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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 396 455
Rank change year-on-year -82 +59 -210
Contract jobs citing Maven 114 147 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.44% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.07% 3.28% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 78 106
10th Percentile £359 £363 £361
25th Percentile £450 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £541 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +3.10% -16.00%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £600
90th Percentile £675 £833 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £546 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +9.15% -5.66% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +9.47%

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 5,513 4,478 5,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.90% 13.26% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,795 2,828 3,899
10th Percentile £340 £330 £363
25th Percentile £408 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% -4.02%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £692 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £483 £513
% change year-on-year -1.61% -5.80% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 82 208
10th Percentile £39.00 £41.38 £43.76
25th Percentile £53.75 £51.06 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.23 £89.13
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 23 December 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 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 23 December 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 -60 107 £547 -0.64% 47
London -28 57 £540 -1.82% 15
UK excluding London -55 52 £546 +9.15% 33
Work from Home -26 28 £426 -22.55% 18
North of England -49 17 £387 -11.54% 9
West Midlands -19 11 £575 - 2
Midlands -30 11 £575 - 2
South West -5 10 £550 -15.38% 13
South East -12 10 £450 -30.77% 9
Yorkshire -33 9 £372 -25.60% 6
North West -36 8 £402 -8.11% 3
Scotland -5 3 £438 +3.55% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 -

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 7 (6.14%) Confluence
2 5 (4.39%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.51%) Apache
3 4 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.75%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.75%) Apache TomEE
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.88%) CICS
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) Mule
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.60%) AWS
2 37 (32.46%) Azure
3 27 (23.68%) GitHub
4 21 (18.42%) GCP
5 15 (13.16%) npm
5 15 (13.16%) OpenShift
6 14 (12.28%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (9.65%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (9.65%) Datadog
7 11 (9.65%) Serverless
8 10 (8.77%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (8.77%) Apigee
8 10 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (7.89%) Azure AKS
9 9 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (6.14%) Route 53
12 6 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.02%) AMQP
2 2 (1.75%) MQTT
2 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) Multicast
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.91%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (14.91%) Relational Database
2 14 (12.28%) RDBMS
3 13 (11.40%) NoSQL
4 12 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 11 (9.65%) MongoDB
6 10 (8.77%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (8.77%) Redis
7 8 (7.02%) MySQL
7 8 (7.02%) Oracle Database
8 7 (6.14%) DynamoDB
9 6 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (4.39%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.51%) InfluxDB
11 4 (3.51%) Tick Data
12 2 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.88%) Big Data
13 1 (0.88%) HBase
Development Applications
1 65 (57.02%) Git
2 51 (44.74%) Jenkins
3 44 (38.60%) Gradle
4 39 (34.21%) GitLab
5 34 (29.82%) JUnit
6 27 (23.68%) SonarQube
7 26 (22.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (19.30%) Selenium
9 19 (16.67%) JIRA
9 19 (16.67%) Mockito
10 16 (14.04%) Postman
11 15 (13.16%) Cucumber
12 14 (12.28%) Bitbucket
13 10 (8.77%) Artifactory
14 8 (7.02%) Cypress.io
14 8 (7.02%) REST Assured
15 7 (6.14%) SoapUI
15 7 (6.14%) Subversion
15 7 (6.14%) webpack
16 5 (4.39%) CircleCI
General
1 35 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.42%) Banking
2 21 (18.42%) Finance
3 7 (6.14%) Investment Banking
3 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.26%) Front Office
5 5 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.63%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing
8 1 (0.88%) Publishing
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
8 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (49.12%) Developer
2 48 (42.11%) Java Developer
3 19 (16.67%) Senior
4 15 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.40%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.65%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (7.02%) Support Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Applications Support
8 7 (6.14%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Lead
9 6 (5.26%) Architect
10 5 (4.39%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.39%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.51%) Fidessa Developer
12 3 (2.63%) Data Modeller
12 3 (2.63%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (42.11%) Spring
2 45 (39.47%) Spring Boot
3 25 (21.93%) REST
4 22 (19.30%) HTML
5 20 (17.54%) JPA
6 19 (16.67%) Hibernate
6 19 (16.67%) Kafka
7 18 (15.79%) AngularJS
7 18 (15.79%) JSON
7 18 (15.79%) React
8 16 (14.04%) CSS
9 15 (13.16%) RESTful
10 11 (9.65%) Node.js
11 10 (8.77%) J2EE
12 9 (7.89%) Bootstrap
12 9 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (7.89%) HTML5
13 8 (7.02%) CSS3
13 8 (7.02%) Gherkin
13 8 (7.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.65%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.26%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.39%) Equities
5 5 (4.39%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.51%) Derivative
7 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.75%) Clustering
8 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.75%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.75%) IoT
8 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.75%) TWAP
8 2 (1.75%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.68%) Linux
2 13 (11.40%) Unix
3 8 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.39%) CentOS
5 3 (2.63%) Solaris
6 2 (1.75%) Windows
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (54.39%) CI/CD
2 50 (43.86%) Microservices
3 46 (40.35%) Agile
4 42 (36.84%) DevOps
5 33 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (28.07%) Containerisation
7 31 (27.19%) Test Automation
8 26 (22.81%) Mentoring
9 25 (21.93%) TDD
10 21 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (16.67%) SDLC
12 18 (15.79%) Design Patterns
12 18 (15.79%) Scrum
12 18 (15.79%) Software Engineering
12 18 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (12.28%) OO
15 13 (11.40%) BDD
15 13 (11.40%) MVC
15 13 (11.40%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 91 (79.82%) Java
2 26 (22.81%) SQL
3 25 (21.93%) Python
4 23 (20.18%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.53%) Bash
6 11 (9.65%) Shell Script
7 10 (8.77%) Groovy
8 9 (7.89%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.63%) Go
10 3 (2.63%) Scala
11 2 (1.75%) C
11 2 (1.75%) C#
11 2 (1.75%) C++
11 2 (1.75%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.75%) Rust
12 1 (0.88%) Clojure
12 1 (0.88%) COBOL
12 1 (0.88%) JCL
12 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (27.19%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.16%) DV Cleared
3 14 (12.28%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.51%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.51%) Degree
5 3 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.88%) OCP
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) WCAG
2 4 (3.51%) QA
3 3 (2.63%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 50 (43.86%) Docker
2 3 (2.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.75%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 53 (46.49%) Kubernetes
2 34 (29.82%) Terraform
3 25 (21.93%) Grafana
4 22 (19.30%) Ansible
5 16 (14.04%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.14%) Kibana
6 7 (6.14%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.14%) Puppet
7 5 (4.39%) Podman
8 3 (2.63%) Argo
9 2 (1.75%) CloudHub
9 2 (1.75%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.88%) Control-M
10 1 (0.88%) Istio
10 1 (0.88%) logstash
10 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (22.81%) Oracle
2 13 (11.40%) Splunk
3 8 (7.02%) Solace
4 5 (4.39%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (4.39%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.39%) Gigya
5 4 (3.51%) Google
5 4 (3.51%) Sybase
6 3 (2.63%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.63%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.63%) VMware
7 2 (1.75%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.75%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.75%) Veracode
8 1 (0.88%) Adobe
8 1 (0.88%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.88%) TOWER Software