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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 375 440
Rank change year-on-year -77 +65 +43
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 127 100 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.41% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.53% 3.00% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 77 63
10th Percentile £409 £384 £425
25th Percentile £450 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -8.64% -7.17%
75th Percentile £580 £663 £650
90th Percentile £658 £700 £708
UK median daily rate £518 £520 £575
% change year-on-year -0.35% -9.57% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 2
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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 5,022 3,332 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.74% 13.60% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,362 2,238 2,903
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -4.48%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £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 205 60 166
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.35 £29.86
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.14 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.90 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -63 40 £525 -6.25% 8
North of England -46 39 £441 -4.24% 15
Midlands -51 25 £525 +10.53% 3
West Midlands -48 19 £514 +8.21% 2
North East -2 16 £513 +10.22% 12
North West -37 15 £431 +9.54% 1
South East -40 15 £513 +2.40% 8
East of England -24 9 £510 +58.69% 3
Yorkshire -54 8 £450 -13.25% 2
East Midlands -35 6 £525 +24.70% 1
South West - 5 £625 - 3
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 23 (18.11%) Confluence
2 7 (5.51%) nginx
3 5 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.15%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.57%) Apache
6 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 57 (44.88%) AWS
2 34 (26.77%) Azure
2 34 (26.77%) GitHub
3 28 (22.05%) OpenShift
4 25 (19.69%) Amazon S3
5 23 (18.11%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (16.54%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (16.54%) Route 53
7 20 (15.75%) Amazon SQS
8 18 (14.17%) GCP
9 17 (13.39%) Serverless
10 14 (11.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (11.02%) AWS KMS
11 13 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (7.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.94%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.09%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.51%) DNS
2 7 (5.51%) Firewall
2 7 (5.51%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.39%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (12.60%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (12.60%) DynamoDB
3 14 (11.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.30%) Metadata
5 7 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.94%) Redis
7 4 (3.15%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.36%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.57%) MySQL
9 2 (1.57%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.57%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.57%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.79%) Flink
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (36.22%) Jenkins
2 38 (29.92%) Git
3 28 (22.05%) JUnit
4 27 (21.26%) Maven
5 25 (19.69%) JIRA
6 20 (15.75%) GitLab
7 18 (14.17%) Bitbucket
8 14 (11.02%) Mockito
9 11 (8.66%) DbUnit
9 11 (8.66%) jMock
9 11 (8.66%) Snyk
10 9 (7.09%) Artifactory
10 9 (7.09%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (6.30%) IntelliJ
12 7 (5.51%) Cucumber
13 6 (4.72%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (3.94%) CircleCI
14 5 (3.94%) Selenium
15 4 (3.15%) Postman
16 3 (2.36%) Cypress.io
General
1 30 (23.62%) Public Sector
2 24 (18.90%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.54%) Finance
4 11 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.87%) Banking
6 7 (5.51%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.94%) Publishing
8 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.36%) Automotive
9 3 (2.36%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.57%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 51 (40.16%) Developer
2 32 (25.20%) Java Developer
3 24 (18.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (13.39%) Senior
4 17 (13.39%) Software Engineer
5 13 (10.24%) Architect
5 13 (10.24%) Senior Developer
6 11 (8.66%) Java Engineer
7 8 (6.30%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Lead
9 6 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (3.94%) React Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (32.28%) AngularJS
2 31 (24.41%) Spring
3 29 (22.83%) Node.js
3 29 (22.83%) Spring Boot
4 24 (18.90%) Quarkus
5 20 (15.75%) REST
6 19 (14.96%) RESTful
6 19 (14.96%) Web Services
6 19 (14.96%) YAML
7 16 (12.60%) Hibernate
7 16 (12.60%) JPA
8 15 (11.81%) Spring Cloud
9 14 (11.02%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (11.02%) SOAP
9 14 (11.02%) Spring Batch
9 14 (11.02%) Spring Integration
10 11 (8.66%) PowerMock
11 9 (7.09%) Bootstrap
11 9 (7.09%) JSON
12 8 (6.30%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.96%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.45%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.36%) Blog
3 3 (2.36%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.57%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.57%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.79%) NHS
5 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.79%) Replication
5 1 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.54%) Linux
2 4 (3.15%) Unix
3 2 (1.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (55.12%) CI/CD
1 70 (55.12%) DevOps
2 64 (50.39%) Agile
3 47 (37.01%) Scrum
4 44 (34.65%) DevSecOps
5 41 (32.28%) Test Automation
6 39 (30.71%) Software Engineering
7 36 (28.35%) TDD
8 35 (27.56%) SDLC
9 34 (26.77%) Containerisation
10 33 (25.98%) Unit Testing
11 32 (25.20%) Sprint Planning
12 31 (24.41%) Microservices
13 28 (22.05%) BDD
14 23 (18.11%) Front End Development
14 23 (18.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (16.54%) Sprint Review
16 19 (14.96%) Static Application Security Testing
17 17 (13.39%) Code Quality
17 17 (13.39%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 81 (63.78%) Java
2 27 (21.26%) SQL
3 21 (16.54%) Python
4 9 (7.09%) Groovy
5 6 (4.72%) Go
6 5 (3.94%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.15%) Bash
7 4 (3.15%) C++
7 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.15%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.36%) C#
9 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.79%) C
10 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.79%) ProC
10 1 (0.79%) RPG
10 1 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 56 (44.09%) Security Cleared
2 48 (37.80%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.15%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.15%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.15%) Degree
4 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (24.41%) QA
2 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.36%) WCAG
3 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (33.86%) Docker
2 10 (7.87%) Postfix
3 7 (5.51%) Squid
Systems Management
1 56 (44.09%) Kubernetes
2 31 (24.41%) Terraform
3 27 (21.26%) Grafana
4 24 (18.90%) Argo
5 17 (13.39%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.45%) Ansible
7 7 (5.51%) Consul
7 7 (5.51%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.51%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.94%) Istio
8 5 (3.94%) Puppet
9 4 (3.15%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.57%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.79%) Podman
11 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (22.83%) Red Hat
2 18 (14.17%) Atlassian
3 14 (11.02%) Checkmarx
3 14 (11.02%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (10.24%) Veracode
5 9 (7.09%) Dynatrace
5 9 (7.09%) Google
6 8 (6.30%) Sonatype
7 7 (5.51%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.94%) Databricks
8 5 (3.94%) Guidewire
8 5 (3.94%) Microsoft
8 5 (3.94%) SAP
9 4 (3.15%) Oracle
10 3 (2.36%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.79%) Acunetix
11 1 (0.79%) OutSystems
11 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.79%) Splunk
11 1 (0.79%) Thales