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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 417 479
Rank change year-on-year -14 +62 -21
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 129 71 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.71% 1.98% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 47 51
10th Percentile £378 £387 £425
25th Percentile £419 £451 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £606 £600
90th Percentile £786 £715 £725
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +2.73% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £48.55 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 4,756 3,584 4,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.47% 13.47% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,297 2,215 3,108
10th Percentile £340 £339 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 64 201
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.35 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.68 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.60 £75.95 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 29 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SonarQube in England over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SonarQube in England

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 January 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 -14 52 £550 - 10
North of England -33 40 £431 -2.05% 12
North West 0 26 £431 +15.39% 7
Midlands -38 22 £700 +17.94% 3
West Midlands -20 19 £700 +17.94% 2
South West - 17 £700 - 3
South East -22 9 £550 -15.38% 15
North East -9 7 - - 1
Yorkshire -53 7 £498 -14.51% 4
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 1
East of England -13 1 £850 +165.88% 1
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 28 (21.71%) Confluence
2 8 (6.20%) OpenStack
3 7 (5.43%) Appian
4 5 (3.88%) nginx
5 3 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 55 (42.64%) Azure
2 49 (37.98%) AWS
3 44 (34.11%) GitHub
4 25 (19.38%) GCP
5 24 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (17.05%) Serverless
7 20 (15.50%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (13.95%) OpenShift
9 15 (11.63%) Datadog
9 15 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (10.08%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (9.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (8.53%) PaaS
12 11 (8.53%) Route 53
13 9 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (6.98%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.75%) Firewall
2 5 (3.88%) DNS
2 5 (3.88%) OpenVPN
2 5 (3.88%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.88%) VPN
3 2 (1.55%) SSH
4 1 (0.78%) HTTP
4 1 (0.78%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.78%) Internet
4 1 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.78%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.85%) Redis
2 10 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.20%) DynamoDB
3 8 (6.20%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.43%) Power BI
5 6 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.65%) DocumentDB
5 6 (4.65%) MySQL
5 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.88%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.88%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.10%) Metadata
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.33%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.33%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.55%) Impala
9 2 (1.55%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 49 (37.98%) Jenkins
2 35 (27.13%) Git
3 34 (26.36%) GitLab
4 33 (25.58%) JIRA
5 23 (17.83%) Maven
6 21 (16.28%) Bitbucket
7 18 (13.95%) Selenium
7 18 (13.95%) Sonatype Nexus
8 15 (11.63%) Cucumber
9 13 (10.08%) Artifactory
10 12 (9.30%) Cypress.io
10 12 (9.30%) Gradle
10 12 (9.30%) JUnit
10 12 (9.30%) Postman
11 11 (8.53%) Snyk
12 7 (5.43%) Robot Framework
13 6 (4.65%) webpack
14 5 (3.88%) CircleCI
14 5 (3.88%) SonarLint
15 4 (3.10%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.73%) Finance
3 15 (11.63%) Banking
4 13 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.43%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.10%) Publishing
8 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.55%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.78%) Retail
10 1 (0.78%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 33 (25.58%) Developer
2 21 (16.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (13.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 14 (10.85%) Architect
5 13 (10.08%) Senior
6 12 (9.30%) Lead
7 10 (7.75%) Technical Architect
8 7 (5.43%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) React Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) GCP Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Java Architect
9 6 (4.65%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (3.88%) Security Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (3.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.71%) YAML
2 19 (14.73%) JSON
3 17 (13.18%) REST
4 16 (12.40%) Node.js
4 16 (12.40%) RESTful
5 14 (10.85%) React
6 13 (10.08%) Spring Boot
7 12 (9.30%) AngularJS
8 10 (7.75%) .NET
8 10 (7.75%) Spring
9 9 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (6.98%) J2EE
10 8 (6.20%) CSS
10 8 (6.20%) CSS3
10 8 (6.20%) HTML
10 8 (6.20%) HTML5
10 8 (6.20%) Kafka
10 8 (6.20%) OpenID
10 8 (6.20%) XML
11 7 (5.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.40%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.65%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.88%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.88%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.10%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.33%) Blog
6 3 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.55%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.55%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.55%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.53%) Linux
2 6 (4.65%) Windows
3 3 (2.33%) Unix
3 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.55%) Android
5 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.78%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (65.12%) CI/CD
2 69 (53.49%) DevOps
3 48 (37.21%) Agile
4 45 (34.88%) Containerisation
5 38 (29.46%) DevSecOps
6 37 (28.68%) Test Automation
7 36 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (24.81%) SDLC
9 31 (24.03%) Software Engineering
10 26 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (18.60%) Unit Testing
12 22 (17.05%) Microservices
12 22 (17.05%) TDD
13 21 (16.28%) Code Quality
14 20 (15.50%) Scrum
14 20 (15.50%) Sprint Planning
15 19 (14.73%) Migration
15 19 (14.73%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (14.73%) Roadmaps
16 17 (13.18%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.66%) Java
2 35 (27.13%) Python
3 22 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.85%) SQL
5 7 (5.43%) Groovy
5 7 (5.43%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.65%) Go
6 6 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.88%) Bash
7 5 (3.88%) C++
8 4 (3.10%) C#
9 3 (2.33%) Rust
10 2 (1.55%) C
10 2 (1.55%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.55%) R
10 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.78%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.78%) ProC
11 1 (0.78%) RPG
Qualifications
1 47 (36.43%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.18%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.88%) Degree
6 3 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CISSP
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) MCP
7 1 (0.78%) OCP
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.78%) OSCP
7 1 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.85%) QA
2 11 (8.53%) NCSC
3 6 (4.65%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.55%) WCAG
5 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.78%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (51.16%) Docker
2 5 (3.88%) Squid
3 2 (1.55%) HDFS
4 1 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (44.19%) Kubernetes
2 52 (40.31%) Terraform
3 20 (15.50%) Ansible
4 16 (12.40%) Prometheus
5 15 (11.63%) Grafana
6 8 (6.20%) Argo
6 8 (6.20%) Puppet
7 7 (5.43%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.88%) Consul
8 5 (3.88%) FortiGate
8 5 (3.88%) Podman
8 5 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.10%) Istio
10 3 (2.33%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.55%) Kibana
11 2 (1.55%) rkt
12 1 (0.78%) Rancher
Vendors
1 21 (16.28%) Veracode
2 14 (10.85%) Red Hat
3 12 (9.30%) Dynatrace
4 10 (7.75%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.98%) Splunk
6 8 (6.20%) Checkmarx
6 8 (6.20%) Google
7 7 (5.43%) Cisco
7 7 (5.43%) Salesforce
8 6 (4.65%) DocuSign
9 5 (3.88%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.88%) Gigya
9 5 (3.88%) Guidewire
10 4 (3.10%) Oracle
11 3 (2.33%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.33%) Databricks
11 3 (2.33%) Perforce
11 3 (2.33%) Sonatype
12 2 (1.55%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (1.55%) SAP