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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 369 444
Rank change year-on-year -94 +75 +25
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 126 96 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.39% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.51% 2.88% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 74 61
10th Percentile £409 £382 £425
25th Percentile £450 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £580 £661 £650
90th Percentile £658 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £519 £523 £575
% change year-on-year -0.76% -9.13% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 2
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £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 5,027 3,329 4,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.82% 13.65% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 2,226 2,878
10th Percentile £336 £341 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 66 160
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.88 £31.34
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.05 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -74 39 £525 -6.67% 7
North of England -47 38 £441 -3.72% 18
Midlands -48 24 £525 +10.53% 2
West Midlands -45 18 £514 +8.21% 1
North East -9 15 £513 +10.22% 16
North West -32 15 £431 +9.54% 1
South East -46 14 £513 +2.40% 9
East of England -21 9 £510 +58.69% 3
Yorkshire -51 8 £450 -13.25% 1
East Midlands -31 6 £525 +24.70% 1
South West - 6 £625 - 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 23 (18.25%) Confluence
2 7 (5.56%) nginx
3 5 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.17%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.59%) Apache
6 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 57 (45.24%) AWS
2 34 (26.98%) Azure
2 34 (26.98%) GitHub
3 27 (21.43%) OpenShift
4 24 (19.05%) Amazon S3
5 22 (17.46%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (17.46%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (15.87%) Route 53
7 19 (15.08%) Amazon SQS
8 18 (14.29%) GCP
9 17 (13.49%) Serverless
10 13 (10.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (10.32%) AWS KMS
10 13 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (10.32%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (7.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (3.97%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.14%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.56%) DNS
2 7 (5.56%) Firewall
2 7 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (11.90%) DynamoDB
3 13 (10.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.35%) Metadata
5 7 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.97%) Redis
7 4 (3.17%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.59%) MySQL
9 2 (1.59%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.59%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.59%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.79%) Flink
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (36.51%) Jenkins
2 38 (30.16%) Git
3 27 (21.43%) JUnit
3 27 (21.43%) Maven
4 25 (19.84%) JIRA
5 21 (16.67%) GitLab
6 18 (14.29%) Bitbucket
7 13 (10.32%) Mockito
8 11 (8.73%) Snyk
9 10 (7.94%) Artifactory
9 10 (7.94%) DbUnit
9 10 (7.94%) jMock
10 8 (6.35%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (6.35%) IntelliJ
11 7 (5.56%) Cucumber
12 6 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (3.97%) CircleCI
13 5 (3.97%) Selenium
14 4 (3.17%) Postman
15 3 (2.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 29 (23.02%) Public Sector
2 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.67%) Finance
4 10 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.94%) Banking
5 7 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Publishing
7 4 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.38%) Automotive
8 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (40.48%) Developer
2 31 (24.60%) Java Developer
3 24 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (14.29%) Senior
5 17 (13.49%) Software Engineer
6 14 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 13 (10.32%) Architect
8 10 (7.94%) Java Engineer
9 8 (6.35%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) Lead
11 6 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.97%) React Developer
12 5 (3.97%) Technical Architect
13 4 (3.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
13 4 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (30.95%) AngularJS
2 31 (24.60%) Spring
3 29 (23.02%) Spring Boot
4 28 (22.22%) Node.js
5 23 (18.25%) Quarkus
6 20 (15.87%) REST
7 19 (15.08%) YAML
8 18 (14.29%) RESTful
8 18 (14.29%) Web Services
9 15 (11.90%) Hibernate
9 15 (11.90%) JPA
10 14 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
11 13 (10.32%) ActiveMQ
11 13 (10.32%) SOAP
11 13 (10.32%) Spring Batch
11 13 (10.32%) Spring Integration
12 10 (7.94%) PowerMock
13 9 (7.14%) Bootstrap
13 9 (7.14%) JSON
14 8 (6.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.38%) Blog
3 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.79%) NHS
5 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Replication
5 1 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.87%) Linux
2 4 (3.17%) Unix
3 2 (1.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 70 (55.56%) DevOps
2 63 (50.00%) Agile
3 45 (35.71%) Scrum
4 43 (34.13%) DevSecOps
5 40 (31.75%) Test Automation
6 38 (30.16%) Software Engineering
7 35 (27.78%) TDD
8 34 (26.98%) SDLC
9 33 (26.19%) Containerisation
10 32 (25.40%) Unit Testing
11 31 (24.60%) Sprint Planning
12 30 (23.81%) Microservices
13 27 (21.43%) BDD
14 23 (18.25%) Front End Development
14 23 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (15.87%) Sprint Review
16 19 (15.08%) Static Application Security Testing
17 17 (13.49%) Code Quality
18 16 (12.70%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 80 (63.49%) Java
2 26 (20.63%) SQL
3 21 (16.67%) Python
4 9 (7.14%) Groovy
5 6 (4.76%) Go
5 6 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.97%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.17%) Bash
7 4 (3.17%) C++
7 4 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.38%) C#
9 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.79%) C
10 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.79%) ProC
10 1 (0.79%) RPG
10 1 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (43.65%) Security Cleared
2 47 (37.30%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.17%) Degree
4 3 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (23.81%) QA
2 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.17%) WCAG
3 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (33.33%) Docker
2 9 (7.14%) Postfix
3 7 (5.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 55 (43.65%) Kubernetes
2 31 (24.60%) Terraform
3 26 (20.63%) Grafana
4 23 (18.25%) Argo
5 17 (13.49%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.52%) Ansible
7 7 (5.56%) Consul
7 7 (5.56%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.97%) Istio
8 5 (3.97%) Puppet
9 4 (3.17%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.59%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.79%) Podman
11 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 28 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 17 (13.49%) Atlassian
3 14 (11.11%) Checkmarx
4 13 (10.32%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (10.32%) Veracode
5 9 (7.14%) Dynatrace
5 9 (7.14%) Google
6 8 (6.35%) Sonatype
7 7 (5.56%) Salesforce
8 6 (4.76%) Microsoft
9 5 (3.97%) Databricks
9 5 (3.97%) Guidewire
9 5 (3.97%) SAP
10 4 (3.17%) Oracle
11 3 (2.38%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.79%) Acunetix
12 1 (0.79%) OutSystems
12 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.79%) Splunk
12 1 (0.79%) Thales