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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 392 412
Rank change year-on-year -115 +20 -56
Contract jobs citing Maven 161 161 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.49% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.59% 3.25% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 128 92
10th Percentile £322 £270 £383
25th Percentile £420 £359 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £622 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £427 £525
% change year-on-year +10.36% -18.67% +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 6,218 4,950 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.62% 15.08% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,000 3,338 3,271
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 114 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.08 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £84.58 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -155 121 £511 +7.47% 36
UK excluding London -113 87 £471 +10.36% 23
London -92 54 £533 +5.19% 18
Work from Home -74 45 £471 -0.79% 16
Midlands -53 31 £490 +14.81% 6
North of England -69 29 £500 +24.38% 5
West Midlands -42 28 £490 -1.95% 5
Yorkshire -29 25 £500 -3.80% 1
Scotland -2 19 £375 -9.09% 1
South East -56 7 £270 -53.85% 7
North West -58 3 £475 +32.68% 4
East Midlands -28 2 - - 1
North East -40 1 £520 +11.83%
South West -40 1 - - 4

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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 7 (4.35%) WebLogic
2 6 (3.73%) Apache
3 5 (3.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (2.48%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.24%) Camunda
5 2 (1.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.62%) JBoss
6 1 (0.62%) nginx
6 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 98 (60.87%) AWS
2 51 (31.68%) Azure
3 37 (22.98%) GitHub
4 32 (19.88%) GCP
5 22 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (11.80%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (10.56%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (9.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (9.32%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (8.70%) Amazon S3
11 13 (8.07%) AWS KMS
11 13 (8.07%) Route 53
12 10 (6.21%) OCI
13 9 (5.59%) Kong
14 8 (4.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (3.73%) Apigee
15 6 (3.73%) OpenShift
16 5 (3.11%) Amazon Cognito
16 5 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (3.11%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) SSL
2 1 (0.62%) DNS
2 1 (0.62%) Firewall
2 1 (0.62%) HTTP
2 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.62%) Internet
2 1 (0.62%) Multicast
2 1 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (27.95%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (16.15%) Relational Database
3 17 (10.56%) SQL Server
4 16 (9.94%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (9.94%) DynamoDB
4 16 (9.94%) Metadata
4 16 (9.94%) MySQL
5 15 (9.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (9.32%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.73%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.11%) Hazelcast
7 5 (3.11%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.11%) Redis
8 4 (2.48%) Flink
9 3 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.86%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.86%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 101 (62.73%) Git
1 101 (62.73%) Jenkins
2 64 (39.75%) Gradle
3 48 (29.81%) JUnit
4 45 (27.95%) SonarQube
5 32 (19.88%) GitLab
6 25 (15.53%) Mockito
7 21 (13.04%) JIRA
8 14 (8.70%) Selenium
9 10 (6.21%) Bitbucket Server
9 10 (6.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (5.59%) Artifactory
10 9 (5.59%) Cucumber
10 9 (5.59%) DbUnit
10 9 (5.59%) GoCD
10 9 (5.59%) JProfiler
10 9 (5.59%) REST Assured
10 9 (5.59%) Subversion
11 8 (4.97%) Gatling
11 8 (4.97%) jMock
General
1 42 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.25%) Public Sector
3 27 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (16.77%) Finance
4 20 (12.42%) Banking
5 11 (6.83%) Publishing
6 3 (1.86%) Front Office
6 3 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.86%) Retail
7 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (59.01%) Developer
2 78 (48.45%) Java Developer
3 38 (23.60%) Senior
4 31 (19.25%) Senior Developer
5 30 (18.63%) Senior Java Developer
6 20 (12.42%) Lead
7 17 (10.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (10.56%) Lead Developer
8 15 (9.32%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.21%) Lead Java Developer
9 10 (6.21%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.97%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.11%) Architect
13 5 (3.11%) Automation Tester
13 5 (3.11%) Lead Software Developer
13 5 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.11%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (59.01%) Spring
2 91 (56.52%) Spring Boot
3 61 (37.89%) REST
4 44 (27.33%) RESTful
5 40 (24.84%) Node.js
6 38 (23.60%) JPA
7 33 (20.50%) Terraform
8 32 (19.88%) Kafka
9 29 (18.01%) React
10 26 (16.15%) AngularJS
11 23 (14.29%) CSS
11 23 (14.29%) HTML
12 22 (13.66%) Web Services
13 21 (13.04%) Hibernate
13 21 (13.04%) Spring MVC
14 18 (11.18%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (11.18%) FreeMarker
15 17 (10.56%) JSON
15 17 (10.56%) SOAP
16 16 (9.94%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 20 (12.42%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.59%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.97%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (3.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.24%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.62%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.62%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.74%) Linux
2 9 (5.59%) Unix
3 4 (2.48%) Windows
4 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 87 (54.04%) DevOps
3 82 (50.93%) Microservices
4 72 (44.72%) Agile
5 53 (32.92%) Scrum
6 47 (29.19%) Test Automation
7 46 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 40 (24.84%) TDD
9 37 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (17.39%) Design Patterns
12 27 (16.77%) Software Engineering
13 25 (15.53%) Event-Driven
14 23 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
15 22 (13.66%) MVC
16 21 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (12.42%) Clean Code
18 18 (11.18%) BDD
18 18 (11.18%) OO
19 17 (10.56%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 151 (93.79%) Java
2 71 (44.10%) SQL
3 40 (24.84%) JavaScript
4 30 (18.63%) Python
5 19 (11.80%) Shell Script
6 17 (10.56%) Groovy
7 9 (5.59%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.73%) Bash
8 6 (3.73%) Scala
9 5 (3.11%) Ruby
10 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (41.61%) Security Cleared
2 60 (37.27%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.97%) Degree
5 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.48%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.39%) QA
2 15 (9.32%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.73%) ISO 20022
4 5 (3.11%) SEPA
5 4 (2.48%) PSD2
6 3 (1.86%) SLA
7 2 (1.24%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.62%) ITGC
8 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 75 (46.58%) Docker
2 7 (4.35%) Postfix
3 3 (1.86%) GridGain
4 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 72 (44.72%) Kubernetes
2 25 (15.53%) Grafana
3 19 (11.80%) Prometheus
4 15 (9.32%) Ansible
5 9 (5.59%) Argo
6 6 (3.73%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.86%) Kibana
8 2 (1.24%) Podman
8 2 (1.24%) Puppet
9 1 (0.62%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.62%) systemd
Vendors
1 41 (25.47%) Oracle
2 13 (8.07%) Sonatype
3 11 (6.83%) Atlassian
3 11 (6.83%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (6.83%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.59%) MuleSoft
5 8 (4.97%) Splunk
6 6 (3.73%) Google
7 5 (3.11%) Sybase
8 4 (2.48%) Solace
9 3 (1.86%) IBM
10 2 (1.24%) Adobe
10 2 (1.24%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.24%) SAP
10 2 (1.24%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.24%) Veracode
10 2 (1.24%) VMware
11 1 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.62%) Confluent
11 1 (0.62%) Databricks