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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 346 443
Rank change year-on-year -115 +97 +12
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 152 172 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.62% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.86% 4.30% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 124 63
10th Percentile £450 £272 £434
25th Percentile £490 £376 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £472 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.23% -21.33% -
75th Percentile £626 £615 £675
90th Percentile £730 £688 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%

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 5,317 3,996 4,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.67% 14.45% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,386 2,764 2,846
10th Percentile £353 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 94 194
10th Percentile £35.38 £40.68 £34.02
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £54.09
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.99 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%

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 13 August 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
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 13 August 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 -108 52 £601 -1.56% 22
North of England -55 47 £510 +28.30% 12
South East -46 30 £601 +20.13% 1
North East -18 29 £511 +9.95% 11
Midlands -59 27 £518 +26.28% 6
West Midlands -36 24 £518 +3.55% 4
Yorkshire -42 9 £514 +31.88% 1
North West -59 9 £500 +27.23%
East of England - 9 £510 -
South West -41 3 - - 2
East Midlands -30 2 - - 2
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 7 (4.61%) Confluence
2 6 (3.95%) Apache
2 6 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.29%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.32%) Camunda
6 1 (0.66%) nginx
6 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 69 (45.39%) AWS
2 48 (31.58%) Azure
3 46 (30.26%) GitHub
3 46 (30.26%) OpenShift
4 38 (25.00%) GCP
5 31 (20.39%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 18 (11.84%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (11.18%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (10.53%) Route 53
11 15 (9.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (9.21%) AWS KMS
13 10 (6.58%) OCI
13 10 (6.58%) Serverless
14 9 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (3.95%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.63%) Firewall
1 4 (2.63%) MQTT
1 4 (2.63%) Network Security
2 3 (1.97%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.66%) DNS
3 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.82%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (11.18%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (9.87%) DynamoDB
4 14 (9.21%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.24%) Metadata
6 8 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.29%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.63%) Flink
8 4 (2.63%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.63%) Tableau
9 3 (1.97%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.32%) MySQL
10 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.66%) Power BI
11 1 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.66%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 68 (44.74%) Jenkins
2 48 (31.58%) Git
3 46 (30.26%) Maven
4 37 (24.34%) GitLab
4 37 (24.34%) JUnit
5 20 (13.16%) Mockito
6 16 (10.53%) Snyk
7 14 (9.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (7.89%) Bitbucket Server
9 11 (7.24%) DbUnit
9 11 (7.24%) Gradle
10 10 (6.58%) jMock
10 10 (6.58%) Postman
11 9 (5.92%) Artifactory
11 9 (5.92%) Cucumber
12 8 (5.26%) IntelliJ
12 8 (5.26%) Selenium
13 7 (4.61%) CircleCI
13 7 (4.61%) JIRA
13 7 (4.61%) LoadRunner
General
1 31 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.08%) Public Sector
3 26 (17.11%) Finance
4 22 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.87%) Banking
6 10 (6.58%) Publishing
7 3 (1.97%) Automotive
7 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.66%) Advertising
9 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (38.16%) Developer
2 45 (29.61%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (15.79%) Senior
5 17 (11.18%) Java Engineer
6 16 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 16 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 12 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (7.24%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (6.58%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Architect
10 8 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Lead
11 7 (4.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.95%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (3.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (36.84%) AngularJS
2 42 (27.63%) Spring Boot
3 41 (26.97%) Quarkus
3 41 (26.97%) Spring
4 30 (19.74%) Node.js
5 24 (15.79%) Kafka
6 22 (14.47%) SOAP
7 21 (13.82%) RESTful
8 20 (13.16%) REST
8 20 (13.16%) Web Services
9 19 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (12.50%) JPA
10 18 (11.84%) Hibernate
10 18 (11.84%) Spring Cloud
11 14 (9.21%) Spring Batch
11 14 (9.21%) Spring Integration
11 14 (9.21%) YAML
12 13 (8.55%) JSON
13 12 (7.89%) Bootstrap
14 11 (7.24%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.32%) PKI
7 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
7 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.08%) Linux
2 8 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 87 (57.24%) DevOps
3 82 (53.95%) Agile
4 71 (46.71%) DevSecOps
5 70 (46.05%) Scrum
6 61 (40.13%) Test Automation
7 59 (38.82%) Software Engineering
8 52 (34.21%) Microservices
9 50 (32.89%) SDLC
10 43 (28.29%) Front End Development
10 43 (28.29%) Sprint Planning
11 40 (26.32%) Unit Testing
12 38 (25.00%) Containerisation
13 36 (23.68%) Sprint Review
13 36 (23.68%) TDD
14 32 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (16.45%) BDD
16 24 (15.79%) Static Application Security Testing
17 21 (13.82%) Code Quality
17 21 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (68.42%) Java
2 41 (26.97%) SQL
3 37 (24.34%) Python
4 16 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.89%) Groovy
6 7 (4.61%) Bash
7 6 (3.95%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.29%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.63%) Go
9 4 (2.63%) Rust
10 3 (1.97%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.66%) C#
12 1 (0.66%) COBOL
12 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (49.34%) Security Cleared
2 68 (44.74%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.89%) Degree
4 8 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.61%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.97%) CISSP
8 3 (1.97%) GIAC
8 3 (1.97%) ISEB
8 3 (1.97%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.66%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.66%) GSEC
10 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (30.92%) QA
2 10 (6.58%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.63%) NIST
3 4 (2.63%) PSD2
3 4 (2.63%) SEPA
3 4 (2.63%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (40.13%) Docker
2 8 (5.26%) Postfix
3 1 (0.66%) Squid
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (61.84%) Kubernetes
2 44 (28.95%) Argo
3 43 (28.29%) Terraform
4 34 (22.37%) Grafana
5 25 (16.45%) Prometheus
6 22 (14.47%) Ansible
7 10 (6.58%) HP Fortify
8 9 (5.92%) Istio
9 8 (5.26%) Puppet
10 5 (3.29%) Podman
11 4 (2.63%) Control-M
12 3 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.32%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.66%) Consul
14 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 41 (26.97%) Red Hat
2 13 (8.55%) Checkmarx
2 13 (8.55%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (7.89%) Atlassian
4 11 (7.24%) Sonatype
5 10 (6.58%) Oracle
6 9 (5.92%) Google
7 8 (5.26%) IBM
7 8 (5.26%) SAP
8 7 (4.61%) Databricks
9 6 (3.95%) Veracode
10 4 (2.63%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.63%) Tenable
11 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.97%) Microsoft
12 1 (0.66%) Foundry
12 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.66%) Pega
12 1 (0.66%) Splunk
12 1 (0.66%) UiPath