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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 396 401
Rank change year-on-year -97 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Maven 200 159 171
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.49% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.17% 3.18% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 129 101
10th Percentile £322 £276 £363
25th Percentile £406 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £625 £629 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +6.55% -10.84% -2.44%
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 6,310 4,999 5,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 15.33% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,033 3,371 3,172
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £693 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 111 171
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.05 £31.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £74.00
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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -122 158 £510 +3.08% 101
UK excluding London -69 114 £475 +6.55% 62
London -100 64 £488 -7.14% 53
Work from Home -53 60 £473 -0.53% 42
Midlands -16 53 £575 +32.09% 14
West Midlands -10 50 £575 +15.00% 12
North of England -77 32 £517 +29.33% 16
Yorkshire -31 23 £514 -1.05% 3
Scotland -14 20 £375 -9.09% 12
North West -63 8 £537 +50.00% 12
South East -66 7 £270 -53.85% 4
East Midlands -26 2 £335 -1.47% 2
South West -43 2 £300 -45.45% 7
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 22 (11.00%) Confluence
2 11 (5.50%) WebLogic
3 9 (4.50%) Camunda
4 6 (3.00%) Apache
5 3 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.00%) CMS
7 1 (0.50%) JBoss
7 1 (0.50%) nginx
7 1 (0.50%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Finacle
1 1 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 122 (61.00%) AWS
2 53 (26.50%) Azure
3 38 (19.00%) GCP
4 36 (18.00%) GitHub
5 21 (10.50%) Amazon SQS
6 20 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (8.50%) Amazon S3
7 17 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (7.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 14 (7.00%) OpenShift
10 11 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (5.50%) Serverless
11 10 (5.00%) Kong
12 9 (4.50%) AWS KMS
12 9 (4.50%) Route 53
13 7 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.50%) Apigee
13 7 (3.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.00%) Firewall
2 3 (1.50%) SSL
3 1 (0.50%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.50%) Internet
3 1 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 21 (10.50%) MongoDB
4 19 (9.50%) SQL Server
5 18 (9.00%) MySQL
6 16 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (6.50%) DynamoDB
7 13 (6.50%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.00%) Metadata
9 11 (5.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (3.50%) Oracle Database
11 6 (3.00%) RDBMS
12 5 (2.50%) Hazelcast
12 5 (2.50%) Redis
13 4 (2.00%) Flink
14 3 (1.50%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.50%) MariaDB
14 3 (1.50%) Pinecone
14 3 (1.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 132 (66.00%) Git
2 118 (59.00%) Jenkins
3 83 (41.50%) JUnit
4 81 (40.50%) Gradle
5 62 (31.00%) SonarQube
6 61 (30.50%) GitLab
7 58 (29.00%) Mockito
8 36 (18.00%) JIRA
9 19 (9.50%) Cucumber
9 19 (9.50%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (8.50%) Selenium
11 15 (7.50%) REST Assured
12 14 (7.00%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (4.50%) GoCD
13 9 (4.50%) JProfiler
14 7 (3.50%) Postman
15 6 (3.00%) DbUnit
15 6 (3.00%) JMeter
15 6 (3.00%) Subversion
16 5 (2.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 47 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.00%) Finance
3 36 (18.00%) Public Sector
4 35 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (15.50%) Banking
6 8 (4.00%) Publishing
7 6 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (58.50%) Developer
2 97 (48.50%) Java Developer
3 39 (19.50%) Senior
4 30 (15.00%) Java Engineer
5 28 (14.00%) Senior Developer
6 27 (13.50%) Senior Java Developer
7 22 (11.00%) Lead
8 20 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (10.00%) Lead Developer
9 13 (6.50%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (6.50%) Lead Java Developer
10 10 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (4.50%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 5 (2.50%) Automation Tester
13 5 (2.50%) Backend Developer
13 5 (2.50%) Lead Software Developer
13 5 (2.50%) Python Engineer
13 5 (2.50%) Software Developer
13 5 (2.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (67.50%) Spring Boot
2 133 (66.50%) Spring
3 81 (40.50%) REST
4 68 (34.00%) JPA
5 53 (26.50%) RESTful
6 48 (24.00%) Kafka
7 47 (23.50%) React
8 43 (21.50%) Node.js
9 39 (19.50%) Hibernate
10 38 (19.00%) HTML
11 36 (18.00%) Terraform
12 34 (17.00%) AngularJS
13 33 (16.50%) CSS
14 31 (15.50%) SOAP
15 30 (15.00%) Web Services
16 25 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
17 23 (11.50%) Spring MVC
18 22 (11.00%) OpenAPI
19 21 (10.50%) Redux
20 19 (9.50%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.00%) Product Ownership
2 26 (13.00%) Cloud Native
3 22 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (8.50%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 10 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (2.50%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.00%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.50%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (20.00%) Linux
2 12 (6.00%) Unix
3 3 (1.50%) VMS
4 2 (1.00%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (69.00%) CI/CD
2 114 (57.00%) Agile
3 112 (56.00%) Microservices
4 97 (48.50%) DevOps
5 84 (42.00%) Scrum
6 71 (35.50%) Containerisation
7 69 (34.50%) Test Automation
8 57 (28.50%) TDD
9 49 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (17.50%) Clean Code
12 34 (17.00%) Software Engineering
13 32 (16.00%) Front End Development
14 31 (15.50%) Code Quality
15 30 (15.00%) Event-Driven
16 27 (13.50%) Design Patterns
17 25 (12.50%) Observability
18 24 (12.00%) MVC
19 23 (11.50%) User Stories
20 22 (11.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 191 (95.50%) Java
2 89 (44.50%) SQL
3 53 (26.50%) JavaScript
4 34 (17.00%) Python
5 32 (16.00%) Shell Script
6 23 (11.50%) TypeScript
7 17 (8.50%) Groovy
8 13 (6.50%) Bash
9 6 (3.00%) Scala
10 5 (2.50%) Ruby
11 3 (1.50%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (39.00%) Security Cleared
2 71 (35.50%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (11.50%) Degree
5 19 (9.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.00%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.50%) QA
2 16 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.50%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.50%) PSD2
4 5 (2.50%) SEPA
5 2 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.00%) WCAG
6 1 (0.50%) ITGC
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (46.00%) Docker
2 4 (2.00%) Postfix
3 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 39 (19.50%) Grafana
3 29 (14.50%) Prometheus
4 19 (9.50%) Ansible
5 16 (8.00%) Kibana
6 10 (5.00%) Argo
7 3 (1.50%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.00%) Podman
8 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.00%) Puppet
8 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.50%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.50%) Istio
9 1 (0.50%) systemd
Vendors
1 51 (25.50%) Oracle
2 14 (7.00%) Google
3 10 (5.00%) IBM
3 10 (5.00%) Sonatype
4 9 (4.50%) MuleSoft
4 9 (4.50%) Splunk
4 9 (4.50%) Veracode
5 7 (3.50%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (3.00%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.00%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.50%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.00%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.50%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.00%) Adobe
10 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.00%) SAP
10 2 (1.00%) Sybase
11 1 (0.50%) TIBCO