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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 435 489
Rank change year-on-year +42 +54 -28
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 141 69 74
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.98% 1.79% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 48 52
10th Percentile £344 £439 £433
25th Percentile £385 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £612 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +8.80% -6.25%
75th Percentile £678 £689 £639
90th Percentile £784 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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 4,733 3,855 4,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.05% 13.31% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,426 3,312
10th Percentile £338 £340 £375
25th Percentile £411 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £700 £733 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 82 207
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.64 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.20 £75.00 £90.00
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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +10 56 £610 -12.86% 8
North of England -20 40 £400 -22.89% 7
Midlands -25 27 £650 +6.21% 4
North West -3 25 £400 +12.36% 1
West Midlands -23 21 £700 +14.38% 2
South West - 18 £700 - 7
Yorkshire -37 11 £390 -34.04% 3
South East -19 7 £550 -12.00% 7
East Midlands - 6 £398 - 2
North East -4 4 - - 3
East of England -20 1 £850 +167.30% 1
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 18 (12.77%) Confluence
2 7 (4.96%) Appian
3 6 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.55%) OpenStack
5 4 (2.84%) JBoss
6 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.42%) Mule
8 1 (0.71%) CICS
8 1 (0.71%) nginx
8 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 65 (46.10%) Azure
2 58 (41.13%) AWS
3 53 (37.59%) GitHub
4 41 (29.08%) GCP
5 26 (18.44%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (14.89%) Serverless
7 20 (14.18%) OpenShift
8 18 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (12.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 17 (12.06%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (11.35%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (10.64%) Datadog
12 12 (8.51%) PaaS
13 11 (7.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (7.80%) npm
14 10 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (6.38%) Azure AKS
16 8 (5.67%) Power Platform
16 8 (5.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.96%) Firewall
2 5 (3.55%) SSH
3 3 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.42%) DNS
4 2 (1.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.71%) HTTP
5 1 (0.71%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.71%) Internet
5 1 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.71%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.48%) Redis
2 16 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.93%) NoSQL
4 10 (7.09%) Relational Database
5 9 (6.38%) RDBMS
6 8 (5.67%) DocumentDB
6 8 (5.67%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.96%) Power BI
8 6 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.26%) MySQL
9 5 (3.55%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.55%) Hadoop
9 5 (3.55%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.13%) Big Data
11 3 (2.13%) Parquet
11 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (46.10%) Jenkins
2 50 (35.46%) Git
3 35 (24.82%) GitLab
4 32 (22.70%) JIRA
5 30 (21.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 27 (19.15%) Maven
7 24 (17.02%) Selenium
8 21 (14.89%) Bitbucket
9 17 (12.06%) JUnit
9 17 (12.06%) Postman
10 16 (11.35%) Cucumber
11 15 (10.64%) Artifactory
11 15 (10.64%) Gradle
12 12 (8.51%) Cypress.io
12 12 (8.51%) Snyk
13 8 (5.67%) TeamCity
13 8 (5.67%) webpack
14 7 (4.96%) Mockito
14 7 (4.96%) Robot Framework
15 6 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 41 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.15%) Finance
3 22 (15.60%) Banking
4 20 (14.18%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.96%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.55%) Publishing
8 4 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.42%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.42%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.71%) German Language
11 1 (0.71%) Military
11 1 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.71%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (19.86%) Developer
2 27 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (13.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 13 (9.22%) Lead
