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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 415 484
Rank change year-on-year -64 +69 +47
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 93 64 68
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.26% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.84% 1.92% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 42 40
10th Percentile £306 £369 £355
25th Percentile £363 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £614 £623 £588
90th Percentile £748 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £423 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.50% - -16.67%
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 - - -37.79%

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 5,057 3,326 4,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.61% 13.61% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,434 2,195 2,949
10th Percentile £338 £340 £359
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -7.89%
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 184 62 179
10th Percentile £36.20 £26.06 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.48 £48.16
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.13 £73.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.66 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +5.20% +0.81% +0.81%

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 20 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 20 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 -52 30 £600 +9.09% 10
North of England -66 27 £368 -8.00% 2
South East -38 24 £462 -21.41% 4
Yorkshire -45 21 £350 -32.53%
South West - 8 £400 - 1
North West -38 5 £385 -2.04% 2
Midlands -64 4 £550 +23.18% 1
West Midlands -63 3 £575 -
North East -17 1 £600 +36.36%
East Midlands -37 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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 4 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.15%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.08%) JBoss
4 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (18.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (17.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 52 (55.91%) GitHub
2 31 (33.33%) AWS
3 20 (21.51%) OpenShift
4 15 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.83%) Azure
6 8 (8.60%) Datadog
7 7 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.38%) Serverless
10 4 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.30%) Amazon MSK
11 3 (3.23%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.23%) GCP
12 2 (2.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (2.15%) npm
12 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.90%) Firewall
2 10 (10.75%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (5.38%) BGP
3 5 (5.38%) Kerberos
3 5 (5.38%) VPN
3 5 (5.38%) WAN
4 4 (4.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (4.30%) Multicast
4 4 (4.30%) Network Security
4 4 (4.30%) OSPF
4 4 (4.30%) SNMP
5 3 (3.23%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (3.23%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.23%) VXLAN
6 2 (2.15%) DWDM
6 2 (2.15%) IPsec
6 2 (2.15%) MPLS
6 2 (2.15%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.15%) VLAN
6 2 (2.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.28%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.83%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.60%) HBase
3 8 (8.60%) Tick Data
4 6 (6.45%) DynamoDB
4 6 (6.45%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.08%) Big Data
7 1 (1.08%) KDB
7 1 (1.08%) Metadata
7 1 (1.08%) Power BI
7 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 70 (75.27%) Jenkins
2 41 (44.09%) JIRA
3 21 (22.58%) JUnit
4 18 (19.35%) Cucumber
4 18 (19.35%) GitLab
5 16 (17.20%) Maven
6 15 (16.13%) Artifactory
7 13 (13.98%) Gradle
8 11 (11.83%) Git
9 10 (10.75%) JMeter
10 8 (8.60%) Bitbucket
10 8 (8.60%) SonarQube
11 4 (4.30%) Postman
11 4 (4.30%) Robot Framework
12 3 (3.23%) GoCD
12 3 (3.23%) Selenium
13 2 (2.15%) CircleCI
13 2 (2.15%) Cypress.io
13 2 (2.15%) Gatling
13 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (44.09%) Finance
2 39 (41.94%) Social Skills
3 26 (27.96%) Banking
4 5 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.38%) Front Office
4 5 (5.38%) Legal
5 4 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Law
7 1 (1.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (32.26%) Developer
2 25 (26.88%) Java Developer
3 20 (21.51%) Business Analyst
4 18 (19.35%) Analyst
4 18 (19.35%) Technical Business Analyst
5 17 (18.28%) Technical Analyst
6 14 (15.05%) Senior
7 9 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.60%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (7.53%) Fidessa Developer
9 7 (7.53%) Network Engineer
10 6 (6.45%) AWS Developer
10 6 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (6.45%) Java Engineer
11 5 (5.38%) Administrator
12 3 (3.23%) Architect
12 3 (3.23%) Consultant
12 3 (3.23%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (29.03%) Spring
2 19 (20.43%) Kafka
3 12 (12.90%) Spring Boot
4 11 (11.83%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (8.60%) Hibernate
6 6 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (6.45%) REST
7 5 (5.38%) Node.js
8 2 (2.15%) 802.1X
8 2 (2.15%) ADO
8 2 (2.15%) Java Concurrency
8 2 (2.15%) JSON
8 2 (2.15%) YAML
9 1 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (1.08%) Dropwizard
9 1 (1.08%) Mongoose
9 1 (1.08%) Nunjucks
9 1 (1.08%) PySpark
9 1 (1.08%) React
9 1 (1.08%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.38%) Equities
4 4 (4.30%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.30%) PKI
5 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.15%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.15%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.08%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.88%) Linux
2 6 (6.45%) Unix
2 6 (6.45%) Windows
3 5 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.08%) CentOS
5 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (59.14%) CI/CD
2 39 (41.94%) DevOps
3 25 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (21.51%) Migration
4 20 (21.51%) Software Delivery
5 18 (19.35%) Agile
6 17 (18.28%) Test Automation
7 16 (17.20%) Matrix Organization
7 16 (17.20%) Process Improvement
8 15 (16.13%) DevSecOps
9 14 (15.05%) Containerisation
9 14 (15.05%) Observability
10 13 (13.98%) Data Extraction
11 12 (12.90%) Fintech
11 12 (12.90%) Microservices
11 12 (12.90%) Task Automation
12 11 (11.83%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (10.75%) Data Protection
14 8 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (8.60%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (39.78%) Java
2 28 (30.11%) Python
3 11 (11.83%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.53%) SQL
5 5 (5.38%) Perl
6 4 (4.30%) Bash
6 4 (4.30%) Ruby
6 4 (4.30%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.15%) ActionScript
7 2 (2.15%) Go
7 2 (2.15%) Groovy
7 2 (2.15%) R
7 2 (2.15%) Rust
8 1 (1.08%) C#
8 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.68%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.60%) OCP
3 8 (8.60%) Oracle Certification
3 8 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.45%) CCNP
4 6 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.38%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.23%) CCNA
7 2 (2.15%) CCIE
7 2 (2.15%) CCIP
7 2 (2.15%) JNCIA
7 2 (2.15%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.08%) CCDA
8 1 (1.08%) CCDP
8 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.08%) Degree
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.08%) NCSC
2 1 (1.08%) NIST
2 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (17.20%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) Virtual Servers
2 6 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.38%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.23%) GridGain
5 1 (1.08%) Firmware
5 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (53.76%) Ansible
2 34 (36.56%) Kubernetes
3 18 (19.35%) Grafana
4 15 (16.13%) Terraform
5 12 (12.90%) Progress Chef
5 12 (12.90%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.30%) Puppet
7 2 (2.15%) Istio
7 2 (2.15%) Podman
7 2 (2.15%) rkt
8 1 (1.08%) Argo
8 1 (1.08%) CASB
8 1 (1.08%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (1.08%) FreeIPA
8 1 (1.08%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (21.51%) Sonatype
2 15 (16.13%) VMware
3 10 (10.75%) Cisco
3 10 (10.75%) Splunk
4 9 (9.68%) Oracle
4 9 (9.68%) Solace
5 8 (8.60%) Microsoft
6 6 (6.45%) Red Hat
7 4 (4.30%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.30%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.30%) Sybase
8 3 (3.23%) Arista
8 3 (3.23%) CheckPoint
8 3 (3.23%) F5
8 3 (3.23%) Meraki
9 2 (2.15%) AppDynamics
9 2 (2.15%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.15%) Infoblox
9 2 (2.15%) Juniper
9 2 (2.15%) SolarWinds