Maven Contract Job Trends

Apache Maven
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Maven skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 393 383
Rank change year-on-year -11 -10 -152
Contract jobs citing Maven 164 170 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.44% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.28% 3.32% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 104 191
10th Percentile £276 £363 £413
25th Percentile £360 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £536 £548
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% -2.05% -12.40%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £713
90th Percentile £620 £843 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £523 £513
% change year-on-year -13.88% +1.95% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile £63.25 - £67.38
25th Percentile £64.38 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £69.38 - £78.00
90th Percentile £69.75 - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.45%

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 5,003 5,115 6,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 13.28% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,364 3,269 4,608
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 176 245
10th Percentile £31.28 £28.62 £46.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.05 £72.81 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Maven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Maven 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 18 September 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 15 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 18 September 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 +25 150 £475 -11.83% 41
UK excluding London +3 83 £450 -13.88% 30
London +12 78 £506 -7.95% 22
Work from Home +21 56 £452 -17.82% 30
North of England +13 39 £402 +5.79% 9
Midlands +8 27 £435 -41.96% 2
North West -2 22 £358 -0.56% 4
West Midlands - 16 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -4 14 £520 +15.50% 5
East Midlands +6 11 £340 -54.67%
Scotland -6 8 £413 -2.94% 1
South East +16 5 £585 +1.74% 12
South West +10 5 £550 +7.58% 2
North East - 3 £465 -
Northern Ireland -13 1 £425 -29.17% 3

