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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 405 473
Rank change year-on-year -32 +68 -8
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 115 77 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.30% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.37% 2.22% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 50 52
10th Percentile £400 £367 £425
25th Percentile £431 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% -10.88%
75th Percentile £639 £655 £650
90th Percentile £785 £704 £736
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 4,848 3,463 4,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.94% 13.39% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,328 2,199 3,090
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 59 202
10th Percentile £39.00 £41.50 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.62 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.19
90th Percentile £82.85 £80.00 £88.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 22 February 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 22 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SonarQube in England

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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 22 February 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 -42 41 £525 -7.08% 8
North of England -41 35 £431 +1.41% 14
Midlands -30 25 £575 +56.68% 10
West Midlands -41 21 £575 - 8
North West -12 19 £430 +17.17% 3
South West - 15 £700 - 2
North East -14 9 - - 6
South East -21 9 £550 -7.33% 10
Yorkshire -60 7 £511 -1.59% 5
East Midlands -26 4 £525 +43.05% 2
East of England -25 1 £850 +165.88% 1
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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 26 (22.61%) Confluence
2 7 (6.09%) OpenStack
3 6 (5.22%) nginx
4 5 (4.35%) Appian
5 4 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 49 (42.61%) AWS
2 45 (39.13%) Azure
3 33 (28.70%) GitHub
4 22 (19.13%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (18.26%) OpenShift
6 15 (13.04%) Amazon S3
6 15 (13.04%) Serverless
7 14 (12.17%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (12.17%) Route 53
8 13 (11.30%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (11.30%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (9.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (8.70%) GCP
11 7 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (6.09%) AWS KMS
11 7 (6.09%) npm
12 6 (5.22%) Azure AKS
12 6 (5.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.09%) Firewall
2 6 (5.22%) DNS
2 6 (5.22%) OpenVPN
2 6 (5.22%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.22%) VPN
3 1 (0.87%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.87%) Internet
3 1 (0.87%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.83%) DynamoDB
1 9 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (6.09%) Redis
4 6 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.35%) DocumentDB
6 4 (3.48%) Metadata
6 4 (3.48%) Power BI
7 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.74%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.74%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.74%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.87%) MySQL
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (37.39%) Jenkins
2 33 (28.70%) Git
3 30 (26.09%) JIRA
4 29 (25.22%) GitLab
5 23 (20.00%) Maven
6 22 (19.13%) Bitbucket
7 18 (15.65%) JUnit
8 15 (13.04%) Selenium
9 14 (12.17%) Cucumber
10 12 (10.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (9.57%) Artifactory
12 10 (8.70%) Cypress.io
12 10 (8.70%) Postman
12 10 (8.70%) Snyk
13 8 (6.96%) Mockito
14 6 (5.22%) DbUnit
14 6 (5.22%) jMock
15 5 (4.35%) Gradle
15 5 (4.35%) Robot Framework
15 5 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 28 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.78%) Public Sector
3 16 (13.91%) Finance
4 10 (8.70%) Banking
4 10 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.61%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.74%) Publishing
9 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Retail
9 1 (0.87%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 41 (35.65%) Developer
2 17 (14.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (13.91%) Java Developer
4 13 (11.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 12 (10.43%) Senior
6 9 (7.83%) Architect
6 9 (7.83%) Lead
6 9 (7.83%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) React Developer
7 7 (6.09%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.35%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 4 (3.48%) Security Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) AWS Architect
10 3 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Evangelist
10 3 (2.61%) Node.js Developer
10 3 (2.61%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (2.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.74%) YAML
2 22 (19.13%) AngularJS
3 21 (18.26%) Node.js
3 21 (18.26%) REST
4 16 (13.91%) JSON
4 16 (13.91%) Spring
5 14 (12.17%) RESTful
6 13 (11.30%) React
6 13 (11.30%) Spring Boot
6 13 (11.30%) Web Services
7 11 (9.57%) Quarkus
8 10 (8.70%) Hibernate
8 10 (8.70%) JPA
9 9 (7.83%) OpenID
10 8 (6.96%) .NET
10 8 (6.96%) Bootstrap
10 8 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (6.96%) SOAP
10 8 (6.96%) Spring Cloud
11 7 (6.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Cloud Native
1 8 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.48%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.61%) Blog
4 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.87%) Contactless
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.65%) Linux
2 4 (3.48%) Windows
3 3 (2.61%) Unix
4 2 (1.74%) Android
5 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.87%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (61.74%) CI/CD
2 59 (51.30%) DevOps
3 48 (41.74%) Agile
4 38 (33.04%) Test Automation
5 37 (32.17%) DevSecOps
6 33 (28.70%) Containerisation
7 31 (26.96%) Scrum
8 30 (26.09%) Software Engineering
9 28 (24.35%) SDLC
10 25 (21.74%) Unit Testing
11 24 (20.87%) TDD
12 23 (20.00%) Microservices
13 22 (19.13%) Sprint Planning
14 21 (18.26%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (14.78%) BDD
17 16 (13.91%) Front End Development
18 15 (13.04%) Code Quality
19 13 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
20 12 (10.43%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.48%) Java
2 19 (16.52%) Python
3 18 (15.65%) JavaScript
4 16 (13.91%) SQL
5 7 (6.09%) Groovy
5 7 (6.09%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.22%) Go
7 5 (4.35%) Bash
7 5 (4.35%) C#
7 5 (4.35%) C++
7 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.61%) Rust
9 2 (1.74%) C
9 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.74%) R
10 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.87%) ProC
10 1 (0.87%) RPG
10 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.87%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (42.61%) Security Cleared
2 39 (33.91%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.30%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.48%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.61%) Degree
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.87%) CISSP
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) OCP
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.87%) OSCP
7 1 (0.87%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.91%) QA
2 7 (6.09%) NCSC
3 6 (5.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.74%) WCAG
5 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (44.35%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) Squid
3 5 (4.35%) Postfix
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (42.61%) Kubernetes
2 32 (27.83%) Terraform
3 19 (16.52%) Grafana
4 15 (13.04%) Ansible
5 13 (11.30%) Prometheus
6 11 (9.57%) Argo
7 6 (5.22%) Consul
7 6 (5.22%) FortiGate
7 6 (5.22%) Puppet
7 6 (5.22%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (3.48%) Istio
8 4 (3.48%) Podman
8 4 (3.48%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.61%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.74%) rkt
11 1 (0.87%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (17.39%) Veracode
2 18 (15.65%) Red Hat
3 12 (10.43%) Atlassian
3 12 (10.43%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.96%) Checkmarx
5 7 (6.09%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (6.09%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.09%) Salesforce
5 7 (6.09%) Splunk
6 5 (4.35%) Cisco
6 5 (4.35%) Guidewire
7 4 (3.48%) Databricks
7 4 (3.48%) SAP
7 4 (3.48%) Sonatype
8 3 (2.61%) Cognizant
8 3 (2.61%) DocuSign
8 3 (2.61%) Oracle
9 2 (1.74%) Perforce
9 2 (1.74%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.87%) Acunetix