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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 340 460
Rank change year-on-year -130 +120 -11
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 174 181 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.65% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.27% 4.38% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 133 49
10th Percentile £406 £277 £474
25th Percentile £458 £380 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £480 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £601 £650 £685
90th Percentile £680 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £483 £600
% change year-on-year +5.64% -19.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £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 5,327 4,133 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.44% 14.86% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,371 2,855 2,828
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 95 169
10th Percentile £34.64 £44.30 £37.39
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.88 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.53 £79.50 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in England

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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 19 September 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 -98 64 £584 -4.34% 45
North of England -64 50 £513 +22.75% 18
Midlands -44 41 £475 -2.56% 6
West Midlands -37 36 £476 -17.22% 4
North East -27 29 £511 +9.95% 14
South East -46 27 £601 +20.13% 8
Yorkshire -40 11 £514 +31.79% 3
North West -69 10 £519 +29.30% 1
East of England -20 6 £570 -32.94% 1
East Midlands -22 4 £335 +24.07% 2
South West -44 3 £300 -57.14% 6
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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 20 (11.49%) Confluence
2 8 (4.60%) Camunda
3 7 (4.02%) Apache
4 6 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.45%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.15%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 80 (45.98%) AWS
2 60 (34.48%) GitHub
3 50 (28.74%) Azure
3 50 (28.74%) OpenShift
4 39 (22.41%) GCP
5 31 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (7.47%) Amazon S3
8 12 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (6.32%) Serverless
10 10 (5.75%) AWS KMS
10 10 (5.75%) Route 53
11 9 (5.17%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (5.17%) OCI
12 8 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (4.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (3.45%) Azure AKS
14 6 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.87%) Firewall
2 4 (2.30%) MQTT
2 4 (2.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.94%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.05%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.32%) DynamoDB
5 10 (5.75%) Metadata
6 9 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.87%) Flink
7 5 (2.87%) MySQL
8 4 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.30%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.30%) Tableau
9 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 82 (47.13%) Jenkins
2 68 (39.08%) Git
3 62 (35.63%) Maven
4 56 (32.18%) JUnit
5 55 (31.61%) GitLab
6 31 (17.82%) Mockito
7 23 (13.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (12.64%) JIRA
9 21 (12.07%) Cucumber
10 20 (11.49%) Gradle
11 19 (10.92%) Selenium
12 16 (9.20%) Snyk
13 14 (8.05%) Bitbucket Server
13 14 (8.05%) Gatling
14 12 (6.90%) Artifactory
14 12 (6.90%) REST Assured
15 11 (6.32%) Postman
16 7 (4.02%) DbUnit
16 7 (4.02%) IntelliJ
16 7 (4.02%) LoadRunner
General
1 50 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.54%) Finance
3 29 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.52%) Public Sector
5 23 (13.22%) Banking
6 9 (5.17%) Publishing
7 6 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.15%) Automotive
9 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (40.23%) Developer
2 53 (30.46%) Java Developer
3 35 (20.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (17.24%) Senior
5 19 (10.92%) Senior Developer
6 16 (9.20%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (8.62%) Java Engineer
8 12 (6.90%) Lead
8 12 (6.90%) Quality Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (6.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 11 (6.32%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Architect
10 7 (4.02%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 6 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (34.48%) AngularJS
2 58 (33.33%) Spring
3 53 (30.46%) Spring Boot
4 45 (25.86%) Terraform
5 38 (21.84%) Quarkus
6 32 (18.39%) Kafka
7 30 (17.24%) JPA
8 29 (16.67%) Hibernate
9 28 (16.09%) Node.js
9 28 (16.09%) RESTful
9 28 (16.09%) SOAP
10 27 (15.52%) Web Services
11 26 (14.94%) REST
12 24 (13.79%) ActiveMQ
13 22 (12.64%) HTML
13 22 (12.64%) React
14 21 (12.07%) Spring Cloud
15 18 (10.34%) CSS
16 15 (8.62%) Playwright
17 14 (8.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.87%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) PKI
10 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.57%) NHS
10 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.39%) Linux
2 11 (6.32%) Unix
3 5 (2.87%) Windows
4 3 (1.72%) VMS
5 1 (0.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (64.94%) CI/CD
2 106 (60.92%) Agile
3 90 (51.72%) DevOps
4 87 (50.00%) Scrum
5 85 (48.85%) Test Automation
6 74 (42.53%) Microservices
7 68 (39.08%) DevSecOps
8 58 (33.33%) SDLC
8 58 (33.33%) Software Engineering
9 53 (30.46%) TDD
10 48 (27.59%) Front End Development
10 48 (27.59%) Sprint Planning
11 46 (26.44%) Containerisation
12 41 (23.56%) Unit Testing
13 39 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (18.97%) Sprint Review
15 31 (17.82%) Code Quality
15 31 (17.82%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (17.24%) BDD
17 28 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 124 (71.26%) Java
2 45 (25.86%) SQL
3 44 (25.29%) Python
4 27 (15.52%) JavaScript
5 15 (8.62%) Bash
6 14 (8.05%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.47%) Groovy
8 9 (5.17%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.30%) Rust
11 3 (1.72%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.15%) Bicep
12 2 (1.15%) Go
13 1 (0.57%) C#
13 1 (0.57%) COBOL
13 1 (0.57%) Korn
13 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (44.25%) Security Cleared
2 71 (40.80%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.07%) Degree
4 17 (9.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.02%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.02%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.02%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.72%) CISSP
7 3 (1.72%) GIAC
7 3 (1.72%) ISEB
7 3 (1.72%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.57%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.57%) GSEC
9 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (29.89%) QA
2 18 (10.34%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.90%) WCAG
4 4 (2.30%) NIST
4 4 (2.30%) PSD2
4 4 (2.30%) SEPA
5 2 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 79 (45.40%) Docker
2 5 (2.87%) Postfix
3 3 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (60.34%) Kubernetes
2 41 (23.56%) Argo
3 39 (22.41%) Grafana
4 31 (17.82%) Prometheus
5 30 (17.24%) Ansible
6 9 (5.17%) HP Fortify
6 9 (5.17%) Istio
7 8 (4.60%) Puppet
8 5 (2.87%) Podman
9 4 (2.30%) Control-M
10 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (21.26%) Red Hat
2 14 (8.05%) IBM
3 13 (7.47%) Checkmarx
4 12 (6.90%) Veracode
5 11 (6.32%) Google
5 11 (6.32%) Oracle
6 10 (5.75%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.60%) Databricks
7 8 (4.60%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (4.02%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.02%) SAP
9 5 (2.87%) Tenable
10 4 (2.30%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.30%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.30%) NVIDIA
11 2 (1.15%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.15%) Splunk
12 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.57%) UiPath
12 1 (0.57%) webMethods