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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 366 453
Rank change year-on-year -145 +87 -152
Contract jobs citing Maven 118 155 133
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.54% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.01% 3.72% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 113 88
10th Percentile £372 £325 £400
25th Percentile £462 £385 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -2.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £607 £575 £588
90th Percentile £750 £673 £639
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £525
% change year-on-year +2.15% -11.43% +2.44%
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 5,859 4,163 5,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.00% 14.53% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,817 2,807 3,450
10th Percentile £350 £340 £351
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 71 216
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.86 £29.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £45.96 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.56 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -142 112 £533 +7.73% 21
UK excluding London -102 70 £475 +2.15% 14
London -83 46 £600 +13.21% 7
Midlands -66 27 £537 +25.06% 4
North of England -78 27 £473 +0.53% 4
West Midlands -59 24 £537 +12.95% 3
Yorkshire -51 22 £473 -9.09% 4
Work from Home -90 20 £475 -5.00% 14
South East -47 13 £360 -44.58% 1
North West -46 5 £439 +9.35%
South West - 3 £550 - 3
East Midlands -33 2 - - 1
Scotland -12 1 - - 1

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 (6.78%) Confluence
2 6 (5.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (5.08%) Apache
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.54%) Camunda
4 3 (2.54%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.69%) CMS
5 2 (1.69%) JBoss
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (52.54%) AWS
2 35 (29.66%) GitHub
3 30 (25.42%) Azure
4 23 (19.49%) Amazon EC2
4 23 (19.49%) Amazon S3
4 23 (19.49%) Amazon SQS
5 22 (18.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (16.10%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (15.25%) AWS KMS
7 18 (15.25%) GCP
7 18 (15.25%) Route 53
8 8 (6.78%) OpenShift
9 7 (5.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.24%) OCI
12 4 (3.39%) Apigee
12 4 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.39%) Cloud Run
12 4 (3.39%) Kong
12 4 (3.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) AMQP
1 2 (1.69%) HTTP
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (30.51%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (21.19%) DynamoDB
3 22 (18.64%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (15.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (11.02%) Relational Database
6 11 (9.32%) SQL Server
7 10 (8.47%) MySQL
8 9 (7.63%) Metadata
8 9 (7.63%) MongoDB
9 6 (5.08%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.39%) Flink
10 4 (3.39%) Hazelcast
10 4 (3.39%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.39%) Redis
11 3 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.54%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 69 (58.47%) Jenkins
2 60 (50.85%) Git
3 45 (38.14%) JUnit
4 40 (33.90%) Gradle
5 37 (31.36%) SonarQube
6 28 (23.73%) Mockito
7 15 (12.71%) GitLab
8 14 (11.86%) DbUnit
8 14 (11.86%) JIRA
9 13 (11.02%) jMock
10 12 (10.17%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (8.47%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (7.63%) Artifactory
12 9 (7.63%) Gatling
13 8 (6.78%) Postman
13 8 (6.78%) REST Assured
14 7 (5.93%) Cucumber
14 7 (5.93%) Selenium
15 6 (5.08%) Eclipse
16 5 (4.24%) Ant
General
1 40 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.64%) Public Sector
3 19 (16.10%) Finance
4 12 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.17%) Banking
5 5 (4.24%) Front Office
5 5 (4.24%) Publishing
6 4 (3.39%) Retail
7 3 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (54.24%) Developer
2 54 (45.76%) Java Developer
3 33 (27.97%) Senior
4 25 (21.19%) Senior Developer
5 24 (20.34%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (10.17%) Java Engineer
7 11 (9.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Lead
10 6 (5.08%) Applications Developer
11 5 (4.24%) Architect
11 5 (4.24%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 4 (3.39%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.39%) Senior Backend Developer
12 4 (3.39%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (3.39%) Service Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.39%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (57.63%) Spring
2 53 (44.92%) Spring Boot
3 35 (29.66%) REST
4 31 (26.27%) JPA
5 25 (21.19%) Hibernate
5 25 (21.19%) Web Services
6 23 (19.49%) AngularJS
6 23 (19.49%) RESTful
6 23 (19.49%) SOAP
7 22 (18.64%) Spring Cloud
8 19 (16.10%) ActiveMQ
8 19 (16.10%) Node.js
9 18 (15.25%) Spring Batch
9 18 (15.25%) Spring Integration
10 17 (14.41%) Bootstrap
11 14 (11.86%) Kafka
12 13 (11.02%) JSON
12 13 (11.02%) PowerMock
13 12 (10.17%) Playwright
14 11 (9.32%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.80%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.08%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.54%) Equities
5 3 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.85%) Derivative
7 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.85%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.97%) Linux
2 8 (6.78%) Unix
3 5 (4.24%) Windows
4 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.85%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (58.47%) CI/CD
2 61 (51.69%) DevOps
3 54 (45.76%) Microservices
4 39 (33.05%) Agile
5 37 (31.36%) Containerisation
6 34 (28.81%) TDD
7 31 (26.27%) Scrum
7 31 (26.27%) Test Automation
8 23 (19.49%) Performance Tuning
9 22 (18.64%) Software Engineering
10 17 (14.41%) Event-Driven
10 17 (14.41%) Kanban
10 17 (14.41%) Observability
11 16 (13.56%) BDD
12 15 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (11.86%) BPMN
13 14 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (11.86%) Design Patterns
13 14 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (9.32%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 104 (88.14%) Java
2 50 (42.37%) SQL
3 23 (19.49%) Python
4 11 (9.32%) Groovy
5 8 (6.78%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.93%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.08%) Scala
8 2 (1.69%) Bash
8 2 (1.69%) Go
8 2 (1.69%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (33.05%) Security Cleared
2 33 (27.97%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.78%) Degree
4 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.24%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.24%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.24%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.02%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) SLA
3 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.54%) SEPA
4 2 (1.69%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.69%) NCSC
4 2 (1.69%) PSD2
5 1 (0.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) ITGC
5 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (48.31%) Docker
2 11 (9.32%) Postfix
3 3 (2.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.54%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 41 (34.75%) Kubernetes
2 30 (25.42%) Grafana
3 25 (21.19%) Terraform
4 16 (13.56%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.08%) Argo
5 6 (5.08%) HAProxy
6 5 (4.24%) Ansible
7 2 (1.69%) Kibana
7 2 (1.69%) Podman
7 2 (1.69%) Puppet
8 1 (0.85%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (15.25%) Atlassian
2 17 (14.41%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.17%) Oracle
4 9 (7.63%) Sonatype
5 7 (5.93%) Splunk
6 5 (4.24%) Solace
7 4 (3.39%) Sybase
8 2 (1.69%) Adobe
8 2 (1.69%) IBM
8 2 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.69%) SAP
9 1 (0.85%) Google
9 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.85%) Thales
9 1 (0.85%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.85%) Veracode
9 1 (0.85%) VMware