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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 456 507
Rank change year-on-year +50 +51 +8
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 136 71 62
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.90% 1.74% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 45 40
10th Percentile £276 £400 £463
25th Percentile £318 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -27.09% +3.29% -11.25%
75th Percentile £493 £623 £589
90th Percentile £600 £675 £603
UK median daily rate £375 £553 £540
% change year-on-year -32.13% +2.31% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.50
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £69.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £65.00

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 4,694 4,070 4,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.37% 13.10% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,275 2,534 3,518
10th Percentile £329 £347 £375
25th Percentile £407 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £647
90th Percentile £694 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 120 226
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £46.03
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +11 50 £440 -26.94% 10
North of England -13 42 £345 -22.91% 5
North West +4 24 £358 -10.50% 1
South East +7 22 £462 -2.84% 8
Yorkshire -28 16 £287 -50.77% 3
Midlands -20 14 £387 -22.61% 1
West Midlands -18 9 £575 +15.00%
East Midlands -9 5 £276 -22.47% 1
South West - 4 £488 - 5
North East -9 2 £513 +22.02% 1
East of England -14 2 - - 2
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 21 (15.44%) Confluence
1 21 (15.44%) JBoss
2 13 (9.56%) Apache
3 10 (7.35%) WebSphere
4 9 (6.62%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (5.88%) IIS
5 8 (5.88%) iPlanet
5 8 (5.88%) Tomcat
6 6 (4.41%) Mule
7 4 (2.94%) OpenStack
8 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.74%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 63 (46.32%) AWS
2 56 (41.18%) GitHub
3 41 (30.15%) OpenShift
4 24 (17.65%) GCP
4 24 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (16.91%) Azure
6 12 (8.82%) Datadog
6 12 (8.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 11 (8.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (7.35%) Azure AKS
9 9 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.15%) Serverless
11 6 (4.41%) npm
11 6 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.94%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.24%) Firewall
2 13 (9.56%) Cisco Nexus
2 13 (9.56%) Kerberos
3 4 (2.94%) BGP
3 4 (2.94%) Multicast
3 4 (2.94%) OSPF
3 4 (2.94%) VPN
3 4 (2.94%) VXLAN
3 4 (2.94%) WAN
4 3 (2.21%) 802.11
4 3 (2.21%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (2.21%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (2.21%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.47%) DNS
5 2 (1.47%) SSH
6 1 (0.74%) DHCP
6 1 (0.74%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.38%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.03%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.35%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.62%) Oracle Database
5 7 (5.15%) HBase
5 7 (5.15%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.41%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.68%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.68%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.94%) Tick Data
9 3 (2.21%) Big Data
10 2 (1.47%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.47%) Parquet
11 1 (0.74%) MySQL
11 1 (0.74%) Power BI
11 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 97 (71.32%) Jenkins
2 46 (33.82%) Git
3 44 (32.35%) JIRA
4 42 (30.88%) Maven
5 40 (29.41%) SonarQube
6 39 (28.68%) JUnit
7 28 (20.59%) Cucumber
7 28 (20.59%) GitLab
8 26 (19.12%) Gradle
9 17 (12.50%) Bitbucket
10 16 (11.76%) Artifactory
11 15 (11.03%) JMeter
12 12 (8.82%) Bitbucket Server
12 12 (8.82%) CA Release Automation
13 11 (8.09%) Selenium
13 11 (8.09%) TeamCity
14 6 (4.41%) Mockito
14 6 (4.41%) Postman
15 5 (3.68%) Cypress.io
15 5 (3.68%) webpack
General
1 48 (35.29%) Finance
2 40 (29.41%) Banking
3 32 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.68%) Publishing
6 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.21%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.21%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.47%) Front Office
8 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Electronics
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.74%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 46 (33.82%) Developer
2 38 (27.94%) Java Developer
3 32 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (13.24%) Senior
