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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 389 467
Rank change year-on-year -68 +78 -4
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 126 96 87
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.39% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.50% 2.91% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 74 61
10th Percentile £409 £382 £413
25th Percentile £453 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £580 £661 £650
90th Percentile £671 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £519 £523 £560
% change year-on-year -0.76% -6.70% -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 0
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 5,033 3,301 4,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 13.56% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,359 2,215 2,904
10th Percentile £337 £341 £358
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £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 212 65 158
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.75 £30.60
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.18 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.44 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £84.38
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £61.00
% change year-on-year +6.72% +3.69% -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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -92 39 £525 -6.67% 6
North of England -44 38 £441 -3.72% 18
Midlands -50 24 £525 +10.53% 3
West Midlands -47 18 £525 +10.58% 2
North East -6 15 £513 +10.22% 16
North West -18 15 £431 +9.54%
South East -50 14 £513 +2.40% 12
East of England -22 9 £510 +58.69% 2
Yorkshire -49 8 £450 -13.25% 2
South West - 7 £638 - 3
East Midlands -41 6 £525 +24.70% 1
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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 23 (18.25%) Confluence
2 7 (5.56%) nginx
3 5 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.17%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.59%) Apache
6 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 56 (44.44%) AWS
2 36 (28.57%) Azure
3 34 (26.98%) GitHub
4 27 (21.43%) OpenShift
5 23 (18.25%) Amazon S3
6 22 (17.46%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (15.08%) Route 53
9 18 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (14.29%) GCP
10 17 (13.49%) Serverless
11 13 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (9.52%) AWS KMS
12 12 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (7.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (3.97%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.14%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.56%) DNS
2 7 (5.56%) Firewall
2 7 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 12 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.35%) Metadata
5 7 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.97%) Redis
7 4 (3.17%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.59%) MySQL
9 2 (1.59%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.59%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.59%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.79%) Flink
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 38 (30.16%) Git
3 27 (21.43%) Maven
4 26 (20.63%) JUnit
5 25 (19.84%) JIRA
6 21 (16.67%) GitLab
7 18 (14.29%) Bitbucket
8 12 (9.52%) Mockito
9 11 (8.73%) Artifactory
10 10 (7.94%) Snyk
11 9 (7.14%) DbUnit
11 9 (7.14%) jMock
12 8 (6.35%) IntelliJ
13 7 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
13 7 (5.56%) Cucumber
13 7 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (3.97%) Selenium
15 4 (3.17%) CircleCI
15 4 (3.17%) Postman
16 3 (2.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 27 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.67%) Finance
4 10 (7.94%) Banking
5 9 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Publishing
8 4 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.38%) Automotive
9 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (40.48%) Developer
2 30 (23.81%) Java Developer
3 23 (18.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (14.29%) Senior
5 17 (13.49%) Software Engineer
6 14 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 13 (10.32%) Architect
8 10 (7.94%) Java Engineer
9 8 (6.35%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.76%) Lead
11 6 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.97%) AWS DevOps
12 5 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) React Developer
12 5 (3.97%) Technical Architect
13 4 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (3.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 4 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
13 4 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (30.16%) AngularJS
2 31 (24.60%) Spring
3 29 (23.02%) Node.js
3 29 (23.02%) Spring Boot
4 23 (18.25%) Quarkus
5 20 (15.87%) YAML
6 19 (15.08%) REST
7 17 (13.49%) RESTful
7 17 (13.49%) Web Services
8 14 (11.11%) Hibernate
8 14 (11.11%) JPA
9 13 (10.32%) Spring Cloud
10 12 (9.52%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (9.52%) SOAP
10 12 (9.52%) Spring Batch
10 12 (9.52%) Spring Integration
11 9 (7.14%) Bootstrap
11 9 (7.14%) JSON
11 9 (7.14%) PowerMock
12 8 (6.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.38%) Blog
3 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.79%) NHS
5 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Replication
5 1 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.08%) Linux
2 4 (3.17%) Unix
3 2 (1.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 69 (54.76%) DevOps
3 62 (49.21%) Agile
4 44 (34.92%) Scrum
5 43 (34.13%) DevSecOps
6 40 (31.75%) Test Automation
7 38 (30.16%) Software Engineering
8 34 (26.98%) SDLC
8 34 (26.98%) TDD
9 32 (25.40%) Containerisation
9 32 (25.40%) Unit Testing
10 31 (24.60%) Sprint Planning
11 29 (23.02%) Microservices
12 26 (20.63%) BDD
13 24 (19.05%) Front End Development
14 23 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (15.87%) Sprint Review
16 19 (15.08%) Static Application Security Testing
17 17 (13.49%) Code Quality
18 15 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 80 (63.49%) Java
2 25 (19.84%) SQL
3 21 (16.67%) Python
4 9 (7.14%) Groovy
5 6 (4.76%) Go
5 6 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.17%) Bash
6 4 (3.17%) C++
6 4 (3.17%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.38%) C#
8 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.79%) C
9 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.79%) ProC
9 1 (0.79%) RPG
9 1 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (43.65%) Security Cleared
2 47 (37.30%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.17%) Degree
4 3 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (23.81%) QA
2 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.17%) WCAG
3 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (32.54%) Docker
2 8 (6.35%) Postfix
3 7 (5.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 55 (43.65%) Kubernetes
2 31 (24.60%) Terraform
3 24 (19.05%) Grafana
4 23 (18.25%) Argo
5 15 (11.90%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.73%) Ansible
7 7 (5.56%) Consul
7 7 (5.56%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.97%) Istio
8 5 (3.97%) Puppet
9 4 (3.17%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.59%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.79%) Podman
11 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 28 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 16 (12.70%) Atlassian
3 14 (11.11%) Checkmarx
4 13 (10.32%) Veracode
5 12 (9.52%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (7.14%) Dynatrace
6 9 (7.14%) Google
7 8 (6.35%) Sonatype
8 7 (5.56%) Microsoft
8 7 (5.56%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.97%) Databricks
9 5 (3.97%) Guidewire
9 5 (3.97%) SAP
10 4 (3.17%) Oracle
11 3 (2.38%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.79%) Acunetix
12 1 (0.79%) OutSystems
12 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.79%) Splunk
12 1 (0.79%) Thales