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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 369 445
Rank change year-on-year -42 +76 -204
Contract jobs citing Maven 157 183 189
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.92% 3.87% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 105 129
10th Percentile £313 £363 £368
25th Percentile £379 £431 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £586 £675 £688
90th Percentile £643 £858 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -7.50% -3.61% -3.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile - - £67.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 5,370 4,727 6,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.38% 13.12% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,704 2,956 4,273
10th Percentile £330 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.91%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £686 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £501
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.60% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 132 240
10th Percentile £21.44 £24.89 £45.75
25th Percentile £49.38 £46.23 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.40 £88.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 11 November 2025.

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 11 November 2025. 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 -36 150 £500 -9.09% 41
London -17 80 £523 -5.00% 28
UK excluding London -48 75 £463 -7.50% 20
Work from Home -6 50 £440 -20.09% 18
North of England -21 28 £367 -8.25% 5
Midlands -4 26 £488 -35.00% 3
North West -13 18 £358 -10.50% 3
West Midlands -13 18 £531 - 3
Yorkshire -32 10 £475 +5.56% 2
South East +4 9 £450 -25.00% 2
South West -11 9 £550 -15.38% 3
East Midlands -6 8 £345 -54.00%
Scotland -14 3 £519 +23.51% 7
Northern Ireland -11 1 £425 -34.62%

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 13 (8.28%) Confluence
2 8 (5.10%) JBoss
2 8 (5.10%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.55%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.91%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.91%) CICS
4 3 (1.91%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.27%) Apache
5 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.27%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.64%) Apache TomEE
6 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.64%) Mule
6 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 71 (45.22%) AWS
2 47 (29.94%) Azure
3 31 (19.75%) GitHub
4 24 (15.29%) GCP
5 22 (14.01%) OpenShift
6 21 (13.38%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (13.38%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (10.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (9.55%) Amazon S3
9 14 (8.92%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (8.92%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (8.92%) npm
10 13 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (8.28%) Route 53
10 13 (8.28%) Serverless
11 12 (7.64%) AWS Fargate
12 11 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (7.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (6.37%) Apigee
13 10 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.82%) AMQP
2 2 (1.27%) Calico
2 2 (1.27%) DMZ
2 2 (1.27%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) HTTP
2 2 (1.27%) Internet
2 2 (1.27%) MQTT
2 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.27%) VPN
3 1 (0.64%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (22.29%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (15.29%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (12.74%) Relational Database
4 18 (11.46%) DynamoDB
4 18 (11.46%) SQL Server
5 16 (10.19%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (9.55%) RDBMS
7 14 (8.92%) MongoDB
7 14 (8.92%) NoSQL
8 11 (7.01%) Oracle Database
8 11 (7.01%) Redis
9 9 (5.73%) MySQL
10 5 (3.18%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.55%) DB2
11 4 (2.55%) Tick Data
12 3 (1.91%) Big Data
12 3 (1.91%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.91%) HPCC
12 3 (1.91%) InfluxDB
13 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 93 (59.24%) Git
2 77 (49.04%) Jenkins
3 62 (39.49%) JUnit
4 56 (35.67%) Gradle
5 53 (33.76%) GitLab
6 45 (28.66%) SonarQube
7 44 (28.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 32 (20.38%) Cucumber
9 30 (19.11%) JIRA
10 29 (18.47%) Mockito
11 28 (17.83%) Selenium
12 21 (13.38%) Postman
13 16 (10.19%) Bitbucket
13 16 (10.19%) REST Assured
14 12 (7.64%) Artifactory
14 12 (7.64%) IntelliJ
15 11 (7.01%) Cypress.io
16 8 (5.10%) Eclipse
16 8 (5.10%) Subversion
17 7 (4.46%) JMeter
General
1 38 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.38%) Finance
3 27 (17.20%) Banking
4 18 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.73%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.82%) Front Office
8 3 (1.91%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Retail
10 1 (0.64%) Aviation
10 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Publishing
10 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (54.14%) Developer
2 67 (42.68%) Java Developer
3 24 (15.29%) Senior
