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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 393 437
Rank change year-on-year -64 +44 -195
Contract jobs citing Maven 139 176 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.48% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.52% 3.69% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 95 124
10th Percentile £337 £363 £383
25th Percentile £400 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +0.75% -14.64%
75th Percentile £594 £685 £675
90th Percentile £675 £863 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £59.50
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 5,508 4,764 5,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 13.01% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,947 4,175
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 124 226
10th Percentile £29.63 £28.47 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.38 £47.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.12 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.83 £87.66
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 November 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 November 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 -47 131 £525 -4.55% 23
London -19 70 £540 -1.82% 7
UK excluding London -43 64 £500 +5.26% 23
Work from Home -10 38 £419 -19.86% 15
North of England -42 21 £358 -10.50% 6
Midlands -10 18 £513 -31.67% 2
North West -20 15 £352 -12.13% 4
West Midlands -26 12 £542 - 2
South East +3 11 £450 -29.41% 5
South West -6 10 £550 -15.38% 8
East Midlands -8 6 £308 -58.93%
Yorkshire -37 6 £586 +30.28% 2
Scotland -11 4 £438 +4.17% 3
Northern Ireland -3 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 12 (8.63%) Confluence
2 8 (5.76%) JBoss
2 8 (5.76%) Tomcat
3 5 (3.60%) Apache
4 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.88%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.16%) Anypoint
5 3 (2.16%) CICS
6 2 (1.44%) Apache TomEE
7 1 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.72%) Mule
7 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 61 (43.88%) AWS
2 40 (28.78%) Azure
3 29 (20.86%) GitHub
4 21 (15.11%) GCP
4 21 (15.11%) OpenShift
5 17 (12.23%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (12.23%) Serverless
6 16 (11.51%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (11.51%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (10.79%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (10.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (10.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (9.35%) npm
10 12 (8.63%) Amazon S3
10 12 (8.63%) AWS Fargate
11 11 (7.91%) Apigee
12 10 (7.19%) Datadog
12 10 (7.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (6.47%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.04%) AMQP
2 2 (1.44%) Firewall
2 2 (1.44%) HTTP
2 2 (1.44%) MQTT
2 2 (1.44%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.44%) VPN
3 1 (0.72%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.72%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.71%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.39%) Relational Database
3 18 (12.95%) SQL Server
4 17 (12.23%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (10.79%) DynamoDB
5 15 (10.79%) RDBMS
6 13 (9.35%) NoSQL
7 11 (7.91%) MongoDB
8 10 (7.19%) Oracle Database
8 10 (7.19%) Redis
9 9 (6.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (5.76%) MySQL
11 5 (3.60%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.88%) DB2
12 4 (2.88%) InfluxDB
12 4 (2.88%) Tick Data
13 3 (2.16%) Big Data
13 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
13 3 (2.16%) HPCC
14 2 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 79 (56.83%) Git
2 61 (43.88%) Jenkins
3 54 (38.85%) Gradle
4 51 (36.69%) JUnit
5 47 (33.81%) GitLab
6 39 (28.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 35 (25.18%) SonarQube
8 29 (20.86%) JIRA
9 28 (20.14%) Cucumber
10 25 (17.99%) Mockito
10 25 (17.99%) Selenium
11 18 (12.95%) Bitbucket
12 14 (10.07%) Postman
13 10 (7.19%) Artifactory
14 9 (6.47%) REST Assured
15 8 (5.76%) Eclipse
15 8 (5.76%) IntelliJ
16 7 (5.04%) Cypress.io
16 7 (5.04%) Subversion
17 6 (4.32%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.99%) Finance
3 24 (17.27%) Banking
4 10 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.76%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.04%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.32%) Front Office
8 4 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.16%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.16%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Aviation
11 1 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Marketing
11 1 (0.72%) Publishing
11 1 (0.72%) Retail
11 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (56.12%) Developer
2 62 (44.60%) Java Developer
