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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 337 470
Rank change year-on-year -140 +133 -12
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 160 181 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.65% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.06% 4.34% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 132 47
10th Percentile £385 £277 £440
25th Percentile £450 £376 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £652 £685
90th Percentile £672 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £586
% change year-on-year +2.00% -14.68% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £67.56 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 5,233 4,174 4,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.34% 15.05% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,895 2,769
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £631
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 96 164
10th Percentile £24.10 £38.13 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.56 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 62 £518 -15.16% 33
North of England -67 43 £514 +27.94% 19
Midlands -38 41 £467 -6.60% 7
West Midlands -32 38 £475 -17.39% 6
North East -16 23 £510 +20.00% 13
South East -51 23 £690 +37.86% 5
North West -72 11 £537 +31.06% 5
Yorkshire -44 9 £514 +31.88% 1
East of England -16 6 £570 -32.94% 1
South West -47 3 £300 -57.14% 6
East Midlands -24 2 £335 +24.07% 1
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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 19 (11.88%) Confluence
2 9 (5.63%) Camunda
3 6 (3.75%) Apache
3 6 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.13%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 78 (48.75%) AWS
2 62 (38.75%) GitHub
3 45 (28.13%) Azure
4 41 (25.63%) OpenShift
5 36 (22.50%) GCP
6 27 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (16.25%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (7.50%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (6.25%) Serverless
11 9 (5.63%) AWS KMS
11 9 (5.63%) Route 53
12 7 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (4.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (4.38%) OCI
13 6 (3.75%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.13%) Firewall
2 4 (2.50%) MQTT
2 4 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.38%) Relational Database
3 13 (8.13%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.88%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 8 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (5.00%) Metadata
7 7 (4.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.13%) MySQL
9 4 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.50%) Flink
9 4 (2.50%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.50%) Tableau
10 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.25%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.63%) Power BI
12 1 (0.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 78 (48.75%) Jenkins
2 68 (42.50%) Git
3 60 (37.50%) Maven
4 59 (36.88%) JUnit
5 58 (36.25%) GitLab
6 32 (20.00%) Mockito
7 25 (15.63%) Cucumber
8 22 (13.75%) Selenium
8 22 (13.75%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (13.13%) Gradle
9 21 (13.13%) JIRA
10 17 (10.63%) Gatling
11 14 (8.75%) Bitbucket Server
12 13 (8.13%) REST Assured
12 13 (8.13%) Snyk
13 12 (7.50%) Postman
14 9 (5.63%) Artifactory
15 7 (4.38%) LoadRunner
15 7 (4.38%) SoapUI
16 6 (3.75%) JMeter
General
1 50 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 35 (21.88%) Finance
3 28 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (16.25%) Public Sector
5 25 (15.63%) Banking
6 7 (4.38%) Publishing
7 6 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.25%) Automotive
9 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Front Office
10 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (40.00%) Developer
2 47 (29.38%) Java Developer
3 27 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (15.63%) Senior
5 16 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 15 (9.38%) Quality Engineer
7 14 (8.75%) Senior Java Developer
8 13 (8.13%) Lead
9 12 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (7.50%) Java Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 7 (4.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Lead Developer
11 7 (4.38%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.75%) Architect
12 6 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 5 (3.13%) GCP DevOps
13 5 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (36.25%) Spring
2 51 (31.88%) Spring Boot
3 50 (31.25%) AngularJS
4 42 (26.25%) Terraform
5 34 (21.25%) Kafka
6 30 (18.75%) JPA
7 29 (18.13%) Hibernate
7 29 (18.13%) SOAP
8 28 (17.50%) Quarkus
9 27 (16.88%) RESTful
9 27 (16.88%) Web Services
10 25 (15.63%) HTML
10 25 (15.63%) Node.js
10 25 (15.63%) REST
11 24 (15.00%) ActiveMQ
11 24 (15.00%) React
12 20 (12.50%) CSS
13 19 (11.88%) Spring Cloud
14 18 (11.25%) Playwright
15 16 (10.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) PKI
10 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.63%) NHS
10 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.75%) Linux
2 10 (6.25%) Unix
3 5 (3.13%) Windows
4 3 (1.88%) VMS
5 2 (1.25%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (69.38%) CI/CD
2 98 (61.25%) Agile
3 82 (51.25%) DevOps
4 81 (50.63%) Scrum
5 80 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 74 (46.25%) Microservices
7 55 (34.38%) DevSecOps
7 55 (34.38%) TDD
8 51 (31.88%) SDLC
9 48 (30.00%) Software Engineering
10 41 (25.63%) Containerisation
11 39 (24.38%) Front End Development
11 39 (24.38%) Sprint Planning
12 36 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (20.00%) BDD
13 32 (20.00%) Unit Testing
14 31 (19.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (18.75%) Code Quality
16 29 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 27 (16.88%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 111 (69.38%) Java
2 43 (26.88%) Python
3 41 (25.63%) SQL
4 30 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 15 (9.38%) Bash
6 14 (8.75%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.88%) Groovy
8 9 (5.63%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.75%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.50%) Rust
11 3 (1.88%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.25%) Bicep
13 1 (0.63%) C#
13 1 (0.63%) COBOL
13 1 (0.63%) Go
13 1 (0.63%) Korn
13 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 65 (40.63%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.75%) Degree
4 19 (11.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.38%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.38%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.88%) CISSP
8 3 (1.88%) GIAC
8 3 (1.88%) ISEB
8 3 (1.88%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.63%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.63%) GSEC
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (28.75%) QA
2 20 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 14 (8.75%) WCAG
4 4 (2.50%) NIST
4 4 (2.50%) PSD2
4 4 (2.50%) SEPA
5 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 77 (48.13%) Docker
2 4 (2.50%) Postfix
3 3 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (58.13%) Kubernetes
2 37 (23.13%) Grafana
3 31 (19.38%) Argo
4 29 (18.13%) Prometheus
5 27 (16.88%) Ansible
6 10 (6.25%) HP Fortify
7 7 (4.38%) Istio
8 6 (3.75%) Puppet
9 5 (3.13%) Podman
10 4 (2.50%) Control-M
11 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (18.13%) Red Hat
2 16 (10.00%) IBM
3 13 (8.13%) Veracode
4 12 (7.50%) Checkmarx
5 11 (6.88%) Google
6 10 (6.25%) Oracle
7 8 (5.00%) Databricks
7 8 (5.00%) Sonatype
8 7 (4.38%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (4.38%) SAP
9 6 (3.75%) Atlassian
10 5 (3.13%) Tenable
11 4 (2.50%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.50%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.50%) NVIDIA
12 2 (1.25%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.25%) Splunk
13 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.63%) UiPath
13 1 (0.63%) webMethods