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 3 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 285 341
Rank change year-on-year -65 +56 +33
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 47 33 28
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.98% 2.27% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 24 21
10th Percentile £400 £406 £425
25th Percentile £409 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -15.43%
75th Percentile £585 £623 £575
90th Percentile £698 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% -9.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £53.13 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - -

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 2,368 1,451 1,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 13.17% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,650 961 1,354
10th Percentile £331 £331 £368
25th Percentile £402 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -6.06% -7.43%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 26 67
10th Percentile £48.88 £36.25 £39.00
25th Percentile £54.06 £57.06 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £80.50
90th Percentile £82.30 £78.75 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%

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 3 months to 23 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
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 3 months to 23 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -40 19 £431 -5.27% 13
London -56 19 £522 -5.13% 13
North West -17 10 £416 +6.27% 8
Midlands - 6 £537 - 3
North East - 6 - - 2
South East -28 5 £550 -15.38% 13
Yorkshire -46 3 £571 +10.07% 3
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £571 - 2
South West - 2 £638 - 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 25 (19.69%) Confluence
2 7 (5.51%) Appian
2 7 (5.51%) OpenStack
3 5 (3.94%) nginx
4 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 54 (42.52%) Azure
2 49 (38.58%) AWS
3 43 (33.86%) GitHub
4 29 (22.83%) GCP
5 23 (18.11%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (17.32%) Serverless
7 20 (15.75%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (14.17%) OpenShift
9 15 (11.81%) Datadog
9 15 (11.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (11.02%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (10.24%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (9.45%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (8.66%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (8.66%) PaaS
13 11 (8.66%) Route 53
14 10 (7.87%) npm
15 9 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.66%) Firewall
2 5 (3.94%) DNS
2 5 (3.94%) OpenVPN
2 5 (3.94%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.94%) VPN
3 2 (1.57%) SSH
4 1 (0.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.79%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.79%) Internet
4 1 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.79%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.02%) Redis
2 10 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.09%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.30%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (5.51%) Power BI
6 6 (4.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.72%) DocumentDB
6 6 (4.72%) MySQL
6 6 (4.72%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.94%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.94%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.36%) Metadata
8 3 (2.36%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.57%) Impala
9 2 (1.57%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.57%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 50 (39.37%) Jenkins
2 35 (27.56%) Git
3 32 (25.20%) GitLab
4 31 (24.41%) JIRA
5 22 (17.32%) Maven
6 20 (15.75%) Bitbucket
6 20 (15.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 19 (14.96%) Selenium
8 14 (11.02%) Cucumber
9 13 (10.24%) Gradle
9 13 (10.24%) Postman
10 12 (9.45%) Artifactory
10 12 (9.45%) Cypress.io
10 12 (9.45%) JUnit
11 11 (8.66%) Snyk
12 7 (5.51%) Robot Framework
12 7 (5.51%) webpack
13 5 (3.94%) CircleCI
13 5 (3.94%) SonarLint
14 4 (3.15%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.17%) Banking
2 18 (14.17%) Finance
3 12 (9.45%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.87%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.51%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.94%) Publishing
7 4 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.36%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.57%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 32 (25.20%) Developer
2 20 (15.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (13.39%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 14 (11.02%) Architect
5 12 (9.45%) Lead
5 12 (9.45%) Senior
6 10 (7.87%) Technical Architect
7 9 (7.09%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Java Architect
9 6 (4.72%) Java Technical Architect
9 6 (4.72%) React Developer
9 6 (4.72%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Security Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.11%) YAML
2 18 (14.17%) JSON
2 18 (14.17%) REST
3 15 (11.81%) Node.js
3 15 (11.81%) React
4 14 (11.02%) RESTful
4 14 (11.02%) Spring Boot
5 12 (9.45%) AngularJS
6 10 (7.87%) .NET
6 10 (7.87%) Spring
7 9 (7.09%) CSS
7 9 (7.09%) CSS3
7 9 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (7.09%) HTML
7 9 (7.09%) HTML5
7 9 (7.09%) J2EE
7 9 (7.09%) Kafka
8 8 (6.30%) OpenID
8 8 (6.30%) XML
9 7 (5.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.09%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.72%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.72%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.72%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.94%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.15%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.36%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (2.36%) Blog
6 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.57%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.57%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.66%) Linux
2 6 (4.72%) Windows
3 3 (2.36%) Unix
3 3 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.57%) Android
5 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (65.35%) CI/CD
2 71 (55.91%) DevOps
3 48 (37.80%) Containerisation
4 46 (36.22%) Agile
5 37 (29.13%) DevSecOps
5 37 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (29.13%) Test Automation
6 30 (23.62%) SDLC
7 29 (22.83%) Software Engineering
8 25 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (18.11%) Microservices
10 22 (17.32%) Migration
10 22 (17.32%) Unit Testing
11 20 (15.75%) Sprint Planning
11 20 (15.75%) TDD
12 19 (14.96%) Code Quality
12 19 (14.96%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (14.96%) Roadmaps
13 18 (14.17%) Scrum
14 17 (13.39%) AI
Programming Languages
1 43 (33.86%) Java
2 36 (28.35%) Python
3 23 (18.11%) JavaScript
4 14 (11.02%) SQL
5 7 (5.51%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.72%) Go
6 6 (4.72%) Groovy
7 5 (3.94%) C++
7 5 (3.94%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.15%) Bash
8 4 (3.15%) C#
9 3 (2.36%) Rust
10 2 (1.57%) C
10 2 (1.57%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.57%) R
10 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.79%) ProC
11 1 (0.79%) RPG
11 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (35.43%) Security Cleared
2 33 (25.98%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.39%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.72%) Degree
6 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.79%) CISSP
8 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.79%) MCP
8 1 (0.79%) OCP
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.79%) OSCP
8 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.81%) QA
2 11 (8.66%) NCSC
3 7 (5.51%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.57%) WCAG
5 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.79%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.79%) NIST
5 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (54.33%) Docker
2 5 (3.94%) Squid
3 2 (1.57%) HDFS
4 1 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (45.67%) Kubernetes
2 52 (40.94%) Terraform
3 20 (15.75%) Ansible
4 16 (12.60%) Prometheus
5 15 (11.81%) Grafana
6 9 (7.09%) Argo
7 8 (6.30%) Puppet
8 7 (5.51%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.94%) Consul
9 5 (3.94%) FortiGate
9 5 (3.94%) Podman
9 5 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (3.15%) Istio
11 3 (2.36%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.57%) Kibana
12 2 (1.57%) rkt
13 1 (0.79%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (14.17%) Veracode
2 14 (11.02%) Red Hat
3 12 (9.45%) Dynatrace
4 11 (8.66%) Google
5 10 (7.87%) Microsoft
6 9 (7.09%) Splunk
7 8 (6.30%) Checkmarx
8 7 (5.51%) Cisco
9 6 (4.72%) DocuSign
10 5 (3.94%) Atlassian
10 5 (3.94%) Gigya
10 5 (3.94%) Guidewire
10 5 (3.94%) Salesforce
11 3 (2.36%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.36%) Databricks
11 3 (2.36%) Oracle
11 3 (2.36%) Perforce
12 2 (1.57%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (1.57%) Sonatype
12 2 (1.57%) Xamarin