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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 401 394
Rank change year-on-year -115 -7 -44
Contract jobs citing Maven 171 160 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.77% 3.21% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 128 101
10th Percentile £324 £270 £363
25th Percentile £424 £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 £651 £630 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £427 £525
% change year-on-year +11.24% -18.67% +2.44%
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 6,170 4,989 5,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.45% 15.14% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 3,360 3,265
10th Percentile £355 £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 £595 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 114 182
10th Percentile £35.38 £28.59 £28.33
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £72.25 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.09 £86.83 £71.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -131 129 £517 +8.91% 137
UK excluding London -83 93 £475 +11.24% 69
London -97 55 £530 +4.69% 96
Work from Home -63 51 £474 +4.81% 47
Midlands -40 34 £575 +32.09% 10
North of England -75 33 £507 +26.43% 17
West Midlands -22 31 £575 +15.00% 9
Yorkshire -29 26 £500 -3.80% 6
Scotland -9 19 £375 -9.09% 10
South East -66 6 £270 -53.85% 8
North West -77 6 £519 +44.83% 10
East Midlands -24 2 £335 -1.47% 1
North East -39 1 £520 +11.83% 1
South West -41 1 - - 18

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 (6.43%) Confluence
2 7 (4.09%) Camunda
2 7 (4.09%) WebLogic
3 6 (3.51%) Apache
4 4 (2.34%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.58%) JBoss
7 1 (0.58%) nginx
7 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Finacle
1 1 (0.58%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.58%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 103 (60.23%) AWS
2 53 (30.99%) Azure
3 38 (22.22%) GitHub
4 36 (21.05%) GCP
5 21 (12.28%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (9.94%) Amazon SQS
6 17 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (7.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (7.60%) OpenShift
8 12 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (7.02%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.85%) AWS KMS
9 10 (5.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (5.85%) Kong
9 10 (5.85%) OCI
9 10 (5.85%) Route 53
10 7 (4.09%) Apigee
11 6 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.92%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (2.92%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.75%) SSL
2 2 (1.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) DNS
3 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.58%) Internet
3 1 (0.58%) Multicast
3 1 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.98%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 22 (12.87%) SQL Server
4 16 (9.36%) Metadata
5 15 (8.77%) MongoDB
5 15 (8.77%) MySQL
6 13 (7.60%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (7.60%) DynamoDB
7 12 (7.02%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (4.68%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.51%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.92%) Hazelcast
10 5 (2.92%) Redis
11 4 (2.34%) Flink
11 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.75%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 107 (62.57%) Git
1 107 (62.57%) Jenkins
2 71 (41.52%) Gradle
3 57 (33.33%) JUnit
4 52 (30.41%) SonarQube
5 44 (25.73%) GitLab
6 32 (18.71%) Mockito
7 25 (14.62%) JIRA
8 17 (9.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 16 (9.36%) Selenium
10 13 (7.60%) Bitbucket Server
10 13 (7.60%) REST Assured
11 10 (5.85%) Cucumber
12 9 (5.26%) Artifactory
12 9 (5.26%) GoCD
12 9 (5.26%) JProfiler
13 8 (4.68%) Subversion
14 7 (4.09%) DbUnit
14 7 (4.09%) Gatling
14 7 (4.09%) Postman
General
1 40 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.30%) Finance
3 29 (16.96%) Public Sector
4 27 (15.79%) Banking
5 26 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.43%) Publishing
7 3 (1.75%) Front Office
8 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Marketing
9 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 99 (57.89%) Developer
2 79 (46.20%) Java Developer
3 35 (20.47%) Senior
4 28 (16.37%) Senior Developer
5 27 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
6 20 (11.70%) Java Engineer
7 19 (11.11%) Lead
8 17 (9.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (9.36%) Lead Developer
10 10 (5.85%) Software Engineer
11 9 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
12 8 (4.68%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 5 (2.92%) Architect
14 5 (2.92%) Automation Tester
14 5 (2.92%) Backend Developer
14 5 (2.92%) Lead Software Developer
14 5 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (2.92%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (60.23%) Spring Boot
2 102 (59.65%) Spring
3 58 (33.92%) REST
4 45 (26.32%) JPA
5 42 (24.56%) RESTful
6 41 (23.98%) Node.js
7 40 (23.39%) Kafka
8 38 (22.22%) React
9 35 (20.47%) Terraform
10 31 (18.13%) HTML
11 29 (16.96%) CSS
12 25 (14.62%) Hibernate
13 23 (13.45%) AngularJS
14 19 (11.11%) FreeMarker
14 19 (11.11%) Redux
14 19 (11.11%) Spring MVC
14 19 (11.11%) Web Services
15 17 (9.94%) JSON
15 17 (9.94%) SOAP
16 16 (9.36%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 19 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.19%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (6.43%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.68%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.68%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.09%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.17%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.71%) Linux
2 8 (4.68%) Unix
3 2 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.17%) Windows
4 1 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (69.01%) CI/CD
2 92 (53.80%) Microservices
3 90 (52.63%) DevOps
4 81 (47.37%) Agile
5 62 (36.26%) Scrum
6 53 (30.99%) Test Automation
7 46 (26.90%) Containerisation
8 44 (25.73%) TDD
9 37 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (16.96%) Design Patterns
12 28 (16.37%) Event-Driven
13 27 (15.79%) Software Engineering
14 26 (15.20%) Clean Code
15 22 (12.87%) Observability
15 22 (12.87%) Performance Tuning
16 21 (12.28%) OO
17 20 (11.70%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (11.70%) MVC
18 18 (10.53%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 161 (94.15%) Java
2 76 (44.44%) SQL
3 47 (27.49%) JavaScript
4 33 (19.30%) Python
5 23 (13.45%) Shell Script
6 18 (10.53%) Groovy
7 10 (5.85%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.68%) Bash
9 6 (3.51%) Scala
10 5 (2.92%) Ruby
11 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (39.18%) Security Cleared
2 60 (35.09%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (8.77%) Degree
5 12 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.34%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.34%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.79%) QA
2 15 (8.77%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.09%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.92%) PSD2
4 5 (2.92%) SEPA
5 2 (1.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.58%) ITGC
6 1 (0.58%) NIST
6 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (44.44%) Docker
2 5 (2.92%) Postfix
3 3 (1.75%) GridGain
4 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 79 (46.20%) Kubernetes
2 26 (15.20%) Grafana
3 21 (12.28%) Prometheus
4 17 (9.94%) Ansible
5 9 (5.26%) Argo
6 7 (4.09%) Kibana
7 6 (3.51%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.17%) Podman
8 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.17%) Puppet
9 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.58%) Istio
9 1 (0.58%) systemd
Vendors
1 43 (25.15%) Oracle
2 13 (7.60%) Sonatype
3 11 (6.43%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.26%) MuleSoft
5 8 (4.68%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.68%) Google
5 8 (4.68%) IBM
5 8 (4.68%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (4.68%) Splunk
6 7 (4.09%) Veracode
7 5 (2.92%) Sybase
8 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.34%) Solace
9 2 (1.17%) Adobe
9 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.17%) SAP
9 2 (1.17%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.17%) VMware
10 1 (0.58%) Confluent
10 1 (0.58%) Databricks