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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 372 442
Rank change year-on-year -108 +70 -176
Contract jobs citing Maven 128 148 147
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.48% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.22% 3.56% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 83 99
10th Percentile £378 £329 £400
25th Percentile £450 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -0.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £597
90th Percentile £687 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £485 £488
% change year-on-year +8.25% -0.51% -10.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
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 5,771 4,153 5,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 13.57% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,945 2,677 3,724
10th Percentile £344 £330 £363
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% -4.05% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 65 218
10th Percentile £34.53 £26.12 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.81 £51.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.39 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 28 February 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 February 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 February 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 -92 121 £550 +4.76% 25
UK excluding London -94 70 £525 +8.25% 22
London -46 54 £575 +5.75% 6
Work from Home -42 25 £506 -3.02% 9
Midlands -48 24 £542 +28.93% 9
West Midlands -41 22 £542 +27.41% 9
South East -24 18 £450 -30.10% 3
North of England -70 16 £425 -7.61% 3
Yorkshire -53 12 £438 -14.22% 1
South West -28 10 £550 -17.60% 4
North West -48 4 £402 -8.11% 2
Scotland +2 3 £438 -16.27% 2
East Midlands -22 2 - -

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 12 (9.38%) Confluence
2 5 (3.91%) Apache
3 4 (3.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.34%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.56%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.56%) Apache TomEE
5 2 (1.56%) Camunda
5 2 (1.56%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.78%) JBoss
6 1 (0.78%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.78%) Mule
6 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 59 (46.09%) AWS
2 31 (24.22%) GitHub
3 25 (19.53%) Azure
4 19 (14.84%) Amazon S3
5 17 (13.28%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (13.28%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (10.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (10.16%) GCP
6 13 (10.16%) OpenShift
7 12 (9.38%) npm
8 11 (8.59%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (8.59%) Route 53
9 10 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (7.81%) Serverless
10 9 (7.03%) AWS KMS
11 8 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (3.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.47%) AMQP
2 3 (2.34%) HTTP
3 2 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) Firewall
4 1 (0.78%) Multicast
4 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.28%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (11.72%) DynamoDB
4 14 (10.94%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (7.81%) MySQL
6 9 (7.03%) MongoDB
6 9 (7.03%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.03%) SQL Server
7 8 (6.25%) RDBMS
8 7 (5.47%) Tick Data
9 4 (3.13%) Metadata
9 4 (3.13%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.34%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.78%) HBase
11 1 (0.78%) Power BI
11 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (55.47%) Git
2 60 (46.88%) Jenkins
3 47 (36.72%) JUnit
4 43 (33.59%) Gradle
5 32 (25.00%) GitLab
6 27 (21.09%) Mockito
7 25 (19.53%) SonarQube
8 21 (16.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 20 (15.63%) JIRA
10 16 (12.50%) Cucumber
11 13 (10.16%) Selenium
12 12 (9.38%) Bitbucket
13 11 (8.59%) Postman
14 8 (6.25%) Cypress.io
14 8 (6.25%) jMock
15 7 (5.47%) Artifactory
15 7 (5.47%) DbUnit
15 7 (5.47%) REST Assured
16 6 (4.69%) Ant
16 6 (4.69%) Eclipse
General
1 41 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.97%) Finance
3 15 (11.72%) Banking
3 15 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.69%) Front Office
6 5 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.34%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.34%) Publishing
8 3 (2.34%) Retail
9 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.78%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (54.69%) Developer
2 60 (46.88%) Java Developer
3 28 (21.88%) Senior
4 17 (13.28%) Senior Developer
5 15 (11.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (11.72%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (7.81%) Java Engineer
7 9 (7.03%) Lead
7 9 (7.03%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Applications Support
9 7 (5.47%) Applications Support Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Fidessa Developer
9 7 (5.47%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.69%) Applications Developer
10 6 (4.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (3.91%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (3.13%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (57.81%) Spring
2 52 (40.63%) Spring Boot
3 33 (25.78%) REST
4 26 (20.31%) JPA
5 25 (19.53%) AngularJS
6 23 (17.97%) Hibernate
7 21 (16.41%) JSON
7 21 (16.41%) React
7 21 (16.41%) RESTful
8 17 (13.28%) Web Services
9 16 (12.50%) HTML
9 16 (12.50%) Node.js
10 15 (11.72%) Bootstrap
10 15 (11.72%) SOAP
11 14 (10.94%) CSS
11 14 (10.94%) Kafka
11 14 (10.94%) Spring Cloud
12 12 (9.38%) XML
13 10 (7.81%) ActiveMQ
14 9 (7.03%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.81%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.03%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.47%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (5.47%) Equities
5 6 (4.69%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.13%) Derivative
6 4 (3.13%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.56%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.56%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.56%) TWAP
8 2 (1.56%) VWAP
9 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.78%) Replication
9 1 (0.78%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 36 (28.13%) Linux
2 11 (8.59%) Unix
3 7 (5.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.13%) CentOS
4 4 (3.13%) Windows
5 3 (2.34%) Solaris
6 1 (0.78%) Android
6 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 55 (42.97%) DevOps
3 54 (42.19%) Microservices
4 49 (38.28%) Agile
5 37 (28.91%) Test Automation
6 36 (28.13%) Containerisation
7 28 (21.88%) Scrum
8 26 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (17.97%) TDD
10 20 (15.63%) Software Engineering
11 18 (14.06%) Mentoring
12 17 (13.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (10.16%) Design Patterns
15 13 (10.16%) OOP
16 12 (9.38%) BDD
16 12 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
16 12 (9.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 106 (82.81%) Java
2 34 (26.56%) SQL
3 24 (18.75%) Python
4 14 (10.94%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.81%) Groovy
6 8 (6.25%) Bash
7 7 (5.47%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.69%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.91%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.13%) Go
10 4 (3.13%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.34%) Scala
12 2 (1.56%) Rust
13 1 (0.78%) C#
13 1 (0.78%) C++
13 1 (0.78%) Clojure
13 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (35.94%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.16%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.47%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (2.34%) Degree
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.78%) OCP
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) QA
2 7 (5.47%) WCAG
3 3 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.34%) Def Stans
3 3 (2.34%) SLA
4 2 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 50 (39.06%) Docker
2 6 (4.69%) Postfix
3 3 (2.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (1.56%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 41 (32.03%) Kubernetes
2 30 (23.44%) Grafana
3 28 (21.88%) Terraform
4 19 (14.84%) Ansible
5 12 (9.38%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.25%) Kibana
7 5 (3.91%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.13%) Puppet
9 3 (2.34%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.34%) Podman
10 2 (1.56%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (17.97%) Oracle
2 10 (7.81%) Atlassian
2 10 (7.81%) Splunk
3 9 (7.03%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (6.25%) Solace
5 5 (3.91%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.91%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.13%) Sonatype
6 4 (3.13%) Sybase
7 3 (2.34%) VMware
8 2 (1.56%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.56%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.78%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.78%) Google
9 1 (0.78%) IBM
9 1 (0.78%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.78%) Thales