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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 439 502
Rank change year-on-year +14 +63 +7
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 117 65 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.48% 1.69% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 42 42
10th Percentile £283 £400 £464
25th Percentile £333 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £559 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.62% -2.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £544 £648 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £629
UK median daily rate £400 £559 £550
% change year-on-year -28.41% +1.59% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 4,715 3,855 4,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.09% 13.31% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,426 3,312
10th Percentile £338 £340 £375
25th Percentile £411 £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 £644
90th Percentile £700 £733 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 82 207
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.64 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.20 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 18 December 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 18 December 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 +15 41 £475 -21.23% 2
North of England -29 34 £305 -36.13%
South East -13 21 £423 -29.58% 6
North West -7 17 £370 -17.72%
Yorkshire -28 16 £287 -52.11%
Midlands -33 12 £575 +15.00% 2
West Midlands -27 10 £575 +15.00% 2
South West - 6 £425 - 3
East Midlands -15 2 £442 +24.02%
East of England -23 2 - - 2
North East -8 1 £600 +42.86%
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 19 (16.24%) Confluence
2 13 (11.11%) JBoss
3 9 (7.69%) Apache
3 9 (7.69%) WebSphere
3 9 (7.69%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (6.84%) IIS
4 8 (6.84%) iPlanet
5 6 (5.13%) Mule
6 5 (4.27%) OpenStack
7 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.71%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.85%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 57 (48.72%) GitHub
2 50 (42.74%) AWS
3 35 (29.91%) OpenShift
4 25 (21.37%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (20.51%) GCP
6 20 (17.09%) Azure
7 13 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 11 (9.40%) Datadog
9 10 (8.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.55%) Azure AKS
9 10 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (5.13%) npm
12 5 (4.27%) Pulumi
12 5 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.42%) Amazon MSK
13 4 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (3.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.53%) Firewall
2 13 (11.11%) Kerberos
3 12 (10.26%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (4.27%) BGP
5 4 (3.42%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (3.42%) OSPF
5 4 (3.42%) VPN
5 4 (3.42%) VXLAN
5 4 (3.42%) WAN
6 3 (2.56%) 802.11
6 3 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.56%) Multicast
6 3 (2.56%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.56%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.71%) Network Security
7 2 (1.71%) SSH
8 1 (0.85%) DNS
8 1 (0.85%) IGMP
8 1 (0.85%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.37%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.97%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.84%) HBase
3 8 (6.84%) Oracle Database
4 6 (5.13%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.42%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.42%) Tick Data
6 3 (2.56%) Big Data
6 3 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.71%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.71%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.71%) Parquet
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.85%) Power BI
8 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 34 (29.06%) JIRA
3 32 (27.35%) Git
4 31 (26.50%) JUnit
5 30 (25.64%) SonarQube
6 26 (22.22%) Maven
7 25 (21.37%) Cucumber
8 23 (19.66%) GitLab
9 20 (17.09%) Gradle
10 17 (14.53%) Artifactory
11 15 (12.82%) Bitbucket
11 15 (12.82%) JMeter
12 11 (9.40%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (9.40%) CA Release Automation
13 8 (6.84%) Selenium
14 7 (5.98%) Postman
15 6 (5.13%) TeamCity
16 5 (4.27%) CircleCI
16 5 (4.27%) Cypress.io
16 5 (4.27%) Snyk
General
1 41 (35.04%) Finance
2 34 (29.06%) Banking
3 31 (26.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.27%) Publishing
5 4 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.71%) Front Office
7 2 (1.71%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.85%) Electronics
8 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Marketing
8 1 (0.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.85%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 32 (27.35%) Developer
2 29 (24.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (23.08%) Java Developer
4 19 (16.24%) Senior
5 12 (10.26%) Analyst
5 12 (10.26%) Business Analyst