4 17 (10.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (8.28%) AWS Developer
5 13 (8.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (8.28%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.37%) Java Engineer
6 10 (6.37%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (5.10%) Architect
7 8 (5.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (5.10%) Lead
8 7 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (4.46%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.82%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (3.18%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.18%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (3.18%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.18%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (44.59%) Spring
2 68 (43.31%) Spring Boot
3 41 (26.11%) REST
4 33 (21.02%) JPA
5 30 (19.11%) HTML
5 30 (19.11%) RESTful
6 29 (18.47%) Hibernate
7 25 (15.92%) SOAP
8 23 (14.65%) Kafka
9 22 (14.01%) CSS
9 22 (14.01%) React
10 21 (13.38%) AngularJS
11 20 (12.74%) JSON
11 20 (12.74%) Spring Cloud
12 18 (11.46%) Web Services
13 17 (10.83%) Node.js
14 16 (10.19%) Bootstrap
14 16 (10.19%) J2EE
15 13 (8.28%) Jest
16 12 (7.64%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.92%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (7.64%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.01%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.37%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.18%) N-Tier
5 5 (3.18%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.55%) Equities
7 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.91%) Clustering
7 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.91%) Derivative
7 3 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.91%) IVR
7 3 (1.91%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.91%) VSAM
8 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.27%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.27%) IoT
8 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (27.39%) Linux
2 29 (18.47%) Unix
3 10 (6.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.18%) CentOS
5 4 (2.55%) Solaris
5 4 (2.55%) Windows
6 2 (1.27%) Android
6 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (54.78%) CI/CD
2 73 (46.50%) Agile
2 73 (46.50%) Microservices
3 62 (39.49%) DevOps
4 49 (31.21%) TDD
5 45 (28.66%) Test Automation
6 43 (27.39%) Containerisation
7 37 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (20.38%) Design Patterns
9 29 (18.47%) Mentoring
10 23 (14.65%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (14.01%) Scrum
12 21 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (12.74%) BDD
13 20 (12.74%) Code Quality
13 20 (12.74%) Continuous Integration
13 20 (12.74%) SDLC
14 19 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (12.10%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (12.10%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 127 (80.89%) Java
2 43 (27.39%) SQL
3 40 (25.48%) JavaScript
4 36 (22.93%) Python
5 23 (14.65%) Shell Script
6 14 (8.92%) Bash
6 14 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.37%) Groovy
8 9 (5.73%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.18%) C
10 4 (2.55%) C++
11 3 (1.91%) C#
11 3 (1.91%) COBOL
11 3 (1.91%) Go
11 3 (1.91%) JCL
11 3 (1.91%) Scala
12 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.27%) Rust
13 1 (0.64%) Ada
Qualifications
1 42 (26.75%) Security Cleared
2 28 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.64%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.55%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.55%) Degree
5 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.64%) OCP
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.28%) QA
1 13 (8.28%) WCAG
2 8 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.91%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 79 (50.32%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) Postfix
3 2 (1.27%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 57 (36.31%) Kubernetes
2 34 (21.66%) Terraform
3 27 (17.20%) Grafana
4 21 (13.38%) Ansible
4 21 (13.38%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.73%) Puppet
6 6 (3.82%) Kibana
6 6 (3.82%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.18%) Istio
7 5 (3.18%) Podman
8 4 (2.55%) Argo
9 3 (1.91%) CloudHub
9 3 (1.91%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.64%) Control-M
10 1 (0.64%) logstash
10 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (22.29%) Oracle
2 15 (9.55%) Splunk
3 12 (7.64%) CA Agile Central
4 10 (6.37%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.73%) Solace
6 7 (4.46%) Google
7 6 (3.82%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.82%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.82%) Veracode
8 5 (3.18%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.18%) Gigya
8 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.18%) Sybase
9 4 (2.55%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (2.55%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.91%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.91%) IBM
10 3 (1.91%) Refinitiv
10 3 (1.91%) VMware
11 2 (1.27%) Salesforce