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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 388 458
Rank change year-on-year -82 +70 -200
Contract jobs citing Maven 123 147 141
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.22% 3.49% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 84 96
10th Percentile £374 £330 £400
25th Percentile £450 £421 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -0.95% -16.67%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £595
90th Percentile £695 £696 £675
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 5,535 4,212 5,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 13.63% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,788 2,682 3,755
10th Percentile £341 £333 £363
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £626
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 65 214
10th Percentile £31.20 £25.65 £38.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £47.27
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 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.80 £79.39 £87.43
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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -92 116 £550 +3.68% 25
UK excluding London -82 64 £525 +8.25% 22
London -31 53 £575 +5.99% 5
Work from Home -40 24 £506 +1.10% 12
Midlands -48 19 £542 +28.17% 8
West Midlands -38 18 £542 +19.01% 7
South East -21 17 £407 -36.78% 3
North of England -72 16 £425 -3.13% 3
Yorkshire -54 12 £438 -21.18% 2
South West -25 10 £550 -17.60% 4
North West -46 4 £402 -8.11% 1
Scotland -4 3 £438 -16.27% 2
East Midlands -27 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 (8.94%) Confluence
2 5 (4.07%) Apache
3 4 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.25%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.63%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.63%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.63%) Camunda
4 2 (1.63%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.81%) JBoss
5 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.81%) Mule
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 55 (44.72%) AWS
2 29 (23.58%) GitHub
3 26 (21.14%) Azure
4 17 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (12.20%) OpenShift
6 14 (11.38%) Amazon S3
6 14 (11.38%) GCP
7 13 (10.57%) npm
8 12 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.13%) Serverless
10 9 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (4.88%) Route 53
13 5 (4.07%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.07%) Datadog
14 4 (3.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.69%) AMQP
2 2 (1.63%) HTTP
2 2 (1.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) Firewall
3 1 (0.81%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.81%) Multicast
3 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.57%) Relational Database
3 12 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (8.94%) MongoDB
5 10 (8.13%) DynamoDB
6 9 (7.32%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.32%) SQL Server
7 8 (6.50%) MySQL
7 8 (6.50%) RDBMS
8 7 (5.69%) Tick Data
9 5 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.07%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.25%) Metadata
11 3 (2.44%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.81%) HBase
12 1 (0.81%) Power BI
12 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (57.72%) Git
2 53 (43.09%) Jenkins
3 47 (38.21%) Gradle
4 44 (35.77%) JUnit
5 34 (27.64%) GitLab
6 23 (18.70%) Mockito
6 23 (18.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 21 (17.07%) JIRA
7 21 (17.07%) SonarQube
8 15 (12.20%) Cucumber
8 15 (12.20%) Selenium
9 13 (10.57%) Bitbucket
10 10 (8.13%) Postman
11 9 (7.32%) Artifactory
11 9 (7.32%) Cypress.io
12 7 (5.69%) Eclipse
13 6 (4.88%) Ant
13 6 (4.88%) IntelliJ
13 6 (4.88%) webpack
14 5 (4.07%) CircleCI
General
1 34 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.89%) Finance
3 17 (13.82%) Banking
4 10 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.50%) Front Office
6 6 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.88%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.44%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Publishing
9 2 (1.63%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Marketing
10 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (52.03%) Developer
2 55 (44.72%) Java Developer
3 25 (20.33%) Senior
4 17 (13.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.38%) Senior Developer
6 12 (9.76%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (8.94%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.13%) Software Engineer
9 9 (7.32%) Lead
10 8 (6.50%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Applications Support
11 7 (5.69%) Applications Support Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Fidessa Developer
11 7 (5.69%) Support Engineer
12 5 (4.07%) Applications Developer
12 5 (4.07%) Senior Java Engineer
13 4 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 4 (3.25%) Senior Software Engineer
14 3 (2.44%) Lead Developer
14 3 (2.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (54.47%) Spring
2 47 (38.21%) Spring Boot
3 26 (21.14%) REST
4 22 (17.89%) JPA
5 21 (17.07%) JSON
5 21 (17.07%) React
6 19 (15.45%) AngularJS
6 19 (15.45%) Hibernate
7 16 (13.01%) HTML
8 15 (12.20%) RESTful
9 13 (10.57%) Kafka
9 13 (10.57%) Node.js
10 12 (9.76%) CSS
11 10 (8.13%) SOAP
11 10 (8.13%) Web Services
11 10 (8.13%) XML
12 9 (7.32%) Bootstrap
12 9 (7.32%) Gherkin
12 9 (7.32%) Spring Cloud
13 8 (6.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.32%) Data Centre
1 9 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.50%) Equities
3 6 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.07%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.07%) Derivative
4 5 (4.07%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.44%) TWAP
5 3 (2.44%) VWAP
6 2 (1.63%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.81%) Replication
7 1 (0.81%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 31 (25.20%) Linux
2 9 (7.32%) Unix
3 7 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.25%) CentOS
5 3 (2.44%) Solaris
6 2 (1.63%) Windows
7 1 (0.81%) Android
7 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (53.66%) CI/CD
2 51 (41.46%) DevOps
3 50 (40.65%) Microservices
4 45 (36.59%) Agile
5 35 (28.46%) Test Automation
6 31 (25.20%) Containerisation
7 26 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (19.51%) Scrum
9 22 (17.89%) Software Engineering
10 21 (17.07%) TDD
11 18 (14.63%) Mentoring
12 16 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (13.01%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (12.20%) Design Patterns
14 14 (11.38%) OO
14 14 (11.38%) Unit Testing
15 13 (10.57%) OOP
15 13 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
16 11 (8.94%) Continuous Integration
16 11 (8.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 101 (82.11%) Java
2 28 (22.76%) SQL
3 25 (20.33%) Python
4 13 (10.57%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.13%) Groovy
6 8 (6.50%) Bash
6 8 (6.50%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.69%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.25%) Go
9 4 (3.25%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.44%) Scala
11 2 (1.63%) C#
11 2 (1.63%) C++
11 2 (1.63%) Rust
12 1 (0.81%) Clojure
12 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (32.52%) Security Cleared
2 26 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.38%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.44%) Degree
7 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.81%) OCP
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) QA
1 7 (5.69%) WCAG
2 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.44%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.63%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.63%) NCSC
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (38.21%) Docker
2 3 (2.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (2.44%) Postfix
3 2 (1.63%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 42 (34.15%) Kubernetes
2 27 (21.95%) Terraform
3 26 (21.14%) Grafana
4 20 (16.26%) Ansible
5 12 (9.76%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.50%) Kibana
7 6 (4.88%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.07%) Puppet
9 4 (3.25%) Podman
10 3 (2.44%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.63%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (19.51%) Oracle
2 12 (9.76%) Splunk
3 8 (6.50%) Solace
4 5 (4.07%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.07%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.07%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.25%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (3.25%) Sonatype
5 4 (3.25%) Sybase
6 3 (2.44%) VMware
7 2 (1.63%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.63%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.81%) Google
8 1 (0.81%) IBM
8 1 (0.81%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.81%) Thales