Sonatype Nexus Contract Job Trends

Sonatype Nexus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Sonatype Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 451 501
Rank change year-on-year -105 +50 +84
Contract jobs citing Sonatype Nexus 82 69 72
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.41% 1.66% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 49 37
10th Percentile £364 £365 £330
25th Percentile £408 £406 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -15.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £520 £588
90th Percentile £753 £660 £652
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £423 £480
% change year-on-year +19.68% -11.88% -11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -15.54% -38.83%
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -37.79%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,807 4,161 5,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.09% 14.28% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,801 2,791 3,442
10th Percentile £349 £335 £353
25th Percentile £408 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 71 205
10th Percentile £35.13 £25.25 £32.23
25th Percentile £59.06 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.75 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% +5.69%

Sonatype Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Sonatype Nexus job vacancy trend in the UK

Sonatype Nexus
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sonatype Nexus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sonatype Nexus

Sonatype Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sonatype Nexus over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sonatype Nexus in the UK

Sonatype Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sonatype Nexus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sonatype Nexus

Sonatype Nexus
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England -107 71 £550 +22.22% 5
UK excluding London -84 52 £506 +19.68% 6
Work from Home -12 26 £520 -0.10% 1
North of England -56 24 £504 +26.99%
London -72 23 £612 +36.06% 1
Yorkshire -42 17 £504 +45.94%
South West - 10 £400 - 1
South East -64 9 £713 +21.33% 3
Scotland +1 6 £418 -0.06% 2
North West -36 6 £525 +33.59%
Midlands -69 5 £525 +25.00%
East Midlands -26 3 £525 +40.94%
West Midlands -63 2 £494 +17.56%
North East -24 1 £413 -11.29%

