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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 409 470
Rank change year-on-year -25 +61 -26
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 115 71 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.45% 2.02% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 46 55
10th Percentile £382 £386 £425
25th Percentile £422 £451 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £650
90th Percentile £793 £719 £733
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £49.23 - -
25th Percentile £54.06 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile £63.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - -

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 4,690 3,512 4,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.50% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,248 2,177 3,140
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 57 202
10th Percentile £39.00 £38.00 £41.58
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.21
90th Percentile £81.60 £76.75 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -38 43 £525 -4.55% 12
North of England -33 35 £428 -6.04% 11
Midlands -29 22 £700 +24.44% 7
North West -5 20 £428 +14.46% 4
West Midlands -33 19 £700 +24.44% 5
South West - 16 £700 - 2
South East -19 9 £550 -15.38% 16
North East -9 8 - - 4
Yorkshire -59 7 £498 -14.51% 3
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 2
East of England -19 1 £850 +165.88% 1
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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 29 (25.22%) Confluence
2 7 (6.09%) Appian
2 7 (6.09%) OpenStack
3 5 (4.35%) nginx
4 3 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 49 (42.61%) Azure
2 40 (34.78%) AWS
3 35 (30.43%) GitHub
4 22 (19.13%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (15.65%) OpenShift
6 16 (13.91%) Serverless
7 14 (12.17%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (11.30%) GCP
9 12 (10.43%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (7.83%) Amazon S3
11 9 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (6.96%) npm
12 8 (6.96%) Power Platform
12 8 (6.96%) PowerApps
12 8 (6.96%) Route 53
13 7 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (6.09%) Power Automate
13 7 (6.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.96%) Firewall
2 5 (4.35%) DNS
2 5 (4.35%) OpenVPN
2 5 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.35%) VPN
3 1 (0.87%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.87%) Internet
3 1 (0.87%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.83%) Redis
2 7 (6.09%) Power BI
3 6 (5.22%) DocumentDB
3 6 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.48%) Metadata
6 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.61%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.61%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.74%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.74%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (33.04%) Jenkins
2 34 (29.57%) JIRA
3 30 (26.09%) Git
3 30 (26.09%) GitLab
4 20 (17.39%) Bitbucket
5 18 (15.65%) Maven
6 16 (13.91%) Selenium
7 15 (13.04%) Cucumber
8 14 (12.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (11.30%) JUnit
10 11 (9.57%) Artifactory
10 11 (9.57%) Cypress.io
10 11 (9.57%) Postman
11 10 (8.70%) Snyk
12 7 (6.09%) Robot Framework
13 5 (4.35%) Gradle
13 5 (4.35%) webpack
14 4 (3.48%) CircleCI
14 4 (3.48%) Mockito
15 3 (2.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 30 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.91%) Finance
3 13 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.43%) Banking
5 9 (7.83%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (6.09%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.74%) Publishing
9 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.87%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 36 (31.30%) Developer
2 15 (13.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 14 (12.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.43%) Lead
4 12 (10.43%) Senior
5 9 (7.83%) Java Developer
6 8 (6.96%) Architect
6 8 (6.96%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) React Developer
7 7 (6.09%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.48%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Technical Architect
8 4 (3.48%) UI Developer
9 3 (2.61%) Head of Development
9 3 (2.61%) Java Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Salesforce Developer
9 3 (2.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.48%) YAML
2 18 (15.65%) JSON
2 18 (15.65%) Node.js
2 18 (15.65%) REST
3 15 (13.04%) AngularJS
4 14 (12.17%) React
5 11 (9.57%) RESTful
5 11 (9.57%) Spring
6 10 (8.70%) .NET
7 9 (7.83%) Spring Boot
7 9 (7.83%) Web Services
8 8 (6.96%) CSS
8 8 (6.96%) CSS3
8 8 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (6.96%) HTML
8 8 (6.96%) HTML5
8 8 (6.96%) Kafka
8 8 (6.96%) OpenID
8 8 (6.96%) Quarkus
8 8 (6.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.48%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.48%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.61%) Blog
4 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.87%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.43%) Linux
2 4 (3.48%) Windows
3 3 (2.61%) Unix
4 2 (1.74%) Android
5 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.87%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 59 (51.30%) DevOps
3 43 (37.39%) Agile
4 36 (31.30%) DevSecOps
4 36 (31.30%) Test Automation
5 33 (28.70%) Containerisation
6 31 (26.96%) Software Engineering
7 27 (23.48%) SDLC
8 26 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (21.74%) Unit Testing
10 22 (19.13%) Scrum
11 21 (18.26%) Sprint Planning
12 20 (17.39%) Code Quality
12 20 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (17.39%) TDD
13 18 (15.65%) Microservices
14 15 (13.04%) Front End Development
14 15 (13.04%) Roadmaps
15 14 (12.17%) BDD
15 14 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (36.52%) Java
2 23 (20.00%) Python
3 22 (19.13%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.43%) SQL
5 7 (6.09%) Groovy
5 7 (6.09%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.35%) C++
6 5 (4.35%) Go
7 4 (3.48%) Bash
7 4 (3.48%) C#
7 4 (3.48%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.61%) Rust
9 2 (1.74%) C
9 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.74%) R
9 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.87%) ProC
10 1 (0.87%) RPG
10 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 35 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.48%) Degree
6 3 (2.61%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.87%) CISSP
8 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.87%) OCP
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.87%) OSCP
8 1 (0.87%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) QA
2 10 (8.70%) NCSC
3 6 (5.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.74%) WCAG
5 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.87%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (46.09%) Docker
2 5 (4.35%) Squid
3 2 (1.74%) Postfix
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (41.74%) Kubernetes
2 36 (31.30%) Terraform
3 16 (13.91%) Ansible
4 15 (13.04%) Grafana
5 14 (12.17%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.96%) Argo
7 6 (5.22%) Puppet
8 5 (4.35%) Consul
8 5 (4.35%) FortiGate
8 5 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.48%) Podman
9 4 (3.48%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.61%) HP Fortify
10 3 (2.61%) Istio
11 2 (1.74%) rkt
12 1 (0.87%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (19.13%) Veracode
2 15 (13.04%) Red Hat
3 12 (10.43%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.96%) Checkmarx
4 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.96%) Splunk
5 7 (6.09%) Atlassian
5 7 (6.09%) Cisco
5 7 (6.09%) Salesforce
6 6 (5.22%) DocuSign
7 5 (4.35%) Guidewire
8 4 (3.48%) Google
8 4 (3.48%) Oracle
9 3 (2.61%) Cognizant
9 3 (2.61%) Databricks
9 3 (2.61%) Perforce
9 3 (2.61%) Sonatype
10 2 (1.74%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.74%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.74%) Xamarin