Maven Contracts

Apache Maven
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Maven skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Maven over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 283 232
Rank change year-on-year -160 -51 -46
Contract jobs citing Maven 136 504 1,109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.89% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.64% 6.21% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 370 786
10th Percentile £400 £450 £425
25th Percentile £430 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £582 £725 £738
90th Percentile £639 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 19 10
10th Percentile - £70.00 £46.13
25th Percentile - £71.25 £52.95
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +4.03%
75th Percentile - £78.00 £73.27
90th Percentile - £90.00 £79.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% -20.63%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Maven is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,157 8,111 15,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.39% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,457 5,721 11,061
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 227 200
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.86 £37.85
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Maven.

Daily rate trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in the UK

Maven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Maven.

Hourly rate trend for Maven in the UK

Maven
Top 13 Contract 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 2 June 2024. 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 -181 91 £490 -18.42% 46
London -116 65 £500 -25.93% 24
Work from Home -19 50 £495 -14.74% 21
UK excluding London -62 49 £525 +2.44% 30
Scotland +37 16 £623 +5.96% 3
Northern Ireland +12 10 £600 - 5
North of England +8 8 £436 -16.95% 7
South West -20 8 £450 - 6
South East -31 6 £575 +1.77% 5
Yorkshire +18 4 £434 -15.32%
North West +5 4 £463 -8.54% 7
Midlands +13 1 £420 -22.22% 3
West Midlands +4 1 £420 -22.22% 1

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 10 (7.35%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (2.94%) Confluence
3 3 (2.21%) Apache
3 3 (2.21%) JBoss
3 3 (2.21%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.47%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.47%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.47%) nginx
4 2 (1.47%) WildFly
5 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.74%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 50 (36.76%) Azure
2 45 (33.09%) AWS
3 22 (16.18%) GitHub
4 16 (11.76%) GCP
4 16 (11.76%) OpenShift
5 12 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.62%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (5.88%) Apigee
9 7 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.15%) Serverless
10 5 (3.68%) BigCommerce
11 4 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.94%) IaaS
12 3 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.21%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.15%) Firewall
2 3 (2.21%) SSL
3 2 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.74%) MQTT
4 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.29%) Oracle Database
2 12 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.62%) MySQL
3 9 (6.62%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 7 (5.15%) Big Data
6 6 (4.41%) Apache Hive
6 6 (4.41%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.68%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.68%) HBase
8 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.94%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.47%) Redis
10 2 (1.47%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 62 (45.59%) Jenkins
2 54 (39.71%) Git
3 27 (19.85%) Gradle
4 26 (19.12%) JUnit
5 23 (16.91%) JIRA
6 22 (16.18%) Cucumber
7 21 (15.44%) Selenium
8 12 (8.82%) GitLab
9 10 (7.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (6.62%) SonarQube
10 9 (6.62%) Subversion
10 9 (6.62%) TestNG
11 8 (5.88%) TeamCity
12 7 (5.15%) Bitbucket
12 7 (5.15%) JMeter
12 7 (5.15%) Mockito
12 7 (5.15%) Postman
12 7 (5.15%) WebDriver
13 6 (4.41%) Ant
13 6 (4.41%) REST Assured
General
1 31 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.18%) Banking
3 21 (15.44%) Finance
4 14 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.88%) Retail
7 5 (3.68%) Front Office
7 5 (3.68%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.68%) Marketing
8 4 (2.94%) Aviation
9 3 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.21%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.47%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 60 (44.12%) Developer
2 45 (33.09%) Java Developer
3 21 (15.44%) Senior
4 14 (10.29%) Java Engineer
5 12 (8.82%) Software Engineer
6 9 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (6.62%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (5.88%) Lead
7 8 (5.88%) Tester
8 7 (5.15%) DBA
8 7 (5.15%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (5.15%) Oracle Developer
8 7 (5.15%) SQL DBA
8 7 (5.15%) SQL Developer
9 6 (4.41%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.68%) Analyst
10 5 (3.68%) Automation Tester
10 5 (3.68%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (3.68%) Site Manager
10 5 (3.68%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (44.12%) REST
2 53 (38.97%) Spring
3 52 (38.24%) Spring Boot
4 16 (11.76%) RESTful
4 16 (11.76%) Web Services
5 14 (10.29%) AngularJS
5 14 (10.29%) Kafka
6 13 (9.56%) JPA
7 12 (8.82%) JAX-RS
8 11 (8.09%) Hibernate
8 11 (8.09%) JSON
9 10 (7.35%) CSS
9 10 (7.35%) Node.js
9 10 (7.35%) Swagger
9 10 (7.35%) XML
10 9 (6.62%) React
10 9 (6.62%) SAML
11 8 (5.88%) GWT
12 7 (5.15%) .NET
12 7 (5.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.35%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.41%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.68%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.21%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.47%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.74%) IoT
9 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.74%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.59%) Linux
2 19 (13.97%) Unix
3 15 (11.03%) Windows
4 5 (3.68%) Android
4 5 (3.68%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.74%) AIX
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.85%) Agile
2 52 (38.24%) CI/CD
3 37 (27.21%) DevOps
4 31 (22.79%) Test Automation
5 29 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (19.85%) Microservices
7 26 (19.12%) Software Engineering
8 18 (13.24%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (13.24%) TDD
9 15 (11.03%) Scrum
9 15 (11.03%) SDLC
10 13 (9.56%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (8.82%) MVC
11 12 (8.82%) Unit Testing
12 11 (8.09%) BDD
12 11 (8.09%) Containerisation
12 11 (8.09%) Design Patterns
13 10 (7.35%) E-Commerce
13 10 (7.35%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 106 (77.94%) Java
2 27 (19.85%) SQL
3 26 (19.12%) Python
4 25 (18.38%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 13 (9.56%) Groovy
7 11 (8.09%) Ruby
7 11 (8.09%) Scala
8 9 (6.62%) Bash
9 5 (3.68%) C++
10 4 (2.94%) C
10 4 (2.94%) C#
10 4 (2.94%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.74%) Go
12 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.62%) Degree
5 6 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) OCP
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.29%) QA
2 3 (2.21%) SLA
3 2 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (30.15%) Docker
2 5 (3.68%) HDFS
3 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.74%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 20 (14.71%) Terraform
3 19 (13.97%) Ansible
4 6 (4.41%) Podman
4 6 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.68%) Hadoop YARN
6 3 (2.21%) Kibana
6 3 (2.21%) Puppet
7 2 (1.47%) logstash
7 2 (1.47%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.74%) Control-M
8 1 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.74%) Grafana
8 1 (0.74%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.74%) Istio
8 1 (0.74%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.74%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (19.85%) Oracle
2 21 (15.44%) Microsoft
3 15 (11.03%) Google
4 11 (8.09%) Salesforce
5 9 (6.62%) SAP
6 7 (5.15%) MuleSoft
7 6 (4.41%) Adobe
7 6 (4.41%) Splunk
8 5 (3.68%) Sitecore
9 3 (2.21%) Dell
9 3 (2.21%) Intel
9 3 (2.21%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.47%) IBM
10 2 (1.47%) Mercator
10 2 (1.47%) New Relic
10 2 (1.47%) Talend
11 1 (0.74%) Confluent
11 1 (0.74%) Databricks
11 1 (0.74%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.74%) Zscaler