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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 384 441
Rank change year-on-year -109 +57 -178
Contract jobs citing Maven 126 136 143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.14% 3.35% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 79 93
10th Percentile £400 £326 £401
25th Percentile £461 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -3.85% -16.80%
75th Percentile £614 £585 £588
90th Percentile £695 £728 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £469
% change year-on-year - +1.33% -10.71%
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 5,877 4,062 5,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.41% 13.85% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,962 2,701 3,524
10th Percentile £341 £335 £358
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 69 197
10th Percentile £39.00 £24.17 £37.25
25th Percentile £57.26 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £79.38 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.59 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -107 119 £542 +6.18% 32
UK excluding London -74 68 £475 - 23
London -67 53 £575 +6.48% 11
Work from Home -47 26 £500 -1.96% 11
Midlands -56 23 £540 +27.69% 4
West Midlands -54 21 £540 +26.94% 3
South East -39 19 £450 -30.10% 1
North of England -72 18 £450 -5.26% 13
Yorkshire -45 14 £450 -15.09% 8
South West -20 7 £550 - 2
North West -38 4 £402 -11.89% 4
Scotland +5 2 £438 - 2
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 12 (9.52%) Confluence
2 5 (3.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (3.97%) Apache
3 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.38%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.59%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.59%) Apache TomEE
5 2 (1.59%) Camunda
5 2 (1.59%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.79%) JBoss
6 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.79%) Mule
6 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 60 (47.62%) AWS
2 34 (26.98%) GitHub
3 21 (16.67%) Azure
4 19 (15.08%) Amazon S3
5 18 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (8.73%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (8.73%) OpenShift
8 10 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (7.94%) Serverless
9 9 (7.14%) AWS KMS
9 9 (7.14%) Route 53
10 8 (6.35%) GCP
11 7 (5.56%) npm
12 6 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.17%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
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 16 (12.70%) DynamoDB
3 15 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 11 (8.73%) MySQL
5 11 (8.73%) Relational Database
6 10 (7.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (7.14%) MongoDB
8 7 (5.56%) NoSQL
8 7 (5.56%) Tick Data
9 6 (4.76%) Metadata
10 4 (3.17%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.17%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.38%) InfluxDB
12 2 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.79%) HBase
13 1 (0.79%) Power BI
13 1 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 62 (49.21%) Git
3 45 (35.71%) JUnit
4 37 (29.37%) Gradle
5 26 (20.63%) GitLab
6 25 (19.84%) Mockito
7 22 (17.46%) SonarQube
8 21 (16.67%) JIRA
9 16 (12.70%) Cucumber
9 16 (12.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (10.32%) Selenium
11 11 (8.73%) Bitbucket
12 10 (7.94%) Postman
13 8 (6.35%) Artifactory
13 8 (6.35%) jMock
14 7 (5.56%) DbUnit
14 7 (5.56%) Eclipse
14 7 (5.56%) REST Assured
15 6 (4.76%) Ant
15 6 (4.76%) Gatling
General
1 46 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.67%) Finance
3 16 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.90%) Banking
5 8 (6.35%) Front Office
6 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.17%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.17%) Publishing
7 4 (3.17%) Retail
8 3 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (55.56%) Developer
2 59 (46.83%) Java Developer
3 29 (23.02%) Senior
4 18 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 16 (12.70%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (9.52%) Java Engineer
7 10 (7.94%) Lead
7 10 (7.94%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.56%) Applications Developer
8 7 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.56%) Fidessa Developer
9 6 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (3.97%) Applications Support
10 5 (3.97%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Architect
11 4 (3.17%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.17%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (57.14%) Spring
2 51 (40.48%) Spring Boot
3 33 (26.19%) REST
4 26 (20.63%) JPA
5 24 (19.05%) AngularJS
6 21 (16.67%) Hibernate
7 20 (15.87%) JSON
8 19 (15.08%) RESTful
9 17 (13.49%) React
9 17 (13.49%) Web Services
10 16 (12.70%) Bootstrap
10 16 (12.70%) HTML
11 15 (11.90%) CSS
11 15 (11.90%) Node.js
11 15 (11.90%) SOAP
12 13 (10.32%) Kafka
13 12 (9.52%) Playwright
13 12 (9.52%) Spring Cloud
13 12 (9.52%) XML
14 10 (7.94%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (5.56%) Equities
3 7 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.17%) Derivative
5 2 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.59%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (1.59%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.59%) TWAP
5 2 (1.59%) VWAP
6 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Replication
6 1 (0.79%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.19%) Linux
2 10 (7.94%) 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 49 (38.89%) DevOps
2 49 (38.89%) Microservices
3 48 (38.10%) Agile
4 34 (26.98%) Test Automation
5 30 (23.81%) Containerisation
6 28 (22.22%) Scrum
7 24 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (18.25%) TDD
9 21 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 15 (11.90%) Mentoring
11 14 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (10.32%) Design Patterns
12 13 (10.32%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (10.32%) Unit Testing
13 12 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (9.52%) MVC
13 12 (9.52%) OO
13 12 (9.52%) OOP
14 11 (8.73%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 108 (85.71%) Java
2 36 (28.57%) SQL
3 21 (16.67%) Python
4 13 (10.32%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.14%) Groovy
6 8 (6.35%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.76%) Scala
8 5 (3.97%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.17%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.38%) Go
11 2 (1.59%) Bash
12 1 (0.79%) C#
12 1 (0.79%) C++
12 1 (0.79%) Clojure
12 1 (0.79%) R
12 1 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (36.51%) Security Cleared
2 35 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.94%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.17%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.17%) Degree
5 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.59%) 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 7 (5.56%) WCAG
3 4 (3.17%) SLA
4 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.38%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.59%) NCSC
6 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (38.89%) Docker
2 6 (4.76%) Postfix
3 3 (2.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.38%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 41 (32.54%) Kubernetes
2 29 (23.02%) Grafana
3 22 (17.46%) Terraform
4 15 (11.90%) Ansible
5 14 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.35%) Kibana
7 4 (3.17%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.38%) HAProxy
8 3 (2.38%) HP Fortify
8 3 (2.38%) Puppet
9 2 (1.59%) CloudHub
9 2 (1.59%) Podman
10 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (16.67%) Oracle
2 11 (8.73%) Atlassian
3 10 (7.94%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (7.14%) Solace
4 9 (7.14%) Splunk
5 5 (3.97%) Sonatype
5 5 (3.97%) Sybase
6 4 (3.17%) VMware
7 2 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.59%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.79%) Adobe
8 1 (0.79%) IBM
8 1 (0.79%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.79%) Thales
8 1 (0.79%) TIBCO