Sonatype Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Sonatype
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring knowledge or experience of Sonatype products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sonatype over the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sonatype, Inc.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Sonatype 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.25% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £535 - -
25th Percentile £541 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 - -
75th Percentile £564 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £554 - -

All Vendors
Birmingham

Sonatype falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 410 362 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 51.38% 56.21% 46.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 270 188
10th Percentile £258 £206 £252
25th Percentile £388 £376 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +13.51% +4.64%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £600
90th Percentile £637 £731 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £475
% change year-on-year -2.34% +7.79% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 11
10th Percentile £17.21 £19.91 £11.13
25th Percentile £17.85 £27.28 £16.60
Median hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +15.38% +87.39%
75th Percentile £27.25 £30.68 £35.25
90th Percentile £51.15 £42.41 £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £21.80 £22.50
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.11% +32.86%

Sonatype
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sonatype relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Sonatype job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Sonatype
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) SLSA
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) SBOM
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Attestation
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform