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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 376 456
Rank change year-on-year -73 +80 +2
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 132 97 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.40% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.65% 2.92% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 74 59
10th Percentile £409 £367 £425
25th Percentile £459 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -9.05% -7.17%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £648
90th Percentile £680 £696 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £561
% change year-on-year +3.60% -10.82% -5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 3
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 4,989 3,323 4,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.31% 13.71% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 2,226 2,878
10th Percentile £342 £341 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £691 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 64 189
10th Percentile £37.25 £27.63 £32.74
25th Percentile £59.25 £49.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -7.31% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £80.20
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.03% -7.31% +5.69%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -68 45 £558 +1.36% 3
North of England -36 40 £431 -2.60% 11
Midlands -57 25 £525 +24.70% 2
West Midlands -41 19 £514 +5.44%
North East -3 18 £513 +10.22% 10
South East -64 15 £513 +2.40% 6
North West -33 14 £430 +9.41%
East of England -22 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -41 8 £450 +5.88% 1
East Midlands -31 6 £525 +48.51% 2
South West -34 4 £625 - 1
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 23 (17.42%) Confluence
2 7 (5.30%) nginx
3 4 (3.03%) Apache
3 4 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.03%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.03%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 57 (43.18%) AWS
2 37 (28.03%) Azure
3 34 (25.76%) GitHub
4 31 (23.48%) OpenShift
5 25 (18.94%) Amazon S3
6 23 (17.42%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (15.91%) GCP
8 21 (15.91%) Route 53
9 20 (15.15%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (12.88%) Serverless
11 14 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (10.61%) AWS KMS
12 13 (9.85%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (3.79%) Azure AKS
15 5 (3.79%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.82%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.30%) DNS
2 7 (5.30%) Firewall
2 7 (5.30%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.88%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (12.12%) DynamoDB
3 14 (10.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.06%) Metadata
5 7 (5.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.79%) Redis
7 4 (3.03%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.27%) Flink
8 3 (2.27%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.52%) MySQL
9 2 (1.52%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.52%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.52%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.52%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.76%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (35.61%) Jenkins
2 38 (28.79%) Git
3 31 (23.48%) Maven
4 27 (20.45%) JUnit
5 25 (18.94%) JIRA
6 21 (15.91%) GitLab
7 17 (12.88%) Bitbucket
8 14 (10.61%) Mockito
9 11 (8.33%) DbUnit
9 11 (8.33%) jMock
9 11 (8.33%) Snyk
10 10 (7.58%) Artifactory
11 9 (6.82%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (6.06%) IntelliJ
13 7 (5.30%) Cucumber
14 6 (4.55%) CircleCI
15 5 (3.79%) Selenium
15 5 (3.79%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (3.03%) Gradle
17 3 (2.27%) Cypress.io
General
1 31 (23.48%) Public Sector
2 28 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.91%) Finance
4 12 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.09%) Banking
5 7 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.79%) Publishing
7 4 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.27%) Automotive
8 3 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.52%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 53 (40.15%) Developer
2 34 (25.76%) Java Developer
3 24 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (14.39%) Senior
4 19 (14.39%) Software Engineer
5 15 (11.36%) Architect
5 15 (11.36%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.61%) Java Engineer
7 10 (7.58%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 8 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) React Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 32 (24.24%) Spring
3 30 (22.73%) Spring Boot
4 29 (21.97%) Node.js
5 27 (20.45%) Quarkus
6 20 (15.15%) REST
7 19 (14.39%) RESTful
7 19 (14.39%) Web Services
8 18 (13.64%) YAML
9 17 (12.88%) Spring Cloud
10 16 (12.12%) Hibernate
10 16 (12.12%) JPA
11 14 (10.61%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (10.61%) SOAP
11 14 (10.61%) Spring Batch
11 14 (10.61%) Spring Integration
12 11 (8.33%) PowerMock
13 9 (6.82%) Bootstrap
13 9 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (6.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.39%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.27%) Blog
3 3 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.76%) NHS
5 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.76%) Replication
5 1 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.91%) Linux
2 5 (3.79%) Unix
3 2 (1.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (53.03%) DevOps
2 67 (50.76%) CI/CD
3 65 (49.24%) Agile
4 48 (36.36%) Scrum
5 46 (34.85%) DevSecOps
5 46 (34.85%) Software Engineering
6 43 (32.58%) Test Automation
7 38 (28.79%) TDD
8 37 (28.03%) SDLC
9 36 (27.27%) Containerisation
9 36 (27.27%) Unit Testing
10 35 (26.52%) Microservices
10 35 (26.52%) Sprint Planning
11 28 (21.21%) BDD
12 26 (19.70%) Front End Development
13 24 (18.18%) Sprint Review
14 23 (17.42%) Infrastructure as Code
15 18 (13.64%) Static Application Security Testing
16 17 (12.88%) Code Quality
16 17 (12.88%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 86 (65.15%) Java
2 29 (21.97%) SQL
3 22 (16.67%) Python
4 9 (6.82%) Groovy
5 6 (4.55%) Go
6 5 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.03%) Bash
7 4 (3.03%) C#
7 4 (3.03%) C++
7 4 (3.03%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.76%) C
10 1 (0.76%) COBOL
10 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.76%) ProC
10 1 (0.76%) RPG
10 1 (0.76%) VB
10 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (43.18%) Security Cleared
2 49 (37.12%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.55%) Degree
4 4 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.27%) WCAG
3 2 (1.52%) PSD2
3 2 (1.52%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (35.61%) Docker
2 10 (7.58%) Postfix
3 7 (5.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 64 (48.48%) Kubernetes
2 33 (25.00%) Terraform
3 29 (21.97%) Argo
4 28 (21.21%) Grafana
5 18 (13.64%) Prometheus
6 13 (9.85%) Ansible
7 7 (5.30%) Consul
7 7 (5.30%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.30%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.79%) Istio
8 5 (3.79%) Puppet
9 4 (3.03%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.52%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.76%) Podman
11 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (24.24%) Red Hat
2 18 (13.64%) Atlassian
3 14 (10.61%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (9.85%) Checkmarx
5 12 (9.09%) Veracode
6 9 (6.82%) Dynatrace
6 9 (6.82%) Google
7 8 (6.06%) Sonatype
8 7 (5.30%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.79%) Guidewire
9 5 (3.79%) Microsoft
10 4 (3.03%) Databricks
10 4 (3.03%) Oracle
10 4 (3.03%) SAP
11 3 (2.27%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.76%) Acunetix
12 1 (0.76%) IBM
12 1 (0.76%) Pega
12 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.76%) Splunk