6 11 (9.40%) Technical Analyst
6 11 (9.40%) Technical Business Analyst
7 8 (6.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (6.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (6.84%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Java Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Network Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.98%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (5.13%) AWS Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (24.79%) Spring
2 24 (20.51%) Kafka
3 18 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 16 (13.68%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (12.82%) Hibernate
6 9 (7.69%) LDAP
6 9 (7.69%) OAuth
6 9 (7.69%) OpenID
6 9 (7.69%) REST
7 8 (6.84%) SAML
8 7 (5.98%) Node.js
9 6 (5.13%) JSON
9 6 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (4.27%) YAML
11 3 (2.56%) 802.1X
11 3 (2.56%) CSS
11 3 (2.56%) HTML
11 3 (2.56%) NumPy
11 3 (2.56%) Pandas
11 3 (2.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.97%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.84%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.13%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.13%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.27%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.56%) Autonomous Agent
5 3 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.56%) Equities
5 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.56%) PKI
6 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.85%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 51 (43.59%) Linux
2 18 (15.38%) Windows
3 15 (12.82%) Unix
4 11 (9.40%) Windows Server
5 9 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.42%) 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%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (76.07%) CI/CD
2 71 (60.68%) DevOps
3 24 (20.51%) Microservices
4 23 (19.66%) Containerisation
5 22 (18.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (18.80%) Migration
6 21 (17.95%) Test Automation
7 18 (15.38%) Observability
8 17 (14.53%) Agile
8 17 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (12.82%) Software Delivery
10 14 (11.97%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (11.11%) Task Automation
12 12 (10.26%) Change Management
12 12 (10.26%) Configuration Management
13 10 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (8.55%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (8.55%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (7.69%) Event-Driven
14 9 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (37.61%) Java
1 44 (37.61%) Python
2 13 (11.11%) Bash
2 13 (11.11%) Groovy
3 11 (9.40%) PowerShell
3 11 (9.40%) Shell Script
4 9 (7.69%) SQL
5 8 (6.84%) Perl
6 5 (4.27%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.42%) Go
7 4 (3.42%) Ruby
8 3 (2.56%) Rust
9 2 (1.71%) R
10 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.85%) PHP
10 1 (0.85%) Swift
10 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.55%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.69%) OCP
3 9 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (6.84%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (6.84%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.98%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.98%) CCNP
6 5 (4.27%) CCIE
7 1 (0.85%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (0.85%) Degree
7 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.84%) QA
2 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.85%) NIST
2 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (35.04%) Docker
2 16 (13.68%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.84%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (3.42%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.56%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.56%) KVM
7 2 (1.71%) GridGain
7 2 (1.71%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.85%) NFS
8 1 (0.85%) SRDF
8 1 (0.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.85%) vSphere
8 1 (0.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 54 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 51 (43.59%) Ansible
3 32 (27.35%) Progress Chef
4 27 (23.08%) Terraform
5 15 (12.82%) Grafana
6 10 (8.55%) Prometheus
7 8 (6.84%) CA Single Sign-On
7 8 (6.84%) CA Wily
7 8 (6.84%) Puppet
7 8 (6.84%) Tivoli
8 5 (4.27%) Podman
8 5 (4.27%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.42%) Istio
9 4 (3.42%) Kibana
10 3 (2.56%) Argo
11 2 (1.71%) rkt
12 1 (0.85%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.85%) SCOM
12 1 (0.85%) vRealize
12 1 (0.85%) WMI
Vendors
1 21 (17.95%) VMware
2 18 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.38%) Splunk
3 17 (14.53%) Oracle
4 15 (12.82%) Google
5 13 (11.11%) AppDynamics
6 12 (10.26%) Cisco
6 12 (10.26%) Red Hat
7 10 (8.55%) Sonatype
8 9 (7.69%) IBM
9 8 (6.84%) Broadcom
10 7 (5.98%) Palo Alto
11 6 (5.13%) F5
11 6 (5.13%) Solace
12 5 (4.27%) Cloudera
13 3 (2.56%) Arista
13 3 (2.56%) Meraki
13 3 (2.56%) NetScout
13 3 (2.56%) Sybase
14 2 (1.71%) Dynatrace