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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 326 466
Rank change year-on-year -135 +140 -22
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 171 187 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.67% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.22% 4.49% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 138 48
10th Percentile £395 £281 £473
25th Percentile £450 £381 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% -18.75% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £685
90th Percentile £680 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £494 £597
% change year-on-year +3.29% -17.29% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.63 - £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 5,305 4,167 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.96% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,350 2,883 2,799
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £417 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £631
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 95 169
10th Percentile £24.19 £42.35 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.88 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.60 £77.50 £74.00
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 25 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 25 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 -111 66 £550 -9.84% 44
North of England -59 47 £514 +20.94% 21
Midlands -41 41 £467 -6.60% 7
West Midlands -26 38 £475 -17.39% 6
North East -23 25 £510 +9.68% 14
South East -60 25 £690 +37.86% 8
Yorkshire -39 11 £514 +31.79% 1
North West -70 11 £537 +31.06% 6
East of England -28 6 £570 -32.94% 2
South West -47 3 £300 -57.14% 8
East Midlands -21 2 £335 +24.07% 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 19 (11.11%) Confluence
2 9 (5.26%) Camunda
3 7 (4.09%) Apache
4 6 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.51%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.92%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 83 (48.54%) AWS
2 63 (36.84%) GitHub
3 49 (28.65%) Azure
4 45 (26.32%) OpenShift
5 39 (22.81%) GCP
6 29 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (15.79%) 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%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (5.26%) AWS KMS
11 9 (5.26%) OCI
11 9 (5.26%) Route 53
12 8 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
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 15 (8.77%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.60%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (5.85%) DynamoDB
5 10 (5.85%) Metadata
6 8 (4.68%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.51%) MySQL
9 5 (2.92%) Flink
10 4 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.34%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.34%) Tableau
11 3 (1.75%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.58%) Power BI
13 1 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 81 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 68 (39.77%) Git
3 63 (36.84%) Maven
4 59 (34.50%) GitLab
4 59 (34.50%) JUnit
5 32 (18.71%) Mockito
6 25 (14.62%) Cucumber
7 22 (12.87%) Gradle
7 22 (12.87%) Selenium
7 22 (12.87%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (12.28%) JIRA
9 17 (9.94%) Gatling
10 16 (9.36%) Snyk
11 14 (8.19%) Bitbucket Server
12 13 (7.60%) REST Assured
13 12 (7.02%) Postman
14 10 (5.85%) Artifactory
15 7 (4.09%) LoadRunner
15 7 (4.09%) SoapUI
16 6 (3.51%) JMeter
General
1 52 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.47%) Finance
3 28 (16.37%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 25 (14.62%) Banking
6 9 (5.26%) Publishing
7 6 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.34%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.17%) Automotive
10 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Front Office
11 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (39.77%) Developer
2 49 (28.65%) Java Developer
3 32 (18.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (15.79%) Senior
5 18 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 15 (8.77%) Quality Engineer
6 15 (8.77%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (8.19%) Java Engineer
8 13 (7.60%) Lead
9 12 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.85%) Software Engineer
11 9 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 8 (4.68%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (4.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 7 (4.09%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (4.09%) Lead Developer
14 6 (3.51%) Architect
14 6 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 6 (3.51%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (35.09%) Spring
2 54 (31.58%) AngularJS
3 53 (30.99%) Spring Boot
4 45 (26.32%) Terraform
5 35 (20.47%) Kafka
6 32 (18.71%) Quarkus
7 30 (17.54%) JPA
8 29 (16.96%) Hibernate
8 29 (16.96%) SOAP
9 28 (16.37%) Node.js
9 28 (16.37%) RESTful
10 27 (15.79%) Web Services
11 25 (14.62%) HTML
11 25 (14.62%) REST
12 24 (14.04%) ActiveMQ
12 24 (14.04%) React
13 20 (11.70%) CSS
13 20 (11.70%) Spring Cloud
14 18 (10.53%) Playwright
15 16 (9.36%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.20%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.85%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.09%) 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 10 (5.85%) Unix
3 5 (2.92%) Windows
4 3 (1.75%) VMS
5 2 (1.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 103 (60.23%) Agile
3 88 (51.46%) DevOps
4 87 (50.88%) Test Automation
5 84 (49.12%) Scrum
6 76 (44.44%) Microservices
7 62 (36.26%) DevSecOps
8 56 (32.75%) TDD
9 53 (30.99%) SDLC
9 53 (30.99%) Software Engineering
10 44 (25.73%) Containerisation
11 42 (24.56%) Front End Development
11 42 (24.56%) Sprint Planning
12 38 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 36 (21.05%) Unit Testing
14 32 (18.71%) BDD
15 31 (18.13%) Code Quality
15 31 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (17.54%) Sprint Review
17 29 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 119 (69.59%) Java
2 45 (26.32%) Python
2 45 (26.32%) SQL
3 30 (17.54%) JavaScript
4 15 (8.77%) Bash
5 14 (8.19%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.60%) Groovy
7 9 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.51%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.34%) Rust
10 3 (1.75%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.17%) Bicep
12 1 (0.58%) C#
12 1 (0.58%) COBOL
12 1 (0.58%) Go
12 1 (0.58%) Korn
12 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (42.69%) Security Cleared
2 67 (39.18%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.45%) Degree
4 19 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (9.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.68%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.09%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.09%) Azure 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
10 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (29.24%) QA
2 21 (12.28%) Accessibility
3 15 (8.77%) 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 80 (46.78%) Docker
2 4 (2.34%) Postfix
3 3 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (59.06%) Kubernetes
2 38 (22.22%) Grafana
3 35 (20.47%) Argo
4 30 (17.54%) Prometheus
5 28 (16.37%) Ansible
6 10 (5.85%) HP Fortify
7 7 (4.09%) Istio
8 6 (3.51%) Puppet
9 5 (2.92%) Podman
10 4 (2.34%) Control-M
11 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (18.71%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.36%) IBM
3 13 (7.60%) Veracode
4 12 (7.02%) Checkmarx
5 11 (6.43%) Google
5 11 (6.43%) Oracle
6 10 (5.85%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.68%) Databricks
8 7 (4.09%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (4.09%) SAP
9 6 (3.51%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.92%) Tenable
11 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.34%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.34%) NVIDIA
12 2 (1.17%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.17%) Splunk
13 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.58%) UiPath
13 1 (0.58%) webMethods