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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 334 464
Rank change year-on-year -131 +130 -16
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 164 186 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.67% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.10% 4.43% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 137 45
10th Percentile £388 £280 £487
25th Percentile £450 £380 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -18.75% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £685
90th Percentile £680 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £488 £594
% change year-on-year +4.62% -17.93% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.44 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 5,296 4,198 4,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 15.03% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,350 2,905 2,797
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £631
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 94 169
10th Percentile £24.19 £42.33 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.81 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.23 £76.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -99 64 £525 -13.93% 36
North of England -73 44 £514 +21.02% 22
Midlands -41 41 £467 -6.60% 7
West Midlands -32 38 £475 -17.39% 6
North East -20 24 £510 +9.68% 14
South East -61 24 £690 +37.86% 8
North West -61 11 £537 +31.06% 7
Yorkshire -45 9 £514 +31.88% 1
East of England -29 6 £570 -32.94% 1
South West -49 3 £300 -57.14% 8
East Midlands -25 2 £335 +24.07% 1
SonarQube
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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 19 (11.59%) Confluence
2 9 (5.49%) Camunda
3 7 (4.27%) Apache
4 6 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.66%) Apache Spark
5 5 (3.05%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 79 (48.17%) AWS
2 62 (37.80%) GitHub
3 47 (28.66%) Azure
4 43 (26.22%) OpenShift
5 37 (22.56%) GCP
6 28 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (15.85%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (7.32%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (6.10%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (6.10%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (6.10%) Serverless
11 9 (5.49%) AWS KMS
11 9 (5.49%) Route 53
12 7 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (4.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (4.27%) OCI
13 6 (3.66%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.05%) Firewall
2 4 (2.44%) MQTT
2 4 (2.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.24%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.15%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.93%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.71%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (6.10%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (4.88%) Metadata
7 7 (4.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.05%) Flink
8 5 (3.05%) MySQL
9 4 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.44%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.44%) Tableau
10 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.22%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.61%) Power BI
12 1 (0.61%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 78 (47.56%) Jenkins
2 68 (41.46%) Git
3 61 (37.20%) Maven
4 59 (35.98%) JUnit
5 58 (35.37%) GitLab
6 32 (19.51%) Mockito
7 25 (15.24%) Cucumber
8 22 (13.41%) Gradle
8 22 (13.41%) Selenium
8 22 (13.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (12.80%) JIRA
10 17 (10.37%) Gatling
11 14 (8.54%) Bitbucket Server
11 14 (8.54%) Snyk
12 13 (7.93%) REST Assured
13 12 (7.32%) Postman
14 10 (6.10%) Artifactory
15 7 (4.27%) LoadRunner
15 7 (4.27%) SoapUI
16 6 (3.66%) IntelliJ
General
1 51 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 35 (21.34%) Finance
3 28 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (15.85%) Public Sector
5 25 (15.24%) Banking
6 7 (4.27%) Publishing
7 6 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.22%) Automotive
9 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (39.63%) Developer
2 48 (29.27%) Java Developer
3 28 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (15.85%) Senior
5 17 (10.37%) Senior Developer
6 15 (9.15%) Quality Engineer
6 15 (9.15%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (8.54%) Java Engineer
8 13 (7.93%) Lead
9 12 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.49%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (4.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 7 (4.27%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Lead Developer
13 6 (3.66%) Architect
13 6 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 5 (3.05%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (35.98%) Spring
2 52 (31.71%) AngularJS
2 52 (31.71%) Spring Boot
3 42 (25.61%) Terraform
4 34 (20.73%) Kafka
5 30 (18.29%) JPA
5 30 (18.29%) Quarkus
6 29 (17.68%) Hibernate
6 29 (17.68%) SOAP
7 27 (16.46%) RESTful
7 27 (16.46%) Web Services
8 25 (15.24%) HTML
8 25 (15.24%) Node.js
8 25 (15.24%) REST
9 24 (14.63%) ActiveMQ
9 24 (14.63%) React
10 20 (12.20%) CSS
10 20 (12.20%) Spring Cloud
11 18 (10.98%) Playwright
12 16 (9.76%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.10%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.27%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.22%) PKI
10 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.61%) NHS
10 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.61%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.29%) Linux
2 10 (6.10%) Unix
3 5 (3.05%) Windows
4 3 (1.83%) VMS
5 2 (1.22%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (68.29%) CI/CD
2 100 (60.98%) Agile
3 83 (50.61%) DevOps
3 83 (50.61%) Scrum
4 82 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 75 (45.73%) Microservices
6 57 (34.76%) DevSecOps
7 56 (34.15%) TDD
8 53 (32.32%) SDLC
9 51 (31.10%) Software Engineering
10 42 (25.61%) Containerisation
11 41 (25.00%) Front End Development
11 41 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
12 36 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (20.73%) Unit Testing
14 32 (19.51%) BDD
15 31 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (18.29%) Code Quality
17 29 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (17.68%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 114 (69.51%) Java
2 43 (26.22%) Python
2 43 (26.22%) SQL
3 30 (18.29%) JavaScript
4 15 (9.15%) Bash
5 14 (8.54%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.71%) Groovy
7 9 (5.49%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.66%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.44%) Rust
10 3 (1.83%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.22%) Bicep
12 1 (0.61%) C#
12 1 (0.61%) COBOL
12 1 (0.61%) Go
12 1 (0.61%) Korn
12 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (42.68%) Security Cleared
2 65 (39.63%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.02%) Degree
4 19 (11.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (10.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.88%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.27%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.27%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.83%) CISSP
8 3 (1.83%) GIAC
8 3 (1.83%) ISEB
8 3 (1.83%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.61%) GSEC
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (29.27%) QA
2 20 (12.20%) Accessibility
3 14 (8.54%) WCAG
4 4 (2.44%) NIST
4 4 (2.44%) PSD2
4 4 (2.44%) SEPA
5 2 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) GDPR
6 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 78 (47.56%) Docker
2 4 (2.44%) Postfix
3 3 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 96 (58.54%) Kubernetes
2 37 (22.56%) Grafana
3 33 (20.12%) Argo
4 29 (17.68%) Prometheus
5 27 (16.46%) Ansible
6 10 (6.10%) HP Fortify
7 7 (4.27%) Istio
8 6 (3.66%) Puppet
9 5 (3.05%) Podman
10 4 (2.44%) Control-M
11 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (18.90%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.76%) IBM
3 13 (7.93%) Veracode
4 12 (7.32%) Checkmarx
5 11 (6.71%) Google
6 10 (6.10%) Oracle
7 8 (4.88%) Databricks
7 8 (4.88%) Sonatype
8 7 (4.27%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (4.27%) SAP
9 6 (3.66%) Atlassian
10 5 (3.05%) Tenable
11 4 (2.44%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.44%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.44%) NVIDIA
12 2 (1.22%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.22%) Splunk
13 1 (0.61%) Foundry
13 1 (0.61%) Pega
13 1 (0.61%) webMethods