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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 414 475
Rank change year-on-year -35 +61 -30
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 117 76 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.30% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.37% 2.22% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 50 53
10th Percentile £400 £367 £425
25th Percentile £431 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -11.76%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £650
90th Percentile £775 £704 £735
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 4,947 3,420 4,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.03% 13.37% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,391 2,177 3,067
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £408 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.61% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 58 200
10th Percentile £26.30 £39.75 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.87 £47.96
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% +3.66%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -54 43 £525 -7.08% 7
North of England -40 35 £431 +1.41% 11
Midlands -35 27 £575 +56.68% 8
West Midlands -32 23 £575 - 7
North West -22 19 £430 +17.17% 3
South West - 15 £700 - 2
North East -9 9 - - 6
South East -30 9 £550 -7.33% 8
Yorkshire -59 7 £511 -1.59% 2
East Midlands -27 4 £525 +43.05% 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 27 (23.08%) Confluence
2 7 (5.98%) nginx
2 7 (5.98%) OpenStack
3 5 (4.27%) Appian
4 4 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 52 (44.44%) AWS
2 45 (38.46%) Azure
3 33 (28.21%) GitHub
4 22 (18.80%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (17.95%) OpenShift
6 18 (15.38%) Amazon S3
7 17 (14.53%) Route 53
8 16 (13.68%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (13.68%) Serverless
9 15 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (8.55%) GCP
14 9 (7.69%) AWS KMS
15 7 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (5.98%) npm
15 7 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (5.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.98%) DNS
1 7 (5.98%) Firewall
1 7 (5.98%) OpenVPN
1 7 (5.98%) TCP/IP
1 7 (5.98%) VPN
2 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.40%) DynamoDB
1 11 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.55%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.98%) Redis
5 5 (4.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.27%) DocumentDB
6 4 (3.42%) Metadata
6 4 (3.42%) Power BI
7 2 (1.71%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.71%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.71%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.71%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.85%) MySQL
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 35 (29.91%) Git
3 31 (26.50%) JIRA
4 29 (24.79%) GitLab
5 25 (21.37%) Maven
6 23 (19.66%) Bitbucket
7 20 (17.09%) JUnit
8 15 (12.82%) Selenium
9 14 (11.97%) Cucumber
10 12 (10.26%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (9.40%) Artifactory
12 10 (8.55%) Cypress.io
12 10 (8.55%) Mockito
12 10 (8.55%) Postman
12 10 (8.55%) Snyk
13 7 (5.98%) DbUnit
13 7 (5.98%) jMock
14 5 (4.27%) Gradle
14 5 (4.27%) Robot Framework
14 5 (4.27%) webpack
General
1 29 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.24%) Public Sector
3 16 (13.68%) Finance
4 11 (9.40%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (8.55%) Banking
6 9 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.27%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.71%) Publishing
10 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Retail
10 1 (0.85%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 43 (36.75%) Developer
2 18 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 17 (14.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 13 (11.11%) Senior
5 10 (8.55%) Architect
6 9 (7.69%) Lead
6 9 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.98%) React Developer
9 5 (4.27%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (3.42%) Security Engineer
11 3 (2.56%) AWS Architect
11 3 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (2.56%) Java Engineer
11 3 (2.56%) Node.js Developer
11 3 (2.56%) Senior DevOps
11 3 (2.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.37%) YAML
2 24 (20.51%) AngularJS
3 23 (19.66%) REST
4 22 (18.80%) Node.js
5 18 (15.38%) Spring
6 16 (13.68%) JSON
7 15 (12.82%) RESTful
7 15 (12.82%) Spring Boot
7 15 (12.82%) Web Services
8 13 (11.11%) React
9 12 (10.26%) Hibernate
9 12 (10.26%) JPA
10 11 (9.40%) Quarkus
11 10 (8.55%) OpenID
11 10 (8.55%) SOAP
11 10 (8.55%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
12 9 (7.69%) Bootstrap
12 9 (7.69%) Spring Batch
12 9 (7.69%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.27%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.56%) Blog
4 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.56%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.71%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.85%) Contactless
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.24%) Linux
2 4 (3.42%) Windows
3 3 (2.56%) Unix
4 2 (1.71%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (60.68%) CI/CD
2 62 (52.99%) DevOps
3 50 (42.74%) Agile
4 38 (32.48%) Test Automation
5 37 (31.62%) DevSecOps
6 35 (29.91%) Containerisation
7 33 (28.21%) Scrum
8 30 (25.64%) Software Engineering
9 28 (23.93%) SDLC
10 26 (22.22%) TDD
11 25 (21.37%) Microservices
11 25 (21.37%) Unit Testing
12 22 (18.80%) Sprint Planning
13 20 (17.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (15.38%) BDD
15 16 (13.68%) Front End Development
16 15 (12.82%) Code Quality
17 14 (11.97%) Decision-Making
18 13 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 52 (44.44%) Java
2 19 (16.24%) Python
3 18 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 18 (15.38%) SQL
4 7 (5.98%) Groovy
4 7 (5.98%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.13%) Go
6 5 (4.27%) Bash
6 5 (4.27%) C#
6 5 (4.27%) C++
6 5 (4.27%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.56%) Rust
8 2 (1.71%) C
8 2 (1.71%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.71%) R
9 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.85%) ProC
9 1 (0.85%) RPG
9 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (43.59%) Security Cleared
2 41 (35.04%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.26%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.42%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.56%) Degree
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) OCP
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.68%) QA
2 7 (5.98%) NCSC
3 6 (5.13%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.71%) WCAG
5 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (45.30%) Docker
2 7 (5.98%) Squid
3 6 (5.13%) Postfix
4 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (41.88%) Kubernetes
2 32 (27.35%) Terraform
3 22 (18.80%) Grafana
4 15 (12.82%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.97%) Ansible
6 11 (9.40%) Argo
7 7 (5.98%) Consul
7 7 (5.98%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.98%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (5.13%) Puppet
9 4 (3.42%) Podman
9 4 (3.42%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.56%) HP Fortify
10 3 (2.56%) Istio
11 2 (1.71%) rkt
12 1 (0.85%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (17.09%) Veracode
2 19 (16.24%) Red Hat
3 14 (11.97%) Atlassian
4 13 (11.11%) Dynatrace
5 9 (7.69%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (6.84%) Checkmarx
7 7 (5.98%) Microsoft
7 7 (5.98%) Salesforce
7 7 (5.98%) Splunk
8 5 (4.27%) Cisco
8 5 (4.27%) Guidewire
9 4 (3.42%) Databricks
9 4 (3.42%) SAP
9 4 (3.42%) Sonatype
10 3 (2.56%) Cognizant
10 3 (2.56%) DocuSign
10 3 (2.56%) Oracle
11 2 (1.71%) Perforce
11 2 (1.71%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.85%) VMware