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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 386 463
Rank change year-on-year -75 +77 +11
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 121 93 87
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.38% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.37% 2.80% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 72 61
10th Percentile £407 £386 £413
25th Percentile £450 £422 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -2.36% -6.38%
75th Percentile £588 £663 £650
90th Percentile £730 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £519 £537 £560
% change year-on-year -3.44% -4.11% -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £54.63 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 5,099 3,324 4,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.40% 13.60% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,431 2,218 2,931
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.86%
75th Percentile £587 £626 £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 200 67 167
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.17 £35.25
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.72 £47.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.28 £85.00
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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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
North of England -43 38 £441 -3.19% 18
London -78 38 £525 -7.08% 6
Midlands -51 24 £554 +16.58% 3
West Midlands -40 18 £573 +20.63% 2
North East -1 16 £513 +10.81% 16
North West -32 14 £431 +9.54%
South East -35 14 £513 -4.56% 12
South West - 10 £725 - 3
Yorkshire -58 8 £450 -13.25% 2
East Midlands -30 6 £525 +10.53% 1
East of England -27 4 £505 +57.13% 2
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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 23 (19.01%) Confluence
2 7 (5.79%) nginx
3 5 (4.13%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 52 (42.98%) AWS
2 37 (30.58%) Azure
3 29 (23.97%) OpenShift
4 28 (23.14%) GitHub
5 21 (17.36%) Amazon S3
5 21 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (15.70%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (14.05%) Route 53
8 16 (13.22%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (13.22%) Serverless
9 14 (11.57%) GCP
10 13 (10.74%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (8.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (8.26%) AWS KMS
11 10 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (7.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (4.96%) Azure AKS
14 5 (4.13%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (4.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.44%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.79%) DNS
2 7 (5.79%) Firewall
2 7 (5.79%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.79%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.74%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.92%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.92%) DynamoDB
3 10 (8.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.79%) Metadata
5 5 (4.13%) Redis
6 4 (3.31%) DocumentDB
6 4 (3.31%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.48%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.65%) MySQL
8 2 (1.65%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.65%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.65%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.83%) Flink
9 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.83%) Power BI
9 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 33 (27.27%) Git
3 26 (21.49%) JIRA
4 25 (20.66%) Maven
5 20 (16.53%) Bitbucket
5 20 (16.53%) GitLab
5 20 (16.53%) JUnit
6 12 (9.92%) Artifactory
7 10 (8.26%) Mockito
7 10 (8.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (7.44%) Snyk
9 8 (6.61%) DbUnit
9 8 (6.61%) jMock
10 7 (5.79%) Cucumber
11 6 (4.96%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (4.96%) Selenium
12 5 (4.13%) Postman
13 4 (3.31%) CircleCI
13 4 (3.31%) Cypress.io
13 4 (3.31%) Gradle
General
1 23 (19.01%) Public Sector
1 23 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.05%) Finance
3 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.79%) Banking
4 7 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.13%) Publishing
6 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.48%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.65%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.65%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (40.50%) Developer
2 26 (21.49%) Java Developer
3 21 (17.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (14.05%) Software Engineer
5 16 (13.22%) Senior
6 12 (9.92%) Senior Developer
7 11 (9.09%) Architect
8 10 (8.26%) Java Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.96%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) Lead
12 5 (4.13%) React Developer
12 5 (4.13%) Technical Architect
13 4 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
13 4 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
13 4 (3.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (29.75%) AngularJS
2 25 (20.66%) Node.js
3 24 (19.83%) Quarkus
3 24 (19.83%) Spring
4 22 (18.18%) Spring Boot
4 22 (18.18%) YAML
5 19 (15.70%) REST
6 17 (14.05%) RESTful
7 15 (12.40%) Web Services
8 12 (9.92%) Hibernate
8 12 (9.92%) JPA
9 11 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
10 10 (8.26%) ActiveMQ
10 10 (8.26%) SOAP
10 10 (8.26%) Spring Batch
10 10 (8.26%) Spring Integration
11 9 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (7.44%) JSON
12 8 (6.61%) LDAP
12 8 (6.61%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.57%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.48%) Blog
3 3 (2.48%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.65%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.65%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.65%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.83%) Contactless
5 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.53%) Linux
2 4 (3.31%) Unix
3 3 (2.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.83%) Android
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Embedded Compact
4 1 (0.83%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 66 (54.55%) DevOps
2 59 (48.76%) Agile
3 45 (37.19%) DevSecOps
4 43 (35.54%) Scrum
4 43 (35.54%) Test Automation
5 37 (30.58%) Software Engineering
6 34 (28.10%) Unit Testing
7 33 (27.27%) Containerisation
8 32 (26.45%) SDLC
9 31 (25.62%) Sprint Planning
10 29 (23.97%) TDD
11 27 (22.31%) Microservices
12 25 (20.66%) Front End Development
13 22 (18.18%) BDD
14 20 (16.53%) Sprint Review
15 19 (15.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
17 14 (11.57%) Static Application Security Testing
18 13 (10.74%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 72 (59.50%) Java
2 23 (19.01%) SQL
3 19 (15.70%) Python
4 8 (6.61%) Groovy
5 7 (5.79%) Go
6 6 (4.96%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.13%) C++
7 5 (4.13%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.31%) Bash
8 4 (3.31%) C#
8 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.65%) C
9 2 (1.65%) R
9 2 (1.65%) Rust
9 2 (1.65%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.83%) ProC
10 1 (0.83%) RPG
10 1 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 46 (38.02%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.96%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.31%) Degree
5 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (22.31%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.31%) WCAG
3 3 (2.48%) NCSC
4 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (34.71%) Docker
2 7 (5.79%) Postfix
2 7 (5.79%) Squid
Systems Management
1 59 (48.76%) Kubernetes
2 30 (24.79%) Terraform
3 24 (19.83%) Argo
4 22 (18.18%) Grafana
5 14 (11.57%) Prometheus
6 11 (9.09%) Ansible
7 7 (5.79%) Consul
7 7 (5.79%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.79%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (4.96%) Puppet
9 5 (4.13%) Istio
10 4 (3.31%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.65%) Podman
11 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.65%) rkt
11 2 (1.65%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 29 (23.97%) Red Hat
2 15 (12.40%) Atlassian
3 13 (10.74%) Veracode
4 11 (9.09%) Dynatrace
5 10 (8.26%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (7.44%) Checkmarx
7 7 (5.79%) Salesforce
7 7 (5.79%) Sonatype
8 6 (4.96%) Microsoft
9 5 (4.13%) Guidewire
10 4 (3.31%) Databricks
10 4 (3.31%) Google
10 4 (3.31%) Oracle
10 4 (3.31%) SAP
11 3 (2.48%) Cognizant
12 2 (1.65%) Splunk
13 1 (0.83%) Acunetix
13 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.83%) Thales
13 1 (0.83%) Xamarin