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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 402 383
Rank change year-on-year -88 -19 +44
Contract jobs citing Maven 211 161 182
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.48% 0.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.25% 3.15% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 129 107
10th Percentile £326 £307 £363
25th Percentile £406 £367 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -9.52% -4.33%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £625 £621 £855
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 6,500 5,104 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 15.37% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,165 3,464 3,138
10th Percentile £354 £326 £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 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 111 168
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £29.67
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £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 15 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 15 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 -108 167 £510 +3.03% 125
UK excluding London -66 115 £475 +5.56% 65
London -86 72 £500 -3.15% 76
Work from Home -59 65 £470 +10.72% 40
Midlands -25 52 £575 +21.05% 12
West Midlands -15 48 £575 +12.20% 11
North of England -71 33 £517 +40.38% 17
Scotland -8 22 £375 -9.09% 16
Yorkshire -30 22 £515 -0.99% 4
North West -60 10 £519 +44.83% 12
South East -69 6 £270 -43.16% 6
East Midlands -18 3 £369 +8.38% 1
South West -41 2 £300 -45.45% 6
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 (10.90%) Confluence
2 12 (5.69%) WebLogic
3 9 (4.27%) Camunda
4 6 (2.84%) Apache
5 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.95%) CMS
7 1 (0.47%) JBoss
7 1 (0.47%) nginx
7 1 (0.47%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Finacle
1 1 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.47%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 128 (60.66%) AWS
2 56 (26.54%) Azure
3 45 (21.33%) GCP
4 42 (19.91%) GitHub
5 23 (10.90%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (9.00%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (7.11%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 14 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (6.64%) OpenShift
10 13 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.16%) Serverless
11 11 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.74%) Kong
13 9 (4.27%) npm
14 7 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (3.32%) Cloud Run
14 7 (3.32%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) Firewall
2 3 (1.42%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.47%) Internet
3 1 (0.47%) MQTT
3 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (27.96%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (21.80%) Relational Database
3 22 (10.43%) MongoDB
4 21 (9.95%) SQL Server
5 20 (9.48%) MySQL
6 14 (6.64%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (5.69%) NoSQL
8 11 (5.21%) Metadata
9 9 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (4.27%) DynamoDB
10 8 (3.79%) Oracle Database
11 6 (2.84%) RDBMS
11 6 (2.84%) Redis
12 5 (2.37%) Hazelcast
13 4 (1.90%) Flink
13 4 (1.90%) Pinecone
13 4 (1.90%) Weaviate
14 3 (1.42%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.42%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 136 (64.45%) Git
2 123 (58.29%) Jenkins
3 88 (41.71%) Gradle
4 87 (41.23%) JUnit
5 66 (31.28%) GitLab
6 61 (28.91%) Mockito
7 60 (28.44%) SonarQube
8 38 (18.01%) JIRA
9 22 (10.43%) Cucumber
9 22 (10.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (8.06%) Selenium
11 15 (7.11%) REST Assured
12 12 (5.69%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (4.27%) GoCD
13 9 (4.27%) JProfiler
14 6 (2.84%) Artifactory
14 6 (2.84%) JMeter
14 6 (2.84%) Postman
14 6 (2.84%) Subversion
15 5 (2.37%) IntelliJ
General
1 51 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 44 (20.85%) Finance
3 40 (18.96%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (16.59%) Public Sector
5 34 (16.11%) Banking
6 8 (3.79%) Publishing
7 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.42%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.42%) Military
9 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Back Office
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Front Office
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 123 (58.29%) Developer
2 102 (48.34%) Java Developer
3 39 (18.48%) Senior
4 31 (14.69%) Java Engineer
5 26 (12.32%) Senior Developer
6 25 (11.85%) Senior Java Developer
7 24 (11.37%) Lead
8 21 (9.95%) Lead Developer
9 20 (9.48%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.64%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (6.64%) Lead Java Developer
11 10 (4.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 10 (4.74%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 5 (2.37%) Automation Tester
13 5 (2.37%) AWS DevOps
13 5 (2.37%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.37%) Backend Developer
13 5 (2.37%) GCP DevOps
13 5 (2.37%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (66.35%) Spring Boot
2 137 (64.93%) Spring
3 85 (40.28%) REST
4 69 (32.70%) JPA
5 60 (28.44%) RESTful
6 51 (24.17%) Kafka
7 49 (23.22%) React
8 42 (19.91%) HTML
9 41 (19.43%) Node.js
10 39 (18.48%) Hibernate
10 39 (18.48%) Terraform
11 36 (17.06%) CSS
12 35 (16.59%) AngularJS
13 32 (15.17%) Web Services
14 30 (14.22%) SOAP
15 27 (12.80%) Spring MVC
16 24 (11.37%) ActiveMQ
16 24 (11.37%) OpenAPI
17 21 (9.95%) Redux
18 19 (9.00%) FreeMarker
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.27%) Product Ownership
2 27 (12.80%) Cloud Native
3 22 (10.43%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (9.95%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.69%) Data Structures
6 11 (5.21%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.79%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.84%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.37%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.90%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (20.85%) Linux
2 15 (7.11%) Unix
3 4 (1.90%) macOS
3 4 (1.90%) VMS
4 3 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (69.19%) CI/CD
2 123 (58.29%) Agile
3 118 (55.92%) Microservices
4 98 (46.45%) DevOps
5 87 (41.23%) Scrum
6 74 (35.07%) Containerisation
6 74 (35.07%) Test Automation
7 59 (27.96%) TDD
8 55 (26.07%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (22.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (18.01%) Software Engineering
11 37 (17.54%) Clean Code
12 34 (16.11%) Front End Development
13 33 (15.64%) Design Patterns
14 32 (15.17%) Code Quality
15 30 (14.22%) Event-Driven
16 28 (13.27%) MVC
17 26 (12.32%) Observability
18 25 (11.85%) OO
19 24 (11.37%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 199 (94.31%) Java
2 91 (43.13%) SQL
3 58 (27.49%) JavaScript
4 37 (17.54%) Python
5 36 (17.06%) Shell Script
6 24 (11.37%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.58%) Groovy
8 15 (7.11%) Bash
9 7 (3.32%) Scala
10 5 (2.37%) Ruby
11 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.47%) C#
13 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 84 (39.81%) Security Cleared
2 75 (35.55%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (11.85%) Degree
5 21 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.32%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.37%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.90%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.59%) QA
2 17 (8.06%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.37%) ISO 20022
3 5 (2.37%) PSD2
4 4 (1.90%) SEPA
5 2 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.95%) WCAG
6 1 (0.47%) ITGC
6 1 (0.47%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 98 (46.45%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.95%) Postfix
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 96 (45.50%) Kubernetes
2 37 (17.54%) Grafana
3 27 (12.80%) Prometheus
4 21 (9.95%) Ansible
5 17 (8.06%) Kibana
6 10 (4.74%) Argo
7 3 (1.42%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.95%) Podman
8 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.95%) Puppet
9 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.47%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) systemd
Vendors
1 55 (26.07%) Oracle
2 17 (8.06%) Google
3 10 (4.74%) IBM
4 9 (4.27%) MuleSoft
4 9 (4.27%) Veracode
5 8 (3.79%) Sonatype
5 8 (3.79%) Splunk
6 7 (3.32%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.37%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.37%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.90%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.90%) Checkmarx
8 4 (1.90%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.90%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.42%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.95%) Adobe
10 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.95%) SAP
10 2 (0.95%) Sybase
11 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow