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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 289 239
Rank change year-on-year -158 -50 -38
Contract jobs citing Maven 132 519 1,104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.91% 1.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.58% 6.15% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 389 762
10th Percentile £400 £445 £430
25th Percentile £434 £500 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £738
90th Percentile £634 £751 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +16.67%
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 5,125 8,436 15,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.05% 14.73% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 5,951 11,155
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.83%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 231 207
10th Percentile £32.48 £42.81 £37.15
25th Percentile £46.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +14.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.30 £82.50 £76.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +19.57%

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 20 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 20 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 -176 90 £490 -20.08% 49
London -104 72 £500 -25.93% 24
Work from Home -28 49 £489 -15.69% 35
UK excluding London -70 42 £525 +2.44% 40
Scotland +42 16 £623 +3.75% 5
Northern Ireland +12 10 £600 - 8
North of England -3 8 £436 -15.95% 7
South West -23 5 £450 - 9
Yorkshire +16 4 £434 -15.32% 1
North West -4 4 £463 -4.49% 6
South East -27 2 £350 -36.36% 10
West Midlands +10 1 £420 -22.22%
Midlands +6 1 £420 -22.22%

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 (6.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.79%) Tomcat
3 4 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.03%) nginx
4 3 (2.27%) Apache
4 3 (2.27%) Confluence
4 3 (2.27%) JBoss
5 2 (1.52%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.52%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.52%) WildFly
6 1 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.76%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.76%) InDesign
1 1 (0.76%) InVision
1 1 (0.76%) Marvel
1 1 (0.76%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.76%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Shopify
2 1 (0.76%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 50 (37.88%) AWS
2 41 (31.06%) Azure
3 22 (16.67%) GitHub
4 16 (12.12%) Amazon S3
4 16 (12.12%) OpenShift
5 13 (9.85%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (9.85%) GCP
6 12 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.82%) Serverless
9 8 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.06%) Apigee
10 6 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.79%) BigCommerce
11 5 (3.79%) CloudFront
12 4 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (3.03%) IaaS
13 3 (2.27%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.30%) Firewall
2 3 (2.27%) SSL
3 2 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.76%) MQTT
4 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.61%) Oracle Database
2 10 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.30%) Hadoop
3 7 (5.30%) MySQL
4 6 (4.55%) Big Data
5 5 (3.79%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (3.79%) Apache Hive
5 5 (3.79%) HBase
5 5 (3.79%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.03%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.52%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.52%) Redis
8 2 (1.52%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 60 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 47 (35.61%) Git
3 27 (20.45%) Gradle
4 25 (18.94%) JUnit
5 19 (14.39%) JIRA
6 17 (12.88%) Cucumber
7 16 (12.12%) Selenium
8 14 (10.61%) GitLab
9 13 (9.85%) TestNG
10 12 (9.09%) Bitbucket
11 11 (8.33%) SonarQube
12 10 (7.58%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (6.82%) Mockito
13 9 (6.82%) Postman
13 9 (6.82%) Subversion
13 9 (6.82%) TeamCity
14 8 (6.06%) REST Assured
14 8 (6.06%) WebDriver
15 6 (4.55%) Cypress.io
16 5 (3.79%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.15%) Finance
3 18 (13.64%) Banking
4 15 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.55%) Retail
6 5 (3.79%) Front Office
6 5 (3.79%) Marketing
7 4 (3.03%) Aviation
8 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.27%) Law
8 3 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (42.42%) Developer
2 41 (31.06%) Java Developer
3 18 (13.64%) Senior
4 13 (9.85%) Java Engineer
5 12 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 11 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Lead
7 9 (6.82%) Tester
8 7 (5.30%) DBA
8 7 (5.30%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (5.30%) Oracle Developer
8 7 (5.30%) SQL DBA
8 7 (5.30%) SQL Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Automation Tester
10 5 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Site Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (43.18%) REST
2 48 (36.36%) Spring Boot
3 47 (35.61%) Spring
4 16 (12.12%) JAX-RS
5 14 (10.61%) Kafka
5 14 (10.61%) RESTful
5 14 (10.61%) Web Services
6 12 (9.09%) Node.js
6 12 (9.09%) Swagger
7 11 (8.33%) AngularJS
7 11 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (8.33%) Hibernate
7 11 (8.33%) JSON
8 10 (7.58%) JPA
9 9 (6.82%) SAML
9 9 (6.82%) WireMock
10 8 (6.06%) .NET
10 8 (6.06%) CSS
10 8 (6.06%) GWT
10 8 (6.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.30%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.52%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) IoT
8 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.76%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.42%) Linux
2 18 (13.64%) Unix
3 15 (11.36%) Windows
4 5 (3.79%) Android
4 5 (3.79%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.76%) AIX
6 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.67%) Agile
1 55 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 37 (28.03%) DevOps
3 30 (22.73%) Test Automation
4 27 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (20.45%) Software Engineering
5 21 (15.91%) Microservices
6 17 (12.88%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (11.36%) MVC
7 15 (11.36%) SDLC
7 15 (11.36%) TDD
8 13 (9.85%) Scrum
9 12 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (9.09%) Design Patterns
10 10 (7.58%) BDD
10 10 (7.58%) Containerisation
10 10 (7.58%) E-Commerce
10 10 (7.58%) Unit Testing
11 9 (6.82%) Mentoring
11 9 (6.82%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 97 (73.48%) Java
2 26 (19.70%) SQL
3 25 (18.94%) Python
4 19 (14.39%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.88%) Shell Script
6 13 (9.85%) Groovy
7 11 (8.33%) Ruby
8 10 (7.58%) Bash
8 10 (7.58%) Scala
9 4 (3.03%) C
9 4 (3.03%) C#
9 4 (3.03%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.52%) C++
10 2 (1.52%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 32 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.82%) Degree
4 8 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.76%) OCP
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.36%) QA
2 3 (2.27%) SLA
3 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 49 (37.12%) Docker
2 5 (3.79%) HDFS
3 2 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.76%) iptables
Systems Management
1 33 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 27 (20.45%) Terraform
3 22 (16.67%) Ansible
4 6 (4.55%) Podman
4 6 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.79%) Hadoop YARN
6 3 (2.27%) Consul
6 3 (2.27%) Kibana
6 3 (2.27%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.27%) Packer
6 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.27%) Puppet
7 2 (1.52%) logstash
7 2 (1.52%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.76%) Grafana
8 1 (0.76%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 27 (20.45%) Oracle
2 22 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.85%) Google
4 11 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 9 (6.82%) SAP
6 7 (5.30%) Adobe
7 6 (4.55%) MuleSoft
7 6 (4.55%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.55%) Splunk
8 5 (3.79%) Sitecore
9 3 (2.27%) Dell
9 3 (2.27%) Intel
9 3 (2.27%) MKS
10 2 (1.52%) IBM
10 2 (1.52%) Mercator
10 2 (1.52%) Talend
11 1 (0.76%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.76%) Databricks
11 1 (0.76%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.76%) New Relic