Sonatype Nexus Contract Job Trends in England

Sonatype Nexus
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Sonatype Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 414 460
Rank change year-on-year -128 +46 +102
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 71 97 85
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.36% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.35% 2.50% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 77 46
10th Percentile £367 £269 £350
25th Percentile £435 £350 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +20.94% -20.93% -10.42%
75th Percentile £599 £500 £578
90th Percentile £739 £600 £656
UK median daily rate £514 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +20.94% -22.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year - -15.54% -36.72%
UK median hourly rate - £38.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year - -15.54% -36.72%

All Development Application Skills
England

Sonatype Nexus falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,248 3,882 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.22% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 2,665 2,938
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 89 216
10th Percentile £27.64 £39.25 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.15 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% +4.00%

Sonatype Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Sonatype Nexus job vacancy trend in England

Sonatype Nexus
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sonatype Nexus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sonatype Nexus

Sonatype Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sonatype Nexus in England over the 6 months to 22 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sonatype Nexus in England

Sonatype Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sonatype Nexus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sonatype Nexus

Sonatype Nexus
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sonatype Nexus within the England region over the 6 months to 22 July 2026. 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
North of England -75 29 £500 +34.68% 4
London -88 23 £598 +35.80% 6
Yorkshire -35 19 £504 +15.09% 2
North West -57 9 £500 +39.66% 2
South East -61 8 £575 -4.17%
Midlands -62 7 £477 +30.35% 1
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +70.51%
South West -34 3 £525 -
West Midlands -59 3 £477 +16.06% 1
North East -40 1 £413 -11.29%
Sonatype Nexus
UK

Sonatype Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 27 (38.03%) Confluence
2 7 (9.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.23%) Camunda
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.41%) nginx
4 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.41%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (33.80%) GitHub
2 22 (30.99%) AWS
3 21 (29.58%) Azure
4 13 (18.31%) GCP
5 10 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (11.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (9.86%) OpenShift
8 5 (7.04%) Amazon S3
8 5 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (7.04%) Serverless
9 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.23%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (4.23%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.23%) dbt
9 3 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (4.23%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.31%) Firewall
2 12 (16.90%) Cisco Nexus
3 7 (9.86%) BGP
3 7 (9.86%) Network Security
3 7 (9.86%) OSPF
4 6 (8.45%) MPLS
4 6 (8.45%) VPN
4 6 (8.45%) WAN
5 5 (7.04%) DNS
5 5 (7.04%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (7.04%) SD-WAN
5 5 (7.04%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.63%) IPsec
6 4 (5.63%) Multicast
6 4 (5.63%) VLAN
6 4 (5.63%) VXLAN
7 3 (4.23%) LAN
7 3 (4.23%) SNMP
7 3 (4.23%) SSL
8 2 (2.82%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.41%) KDB
5 1 (1.41%) Metadata
5 1 (1.41%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 37 (52.11%) Jenkins
2 33 (46.48%) JIRA
3 18 (25.35%) Git
4 15 (21.13%) GitLab
5 14 (19.72%) SonarQube
6 6 (8.45%) Artifactory
6 6 (8.45%) Cucumber
6 6 (8.45%) JUnit
6 6 (8.45%) Maven
7 5 (7.04%) Bitbucket
7 5 (7.04%) Gradle
7 5 (7.04%) Postman
7 5 (7.04%) Selenium
8 4 (5.63%) MSBuild
8 4 (5.63%) REST Assured
8 4 (5.63%) Visual Studio
9 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (2.82%) Burp Suite
9 2 (2.82%) LoadRunner
9 2 (2.82%) Mockito
General
1 29 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 27 (38.03%) Finance
3 18 (25.35%) Banking
4 12 (16.90%) Legal
5 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.04%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (7.04%) Law
7 3 (4.23%) Front Office
7 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (12.68%) Developer
3 7 (9.86%) Senior
4 6 (8.45%) Consultant
4 6 (8.45%) Network Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Software Consultant
5 5 (7.04%) Architect
5 5 (7.04%) Business Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Lead
5 5 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Network Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Scrum Master
6 4 (5.63%) Software Licensing Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) .NET
1 8 (11.27%) REST
2 7 (9.86%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (7.04%) Kafka
4 4 (5.63%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.63%) ASP.NET
4 4 (5.63%) React
4 4 (5.63%) SailPoint
4 4 (5.63%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.63%) Web Services
5 3 (4.23%) ADO
5 3 (4.23%) Playwright
6 2 (2.82%) CSS
6 2 (2.82%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.82%) HTML
6 2 (2.82%) Java Concurrency
6 2 (2.82%) Middleware
6 2 (2.82%) Node.js
6 2 (2.82%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (8.45%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.04%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.23%) PKI
4 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.82%) Celerra
5 2 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.82%) EMC Centera
5 2 (2.82%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (2.82%) EMC VNX
5 2 (2.82%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.82%) IBM XIV
5 2 (2.82%) Symmetrix
5 2 (2.82%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.76%) Linux
2 10 (14.08%) Unix
3 7 (9.86%) Windows
4 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.41%) VMS
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (49.30%) CI/CD
2 33 (46.48%) DevOps
3 32 (45.07%) Agile
4 23 (32.39%) DevSecOps
5 20 (28.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (23.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (23.94%) Test Automation
7 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (16.90%) Open Source
8 12 (16.90%) Scrum
8 12 (16.90%) SDLC
8 12 (16.90%) Software Licensing
9 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (14.08%) Microservices
10 10 (14.08%) Migration
10 10 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (12.68%) Observability
11 9 (12.68%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.39%) Python
2 15 (21.13%) SQL
3 12 (16.90%) Java
4 11 (15.49%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.68%) Bash
6 6 (8.45%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.82%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.82%) Bicep
8 2 (2.82%) Go
8 2 (2.82%) Groovy
8 2 (2.82%) Perl
9 1 (1.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) Degree
4 6 (8.45%) CCNP
4 6 (8.45%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (8.45%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.63%) CCIE
6 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.82%) CCIP
7 2 (2.82%) CCNA
7 2 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.41%) CCDA
8 1 (1.41%) CCDP
8 1 (1.41%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.41%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.23%) NCSC
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (25.35%) Docker
2 6 (8.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.23%) GridGain
3 3 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.23%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.82%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.41%) Firmware
5 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (52.11%) Ansible
2 22 (30.99%) Kubernetes
3 21 (29.58%) Terraform
4 13 (18.31%) Grafana
5 11 (15.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (11.27%) Istio
7 5 (7.04%) Puppet
8 3 (4.23%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.82%) Avamar
9 2 (2.82%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.41%) Argo
10 1 (1.41%) CASB
10 1 (1.41%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (1.41%) Consul
10 1 (1.41%) Packer
10 1 (1.41%) Podman
10 1 (1.41%) WMI
10 1 (1.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (16.90%) Cisco
2 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.68%) Sonatype
3 9 (12.68%) Splunk
4 6 (8.45%) Dynatrace
4 6 (8.45%) F5
4 6 (8.45%) Palo Alto
5 5 (7.04%) Black Duck
5 5 (7.04%) VMware
6 4 (5.63%) IBM
6 4 (5.63%) Oracle
6 4 (5.63%) SolarWinds
6 4 (5.63%) Veracode
7 3 (4.23%) Centrify
7 3 (4.23%) CyberArk
7 3 (4.23%) Google
7 3 (4.23%) Juniper
7 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.23%) Solace
7 3 (4.23%) Sybase