SonarQube Contracts in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SonarQube skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SonarQube over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 463 452
Rank change year-on-year +116 -11 +37
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 149 96 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.99% 2.10% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 64 132
10th Percentile £276 £425 £463
25th Percentile £393 £502 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £703
90th Percentile £688 £705 £850
UK median daily rate £482 £569 £600
% change year-on-year -15.34% -5.21% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +75.00%

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 3,737 4,565 6,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.18% 12.22% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,551 3,058 4,756
10th Percentile £332 £350 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £707 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 231 205
10th Percentile £28.32 £33.00 £46.21
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.88 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +17.04%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +18.60%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SonarQube as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SonarQube in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SonarQube in England.

Daily rate trend for SonarQube in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SonarQube in England.

Hourly rate trend for SonarQube in England

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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 4 July 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 +73 77 £610 +10.91% 75
North of England +27 31 £421 -23.41% 42
Midlands +29 26 £443 +24.30% 27
North West +17 19 £392 -28.73% 23
East Midlands +13 14 £340 -4.49% 16
South East +26 12 £501 -23.00% 45
West Midlands - 12 £500 - 11
North East +7 6 £463 -15.91% 2
Yorkshire +6 6 £450 -20.88% 17
South West +27 3 £600 +14.29% 27
East of England - 1 £321 - 21
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SonarQube
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (10.74%) JBoss
2 12 (8.05%) Confluence
3 5 (3.36%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.68%) Apache
5 3 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.67%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (1.34%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.67%) Endur
2 1 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 93 (62.42%) AWS
2 65 (43.62%) Azure
3 25 (16.78%) GCP
4 23 (15.44%) GitHub
5 22 (14.77%) Amazon SQS
5 22 (14.77%) OpenShift
6 19 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (10.74%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (10.07%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.38%) AWS KMS
9 11 (7.38%) Route 53
9 11 (7.38%) Serverless
10 10 (6.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (3.36%) Kong
13 5 (3.36%) npm
13 5 (3.36%) PaaS
14 3 (2.01%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.36%) Network Security
2 3 (2.01%) DNS
2 3 (2.01%) Firewall
2 3 (2.01%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.01%) SSL
3 1 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.45%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (12.08%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (10.74%) Relational Database
4 14 (9.40%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (9.40%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (8.72%) RDBMS
6 11 (7.38%) MongoDB
6 11 (7.38%) SQL Server
7 10 (6.71%) DynamoDB
7 10 (6.71%) MySQL
7 10 (6.71%) Redis
8 8 (5.37%) NoSQL
9 6 (4.03%) DocumentDB
10 3 (2.01%) Big Data
10 3 (2.01%) Neo4j
10 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 74 (49.66%) Git
2 70 (46.98%) Jenkins
3 42 (28.19%) Maven
4 40 (26.85%) GitLab
5 39 (26.17%) JIRA
5 39 (26.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 37 (24.83%) JUnit
7 27 (18.12%) Selenium
8 26 (17.45%) Bitbucket Server
9 23 (15.44%) Mockito
10 20 (13.42%) TeamCity
11 18 (12.08%) Cucumber
12 15 (10.07%) Bitbucket
13 13 (8.72%) Artifactory
13 13 (8.72%) Burp Suite
13 13 (8.72%) Metasploit
14 12 (8.05%) CA Release Automation
14 12 (8.05%) REST Assured
15 10 (6.71%) IntelliJ
16 9 (6.04%) gulp
General
1 54 (36.24%) Social Skills
2 38 (25.50%) Public Sector
3 29 (19.46%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (16.78%) Finance
5 11 (7.38%) Law
6 9 (6.04%) Banking
