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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 355 459
Rank change year-on-year -124 +104 -12
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 146 157 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.57% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.77% 4.00% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 118 63
10th Percentile £450 £270 £434
25th Percentile £500 £381 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £472 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% -21.33% -
75th Percentile £626 £639 £675
90th Percentile £733 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +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 5,279 3,922 4,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.29% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,366 2,705 2,884
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 93 205
10th Percentile £28.97 £40.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £73.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 28 July 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
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 28 July 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 -60 46 £505 +27.04% 11
London -95 44 £609 -4.47% 7
South East -53 30 £601 +20.13%
North East -18 29 £511 +10.54% 10
Midlands -55 29 £511 +31.40% 6
West Midlands -43 25 £511 +7.47% 5
Yorkshire -41 9 £507 +30.00%
East of England - 9 £510 -
North West -57 8 £463 +17.68% 1
East Midlands -26 3 - - 1
South West -37 3 - - 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 12 (8.22%) Confluence
2 6 (4.11%) Apache
3 5 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.37%) Camunda
5 2 (1.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 67 (45.89%) AWS
2 47 (32.19%) OpenShift
3 46 (31.51%) Azure
4 39 (26.71%) GitHub
5 35 (23.97%) GCP
6 28 (19.18%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (16.44%) Amazon S3
8 23 (15.75%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (14.38%) Amazon SQS
9 21 (14.38%) Route 53
10 19 (13.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (12.33%) AWS KMS
11 18 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (7.53%) Serverless
13 9 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (6.16%) OCI
14 6 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (3.42%) Entra ID
16 4 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.42%) Firewall
2 4 (2.74%) MQTT
2 4 (2.74%) Network Security
2 4 (2.74%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.37%) DNS
3 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.44%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (14.38%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (13.01%) DynamoDB
4 18 (12.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (6.85%) Metadata
6 6 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.74%) Flink
8 4 (2.74%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.05%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.37%) MySQL
10 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.68%) Power BI
11 1 (0.68%) Redis
11 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 68 (46.58%) Jenkins
2 49 (33.56%) Git
3 47 (32.19%) Maven
4 39 (26.71%) JUnit
5 33 (22.60%) GitLab
6 24 (16.44%) Mockito
7 14 (9.59%) DbUnit
7 14 (9.59%) Snyk
7 14 (9.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (8.90%) Bitbucket Server
8 13 (8.90%) jMock
9 12 (8.22%) JIRA
10 11 (7.53%) Gradle
11 9 (6.16%) Artifactory
12 8 (5.48%) IntelliJ
13 7 (4.79%) CircleCI
13 7 (4.79%) Cucumber
13 7 (4.79%) REST Assured
13 7 (4.79%) Selenium
14 6 (4.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 31 (21.23%) Public Sector
1 31 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.44%) Finance
3 18 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.96%) Banking
5 9 (6.16%) Publishing
6 4 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.05%) Automotive
7 3 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (41.78%) Developer
2 48 (32.88%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (12.33%) Java Engineer
4 18 (12.33%) Senior
4 18 (12.33%) Software Engineer
5 15 (10.27%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 12 (8.22%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (7.53%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (6.16%) Architect
10 8 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.42%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.42%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.42%) Software Developer
14 4 (2.74%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (41.78%) AngularJS
2 44 (30.14%) Spring Boot
3 42 (28.77%) Quarkus
3 42 (28.77%) Spring
4 30 (20.55%) Node.js
5 23 (15.75%) Hibernate
5 23 (15.75%) JPA
5 23 (15.75%) RESTful
6 22 (15.07%) ActiveMQ
6 22 (15.07%) REST
6 22 (15.07%) Spring Cloud
7 21 (14.38%) SOAP
8 19 (13.01%) Web Services
9 18 (12.33%) Kafka
9 18 (12.33%) Spring Batch
9 18 (12.33%) Spring Integration
10 15 (10.27%) YAML
11 13 (8.90%) PowerMock
12 12 (8.22%) Bootstrap
13 11 (7.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.01%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.27%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.05%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.37%) PKI
7 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.18%) Linux
2 4 (2.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (60.27%) CI/CD
2 86 (58.90%) DevOps
3 85 (58.22%) Agile
4 72 (49.32%) Scrum
5 70 (47.95%) DevSecOps
6 59 (40.41%) Software Engineering
7 56 (38.36%) Test Automation
8 52 (35.62%) Microservices
9 48 (32.88%) SDLC
10 43 (29.45%) Sprint Planning
11 42 (28.77%) Containerisation
11 42 (28.77%) Front End Development
11 42 (28.77%) Unit Testing
12 40 (27.40%) TDD
13 37 (25.34%) Sprint Review
14 32 (21.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 26 (17.81%) BDD
16 22 (15.07%) Kanban
16 22 (15.07%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (15.07%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 100 (68.49%) Java
2 34 (23.29%) SQL
3 28 (19.18%) Python
4 11 (7.53%) Groovy
5 8 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.11%) Bash
6 6 (4.11%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.42%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.74%) Go
8 4 (2.74%) Rust
9 2 (1.37%) C#
9 2 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.68%) COBOL
10 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (52.05%) Security Cleared
2 69 (47.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.85%) Degree
4 9 (6.16%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.79%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.42%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.05%) CISSP
8 3 (2.05%) GIAC
9 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.68%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.68%) GSEC
10 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (32.19%) QA
2 7 (4.79%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.74%) NIST
3 4 (2.74%) PSD2
3 4 (2.74%) SEPA
4 3 (2.05%) WCAG
5 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.68%) GDPR
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (41.78%) Docker
2 11 (7.53%) Postfix
3 2 (1.37%) Squid
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (62.33%) Kubernetes
2 45 (30.82%) Argo
3 43 (29.45%) Terraform
4 39 (26.71%) Grafana
5 26 (17.81%) Prometheus
6 23 (15.75%) Ansible
7 9 (6.16%) Istio
8 8 (5.48%) Puppet
9 5 (3.42%) Podman
10 4 (2.74%) HP Fortify
10 4 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.37%) Consul
11 2 (1.37%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.37%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 43 (29.45%) Red Hat
2 17 (11.64%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (10.96%) Atlassian
4 12 (8.22%) Checkmarx
5 10 (6.85%) Sonatype
6 9 (6.16%) Google
7 7 (4.79%) Veracode
8 4 (2.74%) Databricks
8 4 (2.74%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.74%) NVIDIA
8 4 (2.74%) Oracle
8 4 (2.74%) Tenable
9 3 (2.05%) IBM
9 3 (2.05%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.05%) SAP
10 1 (0.68%) Foundry
10 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.68%) Pega
10 1 (0.68%) Splunk
10 1 (0.68%) UiPath