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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 386 464
Rank change year-on-year -80 +78 +20
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 111 85 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.18% 2.56% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 64 58
10th Percentile £400 £371 £413
25th Percentile £436 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +0.92% -7.23%
75th Percentile £629 £666 £650
90th Percentile £773 £700 £716
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £555
% change year-on-year -3.67% -1.80% -5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
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 5,087 3,322 4,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.59% 13.56% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,448 2,196 2,942
10th Percentile £338 £340 £360
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.24%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 63 180
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.08 £37.50
25th Percentile £58.01 £51.72 £48.23
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £83.13
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +6.40% +0.81% +0.81%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -73 36 £525 -7.89% 10
North of England -47 34 £441 +3.65% 22
Midlands -46 24 £571 +20.21% 3
North West -15 18 £431 +9.67%
West Midlands -47 18 £575 +21.05% 2
South East -43 11 £550 +2.42% 12
South West - 11 £700 - 2
North East -7 10 - - 16
East Midlands -32 6 £525 +16.15% 1
Yorkshire -55 6 £450 -13.25% 6
East of England -20 3 £510 +59.53% 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 23 (20.72%) Confluence
2 7 (6.31%) nginx
3 5 (4.50%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.70%) Appian
6 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 50 (45.05%) AWS
2 38 (34.23%) Azure
3 30 (27.03%) GitHub
4 22 (19.82%) OpenShift
5 20 (18.02%) Amazon S3
6 19 (17.12%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (16.22%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (14.41%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (14.41%) Route 53
8 16 (14.41%) Serverless
9 14 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (9.01%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (9.01%) GCP
11 9 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (8.11%) AWS KMS
11 9 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (5.41%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.50%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.11%) OpenVPN
2 7 (6.31%) DNS
2 7 (6.31%) Firewall
2 7 (6.31%) TCP/IP
2 7 (6.31%) VPN
3 1 (0.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.91%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (9.91%) DynamoDB
3 9 (8.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (6.31%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (6.31%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.31%) Redis
5 5 (4.50%) DocumentDB
5 5 (4.50%) Metadata
6 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.80%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.80%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.80%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.90%) MySQL
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.90%) Power BI
8 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (39.64%) Jenkins
2 33 (29.73%) Git
3 27 (24.32%) JIRA
4 23 (20.72%) Bitbucket
5 22 (19.82%) GitLab
5 22 (19.82%) Maven
6 19 (17.12%) JUnit
7 11 (9.91%) Artifactory
8 10 (9.01%) Cucumber
8 10 (9.01%) Mockito
8 10 (9.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (8.11%) Selenium
9 9 (8.11%) Snyk
10 7 (6.31%) DbUnit
10 7 (6.31%) jMock
11 6 (5.41%) Postman
12 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (3.60%) Cypress.io
14 3 (2.70%) Gradle
14 3 (2.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 26 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.82%) Public Sector
3 17 (15.32%) Finance
4 10 (9.01%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.21%) Banking
6 3 (2.70%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.70%) Publishing
6 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.80%) Automotive
8 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (37.84%) Developer
2 20 (18.02%) Java Developer
3 15 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (11.71%) Senior
4 13 (11.71%) Software Engineer
5 11 (9.91%) Architect
6 10 (9.01%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.41%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) React Developer
9 5 (4.50%) Lead
9 5 (4.50%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (3.60%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (2.70%) DevOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (23.42%) AngularJS
2 22 (19.82%) Node.js
3 21 (18.92%) Spring
3 21 (18.92%) YAML
4 19 (17.12%) REST
4 19 (17.12%) Spring Boot
5 15 (13.51%) RESTful
5 15 (13.51%) Web Services
6 14 (12.61%) Quarkus
7 12 (10.81%) Hibernate
7 12 (10.81%) JPA
8 10 (9.01%) JSON
8 10 (9.01%) SOAP
8 10 (9.01%) Spring Cloud
9 9 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (8.11%) Spring Batch
9 9 (8.11%) Spring Integration
10 8 (7.21%) Bootstrap
10 8 (7.21%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.70%) Blog
3 3 (2.70%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.80%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.80%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.90%) Contactless
5 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.12%) Linux
2 5 (4.50%) Unix
3 3 (2.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.90%) Android
4 1 (0.90%) Windows Embedded Compact
4 1 (0.90%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (59.46%) CI/CD
2 58 (52.25%) DevOps
3 49 (44.14%) Agile
4 36 (32.43%) DevSecOps
5 34 (30.63%) Scrum
6 33 (29.73%) Test Automation
7 30 (27.03%) Containerisation
8 28 (25.23%) SDLC
8 28 (25.23%) Software Engineering
9 27 (24.32%) Microservices
9 27 (24.32%) TDD
10 26 (23.42%) Sprint Planning
11 25 (22.52%) Unit Testing
12 20 (18.02%) BDD
13 17 (15.32%) Front End Development
13 17 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (12.61%) Sprint Review
14 14 (12.61%) Static Application Security Testing
15 12 (10.81%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 57 (51.35%) Java
2 19 (17.12%) Python
2 19 (17.12%) SQL
3 10 (9.01%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.31%) Groovy
5 6 (5.41%) Go
6 5 (4.50%) C++
6 5 (4.50%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.60%) Bash
7 4 (3.60%) C#
7 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.80%) C
9 2 (1.80%) R
9 2 (1.80%) Rust
10 1 (0.90%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.90%) ProC
10 1 (0.90%) RPG
10 1 (0.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (41.44%) Security Cleared
2 38 (34.23%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.31%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.70%) Degree
6 1 (0.90%) CISSP
6 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.90%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.12%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) NCSC
3 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.70%) WCAG
4 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 46 (41.44%) Docker
2 7 (6.31%) Squid
3 6 (5.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 50 (45.05%) Kubernetes
2 28 (25.23%) Terraform
3 20 (18.02%) Grafana
4 14 (12.61%) Argo
5 13 (11.71%) Ansible
6 12 (10.81%) Prometheus
7 7 (6.31%) Consul
7 7 (6.31%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.31%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (5.41%) Puppet
9 5 (4.50%) Istio
10 4 (3.60%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.80%) Podman
11 2 (1.80%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.80%) rkt
11 2 (1.80%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 22 (19.82%) Red Hat
2 19 (17.12%) Veracode
3 14 (12.61%) Atlassian
4 12 (10.81%) Dynatrace
5 11 (9.91%) Checkmarx
6 9 (8.11%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (6.31%) Microsoft
7 7 (6.31%) Salesforce
8 5 (4.50%) Guidewire
8 5 (4.50%) Sonatype
9 4 (3.60%) Databricks
9 4 (3.60%) Oracle
9 4 (3.60%) SAP
10 3 (2.70%) Cisco
10 3 (2.70%) Cognizant
10 3 (2.70%) Google
10 3 (2.70%) Splunk
11 1 (0.90%) Acunetix
11 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.90%) Xamarin