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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 344 459
Rank change year-on-year -138 +115 -17
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 163 178 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.64% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.07% 4.20% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 130 45
10th Percentile £388 £276 £460
25th Percentile £450 £375 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £598 £670 £685
90th Percentile £670 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £586
% change year-on-year +1.00% -14.68% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.44 - £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 5,317 4,234 4,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.43% 15.11% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 2,934 2,749
10th Percentile £351 £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 £600 £638
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 249 96 164
10th Percentile £23.74 £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 £76.15 £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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -93 62 £510 -16.39% 39
North of England -71 45 £514 +27.94% 18
Midlands -44 42 £459 -8.20% 6
West Midlands -27 39 £467 -18.78% 5
South East -45 26 £690 +37.86% 8
North East -21 25 £510 +20.00% 13
North West -67 11 £537 +31.06% 3
Yorkshire -41 9 £514 +31.88% 2
East of England -20 5 £570 -32.94% 2
South West -49 3 £300 -57.14% 8
East Midlands -26 2 £335 +24.07% 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 19 (11.66%) Confluence
2 9 (5.52%) Camunda
3 5 (3.07%) Apache
3 5 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.07%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.61%) IIS
5 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 78 (47.85%) AWS
2 61 (37.42%) GitHub
3 45 (27.61%) Azure
4 44 (26.99%) OpenShift
5 36 (22.09%) GCP
6 27 (16.56%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (15.34%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (6.75%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.75%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (6.13%) Serverless
10 9 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (5.52%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (4.91%) AWS KMS
11 8 (4.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (4.91%) Route 53
12 7 (4.29%) OCI
13 6 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.07%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (3.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.68%) Firewall
2 4 (2.45%) MQTT
2 4 (2.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.20%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.98%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (5.52%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.91%) Metadata
7 7 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.07%) MySQL
10 4 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.45%) Flink
10 4 (2.45%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.45%) Tableau
11 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.61%) Power BI
13 1 (0.61%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 77 (47.24%) Jenkins
2 69 (42.33%) Git
3 60 (36.81%) Maven
4 59 (36.20%) GitLab
4 59 (36.20%) JUnit
5 31 (19.02%) Mockito
6 27 (16.56%) Cucumber
7 24 (14.72%) Selenium
7 24 (14.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (12.88%) Gradle
8 21 (12.88%) JIRA
9 18 (11.04%) Gatling
10 13 (7.98%) Bitbucket Server
10 13 (7.98%) REST Assured
11 12 (7.36%) Postman
11 12 (7.36%) Snyk
12 9 (5.52%) Artifactory
13 7 (4.29%) LoadRunner
13 7 (4.29%) SoapUI
14 6 (3.68%) JMeter
General
1 52 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.86%) Finance
3 27 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (15.34%) Banking
5 24 (14.72%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.29%) Publishing
7 6 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.23%) Automotive
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) German Language
10 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (39.88%) Developer
2 48 (29.45%) Java Developer
3 27 (16.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (15.34%) Senior
5 17 (10.43%) Quality Engineer
6 15 (9.20%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.98%) Java Engineer
7 13 (7.98%) Lead
7 13 (7.98%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (6.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (5.52%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) Lead Developer
12 6 (3.68%) Architect
12 6 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 6 (3.68%) GCP DevOps
12 6 (3.68%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.07%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (35.58%) Spring
2 51 (31.29%) AngularJS
3 49 (30.06%) Spring Boot
4 43 (26.38%) Terraform
5 34 (20.86%) Kafka
6 30 (18.40%) Quarkus
7 29 (17.79%) JPA
8 28 (17.18%) Hibernate
8 28 (17.18%) SOAP
9 27 (16.56%) Web Services
10 26 (15.95%) RESTful
11 25 (15.34%) HTML
12 24 (14.72%) Node.js
12 24 (14.72%) React
12 24 (14.72%) REST
13 23 (14.11%) ActiveMQ
14 20 (12.27%) CSS
14 20 (12.27%) Playwright
15 18 (11.04%) Gherkin
15 18 (11.04%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.56%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.36%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.13%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.68%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.23%) PKI
9 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.61%) NHS
9 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.40%) Linux
2 11 (6.75%) Unix
3 6 (3.68%) Windows
4 4 (2.45%) VMS
5 2 (1.23%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (69.33%) CI/CD
2 101 (61.96%) Agile
3 84 (51.53%) Test Automation
4 83 (50.92%) Scrum
5 82 (50.31%) DevOps
6 75 (46.01%) Microservices
7 58 (35.58%) DevSecOps
8 54 (33.13%) TDD
9 53 (32.52%) SDLC
10 49 (30.06%) Software Engineering
11 41 (25.15%) Containerisation
11 41 (25.15%) Front End Development
11 41 (25.15%) Sprint Planning
12 35 (21.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (20.86%) Unit Testing
14 31 (19.02%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (18.40%) BDD
15 30 (18.40%) Code Quality
15 30 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (17.79%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 115 (70.55%) Java
2 44 (26.99%) Python
3 39 (23.93%) SQL
4 30 (18.40%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.43%) Bash
6 14 (8.59%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.36%) Groovy
8 10 (6.13%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.29%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.45%) Rust
11 3 (1.84%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.23%) Bicep
13 1 (0.61%) C#
13 1 (0.61%) COBOL
13 1 (0.61%) Go
13 1 (0.61%) Korn
13 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (43.56%) Security Cleared
2 65 (39.88%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.50%) Degree
4 21 (12.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.91%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.91%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.29%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.84%) CISSP
8 3 (1.84%) GIAC
8 3 (1.84%) ISEB
8 3 (1.84%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.61%) GSEC
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (29.45%) QA
2 22 (13.50%) Accessibility
3 16 (9.82%) WCAG
4 4 (2.45%) NIST
4 4 (2.45%) PSD2
4 4 (2.45%) SEPA
5 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) GDPR
6 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 79 (48.47%) Docker
2 4 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.84%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 99 (60.74%) Kubernetes
2 36 (22.09%) Grafana
3 34 (20.86%) Argo
4 27 (16.56%) Ansible
4 27 (16.56%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.13%) HP Fortify
6 8 (4.91%) Istio
7 6 (3.68%) Puppet
8 5 (3.07%) Podman
9 4 (2.45%) Control-M
10 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (19.02%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.82%) IBM
3 13 (7.98%) Veracode
4 12 (7.36%) Checkmarx
5 11 (6.75%) Google
6 10 (6.13%) Oracle
7 8 (4.91%) Sonatype
8 7 (4.29%) Databricks
9 6 (3.68%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (3.68%) SAP
10 5 (3.07%) Atlassian
10 5 (3.07%) Tenable
11 4 (2.45%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.45%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.45%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.84%) AppDynamics
13 2 (1.23%) Splunk
14 1 (0.61%) Foundry
14 1 (0.61%) Pega
14 1 (0.61%) webMethods