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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 377 451
Rank change year-on-year -64 +74 -220
Contract jobs citing Maven 149 180 184
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.73% 3.82% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 101 124
10th Percentile £305 £363 £371
25th Percentile £378 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% -1.36% -12.00%
75th Percentile £587 £685 £675
90th Percentile £645 £863 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £525
% change year-on-year -3.65% -8.57% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile - - £67.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 5,464 4,718 6,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.30% 13.02% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,766 2,939 4,189
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £507
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.75% -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 131 238
10th Percentile £29.00 £24.84 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.00 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.26
90th Percentile £82.40 £74.44 £89.13
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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 -51 141 £513 -6.82% 60
London -26 75 £525 -4.55% 31
UK excluding London -42 70 £463 -3.65% 38
Work from Home -16 44 £450 -18.18% 37
North of England -33 24 £358 -10.50% 11
Midlands -16 23 £500 -33.33% 5
North West -18 18 £358 -10.50% 4
West Midlands -13 15 £538 - 5
South East +2 10 £450 -25.00% 8
South West -6 9 £550 -15.38% 5
East Midlands -14 8 £345 -54.00%
Yorkshire -38 6 £575 +27.78% 7
Scotland -8 4 £438 +4.17% 7
Northern Ireland -9 1 £425 -34.62%

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 13 (8.72%) Confluence
2 8 (5.37%) JBoss
2 8 (5.37%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.68%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.01%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.01%) Apache
4 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.01%) CICS
4 3 (2.01%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.34%) Apache TomEE
5 2 (1.34%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.67%) Mule
6 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.31%) AWS
2 45 (30.20%) Azure
3 30 (20.13%) GitHub
4 23 (15.44%) GCP
5 22 (14.77%) OpenShift
6 19 (12.75%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (12.75%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (10.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (9.40%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (9.40%) npm
8 14 (9.40%) Serverless
9 13 (8.72%) Amazon S3
9 13 (8.72%) Route 53
10 12 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (8.05%) AWS Fargate
11 10 (6.71%) Datadog
11 10 (6.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (6.04%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.03%) AMQP
2 2 (1.34%) Calico
2 2 (1.34%) DMZ
2 2 (1.34%) Firewall
2 2 (1.34%) HTTP
2 2 (1.34%) Internet
2 2 (1.34%) MQTT
2 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.34%) VPN
3 1 (0.67%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (20.81%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (14.09%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (13.42%) Relational Database
4 18 (12.08%) SQL Server
5 17 (11.41%) DynamoDB
6 15 (10.07%) RDBMS
7 14 (9.40%) MongoDB
7 14 (9.40%) NoSQL
8 13 (8.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (6.71%) Oracle Database
9 10 (6.71%) Redis
10 9 (6.04%) MySQL
11 5 (3.36%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.68%) DB2
12 4 (2.68%) Tick Data
13 3 (2.01%) Big Data
13 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
13 3 (2.01%) HPCC
13 3 (2.01%) InfluxDB
14 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 90 (60.40%) Git
2 70 (46.98%) Jenkins
3 56 (37.58%) JUnit
4 55 (36.91%) Gradle
5 48 (32.21%) GitLab
6 43 (28.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 42 (28.19%) SonarQube
8 29 (19.46%) JIRA
9 28 (18.79%) Cucumber
10 26 (17.45%) Mockito
11 24 (16.11%) Selenium
12 17 (11.41%) Bitbucket
13 16 (10.74%) Postman
14 12 (8.05%) Artifactory
14 12 (8.05%) IntelliJ
15 11 (7.38%) REST Assured
16 9 (6.04%) Eclipse
17 7 (4.70%) Cypress.io
17 7 (4.70%) Subversion
18 6 (4.03%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.13%) Finance
3 26 (17.45%) Banking
4 18 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.04%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.37%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.03%) Front Office
8 3 (2.01%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.67%) Aviation
10 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.67%) Law
10 1 (0.67%) Marketing
10 1 (0.67%) Publishing
10 1 (0.67%) Retail
10 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (55.70%) Developer
2 66 (44.30%) Java Developer
3 22 (14.77%) Senior
