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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 392 410
Rank change year-on-year -124 +18 -52
Contract jobs citing Maven 161 162 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.49% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.58% 3.25% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 130 91
10th Percentile £322 £270 £381
25th Percentile £418 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -11.21% -0.93%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £650 £643 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £427 £508
% change year-on-year +10.07% -15.86% -0.98%
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 6,232 4,987 5,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.57% 15.12% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,002 3,364 3,254
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £407 £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 264 115 194
10th Percentile £35.38 £28.13 £26.59
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £74.06 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.35 £73.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +0.48%

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 23 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 23 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 -154 121 £505 +6.37% 34
UK excluding London -101 87 £470 +10.07% 26
London -109 54 £533 +2.65% 17
Work from Home -68 45 £471 -0.79% 14
Midlands -42 31 £470 +10.07% 6
North of England -72 29 £500 +24.38% 6
West Midlands -39 27 £490 -1.95% 5
Yorkshire -28 25 £500 -3.80% 1
Scotland -1 19 £375 -9.09% 1
South East -67 7 £270 -53.85% 5
East Midlands -24 3 £335 -1.47% 1
North West -64 3 £475 +32.68% 5
South West -42 1 - - 8
North East -45 1 £520 +11.83%

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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 7 (4.35%) WebLogic
2 6 (3.73%) Apache
3 4 (2.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.24%) Camunda
4 2 (1.24%) CMS
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.62%) JBoss
5 1 (0.62%) nginx
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 99 (61.49%) AWS
2 50 (31.06%) Azure
3 37 (22.98%) GitHub
4 32 (19.88%) GCP
5 22 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (11.80%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (10.56%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (9.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (8.70%) Amazon S3
10 12 (7.45%) AWS KMS
10 12 (7.45%) Route 53
11 10 (6.21%) OCI
12 9 (5.59%) Kong
13 8 (4.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (4.35%) OpenShift
15 6 (3.73%) Apigee
16 5 (3.11%) Amazon Cognito
16 5 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (3.11%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) SSL
2 1 (0.62%) DNS
2 1 (0.62%) Firewall
2 1 (0.62%) HTTP
2 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.62%) Internet
2 1 (0.62%) Multicast
2 1 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (27.33%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (16.77%) Relational Database
3 17 (10.56%) SQL Server
4 16 (9.94%) Metadata
5 15 (9.32%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (9.32%) DynamoDB
5 15 (9.32%) MongoDB
5 15 (9.32%) MySQL
6 14 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (4.35%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.73%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.11%) Hazelcast
9 5 (3.11%) Redis
10 4 (2.48%) Flink
11 3 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.86%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.86%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 101 (62.73%) Git
1 101 (62.73%) Jenkins
2 65 (40.37%) Gradle
3 47 (29.19%) JUnit
4 45 (27.95%) SonarQube
5 33 (20.50%) GitLab
6 24 (14.91%) Mockito
7 21 (13.04%) JIRA
8 15 (9.32%) Selenium
9 10 (6.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (5.59%) Artifactory
10 9 (5.59%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (5.59%) Cucumber
10 9 (5.59%) GoCD
10 9 (5.59%) JProfiler
10 9 (5.59%) REST Assured
10 9 (5.59%) Subversion
11 8 (4.97%) DbUnit
11 8 (4.97%) Gatling
11 8 (4.97%) Postman
General
1 41 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.25%) Public Sector
3 26 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (16.15%) Finance
4 20 (12.42%) Banking
5 11 (6.83%) Publishing
6 3 (1.86%) Front Office
7 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.24%) Retail
8 1 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (59.01%) Developer
2 78 (48.45%) Java Developer
3 38 (23.60%) Senior
4 31 (19.25%) Senior Developer
5 30 (18.63%) Senior Java Developer
6 20 (12.42%) Lead
7 17 (10.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (10.56%) Lead Developer
8 15 (9.32%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.21%) Lead Java Developer
9 10 (6.21%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.97%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.97%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Architect
12 5 (3.11%) Automation Tester
12 5 (3.11%) Lead Software Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (59.01%) Spring
2 92 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 60 (37.27%) REST
4 44 (27.33%) RESTful
5 40 (24.84%) Node.js
6 38 (23.60%) JPA
7 34 (21.12%) Kafka
7 34 (21.12%) Terraform
8 30 (18.63%) React
9 25 (15.53%) AngularJS
10 24 (14.91%) HTML
11 23 (14.29%) CSS
12 21 (13.04%) Hibernate
13 20 (12.42%) Spring MVC
13 20 (12.42%) Web Services
14 18 (11.18%) FreeMarker
15 17 (10.56%) ActiveMQ
15 17 (10.56%) JSON
15 17 (10.56%) SOAP
16 15 (9.32%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 19 (11.80%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.59%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.59%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.24%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.62%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (20.50%) Linux
2 8 (4.97%) Unix
3 3 (1.86%) Windows
4 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 86 (53.42%) DevOps
3 83 (51.55%) Microservices
4 72 (44.72%) Agile
5 52 (32.30%) Scrum
6 48 (29.81%) Test Automation
7 47 (29.19%) Containerisation
8 39 (24.22%) TDD
9 36 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (18.01%) Design Patterns
12 27 (16.77%) Event-Driven
12 27 (16.77%) Software Engineering
13 22 (13.66%) Performance Tuning
14 21 (13.04%) MVC
15 20 (12.42%) Clean Code
15 20 (12.42%) Continuous Integration
16 18 (11.18%) Observability
16 18 (11.18%) OO
17 17 (10.56%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 151 (93.79%) Java
2 71 (44.10%) SQL
3 40 (24.84%) JavaScript
4 31 (19.25%) Python
5 19 (11.80%) Shell Script
6 17 (10.56%) Groovy
7 10 (6.21%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.35%) Bash
9 6 (3.73%) Scala
10 5 (3.11%) Ruby
11 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (42.24%) Security Cleared
2 60 (37.27%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.59%) Degree
5 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.48%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.01%) QA
2 15 (9.32%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.73%) ISO 20022
4 5 (3.11%) SEPA
5 4 (2.48%) PSD2
6 2 (1.24%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.24%) SLA
7 1 (0.62%) ITGC
7 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (47.20%) Docker
2 6 (3.73%) Postfix
3 3 (1.86%) GridGain
4 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 73 (45.34%) Kubernetes
2 24 (14.91%) Grafana
3 19 (11.80%) Prometheus
4 15 (9.32%) Ansible
5 9 (5.59%) Argo
6 6 (3.73%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.86%) Kibana
8 2 (1.24%) Podman
8 2 (1.24%) Puppet
9 1 (0.62%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.62%) systemd
Vendors
1 42 (26.09%) Oracle
2 13 (8.07%) Sonatype
3 11 (6.83%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.21%) Atlassian
4 10 (6.21%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (5.59%) MuleSoft
6 8 (4.97%) Splunk
7 6 (3.73%) Google
8 5 (3.11%) Sybase
9 4 (2.48%) Solace
10 3 (1.86%) IBM
11 2 (1.24%) Adobe
11 2 (1.24%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.24%) SAP
11 2 (1.24%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.24%) Veracode
11 2 (1.24%) VMware
12 1 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
12 1 (0.62%) Confluent
12 1 (0.62%) Databricks