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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 337 451
Rank change year-on-year -140 +114 0
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 159 177 67
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.63% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.98% 4.14% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 130 45
10th Percentile £383 £276 £413
25th Percentile £448 £375 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £594
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -15.82% -1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £675 £675
90th Percentile £674 £701 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -4.17%
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 5,328 4,275 4,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.52% 15.24% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 2,970 2,733
10th Percentile £353 £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 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £522
% change year-on-year - -4.21% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 96 164
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.38 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.21 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £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 10 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 10 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 -102 63 £510 -16.39% 39
North of England -72 44 £514 +27.94% 12
Midlands -39 42 £450 -9.98% 9
West Midlands -34 39 £450 -21.71% 8
South East -50 26 £690 +37.93% 7
North East -18 25 £510 +20.00% 9
North West -68 10 £537 +31.06% 1
Yorkshire -33 9 £514 +31.88% 2
South West -41 3 £300 -57.14% 3
East Midlands -22 2 £335 +24.07% 1
East of England -34 1 £50 -94.12% 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 (11.95%) Confluence
2 9 (5.66%) Camunda
3 5 (3.14%) Apache
3 5 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.14%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.52%) 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 (50.31%) AWS
2 57 (35.85%) GitHub
3 46 (28.93%) Azure
4 44 (27.67%) OpenShift
5 34 (21.38%) GCP
6 26 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (8.18%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (6.29%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (5.66%) Serverless
11 8 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (5.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (4.40%) AWS KMS
12 7 (4.40%) OCI
12 7 (4.40%) Route 53
13 6 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.14%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (3.14%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.77%) Firewall
2 4 (2.52%) MQTT
2 4 (2.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.72%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.69%) Relational Database
3 13 (8.18%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (5.03%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.40%) Metadata
6 7 (4.40%) MySQL
7 6 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.77%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.52%) Flink
8 4 (2.52%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.52%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.52%) Tableau
9 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.63%) Power BI
10 1 (0.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 76 (47.80%) Jenkins
2 69 (43.40%) Git
3 60 (37.74%) GitLab
3 60 (37.74%) Maven
4 58 (36.48%) JUnit
5 32 (20.13%) Mockito
6 31 (19.50%) Cucumber
7 26 (16.35%) Selenium
8 24 (15.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 23 (14.47%) Gradle
10 21 (13.21%) JIRA
11 20 (12.58%) Gatling
12 13 (8.18%) Bitbucket Server
12 13 (8.18%) REST Assured
13 12 (7.55%) Postman
14 11 (6.92%) Snyk
15 8 (5.03%) Artifactory
16 7 (4.40%) LoadRunner
16 7 (4.40%) SoapUI
17 6 (3.77%) JMeter
General
1 55 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.50%) Finance
3 27 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.84%) Banking
4 22 (13.84%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.40%) Publishing
6 6 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.89%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Automotive
9 1 (0.63%) Front Office
9 1 (0.63%) German Language
9 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (40.25%) Developer
2 47 (29.56%) Java Developer
3 25 (15.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (15.72%) Senior
4 19 (11.95%) Quality Engineer
5 15 (9.43%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.18%) Senior Java Developer
7 12 (7.55%) Java Engineer
7 12 (7.55%) Lead
8 11 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (6.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (5.66%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.40%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.77%) GCP DevOps
12 6 (3.77%) Lead Developer
13 5 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (3.14%) Consultant
13 5 (3.14%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 5 (3.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (34.59%) Spring
2 50 (31.45%) AngularJS
3 46 (28.93%) Spring Boot
4 40 (25.16%) Terraform
5 36 (22.64%) Kafka
6 30 (18.87%) Quarkus
7 29 (18.24%) SOAP
8 28 (17.61%) JPA
8 28 (17.61%) RESTful
8 28 (17.61%) Web Services
9 27 (16.98%) Hibernate
10 26 (16.35%) HTML
10 26 (16.35%) React
11 24 (15.09%) ActiveMQ
12 23 (14.47%) REST
13 22 (13.84%) Node.js
13 22 (13.84%) Playwright
14 21 (13.21%) CSS
15 20 (12.58%) Gherkin
16 18 (11.32%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.18%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.29%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.26%) PKI
9 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.63%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.13%) Linux
2 13 (8.18%) Unix
3 6 (3.77%) Windows
4 4 (2.52%) VMS
5 3 (1.89%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (69.18%) CI/CD
2 102 (64.15%) Agile
3 87 (54.72%) Test Automation
4 84 (52.83%) Scrum
5 80 (50.31%) DevOps
6 77 (48.43%) Microservices
7 57 (35.85%) DevSecOps
8 54 (33.96%) TDD
9 49 (30.82%) SDLC
10 45 (28.30%) Software Engineering
11 41 (25.79%) Containerisation
11 41 (25.79%) Front End Development
12 40 (25.16%) Sprint Planning
13 35 (22.01%) Unit Testing
14 33 (20.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (19.50%) BDD
16 30 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
17 29 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
18 28 (17.61%) OWASP
18 28 (17.61%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 112 (70.44%) Java
2 45 (28.30%) Python
3 40 (25.16%) SQL
4 32 (20.13%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.69%) Bash
6 13 (8.18%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.92%) Groovy
8 10 (6.29%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.40%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.52%) Rust
11 3 (1.89%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.26%) 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 (45.28%) Security Cleared
2 66 (41.51%) SC Cleared
3 24 (15.09%) Degree
4 21 (13.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (6.29%) DV Cleared
7 8 (5.03%) AWS Certification
8 7 (4.40%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.89%) CISSP
9 3 (1.89%) GIAC
9 3 (1.89%) ISEB
9 3 (1.89%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.26%) 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 (29.56%) QA
2 24 (15.09%) Accessibility
3 18 (11.32%) WCAG
4 4 (2.52%) NIST
4 4 (2.52%) PSD2
4 4 (2.52%) SEPA
5 2 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (50.94%) Docker
2 4 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.89%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 102 (64.15%) Kubernetes
2 35 (22.01%) Grafana
3 34 (21.38%) Argo
4 27 (16.98%) Ansible
4 27 (16.98%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.29%) HP Fortify
6 8 (5.03%) Istio
7 6 (3.77%) Puppet
8 5 (3.14%) Podman
9 4 (2.52%) Control-M
10 2 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (19.50%) Red Hat
2 16 (10.06%) IBM
3 13 (8.18%) Veracode
4 12 (7.55%) Oracle
5 9 (5.66%) Google
6 8 (5.03%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.40%) Databricks
7 7 (4.40%) Sonatype
8 6 (3.77%) SAP
9 5 (3.14%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.14%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (3.14%) Tenable
10 4 (2.52%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.52%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.52%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.89%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.26%) Splunk
13 1 (0.63%) Foundry
13 1 (0.63%) Pega
13 1 (0.63%) webMethods