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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 341 454
Rank change year-on-year -124 +113 +9
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 160 177 68
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.63% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.00% 4.14% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 130 46
10th Percentile £383 £276 £413
25th Percentile £448 £375 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £590
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -15.25% -1.67%
75th Percentile £589 £675 £669
90th Percentile £674 £701 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £574
% change year-on-year - -12.85% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.44 - £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 5,325 4,277 4,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.52% 15.22% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 2,969 2,740
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 96 164
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.38 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.80 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% -

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -110 62 £510 -16.39% 39
North of England -62 44 £514 +27.94% 15
Midlands -38 43 £450 -9.98% 9
West Midlands -32 40 £450 -21.71% 8
South East -42 26 £690 +37.93% 7
North East -16 25 £510 +20.00% 12
North West -68 10 £537 +31.06% 1
Yorkshire -38 9 £514 +31.88% 2
South West -43 3 £300 -57.14% 4
East Midlands -27 2 £335 +24.07% 1
East of England -27 2 £310 -63.53% 3
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 19 (11.88%) Confluence
2 9 (5.63%) Camunda
3 5 (3.13%) Apache
3 5 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.63%) IIS
5 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 80 (50.00%) AWS
2 58 (36.25%) GitHub
3 45 (28.13%) Azure
4 44 (27.50%) OpenShift
5 34 (21.25%) GCP
6 26 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (8.13%) GitHub Copilot
9 11 (6.88%) Amazon S3
10 10 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (5.63%) Serverless
12 8 (5.00%) AWS KMS
12 8 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (5.00%) Route 53
13 7 (4.38%) OCI
14 6 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
15 5 (3.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.75%) Firewall
2 4 (2.50%) MQTT
2 4 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 13 (8.13%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (5.63%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.38%) Metadata
7 6 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.75%) MySQL
8 5 (3.13%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.50%) Flink
9 4 (2.50%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.50%) Tableau
10 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.25%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.63%) Power BI
12 1 (0.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 76 (47.50%) Jenkins
2 69 (43.13%) Git
3 60 (37.50%) GitLab
3 60 (37.50%) Maven
4 59 (36.88%) JUnit
5 32 (20.00%) Mockito
6 30 (18.75%) Cucumber
7 26 (16.25%) Selenium
8 24 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (13.75%) Gradle
10 21 (13.13%) JIRA
11 20 (12.50%) Gatling
12 13 (8.13%) Bitbucket Server
12 13 (8.13%) REST Assured
13 12 (7.50%) Postman
14 11 (6.88%) Snyk
15 8 (5.00%) Artifactory
16 7 (4.38%) LoadRunner
16 7 (4.38%) SoapUI
17 6 (3.75%) JMeter
General
1 54 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.38%) Finance
3 27 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (14.38%) Public Sector
5 22 (13.75%) Banking
6 7 (4.38%) Publishing
7 6 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.25%) Automotive
9 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Front Office
10 1 (0.63%) German Language
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (40.00%) Developer
2 47 (29.38%) Java Developer
3 25 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (15.63%) Senior
4 19 (11.88%) Quality Engineer
5 15 (9.38%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.13%) Java Engineer
6 13 (8.13%) Senior Java Developer
7 12 (7.50%) Lead
8 11 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.75%) GCP DevOps
12 6 (3.75%) Lead Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) Consultant
13 5 (3.13%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 5 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (35.00%) Spring
2 51 (31.88%) AngularJS
3 47 (29.38%) Spring Boot
4 40 (25.00%) Terraform
5 35 (21.88%) Kafka
6 30 (18.75%) Quarkus
7 29 (18.13%) JPA
7 29 (18.13%) SOAP
8 28 (17.50%) Hibernate
8 28 (17.50%) Web Services
9 27 (16.88%) RESTful
10 26 (16.25%) HTML
10 26 (16.25%) React
11 24 (15.00%) ActiveMQ
11 24 (15.00%) REST
12 23 (14.38%) Node.js
13 22 (13.75%) Playwright
14 21 (13.13%) CSS
15 20 (12.50%) Gherkin
16 18 (11.25%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.25%) PKI
9 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.38%) Linux
2 12 (7.50%) Unix
3 6 (3.75%) Windows
4 4 (2.50%) VMS
5 3 (1.88%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 102 (63.75%) Agile
3 86 (53.75%) Test Automation
4 85 (53.13%) Scrum
5 80 (50.00%) DevOps
6 77 (48.13%) Microservices
7 57 (35.63%) DevSecOps
8 54 (33.75%) TDD
9 50 (31.25%) SDLC
10 45 (28.13%) Software Engineering
11 41 (25.63%) Containerisation
11 41 (25.63%) Front End Development
12 40 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
13 35 (21.88%) Unit Testing
14 33 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (18.75%) BDD
15 30 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (17.50%) OWASP
17 28 (17.50%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 113 (70.63%) Java
2 45 (28.13%) Python
3 40 (25.00%) SQL
4 32 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.63%) Bash
6 13 (8.13%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.88%) Groovy
8 10 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.38%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.50%) Rust
11 3 (1.88%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.25%) Bicep
13 1 (0.63%) C#
13 1 (0.63%) COBOL
13 1 (0.63%) Go
13 1 (0.63%) Korn
13 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 66 (41.25%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.38%) Degree
4 21 (13.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (10.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.63%) DV Cleared
7 8 (5.00%) AWS Certification
8 7 (4.38%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.88%) CISSP
9 3 (1.88%) GIAC
9 3 (1.88%) ISEB
9 3 (1.88%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.63%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.63%) GSEC
11 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (29.38%) QA
2 24 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 18 (11.25%) WCAG
4 4 (2.50%) NIST
4 4 (2.50%) PSD2
4 4 (2.50%) SEPA
5 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (50.63%) Docker
2 4 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.88%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 101 (63.13%) Kubernetes
2 36 (22.50%) Grafana
3 34 (21.25%) Argo
4 27 (16.88%) Ansible
4 27 (16.88%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.25%) HP Fortify
6 8 (5.00%) Istio
7 6 (3.75%) Puppet
8 5 (3.13%) Podman
9 4 (2.50%) Control-M
10 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (19.38%) Red Hat
2 16 (10.00%) IBM
3 13 (8.13%) Veracode
4 12 (7.50%) Oracle
5 9 (5.63%) Checkmarx
5 9 (5.63%) Google
6 7 (4.38%) Databricks
6 7 (4.38%) Sonatype
7 6 (3.75%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (3.75%) SAP
8 5 (3.13%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.13%) Tenable
9 4 (2.50%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.50%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.88%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.88%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.25%) Splunk
12 1 (0.63%) Foundry
12 1 (0.63%) Pega
12 1 (0.63%) webMethods