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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 395 392
Rank change year-on-year -104 -3 -24
Contract jobs citing Maven 180 160 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.92% 3.24% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 128 101
10th Percentile £325 £270 £363
25th Percentile £423 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% -0.46%
75th Percentile £587 £575 £675
90th Percentile £650 £622 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +2.69%
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 6,159 4,940 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.49% 15.20% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,974 3,328 3,251
10th Percentile £356 £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 £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 115 179
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.65 £27.60
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.00 £51.13
Median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.70 £71.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -133 138 £511 +7.58% 159
UK excluding London -80 101 £475 +11.76% 80
London -90 58 £525 +3.96% 106
Work from Home -47 55 £475 +10.72% 55
Midlands -34 42 £550 +26.35% 13
West Midlands -25 39 £563 +12.50% 12
North of England -63 34 £507 +26.75% 16
Yorkshire -24 27 £500 -3.80% 5
Scotland -11 19 £375 -9.09% 8
North West -64 6 £519 +44.83% 10
South East -66 5 £270 -53.85% 14
East Midlands -29 2 £335 -1.47% 1
South West -41 1 - - 21
North East -44 1 £520 +11.83% 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 18 (10.00%) Confluence
2 8 (4.44%) Camunda
3 7 (3.89%) WebLogic
4 6 (3.33%) Apache
5 4 (2.22%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (1.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.56%) JBoss
8 1 (0.56%) nginx
8 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Finacle
1 1 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.56%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 110 (61.11%) AWS
2 54 (30.00%) Azure
3 38 (21.11%) GitHub
4 37 (20.56%) GCP
5 21 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (7.78%) Amazon S3
9 13 (7.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (7.22%) OpenShift
10 12 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (5.56%) AWS KMS
11 10 (5.56%) Kong
11 10 (5.56%) Route 53
12 9 (5.00%) OCI
13 7 (3.89%) Apigee
14 6 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (2.78%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.22%) Firewall
2 3 (1.67%) SSL
3 1 (0.56%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.56%) Internet
3 1 (0.56%) Multicast
3 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (18.33%) Relational Database
3 23 (12.78%) SQL Server
4 17 (9.44%) MongoDB
5 15 (8.33%) Metadata
5 15 (8.33%) MySQL
6 14 (7.78%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (7.22%) DynamoDB
8 12 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (5.00%) NoSQL
10 6 (3.33%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.78%) Hazelcast
11 5 (2.78%) Redis
12 4 (2.22%) Flink
12 4 (2.22%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.67%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 118 (65.56%) Git
2 114 (63.33%) Jenkins
3 72 (40.00%) Gradle
4 66 (36.67%) JUnit
5 60 (33.33%) SonarQube
6 47 (26.11%) GitLab
7 42 (23.33%) Mockito
8 32 (17.78%) JIRA
9 20 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (9.44%) Selenium
11 14 (7.78%) Bitbucket Server
11 14 (7.78%) REST Assured
12 12 (6.67%) Cucumber
13 9 (5.00%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.00%) GoCD
13 9 (5.00%) JProfiler
14 7 (3.89%) DbUnit
14 7 (3.89%) Gatling
14 7 (3.89%) Postman
14 7 (3.89%) Subversion
General
1 45 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.89%) Public Sector
3 33 (18.33%) Finance
4 32 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (15.00%) Banking
6 10 (5.56%) Publishing
7 4 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Front Office
9 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (59.44%) Developer
2 88 (48.89%) Java Developer
3 40 (22.22%) Senior
4 32 (17.78%) Senior Developer
5 31 (17.22%) Senior Java Developer
6 21 (11.67%) Lead
7 20 (11.11%) Java Engineer
8 19 (10.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (10.56%) Lead Developer
9 12 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
10 10 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.56%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.44%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 5 (2.78%) Automation Tester
13 5 (2.78%) Backend Developer
13 5 (2.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 5 (2.78%) Lead Software Developer
13 5 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.78%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (62.78%) Spring Boot
2 112 (62.22%) Spring
3 65 (36.11%) REST
4 55 (30.56%) JPA
5 48 (26.67%) RESTful
6 42 (23.33%) Kafka
6 42 (23.33%) Node.js
7 41 (22.78%) React
8 37 (20.56%) Terraform
9 34 (18.89%) HTML
10 33 (18.33%) Hibernate
11 30 (16.67%) CSS
12 29 (16.11%) AngularJS
13 27 (15.00%) Web Services
14 24 (13.33%) SOAP
15 22 (12.22%) ActiveMQ
16 20 (11.11%) Redux
16 20 (11.11%) Spring MVC
17 19 (10.56%) FreeMarker
17 19 (10.56%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.22%) Product Ownership
2 20 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 19 (10.56%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.78%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (5.00%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.11%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.11%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Synthetic Data
11 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.78%) Linux
2 10 (5.56%) Unix
3 3 (1.67%) VMS
4 2 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.11%) Windows
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (69.44%) CI/CD
2 101 (56.11%) Microservices
3 92 (51.11%) Agile
3 92 (51.11%) DevOps
4 72 (40.00%) Scrum
5 60 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 56 (31.11%) Containerisation
7 51 (28.33%) TDD
8 43 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (20.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (16.67%) Design Patterns
10 30 (16.67%) Event-Driven
10 30 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 28 (15.56%) Clean Code
12 25 (13.89%) Code Quality
13 22 (12.22%) Front End Development
13 22 (12.22%) Observability
13 22 (12.22%) OO
14 21 (11.67%) MVC
14 21 (11.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 172 (95.56%) Java
2 76 (42.22%) SQL
3 50 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 35 (19.44%) Python
5 25 (13.89%) Shell Script
6 19 (10.56%) Groovy
7 17 (9.44%) TypeScript
8 11 (6.11%) Bash
9 7 (3.89%) Scala
10 5 (2.78%) Ruby
11 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 62 (34.44%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (9.44%) Degree
5 14 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.22%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.56%) QA
2 16 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.89%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.78%) PSD2
4 5 (2.78%) SEPA
5 2 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.11%) WCAG
6 1 (0.56%) ITGC
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (47.22%) Docker
2 5 (2.78%) Postfix
3 3 (1.67%) GridGain
4 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 84 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 36 (20.00%) Grafana
3 26 (14.44%) Prometheus
4 19 (10.56%) Ansible
5 9 (5.00%) Argo
5 9 (5.00%) Kibana
6 6 (3.33%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.11%) Podman
7 2 (1.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.56%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.56%) Istio
8 1 (0.56%) systemd
Vendors
1 45 (25.00%) Oracle
2 12 (6.67%) Sonatype
3 11 (6.11%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.56%) Google
5 9 (5.00%) IBM
5 9 (5.00%) MuleSoft
6 8 (4.44%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (4.44%) Splunk
6 8 (4.44%) Veracode
7 7 (3.89%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.78%) Sybase
9 4 (2.22%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.22%) Solace
10 3 (1.67%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.67%) Checkmarx
11 2 (1.11%) Adobe
11 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.11%) SAP
11 2 (1.11%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.11%) VMware