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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 286 238
Rank change year-on-year -154 -48 -43
Contract jobs citing Maven 134 526 1,101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.92% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.61% 6.20% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 394 752
10th Percentile £400 £447 £426
25th Percentile £434 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £707 £727
90th Percentile £634 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.39% -2.38% +17.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 11
10th Percentile - £70.63 £46.25
25th Percentile - £71.25 £55.90
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +13.00%
75th Percentile - £78.00 £70.69
90th Percentile - £90.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% -13.79%

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 5,134 8,483 15,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.86% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,442 5,983 11,126
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £462 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 231 214
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.60 £38.48
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £82.50 £76.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -188 93 £490 -18.33% 39
London -101 73 £500 -25.93% 16
Work from Home -11 51 £489 -15.32% 31
UK excluding London -71 43 £490 -4.39% 30
Scotland +49 17 £623 +3.75% 1
Northern Ireland +13 8 £600 - 6
North of England -12 8 £436 -15.95% 8
South West -14 5 £450 - 7
Yorkshire +17 4 £434 -15.32% 1
North West 0 4 £463 -0.40% 7
Midlands +21 3 £420 -22.22% 1
West Midlands +9 3 £420 -22.22% 1
South East -29 2 £350 -39.66% 6

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 9 (6.72%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.73%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.99%) nginx
4 3 (2.24%) Apache
4 3 (2.24%) Confluence
4 3 (2.24%) JBoss
5 2 (1.49%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.49%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.49%) WildFly
6 1 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.75%) InDesign
1 1 (0.75%) InVision
1 1 (0.75%) Marvel
1 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.75%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 50 (37.31%) AWS
2 41 (30.60%) Azure
3 21 (15.67%) GitHub
4 16 (11.94%) Amazon S3
4 16 (11.94%) OpenShift
5 13 (9.70%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (9.70%) GCP
6 12 (8.96%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.72%) Serverless
9 8 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.97%) Apigee
10 6 (4.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.73%) BigCommerce
11 5 (3.73%) CloudFront
12 4 (2.99%) IaaS
13 3 (2.24%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.22%) Firewall
2 3 (2.24%) SSL
3 2 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.75%) MQTT
4 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.45%) Oracle Database
2 11 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.97%) MySQL
5 7 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (5.22%) Hadoop
6 6 (4.48%) Big Data
7 5 (3.73%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (3.73%) Apache Hive
7 5 (3.73%) HBase
7 5 (3.73%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.99%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.99%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.24%) Redis
10 2 (1.49%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (1.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 63 (47.01%) Jenkins
2 49 (36.57%) Git
3 29 (21.64%) Gradle
4 25 (18.66%) JUnit
5 19 (14.18%) Cucumber
5 19 (14.18%) JIRA
6 18 (13.43%) Selenium
7 15 (11.19%) GitLab
7 15 (11.19%) TestNG
8 14 (10.45%) Bitbucket
9 11 (8.21%) SonarQube
9 11 (8.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (8.21%) TeamCity
10 10 (7.46%) REST Assured
11 9 (6.72%) Mockito
11 9 (6.72%) Postman
11 9 (6.72%) Subversion
12 8 (5.97%) WebDriver
13 6 (4.48%) Cypress.io
14 5 (3.73%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.67%) Finance
3 18 (13.43%) Banking
4 15 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.48%) Retail
6 5 (3.73%) Front Office
6 5 (3.73%) Marketing
7 4 (2.99%) Aviation
7 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.99%) Law
8 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.24%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (40.30%) Developer
2 39 (29.10%) Java Developer
3 18 (13.43%) Senior
4 13 (9.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (9.70%) Java Engineer
5 12 (8.96%) Software Engineer
6 9 (6.72%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (6.72%) Lead
6 9 (6.72%) Tester
7 7 (5.22%) DBA
7 7 (5.22%) Oracle DBA
7 7 (5.22%) Oracle Developer
7 7 (5.22%) SQL DBA
7 7 (5.22%) SQL Developer
8 6 (4.48%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.73%) Automation Tester
9 5 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (3.73%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (3.73%) Site Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (41.79%) REST
2 47 (35.07%) Spring
3 46 (34.33%) Spring Boot
4 16 (11.94%) JAX-RS
5 14 (10.45%) Kafka
5 14 (10.45%) RESTful
5 14 (10.45%) Web Services
6 12 (8.96%) Node.js
6 12 (8.96%) Swagger
7 11 (8.21%) AngularJS
7 11 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (8.21%) Hibernate
7 11 (8.21%) JSON
8 10 (7.46%) JPA
9 9 (6.72%) SAML
9 9 (6.72%) WireMock
10 8 (5.97%) .NET
10 8 (5.97%) CSS
10 8 (5.97%) GWT
10 8 (5.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.21%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.22%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.48%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.73%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.49%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) IoT
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.16%) Linux
2 18 (13.43%) Unix
3 15 (11.19%) Windows
4 5 (3.73%) Android
4 5 (3.73%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) AIX
6 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (43.28%) Agile
2 57 (42.54%) CI/CD
3 37 (27.61%) DevOps
4 33 (24.63%) Test Automation
5 27 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (20.15%) Software Engineering
6 21 (15.67%) Microservices
7 17 (12.69%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (11.19%) MVC
8 15 (11.19%) SDLC
8 15 (11.19%) TDD
9 13 (9.70%) Design Patterns
9 13 (9.70%) Scrum
10 12 (8.96%) BDD
10 12 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (8.21%) Mentoring
12 10 (7.46%) Containerisation
12 10 (7.46%) E-Commerce
12 10 (7.46%) Unit Testing
13 9 (6.72%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 98 (73.13%) Java
2 27 (20.15%) Python
2 27 (20.15%) SQL
3 20 (14.93%) JavaScript
4 17 (12.69%) Shell Script
5 14 (10.45%) Groovy
6 12 (8.96%) Ruby
7 11 (8.21%) Bash
8 10 (7.46%) Scala
9 5 (3.73%) C#
9 5 (3.73%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.99%) C
11 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.49%) C++
12 2 (1.49%) Go
12 2 (1.49%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.46%) Degree
4 6 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.24%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.75%) OCP
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.69%) QA
2 3 (2.24%) SLA
3 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 51 (38.06%) Docker
2 5 (3.73%) HDFS
3 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.75%) iptables
Systems Management
1 35 (26.12%) Kubernetes
2 29 (21.64%) Terraform
3 23 (17.16%) Ansible
4 6 (4.48%) Podman
4 6 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.73%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.24%) Consul
7 3 (2.24%) Kibana
7 3 (2.24%) Kustomize
7 3 (2.24%) Packer
7 3 (2.24%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.24%) Puppet
8 2 (1.49%) Grafana
8 2 (1.49%) logstash
9 1 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.75%) Istio
Vendors
1 27 (20.15%) Oracle
2 23 (17.16%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.70%) Google
3 13 (9.70%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.72%) SAP
5 7 (5.22%) Adobe
6 6 (4.48%) MuleSoft
6 6 (4.48%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.48%) Splunk
7 5 (3.73%) Sitecore
8 3 (2.24%) Dell
8 3 (2.24%) Intel
8 3 (2.24%) MKS
9 2 (1.49%) IBM
9 2 (1.49%) Mercator
9 2 (1.49%) Talend
10 1 (0.75%) Databricks
10 1 (0.75%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.75%) New Relic
10 1 (0.75%) Zscaler