4 16 (10.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (8.72%) AWS Developer
5 13 (8.72%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (8.72%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.71%) Java Engineer
6 10 (6.71%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (5.37%) Architect
7 8 (5.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (4.70%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) Lead
9 6 (4.03%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Java Architect
10 5 (3.36%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (3.36%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.68%) Applications Support Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (45.64%) Spring
2 65 (43.62%) Spring Boot
3 37 (24.83%) REST
4 31 (20.81%) JPA
4 31 (20.81%) RESTful
5 29 (19.46%) Hibernate
5 29 (19.46%) HTML
6 22 (14.77%) Kafka
6 22 (14.77%) React
7 21 (14.09%) CSS
7 21 (14.09%) SOAP
8 20 (13.42%) JSON
9 19 (12.75%) AngularJS
10 17 (11.41%) Spring Cloud
11 16 (10.74%) Node.js
11 16 (10.74%) Web Services
12 15 (10.07%) J2EE
13 13 (8.72%) Bootstrap
13 13 (8.72%) Jest
14 9 (6.04%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.05%) Cloud Native
1 12 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.71%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.36%) N-Tier
4 5 (3.36%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.68%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.68%) Equities
6 3 (2.01%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.01%) Clustering
6 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.01%) Derivative
6 3 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.01%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.01%) VSAM
7 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.34%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.34%) IoT
7 2 (1.34%) IVR
7 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 42 (28.19%) Linux
2 27 (18.12%) Unix
3 10 (6.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.36%) CentOS
5 4 (2.68%) Solaris
5 4 (2.68%) Windows
6 2 (1.34%) Android
6 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (55.03%) CI/CD
2 69 (46.31%) Microservices
3 66 (44.30%) Agile
4 59 (39.60%) DevOps
5 41 (27.52%) Containerisation
5 41 (27.52%) TDD
5 41 (27.52%) Test Automation
6 36 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (20.81%) Design Patterns
8 27 (18.12%) Mentoring
9 23 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (12.75%) Code Quality
10 19 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (12.75%) OO
10 19 (12.75%) Scrum
10 19 (12.75%) SDLC
10 19 (12.75%) Software Engineering
10 19 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (12.08%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 121 (81.21%) Java
2 43 (28.86%) SQL
3 36 (24.16%) Python
4 35 (23.49%) JavaScript
5 22 (14.77%) Shell Script
6 14 (9.40%) Bash
6 14 (9.40%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.04%) Groovy
7 9 (6.04%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.36%) C
9 4 (2.68%) C++
10 3 (2.01%) C#
10 3 (2.01%) COBOL
10 3 (2.01%) Go
10 3 (2.01%) JCL
10 3 (2.01%) Scala
11 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.34%) Rust
12 1 (0.67%) Ada
Qualifications
1 35 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.09%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.05%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.68%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.68%) Degree
5 3 (2.01%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.67%) OCP
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.05%) QA
2 9 (6.04%) WCAG
3 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.01%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 71 (47.65%) Docker
2 4 (2.68%) Postfix
3 2 (1.34%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 56 (37.58%) Kubernetes
2 34 (22.82%) Terraform
3 25 (16.78%) Grafana
4 21 (14.09%) Ansible
5 19 (12.75%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.37%) Puppet
7 6 (4.03%) Kibana
7 6 (4.03%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.36%) Podman
9 4 (2.68%) Argo
9 4 (2.68%) Istio
10 3 (2.01%) CloudHub
10 3 (2.01%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.67%) Control-M
11 1 (0.67%) logstash
11 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (22.82%) Oracle
2 13 (8.72%) Splunk
3 11 (7.38%) CA Agile Central
4 10 (6.71%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.04%) Solace
6 6 (4.03%) Google
6 6 (4.03%) Veracode
7 5 (3.36%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.36%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.36%) Gigya
7 5 (3.36%) MuleSoft
7 5 (3.36%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.36%) Sybase
8 4 (2.68%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (2.68%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.01%) Bloomberg
9 3 (2.01%) IBM
9 3 (2.01%) Refinitiv
9 3 (2.01%) VMware
10 2 (1.34%) Salesforce