5 12 (8.51%) GCP Engineer
6 10 (7.09%) Java Developer
6 10 (7.09%) Security Engineer
7 9 (6.38%) Architect
7 9 (6.38%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Senior
10 6 (4.26%) Java Architect
10 6 (4.26%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (4.26%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) GCP DevOps
11 5 (3.55%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) React Developer
12 4 (2.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.44%) Spring Boot
2 21 (14.89%) React
3 20 (14.18%) REST
4 18 (12.77%) Node.js
5 17 (12.06%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (12.06%) Kafka
5 17 (12.06%) YAML
6 16 (11.35%) JSON
7 15 (10.64%) CSS
7 15 (10.64%) HTML
7 15 (10.64%) Spring
8 14 (9.93%) J2EE
9 13 (9.22%) CSS3
9 13 (9.22%) HTML5
10 12 (8.51%) AngularJS
11 10 (7.09%) .NET
11 10 (7.09%) Bootstrap
11 10 (7.09%) Jest
11 10 (7.09%) RESTful
12 9 (6.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.26%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.26%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.55%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.13%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (2.13%) Blog
6 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.13%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.13%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.42%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.18%) Linux
2 10 (7.09%) Windows
3 6 (4.26%) Unix
4 4 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.42%) Android
7 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.71%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (68.79%) CI/CD
2 85 (60.28%) DevOps
3 57 (40.43%) Containerisation
4 47 (33.33%) Agile
4 47 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (28.37%) DevSecOps
6 37 (26.24%) Microservices
7 35 (24.82%) Test Automation
8 34 (24.11%) SDLC
9 29 (20.57%) Software Engineering
10 28 (19.86%) Code Quality
11 26 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (17.73%) Migration
13 23 (16.31%) Unit Testing
14 22 (15.60%) TDD
15 20 (14.18%) Mentoring
15 20 (14.18%) Platform Engineering
16 18 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
17 17 (12.06%) AI
17 17 (12.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.17%) Python
2 46 (32.62%) Java
3 29 (20.57%) JavaScript
4 24 (17.02%) SQL
5 17 (12.06%) Bash
6 12 (8.51%) Groovy
7 8 (5.67%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.96%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.26%) Go
10 5 (3.55%) C#
10 5 (3.55%) C++
10 5 (3.55%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.84%) Perl
12 3 (2.13%) Rust
13 2 (1.42%) C
13 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.42%) R
14 1 (0.71%) COBOL
14 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.77%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.96%) Degree
6 6 (4.26%) OSCP
7 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.55%) CREST Certified
7 5 (3.55%) Tigerscheme
8 4 (2.84%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.84%) CHECK Team Member
9 2 (1.42%) CISSP
9 2 (1.42%) OCP
9 2 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.71%) MCP
10 1 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.35%) QA
2 15 (10.64%) NCSC
3 8 (5.67%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.84%) WCAG
5 3 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.71%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.71%) GDPR
7 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 86 (60.99%) Docker
2 4 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.42%) HDFS
4 1 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (46.81%) Kubernetes
2 53 (37.59%) Terraform
3 25 (17.73%) Ansible
4 14 (9.93%) Prometheus
5 12 (8.51%) Grafana
5 12 (8.51%) Progress Chef
6 11 (7.80%) Argo
7 9 (6.38%) Puppet
8 7 (4.96%) Istio
9 6 (4.26%) Kibana
10 5 (3.55%) Nmap
10 5 (3.55%) Podman
11 2 (1.42%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.42%) rkt
12 1 (0.71%) Cilium
12 1 (0.71%) Control-M
12 1 (0.71%) Rancher
12 1 (0.71%) Rsyslog
12 1 (0.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (14.18%) Veracode
2 18 (12.77%) Splunk
3 14 (9.93%) Google
4 13 (9.22%) Dynatrace
4 13 (9.22%) Red Hat
5 11 (7.80%) Microsoft
6 10 (7.09%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.96%) Cisco
8 6 (4.26%) Cloudera
8 6 (4.26%) DocuSign
8 6 (4.26%) Oracle
9 5 (3.55%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (3.55%) Gigya
10 4 (2.84%) AppDynamics
11 3 (2.13%) Databricks
11 3 (2.13%) Perforce
12 2 (1.42%) SAP
12 2 (1.42%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.71%) LogicMonitor
13 1 (0.71%) NVIDIA