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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 354 454
Rank change year-on-year -98 +100 -16
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 148 142 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.57% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.88% 3.99% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 106 59
10th Percentile £413 £297 £423
25th Percentile £475 £402 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £482 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.88% -12.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £623 £650
90th Percentile £713 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £485 £565
% change year-on-year +6.84% -14.16% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 3
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £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 5,132 3,557 4,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.87% 14.26% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,332 2,414 3,009
10th Percentile £350 £335 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 73 234
10th Percentile £32.99 £27.59 £32.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £48.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% -9.23% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -48 48 £500 +13.06% 8
London -98 46 £593 +4.41% 1
South East -49 27 £513 +2.40% 3
Midlands -57 27 £512 +15.76%
North East -17 25 £511 +10.54% 5
West Midlands -46 23 £512 +2.45%
North West -40 14 £431 +9.67% 2
East of England -18 9 £510 +58.69%
Yorkshire -51 9 £507 +6.74% 1
South West -28 4 £525 -12.50% 1
East Midlands -28 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 20 (13.51%) Confluence
2 7 (4.73%) nginx
3 6 (4.05%) Apache
4 5 (3.38%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.03%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.68%) Camunda
6 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.03%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 61 (41.22%) AWS
2 41 (27.70%) OpenShift
3 40 (27.03%) Azure
4 35 (23.65%) GitHub
5 32 (21.62%) GCP
6 28 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
6 28 (18.92%) Amazon S3
7 26 (17.57%) Route 53
8 22 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (13.51%) Amazon SQS
10 19 (12.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (12.16%) AWS KMS
12 17 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (10.14%) Serverless
14 11 (7.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
17 7 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (4.73%) OCI
18 4 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.08%) Firewall
1 9 (6.08%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.73%) DNS
2 7 (4.73%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.73%) VPN
3 4 (2.70%) MQTT
3 4 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.19%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (12.16%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (12.16%) DynamoDB
4 11 (7.43%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (6.76%) Metadata
6 5 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.70%) Flink
8 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.35%) MySQL
9 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.68%) Power BI
10 1 (0.68%) Redis
10 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 57 (38.51%) Jenkins
2 42 (28.38%) Git
3 37 (25.00%) Maven
4 33 (22.30%) JUnit
5 30 (20.27%) GitLab
6 20 (13.51%) JIRA
7 19 (12.84%) Mockito
8 14 (9.46%) DbUnit
9 13 (8.78%) jMock
10 12 (8.11%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (8.11%) Snyk
10 12 (8.11%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (7.43%) Bitbucket
12 9 (6.08%) Artifactory
12 9 (6.08%) IntelliJ
13 8 (5.41%) Cucumber
14 7 (4.73%) Gradle
15 6 (4.05%) CircleCI
15 6 (4.05%) REST Assured
15 6 (4.05%) Selenium
General
1 31 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.27%) Public Sector
3 23 (15.54%) Finance
4 15 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.46%) Banking
6 7 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.73%) Publishing
7 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.03%) Automotive
8 3 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 57 (38.51%) Developer
2 43 (29.05%) Java Developer
3 31 (20.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (14.19%) Senior
5 18 (12.16%) Java Engineer
5 18 (12.16%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.16%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 12 (8.11%) Architect
8 11 (7.43%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (7.43%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) GCP Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Technical Architect
13 4 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
13 4 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (36.49%) AngularJS
2 38 (25.68%) Quarkus
3 37 (25.00%) Spring
4 36 (24.32%) Spring Boot
5 26 (17.57%) Node.js
5 26 (17.57%) RESTful
6 23 (15.54%) REST
6 23 (15.54%) Web Services
7 21 (14.19%) Hibernate
7 21 (14.19%) JPA
8 20 (13.51%) Spring Cloud
8 20 (13.51%) YAML
9 19 (12.84%) SOAP
10 18 (12.16%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (12.16%) Spring Batch
10 18 (12.16%) Spring Integration
11 13 (8.78%) Kafka
11 13 (8.78%) PowerMock
12 11 (7.43%) Bootstrap
13 10 (6.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.03%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.35%) PKI
6 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.68%) NHS
6 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.68%) Replication
6 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.24%) Linux
2 4 (2.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (56.76%) CI/CD
2 81 (54.73%) DevOps
3 79 (53.38%) Agile
4 65 (43.92%) Scrum
5 64 (43.24%) DevSecOps
6 55 (37.16%) Software Engineering
7 54 (36.49%) Test Automation
8 47 (31.76%) SDLC
9 44 (29.73%) Microservices
9 44 (29.73%) Unit Testing
10 43 (29.05%) TDD
11 42 (28.38%) Sprint Planning
12 41 (27.70%) Containerisation
13 35 (23.65%) Front End Development
14 33 (22.30%) Sprint Review
15 31 (20.95%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (20.27%) BDD
17 22 (14.86%) Static Application Security Testing
18 20 (13.51%) Kanban
18 20 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 95 (64.19%) Java
2 33 (22.30%) SQL
3 27 (18.24%) Python
4 10 (6.76%) Groovy
5 6 (4.05%) Bash
5 6 (4.05%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.70%) Go
6 4 (2.70%) Rust
7 3 (2.03%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.03%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.35%) C#
8 2 (1.35%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.68%) COBOL
9 1 (0.68%) RPG
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (47.97%) Security Cleared
2 63 (42.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) Degree
4 8 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.73%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.03%) CISSP
8 3 (2.03%) GIAC
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.68%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.68%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (28.38%) QA
2 4 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.03%) NIST
3 3 (2.03%) WCAG
4 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.35%) PSD2
4 2 (1.35%) SEPA
5 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (35.81%) Docker
2 11 (7.43%) Postfix
3 7 (4.73%) Squid
Systems Management
1 84 (56.76%) Kubernetes
2 45 (30.41%) Terraform
3 41 (27.70%) Grafana
4 39 (26.35%) Argo
5 28 (18.92%) Prometheus
6 21 (14.19%) Ansible
7 9 (6.08%) Istio
7 9 (6.08%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.73%) Consul
8 7 (4.73%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.73%) Puppet
9 4 (2.70%) HP Fortify
9 4 (2.70%) Podman
10 2 (1.35%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (29.73%) Red Hat
2 21 (14.19%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.49%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (9.46%) Checkmarx
5 13 (8.78%) Veracode
6 10 (6.76%) Sonatype
7 9 (6.08%) Dynatrace
7 9 (6.08%) Google
8 6 (4.05%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.38%) Guidewire
10 4 (2.70%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.70%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.70%) Tenable
11 3 (2.03%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.03%) Databricks
11 3 (2.03%) Oracle
11 3 (2.03%) SAP
12 2 (1.35%) IBM
13 1 (0.68%) Pega
13 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow