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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 340 459
Rank change year-on-year -125 +119 -12
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 161 176 69
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.64% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.09% 4.34% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 132 58
10th Percentile £429 £276 £473
25th Percentile £475 £378 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.34% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £601 £650 £683
90th Percentile £700 £700 £711
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £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 5,202 4,053 4,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.80% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,809 2,845
10th Percentile £356 £325 £354
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
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 236 97 172
10th Percentile £36.75 £42.40 £36.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.75 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £72.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.18 £82.98 £71.84
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 2 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 2 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 -98 54 £593 -2.87% 34
North of England -66 51 £513 +28.93% 13
Midlands -55 34 £511 +7.47% 6
North East -20 30 £511 +9.95% 11
West Midlands -40 29 £513 +2.55% 2
South East -53 28 £601 +20.19% 5
North West -62 11 £500 +27.23%
Yorkshire -40 10 £514 +31.88% 2
East of England -15 9 £510 -40.00%
East Midlands -23 4 £335 +24.07% 4
South West -48 2 - - 6
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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 16 (9.94%) Confluence
2 7 (4.35%) Camunda
3 6 (3.73%) Apache
3 6 (3.73%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.11%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 71 (44.10%) AWS
2 51 (31.68%) GitHub
2 51 (31.68%) OpenShift
3 47 (29.19%) Azure
4 40 (24.84%) GCP
5 29 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (12.42%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (7.45%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (6.83%) Serverless
9 10 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (6.21%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (6.21%) AWS KMS
9 10 (6.21%) Route 53
10 9 (5.59%) OCI
11 8 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.97%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (3.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (3.11%) Azure AKS
13 5 (3.11%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.48%) Firewall
1 4 (2.48%) MQTT
1 4 (2.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.66%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.83%) DynamoDB
3 10 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (6.21%) Metadata
3 10 (6.21%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.21%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.59%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.11%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.48%) Flink
7 4 (2.48%) MySQL
7 4 (2.48%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.48%) Tableau
8 2 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.62%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.62%) Big Data
9 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 75 (46.58%) Jenkins
2 60 (37.27%) Git
3 55 (34.16%) Maven
4 50 (31.06%) GitLab
4 50 (31.06%) JUnit
5 26 (16.15%) Mockito
6 21 (13.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 18 (11.18%) Gradle
8 17 (10.56%) JIRA
9 16 (9.94%) Cucumber
10 15 (9.32%) Selenium
10 15 (9.32%) Snyk
11 13 (8.07%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (6.83%) Postman
12 11 (6.83%) REST Assured
13 10 (6.21%) Gatling
14 8 (4.97%) IntelliJ
15 7 (4.35%) Artifactory
15 7 (4.35%) DbUnit
15 7 (4.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 41 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.25%) Finance
3 25 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (15.53%) Public Sector
4 21 (13.04%) Banking
5 9 (5.59%) Publishing
6 3 (1.86%) Automotive
6 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Advertising
8 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (41.61%) Developer
2 49 (30.43%) Java Developer
3 33 (20.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (16.77%) Senior
5 19 (11.80%) Senior Developer
6 18 (11.18%) Java Engineer
7 15 (9.32%) Senior Java Developer
8 14 (8.70%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.83%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (6.21%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (6.21%) Lead
11 9 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.97%) Quality Engineer
13 7 (4.35%) Architect
13 7 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 6 (3.73%) GCP Engineer
14 6 (3.73%) Python Engineer
15 5 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
15 5 (3.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 5 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (35.40%) AngularJS
2 52 (32.30%) Spring
3 51 (31.68%) Spring Boot
4 43 (26.71%) Terraform
5 40 (24.84%) Quarkus
6 31 (19.25%) Kafka
7 29 (18.01%) Node.js
8 25 (15.53%) JPA
9 24 (14.91%) Hibernate
9 24 (14.91%) RESTful
10 23 (14.29%) SOAP
11 22 (13.66%) Web Services
12 21 (13.04%) REST
13 20 (12.42%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (11.80%) HTML
14 19 (11.80%) React
15 18 (11.18%) Spring Cloud
16 15 (9.32%) CSS
17 14 (8.70%) YAML
18 13 (8.07%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.15%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.97%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.24%) PKI
8 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.62%) NHS
8 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.53%) Linux
2 9 (5.59%) Unix
3 2 (1.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (61.49%) CI/CD
2 98 (60.87%) Agile
3 84 (52.17%) DevOps
4 79 (49.07%) Scrum
5 78 (48.45%) Test Automation
6 69 (42.86%) DevSecOps
7 65 (40.37%) Microservices
8 60 (37.27%) Software Engineering
9 56 (34.78%) SDLC
10 47 (29.19%) Front End Development
10 47 (29.19%) Sprint Planning
10 47 (29.19%) TDD
11 42 (26.09%) Unit Testing
12 41 (25.47%) Containerisation
13 35 (21.74%) Sprint Review
14 33 (20.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (18.01%) Code Quality
16 28 (17.39%) BDD
17 25 (15.53%) Stakeholder Management
18 23 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 119 (73.91%) Java
2 42 (26.09%) SQL
3 39 (24.22%) Python
4 24 (14.91%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.45%) Groovy
6 10 (6.21%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.97%) Bash
8 5 (3.11%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.48%) Rust
10 3 (1.86%) Go
10 3 (1.86%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.86%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.62%) Bicep
11 1 (0.62%) C#
11 1 (0.62%) COBOL
11 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (44.10%) Security Cleared
2 64 (39.75%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.18%) Degree
4 13 (8.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.73%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.73%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.73%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.86%) CISSP
7 3 (1.86%) GIAC
7 3 (1.86%) ISEB
7 3 (1.86%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.62%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.62%) GSEC
9 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (32.30%) QA
2 15 (9.32%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.59%) WCAG
4 4 (2.48%) NIST
4 4 (2.48%) PSD2
4 4 (2.48%) SEPA
5 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.62%) GDPR
6 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (42.24%) Docker
2 5 (3.11%) Postfix
3 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (61.49%) Kubernetes
2 43 (26.71%) Argo
3 35 (21.74%) Grafana
4 28 (17.39%) Prometheus
5 23 (14.29%) Ansible
6 9 (5.59%) HP Fortify
6 9 (5.59%) Istio
7 8 (4.97%) Puppet
8 5 (3.11%) Podman
9 4 (2.48%) Control-M
10 2 (1.24%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (24.22%) Red Hat
2 15 (9.32%) Checkmarx
3 13 (8.07%) IBM
4 12 (7.45%) Google
5 11 (6.83%) Oracle
5 11 (6.83%) Veracode
6 10 (6.21%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.97%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (4.35%) Atlassian
9 6 (3.73%) Databricks
9 6 (3.73%) SAP
10 5 (3.11%) Tenable
11 4 (2.48%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.48%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.48%) NVIDIA
12 2 (1.24%) Splunk
13 1 (0.62%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.62%) Foundry
13 1 (0.62%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.62%) Pega