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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 351 442
Rank change year-on-year -105 +91 +10
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 155 173 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.63% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.91% 4.31% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 127 61
10th Percentile £450 £274 £425
25th Percentile £490 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £626 £620 £675
90th Percentile £730 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £519 £478 £606
% change year-on-year +8.59% -21.20% +1.00%
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 5,325 4,011 4,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.52% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,780 2,839
10th Percentile £352 £320 £352
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £631
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 244 95 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £40.90 £31.71
25th Percentile £57.75 £51.03 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £73.78
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 6 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 6 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 -60 48 £510 +24.47% 13
London -93 48 £601 -3.73% 18
Midlands -54 32 £512 +27.43% 7
North East -16 30 £511 +10.54% 11
South East -41 30 £601 +20.13% 2
West Midlands -44 28 £512 +5.08% 5
Yorkshire -47 10 £514 +31.79% 1
East of England - 9 £510 -
North West -66 8 £463 +17.68% 1
East Midlands -21 3 - - 2
South West -47 3 - - 3
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 10 (6.45%) Confluence
2 6 (3.87%) Apache
2 6 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.29%) Camunda
4 2 (1.29%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 73 (47.10%) AWS
2 50 (32.26%) Azure
3 48 (30.97%) OpenShift
4 46 (29.68%) GitHub
5 36 (23.23%) GCP
6 32 (20.65%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (15.48%) Amazon S3
8 23 (14.84%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (13.55%) Amazon SQS
9 21 (13.55%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (13.55%) Route 53
10 19 (12.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (11.61%) AWS KMS
12 11 (7.10%) Serverless
13 10 (6.45%) OCI
14 9 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (3.87%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (3.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (3.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.23%) Firewall
2 4 (2.58%) MQTT
2 4 (2.58%) Network Security
2 4 (2.58%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.29%) DNS
3 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (13.55%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (12.26%) DynamoDB
4 18 (11.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.10%) Metadata
6 8 (5.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.58%) Flink
8 4 (2.58%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.94%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.29%) MySQL
10 2 (1.29%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.65%) Power BI
11 1 (0.65%) Redis
11 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.65%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 71 (45.81%) Jenkins
2 54 (34.84%) Git
3 49 (31.61%) Maven
4 42 (27.10%) JUnit
5 36 (23.23%) GitLab
6 24 (15.48%) Mockito
7 15 (9.68%) Snyk
8 14 (9.03%) DbUnit
8 14 (9.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (8.39%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (8.39%) jMock
10 11 (7.10%) Gradle
11 10 (6.45%) Cucumber
11 10 (6.45%) JIRA
12 9 (5.81%) Artifactory
12 9 (5.81%) Selenium
13 8 (5.16%) IntelliJ
14 7 (4.52%) CircleCI
14 7 (4.52%) REST Assured
15 6 (3.87%) Gatling
General
1 33 (21.29%) Public Sector
2 32 (20.65%) Social Skills
3 26 (16.77%) Finance
4 18 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.68%) Banking
6 10 (6.45%) Publishing
7 4 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.94%) Automotive
8 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (40.00%) Developer
2 49 (31.61%) Java Developer
3 34 (21.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (13.55%) Senior
5 18 (11.61%) Java Engineer
5 18 (11.61%) Software Engineer
6 16 (10.32%) Senior Developer
7 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (7.74%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (7.10%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.81%) Architect
11 8 (5.16%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 6 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.87%) Lead
14 5 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
14 5 (3.23%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 45 (29.03%) Spring
2 45 (29.03%) Spring Boot
3 43 (27.74%) Quarkus
4 33 (21.29%) Node.js
5 23 (14.84%) ActiveMQ
6 22 (14.19%) Hibernate
6 22 (14.19%) JPA
6 22 (14.19%) REST
6 22 (14.19%) Spring Cloud
7 21 (13.55%) RESTful
7 21 (13.55%) SOAP
8 19 (12.26%) Kafka
8 19 (12.26%) Web Services
9 18 (11.61%) Spring Batch
9 18 (11.61%) Spring Integration
10 14 (9.03%) YAML
11 13 (8.39%) Bootstrap
11 13 (8.39%) PowerMock
12 12 (7.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.94%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.29%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.29%) PKI
7 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.65%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.06%) Linux
2 4 (2.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 92 (59.35%) DevOps
3 89 (57.42%) Agile
4 76 (49.03%) Scrum
5 72 (46.45%) DevSecOps
6 60 (38.71%) Software Engineering
6 60 (38.71%) Test Automation
7 56 (36.13%) Microservices
8 50 (32.26%) SDLC
9 45 (29.03%) Front End Development
10 44 (28.39%) Sprint Planning
11 42 (27.10%) Containerisation
11 42 (27.10%) Unit Testing
12 41 (26.45%) TDD
13 38 (24.52%) Sprint Review
14 33 (21.29%) Infrastructure as Code
15 28 (18.06%) BDD
16 23 (14.84%) Performance Tuning
16 23 (14.84%) Static Application Security Testing
17 22 (14.19%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 104 (67.10%) Java
2 37 (23.87%) SQL
3 33 (21.29%) Python
4 12 (7.74%) Groovy
5 10 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.52%) Bash
7 6 (3.87%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.58%) Go
9 4 (2.58%) Rust
10 3 (1.94%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.29%) C#
12 1 (0.65%) COBOL
12 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 78 (50.32%) Security Cleared
2 71 (45.81%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.45%) Degree
4 9 (5.81%) AWS Certification
5 8 (5.16%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.94%) CISSP
8 3 (1.94%) GIAC
9 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.65%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.65%) GSEC
10 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (32.26%) QA
2 11 (7.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.23%) WCAG
4 4 (2.58%) NIST
4 4 (2.58%) PSD2
4 4 (2.58%) SEPA
5 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 65 (41.94%) Docker
2 11 (7.10%) Postfix
3 2 (1.29%) Squid
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 96 (61.94%) Kubernetes
2 46 (29.68%) Argo
3 45 (29.03%) Terraform
4 39 (25.16%) Grafana
5 26 (16.77%) Prometheus
6 24 (15.48%) Ansible
7 9 (5.81%) Istio
8 8 (5.16%) Puppet
9 5 (3.23%) Podman
10 4 (2.58%) HP Fortify
10 4 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.29%) Consul
11 2 (1.29%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.29%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 44 (28.39%) Red Hat
2 17 (10.97%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (10.32%) Atlassian
4 12 (7.74%) Checkmarx
5 11 (7.10%) Sonatype
6 9 (5.81%) Google
7 7 (4.52%) Databricks
8 5 (3.23%) Veracode
9 4 (2.58%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.58%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.58%) Oracle
9 4 (2.58%) Tenable
10 3 (1.94%) IBM
10 3 (1.94%) Microsoft
10 3 (1.94%) SAP
11 1 (0.65%) Foundry
11 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.65%) Pega
11 1 (0.65%) Splunk
11 1 (0.65%) UiPath