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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 340 452
Rank change year-on-year -133 +112 +5
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 151 176 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.63% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.85% 4.35% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 128 63
10th Percentile £450 £274 £434
25th Percentile £490 £384 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £626 £630 £675
90th Percentile £730 £688 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £597
% change year-on-year +10.53% -20.44% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £68.50 - £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 5,306 4,045 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.61% 14.55% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 2,797 2,845
10th Percentile £355 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 95 183
10th Percentile £36.25 £40.90 £33.01
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.03 £54.18
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 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 17 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 17 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 -105 52 £601 -1.56% 11
North of England -61 47 £510 +26.87% 12
North East -18 29 £511 +9.95% 10
South East -48 29 £601 +20.13% 2
Midlands -53 27 £518 +17.01% 9
West Midlands -46 24 £518 +3.55% 7
Yorkshire -36 9 £514 +31.88%
North West -53 9 £500 +27.23% 2
East of England - 9 £510 -
South West -46 3 - - 3
East Midlands -30 2 - - 2
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 7 (4.64%) Confluence
2 6 (3.97%) Apache
2 6 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.31%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.32%) Camunda
6 1 (0.66%) nginx
6 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 69 (45.70%) AWS
2 48 (31.79%) Azure
3 46 (30.46%) GitHub
4 45 (29.80%) OpenShift
5 38 (25.17%) GCP
6 31 (20.53%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (14.57%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (12.58%) Amazon S3
9 18 (11.92%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (11.26%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (10.60%) Route 53
12 15 (9.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (9.27%) AWS KMS
14 10 (6.62%) OCI
14 10 (6.62%) Serverless
15 9 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (3.97%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 5 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.65%) Firewall
1 4 (2.65%) MQTT
1 4 (2.65%) Network Security
2 3 (1.99%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.66%) DNS
3 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.91%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (11.26%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (9.93%) DynamoDB
4 14 (9.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.28%) Metadata
6 8 (5.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.31%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.65%) Flink
8 4 (2.65%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.65%) Tableau
9 3 (1.99%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.32%) MySQL
10 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.66%) Power BI
11 1 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (45.03%) Jenkins
2 48 (31.79%) Git
3 46 (30.46%) Maven
4 37 (24.50%) GitLab
4 37 (24.50%) JUnit
5 20 (13.25%) Mockito
6 16 (10.60%) Snyk
7 14 (9.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (7.95%) Bitbucket Server
9 11 (7.28%) DbUnit
9 11 (7.28%) Gradle
10 10 (6.62%) jMock
10 10 (6.62%) Postman
11 9 (5.96%) Artifactory
11 9 (5.96%) Cucumber
12 8 (5.30%) IntelliJ
12 8 (5.30%) Selenium
13 7 (4.64%) CircleCI
13 7 (4.64%) JIRA
13 7 (4.64%) LoadRunner
General
1 31 (20.53%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.21%) Public Sector
3 26 (17.22%) Finance
4 22 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.93%) Banking
6 10 (6.62%) Publishing
7 3 (1.99%) Automotive
7 3 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.66%) Advertising
9 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (38.41%) Developer
2 45 (29.80%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (15.89%) Senior
5 17 (11.26%) Java Engineer
6 16 (10.60%) Senior Developer
7 15 (9.93%) Software Engineer
8 12 (7.95%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (7.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (6.62%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) Architect
11 8 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) Lead
12 7 (4.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 6 (3.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.97%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
14 5 (3.31%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (36.42%) AngularJS
2 42 (27.81%) Spring Boot
3 41 (27.15%) Spring
4 40 (26.49%) Quarkus
5 30 (19.87%) Node.js
6 24 (15.89%) Kafka
7 22 (14.57%) SOAP
8 21 (13.91%) RESTful
9 20 (13.25%) REST
9 20 (13.25%) Web Services
10 19 (12.58%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (12.58%) JPA
11 18 (11.92%) Hibernate
11 18 (11.92%) Spring Cloud
12 14 (9.27%) Spring Batch
12 14 (9.27%) Spring Integration
12 14 (9.27%) YAML
13 13 (8.61%) JSON
14 12 (7.95%) Bootstrap
15 11 (7.28%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.91%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.99%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.99%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.32%) PKI
7 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
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 29 (19.21%) Linux
2 8 (5.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (58.28%) CI/CD
2 87 (57.62%) DevOps
3 81 (53.64%) Agile
4 70 (46.36%) DevSecOps
5 69 (45.70%) Scrum
6 60 (39.74%) Test Automation
7 58 (38.41%) Software Engineering
8 52 (34.44%) Microservices
9 49 (32.45%) SDLC
10 42 (27.81%) Front End Development
10 42 (27.81%) Sprint Planning
11 39 (25.83%) Unit Testing
12 38 (25.17%) Containerisation
13 36 (23.84%) TDD
14 35 (23.18%) Sprint Review
15 32 (21.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 25 (16.56%) BDD
17 24 (15.89%) Static Application Security Testing
18 21 (13.91%) Code Quality
18 21 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (68.21%) Java
2 41 (27.15%) SQL
3 37 (24.50%) Python
4 16 (10.60%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.95%) Groovy
6 7 (4.64%) Bash
7 6 (3.97%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.31%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.65%) Go
9 4 (2.65%) Rust
10 3 (1.99%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.66%) C#
12 1 (0.66%) COBOL
12 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (49.01%) Security Cleared
2 67 (44.37%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.95%) Degree
4 8 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.64%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.97%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.99%) CISSP
8 3 (1.99%) GIAC
8 3 (1.99%) ISEB
8 3 (1.99%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
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 46 (30.46%) QA
2 10 (6.62%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.65%) NIST
3 4 (2.65%) PSD2
3 4 (2.65%) SEPA
3 4 (2.65%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (40.40%) Docker
2 8 (5.30%) Postfix
3 1 (0.66%) Squid
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (61.59%) Kubernetes
2 43 (28.48%) Argo
2 43 (28.48%) Terraform
3 34 (22.52%) Grafana
4 25 (16.56%) Prometheus
5 22 (14.57%) Ansible
6 10 (6.62%) HP Fortify
7 9 (5.96%) Istio
8 8 (5.30%) Puppet
9 5 (3.31%) Podman
10 4 (2.65%) Control-M
11 3 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.32%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.66%) Consul
13 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 40 (26.49%) Red Hat
2 13 (8.61%) Checkmarx
2 13 (8.61%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (7.95%) Atlassian
4 11 (7.28%) Sonatype
5 10 (6.62%) Oracle
6 9 (5.96%) Google
7 8 (5.30%) IBM
7 8 (5.30%) SAP
8 7 (4.64%) Databricks
9 6 (3.97%) Veracode
10 4 (2.65%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.65%) Tenable
11 3 (1.99%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.99%) Microsoft
12 1 (0.66%) Foundry
12 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.66%) Pega
12 1 (0.66%) Splunk
12 1 (0.66%) UiPath