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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 350 439
Rank change year-on-year -171 +89 -143
Contract jobs citing Maven 125 177 150
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.60% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.11% 4.11% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 133 95
10th Percentile £357 £313 £400
25th Percentile £450 £358 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £588
90th Percentile £743 £624 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £424 £490
% change year-on-year +12.03% -13.47% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £59.00 £63.25 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -
75th Percentile - £69.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -

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 5,934 4,309 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 14.55% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,839 2,877 3,518
10th Percentile £350 £331 £353
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 83 242
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £31.30
25th Percentile £57.93 £46.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +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 15 June 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 June 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 June 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 -144 115 £525 +10.53% 13
UK excluding London -137 73 £475 +12.03% 16
London -89 50 £575 +9.52% 3
North of England -86 28 £475 +15.57% 4
Midlands -66 27 £537 +26.24% 2
West Midlands -62 24 £537 +10.62% 2
Yorkshire -44 23 £475 -8.61% 3
Work from Home -95 21 £475 -5.00% 10
South East -53 12 £357 -39.06% 2
Scotland -22 5 £321 -22.30% 4
North West -55 5 £439 +22.49% 1
South West -26 2 £563 +18.42% 3
East Midlands -33 2 - -

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 (6.40%) Confluence
2 6 (4.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (4.80%) Apache
3 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.40%) Camunda
4 3 (2.40%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.60%) CMS
5 2 (1.60%) JBoss
6 1 (0.80%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (54.40%) AWS
2 36 (28.80%) GitHub
3 31 (24.80%) Azure
4 24 (19.20%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (18.40%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (18.40%) Amazon S3
6 22 (17.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (14.40%) AWS KMS
8 18 (14.40%) GCP
8 18 (14.40%) Route 53
9 7 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.60%) OCI
10 6 (4.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (4.80%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.20%) Apigee
11 4 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.20%) Cloud Run
11 4 (3.20%) Kong
11 4 (3.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) HTTP
2 1 (0.80%) AMQP
2 1 (0.80%) Internet
2 1 (0.80%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (30.40%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 22 (17.60%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (14.40%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (9.60%) Relational Database
5 12 (9.60%) SQL Server
6 11 (8.80%) Metadata
6 11 (8.80%) MongoDB
6 11 (8.80%) MySQL
7 4 (3.20%) Flink
7 4 (3.20%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.20%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.20%) Redis
8 3 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.40%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.80%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 75 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 65 (52.00%) Git
3 48 (38.40%) JUnit
4 44 (35.20%) Gradle
5 38 (30.40%) SonarQube
6 29 (23.20%) Mockito
7 17 (13.60%) GitLab
8 14 (11.20%) DbUnit
8 14 (11.20%) JIRA
9 13 (10.40%) jMock
10 12 (9.60%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (8.00%) REST Assured
12 9 (7.20%) Cucumber
12 9 (7.20%) Gatling
12 9 (7.20%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (6.40%) Artifactory
13 8 (6.40%) Subversion
14 7 (5.60%) Selenium
14 7 (5.60%) TestNG
15 6 (4.80%) Bitbucket
General
1 41 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.20%) Public Sector
3 19 (15.20%) Finance
4 11 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.80%) Banking
5 7 (5.60%) Publishing
6 5 (4.00%) Front Office
7 4 (3.20%) Retail
8 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (56.00%) Developer
2 60 (48.00%) Java Developer
3 34 (27.20%) Senior
4 25 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 24 (19.20%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (9.60%) Java Engineer
7 11 (8.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.20%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Lead
10 6 (4.80%) Applications Developer
11 5 (4.00%) Architect
11 5 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 4 (3.20%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.20%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.20%) Python Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Senior Backend Developer
12 4 (3.20%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (60.00%) Spring
2 60 (48.00%) Spring Boot
3 38 (30.40%) REST
4 36 (28.80%) JPA
5 28 (22.40%) Web Services
6 26 (20.80%) Hibernate
6 26 (20.80%) RESTful
7 24 (19.20%) Node.js
8 23 (18.40%) AngularJS
8 23 (18.40%) SOAP
9 22 (17.60%) Spring Cloud
10 20 (16.00%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (14.40%) Spring Batch
11 18 (14.40%) Spring Integration
12 17 (13.60%) Bootstrap
13 15 (12.00%) Kafka
14 14 (11.20%) JSON
15 13 (10.40%) CSS
15 13 (10.40%) PowerMock
15 13 (10.40%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.60%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.60%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.60%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.80%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.40%) Equities
5 3 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.80%) Derivative
7 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.80%) TWAP
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.80%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 32 (25.60%) Linux
2 9 (7.20%) Unix
3 5 (4.00%) Windows
4 1 (0.80%) Android
4 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (59.20%) CI/CD
2 67 (53.60%) DevOps
3 57 (45.60%) Microservices
4 43 (34.40%) Agile
5 38 (30.40%) TDD
6 37 (29.60%) Containerisation
7 36 (28.80%) Scrum
8 33 (26.40%) Test Automation
9 25 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 21 (16.80%) Software Engineering
11 18 (14.40%) BDD
11 18 (14.40%) Event-Driven
12 17 (13.60%) Kanban
13 16 (12.80%) Observability
14 14 (11.20%) BPMN
14 14 (11.20%) Design Patterns
14 14 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (10.40%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 112 (89.60%) Java
2 52 (41.60%) SQL
3 26 (20.80%) Python
4 13 (10.40%) JavaScript
5 12 (9.60%) Groovy
6 8 (6.40%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.80%) Scala
8 2 (1.60%) Bash
8 2 (1.60%) Go
8 2 (1.60%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (31.20%) Security Cleared
2 34 (27.20%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.40%) Degree
4 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.00%) QA
2 8 (6.40%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.20%) SLA
4 3 (2.40%) SEPA
5 2 (1.60%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.60%) NCSC
5 2 (1.60%) PSD2
6 1 (0.80%) GDPR
6 1 (0.80%) ITGC
6 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (44.00%) Docker
2 11 (8.80%) Postfix
3 3 (2.40%) GridGain
4 2 (1.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 40 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 27 (21.60%) Grafana
3 25 (20.00%) Terraform
4 14 (11.20%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.80%) Argo
5 6 (4.80%) HAProxy
6 5 (4.00%) Ansible
7 3 (2.40%) Kibana
8 1 (0.80%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.80%) Podman
8 1 (0.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (14.40%) Atlassian
2 17 (13.60%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (11.20%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.20%) Oracle
4 11 (8.80%) Sonatype
5 6 (4.80%) Solace
5 6 (4.80%) Splunk
6 5 (4.00%) Sybase
7 3 (2.40%) IBM
8 2 (1.60%) Adobe
8 2 (1.60%) Google
8 2 (1.60%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.60%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.60%) SAP
8 2 (1.60%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.80%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.80%) Thales
9 1 (0.80%) Veracode
9 1 (0.80%) VMware