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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 460 435
Rank change year-on-year +125 -25 +38
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 181 68 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.38% 1.54% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 51 105
10th Percentile £277 £475 £463
25th Percentile £380 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £650 £685 £660
90th Percentile £700 £738 £825
UK median daily rate £483 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -19.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
UK median hourly rate £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 4,137 4,402 5,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.89% 13.37% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,829 3,902
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £603 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 169 229
10th Percentile £44.63 £37.39 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.36 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.80 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +78 82 £610 +1.67% 20
North of England +16 42 £418 -25.11% 28
Midlands +8 36 £488 -20.34% 3
North West +5 24 £401 -11.48% 20
West Midlands +2 24 £575 -6.05% 2
South East +26 14 £501 -24.45% 19
Yorkshire -8 13 £390 -31.88% 4
South West +32 12 £700 +19.15% 2
East Midlands - 12 £270 - 1
North East +2 5 £465 -15.45% 4
East of England - 1 £850 - 1
SonarQube
UK

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 22 (12.15%) Confluence
2 6 (3.31%) JBoss
3 5 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.21%) Appian
5 3 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.66%) Mule
5 3 (1.66%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.10%) Apache
6 2 (1.10%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.55%) CICS
7 1 (0.55%) nginx
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.55%) Endur
2 1 (0.55%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 90 (49.72%) AWS
2 80 (44.20%) Azure
3 48 (26.52%) GCP
4 46 (25.41%) GitHub
5 30 (16.57%) Amazon SQS
6 24 (13.26%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (12.15%) Serverless
8 20 (11.05%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (10.50%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (10.50%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (9.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (8.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 15 (8.29%) PaaS
13 14 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (7.73%) Route 53
14 13 (7.18%) Amazon S3
14 13 (7.18%) npm
15 12 (6.63%) OpenShift
16 11 (6.08%) Datadog
17 8 (4.42%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.52%) Firewall
2 5 (2.76%) Network Security
2 5 (2.76%) SSH
2 5 (2.76%) SSL
3 4 (2.21%) DNS
3 4 (2.21%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.55%) HTTP
5 1 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.55%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.89%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (11.60%) Redis
3 19 (10.50%) NoSQL
4 18 (9.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (9.94%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (7.73%) DynamoDB
5 14 (7.73%) MySQL
6 13 (7.18%) MongoDB
7 11 (6.08%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.52%) RDBMS
8 10 (5.52%) SQL Server
9 9 (4.97%) DocumentDB
9 9 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.31%) Oracle Database
10 6 (3.31%) Power BI
11 5 (2.76%) Big Data
11 5 (2.76%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.76%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.66%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 87 (48.07%) Jenkins
2 76 (41.99%) Git
3 53 (29.28%) GitLab
4 49 (27.07%) Maven
5 45 (24.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 44 (24.31%) JIRA
7 34 (18.78%) JUnit
7 34 (18.78%) Selenium
8 24 (13.26%) Mockito
9 23 (12.71%) Cucumber
10 20 (11.05%) Bitbucket
11 18 (9.94%) Artifactory
12 15 (8.29%) REST Assured
13 14 (7.73%) Bitbucket Server
13 14 (7.73%) Postman
13 14 (7.73%) TeamCity
14 13 (7.18%) Burp Suite
14 13 (7.18%) Cypress.io
14 13 (7.18%) Gradle
14 13 (7.18%) Metasploit
General
1 56 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.20%) Public Sector
3 30 (16.57%) Finance
4 25 (13.81%) Banking
5 20 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.52%) Law
7 5 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.76%) Publishing
8 4 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.21%) Police
8 4 (2.21%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.10%) Legal
9 2 (1.10%) Military
9 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.55%) German Language
10 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
10 1 (0.55%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 58 (32.04%) Developer
2 38 (20.99%) Java Developer
3 26 (14.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (8.29%) Lead
5 14 (7.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 14 (7.73%) Security Engineer
6 13 (7.18%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 12 (6.63%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (6.08%) Architect
9 10 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.52%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) Lead Developer
10 8 (4.42%) Senior
11 7 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Java Technical Architect
12 6 (3.31%) Lead Java Developer
12 6 (3.31%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (29.28%) Spring Boot
2 45 (24.86%) REST
3 38 (20.99%) React
4 32 (17.68%) Spring
5 31 (17.13%) Node.js
6 30 (16.57%) Hibernate
7 27 (14.92%) RESTful
8 26 (14.36%) CSS
8 26 (14.36%) HTML
9 25 (13.81%) JPA
10 22 (12.15%) Kafka
11 20 (11.05%) SOAP
12 19 (10.50%) AngularJS
12 19 (10.50%) J2EE
13 18 (9.94%) Jest
14 17 (9.39%) Bootstrap
14 17 (9.39%) Spring Cloud
15 16 (8.84%) Redux
15 16 (8.84%) Web Services
16 15 (8.29%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.29%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.97%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.31%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.76%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.21%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.66%) Autonomous Agent
7 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.66%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.10%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.10%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.47%) Linux
2 13 (7.18%) Windows
3 12 (6.63%) Unix
4 8 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.31%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.10%) Android
6 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (61.33%) CI/CD
2 105 (58.01%) DevOps
3 68 (37.57%) Containerisation
4 66 (36.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (35.36%) Microservices
6 58 (32.04%) Agile
7 45 (24.86%) Test Automation
8 41 (22.65%) TDD
9 38 (20.99%) DevSecOps
10 35 (19.34%) Continuous Integration
10 35 (19.34%) SDLC
11 31 (17.13%) Code Quality
12 30 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (14.36%) OWASP
13 26 (14.36%) Software Engineering
14 25 (13.81%) Scrum
15 24 (13.26%) Secure Coding
16 22 (12.15%) Mentoring
16 22 (12.15%) Migration
16 22 (12.15%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (43.65%) Java
2 65 (35.91%) Python
3 52 (28.73%) JavaScript
4 43 (23.76%) SQL
5 31 (17.13%) Bash
6 15 (8.29%) PowerShell
7 14 (7.73%) Groovy
8 10 (5.52%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.87%) C#
10 6 (3.31%) Perl
11 3 (1.66%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.10%) COBOL
12 2 (1.10%) Go
12 2 (1.10%) JCL
12 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.10%) Swift
13 1 (0.55%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.55%) Ruby
13 1 (0.55%) Rust
13 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (46.96%) Security Cleared
2 72 (39.78%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.18%) CREST Certified
3 13 (7.18%) DV Cleared
3 13 (7.18%) OSCP
3 13 (7.18%) Tigerscheme
4 10 (5.52%) CHECK Team Member
5 5 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.21%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.21%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.21%) Degree
7 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) OCP
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.55%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.55%) MCP
8 1 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.39%) NCSC
2 15 (8.29%) QA
3 10 (5.52%) Accessibility
4 9 (4.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (3.31%) GDPR
6 5 (2.76%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.76%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.21%) WCAG
8 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (1.10%) NIST
10 1 (0.55%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (53.04%) Docker
2 8 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.31%) Postfix
4 3 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.66%) vSphere
5 2 (1.10%) HDFS
5 2 (1.10%) vCloud
5 2 (1.10%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (38.67%) Kubernetes
2 69 (38.12%) Terraform
3 32 (17.68%) Ansible
4 21 (11.60%) Prometheus
5 18 (9.94%) Grafana
6 13 (7.18%) Nmap
6 13 (7.18%) Progress Chef
7 12 (6.63%) Podman
8 10 (5.52%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (5.52%) Kibana
9 7 (3.87%) Argo
10 5 (2.76%) HP Fortify
10 5 (2.76%) Istio
10 5 (2.76%) Nessus
10 5 (2.76%) Puppet
11 1 (0.55%) Control-M
11 1 (0.55%) Packer
11 1 (0.55%) Rancher
11 1 (0.55%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (13.81%) Veracode
2 19 (10.50%) Splunk
3 15 (8.29%) Google
4 14 (7.73%) Microsoft
5 11 (6.08%) Dynatrace
6 10 (5.52%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.42%) Oracle
8 7 (3.87%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.87%) Checkmarx
8 7 (3.87%) Cloudera
9 6 (3.31%) AppDynamics
9 6 (3.31%) CA Agile Central
9 6 (3.31%) DocuSign
9 6 (3.31%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (3.31%) Perforce
10 5 (2.76%) Cisco
10 5 (2.76%) Gigya
10 5 (2.76%) Qualys
11 3 (1.66%) VMware
12 2 (1.10%) Databricks