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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 379 453
Rank change year-on-year -97 +74 -190
Contract jobs citing Maven 126 151 142
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.22% 3.63% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 86 96
10th Percentile £379 £333 £400
25th Percentile £453 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% -0.71% -16.00%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £600
90th Percentile £695 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 5,674 4,164 5,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 13.55% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,875 2,683 3,736
10th Percentile £344 £327 £363
25th Percentile £405 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 64 212
10th Percentile £35.40 £26.33 £37.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.44 £47.96
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.06
90th Percentile £83.00 £79.54 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -91 119 £550 +3.68% 31
UK excluding London -84 67 £525 +8.25% 27
London -55 54 £575 +5.99% 6
Work from Home -43 25 £506 -0.88% 13
Midlands -46 22 £542 +28.17% 11
West Midlands -44 21 £542 +19.01% 10
South East -20 17 £407 -36.78% 3
North of England -69 16 £425 -3.13% 8
Yorkshire -51 12 £438 -21.18% 5
South West -22 10 £550 -17.60% 3
North West -47 4 £402 -8.11% 3
Scotland -1 3 £438 -16.27%
East Midlands -26 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 11 (8.73%) Confluence
2 5 (3.97%) Apache
3 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.17%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.59%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.59%) Apache TomEE
5 2 (1.59%) Camunda
5 2 (1.59%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.79%) JBoss
6 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.79%) Mule
6 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 57 (45.24%) AWS
2 31 (24.60%) GitHub
3 28 (22.22%) Azure
4 17 (13.49%) Amazon S3
4 17 (13.49%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (11.11%) GCP
6 14 (11.11%) OpenShift
7 13 (10.32%) npm
8 11 (8.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (7.94%) Serverless
10 9 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.14%) Route 53
11 8 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (5.56%) AWS KMS
13 5 (3.97%) Azure AKS
13 5 (3.97%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.56%) AMQP
2 2 (1.59%) HTTP
2 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.79%) Multicast
3 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (10.32%) DynamoDB
3 13 (10.32%) Relational Database
4 10 (7.94%) MongoDB
5 9 (7.14%) MySQL
5 9 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 9 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (6.35%) RDBMS
7 7 (5.56%) Tick Data
8 4 (3.17%) Metadata
8 4 (3.17%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.38%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.79%) HBase
10 1 (0.79%) Power BI
10 1 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (57.14%) Git
2 58 (46.03%) Jenkins
3 46 (36.51%) JUnit
4 45 (35.71%) Gradle
5 33 (26.19%) GitLab
6 25 (19.84%) Mockito
7 24 (19.05%) SonarQube
8 23 (18.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (16.67%) JIRA
10 17 (13.49%) Cucumber
11 15 (11.90%) Selenium
12 13 (10.32%) Bitbucket
13 12 (9.52%) Postman
14 9 (7.14%) Artifactory
14 9 (7.14%) Cypress.io
15 7 (5.56%) jMock
15 7 (5.56%) REST Assured
16 6 (4.76%) DbUnit
16 6 (4.76%) Eclipse
16 6 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 38 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.25%) Finance
3 17 (13.49%) Banking
4 13 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.56%) Front Office
7 6 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.38%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.38%) Publishing
9 3 (2.38%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (52.38%) Developer
2 57 (45.24%) Java Developer
3 25 (19.84%) Senior
4 17 (13.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 12 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 10 (7.94%) Java Engineer
7 10 (7.94%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Lead
9 7 (5.56%) Applications Support
9 7 (5.56%) Applications Support Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Fidessa Developer
9 7 (5.56%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Applications Developer
10 5 (3.97%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 4 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (2.38%) Architect
12 3 (2.38%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (54.76%) Spring
2 48 (38.10%) Spring Boot
3 30 (23.81%) REST
4 24 (19.05%) JPA
5 22 (17.46%) AngularJS
6 21 (16.67%) Hibernate
6 21 (16.67%) JSON
6 21 (16.67%) React
7 18 (14.29%) RESTful
8 16 (12.70%) HTML
9 15 (11.90%) Node.js
10 14 (11.11%) Web Services
11 13 (10.32%) Bootstrap
11 13 (10.32%) CSS
11 13 (10.32%) Kafka
11 13 (10.32%) SOAP
12 12 (9.52%) Spring Cloud
13 10 (7.94%) XML
14 9 (7.14%) Gherkin
15 8 (6.35%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.56%) Equities
4 6 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.97%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.97%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.17%) Derivative
7 3 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.38%) TWAP
7 3 (2.38%) VWAP
8 2 (1.59%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.98%) Linux
2 10 (7.94%) Unix
3 7 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.17%) CentOS
5 3 (2.38%) Solaris
5 3 (2.38%) Windows
6 1 (0.79%) Android
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (54.76%) CI/CD
2 53 (42.06%) DevOps
3 52 (41.27%) Microservices
4 47 (37.30%) Agile
5 36 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 33 (26.19%) Containerisation
7 26 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (20.63%) Scrum
8 22 (17.46%) Software Engineering
8 22 (17.46%) TDD
9 17 (13.49%) Mentoring
10 16 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (11.11%) Design Patterns
11 14 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (10.32%) OO
12 13 (10.32%) OOP
12 13 (10.32%) Unit Testing
13 11 (8.73%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 102 (80.95%) Java
2 29 (23.02%) SQL
3 25 (19.84%) Python
4 13 (10.32%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.94%) Groovy
6 8 (6.35%) Bash
7 7 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.97%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.17%) Go
10 4 (3.17%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.38%) Scala
12 2 (1.59%) C#
12 2 (1.59%) C++
12 2 (1.59%) Rust
13 1 (0.79%) Clojure
13 1 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 28 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (2.38%) Degree
7 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.79%) OCP
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.56%) QA
1 7 (5.56%) WCAG
2 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.38%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.59%) NCSC
3 2 (1.59%) SLA
4 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (38.89%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) Postfix
3 3 (2.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (1.59%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 41 (32.54%) Kubernetes
2 29 (23.02%) Grafana
3 27 (21.43%) Terraform
4 20 (15.87%) Ansible
5 12 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.35%) Kibana
7 6 (4.76%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.97%) Puppet
9 4 (3.17%) Podman
10 3 (2.38%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.59%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (18.25%) Oracle
2 11 (8.73%) Splunk
3 8 (6.35%) Atlassian
3 8 (6.35%) Solace
4 7 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
5 5 (3.97%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.97%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.17%) Sonatype
6 4 (3.17%) Sybase
7 3 (2.38%) VMware
8 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.59%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.79%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.79%) Google
9 1 (0.79%) IBM
9 1 (0.79%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.79%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.79%) Thales