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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 433 499
Rank change year-on-year -9 +66 +22
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 118 52 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.49% 1.46% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 35 40
10th Percentile £304 £370 £474
25th Percentile £360 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £666 £594
90th Percentile £687 £675 £617
UK median daily rate £423 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -20.66% -7.39% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
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 4,742 3,566 4,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.46% 13.48% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,291 2,207 3,124
10th Percentile £343 £338 £375
25th Percentile £411 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 64 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.35 £45.18
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.68 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.65 £75.95 £89.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -12 40 £475 -20.83% 3
North of England -33 36 £368 -19.12% 3
South East -6 23 £462 -25.41% 6
Yorkshire -30 23 £304 -49.23% 3
North West -22 12 £446 +11.50%
South West - 10 £425 - 3
Midlands -47 6 £575 +34.35%
West Midlands -35 5 £575 +15.00%
East of England - 2 - -
North East -16 1 £600 +42.86%
East Midlands -31 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 27 (22.88%) Confluence
2 9 (7.63%) JBoss
2 9 (7.63%) WebSphere
2 9 (7.63%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (6.78%) Apache
3 8 (6.78%) IIS
3 8 (6.78%) iPlanet
4 5 (4.24%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.54%) Mule
6 2 (1.69%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.85%) CICS
Applications
1 15 (12.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (11.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 61 (51.69%) GitHub
2 46 (38.98%) AWS
3 35 (29.66%) OpenShift
4 22 (18.64%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (16.95%) Azure
6 18 (15.25%) GCP
7 12 (10.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 11 (9.32%) Datadog
9 10 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.47%) Azure AKS
9 10 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (5.08%) npm
12 5 (4.24%) Pulumi
12 5 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.39%) Amazon MSK
13 4 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (3.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.71%) Firewall
2 13 (11.02%) Kerberos
3 10 (8.47%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (5.08%) WAN
5 5 (4.24%) VPN
6 4 (3.39%) BGP
7 3 (2.54%) 802.11
7 3 (2.54%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (2.54%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (2.54%) LAN
7 3 (2.54%) Network Security
7 3 (2.54%) OSPF
7 3 (2.54%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.54%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.54%) VXLAN
7 3 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.69%) DNS
8 2 (1.69%) DWDM
8 2 (1.69%) Multicast
9 1 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.49%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.17%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.78%) HBase
3 8 (6.78%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.93%) Tick Data
5 6 (5.08%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.08%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.85%) Big Data
7 1 (0.85%) Power BI
7 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (78.81%) Jenkins
2 36 (30.51%) JIRA
3 29 (24.58%) JUnit
4 27 (22.88%) Maven
5 25 (21.19%) Git
5 25 (21.19%) GitLab
6 23 (19.49%) Cucumber
7 20 (16.95%) Gradle
7 20 (16.95%) SonarQube
8 17 (14.41%) Artifactory
9 15 (12.71%) JMeter
10 11 (9.32%) Bitbucket
11 8 (6.78%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (6.78%) CA Release Automation
12 7 (5.93%) Postman
13 6 (5.08%) Selenium
14 5 (4.24%) CircleCI
14 5 (4.24%) Cypress.io
14 5 (4.24%) Snyk
14 5 (4.24%) webpack
General
1 43 (36.44%) Finance
2 37 (31.36%) Banking
3 34 (28.81%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.39%) Publishing
5 3 (2.54%) Front Office
5 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.85%) Electronics
7 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.85%) Marketing
7 1 (0.85%) Retail
7 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.85%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 33 (27.97%) Developer
2 27 (22.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (22.88%) Java Developer
3 19 (16.10%) Senior
4 18 (15.25%) Business Analyst
5 17 (14.41%) Technical Business Analyst
6 16 (13.56%) Analyst
6 16 (13.56%) Technical Analyst