3 20 (14.39%) Senior
4 16 (11.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (10.07%) Senior Developer
6 11 (7.91%) AWS Developer
6 11 (7.91%) Senior Java Developer
7 10 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.76%) Java Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Architect
10 6 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Applications Support
11 5 (3.60%) Applications Support Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Java Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Lead
11 5 (3.60%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (46.76%) Spring
2 60 (43.17%) Spring Boot
3 34 (24.46%) REST
4 29 (20.86%) HTML
5 27 (19.42%) JPA
6 26 (18.71%) Hibernate
7 22 (15.83%) JSON
7 22 (15.83%) Kafka
7 22 (15.83%) React
7 22 (15.83%) RESTful
8 21 (15.11%) CSS
9 20 (14.39%) AngularJS
10 18 (12.95%) Node.js
11 17 (12.23%) SOAP
12 15 (10.79%) Jest
12 15 (10.79%) Spring Cloud
13 12 (8.63%) J2EE
14 11 (7.91%) Bootstrap
15 10 (7.19%) XML
16 9 (6.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.63%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.91%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.91%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.60%) Equities
4 5 (3.60%) N-Tier
4 5 (3.60%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.88%) Derivative
6 3 (2.16%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.16%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.16%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.16%) VSAM
7 2 (1.44%) Clustering
7 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.44%) IoT
7 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.44%) TWAP
7 2 (1.44%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 37 (26.62%) Linux
2 24 (17.27%) Unix
3 10 (7.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.60%) CentOS
5 4 (2.88%) Solaris
5 4 (2.88%) Windows
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (52.52%) CI/CD
2 65 (46.76%) Microservices
3 62 (44.60%) Agile
4 56 (40.29%) DevOps
5 40 (28.78%) Containerisation
6 39 (28.06%) Test Automation
7 37 (26.62%) TDD
8 36 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (19.42%) Design Patterns
10 26 (18.71%) Mentoring
11 22 (15.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (14.39%) SDLC
12 20 (14.39%) Software Engineering
13 18 (12.95%) Code Quality
13 18 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (12.23%) Clean Code
14 17 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (12.23%) OO
14 17 (12.23%) Scrum
15 16 (11.51%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 113 (81.29%) Java
2 40 (28.78%) SQL
3 33 (23.74%) Python
4 31 (22.30%) JavaScript
5 18 (12.95%) Shell Script
6 15 (10.79%) Bash
6 15 (10.79%) TypeScript
7 10 (7.19%) Groovy
8 9 (6.47%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.60%) C
10 4 (2.88%) C++
11 3 (2.16%) C#
11 3 (2.16%) COBOL
11 3 (2.16%) Go
11 3 (2.16%) JCL
11 3 (2.16%) Scala
12 2 (1.44%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.44%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.44%) Rust
13 1 (0.72%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 33 (23.74%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.23%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.07%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.88%) Degree
5 3 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.72%) OCP
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.19%) QA
2 7 (5.04%) WCAG
3 3 (2.16%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 61 (43.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.44%) GridGain
2 2 (1.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 56 (40.29%) Kubernetes
2 35 (25.18%) Terraform
3 24 (17.27%) Grafana
4 22 (15.83%) Ansible
5 16 (11.51%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.76%) Puppet
7 7 (5.04%) Kibana
8 6 (4.32%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.60%) Podman
10 4 (2.88%) Argo
11 3 (2.16%) CloudHub
12 2 (1.44%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.44%) Istio
12 2 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.72%) Control-M
13 1 (0.72%) logstash
13 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (25.18%) Oracle
2 13 (9.35%) Splunk
3 11 (7.91%) CA Agile Central
4 10 (7.19%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.76%) Solace
6 6 (4.32%) Google
6 6 (4.32%) Veracode
7 5 (3.60%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.60%) Gigya
7 5 (3.60%) MuleSoft
7 5 (3.60%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.60%) Sybase
8 4 (2.88%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.16%) VMware
10 2 (1.44%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.44%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.44%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.44%) Refinitiv
10 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics