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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 335 451
Rank change year-on-year -126 +116 -2
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 168 179 68
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.65% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.21% 4.37% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 132 51
10th Percentile £413 £277 £475
25th Percentile £469 £379 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.34% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £601 £650 £685
90th Percentile £690 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 5,226 4,097 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.36% 14.87% 13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,309 2,834 2,829
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £635
90th Percentile £691 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 95 170
10th Percentile £34.79 £44.30 £37.47
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.88 £54.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.30 £81.80 £73.78
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -101 63 £592 -2.95% 43
North of England -68 50 £513 +25.08% 13
Midlands -45 37 £511 +7.47% 5
West Midlands -37 32 £513 -4.60% 4
North East -15 29 £511 +9.95% 9
South East -41 27 £601 +20.13% 7
Yorkshire -36 11 £514 +31.79% 2
North West -67 10 £519 +29.63% 2
East of England -25 6 £570 -32.94%
East Midlands -24 4 £335 +24.07% 1
South West -55 2 - - 4
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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 20 (11.90%) Confluence
2 8 (4.76%) Camunda
3 6 (3.57%) Apache
3 6 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.98%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 75 (44.64%) AWS
2 55 (32.74%) GitHub
3 50 (29.76%) Azure
3 50 (29.76%) OpenShift
4 39 (23.21%) GCP
5 31 (18.45%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (15.48%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (7.14%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.95%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (5.95%) AWS KMS
9 10 (5.95%) Route 53
9 10 (5.95%) Serverless
10 9 (5.36%) OCI
11 8 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (3.57%) Azure AKS
13 6 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) Firewall
2 4 (2.38%) MQTT
2 4 (2.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.88%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.55%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (6.55%) DynamoDB
3 11 (6.55%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.95%) Metadata
5 9 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.38%) Flink
6 4 (2.38%) MySQL
6 4 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.38%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.38%) Tableau
7 2 (1.19%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.60%) Power BI
8 1 (0.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 81 (48.21%) Jenkins
2 63 (37.50%) Git
3 61 (36.31%) Maven
4 52 (30.95%) JUnit
5 51 (30.36%) GitLab
6 31 (18.45%) Mockito
7 23 (13.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (12.50%) JIRA
9 20 (11.90%) Gradle
10 17 (10.12%) Cucumber
11 16 (9.52%) Snyk
12 15 (8.93%) Selenium
13 14 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
14 12 (7.14%) REST Assured
15 11 (6.55%) Artifactory
15 11 (6.55%) Postman
16 10 (5.95%) Gatling
17 7 (4.17%) DbUnit
17 7 (4.17%) IntelliJ
17 7 (4.17%) LoadRunner
General
1 45 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.64%) Finance
3 28 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (16.07%) Public Sector
5 22 (13.10%) Banking
6 9 (5.36%) Publishing
7 6 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.79%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.19%) Automotive
9 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (41.07%) Developer
2 52 (30.95%) Java Developer
3 35 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (17.86%) Senior
5 19 (11.31%) Senior Developer
6 16 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (8.93%) Java Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) Lead
9 11 (6.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 11 (6.55%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
12 7 (4.17%) Architect
12 7 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 7 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (4.17%) Lead Developer
13 6 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (35.12%) AngularJS
2 53 (31.55%) Spring
3 52 (30.95%) Spring Boot
4 45 (26.79%) Terraform
5 38 (22.62%) Quarkus
6 32 (19.05%) Kafka
7 29 (17.26%) JPA
8 28 (16.67%) Hibernate
8 28 (16.67%) Node.js
9 27 (16.07%) RESTful
9 27 (16.07%) SOAP
9 27 (16.07%) Web Services
10 25 (14.88%) REST
11 24 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
12 21 (12.50%) HTML
12 21 (12.50%) React
12 21 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
13 17 (10.12%) CSS
14 14 (8.33%) YAML
15 13 (7.74%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.95%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.36%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.98%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.19%) PKI
10 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.60%) NHS
10 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.45%) Linux
2 11 (6.55%) Unix
3 4 (2.38%) Windows
4 3 (1.79%) VMS
5 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (63.69%) CI/CD
2 101 (60.12%) Agile
3 88 (52.38%) DevOps
4 82 (48.81%) Scrum
5 81 (48.21%) Test Automation
6 69 (41.07%) Microservices
7 68 (40.48%) DevSecOps
8 58 (34.52%) Software Engineering
9 57 (33.93%) SDLC
10 49 (29.17%) TDD
11 48 (28.57%) Front End Development
11 48 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
12 46 (27.38%) Containerisation
13 41 (24.40%) Unit Testing
14 38 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (19.64%) Sprint Review
16 31 (18.45%) Code Quality
17 27 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
18 26 (15.48%) BDD
18 26 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 119 (70.83%) Java
2 44 (26.19%) SQL
3 43 (25.60%) Python
4 26 (15.48%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.33%) Bash
6 13 (7.74%) Groovy
6 13 (7.74%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.38%) Rust
10 3 (1.79%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.19%) Bicep
11 2 (1.19%) Go
12 1 (0.60%) C#
12 1 (0.60%) COBOL
12 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 71 (42.26%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.90%) Degree
4 14 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (7.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.57%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.79%) CISSP
8 3 (1.79%) GIAC
8 3 (1.79%) ISEB
8 3 (1.79%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.60%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.60%) GSEC
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (28.57%) QA
2 14 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.76%) WCAG
4 4 (2.38%) NIST
4 4 (2.38%) PSD2
4 4 (2.38%) SEPA
5 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 74 (44.05%) Docker
2 5 (2.98%) Postfix
3 3 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (59.52%) Kubernetes
2 41 (24.40%) Argo
3 39 (23.21%) Grafana
4 31 (18.45%) Prometheus
5 29 (17.26%) Ansible
6 9 (5.36%) HP Fortify
6 9 (5.36%) Istio
7 8 (4.76%) Puppet
8 5 (2.98%) Podman
9 4 (2.38%) Control-M
10 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (22.02%) Red Hat
2 14 (8.33%) IBM
3 13 (7.74%) Checkmarx
4 12 (7.14%) Veracode
5 11 (6.55%) Google
6 10 (5.95%) Oracle
6 10 (5.95%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.76%) Databricks
7 8 (4.76%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (4.17%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.17%) SAP
9 5 (2.98%) Tenable
10 4 (2.38%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.38%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.38%) NVIDIA
11 2 (1.19%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.19%) Splunk
12 1 (0.60%) Foundry
12 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.60%) Pega