7 8 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (6.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (6.78%) Network Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Fidessa Developer
8 7 (5.93%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Java Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (5.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (5.08%) AWS Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (27.12%) Spring
2 24 (20.34%) Kafka
3 14 (11.86%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (11.02%) Hibernate
5 12 (10.17%) Spring Boot
6 9 (7.63%) LDAP
6 9 (7.63%) OAuth
6 9 (7.63%) OpenID
6 9 (7.63%) REST
7 8 (6.78%) SAML
8 6 (5.08%) JSON
8 6 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.24%) Node.js
9 5 (4.24%) YAML
10 3 (2.54%) 802.1X
10 3 (2.54%) ARM Templates
11 2 (1.69%) Java Concurrency
12 1 (0.85%) Gherkin
12 1 (0.85%) JAX-RS
12 1 (0.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.63%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.93%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.08%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.24%) Equities
4 5 (4.24%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.39%) PKI
6 3 (2.54%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.54%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (2.54%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.85%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.85%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.85%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 44 (37.29%) Linux
2 16 (13.56%) Windows
3 15 (12.71%) Unix
4 13 (11.02%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.39%) Solaris
7 1 (0.85%) Android
7 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.85%) CentOS
7 1 (0.85%) MVS
7 1 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (72.03%) CI/CD
2 65 (55.08%) DevOps
3 27 (22.88%) Migration
4 25 (21.19%) Containerisation
5 24 (20.34%) Software Delivery
6 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (16.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (16.95%) Test Automation
8 19 (16.10%) Task Automation
9 16 (13.56%) Agile
9 16 (13.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (13.56%) Observability
10 15 (12.71%) Microservices
11 14 (11.86%) Matrix Organization
11 14 (11.86%) Process Improvement
12 12 (10.17%) DevSecOps
13 11 (9.32%) Configuration Management
13 11 (9.32%) Data Extraction
14 10 (8.47%) Fintech
14 10 (8.47%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (36.44%) Java
2 41 (34.75%) Python
3 12 (10.17%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.32%) Shell Script
5 10 (8.47%) Bash
5 10 (8.47%) Groovy
6 5 (4.24%) SQL
7 4 (3.39%) Go
7 4 (3.39%) Perl
7 4 (3.39%) Ruby
8 3 (2.54%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.54%) Rust
9 2 (1.69%) R
10 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.85%) Swift
10 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.17%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.63%) OCP
3 9 (7.63%) Oracle Certification
3 9 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.93%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.93%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.08%) CCNP
6 4 (3.39%) CCIE
7 2 (1.69%) CCNA
7 2 (1.69%) Degree
7 2 (1.69%) JNCIA
7 2 (1.69%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.85%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) QA
2 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.85%) NIST
2 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (28.81%) Docker
2 13 (11.02%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.78%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (3.39%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.54%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.54%) KVM
7 2 (1.69%) GridGain
7 2 (1.69%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.69%) vSphere
8 1 (0.85%) NFS
8 1 (0.85%) SRDF
8 1 (0.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (49.15%) Ansible
2 49 (41.53%) Kubernetes
3 29 (24.58%) Terraform
4 28 (23.73%) Progress Chef
5 19 (16.10%) Grafana
6 14 (11.86%) Prometheus
7 8 (6.78%) CA Single Sign-On
7 8 (6.78%) CA Wily
7 8 (6.78%) Puppet
7 8 (6.78%) Tivoli
8 5 (4.24%) Podman
8 5 (4.24%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.69%) FreeIPA
9 2 (1.69%) Istio
9 2 (1.69%) rkt
9 2 (1.69%) SCOM
10 1 (0.85%) Argo
10 1 (0.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (19.49%) VMware
2 18 (15.25%) Splunk
3 17 (14.41%) Oracle
3 17 (14.41%) Sonatype
4 16 (13.56%) Microsoft
5 11 (9.32%) Google
6 10 (8.47%) Cisco
7 9 (7.63%) AppDynamics
7 9 (7.63%) IBM
7 9 (7.63%) Red Hat
8 8 (6.78%) Broadcom
8 8 (6.78%) Solace
9 4 (3.39%) Arista
10 3 (2.54%) Meraki
10 3 (2.54%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.54%) Sybase
11 2 (1.69%) Citrix
11 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.69%) F5
12 1 (0.85%) Xamarin