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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 432 479
Rank change year-on-year -36 +47 +36
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 97 57 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.96% 1.70% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 36 40
10th Percentile £308 £379 £355
25th Percentile £363 £419 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.67% -15.25%
75th Percentile £590 £631 £588
90th Percentile £713 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £413 £510 £509
% change year-on-year -19.12% +0.29% -13.08%
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 - - -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 4,950 3,360 4,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.75% 13.49% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,361 2,186 3,013
10th Percentile £340 £333 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £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 170 64 192
10th Percentile £34.13 £26.10 £37.75
25th Percentile £54.06 £51.95 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.13 £71.88 £73.92
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £88.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 9 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 9 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 -32 29 £555 -14.62% 6
North of England -48 27 £368 -17.77% 6
South East -24 25 £462 -21.41% 5
Yorkshire -44 20 £328 -36.87% 3
South West - 9 £400 - 2
North West -27 6 £402 +0.50% 3
Midlands -61 5 £575 +15.00% 2
West Midlands -54 4 £575 +15.00% 1
North East -14 1 £600 +36.36%
East of England -32 1 - - 1
East Midlands -34 1 £525 +17.58% 1
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 31 (31.96%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) JBoss
2 3 (3.09%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) Apache
3 2 (2.06%) IIS
3 2 (2.06%) iPlanet
3 2 (2.06%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.06%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (17.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (16.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 58 (59.79%) GitHub
2 39 (40.21%) AWS
3 27 (27.84%) OpenShift
4 20 (20.62%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (13.40%) Azure
6 9 (9.28%) Datadog
7 8 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (5.15%) GCP
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.12%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.12%) Serverless
12 3 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (3.09%) npm
12 3 (3.09%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.40%) Firewall
2 11 (11.34%) Cisco Nexus
3 7 (7.22%) Kerberos
4 6 (6.19%) VPN
4 6 (6.19%) WAN
5 5 (5.15%) BGP
6 4 (4.12%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (4.12%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (4.12%) Network Security
6 4 (4.12%) OSPF
6 4 (4.12%) SD-WAN
6 4 (4.12%) SNMP
7 3 (3.09%) Multicast
7 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.09%) VXLAN
8 2 (2.06%) 802.11
8 2 (2.06%) DNS
8 2 (2.06%) DWDM
8 2 (2.06%) LAN
8 2 (2.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.68%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.34%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.25%) HBase
3 8 (8.25%) Tick Data
4 6 (6.19%) DynamoDB
4 6 (6.19%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.03%) Big Data
7 1 (1.03%) KDB
7 1 (1.03%) Power BI
7 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 74 (76.29%) Jenkins
2 39 (40.21%) JIRA
3 27 (27.84%) JUnit
4 23 (23.71%) Cucumber
5 18 (18.56%) GitLab
6 16 (16.49%) Maven
7 15 (15.46%) Artifactory
7 15 (15.46%) Git
7 15 (15.46%) Gradle
7 15 (15.46%) JMeter
8 10 (10.31%) SonarQube
9 9 (9.28%) Bitbucket
10 5 (5.15%) Postman
11 4 (4.12%) Robot Framework
11 4 (4.12%) Selenium
12 3 (3.09%) CircleCI
12 3 (3.09%) Cypress.io
12 3 (3.09%) GoCD
12 3 (3.09%) Snyk
12 3 (3.09%) webpack
General
1 38 (39.18%) Finance
2 36 (37.11%) Social Skills
3 25 (25.77%) Banking
4 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.09%) Legal
4 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.06%) Front Office
5 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Law
6 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.03%) Retail
6 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.03%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (31.96%) Developer
2 25 (25.77%) Java Developer
3 20 (20.62%) Business Analyst
4 18 (18.56%) Analyst
4 18 (18.56%) Technical Business Analyst
5 17 (17.53%) Technical Analyst
6 15 (15.46%) Senior
