Sonatype Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Sonatype
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 19 March 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
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Sonatype 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £613 - -

All Vendors
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 340 255 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 48.85% 61.15% 54.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 162 193
10th Percentile £313 £317 £265
25th Percentile £383 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -4.76% +8.30%
75th Percentile £596 £579 £560
90th Percentile £660 £645 £619
North West median daily rate £468 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.35% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 19
10th Percentile £15.55 £19.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £15.27
Median hourly rate £23.50 £50.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -53.00% +182.17% +1.58%
75th Percentile £33.63 £86.00 £20.69
90th Percentile £82.90 - £29.33
North West median hourly rate £25.94 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -20.18% +102.37% -45.19%

Sonatype
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Java SE
1 1 (100.00%) JCE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode