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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 382 429
Rank change year-on-year -45 +47 -191
Contract jobs citing Maven 157 183 196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.50% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.00% 3.78% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 109 135
10th Percentile £313 £363 £366
25th Percentile £369 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% -2.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £576 £675 £700
90th Percentile £638 £853 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £513
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.34% -3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £61.75
25th Percentile - - £68.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 5,233 4,846 6,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.43% 13.24% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,562 3,029 4,355
10th Percentile £329 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -4.59% -1.54%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £687 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £510
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.41% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 155 238
10th Percentile £20.95 £26.35 £43.76
25th Percentile £44.74 £48.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £69.69 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.25 £74.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 28 October 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 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 28 October 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 -19 146 £495 -8.12% 53
UK excluding London -28 78 £450 -6.25% 32
London +2 77 £520 -5.45% 36
Work from Home -2 51 £429 -22.00% 15
North of England -22 30 £358 -10.50% 5
Midlands 0 28 £475 -36.67% 3
North West -14 20 £358 -0.56% 1
West Midlands +1 19 £525 - 2
Yorkshire -24 10 £475 +5.56% 4
East Midlands -5 9 £340 -54.67% 1
South East -2 7 £450 -25.00% 20
South West -2 7 £550 +7.58% 2
Scotland -9 7 £418 -0.54% 1
Northern Ireland -15 1 £425 -34.62%

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 10 (6.37%) Confluence
1 10 (6.37%) JBoss
2 9 (5.73%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.55%) CICS
3 4 (2.55%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.91%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.27%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.27%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.64%) Apache
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.64%) Mule
6 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 75 (47.77%) AWS
2 48 (30.57%) Azure
3 29 (18.47%) GitHub
4 26 (16.56%) GCP
5 25 (15.92%) OpenShift
6 21 (13.38%) Amazon SQS
7 20 (12.74%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (10.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (8.92%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (8.92%) Amazon S3
9 14 (8.92%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (8.28%) Route 53
11 12 (7.64%) AWS Fargate
11 12 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (7.64%) npm
11 12 (7.64%) Serverless
12 11 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (7.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (6.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) AMQP
2 2 (1.27%) Calico
2 2 (1.27%) DMZ
2 2 (1.27%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) Internet
2 2 (1.27%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.27%) MQTT
2 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.64%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.64%) HTTP
3 1 (0.64%) Multicast
3 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (23.57%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (15.29%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (12.74%) Relational Database
4 19 (12.10%) SQL Server
5 18 (11.46%) DynamoDB
5 18 (11.46%) MongoDB
6 16 (10.19%) Amazon Aurora
7 15 (9.55%) NoSQL
8 14 (8.92%) RDBMS
9 13 (8.28%) Oracle Database
10 11 (7.01%) MySQL
10 11 (7.01%) Redis
11 5 (3.18%) BigQuery
11 5 (3.18%) DB2
12 3 (1.91%) Big Data
12 3 (1.91%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.91%) HPCC
13 2 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.27%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 96 (61.15%) Git
2 81 (51.59%) Jenkins
3 65 (41.40%) JUnit
4 58 (36.94%) Gradle
5 54 (34.39%) GitLab
6 46 (29.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 45 (28.66%) SonarQube
8 33 (21.02%) Cucumber
8 33 (21.02%) Mockito
9 29 (18.47%) Selenium
10 27 (17.20%) JIRA
11 19 (12.10%) Postman
12 16 (10.19%) REST Assured
13 14 (8.92%) Bitbucket
13 14 (8.92%) IntelliJ
14 12 (7.64%) Artifactory
15 11 (7.01%) Cypress.io
16 9 (5.73%) Eclipse
17 8 (5.10%) Subversion
18 7 (4.46%) JMeter
General
1 38 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.38%) Finance
3 28 (17.83%) Banking
4 18 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.37%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.73%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.46%) Front Office
8 3 (1.91%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.27%) Retail
10 1 (0.64%) Aviation
10 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Publishing
10 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (54.14%) Developer
2 68 (43.31%) Java Developer
3 25 (15.92%) Senior
4 18 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (8.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (8.92%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.28%) AWS Developer
7 12 (7.64%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (5.73%) Architect
8 9 (5.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 9 (5.73%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Lead
10 7 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Java Architect
12 5 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (3.18%) Java Technical Architect
12 5 (3.18%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.18%) Lead Java Developer
12 5 (3.18%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (46.50%) Spring Boot
2 71 (45.22%) Spring
3 43 (27.39%) REST
4 35 (22.29%) JPA
5 33 (21.02%) RESTful
6 29 (18.47%) Hibernate
6 29 (18.47%) HTML
7 26 (16.56%) SOAP
8 24 (15.29%) Kafka
8 24 (15.29%) React
9 22 (14.01%) AngularJS
10 21 (13.38%) CSS
10 21 (13.38%) Spring Cloud
11 20 (12.74%) Web Services
12 19 (12.10%) JSON
13 17 (10.83%) Node.js
14 16 (10.19%) J2EE
15 15 (9.55%) Bootstrap
16 13 (8.28%) Jest
17 12 (7.64%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.92%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (7.64%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.37%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.10%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.18%) N-Tier
5 5 (3.18%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.55%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.55%) VSAM
7 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.91%) Clustering
7 3 (1.91%) Derivative
7 3 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.91%) IVR
8 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.27%) Equities
8 2 (1.27%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.27%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 44 (28.03%) Linux
2 30 (19.11%) Unix
3 9 (5.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.55%) CentOS
4 4 (2.55%) Solaris
4 4 (2.55%) Windows
5 2 (1.27%) Android
5 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (54.78%) CI/CD
2 74 (47.13%) Agile
3 73 (46.50%) Microservices
4 66 (42.04%) DevOps
5 49 (31.21%) TDD
6 43 (27.39%) Containerisation
6 43 (27.39%) Test Automation
7 35 (22.29%) Design Patterns
7 35 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (17.20%) Mentoring
9 24 (15.29%) Scrum
10 23 (14.65%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (14.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (13.38%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (13.38%) SDLC
13 20 (12.74%) BDD
13 20 (12.74%) Code Quality
13 20 (12.74%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (12.10%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 128 (81.53%) Java
2 45 (28.66%) SQL
3 40 (25.48%) JavaScript
4 34 (21.66%) Python
5 24 (15.29%) Shell Script
6 14 (8.92%) Bash
6 14 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.37%) Groovy
8 9 (5.73%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.18%) C
10 4 (2.55%) C++
10 4 (2.55%) COBOL
10 4 (2.55%) Go
10 4 (2.55%) JCL
11 3 (1.91%) C#
11 3 (1.91%) Scala
12 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.27%) Rust
13 1 (0.64%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 39 (24.84%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.37%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.55%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.91%) Degree
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.64%) OCP
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.28%) QA
1 13 (8.28%) WCAG
2 8 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.91%) Def Stans
System Software
1 81 (51.59%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) Postfix
3 2 (1.27%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 61 (38.85%) Kubernetes
2 32 (20.38%) Terraform
3 25 (15.92%) Grafana
4 21 (13.38%) Prometheus
5 19 (12.10%) Ansible
6 9 (5.73%) Puppet
7 6 (3.82%) Kibana
7 6 (3.82%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.18%) Istio
8 5 (3.18%) Podman
9 4 (2.55%) Argo
10 3 (1.91%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.27%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.64%) Control-M
12 1 (0.64%) logstash
12 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (22.93%) Oracle
2 15 (9.55%) Splunk
3 12 (7.64%) CA Agile Central
4 11 (7.01%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.10%) Solace
6 7 (4.46%) Google
7 6 (3.82%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.82%) Veracode
8 5 (3.18%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.18%) Gigya
8 5 (3.18%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.55%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (2.55%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.55%) Sybase
10 3 (1.91%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.91%) IBM
10 3 (1.91%) Refinitiv
10 3 (1.91%) VMware
11 2 (1.27%) AppDynamics