Sonatype Contract Job Trends in the North West

Sonatype
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Sonatype products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sonatype over the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sonatype, Inc.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Sonatype 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.033% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.076% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £368 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -36.36%

All Vendors
North West

Sonatype falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,316 1,079 1,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 43.66% 53.82% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 680 718
10th Percentile £213 £250 £275
25th Percentile £368 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £575
90th Percentile £653 £665 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 53 157
10th Percentile £18.95 £21.43 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.41 £25.26 £12.00
Median hourly rate £25.94 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -20.18% +102.37% -45.19%
75th Percentile £60.85 £60.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.20 £24.75
% change year-on-year -17.22% +22.01% -29.28%

Sonatype
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sonatype relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Sonatype job vacancy trend in the North West

Sonatype
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sonatype within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Cheshire - 1 £613 -
Sonatype
England

Sonatype
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Java SE
1 1 (100.00%) JCE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode