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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 333 465
Rank change year-on-year -125 +132 -13
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 167 180 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.66% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.22% 4.44% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 133 55
10th Percentile £431 £276 £487
25th Percentile £475 £375 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £612
Median % change year-on-year +8.34% -22.39% +2.00%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £685
90th Percentile £690 £700 £723
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £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 5,192 4,054 4,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.89% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,313 2,810 2,807
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £631
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 94 173
10th Percentile £37.05 £43.63 £36.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.06 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.99 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.44% - -

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 4 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 4 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 -114 58 £593 -2.87% 38
North of England -67 52 £511 +27.81% 9
Midlands -47 35 £511 +7.47% 6
North East -12 30 £511 +9.95% 8
West Midlands -39 30 £513 +2.55% 2
South East -57 28 £601 +20.13% 5
Yorkshire -42 11 £514 +31.79% 1
North West -62 11 £500 +27.23%
East of England -10 9 £510 -40.00%
East Midlands -29 4 £335 +24.07% 4
South West -52 2 - - 6
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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 18 (10.78%) Confluence
2 8 (4.79%) Camunda
3 6 (3.59%) Apache
3 6 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.59%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.99%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 73 (43.71%) AWS
2 54 (32.34%) GitHub
3 52 (31.14%) OpenShift
4 50 (29.94%) Azure
5 41 (24.55%) GCP
6 31 (18.56%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (13.17%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (7.19%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (6.59%) Serverless
10 10 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.99%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (5.99%) AWS KMS
10 10 (5.99%) Route 53
11 9 (5.39%) OCI
12 8 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (4.79%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (4.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (3.59%) Azure AKS
14 6 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) Firewall
2 4 (2.40%) MQTT
2 4 (2.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.77%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (6.59%) DynamoDB
2 11 (6.59%) Relational Database
2 11 (6.59%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.99%) Metadata
4 9 (5.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (5.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (2.99%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.40%) Flink
6 4 (2.40%) MySQL
6 4 (2.40%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.40%) Tableau
7 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.60%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 78 (46.71%) Jenkins
2 63 (37.72%) Git
3 58 (34.73%) Maven
4 52 (31.14%) JUnit
5 51 (30.54%) GitLab
6 28 (16.77%) Mockito
7 23 (13.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 19 (11.38%) Gradle
8 19 (11.38%) JIRA
9 16 (9.58%) Cucumber
9 16 (9.58%) Snyk
10 15 (8.98%) Selenium
11 14 (8.38%) Bitbucket Server
12 12 (7.19%) REST Assured
13 11 (6.59%) Postman
14 10 (5.99%) Gatling
15 8 (4.79%) IntelliJ
16 7 (4.19%) Artifactory
16 7 (4.19%) DbUnit
16 7 (4.19%) LoadRunner
General
1 42 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.76%) Finance
3 26 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (15.57%) Public Sector
4 22 (13.17%) Banking
5 9 (5.39%) Publishing
6 4 (2.40%) Automotive
6 4 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.80%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Advertising
9 1 (0.60%) Front Office
9 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (41.32%) Developer
2 51 (30.54%) Java Developer
3 35 (20.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (17.96%) Senior
5 19 (11.38%) Senior Developer
6 18 (10.78%) Java Engineer
7 15 (8.98%) Senior Java Developer
8 14 (8.38%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.59%) Lead
9 11 (6.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (5.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) Quality Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Architect
12 7 (4.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.59%) Lead Developer
13 6 (3.59%) Python Engineer
14 5 (2.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (34.73%) AngularJS
2 54 (32.34%) Spring
3 53 (31.74%) Spring Boot
4 45 (26.95%) Terraform
5 40 (23.95%) Quarkus
6 32 (19.16%) Kafka
7 29 (17.37%) Node.js
8 27 (16.17%) JPA
9 26 (15.57%) Hibernate
10 25 (14.97%) RESTful
11 24 (14.37%) SOAP
11 24 (14.37%) Web Services
12 23 (13.77%) REST
13 21 (12.57%) ActiveMQ
14 20 (11.98%) HTML
14 20 (11.98%) React
15 19 (11.38%) Spring Cloud
16 16 (9.58%) CSS
17 14 (8.38%) YAML
18 13 (7.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.37%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.39%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) PKI
10 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.60%) NHS
10 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.57%) Linux
2 10 (5.99%) Unix
3 3 (1.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (62.28%) CI/CD
2 101 (60.48%) Agile
3 87 (52.10%) DevOps
4 82 (49.10%) Scrum
5 81 (48.50%) Test Automation
6 70 (41.92%) DevSecOps
7 67 (40.12%) Microservices
8 60 (35.93%) Software Engineering
9 57 (34.13%) SDLC
10 49 (29.34%) TDD
11 48 (28.74%) Front End Development
11 48 (28.74%) Sprint Planning
12 44 (26.35%) Containerisation
13 42 (25.15%) Unit Testing
14 35 (20.96%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (20.96%) Sprint Review
15 30 (17.96%) Code Quality
16 28 (16.77%) BDD
17 25 (14.97%) Stakeholder Management
18 24 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 122 (73.05%) Java
2 45 (26.95%) SQL
3 42 (25.15%) Python
4 25 (14.97%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.78%) Groovy
6 11 (6.59%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.99%) Bash
8 6 (3.59%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.40%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.40%) Rust
10 3 (1.80%) Go
10 3 (1.80%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.20%) Bicep
12 1 (0.60%) C#
12 1 (0.60%) COBOL
12 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (43.11%) Security Cleared
2 65 (38.92%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.38%) Degree
4 13 (7.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.19%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.80%) CISSP
7 3 (1.80%) GIAC
7 3 (1.80%) ISEB
7 3 (1.80%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.60%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.60%) GSEC
9 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (31.14%) QA
2 15 (8.98%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.39%) WCAG
4 4 (2.40%) NIST
4 4 (2.40%) PSD2
4 4 (2.40%) SEPA
5 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (43.11%) Docker
2 5 (2.99%) Postfix
3 3 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (61.08%) Kubernetes
2 43 (25.75%) Argo
3 37 (22.16%) Grafana
4 29 (17.37%) Prometheus
5 25 (14.97%) Ansible
6 9 (5.39%) HP Fortify
6 9 (5.39%) Istio
7 8 (4.79%) Puppet
8 5 (2.99%) Podman
9 4 (2.40%) Control-M
10 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (23.35%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.58%) Checkmarx
3 14 (8.38%) IBM
4 13 (7.78%) Google
5 12 (7.19%) Veracode
6 11 (6.59%) Oracle
7 10 (5.99%) Sonatype
8 8 (4.79%) Databricks
8 8 (4.79%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (4.19%) Atlassian
9 7 (4.19%) SAP
10 5 (2.99%) Tenable
11 4 (2.40%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.40%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.40%) NVIDIA
12 2 (1.20%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.20%) Splunk
13 1 (0.60%) Foundry
13 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.60%) Pega