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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 436 507
Rank change year-on-year +14 +71 -5
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 122 71 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.60% 1.77% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 45 43
10th Percentile £278 £400 £465
25th Percentile £321 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.85% -3.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £519 £625 £594
90th Percentile £615 £675 £627
UK median daily rate £375 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -32.43% +0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £60.00

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 4,684 4,020 4,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.13% 13.26% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,521 3,424
10th Percentile £330 £345 £375
25th Percentile £408 £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 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 101 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 7 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 7 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 +9 42 £475 -21.13% 1
North of England -17 36 £313 -30.06% 2
South East -10 21 £423 -29.58% 3
North West -2 18 £368 -8.00% 2
Yorkshire -29 16 £287 -50.77%
Midlands -24 14 £464 -7.30% 2
West Midlands -22 9 £575 +15.00% 1
East Midlands -13 5 £276 -22.47% 1
South West - 5 £450 - 4
North East -4 2 £513 +22.02%
East of England -16 2 - - 2
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 23 (18.85%) Confluence
2 13 (10.66%) JBoss
3 10 (8.20%) Apache
4 9 (7.38%) WebSphere
4 9 (7.38%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (6.56%) IIS
5 8 (6.56%) iPlanet
6 6 (4.92%) Mule
7 4 (3.28%) OpenStack
8 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
8 2 (1.64%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.82%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 56 (45.90%) GitHub
2 50 (40.98%) AWS
3 34 (27.87%) OpenShift
4 24 (19.67%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (18.85%) GCP
6 19 (15.57%) Azure
7 12 (9.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (8.20%) Azure AKS
8 10 (8.20%) Datadog
9 9 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.10%) npm
10 5 (4.10%) Serverless
11 4 (3.28%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.28%) Pulumi
11 4 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.11%) Firewall
2 13 (10.66%) Kerberos
3 11 (9.02%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (3.28%) BGP
4 4 (3.28%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (3.28%) VPN
4 4 (3.28%) VXLAN
4 4 (3.28%) WAN
5 3 (2.46%) 802.11
5 3 (2.46%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.46%) Multicast
5 3 (2.46%) OSPF
5 3 (2.46%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.64%) SSH
7 1 (0.82%) FCoE
7 1 (0.82%) IGMP
7 1 (0.82%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.49%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.48%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.20%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.56%) HBase
4 8 (6.56%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.92%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.92%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.28%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.28%) Tick Data
7 3 (2.46%) Big Data
7 3 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.64%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.64%) Parquet
9 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.82%) Power BI
9 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (74.59%) Jenkins
2 38 (31.15%) JIRA
3 35 (28.69%) SonarQube
4 34 (27.87%) JUnit
5 32 (26.23%) Git
6 30 (24.59%) Maven
7 29 (23.77%) Cucumber
8 28 (22.95%) GitLab
9 19 (15.57%) Gradle
10 18 (14.75%) Bitbucket
11 16 (13.11%) Artifactory
12 15 (12.30%) JMeter
13 11 (9.02%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (9.02%) CA Release Automation
13 11 (9.02%) Selenium
14 7 (5.74%) TeamCity
15 6 (4.92%) Mockito
15 6 (4.92%) Postman
16 4 (3.28%) CircleCI
16 4 (3.28%) Snyk
General
1 42 (34.43%) Finance
2 36 (29.51%) Banking
3 30 (24.59%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.10%) Publishing
5 4 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.46%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.64%) Front Office
8 1 (0.82%) Electronics
8 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.82%) Marketing
8 1 (0.82%) Retail
8 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.82%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 37 (30.33%) Developer
2 31 (25.41%) Java Developer
3 30 (24.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (15.57%) Senior
5 12 (9.84%) Analyst
