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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 395 459
Rank change year-on-year -75 +64 -14
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 113 84 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.25% 2.43% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 55 56
10th Percentile £400 £385 £388
25th Percentile £450 £451 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -11.39%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £616
90th Percentile £779 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 5,028 3,454 4,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.81% 13.44% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,421 2,216 3,073
10th Percentile £340 £332 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £694 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 64 197
10th Percentile £33.26 £26.63 £39.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.56 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £86.12
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -54 41 £525 -7.08% 7
North of England -45 33 £450 +2.27% 20
Midlands -47 25 £575 +27.21% 8
West Midlands -36 21 £575 - 8
North West -21 17 £431 +13.72% 7
South West - 14 £700 - 2
South East -28 10 £550 +2.42% 13
North East -5 9 - - 11
Yorkshire -60 7 £450 -13.25% 2
East Midlands -31 4 £525 +16.15%
SonarQube
UK

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 24 (21.24%) Confluence
2 7 (6.19%) nginx
3 6 (5.31%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.54%) Appian
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 54 (47.79%) AWS
2 39 (34.51%) Azure
3 32 (28.32%) GitHub
4 21 (18.58%) OpenShift
5 20 (17.70%) Amazon S3
6 18 (15.93%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (15.04%) Route 53
8 16 (14.16%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (13.27%) Serverless
10 14 (12.39%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (10.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (9.73%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (7.96%) AWS KMS
13 9 (7.96%) GCP
13 9 (7.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (4.42%) Azure AKS
14 5 (4.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.96%) OpenVPN
2 7 (6.19%) DNS
2 7 (6.19%) Firewall
2 7 (6.19%) TCP/IP
2 7 (6.19%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.62%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (9.73%) DynamoDB
2 11 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.19%) Redis
5 5 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.42%) DocumentDB
5 5 (4.42%) Metadata
6 2 (1.77%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.77%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.77%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.77%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.88%) MySQL
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (41.59%) Jenkins
2 31 (27.43%) Git
3 28 (24.78%) GitLab
3 28 (24.78%) JIRA
4 24 (21.24%) Maven
5 22 (19.47%) Bitbucket
6 19 (16.81%) JUnit
7 13 (11.50%) Cucumber
7 13 (11.50%) Selenium
8 12 (10.62%) Artifactory
9 10 (8.85%) Mockito
9 10 (8.85%) Snyk
9 10 (8.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (7.96%) Postman
11 7 (6.19%) Cypress.io
11 7 (6.19%) DbUnit
11 7 (6.19%) jMock
12 5 (4.42%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (3.54%) CircleCI
13 4 (3.54%) Gradle
General
1 27 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.58%) Public Sector
3 15 (13.27%) Finance
4 11 (9.73%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (8.85%) Banking
6 9 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.54%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.65%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.65%) Publishing
9 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 41 (36.28%) Developer
2 18 (15.93%) Java Developer
3 16 (14.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 12 (10.62%) Senior
5 10 (8.85%) Architect
5 10 (8.85%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.19%) React Developer
8 6 (5.31%) Lead
9 5 (4.42%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Security Engineer
11 3 (2.65%) AWS Architect
11 3 (2.65%) Evangelist
11 3 (2.65%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (2.65%) JavaScript Developer
11 3 (2.65%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.12%) AngularJS
2 24 (21.24%) YAML
3 20 (17.70%) Node.js
3 20 (17.70%) REST
4 18 (15.93%) Spring
5 15 (13.27%) RESTful
5 15 (13.27%) Spring Boot
5 15 (13.27%) Web Services
6 13 (11.50%) JSON
7 12 (10.62%) Hibernate
7 12 (10.62%) JPA
7 12 (10.62%) Quarkus
8 10 (8.85%) OpenID
8 10 (8.85%) React
8 10 (8.85%) SOAP
8 10 (8.85%) Spring Cloud
9 9 (7.96%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (7.96%) Bootstrap
9 9 (7.96%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (7.96%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.96%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.65%) Blog
3 3 (2.65%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.65%) Private Cloud
3 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.65%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.77%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.77%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.88%) Contactless
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.70%) Linux
2 4 (3.54%) Windows
3 3 (2.65%) Unix
4 2 (1.77%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (60.18%) CI/CD
2 60 (53.10%) DevOps
3 48 (42.48%) Agile
4 38 (33.63%) DevSecOps
5 36 (31.86%) Test Automation
6 34 (30.09%) Scrum
7 33 (29.20%) Containerisation
8 27 (23.89%) SDLC
8 27 (23.89%) Software Engineering
8 27 (23.89%) TDD
9 24 (21.24%) Microservices
9 24 (21.24%) Unit Testing
10 23 (20.35%) Sprint Planning
11 20 (17.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (15.93%) BDD
12 18 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (13.27%) Front End Development
14 14 (12.39%) Decision-Making
15 13 (11.50%) Code Quality
15 13 (11.50%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (46.02%) Java
2 18 (15.93%) Python
2 18 (15.93%) SQL
3 14 (12.39%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.08%) Groovy
5 7 (6.19%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.42%) Bash
6 5 (4.42%) C#
6 5 (4.42%) C++
6 5 (4.42%) Go
6 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.77%) C
8 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.77%) R
8 2 (1.77%) Rust
9 1 (0.88%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.88%) ProC
9 1 (0.88%) Swift
9 1 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (44.25%) Security Cleared
2 43 (38.05%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.85%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.54%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.65%) Degree
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.88%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.16%) QA
2 6 (5.31%) NCSC
3 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.77%) WCAG
5 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 52 (46.02%) Docker
2 7 (6.19%) Squid
3 6 (5.31%) Postfix
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (44.25%) Kubernetes
2 32 (28.32%) Terraform
3 22 (19.47%) Grafana
4 14 (12.39%) Prometheus
5 13 (11.50%) Ansible
6 12 (10.62%) Argo
7 7 (6.19%) Consul
7 7 (6.19%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.19%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (4.42%) Puppet
9 4 (3.54%) HP Fortify
10 3 (2.65%) Istio
10 3 (2.65%) Podman
10 3 (2.65%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.77%) rkt
11 2 (1.77%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (17.70%) Red Hat
1 20 (17.70%) Veracode
2 14 (12.39%) Atlassian
3 12 (10.62%) Dynatrace
4 9 (7.96%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (7.08%) Checkmarx
6 7 (6.19%) Microsoft
6 7 (6.19%) Salesforce
7 6 (5.31%) Splunk
8 5 (4.42%) Guidewire
8 5 (4.42%) Sonatype
9 4 (3.54%) Cisco
9 4 (3.54%) Databricks
9 4 (3.54%) SAP
10 3 (2.65%) Cognizant
10 3 (2.65%) Oracle
11 2 (1.77%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.88%) Acunetix
12 1 (0.88%) Netsparker
12 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow