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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 384 446
Rank change year-on-year -102 +62 -188
Contract jobs citing Maven 115 144 140
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.46% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.09% 3.40% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 77 94
10th Percentile £364 £354 £400
25th Percentile £450 £431 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +2.10% -16.00%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £598
90th Percentile £695 £700 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +6.15% +2.56% -10.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 5,494 4,236 5,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.03% 13.59% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,765 2,671 3,779
10th Percentile £344 £338 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £630
90th Percentile £695 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 64 212
10th Percentile £35.43 £26.33 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.57
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.13 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 6 February 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 6 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Top 12 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 6 February 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 -80 108 £550 +1.85% 33
UK excluding London -90 55 £531 +6.15% 27
London -45 54 £575 +5.50% 11
Work from Home -59 24 £536 +7.20% 18
North of England -61 16 £414 -5.49% 6
West Midlands -39 14 £556 +14.69% 6
Midlands -50 14 £556 +14.69% 8
South East -25 13 £407 -36.78% 6
Yorkshire -46 11 £425 -23.43% 4
South West -19 10 £550 -15.38% 4
North West -41 5 £402 -8.11% 2
Scotland -1 3 £438 -16.27% 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 8 (6.96%) Confluence
2 5 (4.35%) Apache
3 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.48%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.74%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.74%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.74%) Camunda
4 2 (1.74%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.87%) JBoss
5 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.87%) Mule
5 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 50 (43.48%) AWS
2 29 (25.22%) GitHub
3 25 (21.74%) Azure
4 16 (13.91%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (13.04%) OpenShift
6 14 (12.17%) GCP
7 13 (11.30%) npm
8 11 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (9.57%) Serverless
9 9 (7.83%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (7.83%) Amazon S3
9 9 (7.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (5.22%) Datadog
13 5 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (4.35%) Azure AKS
14 4 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (3.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.09%) AMQP
2 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.87%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.87%) HTTP
3 1 (0.87%) Multicast
3 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.17%) Relational Database
2 13 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (9.57%) MongoDB
4 10 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 9 (7.83%) RDBMS
5 9 (7.83%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (6.96%) MySQL
7 7 (6.09%) Tick Data
8 6 (5.22%) DynamoDB
8 6 (5.22%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.61%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.61%) Metadata
9 3 (2.61%) Redis
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.87%) HBase
11 1 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 67 (58.26%) Git
2 49 (42.61%) Jenkins
3 46 (40.00%) Gradle
4 39 (33.91%) JUnit
5 33 (28.70%) GitLab
6 23 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 19 (16.52%) JIRA
7 19 (16.52%) Mockito
8 18 (15.65%) SonarQube
9 15 (13.04%) Cucumber
9 15 (13.04%) Selenium
10 13 (11.30%) Bitbucket
11 10 (8.70%) Postman
12 9 (7.83%) Artifactory
12 9 (7.83%) Cypress.io
13 6 (5.22%) Ant
13 6 (5.22%) IntelliJ
13 6 (5.22%) webpack
14 5 (4.35%) Eclipse
14 5 (4.35%) REST Assured
General
1 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.13%) Finance
3 19 (16.52%) Banking
4 8 (6.96%) Front Office
5 7 (6.09%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.61%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Publishing
10 1 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.87%) Law
10 1 (0.87%) Marketing
10 1 (0.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.87%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (50.43%) Developer
2 51 (44.35%) Java Developer
3 25 (21.74%) Senior
4 16 (13.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.17%) Senior Developer
6 12 (10.43%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (9.57%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.70%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Lead
10 7 (6.09%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Applications Support
10 7 (6.09%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Fidessa Developer
10 7 (6.09%) Support Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (2.61%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
13 3 (2.61%) Applications Developer
13 3 (2.61%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (53.04%) Spring
2 44 (38.26%) Spring Boot
3 21 (18.26%) React
4 20 (17.39%) REST
5 19 (16.52%) JSON
6 18 (15.65%) JPA
7 17 (14.78%) HTML
8 15 (13.04%) AngularJS
8 15 (13.04%) Hibernate
8 15 (13.04%) RESTful
9 14 (12.17%) Kafka
10 12 (10.43%) CSS
11 9 (7.83%) Gherkin
11 9 (7.83%) Node.js
12 8 (6.96%) Bootstrap
13 7 (6.09%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (6.09%) OAuth
13 7 (6.09%) OpenID
13 7 (6.09%) XML
13 7 (6.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.96%) Equities
3 7 (6.09%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.09%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.35%) Derivative
4 5 (4.35%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.61%) TWAP
5 3 (2.61%) VWAP
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.74%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.87%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.74%) Linux
2 9 (7.83%) Unix
3 7 (6.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.48%) CentOS
5 3 (2.61%) Solaris
6 1 (0.87%) Windows
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (52.17%) CI/CD
2 46 (40.00%) DevOps
2 46 (40.00%) Microservices
3 41 (35.65%) Agile
4 34 (29.57%) Test Automation
5 28 (24.35%) Containerisation
6 27 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (19.13%) Software Engineering
8 19 (16.52%) Scrum
9 18 (15.65%) TDD
10 17 (14.78%) Mentoring
11 16 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (13.04%) Design Patterns
12 15 (13.04%) Unit Testing
13 14 (12.17%) OO
14 13 (11.30%) OOP
14 13 (11.30%) SDLC
15 12 (10.43%) Multithreading
16 11 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (81.74%) Java
2 25 (21.74%) Python
2 25 (21.74%) SQL
3 13 (11.30%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.70%) Groovy
5 9 (7.83%) Shell Script
6 8 (6.96%) Bash
7 7 (6.09%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.48%) Go
10 3 (2.61%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.61%) Scala
11 2 (1.74%) C#
11 2 (1.74%) C++
11 2 (1.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.87%) Clojure
12 1 (0.87%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.17%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.48%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.74%) Degree
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.87%) OCP
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.09%) WCAG
2 6 (5.22%) QA
3 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.61%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.74%) NCSC
5 1 (0.87%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (38.26%) Docker
2 3 (2.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.74%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 44 (38.26%) Kubernetes
2 27 (23.48%) Terraform
3 21 (18.26%) Grafana
4 20 (17.39%) Ansible
5 12 (10.43%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.96%) Kibana
7 6 (5.22%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.35%) Puppet
9 4 (3.48%) Podman
10 3 (2.61%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.74%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) Oracle
2 13 (11.30%) Splunk
3 9 (7.83%) Solace
4 5 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.48%) Sybase
6 3 (2.61%) Sonatype
6 3 (2.61%) VMware
7 2 (1.74%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.87%) Adobe
8 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.87%) Google
8 1 (0.87%) IBM
8 1 (0.87%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.87%) TOWER Software