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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 397 466
Rank change year-on-year -154 +69 +69
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 71 114 68
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.41% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.34% 2.76% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 86 43
10th Percentile £401 £270 £380
25th Percentile £448 £318 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £558 £488 £638
90th Percentile £638 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £423 £550
% change year-on-year +18.20% -23.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £36.63 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +87.10% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £39.69 -
90th Percentile - £39.88 -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £38.75 -
% change year-on-year +87.10% - -

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 5,317 4,125 4,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.42% 14.94% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 2,853 2,754
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 93 168
10th Percentile £24.79 £42.30 £37.31
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.75 £54.27
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.23 £77.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -84 31 £500 +37.93% 10
London -110 21 £526 +10.79% 25
Yorkshire -38 17 £500 +78.57% 4
North West -60 12 £513 +43.16% 6
South East -63 6 £694 +15.63% 3
Midlands -61 5 £479 +28.81% 3
East Midlands -24 3 £466 +70.51%
South West -37 3 £525 +12.00% 3
North East -40 2 £438 -5.91%
West Midlands -47 2 £526 -8.52% 3
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 26 (36.62%) Confluence
2 9 (12.68%) Camunda
3 3 (4.23%) nginx
4 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.41%) Apache
5 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.41%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (39.44%) AWS
2 24 (33.80%) Azure
2 24 (33.80%) GitHub
3 20 (28.17%) GCP
4 12 (16.90%) OpenShift
5 11 (15.49%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (12.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (9.86%) Datadog
8 6 (8.45%) Amazon S3
8 6 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (8.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (7.04%) npm
9 5 (7.04%) Serverless
10 4 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (21.13%) Firewall
2 12 (16.90%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (11.27%) DNS
4 7 (9.86%) TCP/IP
5 6 (8.45%) BGP
5 6 (8.45%) Network Security
6 5 (7.04%) OSPF
6 5 (7.04%) SSL
6 5 (7.04%) VLAN
6 5 (7.04%) VPN
7 4 (5.63%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (5.63%) MPLS
7 4 (5.63%) VXLAN
7 4 (5.63%) WAN
8 3 (4.23%) LAN
8 3 (4.23%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.82%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (2.82%) HTTP
9 2 (2.82%) NX-OS
9 2 (2.82%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.41%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 42 (59.15%) Jenkins
2 28 (39.44%) JIRA
3 26 (36.62%) GitLab
4 25 (35.21%) Git
5 21 (29.58%) SonarQube
6 16 (22.54%) Maven
7 13 (18.31%) JUnit
8 11 (15.49%) Gradle
9 10 (14.08%) REST Assured
10 8 (11.27%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (11.27%) Mockito
11 7 (9.86%) Cucumber
12 6 (8.45%) Bitbucket
12 6 (8.45%) Postman
12 6 (8.45%) Selenium
13 5 (7.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (5.63%) Artifactory
14 4 (5.63%) MSBuild
14 4 (5.63%) Visual Studio
14 4 (5.63%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (30.99%) Finance
2 17 (23.94%) Banking
3 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Legal
5 4 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Law
5 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.41%) Marketing
7 1 (1.41%) Military
7 1 (1.41%) Police
7 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (18.31%) Developer
3 6 (8.45%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (8.45%) GCP DevOps
3 6 (8.45%) Network Engineer
3 6 (8.45%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) GCP Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Lead
4 5 (7.04%) Senior
5 4 (5.63%) .NET Developer
5 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (5.63%) Scrum Master
6 3 (4.23%) Consultant
6 3 (4.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
7 2 (2.82%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (40.85%) Terraform
2 12 (16.90%) Kafka
3 10 (14.08%) React
3 10 (14.08%) Spring Boot
4 9 (12.68%) .NET
4 9 (12.68%) REST
5 8 (11.27%) CSS
5 8 (11.27%) Hibernate
5 8 (11.27%) HTML
5 8 (11.27%) JPA
5 8 (11.27%) Redux
6 7 (9.86%) Web Services
6 7 (9.86%) YAML
7 6 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (7.04%) .NET Core
8 5 (7.04%) AngularJS
8 5 (7.04%) ASP.NET
8 5 (7.04%) SailPoint
8 5 (7.04%) Spring
9 4 (5.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Data Structures
1 9 (12.68%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (8.45%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.04%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.63%) PKI
5 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.82%) Celerra
6 2 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.82%) EMC Centera
6 2 (2.82%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (2.82%) EMC VNX
6 2 (2.82%) IBM XIV
6 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.82%) Symmetrix
6 2 (2.82%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 20 (28.17%) Linux
2 10 (14.08%) Windows
3 7 (9.86%) Unix
4 6 (8.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.82%) VMS
5 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (61.97%) CI/CD
2 35 (49.30%) DevOps
3 34 (47.89%) Agile
4 25 (35.21%) Test Automation
5 23 (32.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (26.76%) DevSecOps
7 18 (25.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (25.35%) Scrum
8 15 (21.13%) Observability
9 14 (19.72%) Containerisation
9 14 (19.72%) Microservices
10 12 (16.90%) Computer Science
11 11 (15.49%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (14.08%) Configuration Management
12 10 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (14.08%) Runbook
13 9 (12.68%) SDLC
13 9 (12.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (12.68%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.85%) Python
2 22 (30.99%) Java
3 18 (25.35%) SQL
4 14 (19.72%) Bash
5 13 (18.31%) PowerShell
6 11 (15.49%) JavaScript
7 8 (11.27%) Groovy
8 7 (9.86%) Shell Script
9 6 (8.45%) Go
10 3 (4.23%) Perl
11 2 (2.82%) Bicep
12 1 (1.41%) C#
12 1 (1.41%) C++
12 1 (1.41%) R
12 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.72%) Degree
3 13 (18.31%) SC Cleared
4 10 (14.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (8.45%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (8.45%) DV Cleared
6 5 (7.04%) CCIE
7 4 (5.63%) CCNP
8 2 (2.82%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.41%) CCNA
9 1 (1.41%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.41%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.82%) NCSC
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (35.21%) Docker
2 7 (9.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.23%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.82%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 36 (50.70%) Ansible
2 28 (39.44%) Kubernetes
3 19 (26.76%) Grafana
4 16 (22.54%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.45%) Istio
6 5 (7.04%) Progress Chef
7 4 (5.63%) Puppet
8 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.82%) Argo
9 2 (2.82%) Avamar
9 2 (2.82%) Consul
9 2 (2.82%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (2.82%) Packer
9 2 (2.82%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.41%) HAProxy
10 1 (1.41%) Podman
10 1 (1.41%) systemd
10 1 (1.41%) WMI
Vendors
1 12 (16.90%) Cisco
1 12 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.49%) IBM
3 9 (12.68%) Dynatrace
3 9 (12.68%) Google
3 9 (12.68%) Veracode
4 8 (11.27%) Splunk
5 6 (8.45%) F5
5 6 (8.45%) VMware
6 5 (7.04%) Palo Alto
7 4 (5.63%) Arista
7 4 (5.63%) Black Duck
7 4 (5.63%) Centrify
7 4 (5.63%) CyberArk
7 4 (5.63%) Isilon
7 4 (5.63%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.63%) Sonatype
8 3 (4.23%) Juniper
9 2 (2.82%) EMC
9 2 (2.82%) NetApp