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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 331 464
Rank change year-on-year -129 +133 -13
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 171 183 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.66% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.24% 4.42% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 136 54
10th Percentile £414 £276 £484
25th Percentile £475 £376 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £612
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -22.39% +2.00%
75th Percentile £601 £645 £685
90th Percentile £680 £700 £726
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £606
% change year-on-year +7.89% -21.62% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 - £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 5,281 4,143 4,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.89% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 2,870 2,828
10th Percentile £358 £325 £355
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £635
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 95 171
10th Percentile £36.25 £44.30 £36.25
25th Percentile £53.34 £54.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -95 62 £592 -0.04% 19
North of England -63 51 £511 +27.49% 12
Midlands -46 37 £511 +7.47% 4
West Midlands -38 32 £513 -4.60% 2
North East -22 29 £511 +9.95% 9
South East -45 27 £601 +20.13% 5
Yorkshire -40 11 £514 +31.79% 3
North West -56 11 £500 +27.23%
East of England -24 9 £510 -40.00%
East Midlands -21 4 £335 +24.07% 2
South West -56 2 - - 2
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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 (11.70%) Confluence
2 8 (4.68%) Camunda
3 6 (3.51%) Apache
3 6 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.92%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 76 (44.44%) AWS
2 57 (33.33%) GitHub
3 51 (29.82%) Azure
4 50 (29.24%) OpenShift
5 42 (24.56%) GCP
6 31 (18.13%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (14.62%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (7.02%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.43%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (6.43%) Serverless
10 10 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.85%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (5.85%) AWS KMS
10 10 (5.85%) Route 53
11 9 (5.26%) OCI
12 8 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (4.68%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (3.51%) Azure AKS
14 6 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.92%) Firewall
2 4 (2.34%) MQTT
2 4 (2.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.19%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (6.43%) DynamoDB
3 11 (6.43%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.85%) Metadata
5 9 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.92%) MySQL
6 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.34%) Flink
7 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.34%) Tableau
8 3 (1.75%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.58%) Power BI
10 1 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 81 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 66 (38.60%) Git
3 61 (35.67%) Maven
4 55 (32.16%) JUnit
5 51 (29.82%) GitLab
6 31 (18.13%) Mockito
7 23 (13.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (12.28%) JIRA
9 20 (11.70%) Gradle
10 17 (9.94%) Cucumber
11 16 (9.36%) Snyk
12 15 (8.77%) Selenium
13 14 (8.19%) Bitbucket Server
14 12 (7.02%) REST Assured
15 11 (6.43%) Postman
16 10 (5.85%) Artifactory
16 10 (5.85%) Gatling
17 8 (4.68%) IntelliJ
18 7 (4.09%) DbUnit
18 7 (4.09%) LoadRunner
General
1 46 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.47%) Finance
3 28 (16.37%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (16.37%) Public Sector
4 22 (12.87%) Banking
5 9 (5.26%) Publishing
6 6 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.34%) Automotive
8 3 (1.75%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (42.11%) Developer
2 54 (31.58%) Java Developer
3 35 (20.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (18.13%) Senior
5 20 (11.70%) Senior Developer
6 16 (9.36%) Java Engineer
6 16 (9.36%) Senior Java Developer
7 12 (7.02%) Lead
7 12 (7.02%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (5.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (4.68%) Quality Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Architect
11 7 (4.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Lead Developer
12 6 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) Python Engineer
13 5 (2.92%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (34.50%) AngularJS
2 57 (33.33%) Spring
3 56 (32.75%) Spring Boot
4 45 (26.32%) Terraform
5 38 (22.22%) Quarkus
6 33 (19.30%) Kafka
7 30 (17.54%) Node.js
8 29 (16.96%) JPA
9 28 (16.37%) Hibernate
9 28 (16.37%) RESTful
10 27 (15.79%) SOAP
10 27 (15.79%) Web Services
11 25 (14.62%) REST
12 24 (14.04%) ActiveMQ
13 21 (12.28%) HTML
13 21 (12.28%) React
13 21 (12.28%) Spring Cloud
14 17 (9.94%) CSS
15 14 (8.19%) YAML
16 13 (7.60%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.13%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.17%) PKI
9 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.58%) NHS
9 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.54%) Linux
2 11 (6.43%) Unix
3 3 (1.75%) VMS
3 3 (1.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.58%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (64.33%) CI/CD
2 102 (59.65%) Agile
3 91 (53.22%) DevOps
4 82 (47.95%) Scrum
4 82 (47.95%) Test Automation
5 70 (40.94%) Microservices
6 68 (39.77%) DevSecOps
7 59 (34.50%) Software Engineering
8 57 (33.33%) SDLC
9 52 (30.41%) TDD
10 48 (28.07%) Front End Development
10 48 (28.07%) Sprint Planning
11 47 (27.49%) Containerisation
12 41 (23.98%) Unit Testing
13 38 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (19.30%) Code Quality
14 33 (19.30%) Sprint Review
15 29 (16.96%) BDD
16 26 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (15.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (71.93%) Java
2 45 (26.32%) Python
2 45 (26.32%) SQL
3 26 (15.20%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.60%) Bash
4 13 (7.60%) Groovy
4 13 (7.60%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.09%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.51%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.34%) Rust
8 3 (1.75%) Go
8 3 (1.75%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.17%) Bicep
10 1 (0.58%) C#
10 1 (0.58%) COBOL
10 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (45.03%) Security Cleared
2 70 (40.94%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.70%) Degree
4 14 (8.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (7.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (4.09%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.09%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.51%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.75%) CISSP
8 3 (1.75%) GIAC
8 3 (1.75%) ISEB
8 3 (1.75%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.58%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.58%) GSEC
10 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (29.24%) QA
2 15 (8.77%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.26%) WCAG
4 4 (2.34%) NIST
4 4 (2.34%) PSD2
4 4 (2.34%) SEPA
5 2 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 75 (43.86%) Docker
2 5 (2.92%) Postfix
3 3 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (59.06%) Kubernetes
2 41 (23.98%) Argo
3 39 (22.81%) Grafana
4 31 (18.13%) Prometheus
5 28 (16.37%) Ansible
6 9 (5.26%) HP Fortify
6 9 (5.26%) Istio
7 8 (4.68%) Puppet
8 5 (2.92%) Podman
9 4 (2.34%) Control-M
10 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (21.64%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.36%) Checkmarx
3 14 (8.19%) Google
3 14 (8.19%) IBM
4 12 (7.02%) Veracode
5 11 (6.43%) Oracle
6 10 (5.85%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.68%) Databricks
7 8 (4.68%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (4.09%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.09%) SAP
9 5 (2.92%) Tenable
10 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.34%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.34%) NVIDIA
11 2 (1.17%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.17%) Splunk
12 1 (0.58%) Foundry
12 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.58%) Pega