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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 436 504
Rank change year-on-year -28 +68 +9
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 105 58 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.17% 1.67% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 39 31
10th Percentile £305 £356 £425
25th Percentile £363 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £639 £588
90th Percentile £695 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £423 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -17.16% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £45.88
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -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 4,842 3,477 4,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.95% 13.42% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 2,197 3,042
10th Percentile £340 £334 £363
25th Percentile £407 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -5.68% -7.35%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 60 208
10th Percentile £33.92 £27.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £81.70 £80.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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
London -47 32 £475 -17.39% 2
North of England -59 32 £368 -16.36% 3
South East -6 25 £462 -29.68% 6
Yorkshire -41 22 £305 -41.30% 1
North West -26 9 £450 +13.65% 2
South West - 9 £400 - 4
Midlands -66 5 £575 +34.35%
West Midlands -59 4 £575 +15.00%
North East -17 1 £600 +36.36%
East of England -24 1 - -
East Midlands -25 1 £525 +47.47%
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 28 (26.67%) Confluence
2 6 (5.71%) JBoss
3 5 (4.76%) Apache
3 5 (4.76%) IIS
3 5 (4.76%) iPlanet
3 5 (4.76%) WebSphere
3 5 (4.76%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (3.81%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.90%) Mule
6 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (15.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 59 (56.19%) GitHub
2 42 (40.00%) AWS
3 31 (29.52%) OpenShift
4 21 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (15.24%) Azure
6 10 (9.52%) Datadog
7 9 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (8.57%) GCP
8 8 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (5.71%) Azure AKS
10 5 (4.76%) npm
10 5 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.81%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (3.81%) Pulumi
11 4 (3.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) Firewall
2 11 (10.48%) Cisco Nexus
3 10 (9.52%) Kerberos
4 6 (5.71%) BGP
4 6 (5.71%) VPN
5 5 (4.76%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (4.76%) OSPF
5 5 (4.76%) WAN
6 4 (3.81%) VXLAN
7 3 (2.86%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (2.86%) Multicast
7 3 (2.86%) Network Security
7 3 (2.86%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.86%) SNMP
7 3 (2.86%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.90%) DNS
8 2 (1.90%) IPsec
8 2 (1.90%) LAN
8 2 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.95%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.48%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.62%) HBase
4 7 (6.67%) Tick Data
5 6 (5.71%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.71%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.76%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.95%) Big Data
9 1 (0.95%) Power BI
9 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 81 (77.14%) Jenkins
2 37 (35.24%) JIRA
3 28 (26.67%) JUnit
4 23 (21.90%) Cucumber
4 23 (21.90%) Maven
5 21 (20.00%) GitLab
6 19 (18.10%) Git
6 19 (18.10%) Gradle
7 16 (15.24%) Artifactory
8 15 (14.29%) JMeter
9 12 (11.43%) SonarQube
10 10 (9.52%) Bitbucket
11 6 (5.71%) Postman
12 5 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (4.76%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (4.76%) Selenium
13 4 (3.81%) Cypress.io
13 4 (3.81%) Robot Framework
13 4 (3.81%) Snyk
13 4 (3.81%) webpack
General
1 39 (37.14%) Finance
2 35 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 29 (27.62%) Banking
4 4 (3.81%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.86%) Front Office
5 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Law
7 1 (0.95%) Legal
7 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.95%) Retail
7 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.95%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 33 (31.43%) Developer
2 27 (25.71%) Java Developer
3 20 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (18.10%) Business Analyst
4 19 (18.10%) Senior
5 17 (16.19%) Analyst
5 17 (16.19%) Technical Business Analyst
6 16 (15.24%) Technical Analyst
7 9 (8.57%) Network Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (7.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Fidessa Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Java Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.71%) AWS Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Administrator
12 4 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (30.48%) Spring
2 24 (22.86%) Kafka
3 13 (12.38%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (12.38%) Hibernate
4 12 (11.43%) Spring Boot
5 8 (7.62%) REST
6 6 (5.71%) OAuth
6 6 (5.71%) OpenID
6 6 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (4.76%) JSON
7 5 (4.76%) LDAP
7 5 (4.76%) Node.js
7 5 (4.76%) SAML
8 4 (3.81%) YAML
9 3 (2.86%) 802.1X
9 3 (2.86%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.90%) Java Concurrency
11 1 (0.95%) CSS3
11 1 (0.95%) Gherkin
11 1 (0.95%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 7 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.76%) Equities
2 5 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.81%) PKI
3 4 (3.81%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.90%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.95%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 39 (37.14%) Linux
2 12 (11.43%) Unix
2 12 (11.43%) Windows
3 9 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.86%) Solaris
6 1 (0.95%) Android
6 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.95%) CentOS
6 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (65.71%) CI/CD
2 54 (51.43%) DevOps
3 23 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 21 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 19 (18.10%) Migration
6 18 (17.14%) Containerisation
6 18 (17.14%) Task Automation
7 16 (15.24%) Agile
7 16 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (15.24%) Observability
8 15 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
8 15 (14.29%) Process Improvement
9 14 (13.33%) Microservices
10 12 (11.43%) Data Extraction
10 12 (11.43%) DevSecOps
10 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (10.48%) Fintech
12 10 (9.52%) Configuration Management
13 9 (8.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.00%) Java
2 32 (30.48%) Python
3 12 (11.43%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.62%) Shell Script
5 7 (6.67%) Groovy
6 6 (5.71%) Bash
7 4 (3.81%) Perl
7 4 (3.81%) Ruby
8 3 (2.86%) Go
8 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.86%) Rust
8 3 (2.86%) SQL
9 2 (1.90%) R
10 1 (0.95%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.95%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.95%) Swift
10 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.48%) DV Cleared
3 9 (8.57%) OCP
3 9 (8.57%) Oracle Certification
3 9 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.62%) CCNP
4 8 (7.62%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.81%) CCIE
7 3 (2.86%) CCNA
8 2 (1.90%) CCIP
8 2 (1.90%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.90%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.95%) CCDA
9 1 (0.95%) CCDP
9 1 (0.95%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.95%) Degree
9 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) QA
2 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.95%) NCSC
2 1 (0.95%) NIST
2 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (21.90%) Docker
2 11 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.52%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.76%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 5 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.86%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.90%) GridGain
6 2 (1.90%) KVM
6 2 (1.90%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (54.29%) Ansible
2 43 (40.95%) Kubernetes
3 24 (22.86%) Progress Chef
4 21 (20.00%) Terraform
5 18 (17.14%) Grafana
6 13 (12.38%) Prometheus
7 6 (5.71%) Puppet
8 5 (4.76%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (4.76%) CA Wily
8 5 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (4.76%) Tivoli
9 4 (3.81%) Podman
10 2 (1.90%) Istio
10 2 (1.90%) rkt
11 1 (0.95%) Argo
11 1 (0.95%) CASB
11 1 (0.95%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.95%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.95%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (20.95%) VMware
2 18 (17.14%) Sonatype
3 15 (14.29%) Splunk
4 13 (12.38%) Microsoft
4 13 (12.38%) Oracle
5 11 (10.48%) Cisco
6 9 (8.57%) Red Hat
7 8 (7.62%) Solace
8 6 (5.71%) AppDynamics
9 5 (4.76%) Arista
9 5 (4.76%) Broadcom
9 5 (4.76%) IBM
10 4 (3.81%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.86%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.86%) Meraki
11 3 (2.86%) Sybase
12 2 (1.90%) F5
12 2 (1.90%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.90%) Google
12 2 (1.90%) Juniper