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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 430 502
Rank change year-on-year -24 +72 +3
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 110 54 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.32% 1.53% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 36 37
10th Percentile £304 £374 £448
25th Percentile £360 £433 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.80% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £569 £675 £594
90th Percentile £693 - £621
UK median daily rate £414 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -23.38% -1.82% -
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 4,751 3,528 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.25% 13.51% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 2,182 3,125
10th Percentile £340 £340 £368
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -5.35% -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% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 61 202
10th Percentile £39.00 £45.00 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.63 £51.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.60 £76.25 £89.88
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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -36 36 £368 -19.12% 3
London -26 34 £475 -24.00% 1
South East -10 23 £462 -27.61% 4
Yorkshire -31 23 £304 -49.23% 3
North West -22 12 £446 +11.50%
South West - 9 £400 - 3
Midlands -53 5 £575 +34.35%
West Midlands -43 4 £575 +15.00%
East of England -24 2 - -
North East -15 1 £600 +42.86%
East Midlands -27 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 (24.55%) Confluence
2 9 (8.18%) JBoss
3 8 (7.27%) Apache
3 8 (7.27%) IIS
3 8 (7.27%) iPlanet
3 8 (7.27%) WebSphere
3 8 (7.27%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (3.64%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.73%) Mule
6 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (14.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (13.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 60 (54.55%) GitHub
2 44 (40.00%) AWS
3 34 (30.91%) OpenShift
4 21 (19.09%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (13.64%) Azure
6 13 (11.82%) GCP
7 10 (9.09%) Datadog
8 9 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (7.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (5.45%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.55%) npm
11 5 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.64%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.64%) Pulumi
12 4 (3.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.82%) Kerberos
2 12 (10.91%) Firewall
3 9 (8.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (4.55%) VPN
4 5 (4.55%) WAN
5 4 (3.64%) BGP
6 3 (2.73%) 802.11
6 3 (2.73%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.73%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (2.73%) Network Security
6 3 (2.73%) OSPF
6 3 (2.73%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.73%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.73%) VXLAN
6 3 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.82%) DNS
7 2 (1.82%) DWDM
7 2 (1.82%) LAN
8 1 (0.91%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.91%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.27%) HBase
3 8 (7.27%) Oracle Database
4 7 (6.36%) Tick Data
5 6 (5.45%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.45%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.91%) Big Data
8 1 (0.91%) Power BI
8 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (80.91%) Jenkins
2 36 (32.73%) JIRA
3 28 (25.45%) JUnit
4 23 (20.91%) Cucumber
4 23 (20.91%) Maven
5 22 (20.00%) Git
6 21 (19.09%) GitLab
7 19 (17.27%) Gradle
8 16 (14.55%) Artifactory
8 16 (14.55%) SonarQube
9 15 (13.64%) JMeter
10 10 (9.09%) Bitbucket
11 8 (7.27%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (7.27%) CA Release Automation
12 6 (5.45%) Postman
13 5 (4.55%) Selenium
14 4 (3.64%) CircleCI
14 4 (3.64%) Cypress.io
14 4 (3.64%) Snyk
14 4 (3.64%) webpack
General
1 42 (38.18%) Finance
2 35 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 34 (30.91%) Banking
4 4 (3.64%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.73%) Front Office
5 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Publishing
7 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.91%) Retail
7 1 (0.91%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 33 (30.00%) Developer
2 27 (24.55%) Java Developer
3 24 (21.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (17.27%) Business Analyst
4 19 (17.27%) Senior
5 17 (15.45%) Analyst
5 17 (15.45%) Technical Business Analyst
6 16 (14.55%) Technical Analyst
7 8 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (7.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (7.27%) Network Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Fidessa Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Java Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (6.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (5.45%) AWS Developer
10 5 (4.55%) Administrator
11 4 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (29.09%) Spring
2 24 (21.82%) Kafka
3 13 (11.82%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (11.82%) Hibernate
4 12 (10.91%) Spring Boot
5 9 (8.18%) OAuth
5 9 (8.18%) OpenID
6 8 (7.27%) LDAP
6 8 (7.27%) REST
6 8 (7.27%) SAML
7 6 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.55%) JSON
8 5 (4.55%) Node.js
9 4 (3.64%) YAML
10 3 (2.73%) 802.1X
10 3 (2.73%) ARM Templates
11 2 (1.82%) Java Concurrency
12 1 (0.91%) CSS3
12 1 (0.91%) Gherkin
12 1 (0.91%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.45%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.55%) Equities
3 5 (4.55%) Private Cloud
3 5 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.64%) PKI
5 3 (2.73%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.82%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.82%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.91%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 41 (37.27%) Linux
2 15 (13.64%) Unix
3 14 (12.73%) Windows
4 12 (10.91%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.73%) Solaris
7 1 (0.91%) Android
7 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.91%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 62 (56.36%) DevOps
3 24 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (20.91%) Containerisation
4 23 (20.91%) Software Delivery
5 22 (20.00%) Migration
6 19 (17.27%) Test Automation
7 17 (15.45%) Task Automation
8 16 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (14.55%) Observability
9 15 (13.64%) Agile
9 15 (13.64%) Matrix Organization
9 15 (13.64%) Microservices
9 15 (13.64%) Process Improvement
10 12 (10.91%) Data Extraction
11 11 (10.00%) DevSecOps
11 11 (10.00%) Fintech
12 9 (8.18%) Mentoring
12 9 (8.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (38.18%) Java
2 36 (32.73%) Python
3 12 (10.91%) PowerShell
4 11 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 10 (9.09%) Groovy
6 6 (5.45%) Bash
7 4 (3.64%) Perl
7 4 (3.64%) Ruby
8 3 (2.73%) Go
8 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.73%) Rust
8 3 (2.73%) SQL
9 2 (1.82%) R
10 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.91%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.91%) Swift
10 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 9 (8.18%) OCP
3 9 (8.18%) Oracle Certification
3 9 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.36%) AWS Certification
4 7 (6.36%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.45%) CCNP
6 4 (3.64%) CCIE
7 2 (1.82%) CCNA
7 2 (1.82%) JNCIA
7 2 (1.82%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.91%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.91%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.91%) NIST
2 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (27.27%) Docker
2 12 (10.91%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (7.27%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (3.64%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.82%) GridGain
6 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.82%) KVM
6 2 (1.82%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (50.91%) Ansible
2 44 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 27 (24.55%) Progress Chef
4 24 (21.82%) Terraform
5 18 (16.36%) Grafana
6 13 (11.82%) Prometheus
7 8 (7.27%) CA Single Sign-On
7 8 (7.27%) CA Wily
7 8 (7.27%) Tivoli
8 6 (5.45%) Puppet
9 5 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (3.64%) Podman
11 2 (1.82%) Istio
11 2 (1.82%) rkt
12 1 (0.91%) Argo
12 1 (0.91%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.91%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (19.09%) VMware
2 18 (16.36%) Sonatype
2 18 (16.36%) Splunk
3 16 (14.55%) Oracle
4 15 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 9 (8.18%) AppDynamics
5 9 (8.18%) Cisco
5 9 (8.18%) Red Hat
6 8 (7.27%) Broadcom
6 8 (7.27%) IBM
6 8 (7.27%) Solace
7 7 (6.36%) Google
8 4 (3.64%) Arista
9 3 (2.73%) Meraki
9 3 (2.73%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.73%) Sybase
10 2 (1.82%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.91%) F5
11 1 (0.91%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.91%) Xamarin