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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 396 450
Rank change year-on-year -149 +54 +106
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 73 107 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.39% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.37% 2.68% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 82 47
10th Percentile £402 £270 £354
25th Percentile £450 £314 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £411 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.06% -25.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £599 £492 £584
90th Percentile £720 £600 £655
UK median daily rate £514 £413 £550
% change year-on-year +24.61% -25.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £36.63 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +87.10% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £39.69 -
90th Percentile - £39.88 -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £38.75 -
% change year-on-year +87.10% - -

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 5,329 3,998 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.47% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 2,764 2,835
10th Percentile £353 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 97 198
10th Percentile £35.38 £41.35 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.06 £52.88
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.30 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -82 27 £500 +37.93% 7
London -103 27 £598 +35.80% 18
Yorkshire -38 16 £500 +72.41% 3
North West -50 9 £500 +39.66% 4
Midlands -62 8 £477 +30.35% 1
South East -75 6 £694 +15.63% 2
East Midlands -14 5 £466 +68.66%
South West -35 3 £525 +7.69% 1
West Midlands -59 3 £477 +13.57% 1
North East -44 2 £438 -5.91%
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 26 (35.62%) Confluence
2 7 (9.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.11%) Camunda
4 2 (2.74%) nginx
5 1 (1.37%) Apache
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.37%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.25%) AWS
2 24 (32.88%) Azure
3 23 (31.51%) GitHub
4 13 (17.81%) GCP
5 12 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (16.44%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (13.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
7 7 (9.59%) OpenShift
8 6 (8.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (8.22%) Serverless
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (4.11%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (4.11%) Azure AKS
10 3 (4.11%) Datadog
10 3 (4.11%) dbt
10 3 (4.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.81%) Firewall
2 12 (16.44%) Cisco Nexus
3 7 (9.59%) DNS
3 7 (9.59%) Network Security
3 7 (9.59%) TCP/IP
4 6 (8.22%) BGP
4 6 (8.22%) OSPF
5 5 (6.85%) SSL
5 5 (6.85%) WAN
6 4 (5.48%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (5.48%) MPLS
6 4 (5.48%) SD-WAN
6 4 (5.48%) VLAN
6 4 (5.48%) VPN
6 4 (5.48%) VXLAN
7 3 (4.11%) LAN
7 3 (4.11%) Multicast
8 2 (2.74%) EIGRP
8 2 (2.74%) HTTP
8 2 (2.74%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.18%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.11%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) KDB
5 1 (1.37%) Metadata
5 1 (1.37%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 37 (50.68%) Jenkins
2 31 (42.47%) JIRA
3 20 (27.40%) Git
4 19 (26.03%) GitLab
5 14 (19.18%) SonarQube
6 9 (12.33%) Maven
7 6 (8.22%) Artifactory
7 6 (8.22%) Bitbucket
7 6 (8.22%) Cucumber
7 6 (8.22%) JUnit
8 5 (6.85%) Gradle
8 5 (6.85%) Postman
8 5 (6.85%) Selenium
9 4 (5.48%) MSBuild
9 4 (5.48%) REST Assured
9 4 (5.48%) Visual Studio
10 3 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (2.74%) LoadRunner
11 2 (2.74%) Mockito
General
1 27 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 25 (34.25%) Finance
3 15 (20.55%) Banking
4 12 (16.44%) Legal
5 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Law
7 4 (5.48%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.11%) Front Office
8 3 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.37%) Marketing
10 1 (1.37%) Police
10 1 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Developer
3 9 (12.33%) Senior
4 6 (8.22%) Consultant
4 6 (8.22%) Lead
4 6 (8.22%) Network Engineer
4 6 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (8.22%) Software Consultant
5 5 (6.85%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (5.48%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.48%) Architect
6 4 (5.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Scrum Master
6 4 (5.48%) Software Licensing Consultant
7 3 (4.11%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.11%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (4.11%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) .NET
1 9 (12.33%) REST
2 7 (9.59%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (6.85%) .NET Core
3 5 (6.85%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.85%) ASP.NET
3 5 (6.85%) Kafka
3 5 (6.85%) SailPoint
3 5 (6.85%) Web Services
4 4 (5.48%) React
4 4 (5.48%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.48%) YAML
5 3 (4.11%) ADO
5 3 (4.11%) Node.js
5 3 (4.11%) Playwright
5 3 (4.11%) SAML
6 2 (2.74%) CSS
6 2 (2.74%) HTML
6 2 (2.74%) Middleware
6 2 (2.74%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (8.22%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.22%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.11%) PKI
5 3 (4.11%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.74%) Celerra
6 2 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.74%) EMC Centera
6 2 (2.74%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (2.74%) EMC VNX
6 2 (2.74%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.74%) IBM XIV
6 2 (2.74%) Symmetrix
6 2 (2.74%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.77%) Linux
2 11 (15.07%) Unix
3 7 (9.59%) Windows
4 4 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (49.32%) CI/CD
2 35 (47.95%) Agile
3 34 (46.58%) DevOps
4 23 (31.51%) DevSecOps
5 21 (28.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (27.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (24.66%) Test Automation
8 13 (17.81%) Scrum
8 13 (17.81%) SDLC
8 13 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (16.44%) Observability
9 12 (16.44%) Open Source
9 12 (16.44%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (16.44%) Software Licensing
10 11 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (13.70%) Configuration Management
11 10 (13.70%) Containerisation
11 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (13.70%) Microservices
11 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (34.25%) Python
2 16 (21.92%) SQL
3 15 (20.55%) Java
4 13 (17.81%) PowerShell
5 12 (16.44%) Bash
6 8 (10.96%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.48%) Go
7 4 (5.48%) Groovy
7 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.11%) Perl
9 2 (2.74%) ActionScript
9 2 (2.74%) Bicep
10 1 (1.37%) C#
10 1 (1.37%) R
10 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.44%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.96%) Degree
4 5 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.85%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.48%) CCIE
5 4 (5.48%) CCNP
5 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.37%) CCNA
7 1 (1.37%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.37%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (32.88%) Docker
2 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.11%) GridGain
3 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.11%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (50.68%) Ansible
2 26 (35.62%) Kubernetes
3 22 (30.14%) Terraform
4 16 (21.92%) Grafana
5 14 (19.18%) Prometheus
6 8 (10.96%) Istio
7 5 (6.85%) Puppet
8 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
8 3 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.74%) Avamar
9 2 (2.74%) Consul
9 2 (2.74%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (2.74%) Packer
9 2 (2.74%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.37%) Argo
10 1 (1.37%) Podman
10 1 (1.37%) systemd
10 1 (1.37%) WMI
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Cisco
2 11 (15.07%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.96%) Dynatrace
3 8 (10.96%) Splunk
4 7 (9.59%) F5
5 6 (8.22%) Palo Alto
5 6 (8.22%) Sonatype
6 5 (6.85%) Black Duck
6 5 (6.85%) IBM
6 5 (6.85%) VMware
7 4 (5.48%) Centrify
7 4 (5.48%) CyberArk
7 4 (5.48%) Google
7 4 (5.48%) Oracle
7 4 (5.48%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.48%) Veracode
8 3 (4.11%) Arista
8 3 (4.11%) Solace
8 3 (4.11%) SolarWinds
8 3 (4.11%) Sybase