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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 349 455
Rank change year-on-year -111 +106 +11
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 134 122 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.51% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.66% 3.65% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 91 59
10th Percentile £413 £359 £425
25th Percentile £463 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.37% -11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £659 £648
90th Percentile £728 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £560
% change year-on-year +3.71% -10.71% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 3
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% -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 5,029 3,339 4,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.04% 14.01% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,297 2,273 2,913
10th Percentile £349 £350 £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 £609 £638
90th Percentile £682 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 61 200
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £48.00 £54.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -90 46 £550 -
North of England -56 36 £450 -2.17% 12
Midlands -55 27 £525 +10.58% 2
West Midlands -47 23 £525 +10.58% 1
South East -46 20 £513 +2.40% 4
North East -16 17 £513 +10.22% 4
North West -34 13 £431 +9.67% 4
East of England -21 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -57 6 £450 -5.26% 4
South West -22 5 £575 -4.17%
East Midlands -34 3 - - 1
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 (14.93%) Confluence
2 7 (5.22%) nginx
3 6 (4.48%) Apache
4 5 (3.73%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.99%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.75%) Camunda
6 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 57 (42.54%) AWS
2 39 (29.10%) Azure
3 36 (26.87%) GitHub
4 34 (25.37%) OpenShift
5 27 (20.15%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (20.15%) Amazon S3
5 27 (20.15%) GCP
6 25 (18.66%) Route 53
7 20 (14.93%) Amazon SQS
7 20 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (13.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (13.43%) AWS KMS
9 15 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (8.96%) Serverless
11 10 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (7.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.73%) OCI
15 4 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.72%) OpenVPN
2 8 (5.97%) Firewall
3 7 (5.22%) DNS
3 7 (5.22%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.22%) VPN
4 2 (1.49%) MQTT
4 2 (1.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.67%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.93%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (13.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (13.43%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (5.97%) Metadata
6 6 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.99%) Flink
8 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.49%) MySQL
9 2 (1.49%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.75%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.75%) Power BI
10 1 (0.75%) Redis
10 1 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (38.06%) Jenkins
2 39 (29.10%) Git
3 36 (26.87%) Maven
4 33 (24.63%) JUnit
5 23 (17.16%) GitLab
6 21 (15.67%) JIRA
7 19 (14.18%) Mockito
8 14 (10.45%) Bitbucket
8 14 (10.45%) DbUnit
9 13 (9.70%) jMock
10 12 (8.96%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (8.21%) Snyk
12 10 (7.46%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (6.72%) Artifactory
13 9 (6.72%) IntelliJ
14 7 (5.22%) Gradle
15 6 (4.48%) CircleCI
15 6 (4.48%) Cucumber
15 6 (4.48%) Selenium
16 5 (3.73%) REST Assured
General
1 29 (21.64%) Public Sector
1 29 (21.64%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.91%) Finance
3 15 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.45%) Banking
5 7 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Publishing
7 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.24%) Automotive
8 3 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 52 (38.81%) Developer
2 38 (28.36%) Java Developer
3 26 (19.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.93%) Senior
5 18 (13.43%) Senior Developer
6 17 (12.69%) Software Engineer
7 14 (10.45%) Java Engineer
8 13 (9.70%) Architect
9 11 (8.21%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (7.46%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 5 (3.73%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.73%) Technical Architect
14 4 (2.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 4 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
14 4 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (32.84%) AngularJS
2 36 (26.87%) Spring
3 35 (26.12%) Spring Boot
4 27 (20.15%) Quarkus
5 25 (18.66%) Node.js
6 24 (17.91%) REST
6 24 (17.91%) RESTful
7 23 (17.16%) Web Services
8 21 (15.67%) Hibernate
8 21 (15.67%) JPA
9 20 (14.93%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (14.18%) SOAP
11 18 (13.43%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (13.43%) Spring Batch
11 18 (13.43%) Spring Integration
11 18 (13.43%) YAML
12 13 (9.70%) PowerMock
13 11 (8.21%) Bootstrap
13 11 (8.21%) Kafka
14 9 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.19%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.24%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.49%) Blog
4 2 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.75%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.75%) NHS
5 1 (0.75%) PKI
5 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.91%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (56.72%) CI/CD
2 75 (55.97%) DevOps
3 66 (49.25%) Agile
4 53 (39.55%) Scrum
5 49 (36.57%) DevSecOps
6 45 (33.58%) Software Engineering
7 44 (32.84%) Test Automation
8 43 (32.09%) TDD
9 41 (30.60%) Containerisation
10 39 (29.10%) Microservices
11 38 (28.36%) SDLC
12 34 (25.37%) Unit Testing
13 32 (23.88%) Sprint Planning
14 29 (21.64%) BDD
15 25 (18.66%) Front End Development
15 25 (18.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (17.16%) Sprint Review
17 19 (14.18%) Code Quality
17 19 (14.18%) Performance Tuning
18 18 (13.43%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 87 (64.93%) Java
2 36 (26.87%) SQL
3 23 (17.16%) Python
4 8 (5.97%) Groovy
5 5 (3.73%) Go
6 4 (2.99%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.24%) Bash
7 3 (2.24%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.49%) C#
8 2 (1.49%) C++
8 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.49%) Rust
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) COBOL
9 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.75%) ProC
9 1 (0.75%) RPG
9 1 (0.75%) VB
9 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (45.52%) Security Cleared
2 53 (39.55%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.72%) Degree
4 7 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.73%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.73%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.88%) QA
2 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.24%) WCAG
4 2 (1.49%) PSD2
4 2 (1.49%) SEPA
5 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (37.31%) Docker
2 11 (8.21%) Postfix
3 7 (5.22%) Squid
Systems Management
1 69 (51.49%) Kubernetes
2 37 (27.61%) Grafana
2 37 (27.61%) Terraform
3 28 (20.90%) Argo
4 24 (17.91%) Prometheus
5 16 (11.94%) Ansible
6 7 (5.22%) Consul
6 7 (5.22%) FortiGate
6 7 (5.22%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (4.48%) Istio
8 5 (3.73%) Puppet
9 3 (2.24%) Podman
10 2 (1.49%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.49%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (25.37%) Red Hat
2 21 (15.67%) Atlassian
3 17 (12.69%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (9.70%) Checkmarx
4 13 (9.70%) Veracode
5 9 (6.72%) Dynatrace
5 9 (6.72%) Google
6 8 (5.97%) Sonatype
7 7 (5.22%) Salesforce
8 6 (4.48%) Microsoft
9 5 (3.73%) Guidewire
10 4 (2.99%) Databricks
10 4 (2.99%) Oracle
10 4 (2.99%) SAP
11 3 (2.24%) Cognizant
12 2 (1.49%) IBM
12 2 (1.49%) NVIDIA
12 2 (1.49%) Tenable
13 1 (0.75%) OutSystems
13 1 (0.75%) UiPath