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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 442 450
Rank change year-on-year +59 +8 +5
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 170 65 114
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.67% 1.58% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 46 84
10th Percentile £282 £413 £459
25th Percentile £376 £511 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £606 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £685 £650
90th Percentile £714 £738 £773
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £65.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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 4,629 4,117 4,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 13.27% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,233 2,583 3,537
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 123 227
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £46.06
25th Percentile £54.81 £51.25 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.75 £74.89 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +8.33%

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025. 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 +44 76 £610 -2.40% 14
North of England -4 44 £401 -22.70% 12
Midlands -10 36 £575 -6.05% 2
West Midlands -11 28 £650 +6.21%
North West +2 27 £402 +12.92% 4
South West - 17 £700 - 7
Yorkshire -27 13 £390 -34.04% 2
East Midlands - 8 £270 - 2
South East +5 7 £550 -8.33% 7
North East -6 4 £425 - 6
East of England -17 1 £850 +167.30%
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 19 (11.18%) Confluence
2 7 (4.12%) Appian
3 6 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.94%) JBoss
5 4 (2.35%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.76%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.18%) Mule
7 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.59%) CICS
8 1 (0.59%) nginx
8 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.59%) Endur
2 1 (0.59%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 76 (44.71%) AWS
1 76 (44.71%) Azure
2 54 (31.76%) GitHub
3 47 (27.65%) GCP
4 25 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (13.53%) Amazon SQS
6 18 (10.59%) OpenShift
7 17 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 16 (9.41%) Serverless
9 14 (8.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (8.24%) npm
9 14 (8.24%) PaaS
10 12 (7.06%) Datadog
10 12 (7.06%) Route 53
11 11 (6.47%) Amazon S3
11 11 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (4.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.29%) Firewall
2 5 (2.94%) SSH
3 4 (2.35%) SSL
4 3 (1.76%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.18%) DNS
5 2 (1.18%) Network Security
6 1 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.59%) HTTP
6 1 (0.59%) Internet
6 1 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.59%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 17 (10.00%) Redis
3 16 (9.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (9.41%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (7.06%) DynamoDB
5 11 (6.47%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.88%) MySQL
6 10 (5.88%) RDBMS
7 8 (4.71%) MongoDB
8 7 (4.12%) Power BI
8 7 (4.12%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.53%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.94%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.94%) DocumentDB
10 5 (2.94%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.76%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 75 (44.12%) Jenkins
2 68 (40.00%) Git
3 44 (25.88%) Maven
4 41 (24.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 40 (23.53%) GitLab
6 33 (19.41%) JIRA
7 32 (18.82%) JUnit
8 26 (15.29%) Selenium
9 20 (11.76%) Bitbucket
9 20 (11.76%) Mockito
10 18 (10.59%) Artifactory
11 16 (9.41%) Cucumber
12 15 (8.82%) Gradle
12 15 (8.82%) Postman
12 15 (8.82%) TeamCity
13 13 (7.65%) Burp Suite
13 13 (7.65%) Cypress.io
13 13 (7.65%) Metasploit
14 10 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
15 9 (5.29%) Snyk
General
1 50 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.41%) Finance
3 31 (18.24%) Public Sector
4 25 (14.71%) Banking
5 9 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.12%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.94%) Publishing
8 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.18%) Military
8 2 (1.18%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.59%) German Language
9 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Retail
9 1 (0.59%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 52 (30.59%) Developer
2 32 (18.82%) Java Developer
3 26 (15.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (11.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 18 (10.59%) Security Engineer
