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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 384 419
Rank change year-on-year -117 +35 -91
Contract jobs citing Maven 162 167 153
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.51% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.60% 3.41% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 134 95
10th Percentile £326 £276 £389
25th Percentile £425 £358 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £587 £573 £642
90th Percentile £650 £620 £815
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £424 £508
% change year-on-year +11.44% -16.45% -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 6,235 4,896 5,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.72% 14.88% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,998 3,319 3,304
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £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% -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 109 214
10th Percentile £27.19 £25.24 £26.59
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.34 £84.05 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 5 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 5 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 -148 128 £511 +9.89% 49
UK excluding London -99 90 £473 +11.44% 33
London -69 56 £543 +7.43% 27
Work from Home -71 44 £475 - 20
Midlands -52 37 £475 +13.10% 10
West Midlands -42 33 £475 -5.00% 9
North of England -71 27 £500 +24.38% 7
Yorkshire -35 25 £500 -3.80% 3
Scotland -3 15 £353 -14.42% 8
South East -64 10 £272 -53.59% 6
East Midlands -21 3 - - 1
North East -42 1 £520 +11.83%
South West -48 1 - - 1
North West -70 1 £475 +32.68% 4

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 9 (5.56%) Confluence
2 7 (4.32%) WebLogic
3 6 (3.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (3.70%) Apache
4 4 (2.47%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.23%) Camunda
5 2 (1.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.62%) JBoss
6 1 (0.62%) nginx
6 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 98 (60.49%) AWS
2 50 (30.86%) Azure
3 38 (23.46%) GitHub
4 30 (18.52%) GCP
5 25 (15.43%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (13.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (13.58%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (12.96%) Amazon S3
8 19 (11.73%) AWS KMS
8 19 (11.73%) Route 53
9 16 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (6.17%) OCI
11 7 (4.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (3.70%) Kong
12 6 (3.70%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.09%) Amazon Cognito
13 5 (3.09%) Apigee
14 4 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (2.47%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) HTTP
1 2 (1.23%) SSL
2 1 (0.62%) DNS
2 1 (0.62%) Firewall
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 50 (30.86%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (14.20%) DynamoDB
2 23 (14.20%) Relational Database
3 21 (12.96%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (11.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (9.88%) Metadata
6 15 (9.26%) MySQL
6 15 (9.26%) SQL Server
7 14 (8.64%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.09%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.47%) Flink
9 4 (2.47%) Hazelcast
9 4 (2.47%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.47%) Redis
10 3 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.85%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.62%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 100 (61.73%) Jenkins
2 98 (60.49%) Git
3 57 (35.19%) Gradle
4 54 (33.33%) JUnit
5 49 (30.25%) SonarQube
6 30 (18.52%) Mockito
7 29 (17.90%) GitLab
8 20 (12.35%) JIRA
9 14 (8.64%) DbUnit
10 13 (8.02%) Bitbucket Server
10 13 (8.02%) jMock
11 12 (7.41%) Selenium
12 11 (6.79%) Postman
12 11 (6.79%) REST Assured
12 11 (6.79%) Subversion
13 10 (6.17%) Cucumber
13 10 (6.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (5.56%) Artifactory
14 9 (5.56%) Gatling
14 9 (5.56%) JProfiler
General
1 47 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.99%) Public Sector
3 25 (15.43%) Finance
4 24 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.49%) Banking
6 11 (6.79%) Publishing
7 4 (2.47%) Retail
8 3 (1.85%) Front Office
8 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 97 (59.88%) Developer
2 79 (48.77%) Java Developer
3 36 (22.22%) Senior
4 30 (18.52%) Senior Developer
5 29 (17.90%) Senior Java Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Lead
7 17 (10.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (9.88%) Lead Developer
9 13 (8.02%) Java Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Lead Java Developer
11 8 (4.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 7 (4.32%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.32%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.70%) Architect
14 5 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.09%) Lead Software Developer
14 5 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.09%) Software Developer
15 4 (2.47%) Applications Developer
15 4 (2.47%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (58.02%) Spring
2 88 (54.32%) Spring Boot
3 63 (38.89%) REST
4 42 (25.93%) JPA
5 41 (25.31%) Node.js
6 40 (24.69%) RESTful
7 31 (19.14%) AngularJS
8 28 (17.28%) Hibernate
8 28 (17.28%) Web Services
9 26 (16.05%) Kafka
10 24 (14.81%) ActiveMQ
10 24 (14.81%) React
11 23 (14.20%) SOAP
11 23 (14.20%) Spring Cloud
12 22 (13.58%) CSS
13 20 (12.35%) Bootstrap
13 20 (12.35%) HTML
14 19 (11.73%) Spring MVC
15 18 (11.11%) Spring Batch
15 18 (11.11%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (11.73%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.79%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.70%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.47%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.23%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.62%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.62%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (25.31%) Linux
2 10 (6.17%) Unix
3 5 (3.09%) Windows
4 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.62%) Android
5 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (67.28%) CI/CD
2 84 (51.85%) DevOps
3 81 (50.00%) Microservices
4 71 (43.83%) Agile
5 56 (34.57%) Scrum
6 50 (30.86%) Containerisation
7 44 (27.16%) TDD
7 44 (27.16%) Test Automation
8 33 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
11 24 (14.81%) Design Patterns
12 22 (13.58%) Event-Driven
13 21 (12.96%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (12.35%) BDD
14 20 (12.35%) MVC
14 20 (12.35%) Software Engineering
15 18 (11.11%) Kanban
15 18 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (10.49%) OO
Programming Languages
1 149 (91.98%) Java
2 71 (43.83%) SQL
3 35 (21.60%) JavaScript
4 28 (17.28%) Python
5 16 (9.88%) Shell Script
6 15 (9.26%) Groovy
7 7 (4.32%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.70%) Scala
9 5 (3.09%) Ruby
10 4 (2.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (42.59%) Security Cleared
2 63 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.56%) Degree
5 7 (4.32%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.23%) ISTQB
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 26 (16.05%) QA
2 13 (8.02%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.09%) SEPA
4 4 (2.47%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.47%) PSD2
4 4 (2.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.62%) ITGC
5 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 74 (45.68%) Docker
2 11 (6.79%) Postfix
3 3 (1.85%) GridGain
4 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 32 (19.75%) Terraform
3 31 (19.14%) Grafana
4 19 (11.73%) Prometheus
5 15 (9.26%) Ansible
6 8 (4.94%) Argo
7 6 (3.70%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.85%) Kibana
9 2 (1.23%) Podman
9 2 (1.23%) Puppet
10 1 (0.62%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.62%) systemd
Vendors
1 38 (23.46%) Oracle
2 18 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 17 (10.49%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (8.02%) Sonatype
5 11 (6.79%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.94%) MuleSoft
7 7 (4.32%) Splunk
8 6 (3.70%) Google
9 5 (3.09%) Sybase
10 4 (2.47%) Solace
11 3 (1.85%) IBM
12 2 (1.23%) Adobe
12 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.23%) SAP
12 2 (1.23%) TIBCO
12 2 (1.23%) Veracode
12 2 (1.23%) VMware
13 1 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (0.62%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.62%) Red Hat