Sonatype Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 33 (40.24%) Confluence
2 8 (9.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.66%) JBoss
4 1 (1.22%) Apache
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.22%) nginx
4 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.22%) Traefik
4 1 (1.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (9.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.83%) GitHub
2 15 (18.29%) AWS
3 14 (17.07%) Azure
4 12 (14.63%) OpenShift
5 7 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.10%) GCP
6 5 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.88%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.88%) Serverless
8 3 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.44%) Catchpoint
9 2 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.44%) PaaS
9 2 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.29%) Cisco Nexus
1 15 (18.29%) Firewall
2 9 (10.98%) BGP
3 8 (9.76%) Network Security
3 8 (9.76%) OSPF
4 5 (6.10%) VPN
4 5 (6.10%) WAN
5 4 (4.88%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (4.88%) Multicast
5 4 (4.88%) SNMP
5 4 (4.88%) SSL
5 4 (4.88%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.88%) VXLAN
6 3 (3.66%) DNS
6 3 (3.66%) LAN
6 3 (3.66%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.44%) DWDM
7 2 (2.44%) IPsec
7 2 (2.44%) MPLS
7 2 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.88%) Tick Data
2 3 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.22%) HBase
4 1 (1.22%) KDB
4 1 (1.22%) Metadata
4 1 (1.22%) Power BI
4 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (48.78%) Jenkins
1 40 (48.78%) JIRA
2 14 (17.07%) GitLab
3 13 (15.85%) Git
4 10 (12.20%) Artifactory
5 9 (10.98%) Maven
6 7 (8.54%) SonarQube
7 6 (7.32%) JUnit
8 5 (6.10%) Bitbucket
8 5 (6.10%) Cucumber
8 5 (6.10%) Postman
8 5 (6.10%) Robot Framework
9 4 (4.88%) Gradle
9 4 (4.88%) Selenium
10 1 (1.22%) Ant
10 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.22%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.22%) JMeter
10 1 (1.22%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.22%) MSI
General
1 35 (42.68%) Social Skills
2 28 (34.15%) Finance
3 16 (19.51%) Banking
4 11 (13.41%) Legal
5 6 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.88%) Front Office
7 3 (3.66%) Law
8 2 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Police
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (15.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (14.63%) Business Analyst
3 10 (12.20%) Analyst
3 10 (12.20%) Network Engineer
3 10 (12.20%) Senior
3 10 (12.20%) Technical Business Analyst
4 9 (10.98%) Technical Analyst
5 8 (9.76%) Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Consultant
6 7 (8.54%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Software Consultant
7 6 (7.32%) Scrum Master
8 5 (6.10%) Administrator
8 5 (6.10%) Architect
8 5 (6.10%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (6.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Software Licensing Consultant
10 3 (3.66%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.41%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (7.32%) REST
2 6 (7.32%) Spring
3 4 (4.88%) ADO
3 4 (4.88%) Kafka
4 3 (3.66%) Middleware
4 3 (3.66%) Node.js
4 3 (3.66%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.44%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.44%) Java Concurrency
5 2 (2.44%) JSON
6 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.22%) cloud-init
6 1 (1.22%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.22%) Playwright
6 1 (1.22%) PySpark
6 1 (1.22%) React
6 1 (1.22%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Vue
6 1 (1.22%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Onboarding
2 8 (9.76%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.54%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.32%) PKI
5 2 (2.44%) Celerra
5 2 (2.44%) EMC Centera
5 2 (2.44%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (2.44%) EMC VNX
5 2 (2.44%) Equities
5 2 (2.44%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) IBM XIV
5 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Symmetrix
5 2 (2.44%) Symmetrix DMX
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.17%) Linux
2 11 (13.41%) Windows
3 9 (10.98%) Unix
4 6 (7.32%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.22%) CentOS
6 1 (1.22%) VMS
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (47.56%) CI/CD
2 34 (41.46%) Agile
3 30 (36.59%) DevOps
4 20 (24.39%) DevSecOps
5 19 (23.17%) Migration
6 17 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (19.51%) Software Delivery
8 14 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (15.85%) Containerisation
9 13 (15.85%) Test Automation
10 12 (14.63%) Open Source
10 12 (14.63%) SDLC
11 11 (13.41%) Software Licensing
11 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (13.41%) Task Automation
12 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (10.98%) Asset Management
13 9 (10.98%) Data Extraction
13 9 (10.98%) Kanban
13 9 (10.98%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.93%) Python
2 16 (19.51%) Java
3 8 (9.76%) PowerShell
4 6 (7.32%) SQL
5 5 (6.10%) Bash
5 5 (6.10%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.66%) Groovy
7 2 (2.44%) ActionScript
7 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.44%) Perl
8 1 (1.22%) C#
8 1 (1.22%) Go
8 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.98%) CCNP
3 9 (10.98%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (10.98%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) CCIE
4 3 (3.66%) CCNA
5 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.44%) CCIP
5 2 (2.44%) JNCIA
5 2 (2.44%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) CCDA
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) Degree
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) OCP
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) QA
2 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.22%) NCSC
2 1 (1.22%) NIST
2 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (15.85%) Docker
2 6 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.66%) GridGain
3 3 (3.66%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.66%) vSphere
4 2 (2.44%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.22%) Firmware
5 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (50.00%) Ansible
2 21 (25.61%) Kubernetes
3 17 (20.73%) Terraform
4 14 (17.07%) Grafana
5 11 (13.41%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.32%) Istio
7 5 (6.10%) Puppet
8 2 (2.44%) Avamar
8 2 (2.44%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (2.44%) Podman
8 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.22%) CASB
9 1 (1.22%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.22%) Consul
9 1 (1.22%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.22%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.22%) Packer
9 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.22%) SCOM
9 1 (1.22%) WMI
Vendors
1 15 (18.29%) Cisco
1 15 (18.29%) Sonatype
2 10 (12.20%) Splunk
3 9 (10.98%) VMware
4 6 (7.32%) Arista
4 6 (7.32%) Palo Alto
4 6 (7.32%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.10%) Dynatrace
5 5 (6.10%) Juniper
5 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.10%) Oracle
5 5 (6.10%) Solace
6 4 (4.88%) F5
7 3 (3.66%) Black Duck
7 3 (3.66%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.66%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.66%) Sybase
8 2 (2.44%) HP
8 2 (2.44%) IBM
8 2 (2.44%) NetApp