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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 398 480
Rank change year-on-year -85 +82 +34
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 91 66 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.80% 2.01% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 46 33
10th Percentile £311 £379 £351
25th Percentile £368 £401 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £465 £517
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -10.06% -13.83%
75th Percentile £614 £583 £588
90th Percentile £750 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £462 £480 £517
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.16% -13.83%
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 - - -38.83%

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 5,061 3,289 4,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.44% 13.57% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,400 2,197 2,918
10th Percentile £340 £340 £360
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -5.44% -6.42%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 66 167
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.15 £36.83
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.26 £47.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.40% +1.22%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -68 29 £600 +20.00% 9
South East -31 24 £462 -21.41% 3
North of England -68 24 £385 -13.97% 2
Yorkshire -40 21 £350 -32.53%
South West - 8 £400 - 1
Midlands -65 6 £550 +15.79% 1
East Midlands -31 3 £525 +10.53% 1
West Midlands -57 3 £575 -
North West -41 2 £507 +29.07% 2
North East -18 1 £600 +29.73%
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 30 (32.97%) Confluence
2 5 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.20%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.10%) JBoss
4 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 48 (52.75%) GitHub
2 31 (34.07%) AWS
3 20 (21.98%) OpenShift
4 15 (16.48%) Azure
4 15 (16.48%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.79%) Datadog
7 5 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.49%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.30%) GCP
9 3 (3.30%) Serverless
10 2 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.20%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.20%) npm
10 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.20%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.09%) Cisco Nexus
1 11 (12.09%) Firewall
2 5 (5.49%) BGP
2 5 (5.49%) Kerberos
3 4 (4.40%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (4.40%) Multicast
3 4 (4.40%) Network Security
3 4 (4.40%) OSPF
3 4 (4.40%) SNMP
3 4 (4.40%) VPN
3 4 (4.40%) WAN
4 3 (3.30%) VXLAN
5 2 (2.20%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (2.20%) DNS
5 2 (2.20%) DWDM
5 2 (2.20%) IPsec
5 2 (2.20%) MPLS
5 2 (2.20%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.20%) VLAN
5 2 (2.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (12.09%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.79%) HBase
4 7 (7.69%) Tick Data
5 6 (6.59%) DynamoDB
5 6 (6.59%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.10%) Big Data
9 1 (1.10%) KDB
9 1 (1.10%) Metadata
9 1 (1.10%) Power BI
9 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 66 (72.53%) Jenkins
2 38 (41.76%) JIRA
3 21 (23.08%) JUnit
4 18 (19.78%) Cucumber
5 17 (18.68%) Artifactory
6 16 (17.58%) GitLab
7 15 (16.48%) Maven
8 13 (14.29%) Gradle
9 11 (12.09%) Git
10 10 (10.99%) JMeter
10 10 (10.99%) SonarQube
11 8 (8.79%) Bitbucket
12 4 (4.40%) Postman
12 4 (4.40%) Robot Framework
13 3 (3.30%) GoCD
13 3 (3.30%) Selenium
14 2 (2.20%) CircleCI
14 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
14 2 (2.20%) Gatling
14 2 (2.20%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (41.76%) Social Skills
2 37 (40.66%) Finance
3 21 (23.08%) Banking
4 6 (6.59%) Legal
5 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Front Office
6 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Law
7 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (31.87%) Developer
2 24 (26.37%) Java Developer
3 17 (18.68%) Business Analyst
4 15 (16.48%) Analyst
4 15 (16.48%) Senior
4 15 (16.48%) Technical Business Analyst
5 14 (15.38%) Technical Analyst
6 11 (12.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.79%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.59%) AWS Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Fidessa Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Java Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Network Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Administrator
9 5 (5.49%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (5.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.57%) Spring
2 19 (20.88%) Kafka
3 13 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (13.19%) Spring Boot
5 8 (8.79%) Hibernate
5 8 (8.79%) REST
6 6 (6.59%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (4.40%) ADO
8 3 (3.30%) Node.js
9 2 (2.20%) Java Concurrency
9 2 (2.20%) JSON
9 2 (2.20%) Middleware
9 2 (2.20%) YAML
10 1 (1.10%) CSS
10 1 (1.10%) FreeMarker
10 1 (1.10%) HTML
10 1 (1.10%) Java SE
10 1 (1.10%) JCE
10 1 (1.10%) Rendezvous
10 1 (1.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (6.59%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.40%) Equities
3 4 (4.40%) PKI
4 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.20%) Celerra
4 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.20%) EMC Centera
4 2 (2.20%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (2.20%) EMC VNX
4 2 (2.20%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) IBM XIV
4 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.20%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Symmetrix
4 2 (2.20%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (27.47%) Linux
2 8 (8.79%) Unix
2 8 (8.79%) Windows
3 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.10%) CentOS
5 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (59.34%) CI/CD
2 36 (39.56%) DevOps
3 22 (24.18%) Migration
3 22 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (23.08%) Agile
5 20 (21.98%) Software Delivery
6 17 (18.68%) Test Automation
7 16 (17.58%) Containerisation
7 16 (17.58%) DevSecOps
8 14 (15.38%) Observability
9 13 (14.29%) Data Extraction
9 13 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
9 13 (14.29%) Process Improvement
10 12 (13.19%) Fintech
10 12 (13.19%) Microservices
10 12 (13.19%) Task Automation
11 11 (12.09%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (10.99%) Data Protection
12 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.56%) Java
2 24 (26.37%) Python
3 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.69%) SQL
5 4 (4.40%) Bash
5 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.30%) Perl
7 2 (2.20%) ActionScript
7 2 (2.20%) Go
7 2 (2.20%) Groovy
7 2 (2.20%) R
7 2 (2.20%) Ruby
7 2 (2.20%) Rust
8 1 (1.10%) C#
8 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.89%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.79%) OCP
3 8 (8.79%) Oracle Certification
3 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) CCNP
4 5 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.30%) CCNA
6 2 (2.20%) CCIP
6 2 (2.20%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.20%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.10%) CCDA
7 1 (1.10%) CCDP
7 1 (1.10%) CCIE
7 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.10%) Degree
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.10%) NCSC
2 1 (1.10%) NIST
2 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (17.58%) Docker
2 6 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.49%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.40%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (3.30%) GridGain
6 2 (2.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.10%) Firmware
7 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (54.95%) Ansible
2 34 (37.36%) Kubernetes
3 18 (19.78%) Grafana
4 15 (16.48%) Terraform
5 12 (13.19%) Progress Chef
5 12 (13.19%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.59%) Puppet
7 4 (4.40%) Istio
8 2 (2.20%) Avamar
8 2 (2.20%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (2.20%) Podman
8 2 (2.20%) rkt
9 1 (1.10%) Argo
9 1 (1.10%) CASB
9 1 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.10%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (18.68%) Sonatype
2 15 (16.48%) VMware
3 11 (12.09%) Cisco
4 10 (10.99%) Splunk
5 8 (8.79%) Solace
6 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
6 7 (7.69%) Oracle
7 6 (6.59%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.40%) Dynatrace
8 4 (4.40%) Sybase
9 3 (3.30%) Arista
9 3 (3.30%) CheckPoint
9 3 (3.30%) F5
9 3 (3.30%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.20%) 3PAR
10 2 (2.20%) Brocade
10 2 (2.20%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.20%) Isilon
10 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.20%) Veeam