5 14 (10.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (10.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (8.09%) Analyst
6 11 (8.09%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.35%) Technical Analyst
7 10 (7.35%) Technical Business Analyst
8 9 (6.62%) AWS Developer
9 8 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.41%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.68%) Linux Engineer
12 5 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (25.00%) Spring
2 33 (24.26%) Spring Boot
3 24 (17.65%) Kafka
4 19 (13.97%) Hibernate
5 14 (10.29%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (10.29%) REST
6 13 (9.56%) Node.js
7 9 (6.62%) LDAP
7 9 (6.62%) OAuth
7 9 (6.62%) OpenID
8 8 (5.88%) CSS
8 8 (5.88%) HTML
8 8 (5.88%) React
8 8 (5.88%) RESTful
8 8 (5.88%) SAML
9 7 (5.15%) Jest
9 7 (5.15%) SOAP
10 6 (4.41%) JPA
10 6 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (4.41%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.82%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.15%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.41%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.68%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.68%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.94%) PKI
6 3 (2.21%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.21%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.21%) Equities
6 3 (2.21%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.74%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 63 (46.32%) Linux
2 25 (18.38%) Unix
3 20 (14.71%) Windows
4 16 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (8.82%) Windows Server
6 6 (4.41%) Solaris
7 4 (2.94%) CentOS
7 4 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.74%) Android
8 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.74%) MVS
8 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (71.32%) CI/CD
2 85 (62.50%) DevOps
3 35 (25.74%) Microservices
4 28 (20.59%) Test Automation
5 23 (16.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (16.18%) Agile
6 22 (16.18%) Migration
7 21 (15.44%) Observability
8 20 (14.71%) Containerisation
8 20 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (13.24%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (9.56%) Change Management
12 12 (8.82%) Design Patterns
13 11 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (8.09%) Software Delivery
13 11 (8.09%) Task Automation
14 10 (7.35%) Configuration Management
14 10 (7.35%) Continuous Integration
15 9 (6.62%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (44.12%) Java
2 52 (38.24%) Python
3 23 (16.91%) Shell Script
4 17 (12.50%) Bash
5 15 (11.03%) Groovy
5 15 (11.03%) JavaScript
6 14 (10.29%) SQL
7 13 (9.56%) PowerShell
8 9 (6.62%) Perl
9 4 (2.94%) Go
9 4 (2.94%) PHP
9 4 (2.94%) Ruby
10 3 (2.21%) Rust
11 2 (1.47%) CodeQL
11 2 (1.47%) R
11 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.74%) C#
12 1 (0.74%) C++
12 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.35%) DV Cleared
3 9 (6.62%) AWS Certification
3 9 (6.62%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.88%) OCP
4 8 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
5 7 (5.15%) CCNP
6 5 (3.68%) CCIE
7 1 (0.74%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (0.74%) Degree
7 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.35%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 45 (33.09%) Docker
2 18 (13.24%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.88%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.21%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.21%) KVM
7 2 (1.47%) GridGain
7 2 (1.47%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.74%) Firmware
8 1 (0.74%) NFS
8 1 (0.74%) SRDF
8 1 (0.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.74%) vSphere
8 1 (0.74%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (40.44%) Kubernetes
2 51 (37.50%) Ansible
3 32 (23.53%) Progress Chef
3 32 (23.53%) Terraform
4 12 (8.82%) Grafana
5 8 (5.88%) CA Single Sign-On
5 8 (5.88%) CA Wily
5 8 (5.88%) Tivoli
6 7 (5.15%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.15%) Puppet
7 5 (3.68%) Kibana
7 5 (3.68%) Podman
7 5 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.94%) WMI
9 3 (2.21%) Argo
9 3 (2.21%) Istio
10 2 (1.47%) rkt
11 1 (0.74%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.74%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.65%) Oracle
3 23 (16.91%) VMware
4 18 (13.24%) Splunk
5 15 (11.03%) Google
6 14 (10.29%) AppDynamics
7 13 (9.56%) Cisco
7 13 (9.56%) Red Hat
8 9 (6.62%) IBM
8 9 (6.62%) Sonatype
9 8 (5.88%) Broadcom
10 7 (5.15%) Palo Alto
11 6 (4.41%) Cloudera
11 6 (4.41%) F5
11 6 (4.41%) Solace
11 6 (4.41%) Veracode
12 3 (2.21%) Arista
12 3 (2.21%) Meraki
12 3 (2.21%) NetScout
12 3 (2.21%) Sybase