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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 388 444
Rank change year-on-year -110 +56 -176
Contract jobs citing Maven 126 138 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.47% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.14% 3.41% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 83 94
10th Percentile £400 £332 £402
25th Percentile £462 £410 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.31% -13.64%
75th Percentile £620 £585 £588
90th Percentile £724 £720 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 5,875 4,041 5,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.22% 13.91% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,937 2,706 3,506
10th Percentile £343 £340 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £607 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 73 185
10th Percentile £39.53 £25.41 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.59 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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 28 March 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 28 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Top 13 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 28 March 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 -117 119 £542 +8.30% 24
UK excluding London -86 71 £488 +2.63% 19
London -67 50 £600 +11.11% 6
Work from Home -48 26 £500 -1.96% 8
Midlands -67 24 £540 +27.69% 4
West Midlands -47 22 £540 +26.94% 3
North of England -72 20 £450 -4.26% 10
South East -42 19 £450 -30.10%
Yorkshire -42 16 £461 -12.97% 5
South West -18 7 £550 - 2
North West -48 4 £402 -11.89% 4
Scotland 0 2 £438 - 3
East Midlands -35 2 - - 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 11 (8.73%) Confluence
2 6 (4.76%) Apache
3 5 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (2.38%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.59%) Anypoint
6 2 (1.59%) Apache TomEE
6 2 (1.59%) Camunda
6 2 (1.59%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.79%) JBoss
7 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.79%) Mule
7 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 64 (50.79%) AWS
2 32 (25.40%) GitHub
3 21 (16.67%) Azure
4 20 (15.87%) Amazon S3
5 19 (15.08%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (13.49%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (10.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (8.73%) GCP
9 11 (8.73%) OpenShift
10 10 (7.94%) AWS KMS
10 10 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (7.94%) Route 53
10 10 (7.94%) Serverless
11 7 (5.56%) npm
12 6 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.97%) OCI
14 4 (3.17%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) AMQP
2 3 (2.38%) HTTP
3 2 (1.59%) Multicast
4 1 (0.79%) Firewall
4 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.63%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.49%) DynamoDB
3 16 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 11 (8.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (8.73%) MySQL
5 11 (8.73%) Relational Database
6 8 (6.35%) Metadata
6 8 (6.35%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.76%) Tick Data
8 4 (3.17%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.38%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.38%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.79%) Flink
10 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 63 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 61 (48.41%) Git
3 45 (35.71%) JUnit
4 37 (29.37%) Gradle
5 26 (20.63%) GitLab
6 25 (19.84%) Mockito
6 25 (19.84%) SonarQube
7 19 (15.08%) JIRA
8 16 (12.70%) Cucumber
9 15 (11.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (10.32%) Selenium
11 11 (8.73%) Bitbucket
12 9 (7.14%) jMock
12 9 (7.14%) Postman
13 8 (6.35%) Artifactory
13 8 (6.35%) DbUnit
14 7 (5.56%) Eclipse
15 6 (4.76%) Ant
15 6 (4.76%) Cypress.io
15 6 (4.76%) Gatling
General
1 45 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.87%) Finance
3 17 (13.49%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.11%) Banking
5 8 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.35%) Front Office
6 5 (3.97%) Publishing
7 4 (3.17%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.17%) Retail
8 3 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (54.76%) Developer
2 58 (46.03%) Java Developer
3 31 (24.60%) Senior
4 20 (15.87%) Senior Developer
5 18 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (9.52%) Java Engineer
7 10 (7.94%) Lead
7 10 (7.94%) Software Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Applications Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Fidessa Developer
10 6 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (3.97%) Applications Support
11 5 (3.97%) Applications Support Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Support Engineer
12 4 (3.17%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (56.35%) Spring
2 52 (41.27%) Spring Boot
3 32 (25.40%) REST
4 26 (20.63%) JPA
5 23 (18.25%) AngularJS
6 22 (17.46%) JSON
7 21 (16.67%) Hibernate
8 20 (15.87%) RESTful
9 17 (13.49%) Node.js
9 17 (13.49%) Web Services
10 16 (12.70%) React
11 15 (11.90%) Bootstrap
11 15 (11.90%) SOAP
12 14 (11.11%) HTML
13 13 (10.32%) CSS
13 13 (10.32%) Spring Cloud
14 12 (9.52%) Playwright
14 12 (9.52%) XML
15 11 (8.73%) ActiveMQ
15 11 (8.73%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.35%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.76%) Equities
6 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.17%) Derivative
7 2 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.59%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.59%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) TWAP
7 2 (1.59%) VWAP
8 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.19%) Linux
2 8 (6.35%) Unix
3 4 (3.17%) Windows
4 2 (1.59%) CentOS
4 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.79%) Android
5 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (50.79%) CI/CD
2 52 (41.27%) DevOps
3 50 (39.68%) Microservices
4 47 (37.30%) Agile
5 34 (26.98%) Test Automation
6 32 (25.40%) Containerisation
7 29 (23.02%) Scrum
8 24 (19.05%) TDD
9 23 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (17.46%) Software Engineering
11 15 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (11.11%) Design Patterns
12 14 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 14 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (9.52%) BDD
13 12 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (9.52%) OO
13 12 (9.52%) OOP
13 12 (9.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 109 (86.51%) Java
2 36 (28.57%) SQL
3 22 (17.46%) Python
4 11 (8.73%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.94%) Groovy
6 7 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.97%) Scala
7 5 (3.97%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.38%) Go
8 3 (2.38%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.59%) Bash
10 1 (0.79%) C#
10 1 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (37.30%) Security Cleared
2 36 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.94%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.97%) Degree
5 4 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.52%) QA
2 6 (4.76%) WCAG
3 4 (3.17%) SLA
4 3 (2.38%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.59%) NCSC
6 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (38.89%) Docker
2 7 (5.56%) Postfix
3 3 (2.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.38%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 41 (32.54%) Kubernetes
2 30 (23.81%) Grafana
3 24 (19.05%) Terraform
4 15 (11.90%) Ansible
4 15 (11.90%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.35%) Kibana
6 4 (3.17%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.38%) HAProxy
7 3 (2.38%) HP Fortify
7 3 (2.38%) Puppet
8 2 (1.59%) CloudHub
8 2 (1.59%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (15.87%) Oracle
2 12 (9.52%) Atlassian
3 10 (7.94%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (7.94%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.35%) Solace
4 8 (6.35%) Splunk
5 7 (5.56%) Sonatype
6 5 (3.97%) Sybase
7 4 (3.17%) VMware
8 2 (1.59%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.79%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.79%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.79%) Google
9 1 (0.79%) IBM
9 1 (0.79%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.79%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.79%) Thales
9 1 (0.79%) TIBCO