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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 345 452
Rank change year-on-year -123 +107 +7
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 152 161 85
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.58% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.85% 4.06% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 119 61
10th Percentile £450 £270 £425
25th Percentile £495 £373 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £469 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -21.83% -
75th Percentile £626 £620 £675
90th Percentile £732 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £519 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +9.17% -20.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £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 5,329 3,969 4,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.38% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 2,751 2,841
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 94 207
10th Percentile £30.75 £40.68 £32.48
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.53 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% - +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 1 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 1 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
North of England -57 47 £505 +28.50% 11
London -101 46 £618 -1.00% 21
Midlands -53 32 £512 +31.85% 5
North East -15 30 £511 +10.54% 9
South East -48 30 £601 +20.13% 2
West Midlands -50 28 £512 +7.84% 4
Yorkshire -39 9 £507 +30.00% 1
East of England - 9 £510 -
North West -62 8 £463 +17.68% 1
East Midlands -29 3 - - 1
South West -41 3 - - 7
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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 10 (6.58%) Confluence
2 6 (3.95%) Apache
2 6 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.32%) Camunda
4 2 (1.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 71 (46.71%) AWS
2 49 (32.24%) Azure
3 48 (31.58%) OpenShift
4 45 (29.61%) GitHub
5 35 (23.03%) GCP
6 31 (20.39%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (15.79%) Amazon S3
8 23 (15.13%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (13.82%) Amazon SQS
9 21 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (13.82%) Route 53
10 19 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (11.84%) AWS KMS
12 11 (7.24%) Serverless
13 9 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (5.92%) OCI
14 6 (3.95%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.29%) Firewall
2 4 (2.63%) MQTT
2 4 (2.63%) Network Security
2 4 (2.63%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.32%) DNS
3 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (13.82%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 18 (11.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (6.58%) Metadata
6 8 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.63%) Flink
8 4 (2.63%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.97%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.32%) MySQL
10 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.66%) Power BI
11 1 (0.66%) Redis
11 1 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.66%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 69 (45.39%) Jenkins
2 53 (34.87%) Git
3 47 (30.92%) Maven
4 42 (27.63%) JUnit
5 35 (23.03%) GitLab
6 24 (15.79%) Mockito
7 14 (9.21%) DbUnit
7 14 (9.21%) Snyk
7 14 (9.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (8.55%) Bitbucket Server
8 13 (8.55%) jMock
9 11 (7.24%) Gradle
10 10 (6.58%) Cucumber
10 10 (6.58%) JIRA
11 9 (5.92%) Artifactory
11 9 (5.92%) Selenium
12 8 (5.26%) IntelliJ
13 7 (4.61%) CircleCI
13 7 (4.61%) REST Assured
14 6 (3.95%) Gatling
General
1 33 (21.71%) Public Sector
2 32 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.11%) Finance
4 18 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.87%) Banking
6 9 (5.92%) Publishing
7 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.97%) Automotive
8 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (40.13%) Developer
2 49 (32.24%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (13.16%) Senior
5 18 (11.84%) Java Engineer
5 18 (11.84%) Software Engineer
6 16 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 14 (9.21%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (7.24%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Architect
11 8 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.29%) Data Engineer
14 5 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.29%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (3.29%) Lead
14 5 (3.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (40.79%) AngularJS
2 44 (28.95%) Spring
2 44 (28.95%) Spring Boot
3 43 (28.29%) Quarkus
4 31 (20.39%) Node.js
5 22 (14.47%) ActiveMQ
5 22 (14.47%) Hibernate
5 22 (14.47%) JPA
5 22 (14.47%) REST
5 22 (14.47%) Spring Cloud
6 21 (13.82%) RESTful
6 21 (13.82%) SOAP
7 19 (12.50%) Web Services
8 18 (11.84%) Kafka
8 18 (11.84%) Spring Batch
8 18 (11.84%) Spring Integration
9 13 (8.55%) Bootstrap
9 13 (8.55%) PowerMock
9 13 (8.55%) YAML
10 11 (7.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.32%) PKI
7 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
7 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.42%) Linux
2 4 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (59.21%) CI/CD
2 89 (58.55%) DevOps
3 88 (57.89%) Agile
4 76 (50.00%) Scrum
5 71 (46.71%) DevSecOps
6 60 (39.47%) Software Engineering
6 60 (39.47%) Test Automation
7 55 (36.18%) Microservices
8 50 (32.89%) SDLC
9 44 (28.95%) Front End Development
9 44 (28.95%) Sprint Planning
10 42 (27.63%) Containerisation
10 42 (27.63%) Unit Testing
11 41 (26.97%) TDD
12 38 (25.00%) Sprint Review
13 32 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (18.42%) BDD
15 22 (14.47%) Kanban
15 22 (14.47%) Performance Tuning
15 22 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (67.11%) Java
2 37 (24.34%) SQL
3 31 (20.39%) Python
4 11 (7.24%) Groovy
5 9 (5.92%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.95%) Bash
6 6 (3.95%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.29%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.63%) Go
8 4 (2.63%) Rust
9 2 (1.32%) C#
9 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.66%) COBOL
10 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (50.66%) Security Cleared
2 70 (46.05%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.58%) Degree
4 9 (5.92%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.61%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.97%) CISSP
8 3 (1.97%) GIAC
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.66%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.66%) GSEC
10 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (32.89%) QA
2 11 (7.24%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.29%) WCAG
4 4 (2.63%) NIST
4 4 (2.63%) PSD2
4 4 (2.63%) SEPA
5 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.66%) GDPR
6 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (42.11%) Docker
2 11 (7.24%) Postfix
3 2 (1.32%) Squid
4 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 46 (30.26%) Argo
3 43 (28.29%) Terraform
4 39 (25.66%) Grafana
5 26 (17.11%) Prometheus
6 23 (15.13%) Ansible
7 9 (5.92%) Istio
8 8 (5.26%) Puppet
9 5 (3.29%) Podman
10 4 (2.63%) HP Fortify
10 4 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.32%) Consul
11 2 (1.32%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.32%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 44 (28.95%) Red Hat
2 17 (11.18%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (10.53%) Atlassian
4 12 (7.89%) Checkmarx
5 10 (6.58%) Sonatype
6 9 (5.92%) Google
7 7 (4.61%) Databricks
8 5 (3.29%) Veracode
9 4 (2.63%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.63%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.63%) Oracle
9 4 (2.63%) Tenable
10 3 (1.97%) IBM
10 3 (1.97%) Microsoft
10 3 (1.97%) SAP
11 1 (0.66%) Foundry
11 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.66%) Pega
11 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.66%) Splunk