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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 385 417
Rank change year-on-year -123 +32 -102
Contract jobs citing Maven 158 171 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.52% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.55% 3.56% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 135 109
10th Percentile £329 £276 £396
25th Percentile £431 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -9.27% -10.87%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £634
90th Percentile £650 £623 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £422 £490
% change year-on-year +11.80% -13.98% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -

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 6,204 4,807 5,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.76% 14.71% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 3,237 3,406
10th Percentile £350 £325 £351
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 104 229
10th Percentile £26.10 £23.25 £27.60
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.80 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -139 125 £511 +9.84% 39
UK excluding London -107 89 £471 +11.80% 23
London -102 52 £550 +8.64% 20
Work from Home -76 41 £475 - 18
Midlands -53 33 £475 +13.10% 11
West Midlands -50 30 £475 -2.56% 10
North of England -74 30 £500 +24.38% 4
Yorkshire -34 25 £500 -3.80%
Scotland -5 13 £353 -14.42% 2
South East -58 11 £273 -53.33% 5
North West -61 4 £475 +32.68% 4
East Midlands -24 2 - - 1
South West -42 2 £525 -4.55% 1
North East -38 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 (4.43%) Confluence
1 7 (4.43%) WebLogic
2 6 (3.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (3.16%) Apache
4 4 (2.53%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.27%) Camunda
5 2 (1.27%) CMS
5 2 (1.27%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.63%) JBoss
6 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 98 (62.03%) AWS
2 45 (28.48%) Azure
3 37 (23.42%) GitHub
4 30 (18.99%) GCP
5 25 (15.82%) Amazon SQS
6 24 (15.19%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (15.19%) Amazon S3
7 23 (14.56%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (13.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (11.39%) AWS KMS
9 18 (11.39%) Route 53
10 10 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (5.70%) OCI
12 7 (4.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (3.80%) Kong
13 6 (3.80%) OpenShift
14 5 (3.16%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (3.16%) Apigee
14 5 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (3.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) HTTP
2 1 (0.63%) Internet
2 1 (0.63%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (31.65%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (16.46%) DynamoDB
3 24 (15.19%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (15.19%) Relational Database
4 19 (12.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (10.13%) Metadata
5 16 (10.13%) MySQL
6 15 (9.49%) SQL Server
7 13 (8.23%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.80%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.53%) Flink
9 4 (2.53%) Hazelcast
9 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.53%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.53%) Redis
10 3 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 97 (61.39%) Git
2 93 (58.86%) Jenkins
3 60 (37.97%) Gradle
4 52 (32.91%) JUnit
5 46 (29.11%) SonarQube
6 28 (17.72%) Mockito
7 27 (17.09%) GitLab
8 15 (9.49%) JIRA
9 14 (8.86%) DbUnit
10 13 (8.23%) Bitbucket Server
10 13 (8.23%) jMock
11 12 (7.59%) REST Assured
12 11 (6.96%) Cucumber
12 11 (6.96%) Postman
12 11 (6.96%) Subversion
13 10 (6.33%) Selenium
14 9 (5.70%) Artifactory
14 9 (5.70%) Gatling
15 8 (5.06%) GoCD
15 8 (5.06%) JProfiler
General
1 45 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.89%) Public Sector
3 22 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.29%) Finance
5 13 (8.23%) Banking
6 9 (5.70%) Publishing
7 4 (2.53%) Retail
8 3 (1.90%) Front Office
8 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (60.76%) Developer
2 79 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 34 (21.52%) Senior
4 28 (17.72%) Senior Developer
5 27 (17.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 16 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (10.13%) Lead
7 15 (9.49%) Java Engineer
7 15 (9.49%) Lead Developer
8 9 (5.70%) Lead Java Developer
9 8 (5.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 7 (4.43%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) Applications Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Architect
11 5 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) Lead Software Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (60.76%) Spring
2 89 (56.33%) Spring Boot
3 59 (37.34%) REST
4 42 (26.58%) RESTful
5 40 (25.32%) JPA
6 38 (24.05%) Node.js
7 29 (18.35%) AngularJS
7 29 (18.35%) Web Services
8 28 (17.72%) Hibernate
9 25 (15.82%) React
10 24 (15.19%) Kafka
11 22 (13.92%) ActiveMQ
11 22 (13.92%) SOAP
12 21 (13.29%) CSS
12 21 (13.29%) Spring Cloud
13 20 (12.66%) Bootstrap
14 19 (12.03%) HTML
14 19 (12.03%) Spring MVC
15 18 (11.39%) Spring Batch
15 18 (11.39%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.19%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (11.39%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.70%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.43%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.43%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.27%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.63%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 38 (24.05%) Linux
2 10 (6.33%) Unix
3 5 (3.16%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Android
4 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (67.72%) CI/CD
2 82 (51.90%) DevOps
3 79 (50.00%) Microservices
4 67 (42.41%) Agile
5 53 (33.54%) Scrum
6 49 (31.01%) Containerisation
7 43 (27.22%) Test Automation
8 42 (26.58%) TDD
9 31 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (17.09%) Performance Tuning
12 24 (15.19%) Design Patterns
13 22 (13.92%) BDD
13 22 (13.92%) Event-Driven
14 21 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
14 21 (13.29%) Software Engineering
15 20 (12.66%) MVC
16 17 (10.76%) OO
17 16 (10.13%) OOP
17 16 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (93.67%) Java
2 72 (45.57%) SQL
3 31 (19.62%) JavaScript
4 26 (16.46%) Python
5 15 (9.49%) Groovy
6 14 (8.86%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.80%) Scala
8 4 (2.53%) Ruby
8 4 (2.53%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.90%) Bash
10 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 63 (39.87%) Security Cleared
2 57 (36.08%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.70%) Degree
5 7 (4.43%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.16%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.46%) QA
2 13 (8.23%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.53%) SLA
4 3 (1.90%) SEPA
5 2 (1.27%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.27%) PSD2
6 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) ITGC
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (45.57%) Docker
2 11 (6.96%) Postfix
3 3 (1.90%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 65 (41.14%) Kubernetes
2 29 (18.35%) Terraform
3 28 (17.72%) Grafana
4 16 (10.13%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.59%) Ansible
6 6 (3.80%) Argo
6 6 (3.80%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.27%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.27%) Kibana
7 2 (1.27%) Podman
7 2 (1.27%) Puppet
8 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (24.05%) Oracle
2 18 (11.39%) Atlassian
3 17 (10.76%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (7.59%) Sonatype
5 11 (6.96%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.06%) Splunk
7 7 (4.43%) Google
7 7 (4.43%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.16%) Sybase
9 4 (2.53%) IBM
9 4 (2.53%) Solace
10 2 (1.27%) Adobe
10 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.27%) SAP
10 2 (1.27%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.27%) Veracode
10 2 (1.27%) VMware
11 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.63%) Thales
11 1 (0.63%) TOWER Software