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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 354 447
Rank change year-on-year -111 +93 +7
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 134 130 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.53% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.68% 3.74% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 97 60
10th Percentile £413 £318 £424
25th Percentile £469 £402 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £646
90th Percentile £733 £693 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £488 £561
% change year-on-year +6.37% -13.14% -6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 3
10th Percentile £60.25 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% -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 5,006 3,477 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.21% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,359 2,979
10th Percentile £350 £333 £350
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £713 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 68 216
10th Percentile £35.38 £27.06 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.26%

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 June 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 June 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 -99 46 £593 +7.73% 1
North of England -58 37 £475 +7.34% 17
Midlands -60 27 £512 +7.84%
West Midlands -41 23 £512 +2.45%
South East -60 21 £513 +2.40% 6
North East -11 17 £513 +10.22% 8
North West -37 12 £431 +9.67% 5
East of England -16 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -52 8 £500 +5.26% 4
South West -21 4 £525 -12.50% 1
East Midlands -36 3 - -
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 20 (14.93%) Confluence
2 7 (5.22%) nginx
3 6 (4.48%) Apache
4 5 (3.73%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.75%) Camunda
6 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 59 (44.03%) AWS
2 37 (27.61%) Azure
3 33 (24.63%) GitHub
4 31 (23.13%) OpenShift
5 29 (21.64%) GCP
6 28 (20.90%) Amazon EC2
6 28 (20.90%) Amazon S3
7 26 (19.40%) Route 53
8 20 (14.93%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (14.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (14.18%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (13.43%) AWS KMS
11 15 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (10.45%) Serverless
13 11 (8.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (5.22%) OCI
17 4 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.72%) OpenVPN
2 8 (5.97%) Firewall
3 7 (5.22%) DNS
3 7 (5.22%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.22%) VPN
4 3 (2.24%) MQTT
4 3 (2.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.67%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (13.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (13.43%) DynamoDB
4 10 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (7.46%) Metadata
5 5 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.99%) Flink
7 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.49%) MySQL
8 2 (1.49%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.75%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.75%) Power BI
9 1 (0.75%) Redis
9 1 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.75%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (39.55%) Jenkins
2 39 (29.10%) Git
3 37 (27.61%) Maven
4 32 (23.88%) JUnit
5 26 (19.40%) GitLab
6 21 (15.67%) JIRA
7 19 (14.18%) Mockito
8 14 (10.45%) DbUnit
9 13 (9.70%) jMock
10 12 (8.96%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (8.21%) Bitbucket
12 10 (7.46%) Snyk
12 10 (7.46%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (6.72%) Artifactory
13 9 (6.72%) IntelliJ
14 6 (4.48%) CircleCI
14 6 (4.48%) Cucumber
14 6 (4.48%) Gradle
15 5 (3.73%) REST Assured
15 5 (3.73%) Selenium
General
1 31 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.39%) Public Sector
3 23 (17.16%) Finance
4 15 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.45%) Banking
6 7 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.22%) Publishing
7 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.24%) Automotive
8 3 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 53 (39.55%) Developer
2 39 (29.10%) Java Developer
3 29 (21.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (15.67%) Senior
5 18 (13.43%) Senior Developer
6 15 (11.19%) Software Engineer
7 13 (9.70%) Java Engineer
8 12 (8.96%) Architect
9 11 (8.21%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (6.72%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 8 (5.97%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 5 (3.73%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.73%) Technical Architect
14 4 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
14 4 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (32.84%) AngularJS
2 36 (26.87%) Spring
3 35 (26.12%) Spring Boot
4 27 (20.15%) Quarkus
5 26 (19.40%) Node.js
6 25 (18.66%) RESTful
7 23 (17.16%) REST
7 23 (17.16%) Web Services
8 21 (15.67%) Hibernate
8 21 (15.67%) JPA
9 20 (14.93%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (14.18%) SOAP
10 19 (14.18%) YAML
11 18 (13.43%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (13.43%) Spring Batch
11 18 (13.43%) Spring Integration
12 13 (9.70%) PowerMock
13 11 (8.21%) Bootstrap
13 11 (8.21%) Kafka
14 10 (7.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.19%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.24%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.49%) Blog
4 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.75%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.75%) NHS
5 1 (0.75%) PKI
5 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.75%) Replication
5 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.66%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (58.21%) CI/CD
2 77 (57.46%) DevOps
3 68 (50.75%) Agile
4 54 (40.30%) Scrum
5 50 (37.31%) DevSecOps
6 45 (33.58%) Software Engineering
7 43 (32.09%) TDD
7 43 (32.09%) Test Automation
8 42 (31.34%) Containerisation
9 41 (30.60%) Microservices
10 35 (26.12%) SDLC
11 34 (25.37%) Unit Testing
12 32 (23.88%) Sprint Planning
13 29 (21.64%) BDD
14 27 (20.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (18.66%) Front End Development
16 23 (17.16%) Sprint Review
17 20 (14.93%) Performance Tuning
18 19 (14.18%) Code Quality
18 19 (14.18%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 86 (64.18%) Java
2 34 (25.37%) SQL
3 26 (19.40%) Python
4 10 (7.46%) Groovy
5 5 (3.73%) Go
5 5 (3.73%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.99%) Bash
7 3 (2.24%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.24%) Rust
7 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.49%) C#
8 2 (1.49%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) COBOL
9 1 (0.75%) RPG
9 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (47.01%) Security Cleared
2 55 (41.04%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.46%) Degree
4 7 (5.22%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) CISSP
8 1 (0.75%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.63%) QA
2 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.24%) WCAG
4 2 (1.49%) PSD2
4 2 (1.49%) SEPA
5 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (37.31%) Docker
2 11 (8.21%) Postfix
3 7 (5.22%) Squid
Systems Management
1 69 (51.49%) Kubernetes
2 41 (30.60%) Terraform
3 39 (29.10%) Grafana
4 29 (21.64%) Argo
5 26 (19.40%) Prometheus
6 18 (13.43%) Ansible
7 8 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (5.22%) Consul
8 7 (5.22%) FortiGate
8 7 (5.22%) Istio
9 6 (4.48%) Puppet
10 3 (2.24%) HP Fortify
10 3 (2.24%) Podman
11 2 (1.49%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (25.37%) Red Hat
2 21 (15.67%) Atlassian
3 17 (12.69%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (8.96%) Checkmarx
4 12 (8.96%) Veracode
5 10 (7.46%) Sonatype
6 9 (6.72%) Dynatrace
6 9 (6.72%) Google
7 6 (4.48%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.73%) Guidewire
9 4 (2.99%) Microsoft
10 3 (2.24%) Cognizant
10 3 (2.24%) Databricks
10 3 (2.24%) NVIDIA
10 3 (2.24%) Oracle
10 3 (2.24%) SAP
10 3 (2.24%) Tenable
11 2 (1.49%) IBM
12 1 (0.75%) Pega
12 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow