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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 383 441
Rank change year-on-year -73 +58 +16
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 137 107 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.44% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.75% 3.21% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 82 60
10th Percentile £410 £363 £425
25th Percentile £463 £416 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -9.09% -7.95%
75th Percentile £601 £616 £646
90th Percentile £703 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £560
% change year-on-year +3.71% -10.71% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 3
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.75 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 4,980 3,335 4,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.08% 13.77% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 2,248 2,904
10th Percentile £346 £343 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £638
90th Percentile £688 £728 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 62 194
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.54 £32.10
25th Percentile £57.94 £48.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -9.04% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.88 £78.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.69%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -73 44 £571 +2.93%
North of England -45 40 £450 -2.17% 11
Midlands -45 29 £525 +33.76% 2
West Midlands -40 23 £525 +7.74% 1
South East -48 19 £513 +2.40% 8
North East -11 17 £513 +10.22% 4
North West -31 15 £431 +9.67% 3
East of England -16 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -47 8 £450 -2.70% 4
South West -30 5 £575 -4.17% 1
East Midlands -33 5 £525 +41.51% 1
SonarQube
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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 21 (15.33%) Confluence
2 7 (5.11%) nginx
3 5 (3.65%) Apache
4 4 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.92%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.73%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.92%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 60 (43.80%) AWS
2 39 (28.47%) Azure
3 36 (26.28%) GitHub
4 33 (24.09%) OpenShift
5 29 (21.17%) Amazon S3
6 27 (19.71%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (18.98%) GCP
8 25 (18.25%) Route 53
9 22 (16.06%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (13.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (13.14%) AWS KMS
12 15 (10.95%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (10.95%) Serverless
13 11 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (7.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (3.65%) Azure AKS
16 5 (3.65%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.57%) OpenVPN
2 8 (5.84%) Firewall
3 7 (5.11%) DNS
3 7 (5.11%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.11%) VPN
4 1 (0.73%) MQTT
4 1 (0.73%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.33%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.60%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (14.60%) DynamoDB
3 18 (13.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.84%) Metadata
5 7 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.92%) Flink
7 3 (2.19%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.19%) Redis
8 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.46%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.46%) MySQL
8 2 (1.46%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.73%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.73%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.73%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 54 (39.42%) Jenkins
2 42 (30.66%) Git
3 37 (27.01%) Maven
4 32 (23.36%) JUnit
5 22 (16.06%) GitLab
5 22 (16.06%) JIRA
6 18 (13.14%) Mockito
7 16 (11.68%) Bitbucket
8 14 (10.22%) DbUnit
9 13 (9.49%) jMock
10 11 (8.03%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (8.03%) Snyk
11 10 (7.30%) Artifactory
11 10 (7.30%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (6.57%) IntelliJ
13 8 (5.84%) Cucumber
13 8 (5.84%) Selenium
14 6 (4.38%) CircleCI
14 6 (4.38%) Gradle
15 4 (2.92%) REST Assured
General
1 32 (23.36%) Public Sector
2 29 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.06%) Finance
4 15 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.49%) Banking
6 7 (5.11%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.65%) Publishing
8 4 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.19%) Automotive
9 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.73%) Advertising
11 1 (0.73%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 55 (40.15%) Developer
2 39 (28.47%) Java Developer
3 27 (19.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (15.33%) Senior
5 18 (13.14%) Senior Developer
6 17 (12.41%) Software Engineer
7 15 (10.95%) Architect
8 14 (10.22%) Java Engineer
9 11 (8.03%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (7.30%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (3.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 5 (3.65%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.65%) Technical Architect
14 4 (2.92%) Cloud Architect
14 4 (2.92%) Lead
14 4 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
14 4 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (33.58%) AngularJS
2 38 (27.74%) Spring
3 36 (26.28%) Spring Boot
4 29 (21.17%) Node.js
5 27 (19.71%) Quarkus
6 24 (17.52%) REST
7 23 (16.79%) RESTful
7 23 (16.79%) Web Services
8 20 (14.60%) Hibernate
8 20 (14.60%) JPA
8 20 (14.60%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (13.87%) SOAP
10 18 (13.14%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (13.14%) Spring Batch
10 18 (13.14%) Spring Integration
10 18 (13.14%) YAML
11 13 (9.49%) PowerMock
12 11 (8.03%) Bootstrap
12 11 (8.03%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (6.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.60%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.46%) Blog
4 2 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.46%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.73%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.73%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.73%) NHS
5 1 (0.73%) PKI
5 1 (0.73%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.52%) Linux
2 5 (3.65%) Unix
3 1 (0.73%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (54.74%) CI/CD
1 75 (54.74%) DevOps
2 67 (48.91%) Agile
3 51 (37.23%) Scrum
4 48 (35.04%) DevSecOps
5 46 (33.58%) Software Engineering
6 43 (31.39%) Test Automation
7 42 (30.66%) Containerisation
7 42 (30.66%) TDD
8 41 (29.93%) Microservices
9 38 (27.74%) SDLC
10 34 (24.82%) Unit Testing
11 33 (24.09%) Sprint Planning
12 31 (22.63%) BDD
13 25 (18.25%) Front End Development
13 25 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (16.79%) Sprint Review
15 20 (14.60%) Code Quality
16 19 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 18 (13.14%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 89 (64.96%) Java
2 34 (24.82%) SQL
3 22 (16.06%) Python
4 9 (6.57%) Groovy
5 5 (3.65%) Go
5 5 (3.65%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.65%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.92%) Bash
7 3 (2.19%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.46%) C#
8 2 (1.46%) C++
8 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.73%) C
9 1 (0.73%) COBOL
9 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.73%) ProC
9 1 (0.73%) RPG
9 1 (0.73%) Rust
9 1 (0.73%) VB
9 1 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (44.53%) Security Cleared
2 52 (37.96%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) Degree
4 6 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.65%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.36%) QA
2 4 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.19%) WCAG
4 2 (1.46%) PSD2
4 2 (1.46%) SEPA
System Software
1 53 (38.69%) Docker
2 11 (8.03%) Postfix
3 7 (5.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 70 (51.09%) Kubernetes
2 37 (27.01%) Terraform
3 36 (26.28%) Grafana
4 28 (20.44%) Argo
5 23 (16.79%) Prometheus
6 17 (12.41%) Ansible
7 8 (5.84%) Istio
8 7 (5.11%) Consul
8 7 (5.11%) FortiGate
8 7 (5.11%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (4.38%) Puppet
10 4 (2.92%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.46%) Podman
11 2 (1.46%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (24.82%) Red Hat
2 21 (15.33%) Atlassian
3 17 (12.41%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (9.49%) Checkmarx
5 12 (8.76%) Veracode
6 9 (6.57%) Dynatrace
6 9 (6.57%) Google
7 8 (5.84%) Sonatype
8 7 (5.11%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.65%) Guidewire
9 5 (3.65%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.92%) Databricks
10 4 (2.92%) Oracle
10 4 (2.92%) SAP
11 3 (2.19%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.73%) Acunetix
12 1 (0.73%) IBM
12 1 (0.73%) Pega
12 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.73%) Splunk