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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 390 394
Rank change year-on-year -108 +4 -53
Contract jobs citing Maven 164 164 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 3.34% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 130 94
10th Percentile £322 £275 £387
25th Percentile £420 £359 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -10.38% -1.85%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £627 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £427 £525
% change year-on-year +10.36% -18.67% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
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 6,242 4,906 5,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.69% 14.90% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,004 3,303 3,291
10th Percentile £351 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 111 210
10th Percentile £34.49 £27.94 £27.80
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £47.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £85.25 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -133 124 £511 +7.53% 53
UK excluding London -96 88 £471 +10.36% 27
London -88 57 £535 +1.90% 35
Work from Home -57 46 £473 -0.53% 17
Midlands -44 33 £475 +11.24% 7
West Midlands -39 30 £475 -5.00% 6
North of England -78 28 £500 +24.38% 5
Yorkshire -28 25 £500 -3.80% 2
Scotland +5 19 £375 -9.09% 6
South East -69 7 £270 -53.85% 5
East Midlands -31 2 - - 1
North West -65 2 £488 +36.17% 3
North East -45 1 £520 +11.83%
South West -49 1 - - 3

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 7 (4.27%) Confluence
1 7 (4.27%) WebLogic
2 6 (3.66%) Apache
3 5 (3.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (2.44%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.22%) Camunda
5 2 (1.22%) CMS
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.61%) JBoss
6 1 (0.61%) nginx
6 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 99 (60.37%) AWS
2 51 (31.10%) Azure
3 38 (23.17%) GitHub
4 32 (19.51%) GCP
5 21 (12.80%) Amazon SQS
5 21 (12.80%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (10.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (10.37%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (9.76%) Amazon S3
9 15 (9.15%) AWS KMS
9 15 (9.15%) Route 53
10 10 (6.10%) OCI
11 9 (5.49%) Kong
12 8 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (3.66%) Apigee
13 6 (3.66%) OpenShift
14 5 (3.05%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.05%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) SSL
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.61%) Multicast
2 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (28.66%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (15.85%) Relational Database
3 18 (10.98%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (10.98%) DynamoDB
4 17 (10.37%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (10.37%) SQL Server
5 16 (9.76%) Metadata
5 16 (9.76%) MySQL
6 15 (9.15%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.66%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.05%) Hazelcast
8 5 (3.05%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.05%) Redis
9 4 (2.44%) Flink
10 3 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.83%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.83%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 104 (63.41%) Jenkins
2 102 (62.20%) Git
3 63 (38.41%) Gradle
4 49 (29.88%) JUnit
5 47 (28.66%) SonarQube
6 32 (19.51%) GitLab
7 26 (15.85%) Mockito
8 21 (12.80%) JIRA
9 14 (8.54%) Selenium
10 12 (7.32%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (6.71%) Cucumber
11 11 (6.71%) DbUnit
11 11 (6.71%) REST Assured
12 10 (6.10%) jMock
12 10 (6.10%) Postman
12 10 (6.10%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (5.49%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.49%) GoCD
13 9 (5.49%) JProfiler
13 9 (5.49%) Subversion
General
1 44 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.51%) Public Sector
3 28 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (16.46%) Finance
5 20 (12.20%) Banking
6 11 (6.71%) Publishing
7 3 (1.83%) Front Office
7 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.83%) Retail
8 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (58.54%) Developer
2 79 (48.17%) Java Developer
3 38 (23.17%) Senior
4 31 (18.90%) Senior Developer
5 30 (18.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 20 (12.20%) Lead
7 17 (10.37%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (10.37%) Lead Developer
8 15 (9.15%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.10%) Lead Java Developer
9 10 (6.10%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (3.66%) Architect
11 6 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.05%) Automation Tester
12 5 (3.05%) Lead Software Developer
12 5 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (58.54%) Spring
2 92 (56.10%) Spring Boot
3 62 (37.80%) REST
4 45 (27.44%) RESTful
5 42 (25.61%) Node.js
6 40 (24.39%) JPA
7 32 (19.51%) Kafka
8 29 (17.68%) React
9 28 (17.07%) AngularJS
10 24 (14.63%) Web Services
11 23 (14.02%) CSS
11 23 (14.02%) Hibernate
11 23 (14.02%) HTML
12 21 (12.80%) Spring MVC
13 20 (12.20%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (11.59%) SOAP
15 18 (10.98%) Bootstrap
15 18 (10.98%) FreeMarker
15 18 (10.98%) Spring Cloud
16 17 (10.37%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.41%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (12.80%) Product Ownership
3 14 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.49%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.88%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.27%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (3.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.22%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.22%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.61%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.61%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.56%) Linux
2 9 (5.49%) Unix
3 4 (2.44%) Windows
4 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (69.51%) CI/CD
2 87 (53.05%) DevOps
3 83 (50.61%) Microservices
4 73 (44.51%) Agile
5 54 (32.93%) Scrum
6 49 (29.88%) Test Automation
7 48 (29.27%) Containerisation
8 42 (25.61%) TDD
9 37 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (17.07%) Design Patterns
12 27 (16.46%) Software Engineering
13 25 (15.24%) Event-Driven
14 24 (14.63%) Performance Tuning
15 23 (14.02%) Continuous Integration
16 22 (13.41%) MVC
17 20 (12.20%) Clean Code
18 19 (11.59%) BDD
19 18 (10.98%) OO
20 17 (10.37%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 152 (92.68%) Java
2 73 (44.51%) SQL
3 40 (24.39%) JavaScript
4 30 (18.29%) Python
5 19 (11.59%) Shell Script
6 17 (10.37%) Groovy
7 9 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.66%) Bash
8 6 (3.66%) Scala
9 5 (3.05%) Ruby
10 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (41.46%) Security Cleared
2 61 (37.20%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.88%) Degree
5 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.44%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.07%) QA
2 14 (8.54%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.66%) ISO 20022
4 5 (3.05%) SEPA
5 4 (2.44%) PSD2
6 3 (1.83%) SLA
7 2 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.61%) ITGC
8 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (46.34%) Docker
2 8 (4.88%) Postfix
3 3 (1.83%) GridGain
4 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 71 (43.29%) Kubernetes
2 33 (20.12%) Terraform
3 27 (16.46%) Grafana
4 19 (11.59%) Prometheus
5 15 (9.15%) Ansible
6 9 (5.49%) Argo
7 6 (3.66%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.83%) Kibana
9 2 (1.22%) Podman
9 2 (1.22%) Puppet
10 1 (0.61%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.61%) systemd
Vendors
1 41 (25.00%) Oracle
2 13 (7.93%) Atlassian
2 13 (7.93%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (7.93%) Sonatype
3 11 (6.71%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.49%) MuleSoft
5 8 (4.88%) Splunk
6 6 (3.66%) Google
7 5 (3.05%) Sybase
8 4 (2.44%) Solace
9 3 (1.83%) IBM
10 2 (1.22%) Adobe
10 2 (1.22%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.22%) SAP
10 2 (1.22%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.22%) Veracode
10 2 (1.22%) VMware
11 1 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.61%) Confluent
11 1 (0.61%) Databricks