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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 333 463
Rank change year-on-year -132 +130 -2
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 158 178 67
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.64% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.02% 4.34% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 134 57
10th Percentile £430 £276 £492
25th Percentile £475 £381 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £601 £650 £685
90th Percentile £695 £700 £715
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £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 5,225 4,103 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.79% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 2,843 2,827
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £414 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 96 174
10th Percentile £36.25 £42.38 £36.40
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.58 £54.09
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.90 £84.13 £71.76
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 29 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 29 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 -106 53 £593 -2.87% 35
North of England -57 51 £511 +28.62% 16
North East -13 30 £511 +9.95% 14
Midlands -52 29 £511 +7.47% 5
South East -53 28 £601 +20.19% 5
West Midlands -36 24 £513 +2.55% 1
North West -71 11 £500 +27.23%
Yorkshire -44 10 £514 +31.79% 2
East of England -15 9 £510 -40.00%
East Midlands -22 4 £335 +24.07% 4
South West -46 2 - - 7
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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 11 (6.96%) Confluence
2 7 (4.43%) Camunda
3 6 (3.80%) Apache
3 6 (3.80%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.16%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 69 (43.67%) AWS
2 51 (32.28%) GitHub
2 51 (32.28%) OpenShift
3 47 (29.75%) Azure
4 40 (25.32%) GCP
5 29 (18.35%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (12.66%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (8.86%) Amazon S3
8 13 (8.23%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (7.59%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (6.96%) Serverless
11 10 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (6.33%) AWS KMS
11 10 (6.33%) OCI
11 10 (6.33%) Route 53
12 8 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (5.06%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (3.16%) Azure AKS
13 5 (3.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (3.16%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.53%) MQTT
1 4 (2.53%) Network Security
2 3 (1.90%) Firewall
3 2 (1.27%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.76%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (6.96%) DynamoDB
3 11 (6.96%) Metadata
4 10 (6.33%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.16%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.53%) Flink
8 4 (2.53%) MySQL
8 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.53%) Tableau
9 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (45.57%) Jenkins
2 54 (34.18%) Git
3 50 (31.65%) GitLab
3 50 (31.65%) Maven
4 45 (28.48%) JUnit
5 21 (13.29%) Mockito
6 20 (12.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 18 (11.39%) Gradle
8 16 (10.13%) Cucumber
9 15 (9.49%) Selenium
9 15 (9.49%) Snyk
10 13 (8.23%) Bitbucket Server
11 12 (7.59%) JIRA
12 11 (6.96%) Postman
12 11 (6.96%) REST Assured
13 10 (6.33%) Gatling
14 9 (5.70%) Artifactory
15 8 (5.06%) IntelliJ
16 7 (4.43%) DbUnit
16 7 (4.43%) LoadRunner
General
1 38 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.62%) Finance
3 24 (15.19%) Public Sector
4 21 (13.29%) Banking
5 20 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.33%) Publishing
7 3 (1.90%) Automotive
7 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (39.24%) Developer
2 44 (27.85%) Java Developer
3 32 (20.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (14.56%) Senior
5 18 (11.39%) Java Engineer
6 15 (9.49%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.86%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 11 (6.96%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.33%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.06%) Lead
11 8 (5.06%) Quality Engineer
12 7 (4.43%) Architect
12 7 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.43%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 6 (3.80%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (32.91%) AngularJS
2 47 (29.75%) Spring
3 46 (29.11%) Spring Boot
4 45 (28.48%) Terraform
5 40 (25.32%) Quarkus
6 33 (20.89%) Kafka
7 29 (18.35%) Node.js
8 20 (12.66%) JPA
9 19 (12.03%) Hibernate
9 19 (12.03%) HTML
9 19 (12.03%) React
9 19 (12.03%) RESTful
10 18 (11.39%) SOAP
11 16 (10.13%) REST
11 16 (10.13%) Web Services
12 15 (9.49%) ActiveMQ
12 15 (9.49%) CSS
12 15 (9.49%) YAML
13 14 (8.86%) JSON
14 13 (8.23%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.06%) Data Structures
2 8 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.90%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) PKI
7 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.46%) Linux
2 8 (5.06%) Unix
3 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (60.76%) CI/CD
2 92 (58.23%) Agile
3 86 (54.43%) DevOps
4 74 (46.84%) Scrum
5 73 (46.20%) Test Automation
6 69 (43.67%) DevSecOps
7 60 (37.97%) Microservices
8 59 (37.34%) Software Engineering
9 51 (32.28%) SDLC
10 44 (27.85%) Front End Development
11 42 (26.58%) Sprint Planning
11 42 (26.58%) TDD
11 42 (26.58%) Unit Testing
12 35 (22.15%) Containerisation
12 35 (22.15%) Sprint Review
13 34 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (17.72%) BDD
15 25 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (15.19%) Code Quality
17 23 (14.56%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 113 (71.52%) Java
2 42 (26.58%) SQL
3 39 (24.68%) Python
4 24 (15.19%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.59%) Groovy
6 7 (4.43%) Bash
7 6 (3.80%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.16%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.53%) Rust
10 3 (1.90%) Go
10 3 (1.90%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.90%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.63%) Bicep
11 1 (0.63%) C#
11 1 (0.63%) COBOL
11 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (46.20%) Security Cleared
2 66 (41.77%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.39%) Degree
4 13 (8.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.80%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.90%) CISSP
7 3 (1.90%) GIAC
7 3 (1.90%) ISEB
7 3 (1.90%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.63%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.63%) GSEC
9 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (32.91%) QA
2 15 (9.49%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.70%) WCAG
4 4 (2.53%) NIST
4 4 (2.53%) PSD2
4 4 (2.53%) SEPA
5 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (40.51%) Docker
2 5 (3.16%) Postfix
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (63.29%) Kubernetes
2 43 (27.22%) Argo
3 29 (18.35%) Grafana
4 23 (14.56%) Prometheus
5 22 (13.92%) Ansible
6 9 (5.70%) HP Fortify
6 9 (5.70%) Istio
7 8 (5.06%) Puppet
8 5 (3.16%) Podman
9 4 (2.53%) Control-M
10 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.27%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 39 (24.68%) Red Hat
2 14 (8.86%) Checkmarx
3 13 (8.23%) IBM
4 11 (6.96%) Google
4 11 (6.96%) Oracle
4 11 (6.96%) Sonatype
4 11 (6.96%) Veracode
5 8 (5.06%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (4.43%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.80%) Databricks
7 6 (3.80%) SAP
8 5 (3.16%) Tenable
9 4 (2.53%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.53%) Microsoft
9 4 (2.53%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.27%) Splunk
11 1 (0.63%) Foundry
11 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.63%) Pega
11 1 (0.63%) UiPath