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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 339 456
Rank change year-on-year -131 +117 +6
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 152 174 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.63% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.85% 4.33% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 128 60
10th Percentile £450 £274 £424
25th Percentile £500 £376 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £626 £630 £678
90th Percentile £730 £688 £704
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%

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 5,335 4,022 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.45% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,779 2,837
10th Percentile £353 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 97 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.30 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.44% - +0.97%

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 10 August 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
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 10 August 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 -118 50 £601 -1.56% 35
North of England -54 46 £511 +27.18% 19
South East -54 31 £601 +20.13% 2
North East -18 29 £511 +9.95% 15
Midlands -53 29 £512 +26.17% 9
West Midlands -41 26 £512 +2.45% 7
Yorkshire -42 9 £514 +31.88% 1
East of England - 9 £510 -
North West -58 8 £463 +17.68% 3
South West -45 3 - - 4
East Midlands -23 2 - - 2
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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 8 (5.26%) Confluence
2 6 (3.95%) Apache
2 6 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.32%) Camunda
4 2 (1.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 71 (46.71%) AWS
2 48 (31.58%) Azure
3 47 (30.92%) GitHub
3 47 (30.92%) OpenShift
4 36 (23.68%) GCP
5 32 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (14.47%) Amazon S3
6 22 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (13.82%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
8 19 (12.50%) Route 53
9 17 (11.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (10.53%) AWS KMS
11 11 (7.24%) Serverless
12 9 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.92%) OCI
13 6 (3.95%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.29%) Firewall
2 4 (2.63%) MQTT
2 4 (2.63%) Network Security
2 4 (2.63%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.32%) DNS
3 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (11.18%) DynamoDB
4 16 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (6.58%) Metadata
6 8 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.63%) Flink
8 4 (2.63%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.97%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.32%) MySQL
10 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.66%) Power BI
11 1 (0.66%) Redis
11 1 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.66%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 69 (45.39%) Jenkins
2 51 (33.55%) Git
3 46 (30.26%) Maven
4 40 (26.32%) JUnit
5 37 (24.34%) GitLab
6 22 (14.47%) Mockito
7 16 (10.53%) Snyk
8 14 (9.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (8.55%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (7.89%) DbUnit
11 11 (7.24%) Gradle
11 11 (7.24%) jMock
12 10 (6.58%) Cucumber
13 9 (5.92%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.92%) Selenium
14 8 (5.26%) IntelliJ
14 8 (5.26%) JIRA
15 7 (4.61%) CircleCI
15 7 (4.61%) REST Assured
16 6 (3.95%) Postman
General
1 31 (20.39%) Public Sector
1 31 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.76%) Finance
3 18 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.53%) Banking
5 9 (5.92%) Publishing
6 3 (1.97%) Automotive
6 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Advertising
8 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (39.47%) Developer
2 47 (30.92%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (14.47%) Senior
5 17 (11.18%) Java Engineer
5 17 (11.18%) Software Engineer
6 16 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.58%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Architect
11 8 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Lead
13 6 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
14 5 (3.29%) Data Engineer
14 5 (3.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (38.82%) AngularJS
2 43 (28.29%) Spring
2 43 (28.29%) Spring Boot
3 42 (27.63%) Quarkus
4 31 (20.39%) Node.js
5 21 (13.82%) ActiveMQ
5 21 (13.82%) REST
5 21 (13.82%) RESTful
6 20 (13.16%) Hibernate
6 20 (13.16%) JPA
6 20 (13.16%) Kafka
6 20 (13.16%) SOAP
6 20 (13.16%) Spring Cloud
7 18 (11.84%) Web Services
8 16 (10.53%) Spring Batch
8 16 (10.53%) Spring Integration
9 13 (8.55%) Bootstrap
9 13 (8.55%) YAML
10 12 (7.89%) React
11 11 (7.24%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.97%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.32%) PKI
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.66%) NHS
8 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.76%) Linux
2 5 (3.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (59.21%) CI/CD
2 89 (58.55%) DevOps
3 85 (55.92%) Agile
4 73 (48.03%) Scrum
5 71 (46.71%) DevSecOps
6 60 (39.47%) Software Engineering
7 59 (38.82%) Test Automation
8 54 (35.53%) Microservices
9 50 (32.89%) SDLC
10 44 (28.95%) Front End Development
11 43 (28.29%) Sprint Planning
12 41 (26.97%) Unit Testing
13 40 (26.32%) Containerisation
14 39 (25.66%) TDD
15 37 (24.34%) Sprint Review
16 32 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (17.11%) BDD
18 23 (15.13%) Static Application Security Testing
19 21 (13.82%) Code Quality
19 21 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (67.11%) Java
2 38 (25.00%) SQL
3 33 (21.71%) Python
4 11 (7.24%) Groovy
4 11 (7.24%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.61%) Bash
6 6 (3.95%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.29%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.63%) Go
8 4 (2.63%) Rust
9 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.66%) C#
10 1 (0.66%) COBOL
10 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 69 (45.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.58%) Degree
4 8 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.61%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.97%) CISSP
8 3 (1.97%) GIAC
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.66%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.66%) GSEC
10 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (32.24%) QA
2 11 (7.24%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.29%) WCAG
4 4 (2.63%) NIST
4 4 (2.63%) PSD2
4 4 (2.63%) SEPA
5 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.66%) GDPR
6 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (41.45%) Docker
2 9 (5.92%) Postfix
3 2 (1.32%) Squid
4 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 45 (29.61%) Argo
3 43 (28.29%) Terraform
4 37 (24.34%) Grafana
5 26 (17.11%) Prometheus
6 23 (15.13%) Ansible
7 9 (5.92%) Istio
8 8 (5.26%) Puppet
9 6 (3.95%) HP Fortify
10 5 (3.29%) Podman
11 4 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.32%) Consul
12 2 (1.32%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.32%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 43 (28.29%) Red Hat
2 15 (9.87%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (9.21%) Atlassian
4 13 (8.55%) Checkmarx
5 10 (6.58%) Sonatype
6 9 (5.92%) Google
7 7 (4.61%) Databricks
8 6 (3.95%) Veracode
9 5 (3.29%) Oracle
10 4 (2.63%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.63%) IBM
10 4 (2.63%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.63%) SAP
10 4 (2.63%) Tenable
11 3 (1.97%) Microsoft
12 1 (0.66%) Foundry
12 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.66%) Pega
12 1 (0.66%) Splunk
12 1 (0.66%) UiPath