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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 377 464
Rank change year-on-year -75 +87 +14
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 122 96 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.40% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.41% 2.90% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 74 60
10th Percentile £409 £387 £413
25th Percentile £456 £425 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £531 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -2.57% -7.23%
75th Percentile £583 £661 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £714
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £555
% change year-on-year -1.30% -5.41% -5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £54.63 - -
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 5,054 3,309 4,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.18% 13.65% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,392 2,203 2,915
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £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 206 65 162
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.12 £33.38
25th Percentile £59.25 £51.25 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.31 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £88.13
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +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 3 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 3 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 3 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
North of England -45 38 £441 -3.19% 18
London -84 38 £525 -7.08% 6
Midlands -48 25 £531 +11.74% 3
West Midlands -48 19 £554 +16.58% 2
North East -3 16 £513 +10.81% 16
North West -36 14 £431 +9.54%
South East -48 14 £513 -1.20% 12
Yorkshire -59 8 £450 -13.25% 2
South West - 8 £650 - 3
East Midlands -30 6 £525 +10.53% 1
East of England -32 5 £500 +55.58% 2
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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 (18.85%) Confluence
2 7 (5.74%) nginx
3 5 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.10%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.64%) Apache
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.28%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 55 (45.08%) AWS
2 37 (30.33%) Azure
3 30 (24.59%) GitHub
4 29 (23.77%) OpenShift
5 22 (18.03%) Amazon S3
5 22 (18.03%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (16.39%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (14.75%) Route 53
8 17 (13.93%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (13.11%) Serverless
10 15 (12.30%) GCP
11 13 (10.66%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (9.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (9.02%) AWS KMS
14 10 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (7.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (4.92%) Azure AKS
17 5 (4.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.38%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.74%) DNS
2 7 (5.74%) Firewall
2 7 (5.74%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.66%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (10.66%) DynamoDB
3 11 (9.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.56%) Metadata
5 7 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.10%) Redis
7 4 (3.28%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.46%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.64%) MySQL
9 2 (1.64%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.64%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.64%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.64%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.82%) Flink
10 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.82%) Power BI
10 1 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (36.07%) Jenkins
2 35 (28.69%) Git
3 27 (22.13%) Maven
4 25 (20.49%) JIRA
5 22 (18.03%) JUnit
6 21 (17.21%) GitLab
7 19 (15.57%) Bitbucket
8 11 (9.02%) Artifactory
8 11 (9.02%) Mockito
9 10 (8.20%) Snyk
10 9 (7.38%) DbUnit
10 9 (7.38%) jMock
11 8 (6.56%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (5.74%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (5.74%) Cucumber
13 6 (4.92%) Selenium
14 5 (4.10%) CircleCI
14 5 (4.10%) Postman
15 4 (3.28%) Cypress.io
15 4 (3.28%) IntelliJ
General
1 25 (20.49%) Public Sector
2 23 (18.85%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.75%) Finance
4 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Banking
6 7 (5.74%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.10%) Publishing
8 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.64%) Automotive
10 1 (0.82%) Advertising
10 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (39.34%) Developer
2 27 (22.13%) Java Developer
3 23 (18.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (13.93%) Senior
4 17 (13.93%) Software Engineer
5 13 (10.66%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.02%) Architect
7 10 (8.20%) Java Engineer
8 8 (6.56%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Lead
10 5 (4.10%) React Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (30.33%) AngularJS
2 27 (22.13%) Node.js
3 26 (21.31%) Spring
4 24 (19.67%) Quarkus
4 24 (19.67%) Spring Boot
5 22 (18.03%) YAML
6 19 (15.57%) REST
7 17 (13.93%) RESTful
8 16 (13.11%) Web Services
9 13 (10.66%) Hibernate
9 13 (10.66%) JPA
10 12 (9.84%) Spring Cloud
11 11 (9.02%) ActiveMQ
11 11 (9.02%) SOAP
11 11 (9.02%) Spring Batch
11 11 (9.02%) Spring Integration
12 10 (8.20%) JSON
13 9 (7.38%) Bootstrap
13 9 (7.38%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (7.38%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.46%) Blog
3 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.64%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.64%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.82%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.39%) Linux
2 4 (3.28%) Unix
3 2 (1.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (55.74%) DevOps
2 66 (54.10%) CI/CD
3 60 (49.18%) Agile
4 46 (37.70%) DevSecOps
5 44 (36.07%) Scrum
6 42 (34.43%) Test Automation
7 35 (28.69%) Software Engineering
8 33 (27.05%) Unit Testing
9 32 (26.23%) Containerisation
9 32 (26.23%) SDLC
10 31 (25.41%) Sprint Planning
11 30 (24.59%) TDD
12 27 (22.13%) Microservices
13 25 (20.49%) Front End Development
14 23 (18.85%) BDD
15 20 (16.39%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (16.39%) Sprint Review
16 16 (13.11%) Static Application Security Testing
17 15 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
18 13 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (61.48%) Java
2 23 (18.85%) SQL
3 21 (17.21%) Python
4 9 (7.38%) Groovy
5 6 (4.92%) Go
6 5 (4.10%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.10%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.28%) Bash
7 4 (3.28%) C++
7 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.46%) C#
9 2 (1.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.82%) C
10 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.82%) ProC
10 1 (0.82%) RPG
10 1 (0.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 56 (45.90%) Security Cleared
2 47 (38.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.10%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.28%) Degree
5 3 (2.46%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.95%) QA
2 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.28%) WCAG
3 2 (1.64%) NCSC
4 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (33.61%) Docker
2 8 (6.56%) Postfix
3 7 (5.74%) Squid
Systems Management
1 57 (46.72%) Kubernetes
2 31 (25.41%) Terraform
3 24 (19.67%) Argo
3 24 (19.67%) Grafana
4 16 (13.11%) Prometheus
5 12 (9.84%) Ansible
6 7 (5.74%) Consul
6 7 (5.74%) FortiGate
6 7 (5.74%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (4.92%) Puppet
8 5 (4.10%) Istio
9 4 (3.28%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.64%) Podman
10 2 (1.64%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.64%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 29 (23.77%) Red Hat
2 16 (13.11%) Atlassian
3 13 (10.66%) Veracode
4 11 (9.02%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (8.20%) Checkmarx
6 9 (7.38%) Dynatrace
7 8 (6.56%) Sonatype
8 7 (5.74%) Microsoft
8 7 (5.74%) Salesforce
9 5 (4.10%) Databricks
9 5 (4.10%) Google
9 5 (4.10%) Guidewire
9 5 (4.10%) SAP
10 4 (3.28%) Oracle
11 3 (2.46%) Cognizant
12 2 (1.64%) Splunk
13 1 (0.82%) Acunetix
13 1 (0.82%) Netsparker
13 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.82%) Thales