internet
3 1 (0.84%) Multicast
3 1 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.21%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (19.33%) DynamoDB
3 18 (15.13%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (9.24%) Relational Database
6 10 (8.40%) MySQL
6 10 (8.40%) SQL Server
7 9 (7.56%) Metadata
8 7 (5.88%) MongoDB
9 5 (4.20%) RDBMS
9 5 (4.20%) Tick Data
10 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.52%) InfluxDB
12 2 (1.68%) Flink
12 2 (1.68%) Hazelcast
12 2 (1.68%) Redis
13 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (55.46%) Jenkins
2 60 (50.42%) Git
3 40 (33.61%) Gradle
3 40 (33.61%) JUnit
4 29 (24.37%) SonarQube
5 23 (19.33%) Mockito
6 17 (14.29%) JIRA
7 15 (12.61%) GitLab
8 11 (9.24%) DbUnit
8 11 (9.24%) jMock
8 11 (9.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (8.40%) Bitbucket
9 10 (8.40%) Cucumber
10 9 (7.56%) Artifactory
10 9 (7.56%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (7.56%) Gatling
11 8 (6.72%) Postman
11 8 (6.72%) Selenium
12 7 (5.88%) Ant
12 7 (5.88%) Eclipse
General
1 41 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.49%) Public Sector
3 17 (14.29%) Finance
4 12 (10.08%) Banking
5 10 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.04%) Front Office
7 5 (4.20%) Publishing
8 4 (3.36%) Retail
9 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (53.78%) Developer
2 54 (45.38%) Java Developer
3 30 (25.21%) Senior
4 22 (18.49%) Senior Developer
5 20 (16.81%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (10.92%) Java Engineer
7 11 (9.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.40%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Lead
10 6 (5.04%) Applications Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Applications Support
11 5 (4.20%) Applications Support Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Fidessa Developer
11 5 (4.20%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (4.20%) Support Engineer
12 4 (3.36%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (57.14%) Spring
2 48 (40.34%) Spring Boot
3 31 (26.05%) REST
4 27 (22.69%) JPA
5 25 (21.01%) AngularJS
6 24 (20.17%) RESTful
7 23 (19.33%) Hibernate
8 21 (17.65%) Web Services
9 20 (16.81%) Node.js
10 18 (15.13%) SOAP
10 18 (15.13%) Spring Cloud
11 16 (13.45%) JSON
12 15 (12.61%) ActiveMQ
12 15 (12.61%) Bootstrap
13 14 (11.76%) Spring Batch
13 14 (11.76%) Spring Integration
14 11 (9.24%) Kafka
14 11 (9.24%) Playwright
14 11 (9.24%) PowerMock
15 10 (8.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.56%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.04%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.04%) Equities
5 3 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.68%) Derivative
6 2 (1.68%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.68%) TWAP
6 2 (1.68%) VWAP
7 1 (0.84%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.84%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (26.89%) Linux
2 8 (6.72%) Unix
3 5 (4.20%) Windows
4 3 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.84%) Android
6 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 58 (48.74%) DevOps
3 50 (42.02%) Microservices
4 42 (35.29%) Agile
5 36 (30.25%) Containerisation
6 34 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 28 (23.53%) Scrum
7 28 (23.53%) TDD
8 20 (16.81%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (16.81%) Software Engineering
9 15 (12.61%) BDD
9 15 (12.61%) Event-Driven
10 14 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (11.76%) Kanban
10 14 (11.76%) Observability
11 13 (10.92%) Design Patterns
11 13 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (10.08%) BPMN
12 12 (10.08%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 106 (89.08%) Java
2 42 (35.29%) SQL
3 24 (20.17%) Python
4 12 (10.08%) Groovy
5 8 (6.72%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.04%) Scala
8 3 (2.52%) Bash
8 3 (2.52%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.68%) Go
9 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (34.45%) Security Cleared
2 31 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.56%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.04%) Degree
5 4 (3.36%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.36%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.76%) QA
2 4 (3.36%) SLA
3 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.68%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.68%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.68%) NCSC
4 1 (0.84%) GDPR
4 1 (0.84%) SEPA
System Software
1 54 (45.38%) Docker
2 10 (8.40%) Postfix
3 3 (2.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.52%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 38 (31.93%) Kubernetes
2 28 (23.53%) Grafana
2 28 (23.53%) Terraform
3 14 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 11 (9.24%) Ansible
5 6 (5.04%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.52%) HP Fortify
6 3 (2.52%) Kibana
7 2 (1.68%) Argo
7 2 (1.68%) Podman
7 2 (1.68%) Puppet
8 1 (0.84%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.84%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (12.61%) Atlassian
1 15 (12.61%) Oracle
2 14 (11.76%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (10.08%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.56%) Sonatype
5 7 (5.88%) Splunk
6 6 (5.04%) Solace
7 3 (2.52%) Sybase
8 2 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.84%) Google
9 1 (0.84%) IBM
9 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.84%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.84%) Thales
9 1 (0.84%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.84%) VMware