7 14 (14.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Network Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) Fidessa Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Java Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) AWS Developer
10 6 (6.19%) Senior Developer
10 6 (6.19%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (5.15%) Administrator
11 5 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (5.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (32.99%) Spring
2 24 (24.74%) Kafka
3 13 (13.40%) Hibernate
4 12 (12.37%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (12.37%) Spring Boot
5 7 (7.22%) REST
6 6 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.15%) Node.js
8 4 (4.12%) JSON
9 3 (3.09%) 802.1X
9 3 (3.09%) OAuth
9 3 (3.09%) OpenID
9 3 (3.09%) YAML
10 2 (2.06%) ADO
10 2 (2.06%) LDAP
10 2 (2.06%) SAML
11 1 (1.03%) CSS
11 1 (1.03%) HTML
11 1 (1.03%) SOAP
11 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.15%) Equities
4 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.12%) PKI
5 3 (3.09%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.09%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.09%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.03%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.03%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 32 (32.99%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Windows
3 8 (8.25%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.15%) Unix
5 4 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.03%) Android
6 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.03%) CentOS
6 1 (1.03%) Solaris
6 1 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (64.95%) CI/CD
2 41 (42.27%) DevOps
3 24 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (21.65%) Software Delivery
5 20 (20.62%) Migration
6 19 (19.59%) Test Automation
7 18 (18.56%) Agile
8 17 (17.53%) Observability
9 16 (16.49%) Containerisation
9 16 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (16.49%) Matrix Organization
9 16 (16.49%) Process Improvement
10 15 (15.46%) Task Automation
11 13 (13.40%) Data Extraction
11 13 (13.40%) DevSecOps
12 12 (12.37%) Fintech
12 12 (12.37%) Microservices
13 9 (9.28%) Configuration Management
14 8 (8.25%) Data Protection
14 8 (8.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (40.21%) Java
2 29 (29.90%) Python
3 11 (11.34%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.15%) Bash
4 5 (5.15%) Perl
5 4 (4.12%) Groovy
5 4 (4.12%) Ruby
5 4 (4.12%) SQL
6 3 (3.09%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.06%) ActionScript
7 2 (2.06%) Go
7 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.06%) R
7 2 (2.06%) Rust
8 1 (1.03%) C#
8 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.03%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.03%) Swift
8 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.31%) DV Cleared
3 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.25%) OCP
4 8 (8.25%) Oracle Certification
5 7 (7.22%) CCNP
5 7 (7.22%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.15%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.09%) CCIE
7 3 (3.09%) CCNA
8 2 (2.06%) CCIP
8 2 (2.06%) JNCIA
8 2 (2.06%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.03%) CCDA
9 1 (1.03%) CCDP
9 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.03%) Degree
9 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.03%) NCSC
1 1 (1.03%) NIST
1 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 17 (17.53%) Docker
2 9 (9.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.22%) Active Directory
4 6 (6.19%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.06%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 1 (1.03%) Firmware
6 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (58.76%) Ansible
2 34 (35.05%) Kubernetes
3 20 (20.62%) Progress Chef
4 18 (18.56%) Grafana
5 16 (16.49%) Terraform
6 12 (12.37%) Prometheus
7 5 (5.15%) Puppet
8 3 (3.09%) Podman
9 2 (2.06%) CA Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.06%) CA Wily
9 2 (2.06%) Istio
9 2 (2.06%) rkt
9 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.06%) Tivoli
10 1 (1.03%) Argo
10 1 (1.03%) CASB
10 1 (1.03%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (1.03%) FreeIPA
10 1 (1.03%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (20.62%) VMware
2 19 (19.59%) Sonatype
3 12 (12.37%) Splunk
4 11 (11.34%) Cisco
5 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
6 8 (8.25%) Oracle
7 7 (7.22%) Red Hat
8 6 (6.19%) Solace
9 5 (5.15%) Palo Alto
10 4 (4.12%) AppDynamics
10 4 (4.12%) Meraki
11 3 (3.09%) Arista
11 3 (3.09%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.09%) Dynatrace
11 3 (3.09%) F5
12 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
12 2 (2.06%) IBM
12 2 (2.06%) Infoblox
12 2 (2.06%) Juniper
12 2 (2.06%) SolarWinds