5 12 (9.84%) Business Analyst
6 11 (9.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (9.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (9.02%) Technical Analyst
6 11 (9.02%) Technical Business Analyst
7 8 (6.56%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Java Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (4.92%) AWS Developer
9 6 (4.92%) Network Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (4.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.77%) Spring
2 24 (19.67%) Kafka
3 23 (18.85%) Spring Boot
4 19 (15.57%) Hibernate
5 15 (12.30%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (9.84%) Node.js
7 9 (7.38%) LDAP
7 9 (7.38%) OAuth
7 9 (7.38%) OpenID
8 8 (6.56%) REST
8 8 (6.56%) SAML
9 7 (5.74%) CSS
9 7 (5.74%) HTML
9 7 (5.74%) React
10 6 (4.92%) Jest
10 6 (4.92%) JPA
10 6 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (4.92%) Redux
11 5 (4.10%) JSON
12 4 (3.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.56%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.92%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.10%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.10%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.46%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.46%) Autonomous Agent
5 3 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.46%) Equities
5 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.46%) PKI
6 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.82%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 52 (42.62%) Linux
2 18 (14.75%) Windows
3 16 (13.11%) Unix
4 11 (9.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (9.02%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.10%) Solaris
6 2 (1.64%) CentOS
6 2 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.82%) Android
7 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.82%) MVS
7 1 (0.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (77.87%) CI/CD
2 77 (63.11%) DevOps
3 28 (22.95%) Microservices
4 24 (19.67%) Test Automation
5 23 (18.85%) Containerisation
5 23 (18.85%) Migration
6 22 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (17.21%) Agile
8 18 (14.75%) Observability
9 17 (13.93%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (11.48%) Software Delivery
12 12 (9.84%) Change Management
12 12 (9.84%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (9.84%) Task Automation
13 11 (9.02%) Configuration Management
14 10 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (8.20%) Continuous Integration
15 9 (7.38%) Event-Driven
15 9 (7.38%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (40.98%) Java
2 45 (36.89%) Python
3 14 (11.48%) Bash
3 14 (11.48%) Groovy
4 13 (10.66%) SQL
5 12 (9.84%) PowerShell
5 12 (9.84%) Shell Script
6 10 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.56%) Perl
8 4 (3.28%) Go
8 4 (3.28%) Ruby
9 3 (2.46%) Rust
10 2 (1.64%) PHP
10 2 (1.64%) R
11 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.82%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.82%) Swift
11 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.38%) DV Cleared
2 9 (7.38%) OCP
2 9 (7.38%) Oracle Certification
2 9 (7.38%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (5.74%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.74%) CCNP
5 5 (4.10%) CCIE
6 1 (0.82%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (0.82%) Degree
6 1 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) QA
2 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (34.43%) Docker
2 16 (13.11%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.56%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.46%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.46%) KVM
7 2 (1.64%) GridGain
7 2 (1.64%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.82%) NFS
8 1 (0.82%) SRDF
8 1 (0.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.82%) vSphere
8 1 (0.82%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (45.08%) Kubernetes
2 50 (40.98%) Ansible
3 31 (25.41%) Progress Chef
4 28 (22.95%) Terraform
5 14 (11.48%) Grafana
6 9 (7.38%) Prometheus
7 8 (6.56%) CA Single Sign-On
7 8 (6.56%) CA Wily
7 8 (6.56%) Tivoli
8 7 (5.74%) Puppet
9 5 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (3.28%) Istio
10 4 (3.28%) Kibana
10 4 (3.28%) Podman
11 3 (2.46%) Argo
12 2 (1.64%) rkt
12 2 (1.64%) WMI
13 1 (0.82%) Packer
13 1 (0.82%) SCOM
13 1 (0.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (17.21%) VMware
2 20 (16.39%) Microsoft
3 17 (13.93%) Oracle
3 17 (13.93%) Splunk
4 15 (12.30%) Google
5 13 (10.66%) AppDynamics
5 13 (10.66%) Red Hat
6 11 (9.02%) Cisco
7 10 (8.20%) Sonatype
8 9 (7.38%) IBM
9 8 (6.56%) Broadcom
10 7 (5.74%) Palo Alto
11 6 (4.92%) Solace
11 6 (4.92%) Veracode
12 5 (4.10%) Cloudera
12 5 (4.10%) F5
13 3 (2.46%) Arista
13 3 (2.46%) Meraki
13 3 (2.46%) NetScout
13 3 (2.46%) Sybase