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.93%) Confluence
2 10 (6.10%) JBoss
3 9 (5.49%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.44%) CICS
5 3 (1.83%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.83%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.22%) Anypoint
6 2 (1.22%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.22%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.61%) Apache
7 1 (0.61%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 73 (44.51%) AWS
2 47 (28.66%) Azure
3 26 (15.85%) GCP
4 23 (14.02%) GitHub
5 22 (13.41%) Amazon SQS
6 21 (12.80%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (12.80%) OpenShift
7 19 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (9.76%) Amazon S3
9 15 (9.15%) Route 53
10 13 (7.93%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.71%) AWS Fargate
11 11 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (6.71%) Serverless
12 10 (6.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (6.10%) npm
13 9 (5.49%) Apigee
13 9 (5.49%) Azure AKS
14 8 (4.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) AMQP
1 3 (1.83%) Firewall
2 2 (1.22%) Calico
2 2 (1.22%) DMZ
2 2 (1.22%) Internet
2 2 (1.22%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.22%) MQTT
3 1 (0.61%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.61%) HTTP
3 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (26.22%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (14.63%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (12.20%) DynamoDB
4 17 (10.37%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (10.37%) MongoDB
4 17 (10.37%) Relational Database
5 16 (9.76%) NoSQL
5 16 (9.76%) SQL Server
6 14 (8.54%) MySQL
7 12 (7.32%) RDBMS
8 11 (6.71%) Oracle Database
8 11 (6.71%) Redis
9 5 (3.05%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.05%) DB2
10 3 (1.83%) Big Data
10 3 (1.83%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.83%) HPCC
11 2 (1.22%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 104 (63.41%) Git
2 87 (53.05%) Jenkins
3 65 (39.63%) JUnit
4 64 (39.02%) Gradle
5 50 (30.49%) SonarQube
6 49 (29.88%) GitLab
7 48 (29.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 32 (19.51%) JIRA
8 32 (19.51%) Mockito
9 31 (18.90%) Cucumber
9 31 (18.90%) Selenium
10 20 (12.20%) IntelliJ
10 20 (12.20%) Postman
11 16 (9.76%) REST Assured
12 14 (8.54%) Bitbucket
13 13 (7.93%) Artifactory
14 11 (6.71%) Eclipse
14 11 (6.71%) Subversion
15 10 (6.10%) Cypress.io
16 7 (4.27%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (20.12%) Finance
2 31 (18.90%) Social Skills
3 27 (16.46%) Banking
4 18 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.88%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.27%) Front Office
8 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.22%) Back Office
9 2 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.22%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Aviation
10 1 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (51.83%) Developer
2 64 (39.02%) Java Developer
3 19 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (10.37%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (10.37%) Senior
5 15 (9.15%) AWS Developer
6 11 (6.71%) Lead
7 10 (6.10%) Architect
7 10 (6.10%) Java Engineer
7 10 (6.10%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 10 (6.10%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.27%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (4.27%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) Java Architect
12 5 (3.05%) AWS DevOps
12 5 (3.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (49.39%) Spring Boot
2 75 (45.73%) Spring
3 40 (24.39%) Hibernate
4 38 (23.17%) RESTful
5 37 (22.56%) JPA
5 37 (22.56%) REST
6 28 (17.07%) SOAP
7 27 (16.46%) AngularJS
8 25 (15.24%) HTML
8 25 (15.24%) Web Services
9 24 (14.63%) CSS
10 23 (14.02%) Node.js
10 23 (14.02%) React
10 23 (14.02%) Spring Cloud
11 22 (13.41%) Kafka
12 17 (10.37%) J2EE
12 17 (10.37%) Jest
13 14 (8.54%) Bootstrap
14 13 (7.93%) ActiveMQ
15 12 (7.32%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.27%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.05%) Mainframe
5 5 (3.05%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.44%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.44%) VSAM
7 3 (1.83%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.83%) Clustering
7 3 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.83%) Equities
7 3 (1.83%) IVR
7 3 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.22%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.22%) IoT
8 2 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.61%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 41 (25.00%) Linux
2 31 (18.90%) Unix
3 9 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.05%) Solaris
4 5 (3.05%) Windows
5 3 (1.83%) CentOS
6 2 (1.22%) Android
6 2 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (51.83%) CI/CD
2 74 (45.12%) Agile
3 71 (43.29%) Microservices
4 70 (42.68%) DevOps
5 57 (34.76%) TDD
6 49 (29.88%) Test Automation
7 42 (25.61%) Containerisation
8 37 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (21.34%) Design Patterns
10 29 (17.68%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (15.24%) Scrum
12 24 (14.63%) BDD
12 24 (14.63%) Mentoring
13 23 (14.02%) Code Quality
13 23 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (13.41%) SDLC
15 19 (11.59%) MVC
16 18 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (81.71%) Java
2 60 (36.59%) SQL
3 45 (27.44%) JavaScript
4 30 (18.29%) Python
5 25 (15.24%) Shell Script
6 17 (10.37%) TypeScript
7 15 (9.15%) Bash
8 10 (6.10%) PowerShell
9 9 (5.49%) Groovy
10 5 (3.05%) C
10 5 (3.05%) COBOL
10 5 (3.05%) JCL
11 4 (2.44%) Go
11 4 (2.44%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.83%) C++
13 2 (1.22%) C#
14 1 (0.61%) Ada
14 1 (0.61%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (23.17%) Security Cleared
2 28 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.27%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.44%) Degree
6 3 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.61%) OCP
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.98%) QA
2 6 (3.66%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (45.73%) Docker
2 6 (3.66%) Postfix
3 2 (1.22%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 52 (31.71%) Kubernetes
2 34 (20.73%) Terraform
3 16 (9.76%) Grafana
3 16 (9.76%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.93%) Ansible
5 8 (4.88%) Puppet
6 5 (3.05%) Istio
7 4 (2.44%) Argo
7 4 (2.44%) Podman
7 4 (2.44%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.83%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.22%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.61%) Control-M
10 1 (0.61%) Kibana
10 1 (0.61%) logstash
Vendors
1 35 (21.34%) Oracle
2 13 (7.93%) CA Agile Central
2 13 (7.93%) Splunk
3 12 (7.32%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.88%) Veracode
5 7 (4.27%) Atlassian
5 7 (4.27%) Google
6 6 (3.66%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.66%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (3.05%) Gigya
7 5 (3.05%) MuleSoft
7 5 (3.05%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.05%) Solace
7 5 (3.05%) Sybase
8 3 (1.83%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.83%) IBM
8 3 (1.83%) Refinitiv
9 2 (1.22%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.61%) Sonatype