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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 386 414
Rank change year-on-year -119 +28 -81
Contract jobs citing Maven 157 169 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.53% 3.49% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 133 100
10th Percentile £329 £276 £381
25th Percentile £431 £358 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -7.69%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £638
90th Percentile £659 £624 £803
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £422 £525
% change year-on-year +11.51% -19.71% +2.44%
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 6,197 4,845 5,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.74% 14.70% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,975 3,270 3,358
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% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 106 221
10th Percentile £26.00 £24.05 £25.99
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.68 £84.50 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +5.69%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -142 124 £511 +9.84% 33
UK excluding London -95 87 £470 +11.51% 22
London -79 53 £550 +6.54% 15
Work from Home -71 39 £475 - 16
Midlands -51 35 £475 +13.10% 9
West Midlands -39 31 £475 -2.56% 9
North of England -86 27 £500 +24.38% 5
Yorkshire -36 25 £500 -3.80%
Scotland +1 13 £353 -14.42% 2
South East -66 11 £273 -53.33% 5
East Midlands -24 3 - -
South West -42 1 - - 1
North East -43 1 £520 +11.83%
North West -68 1 £475 +32.68% 5

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 8 (5.10%) Confluence
2 7 (4.46%) WebLogic
3 6 (3.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (3.18%) Apache
5 4 (2.55%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.27%) Camunda
6 2 (1.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.64%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.64%) JBoss
7 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.64%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 96 (61.15%) AWS
2 47 (29.94%) Azure
3 38 (24.20%) GitHub
4 30 (19.11%) GCP
5 25 (15.92%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (14.65%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (14.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (13.38%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (13.38%) Amazon S3
9 18 (11.46%) AWS KMS
9 18 (11.46%) Route 53
10 12 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (5.73%) OCI
12 7 (4.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (3.82%) Kong
13 6 (3.82%) OpenShift
14 5 (3.18%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (3.18%) Apigee
15 4 (2.55%) Cloud Run
16 3 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) HTTP
2 1 (0.64%) Firewall
2 1 (0.64%) Internet
2 1 (0.64%) Multicast
2 1 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (32.48%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (15.29%) Relational Database
3 23 (14.65%) DynamoDB
4 21 (13.38%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (12.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 16 (10.19%) Metadata
6 16 (10.19%) MySQL
7 15 (9.55%) SQL Server
8 13 (8.28%) MongoDB
9 6 (3.82%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.55%) Flink
10 4 (2.55%) Hazelcast
10 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.55%) Redis
11 3 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.91%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.64%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 95 (60.51%) Git
1 95 (60.51%) Jenkins
2 57 (36.31%) Gradle
3 53 (33.76%) JUnit
4 47 (29.94%) SonarQube
5 29 (18.47%) Mockito
6 27 (17.20%) GitLab
7 16 (10.19%) JIRA
8 14 (8.92%) DbUnit
9 13 (8.28%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (8.28%) jMock
10 12 (7.64%) REST Assured
11 11 (7.01%) Postman
11 11 (7.01%) Subversion
12 10 (6.37%) Cucumber
12 10 (6.37%) Selenium
13 9 (5.73%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.73%) Gatling
14 8 (5.10%) GoCD
14 8 (5.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.66%) Public Sector
3 22 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (14.01%) Finance
4 14 (8.92%) Banking
5 9 (5.73%) Publishing
6 4 (2.55%) Retail
7 3 (1.91%) Front Office
7 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (61.15%) Developer
2 79 (50.32%) Java Developer
3 32 (20.38%) Senior
4 28 (17.83%) Senior Developer
5 27 (17.20%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (10.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (10.83%) Lead
7 15 (9.55%) Lead Developer
8 12 (7.64%) Java Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Lead Java Developer
10 8 (5.10%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 7 (4.46%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) Architect
13 5 (3.18%) Applications Developer
13 5 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.18%) Lead Software Developer
13 5 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.18%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.18%) Software Engineer
14 4 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (59.24%) Spring
2 87 (55.41%) Spring Boot
3 60 (38.22%) REST
4 42 (26.75%) RESTful
5 41 (26.11%) JPA
6 38 (24.20%) Node.js
7 30 (19.11%) AngularJS
8 29 (18.47%) Hibernate
8 29 (18.47%) Web Services
9 24 (15.29%) Kafka
10 23 (14.65%) ActiveMQ
10 23 (14.65%) SOAP
11 22 (14.01%) React
11 22 (14.01%) Spring Cloud
12 21 (13.38%) CSS
13 20 (12.74%) Bootstrap
14 19 (12.10%) HTML
14 19 (12.10%) Spring MVC
15 18 (11.46%) Spring Batch
15 18 (11.46%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.29%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (12.10%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.73%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.46%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.18%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.55%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.55%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.27%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.64%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (24.20%) Linux
2 10 (6.37%) Unix
3 5 (3.18%) Windows
4 1 (0.64%) Android
4 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (66.88%) CI/CD
2 81 (51.59%) DevOps
2 81 (51.59%) Microservices
3 67 (42.68%) Agile
4 53 (33.76%) Scrum
5 50 (31.85%) Containerisation
6 43 (27.39%) TDD
7 41 (26.11%) Test Automation
8 31 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (15.92%) Design Patterns
9 25 (15.92%) Performance Tuning
10 22 (14.01%) Event-Driven
11 21 (13.38%) BDD
11 21 (13.38%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (12.74%) MVC
13 19 (12.10%) Software Engineering
14 17 (10.83%) Kanban
14 17 (10.83%) OO
14 17 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (92.99%) Java
2 71 (45.22%) SQL
3 31 (19.75%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.20%) Python
5 15 (9.55%) Groovy
6 14 (8.92%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.82%) Scala
8 5 (3.18%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.55%) Ruby
10 3 (1.91%) Bash
11 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 66 (42.04%) Security Cleared
2 60 (38.22%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.73%) Degree
5 7 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.56%) QA
2 13 (8.28%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.55%) SEPA
3 4 (2.55%) SLA
4 3 (1.91%) PSD2
5 2 (1.27%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.64%) GDPR
6 1 (0.64%) ITGC
6 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (45.22%) Docker
2 11 (7.01%) Postfix
3 3 (1.91%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 66 (42.04%) Kubernetes
2 30 (19.11%) Terraform
3 29 (18.47%) Grafana
4 17 (10.83%) Prometheus
5 13 (8.28%) Ansible
6 7 (4.46%) Argo
7 6 (3.82%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.27%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.27%) Kibana
8 2 (1.27%) Podman
8 2 (1.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (23.57%) Oracle
2 18 (11.46%) Atlassian
3 17 (10.83%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (7.64%) Sonatype
5 11 (7.01%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.10%) Splunk
7 7 (4.46%) Google
7 7 (4.46%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.18%) Sybase
9 4 (2.55%) IBM
9 4 (2.55%) Solace
10 2 (1.27%) Adobe
10 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.27%) SAP
10 2 (1.27%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.27%) Veracode
10 2 (1.27%) VMware
11 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.64%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.64%) TOWER Software