Sonatype Contract Job Trends

Sonatype
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 January 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
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 515 585
Rank change year-on-year -63 +70 +187
Contract jobs citing Sonatype 10 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.003% 0.014%
As % of the Vendors category 0.059% 0.007% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £281 - £486
25th Percentile £299 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.00%
75th Percentile £347 - £650
90th Percentile £522 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £304 - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,847 14,544 19,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.30% 45.76% 44.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,815 8,618 12,039
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £411 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 427 687
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.79 £17.88
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% -37.61% +60.13%
75th Percentile £47.50 £61.25 £63.29
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.04 £76.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.00% -43.82% +80.27%

Sonatype
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Sonatype job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sonatype over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sonatype in the UK

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Top 6 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 11 January 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 - 10 £308 - 4
Yorkshire - 7 £304 - 3
UK excluding London - 7 £304 - 4
North of England - 7 £304 - 3
London - 3 £310 -
Work from Home -8 2 £328 - 2

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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 10 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
1 10 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (90.00%) Banking
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Analyst
1 10 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 10 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
1 10 (100.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Matrix Organization
2 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (70.00%) Process Improvement
4 6 (60.00%) Migration
5 5 (50.00%) Data Extraction
5 5 (50.00%) Software Delivery
6 4 (40.00%) Fintech
7 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft