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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 383 442
Rank change year-on-year -118 +59 -177
Contract jobs citing Maven 125 138 142
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.47% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.15% 3.40% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 83 90
10th Percentile £400 £325 £400
25th Percentile £463 £404 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.30% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £585 £588
90th Percentile £695 £720 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +6.37% - -9.52%
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 5,826 4,061 5,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.99% 13.97% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,893 2,716 3,502
10th Percentile £343 £339 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 73 179
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.41 £34.60
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £45.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.95 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -105 118 £550 +10.00% 24
UK excluding London -91 71 £505 +6.37% 19
London -83 49 £600 +11.94% 6
Midlands -54 26 £538 +27.22% 4
West Midlands -52 24 £538 +26.47% 3
Work from Home -57 24 £536 +3.08% 8
North of England -69 21 £450 -5.26% 10
Yorkshire -49 17 £461 -16.14% 5
South East -45 16 £364 -43.46%
South West -21 7 £550 - 2
North West -54 4 £402 -11.89% 4
Scotland +5 2 £438 - 3
East Midlands -32 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 10 (8.00%) Confluence
2 6 (4.80%) Apache
3 5 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (2.40%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.60%) Anypoint
6 2 (1.60%) Apache TomEE
6 2 (1.60%) Camunda
6 2 (1.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.80%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.80%) JBoss
7 1 (0.80%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.80%) Mule
7 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (53.60%) AWS
2 29 (23.20%) GitHub
3 24 (19.20%) Azure
4 21 (16.80%) Amazon S3
5 20 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (12.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (11.20%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (10.40%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (8.80%) AWS KMS
9 11 (8.80%) GCP
9 11 (8.80%) Route 53
10 10 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (8.00%) Serverless
11 8 (6.40%) OpenShift
12 7 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (5.60%) npm
13 6 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (4.00%) OCI
15 4 (3.20%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.00%) AMQP
2 3 (2.40%) HTTP
3 2 (1.60%) Multicast
4 1 (0.80%) Firewall
4 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.60%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.00%) DynamoDB
3 17 (13.60%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (9.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (8.80%) MySQL
5 11 (8.80%) Relational Database
5 11 (8.80%) SQL Server
6 9 (7.20%) Metadata
7 8 (6.40%) NoSQL
8 7 (5.60%) MongoDB
9 5 (4.00%) Tick Data
10 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.40%) InfluxDB
11 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.80%) Flink
12 1 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 65 (52.00%) Git
2 63 (50.40%) Jenkins
3 47 (37.60%) JUnit
4 40 (32.00%) Gradle
5 27 (21.60%) SonarQube
6 26 (20.80%) Mockito
7 23 (18.40%) GitLab
8 17 (13.60%) JIRA
9 16 (12.80%) Cucumber
10 14 (11.20%) Selenium
11 12 (9.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (8.00%) Bitbucket
12 10 (8.00%) jMock
12 10 (8.00%) Postman
13 9 (7.20%) DbUnit
14 8 (6.40%) Artifactory
15 7 (5.60%) Bitbucket Server
15 7 (5.60%) Eclipse
15 7 (5.60%) Gatling
15 7 (5.60%) REST Assured
General
1 47 (37.60%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.20%) Finance
3 18 (14.40%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.40%) Banking
5 9 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.60%) Front Office
7 5 (4.00%) Publishing
8 4 (3.20%) Retail
9 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.80%) Marketing
11 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (54.40%) Developer
2 57 (45.60%) Java Developer
3 34 (27.20%) Senior
4 23 (18.40%) Senior Developer
5 21 (16.80%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (10.40%) Java Engineer
7 10 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 9 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Lead
10 7 (5.60%) Applications Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 5 (4.00%) Applications Support
12 5 (4.00%) Applications Support Engineer
12 5 (4.00%) Fidessa Developer
12 5 (4.00%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.00%) Senior Java Engineer
12 5 (4.00%) Support Engineer
13 4 (3.20%) Lead Developer
13 4 (3.20%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (59.20%) Spring
2 53 (42.40%) Spring Boot
3 34 (27.20%) REST
4 27 (21.60%) JPA
5 24 (19.20%) AngularJS
6 23 (18.40%) JSON
6 23 (18.40%) RESTful
7 22 (17.60%) Hibernate
8 18 (14.40%) Node.js
8 18 (14.40%) Web Services
9 17 (13.60%) SOAP
10 16 (12.80%) Bootstrap
11 15 (12.00%) React
12 14 (11.20%) HTML
12 14 (11.20%) Spring Cloud
13 13 (10.40%) CSS
13 13 (10.40%) Playwright
14 12 (9.60%) ActiveMQ
14 12 (9.60%) Kafka
14 12 (9.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.80%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.20%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.40%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.60%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.80%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.80%) Equities
6 3 (2.40%) Derivative
6 3 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) TWAP
7 2 (1.60%) VWAP
8 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.80%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.40%) Linux
2 8 (6.40%) Unix
3 4 (3.20%) Windows
4 2 (1.60%) CentOS
4 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.80%) Android
5 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (54.40%) CI/CD
2 55 (44.00%) DevOps
3 53 (42.40%) Microservices
4 48 (38.40%) Agile
5 37 (29.60%) Test Automation
6 33 (26.40%) Containerisation
7 30 (24.00%) Scrum
8 25 (20.00%) TDD
9 23 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (17.60%) Software Engineering
11 17 (13.60%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (12.00%) Design Patterns
13 15 (12.00%) Event-Driven
14 14 (11.20%) BDD
15 13 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (10.40%) Mentoring
15 13 (10.40%) OOP
16 12 (9.60%) OO
Programming Languages
1 109 (87.20%) Java
2 38 (30.40%) SQL
3 22 (17.60%) Python
4 11 (8.80%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.00%) Groovy
6 7 (5.60%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.00%) Scala
8 4 (3.20%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.40%) Go
9 3 (2.40%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.60%) Bash
11 1 (0.80%) C#
11 1 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (27.20%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.00%) Degree
5 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) QA
2 6 (4.80%) WCAG
3 4 (3.20%) SLA
4 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.60%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.60%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.60%) NCSC
5 1 (0.80%) GDPR
5 1 (0.80%) SEPA
System Software
1 53 (42.40%) Docker
2 8 (6.40%) Postfix
3 3 (2.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.40%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 41 (32.80%) Kubernetes
2 30 (24.00%) Grafana
3 25 (20.00%) Terraform
4 14 (11.20%) Ansible
4 14 (11.20%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.40%) Kibana
6 3 (2.40%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.40%) HP Fortify
6 3 (2.40%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.60%) CloudHub
7 2 (1.60%) Podman
7 2 (1.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (15.20%) Oracle
2 13 (10.40%) Atlassian
3 11 (8.80%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (8.80%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.40%) Sonatype
4 8 (6.40%) Splunk
5 6 (4.80%) Solace
6 4 (3.20%) Sybase
7 2 (1.60%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.60%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.80%) Google
8 1 (0.80%) IBM
8 1 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.80%) Thales
8 1 (0.80%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.80%) VMware