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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 374 426
Rank change year-on-year -142 +52 -115
Contract jobs citing Maven 139 178 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.56% 0.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.28% 3.84% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 137 106
10th Percentile £356 £276 £400
25th Percentile £450 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £597 £563 £588
90th Percentile £736 £622 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £423 £490
% change year-on-year +12.29% -13.67% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £59.00 £63.25 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
75th Percentile - £69.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -

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 6,096 4,634 5,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 14.57% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 3,104 3,569
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £693 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 94 251
10th Percentile £26.15 £21.22 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 6 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Maven in the UK

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 6 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 -159 119 £525 +10.53% 35
UK excluding London -128 78 £475 +12.29% 21
London -92 54 £575 +9.00% 14
Midlands -72 28 £543 +27.82% 6
North of England -88 27 £488 +21.27% 6
West Midlands -57 25 £543 +12.01% 3
Work from Home -91 25 £475 -5.00% 16
Yorkshire -44 22 £488 -6.20% 3
South East -43 13 £355 -39.32% 4
Scotland -14 9 £353 -14.42% 2
North West -60 4 £475 +32.68% 3
South West -27 2 £525 +2.44% 3
East Midlands -31 2 - - 3
North East -39 1 £520 +11.83%

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 (6.47%) Confluence
2 6 (4.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (4.32%) Apache
3 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.44%) CMS
4 2 (1.44%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.72%) Camunda
5 1 (0.72%) JBoss
5 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 80 (57.55%) AWS
2 40 (28.78%) GitHub
3 32 (23.02%) Azure
4 24 (17.27%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (17.27%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (16.55%) Amazon S3
6 22 (15.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (15.11%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (13.67%) GCP
9 18 (12.95%) AWS KMS
9 18 (12.95%) Route 53
10 8 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.04%) OCI
12 6 (4.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (2.88%) Amazon Cognito
13 4 (2.88%) Apigee
13 4 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.88%) Cloud Run
13 4 (2.88%) Kong
13 4 (2.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.44%) HTTP
2 1 (0.72%) Internet
2 1 (0.72%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.34%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (17.99%) DynamoDB
3 24 (17.27%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (13.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (10.07%) Metadata
6 13 (9.35%) SQL Server
7 12 (8.63%) MongoDB
8 11 (7.91%) Relational Database
9 9 (6.47%) MySQL
10 4 (2.88%) Flink
10 4 (2.88%) Hazelcast
10 4 (2.88%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.88%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.88%) Redis
11 3 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.16%) Oracle Database
11 3 (2.16%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.72%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 81 (58.27%) Jenkins
2 73 (52.52%) Git
3 53 (38.13%) JUnit
4 49 (35.25%) Gradle
5 39 (28.06%) SonarQube
6 29 (20.86%) Mockito
7 23 (16.55%) GitLab
8 17 (12.23%) JIRA
9 14 (10.07%) DbUnit
10 13 (9.35%) jMock
11 12 (8.63%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (7.91%) Cucumber
12 11 (7.91%) REST Assured
13 10 (7.19%) Postman
14 9 (6.47%) Gatling
14 9 (6.47%) Selenium
14 9 (6.47%) Subversion
15 8 (5.76%) Artifactory
15 8 (5.76%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (5.76%) TestNG
General
1 44 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.42%) Public Sector
3 23 (16.55%) Finance
4 14 (10.07%) Banking
5 13 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.04%) Publishing
7 5 (3.60%) Front Office
8 4 (2.88%) Retail
9 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (58.99%) Developer
2 68 (48.92%) Java Developer
3 34 (24.46%) Senior
4 26 (18.71%) Senior Developer
5 25 (17.99%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (9.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (9.35%) Lead
7 12 (8.63%) Java Engineer
7 12 (8.63%) Lead Developer
8 9 (6.47%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Lead Java Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Applications Developer
11 5 (3.60%) Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 4 (2.88%) Service Delivery Manager
12 4 (2.88%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (62.59%) Spring
2 69 (49.64%) Spring Boot
3 46 (33.09%) REST
4 39 (28.06%) JPA
5 30 (21.58%) Node.js
5 30 (21.58%) RESTful
6 29 (20.86%) Web Services
7 28 (20.14%) Hibernate
8 26 (18.71%) AngularJS
9 22 (15.83%) SOAP
10 21 (15.11%) Spring Cloud
11 20 (14.39%) ActiveMQ
12 19 (13.67%) Bootstrap
13 18 (12.95%) Spring Batch
13 18 (12.95%) Spring Integration
14 16 (11.51%) Kafka
14 16 (11.51%) React
15 14 (10.07%) JSON
16 13 (9.35%) Playwright
16 13 (9.35%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.99%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.91%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.04%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.04%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.88%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.16%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.16%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.16%) Equities
6 3 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.44%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.72%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.72%) TWAP
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.72%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.02%) Linux
2 9 (6.47%) Unix
3 5 (3.60%) Windows
4 1 (0.72%) Android
4 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (63.31%) CI/CD
2 73 (52.52%) DevOps
3 64 (46.04%) Microservices
4 50 (35.97%) Agile
5 42 (30.22%) TDD
6 40 (28.78%) Scrum
7 38 (27.34%) Test Automation
8 37 (26.62%) Containerisation
9 25 (17.99%) Performance Tuning
10 22 (15.83%) BDD
10 22 (15.83%) Software Engineering
11 21 (15.11%) Event-Driven
12 17 (12.23%) Kanban
13 16 (11.51%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (11.51%) Observability
13 16 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (10.79%) Design Patterns
14 15 (10.79%) Unit Testing
15 13 (9.35%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 128 (92.09%) Java
2 57 (41.01%) SQL
3 28 (20.14%) Python
4 17 (12.23%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.35%) Groovy
6 10 (7.19%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.32%) Scala
8 3 (2.16%) Bash
8 3 (2.16%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.44%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (32.37%) Security Cleared
2 39 (28.06%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.76%) Degree
4 7 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.32%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.60%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.55%) QA
2 10 (7.19%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.88%) SLA
4 3 (2.16%) SEPA
5 2 (1.44%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.44%) PSD2
6 1 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.72%) GDPR
6 1 (0.72%) ITGC
6 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (41.01%) Docker
2 11 (7.91%) Postfix
3 3 (2.16%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 45 (32.37%) Kubernetes
2 26 (18.71%) Grafana
3 25 (17.99%) Terraform
4 14 (10.07%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.19%) Ansible
6 6 (4.32%) Argo
6 6 (4.32%) HAProxy
7 4 (2.88%) Kibana
8 1 (0.72%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.72%) Podman
8 1 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (12.95%) Atlassian
1 18 (12.95%) Oracle
2 17 (12.23%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (10.07%) Microsoft
4 11 (7.91%) Sonatype
5 9 (6.47%) Splunk
6 6 (4.32%) Solace
7 5 (3.60%) MuleSoft
7 5 (3.60%) Sybase
8 3 (2.16%) IBM
9 2 (1.44%) Adobe
9 2 (1.44%) Google
9 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.44%) SAP
9 2 (1.44%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.44%) VMware
10 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.72%) Thales
10 1 (0.72%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.72%) Veracode