SonarQube Contract Job Trends in England

SonarSource SonarQube
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SonarQube skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 421 482
Rank change year-on-year -3 +61 -28
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 123 69 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 1.94% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 46 51
10th Percentile £359 £413 £425
25th Percentile £400 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £623 £619
90th Percentile £793 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £560 £575
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £48.55 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
England

SonarQube 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 4,682 3,556 4,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.66% 13.43% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,258 2,206 3,130
10th Percentile £335 £336 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 66 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.16 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.75 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SonarQube job vacancy trend in England

SonarQube
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SonarQube.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube in England over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in England

SonarQube
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SonarQube.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SonarQube in England over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SonarQube in England

SonarQube
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 SonarQube within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London -20 49 £600 +6.19% 10
North of England -30 36 £400 -12.09% 19
Midlands -24 24 £675 +10.29% 4
North West -6 20 £425 +19.38% 11
West Midlands -21 18 £700 +14.38% 2
South West - 16 £700 - 3
South East -16 9 £649 -0.19% 11
Yorkshire -49 9 £390 -33.05% 5
North East -6 7 - - 3
East Midlands - 6 £398 - 2
East of England -18 1 £850 +165.88% 1
SonarQube
UK

SonarQube
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 16 (13.01%) Confluence
2 7 (5.69%) Appian
3 5 (4.07%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.63%) Mule
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.90%) Azure
2 45 (36.59%) AWS
3 43 (34.96%) GitHub
4 30 (24.39%) GCP
5 23 (18.70%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (15.45%) OpenShift
7 18 (14.63%) Serverless
8 16 (13.01%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (13.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 15 (12.20%) Datadog
10 14 (11.38%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (11.38%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (8.94%) npm
11 11 (8.94%) PaaS
12 9 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (7.32%) Azure AKS
13 8 (6.50%) Apigee
13 8 (6.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.69%) Firewall
2 2 (1.63%) SSH
3 1 (0.81%) HTTP
3 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.81%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.20%) Redis
2 11 (8.94%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.50%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.69%) DocumentDB
5 7 (5.69%) Power BI
6 6 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.88%) MySQL
6 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.07%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.07%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.44%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.63%) Impala
10 2 (1.63%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.63%) Metadata
10 2 (1.63%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 51 (41.46%) Jenkins
2 39 (31.71%) Git
3 28 (22.76%) GitLab
4 24 (19.51%) JIRA
5 21 (17.07%) Maven
5 21 (17.07%) Sonatype Nexus
6 19 (15.45%) Selenium
7 17 (13.82%) Bitbucket
8 14 (11.38%) Cucumber
8 14 (11.38%) Postman
9 13 (10.57%) Gradle
10 12 (9.76%) Artifactory
10 12 (9.76%) Cypress.io
10 12 (9.76%) JUnit
11 11 (8.94%) Snyk
12 8 (6.50%) webpack
13 7 (5.69%) Robot Framework
14 5 (4.07%) CircleCI
14 5 (4.07%) SonarLint
15 4 (3.25%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.45%) Banking
3 17 (13.82%) Finance
4 13 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.69%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.88%) Publishing
7 4 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.63%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 32 (26.02%) Developer
2 21 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (13.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 12 (9.76%) Lead
4 12 (9.76%) Senior
5 10 (8.13%) GCP Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Architect
6 9 (7.32%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.50%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Java Architect
9 6 (4.88%) Java Technical Architect
9 6 (4.88%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.88%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) GCP DevOps
10 5 (4.07%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) React Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Security Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.07%) REST
2 18 (14.63%) YAML
3 17 (13.82%) JSON
3 17 (13.82%) React
4 16 (13.01%) Node.js
4 16 (13.01%) Spring Boot
5 12 (9.76%) AngularJS
5 12 (9.76%) Kafka
5 12 (9.76%) Spring
6 11 (8.94%) J2EE
7 10 (8.13%) .NET
7 10 (8.13%) CSS
7 10 (8.13%) CSS3
7 10 (8.13%) HTML
7 10 (8.13%) HTML5
7 10 (8.13%) RESTful
8 9 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (6.50%) Jest
9 8 (6.50%) XML
10 7 (5.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.69%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.88%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.88%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.07%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.25%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.44%) Autonomous Agent
7 3 (2.44%) Blog
7 3 (2.44%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.63%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.94%) Linux
2 6 (4.88%) Windows
3 3 (2.44%) Unix
3 3 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.63%) Android
5 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.81%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (64.23%) CI/CD
2 68 (55.28%) DevOps
3 49 (39.84%) Containerisation
4 44 (35.77%) Agile
5 38 (30.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (30.89%) Test Automation
6 36 (29.27%) DevSecOps
7 31 (25.20%) Software Engineering
8 28 (22.76%) SDLC
9 26 (21.14%) Microservices
10 23 (18.70%) Migration
11 22 (17.89%) Unit Testing
12 21 (17.07%) Sprint Planning
13 20 (16.26%) Code Quality
13 20 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (15.45%) Scrum
15 17 (13.82%) AI
15 17 (13.82%) TDD
16 16 (13.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.33%) Java
2 36 (29.27%) Python
3 24 (19.51%) JavaScript
4 16 (13.01%) SQL
5 7 (5.69%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.88%) Go
7 5 (4.07%) C++
7 5 (4.07%) Groovy
7 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.25%) Bash
8 4 (3.25%) C#
9 3 (2.44%) Rust
10 2 (1.63%) C
10 2 (1.63%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.63%) R
10 2 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.81%) ProC
11 1 (0.81%) RPG
11 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (32.52%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.58%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.82%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.69%) Degree
6 5 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.63%) OCP
8 2 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.81%) CISSP
9 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.81%) MCP
9 1 (0.81%) OSCP
9 1 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.63%) QA
2 11 (8.94%) NCSC
3 8 (6.50%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.44%) WCAG
5 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.81%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) NIST
5 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (56.91%) Docker
2 2 (1.63%) HDFS
3 1 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (43.90%) Kubernetes
2 47 (38.21%) Terraform
3 21 (17.07%) Ansible
4 11 (8.94%) Prometheus
5 10 (8.13%) Grafana
6 9 (7.32%) Argo
7 8 (6.50%) Puppet
8 7 (5.69%) Progress Chef
9 5 (4.07%) Podman
10 4 (3.25%) Istio
11 3 (2.44%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.63%) Kibana
12 2 (1.63%) rkt
13 1 (0.81%) Cilium
13 1 (0.81%) Rancher
13 1 (0.81%) Rsyslog
13 1 (0.81%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (11.38%) Veracode
2 12 (9.76%) Google
3 10 (8.13%) Checkmarx
4 9 (7.32%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.32%) Red Hat
4 9 (7.32%) Splunk
5 7 (5.69%) Cisco
5 7 (5.69%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.88%) DocuSign
7 5 (4.07%) Gigya
7 5 (4.07%) Guidewire
8 3 (2.44%) Cognizant
8 3 (2.44%) Databricks
8 3 (2.44%) Oracle
8 3 (2.44%) Perforce
9 2 (1.63%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.63%) SAP
9 2 (1.63%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.81%) Netsparker
10 1 (0.81%) Sonatype