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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 336 454
Rank change year-on-year -127 +118 +1
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 153 174 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.63% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.87% 4.35% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 128 60
10th Percentile £450 £274 £424
25th Percentile £480 £376 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £626 £618 £678
90th Percentile £720 £688 £704
UK median daily rate £518 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +9.01% -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 5,330 4,001 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.45% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,401 2,773 2,835
10th Percentile £353 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £404 £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 94 198
10th Percentile £35.38 £40.68 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £52.88
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 £73.83
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 12 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 12 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 -101 50 £601 -1.56% 31
North of England -65 47 £510 +28.30% 16
South East -51 30 £601 +20.13% 2
Midlands -55 30 £512 +26.17% 6
North East -18 29 £511 +9.95% 13
West Midlands -36 27 £512 +2.45% 4
Yorkshire -45 9 £514 +31.88% 1
North West -61 9 £500 +27.23% 2
East of England - 9 £510 -
South West -44 3 - - 4
East Midlands -22 2 - - 2
SonarQube
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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 7 (4.58%) Confluence
2 6 (3.92%) Apache
2 6 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.31%) Camunda
5 2 (1.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (1.96%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 72 (47.06%) AWS
2 49 (32.03%) Azure
3 47 (30.72%) GitHub
4 46 (30.07%) OpenShift
5 38 (24.84%) GCP
6 32 (20.92%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (13.73%) Amazon S3
9 20 (13.07%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (12.42%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (11.76%) Route 53
12 17 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (10.46%) AWS KMS
14 10 (6.54%) OCI
14 10 (6.54%) Serverless
15 9 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 5 (3.27%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) Firewall
1 4 (2.61%) MQTT
1 4 (2.61%) Network Security
2 3 (1.96%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.03%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (12.42%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 16 (10.46%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.19%) Metadata
6 8 (5.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.27%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.61%) Flink
9 3 (1.96%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.31%) MySQL
10 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.31%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.31%) Tableau
11 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.65%) Power BI
11 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.65%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 70 (45.75%) Jenkins
2 51 (33.33%) Git
3 48 (31.37%) Maven
4 40 (26.14%) JUnit
5 38 (24.84%) GitLab
6 22 (14.38%) Mockito
7 16 (10.46%) Snyk
8 14 (9.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (8.50%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (7.84%) DbUnit
11 11 (7.19%) Gradle
11 11 (7.19%) jMock
12 10 (6.54%) Cucumber
13 9 (5.88%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.88%) Selenium
14 8 (5.23%) IntelliJ
14 8 (5.23%) Postman
15 7 (4.58%) CircleCI
15 7 (4.58%) JIRA
16 6 (3.92%) Gatling
General
1 32 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.26%) Public Sector
3 26 (16.99%) Finance
4 20 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.80%) Banking
6 10 (6.54%) Publishing
7 3 (1.96%) Automotive
7 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.65%) Advertising
9 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (39.22%) Developer
2 47 (30.72%) Java Developer
3 32 (20.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (15.69%) Senior
5 17 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 16 (10.46%) Senior Developer
6 16 (10.46%) Software Engineer
7 12 (7.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 12 (7.84%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (6.54%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) Architect
9 8 (5.23%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Lead
11 6 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.92%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.27%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (37.91%) AngularJS
2 44 (28.76%) Spring
2 44 (28.76%) Spring Boot
3 41 (26.80%) Quarkus
4 32 (20.92%) Node.js
5 22 (14.38%) Kafka
5 22 (14.38%) REST
5 22 (14.38%) RESTful
5 22 (14.38%) SOAP
6 21 (13.73%) ActiveMQ
6 21 (13.73%) JPA
7 20 (13.07%) Hibernate
7 20 (13.07%) Spring Cloud
7 20 (13.07%) Web Services
8 16 (10.46%) Spring Batch
8 16 (10.46%) Spring Integration
9 14 (9.15%) YAML
10 13 (8.50%) Bootstrap
10 13 (8.50%) JSON
11 11 (7.19%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.31%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.31%) PKI
7 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.65%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.30%) Linux
2 6 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (59.48%) CI/CD
2 89 (58.17%) DevOps
3 85 (55.56%) Agile
4 73 (47.71%) Scrum
5 71 (46.41%) DevSecOps
6 60 (39.22%) Test Automation
7 59 (38.56%) Software Engineering
8 55 (35.95%) Microservices
9 50 (32.68%) SDLC
10 43 (28.10%) Front End Development
10 43 (28.10%) Sprint Planning
11 40 (26.14%) Containerisation
11 40 (26.14%) Unit Testing
12 39 (25.49%) TDD
13 36 (23.53%) Sprint Review
14 32 (20.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 26 (16.99%) BDD
16 24 (15.69%) Static Application Security Testing
17 22 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 21 (13.73%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 105 (68.63%) Java
2 41 (26.80%) SQL
3 35 (22.88%) Python
4 14 (9.15%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.84%) Groovy
6 7 (4.58%) Bash
7 6 (3.92%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.27%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.61%) Go
9 4 (2.61%) Rust
10 2 (1.31%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.65%) C#
11 1 (0.65%) COBOL
11 1 (0.65%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (49.67%) Security Cleared
2 69 (45.10%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.54%) Degree
4 8 (5.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.58%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.96%) CISSP
8 3 (1.96%) GIAC
9 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.65%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.65%) GSEC
10 1 (0.65%) ISEB
10 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (31.37%) QA
2 11 (7.19%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.27%) WCAG
4 4 (2.61%) NIST
4 4 (2.61%) PSD2
4 4 (2.61%) SEPA
5 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (41.83%) Docker
2 9 (5.88%) Postfix
3 1 (0.65%) Squid
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (62.09%) Kubernetes
2 44 (28.76%) Argo
3 43 (28.10%) Terraform
4 36 (23.53%) Grafana
5 25 (16.34%) Prometheus
6 22 (14.38%) Ansible
7 9 (5.88%) Istio
8 8 (5.23%) HP Fortify
8 8 (5.23%) Puppet
9 5 (3.27%) Podman
10 3 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.31%) Control-M
11 2 (1.31%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.31%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.65%) Consul
12 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 41 (26.80%) Red Hat
2 15 (9.80%) Jaspersoft
3 13 (8.50%) Atlassian
3 13 (8.50%) Checkmarx
4 11 (7.19%) Sonatype
5 9 (5.88%) Google
6 8 (5.23%) Oracle
7 7 (4.58%) Databricks
8 6 (3.92%) IBM
8 6 (3.92%) SAP
8 6 (3.92%) Veracode
9 4 (2.61%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.61%) Tenable
10 3 (1.96%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.96%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.65%) Foundry
11 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.65%) Pega
11 1 (0.65%) Splunk
11 1 (0.65%) UiPath