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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 407 470
Rank change year-on-year -110 +63 +73
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 71 61 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.43% 1.83% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 41 35
10th Percentile £368 £358 £320
25th Percentile £428 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £630 £537 £588
90th Percentile £763 £675 £609
UK median daily rate £525 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +12.90% -15.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -15.54% -37.79%
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year +3.23% -15.54% -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 4,969 3,330 4,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.20% 13.76% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,273 2,244 2,880
10th Percentile £343 £341 £353
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £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 220 64 191
10th Percentile £37.15 £27.63 £31.71
25th Percentile £59.81 £49.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.75 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.45% -7.31% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -54 24 £504 +26.99%
London -75 23 £612 +36.06% 1
Yorkshire -43 17 £504 +45.94%
South West - 10 £400 -
South East -53 9 £713 +21.33% 3
North West -35 6 £525 +33.59%
Midlands -68 5 £525 +25.00%
East Midlands -29 3 £525 +40.94%
West Midlands -62 2 £494 +17.56%
North East -22 1 £413 -11.29%
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 29 (40.85%) Confluence
2 7 (9.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.41%) JBoss
3 1 (1.41%) nginx
3 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.41%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (11.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) GitHub
2 12 (16.90%) AWS
2 12 (16.90%) Azure
3 9 (12.68%) OpenShift
4 7 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.04%) GCP
6 4 (5.63%) Azure AKS
6 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.82%) Serverless
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.41%) IaaS
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.41%) PaaS
8 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.49%) Cisco Nexus
1 11 (15.49%) Firewall
2 5 (7.04%) BGP
3 4 (5.63%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (5.63%) Multicast
3 4 (5.63%) Network Security
3 4 (5.63%) OSPF
3 4 (5.63%) SNMP
3 4 (5.63%) VPN
3 4 (5.63%) WAN
4 3 (4.23%) DNS
4 3 (4.23%) SSL
4 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.23%) VXLAN
5 2 (2.82%) DWDM
5 2 (2.82%) IPsec
5 2 (2.82%) LAN
5 2 (2.82%) MPLS
5 2 (2.82%) VLAN
5 2 (2.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Tick Data
2 3 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.41%) HBase
4 1 (1.41%) KDB
4 1 (1.41%) Metadata
4 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.41%) Power BI
4 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (52.11%) Jenkins
2 34 (47.89%) JIRA
3 12 (16.90%) GitLab
4 10 (14.08%) Git
5 8 (11.27%) Artifactory
5 8 (11.27%) Maven
6 7 (9.86%) SonarQube
7 5 (7.04%) JUnit
7 5 (7.04%) Robot Framework
8 4 (5.63%) Bitbucket
8 4 (5.63%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.63%) Gradle
8 4 (5.63%) Postman
9 3 (4.23%) Selenium
10 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.41%) JIRA Agile
10 1 (1.41%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.41%) MSI
10 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.41%) webpack
General
1 33 (46.48%) Social Skills
2 25 (35.21%) Finance
3 15 (21.13%) Banking
4 10 (14.08%) Legal
5 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Front Office
7 3 (4.23%) Law
7 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Police
9 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (16.90%) Business Analyst
2 11 (15.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (14.08%) Analyst
3 10 (14.08%) Technical Business Analyst
4 9 (12.68%) Technical Analyst
5 8 (11.27%) Developer
5 8 (11.27%) Senior
6 7 (9.86%) Java Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Consultant
7 6 (8.45%) Network Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Software Consultant
8 5 (7.04%) Administrator
9 4 (5.63%) Architect
9 4 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Scrum Master
9 4 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (5.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Software Licensing Consultant
10 3 (4.23%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.08%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (8.45%) REST
2 6 (8.45%) Spring
3 4 (5.63%) ADO
4 3 (4.23%) Kafka
4 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.82%) Java Concurrency
5 2 (2.82%) Middleware
6 1 (1.41%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.41%) Java SE
6 1 (1.41%) JCE
6 1 (1.41%) JSON
6 1 (1.41%) Node.js
6 1 (1.41%) OpenID
6 1 (1.41%) React
6 1 (1.41%) Rendezvous
6 1 (1.41%) SAML
6 1 (1.41%) SOAP
6 1 (1.41%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Data Protection Act
1 7 (9.86%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.45%) PKI
3 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.63%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.82%) Celerra
4 2 (2.82%) EMC Centera
4 2 (2.82%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (2.82%) EMC VNX
4 2 (2.82%) Equities
4 2 (2.82%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) IBM XIV
4 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Symmetrix
4 2 (2.82%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Linux
2 10 (14.08%) Windows
3 9 (12.68%) Unix
4 6 (8.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.41%) CentOS
6 1 (1.41%) VMS
6 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) CI/CD
2 27 (38.03%) DevOps
3 26 (36.62%) Agile
4 18 (25.35%) DevSecOps
5 17 (23.94%) Migration
5 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (21.13%) Software Delivery
7 13 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (16.90%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
9 11 (15.49%) Task Automation
10 10 (14.08%) Open Source
10 10 (14.08%) SDLC
10 10 (14.08%) Software Licensing
10 10 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (12.68%) Data Extraction
11 9 (12.68%) Process Improvement
12 8 (11.27%) Asset Management
12 8 (11.27%) Data Protection
12 8 (11.27%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.17%) Python
2 13 (18.31%) Java
3 7 (9.86%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.04%) Shell Script
4 5 (7.04%) SQL
5 4 (5.63%) Bash
6 2 (2.82%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.41%) C#
7 1 (1.41%) Go
7 1 (1.41%) Groovy
7 1 (1.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.04%) CCNP
4 5 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.23%) CCNA
6 2 (2.82%) CCIP
6 2 (2.82%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.82%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.41%) CCDA
7 1 (1.41%) CCDP
7 1 (1.41%) CCIE
7 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) Degree
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.41%) OCP
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.41%) NCSC
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
2 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (16.90%) Docker
2 6 (8.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.23%) GridGain
3 3 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.82%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.41%) Firmware
5 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (49.30%) Ansible
2 19 (26.76%) Kubernetes
3 16 (22.54%) Terraform
4 13 (18.31%) Grafana
5 11 (15.49%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.45%) Istio
7 4 (5.63%) Puppet
8 2 (2.82%) Avamar
8 2 (2.82%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (1.41%) CASB
9 1 (1.41%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.41%) Consul
9 1 (1.41%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.41%) Packer
9 1 (1.41%) Podman
9 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.41%) SCOM
9 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.41%) WMI
9 1 (1.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Sonatype
2 11 (15.49%) Cisco
3 9 (12.68%) Splunk
4 7 (9.86%) VMware
5 5 (7.04%) Red Hat
5 5 (7.04%) Solace
6 4 (5.63%) Dynatrace
6 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.63%) Oracle
7 3 (4.23%) Arista
7 3 (4.23%) Black Duck
7 3 (4.23%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.23%) F5
7 3 (4.23%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.23%) Sybase
8 2 (2.82%) 3PAR
8 2 (2.82%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.82%) Isilon
8 2 (2.82%) Meraki
8 2 (2.82%) Veeam