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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 381 470
Rank change year-on-year -87 +89 -207
Contract jobs citing Maven 121 146 137
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.18% 3.45% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 81 93
10th Percentile £364 £341 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -0.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £600
90th Percentile £695 £700 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £485 £475
% change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 5,562 4,234 5,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.97% 13.67% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 2,686 3,716
10th Percentile £343 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 66 206
10th Percentile £35.40 £25.75 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.25 £48.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £82.90 £79.23 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -91 114 £550 +2.47% 31
UK excluding London -68 62 £525 +8.25% 27
London -50 53 £575 +5.99% 9
Work from Home -37 24 £493 -1.40% 13
South East -20 17 £407 -36.78% 4
Midlands -48 17 £556 +30.88% 10
West Midlands -45 16 £556 +22.25% 9
North of England -71 16 £425 -3.13% 5
Yorkshire -48 12 £438 -21.18% 4
South West -21 10 £550 -17.60% 4
North West -39 4 £402 -8.11% 1
Scotland +1 3 £438 -16.27% 2
East Midlands -23 1 - - 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 11 (9.09%) Confluence
2 5 (4.13%) Apache
3 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.31%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.65%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.65%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.65%) Camunda
4 2 (1.65%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.83%) JBoss
5 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.83%) Mule
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 53 (43.80%) AWS
2 29 (23.97%) GitHub
3 26 (21.49%) Azure
4 17 (14.05%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (12.40%) OpenShift
6 14 (11.57%) GCP
7 13 (10.74%) npm
8 12 (9.92%) Amazon S3
9 10 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.26%) Serverless
10 9 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (4.13%) Azure AKS
14 5 (4.13%) Datadog
15 4 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (3.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 4 (3.31%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.79%) AMQP
2 2 (1.65%) HTTP
2 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.83%) Multicast
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.40%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.74%) Relational Database
3 11 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 10 (8.26%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (7.44%) NoSQL
5 9 (7.44%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.61%) DynamoDB
6 8 (6.61%) RDBMS
7 7 (5.79%) MySQL
7 7 (5.79%) Tick Data
8 6 (4.96%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.31%) Metadata
10 3 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.48%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.65%) Redis
12 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.83%) HBase
12 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 70 (57.85%) Git
2 52 (42.98%) Jenkins
3 47 (38.84%) Gradle
4 43 (35.54%) JUnit
5 34 (28.10%) GitLab
6 23 (19.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 22 (18.18%) JIRA
7 22 (18.18%) Mockito
8 20 (16.53%) SonarQube
9 15 (12.40%) Cucumber
9 15 (12.40%) Selenium
10 13 (10.74%) Bitbucket
11 11 (9.09%) Postman
12 9 (7.44%) Artifactory
12 9 (7.44%) Cypress.io
13 7 (5.79%) Eclipse
14 6 (4.96%) Ant
14 6 (4.96%) IntelliJ
14 6 (4.96%) Subversion
14 6 (4.96%) webpack
General
1 34 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.18%) Finance
3 18 (14.88%) Banking
4 8 (6.61%) Front Office
4 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.96%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.48%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Publishing
8 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
8 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (51.24%) Developer
2 53 (43.80%) Java Developer
3 25 (20.66%) Senior
4 17 (14.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.57%) Senior Developer
6 12 (9.92%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (9.09%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.26%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Lead
10 7 (5.79%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.79%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Fidessa Developer
10 7 (5.79%) Support Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Applications Developer
11 5 (4.13%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (3.31%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (2.48%) Python Engineer
13 3 (2.48%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (53.72%) Spring
2 46 (38.02%) Spring Boot
3 24 (19.83%) REST
4 21 (17.36%) JPA
4 21 (17.36%) JSON
4 21 (17.36%) React
5 18 (14.88%) Hibernate
6 17 (14.05%) AngularJS
6 17 (14.05%) HTML
7 14 (11.57%) Kafka
7 14 (11.57%) RESTful
8 12 (9.92%) CSS
9 11 (9.09%) Node.js
10 10 (8.26%) XML
11 9 (7.44%) Gherkin
11 9 (7.44%) SOAP
12 8 (6.61%) Bootstrap
12 8 (6.61%) Spring Cloud
12 8 (6.61%) Web Services
12 8 (6.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.44%) Data Centre
1 9 (7.44%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.61%) Equities
3 6 (4.96%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.13%) Derivative
4 5 (4.13%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.48%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.48%) TWAP
5 3 (2.48%) VWAP
6 2 (1.65%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.97%) Linux
2 9 (7.44%) Unix
3 7 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.31%) CentOS
5 3 (2.48%) Solaris
6 1 (0.83%) Android
6 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.83%) Windows
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (52.89%) CI/CD
2 49 (40.50%) DevOps
2 49 (40.50%) Microservices
3 44 (36.36%) Agile
4 35 (28.93%) Test Automation
5 29 (23.97%) Containerisation
6 26 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.18%) Scrum
7 22 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 20 (16.53%) TDD
9 19 (15.70%) Mentoring
10 17 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (12.40%) Design Patterns
12 15 (12.40%) Unit Testing
13 14 (11.57%) OO
14 13 (10.74%) OOP
14 13 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (9.92%) SDLC
16 11 (9.09%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 99 (81.82%) Java
2 27 (22.31%) SQL
3 25 (20.66%) Python
4 13 (10.74%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.09%) Groovy
6 9 (7.44%) Shell Script
7 8 (6.61%) Bash
8 7 (5.79%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.31%) Go
10 4 (3.31%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.48%) Scala
12 2 (1.65%) C#
12 2 (1.65%) C++
12 2 (1.65%) Rust
13 1 (0.83%) Clojure
13 1 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (31.40%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.83%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.57%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.96%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.48%) Degree
7 2 (1.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.83%) OCP
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) QA
1 7 (5.79%) WCAG
2 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.48%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.65%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.65%) NCSC
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 46 (38.02%) Docker
2 3 (2.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.65%) GridGain
3 2 (1.65%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 43 (35.54%) Kubernetes
2 27 (22.31%) Terraform
3 24 (19.83%) Grafana
4 20 (16.53%) Ansible
5 12 (9.92%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.61%) Kibana
7 6 (4.96%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.13%) Puppet
9 4 (3.31%) Podman
10 3 (2.48%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.65%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (20.66%) Oracle
2 13 (10.74%) Splunk
3 8 (6.61%) Solace
4 5 (4.13%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.13%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.31%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.31%) Sonatype
5 4 (3.31%) Sybase
6 3 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.48%) VMware
7 2 (1.65%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.65%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.65%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.83%) Google
8 1 (0.83%) IBM
8 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.83%) Thales