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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 436 483
Rank change year-on-year +24 +47 -26
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 134 66 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.85% 1.80% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 45 45
10th Percentile £359 £413 £420
25th Percentile £400 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £586 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% +1.91% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £645
90th Percentile £787 £738 £723
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £47.88 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £60.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 4,703 3,665 4,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.87% 13.26% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 2,283 3,131
10th Percentile £331 £331 £375
25th Percentile £409 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 69 198
10th Percentile £39.95 £46.18 £43.59
25th Percentile £54.81 £54.36 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.10 £75.45 £90.00
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 3 January 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 3 January 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 3 January 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 +4 53 £583 +1.30% 5
North of England -30 36 £400 -22.89% 11
Midlands -27 27 £650 +6.21% 3
West Midlands -27 21 £700 +14.38% 1
North West -8 20 £425 +19.38%
South West - 18 £700 - 1
Yorkshire -42 10 £390 -34.04% 4
South East -8 9 £550 -15.38% 2
North East -3 6 - - 7
East Midlands - 6 £398 - 2
East of England -18 1 £850 +167.30%
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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 (11.94%) Confluence
2 7 (5.22%) Appian
3 6 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.73%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.49%) Mule
7 1 (0.75%) CICS
7 1 (0.75%) JBoss
7 1 (0.75%) nginx
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 59 (44.03%) Azure
2 50 (37.31%) AWS
3 48 (35.82%) GitHub
4 35 (26.12%) GCP
5 25 (18.66%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (14.93%) Serverless
7 19 (14.18%) OpenShift
8 18 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (12.69%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (12.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 16 (11.94%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (11.19%) Datadog
12 11 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (8.21%) npm
12 11 (8.21%) PaaS
13 10 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (6.72%) Azure AKS
15 8 (5.97%) Apigee
15 8 (5.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.22%) Firewall
2 5 (3.73%) SSH
3 3 (2.24%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.49%) DNS
4 2 (1.49%) SSL
5 1 (0.75%) HTTP
5 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.75%) Internet
5 1 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.75%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.18%) Redis
2 16 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (10.45%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.97%) DocumentDB
4 8 (5.97%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.22%) Power BI
5 7 (5.22%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.48%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.48%) MySQL
6 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.73%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.73%) Hadoop
7 5 (3.73%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.24%) Big Data
9 3 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.24%) Parquet
9 3 (2.24%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 62 (46.27%) Jenkins
2 47 (35.07%) Git
3 32 (23.88%) GitLab
4 28 (20.90%) JIRA
5 25 (18.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 24 (17.91%) Maven
7 20 (14.93%) Selenium
8 18 (13.43%) Bitbucket
9 17 (12.69%) Postman
10 15 (11.19%) JUnit
11 14 (10.45%) Cucumber
11 14 (10.45%) Gradle
12 13 (9.70%) Artifactory
13 12 (8.96%) Cypress.io
13 12 (8.96%) Snyk
14 8 (5.97%) webpack
15 7 (5.22%) Robot Framework
16 6 (4.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (4.48%) Xcode
17 5 (3.73%) Subversion
General
1 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.16%) Finance
3 21 (15.67%) Banking
4 16 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.22%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.73%) Publishing
8 4 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.49%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.49%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.75%) German Language
11 1 (0.75%) Retail
11 1 (0.75%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (23.13%) Developer
2 24 (17.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (14.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 12 (8.96%) Lead
5 11 (8.21%) GCP Engineer
5 11 (8.21%) Senior
6 9 (6.72%) Architect
6 9 (6.72%) Java Developer
6 9 (6.72%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Java Architect
8 6 (4.48%) Java Technical Architect
8 6 (4.48%) Technical Architect
9 5 (3.73%) GCP DevOps
9 5 (3.73%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) React Developer
9 5 (3.73%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.99%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.16%) REST
2 21 (15.67%) Spring Boot
3 19 (14.18%) React
4 17 (12.69%) Kafka
4 17 (12.69%) YAML
5 16 (11.94%) JSON
5 16 (11.94%) Node.js
6 15 (11.19%) Spring
7 14 (10.45%) AngularJS
7 14 (10.45%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (10.45%) J2EE
8 13 (9.70%) CSS
8 13 (9.70%) CSS3
8 13 (9.70%) HTML
8 13 (9.70%) HTML5
9 10 (7.46%) .NET
9 10 (7.46%) Bootstrap
9 10 (7.46%) RESTful
10 9 (6.72%) Swagger
10 9 (6.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.97%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.48%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.73%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.24%) Autonomous Agent
7 3 (2.24%) Blog
7 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.24%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.49%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.49%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.69%) Linux
2 7 (5.22%) Windows
3 6 (4.48%) Unix
4 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.49%) Android
6 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (63.43%) CI/CD
2 78 (58.21%) DevOps
3 56 (41.79%) Containerisation
4 47 (35.07%) Agile
5 41 (30.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (27.61%) DevSecOps
6 37 (27.61%) Test Automation
7 32 (23.88%) Microservices
7 32 (23.88%) SDLC
8 31 (23.13%) Software Engineering
9 26 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (18.66%) Code Quality
10 25 (18.66%) Unit Testing
11 24 (17.91%) Migration
12 20 (14.93%) Mentoring
12 20 (14.93%) TDD
13 19 (14.18%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (14.18%) Scrum
13 19 (14.18%) Sprint Planning
14 18 (13.43%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (32.09%) Python
2 42 (31.34%) Java
3 27 (20.15%) JavaScript
4 22 (16.42%) SQL
5 12 (8.96%) Bash
5 12 (8.96%) Groovy
6 7 (5.22%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.22%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.48%) Go
8 5 (3.73%) C++
8 5 (3.73%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.99%) C#
10 3 (2.24%) Rust
11 2 (1.49%) C
11 2 (1.49%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.49%) R
12 1 (0.75%) COBOL
12 1 (0.75%) Perl
12 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 31 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.69%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.22%) Degree
6 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.99%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.49%) CISSP
8 2 (1.49%) OCP
8 2 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.75%) MCP
9 1 (0.75%) OSCP
9 1 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.43%) QA
2 12 (8.96%) NCSC
3 8 (5.97%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.99%) WCAG
5 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.49%) NIST
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.75%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.75%) GDPR
7 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (60.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) HDFS
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (47.76%) Kubernetes
2 51 (38.06%) Terraform
3 24 (17.91%) Ansible
4 14 (10.45%) Prometheus
5 12 (8.96%) Argo
5 12 (8.96%) Grafana
6 8 (5.97%) Progress Chef
6 8 (5.97%) Puppet
7 7 (5.22%) Istio
8 5 (3.73%) Podman
9 3 (2.24%) Kibana
10 2 (1.49%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.49%) rkt
11 1 (0.75%) Cilium
11 1 (0.75%) Control-M
11 1 (0.75%) Rancher
11 1 (0.75%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (11.19%) Splunk
2 13 (9.70%) Google
2 13 (9.70%) Veracode
3 12 (8.96%) Dynatrace
3 12 (8.96%) Red Hat
4 10 (7.46%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.72%) Checkmarx
6 7 (5.22%) Cisco
7 6 (4.48%) DocuSign
7 6 (4.48%) Oracle
8 5 (3.73%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (3.73%) Gigya
9 4 (2.99%) Guidewire
10 3 (2.24%) Cloudera
10 3 (2.24%) Databricks
10 3 (2.24%) Perforce
11 2 (1.49%) Cognizant
11 2 (1.49%) SAP
11 2 (1.49%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics