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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 335 452
Rank change year-on-year -127 +117 +13
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 157 178 75
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.65% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.02% 4.38% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 134 61
10th Percentile £429 £276 £425
25th Percentile £475 £381 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.34% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £601 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
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% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +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 5,195 4,067 4,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.35% 14.76% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,301 2,815 2,833
10th Percentile £358 £325 £353
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 £602 £625
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 239 95 175
10th Percentile £36.25 £42.35 £36.45
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.41 £54.49
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -120 53 £593 -2.87% 30
North of England -55 50 £513 +28.93% 17
North East -15 30 £511 +9.95% 15
Midlands -53 29 £511 +7.47% 4
South East -45 28 £601 +20.19% 4
West Midlands -52 24 £513 +2.55% 1
North West -58 11 £500 +27.23%
East of England -11 9 £510 -40.00%
Yorkshire -46 9 £514 +31.88% 2
East Midlands -25 4 £335 +24.07% 3
South West -37 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 11 (7.01%) Confluence
2 7 (4.46%) Camunda
3 6 (3.82%) Apache
4 5 (3.18%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.18%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 68 (43.31%) AWS
2 51 (32.48%) OpenShift
3 50 (31.85%) GitHub
4 46 (29.30%) Azure
5 40 (25.48%) GCP
6 29 (18.47%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (12.74%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (8.28%) Amazon S3
9 12 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (7.64%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (6.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (6.37%) OCI
10 10 (6.37%) Route 53
10 10 (6.37%) Serverless
11 9 (5.73%) AWS KMS
12 8 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (5.10%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (3.18%) Azure AKS
13 5 (3.18%) Entra ID
13 5 (3.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) MQTT
1 4 (2.55%) Network Security
2 3 (1.91%) Firewall
3 2 (1.27%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.64%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (7.01%) Metadata
4 10 (6.37%) DynamoDB
4 10 (6.37%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.18%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.55%) Flink
8 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.55%) Tableau
9 3 (1.91%) MySQL
10 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.64%) Power BI
11 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (45.86%) Jenkins
2 54 (34.39%) Git
3 50 (31.85%) Maven
4 49 (31.21%) GitLab
5 45 (28.66%) JUnit
6 21 (13.38%) Mockito
7 20 (12.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 18 (11.46%) Gradle
9 16 (10.19%) Cucumber
10 15 (9.55%) Selenium
10 15 (9.55%) Snyk
11 13 (8.28%) Bitbucket Server
12 12 (7.64%) JIRA
13 11 (7.01%) Postman
13 11 (7.01%) REST Assured
14 10 (6.37%) Gatling
15 9 (5.73%) Artifactory
16 8 (5.10%) IntelliJ
17 7 (4.46%) DbUnit
17 7 (4.46%) LoadRunner
General
1 38 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.75%) Finance
3 24 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 21 (13.38%) Banking
5 20 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.37%) Publishing
7 3 (1.91%) Automotive
7 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (39.49%) Developer
2 44 (28.03%) Java Developer
3 31 (19.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (14.65%) Senior
5 18 (11.46%) Java Engineer
6 15 (9.55%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.92%) Software Engineer
8 11 (7.01%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 11 (7.01%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.37%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.10%) Lead
11 8 (5.10%) Quality Engineer
12 7 (4.46%) Architect
12 7 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.46%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 6 (3.82%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (3.18%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (33.12%) AngularJS
2 47 (29.94%) Spring
3 46 (29.30%) Spring Boot
4 44 (28.03%) Terraform
5 40 (25.48%) Quarkus
6 33 (21.02%) Kafka
7 29 (18.47%) Node.js
8 20 (12.74%) JPA
9 19 (12.10%) Hibernate
9 19 (12.10%) HTML
9 19 (12.10%) React
9 19 (12.10%) RESTful
10 18 (11.46%) SOAP
11 16 (10.19%) REST
11 16 (10.19%) Web Services
12 15 (9.55%) ActiveMQ
12 15 (9.55%) CSS
12 15 (9.55%) YAML
13 14 (8.92%) JSON
14 13 (8.28%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.74%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.10%) Data Structures
2 8 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) PKI
7 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.64%) NHS
7 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.92%) Linux
2 8 (5.10%) Unix
3 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (60.51%) CI/CD
2 92 (58.60%) Agile
3 85 (54.14%) DevOps
4 74 (47.13%) Scrum
5 73 (46.50%) Test Automation
6 69 (43.95%) DevSecOps
7 60 (38.22%) Microservices
8 59 (37.58%) Software Engineering
9 51 (32.48%) SDLC
10 44 (28.03%) Front End Development
11 42 (26.75%) Sprint Planning
11 42 (26.75%) TDD
11 42 (26.75%) Unit Testing
12 35 (22.29%) Sprint Review
13 34 (21.66%) Containerisation
14 33 (21.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 28 (17.83%) BDD
16 25 (15.92%) Stakeholder Management
17 24 (15.29%) Code Quality
18 23 (14.65%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 113 (71.97%) Java
2 42 (26.75%) SQL
3 38 (24.20%) Python
4 24 (15.29%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.64%) Groovy
6 7 (4.46%) Bash
7 6 (3.82%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.18%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.55%) Rust
10 3 (1.91%) Go
10 3 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.91%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.64%) Bicep
11 1 (0.64%) C#
11 1 (0.64%) COBOL
11 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (45.86%) Security Cleared
2 65 (41.40%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.46%) Degree
4 13 (8.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.82%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.82%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.82%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.91%) CISSP
7 3 (1.91%) GIAC
7 3 (1.91%) ISEB
7 3 (1.91%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.64%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.64%) GSEC
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (33.12%) QA
2 15 (9.55%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.73%) WCAG
4 4 (2.55%) NIST
4 4 (2.55%) PSD2
4 4 (2.55%) SEPA
5 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.64%) GDPR
6 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (40.76%) Docker
2 5 (3.18%) Postfix
3 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (63.06%) Kubernetes
2 43 (27.39%) Argo
3 28 (17.83%) Grafana
4 22 (14.01%) Ansible
4 22 (14.01%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.73%) HP Fortify
5 9 (5.73%) Istio
6 8 (5.10%) Puppet
7 5 (3.18%) Podman
8 4 (2.55%) Control-M
9 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.27%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 39 (24.84%) Red Hat
2 14 (8.92%) Checkmarx
3 13 (8.28%) IBM
4 11 (7.01%) Google
4 11 (7.01%) Oracle
4 11 (7.01%) Sonatype
4 11 (7.01%) Veracode
5 8 (5.10%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (4.46%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.82%) Databricks
7 6 (3.82%) SAP
8 4 (2.55%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.55%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.55%) NVIDIA
8 4 (2.55%) Tenable
9 1 (0.64%) Foundry
9 1 (0.64%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.64%) Pega
9 1 (0.64%) Splunk
9 1 (0.64%) UiPath