7 5 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.68%) Police
9 3 (2.01%) Legal
9 3 (2.01%) Military
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (40.94%) Developer
2 45 (30.20%) Java Developer
3 19 (12.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (12.75%) Lead
4 13 (8.72%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 13 (8.72%) Security Engineer
5 12 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (8.05%) Lead Developer
6 11 (7.38%) Lead Java Developer
7 9 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (5.37%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 8 (5.37%) Senior
8 8 (5.37%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (4.03%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Java Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (36.91%) Spring Boot
2 38 (25.50%) REST
3 33 (22.15%) Spring
4 30 (20.13%) Hibernate
4 30 (20.13%) React
5 29 (19.46%) JPA
6 28 (18.79%) Node.js
7 23 (15.44%) AngularJS
8 21 (14.09%) RESTful
9 20 (13.42%) CSS
9 20 (13.42%) HTML
10 18 (12.08%) SOAP
11 15 (10.07%) Web Services
12 14 (9.40%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (9.40%) Spring Cloud
13 13 (8.72%) ActiveMQ
13 13 (8.72%) Bootstrap
13 13 (8.72%) Jest
14 12 (8.05%) Kafka
14 12 (8.05%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (7.38%) Public Cloud
2 4 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.01%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.34%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.81%) Linux
2 24 (16.11%) Windows
3 18 (12.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (7.38%) Unix
5 7 (4.70%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.68%) CentOS
7 1 (0.67%) Android
7 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (58.39%) DevOps
2 79 (53.02%) CI/CD
3 68 (45.64%) Microservices
4 47 (31.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (30.87%) Agile
6 45 (30.20%) Continuous Integration
7 42 (28.19%) Test Automation
8 34 (22.82%) Containerisation
9 31 (20.81%) TDD
10 26 (17.45%) Scrum
11 25 (16.78%) Code Quality
12 24 (16.11%) DevSecOps
12 24 (16.11%) Secure Coding
12 24 (16.11%) Software Engineering
13 23 (15.44%) Configuration Management
14 21 (14.09%) Open Source
15 20 (13.42%) OWASP
16 19 (12.75%) Penetration Testing
16 19 (12.75%) SDLC
17 18 (12.08%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (56.38%) Java
2 55 (36.91%) Python
3 44 (29.53%) JavaScript
4 39 (26.17%) SQL
5 26 (17.45%) Bash
6 21 (14.09%) PowerShell
7 15 (10.07%) Perl
8 10 (6.71%) C#
9 8 (5.37%) Shell Script
10 7 (4.70%) Go
11 5 (3.36%) Groovy
12 3 (2.01%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.34%) Ruby
14 1 (0.67%) COBOL
14 1 (0.67%) JCL
14 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.67%) Swift
14 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 79 (53.02%) Security Cleared
2 66 (44.30%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.72%) CREST Certified
3 13 (8.72%) OSCP
3 13 (8.72%) Tigerscheme
4 10 (6.71%) CHECK Team Member
5 9 (6.04%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.01%) SANS
7 2 (1.34%) Sun Certification
8 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) NCSC
2 8 (5.37%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (5.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (4.70%) QA
4 6 (4.03%) GDPR
5 5 (3.36%) HIPAA
5 5 (3.36%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (44.30%) Docker
2 19 (12.75%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.37%) Postfix
4 3 (2.01%) vCloud
4 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.01%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (2.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (40.94%) Kubernetes
2 39 (26.17%) Terraform
3 29 (19.46%) Ansible
4 16 (10.74%) Kibana
4 16 (10.74%) Progress Chef
5 13 (8.72%) Grafana
5 13 (8.72%) Nmap
5 13 (8.72%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.71%) Docker Swarm
6 10 (6.71%) Podman
7 5 (3.36%) HP Fortify
7 5 (3.36%) Nessus
8 3 (2.01%) Argo
8 3 (2.01%) Puppet
9 2 (1.34%) Packer
10 1 (0.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (16.11%) Veracode
2 22 (14.77%) Splunk
3 14 (9.40%) Red Hat
4 13 (8.72%) AppDynamics
4 13 (8.72%) Microsoft
5 11 (7.38%) Atlassian
6 8 (5.37%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (4.70%) Cloudera
7 7 (4.70%) Dynatrace
8 6 (4.03%) Checkmarx
9 5 (3.36%) Oracle
9 5 (3.36%) Qualys
10 4 (2.68%) Perforce
11 3 (2.01%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (2.01%) Coverity
11 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.01%) VMware
12 2 (1.34%) Databricks
12 2 (1.34%) Google
12 2 (1.34%) LogicMonitor