6 17 (10.00%) Lead
7 13 (7.65%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 12 (7.06%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) Senior
10 8 (4.71%) Architect
10 8 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.71%) Lead Developer
10 8 (4.71%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 6 (3.53%) Java Architect
12 6 (3.53%) Java Technical Architect
12 6 (3.53%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.53%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.06%) Spring Boot
2 36 (21.18%) REST
3 28 (16.47%) React
3 28 (16.47%) Spring
4 25 (14.71%) RESTful
5 24 (14.12%) CSS
5 24 (14.12%) HTML
6 23 (13.53%) Node.js
7 22 (12.94%) Hibernate
8 21 (12.35%) JPA
9 18 (10.59%) J2EE
9 18 (10.59%) JSON
9 18 (10.59%) SOAP
10 17 (10.00%) Bootstrap
10 17 (10.00%) CSS3
10 17 (10.00%) HTML5
10 17 (10.00%) Kafka
11 16 (9.41%) AngularJS
11 16 (9.41%) Jest
11 16 (9.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.29%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.94%) N-Tier
4 5 (2.94%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.35%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.35%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.76%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.76%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.18%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.12%) Linux
2 12 (7.06%) Unix
3 10 (5.88%) Windows
4 5 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.18%) Android
7 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (71.18%) CI/CD
2 96 (56.47%) DevOps
3 61 (35.88%) Containerisation
4 59 (34.71%) Agile
5 58 (34.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (30.00%) Microservices
7 47 (27.65%) DevSecOps
8 43 (25.29%) Test Automation
9 38 (22.35%) TDD
10 37 (21.76%) SDLC
11 30 (17.65%) Code Quality
11 30 (17.65%) Scrum
12 26 (15.29%) OWASP
12 26 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (14.71%) Software Engineering
13 25 (14.71%) Unit Testing
14 24 (14.12%) Migration
15 23 (13.53%) Secure Coding
16 22 (12.94%) Continuous Integration
16 22 (12.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 67 (39.41%) Java
2 60 (35.29%) Python
3 45 (26.47%) JavaScript
4 38 (22.35%) SQL
5 26 (15.29%) Bash
6 13 (7.65%) Groovy
7 12 (7.06%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.88%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.53%) C#
10 5 (2.94%) Perl
11 4 (2.35%) Go
11 4 (2.35%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.76%) Rust
13 2 (1.18%) R
14 1 (0.59%) Bicep
14 1 (0.59%) JCL
14 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.59%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.59%) Swift
14 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 51 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.18%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.24%) OSCP
5 13 (7.65%) CREST Certified
5 13 (7.65%) Tigerscheme
6 10 (5.88%) CHECK Team Member
7 7 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.35%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.35%) Degree
9 3 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.18%) CISSP
10 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.18%) OCP
10 2 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.59%) MCP
11 1 (0.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.35%) NCSC
2 18 (10.59%) QA
3 11 (6.47%) Accessibility
4 9 (5.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (5.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (2.35%) WCAG
6 3 (1.76%) GDPR
6 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.18%) NIST
7 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.59%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (54.71%) Docker
2 5 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.35%) Postfix
4 2 (1.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (38.82%) Kubernetes
2 56 (32.94%) Terraform
3 24 (14.12%) Ansible
4 18 (10.59%) Prometheus
5 16 (9.41%) Grafana
6 13 (7.65%) Nmap
7 12 (7.06%) Progress Chef
8 10 (5.88%) Argo
9 7 (4.12%) Kibana
10 6 (3.53%) Puppet
11 5 (2.94%) Istio
12 4 (2.35%) Podman
13 2 (1.18%) HP Fortify
13 2 (1.18%) Nessus
13 2 (1.18%) rkt
14 1 (0.59%) Control-M
14 1 (0.59%) Packer
14 1 (0.59%) Rancher
14 1 (0.59%) Rsyslog
14 1 (0.59%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (17.65%) Veracode
2 19 (11.18%) Splunk
3 15 (8.82%) Google
4 13 (7.65%) Red Hat
5 12 (7.06%) Dynatrace
5 12 (7.06%) Microsoft
6 9 (5.29%) Checkmarx
7 8 (4.71%) Cisco
7 8 (4.71%) Oracle
8 7 (4.12%) Cloudera
9 6 (3.53%) CA Agile Central
9 6 (3.53%) DocuSign
9 6 (3.53%) Perforce
10 5 (2.94%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.94%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.94%) Gigya
11 4 (2.35%) Jaspersoft
12 3 (1.76%) Databricks
13 2 (1.18%) Qualys
13 2 (1.18%) Xamarin