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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 325 466
Rank change year-on-year -142 +141 -23
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 173 180 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.66% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.27% 4.40% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 132 48
10th Percentile £407 £277 £473
25th Percentile £458 £379 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £482 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.44% -19.75% -
75th Percentile £601 £650 £685
90th Percentile £680 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £485 £597
% change year-on-year +5.15% -18.76% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 - £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 5,288 4,094 4,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.42% 14.93% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 2,830 2,789
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
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 246 92 169
10th Percentile £24.62 £42.50 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.94 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £77.50 £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 22 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 22 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 -94 65 £575 -5.74% 39
North of England -61 50 £513 +22.75% 22
Midlands -47 39 £475 -2.56% 7
West Midlands -36 36 £476 -17.22% 6
North East -12 29 £511 +9.95% 14
South East -50 27 £601 +20.13% 9
Yorkshire -46 11 £514 +31.79% 2
North West -65 10 £519 +29.30% 6
East of England -27 6 £570 -32.94% 1
South West -46 3 £300 -57.14% 6
East Midlands -24 2 £335 +24.07% 1
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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 18 (10.40%) Confluence
2 8 (4.62%) Camunda
3 7 (4.05%) Apache
4 6 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.47%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.89%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 81 (46.82%) AWS
2 60 (34.68%) GitHub
3 50 (28.90%) OpenShift
4 49 (28.32%) Azure
5 40 (23.12%) GCP
6 29 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (15.61%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (7.51%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (6.36%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (6.36%) Serverless
11 10 (5.78%) AWS KMS
11 10 (5.78%) Route 53
12 9 (5.20%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (5.20%) OCI
13 8 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (4.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (3.47%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.89%) Firewall
2 4 (2.31%) MQTT
2 4 (2.31%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.61%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.67%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.94%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.36%) DynamoDB
5 10 (5.78%) Metadata
6 9 (5.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.47%) MySQL
9 5 (2.89%) Flink
10 4 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.31%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.31%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.31%) Tableau
11 3 (1.73%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.58%) Power BI
13 1 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 81 (46.82%) Jenkins
2 67 (38.73%) Git
3 63 (36.42%) Maven
4 57 (32.95%) JUnit
5 55 (31.79%) GitLab
6 32 (18.50%) Mockito
7 22 (12.72%) Cucumber
8 21 (12.14%) Gradle
8 21 (12.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 20 (11.56%) JIRA
10 19 (10.98%) Selenium
11 16 (9.25%) Snyk
12 14 (8.09%) Bitbucket Server
12 14 (8.09%) Gatling
13 12 (6.94%) REST Assured
14 11 (6.36%) Postman
15 10 (5.78%) Artifactory
16 7 (4.05%) DbUnit
16 7 (4.05%) IntelliJ
16 7 (4.05%) LoadRunner
General
1 49 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.65%) Finance
3 29 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.61%) Public Sector
5 23 (13.29%) Banking
6 9 (5.20%) Publishing
7 6 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.16%) Automotive
9 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (41.04%) Developer
2 54 (31.21%) Java Developer
3 33 (19.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (16.18%) Senior
5 19 (10.98%) Senior Developer
6 16 (9.25%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (8.67%) Java Engineer
8 12 (6.94%) Lead
8 12 (6.94%) Quality Engineer
9 11 (6.36%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (6.36%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 11 (6.36%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.47%) Architect
11 6 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.47%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (3.47%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (35.26%) AngularJS
2 59 (34.10%) Spring
3 54 (31.21%) Spring Boot
4 45 (26.01%) Terraform
5 38 (21.97%) Quarkus
6 33 (19.08%) Kafka
7 30 (17.34%) JPA
8 29 (16.76%) Hibernate
8 29 (16.76%) Node.js
8 29 (16.76%) RESTful
8 29 (16.76%) SOAP
9 28 (16.18%) Web Services
10 26 (15.03%) REST
11 25 (14.45%) ActiveMQ
12 23 (13.29%) HTML
12 23 (13.29%) React
13 21 (12.14%) Spring Cloud
14 19 (10.98%) CSS
15 15 (8.67%) Playwright
16 14 (8.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.20%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.89%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) PKI
10 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.58%) NHS
10 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.92%) Linux
2 10 (5.78%) Unix
3 5 (2.89%) Windows
4 3 (1.73%) VMS
5 2 (1.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (64.74%) CI/CD
2 105 (60.69%) Agile
3 89 (51.45%) DevOps
4 87 (50.29%) Scrum
5 86 (49.71%) Test Automation
6 73 (42.20%) Microservices
7 68 (39.31%) DevSecOps
8 58 (33.53%) SDLC
8 58 (33.53%) Software Engineering
9 54 (31.21%) TDD
10 48 (27.75%) Front End Development
11 46 (26.59%) Sprint Planning
12 45 (26.01%) Containerisation
13 42 (24.28%) Unit Testing
14 39 (22.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (19.08%) Sprint Review
16 32 (18.50%) Code Quality
17 31 (17.92%) BDD
18 29 (16.76%) Stakeholder Management
19 28 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 123 (71.10%) Java
2 45 (26.01%) SQL
3 44 (25.43%) Python
4 28 (16.18%) JavaScript
5 15 (8.67%) Bash
6 14 (8.09%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.51%) Groovy
8 9 (5.20%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.47%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.31%) Rust
11 3 (1.73%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.16%) Bicep
12 2 (1.16%) Go
13 1 (0.58%) C#
13 1 (0.58%) COBOL
13 1 (0.58%) Korn
13 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (44.51%) Security Cleared
2 72 (41.62%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.72%) Degree
4 17 (9.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (9.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.62%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.05%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.05%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.73%) CISSP
8 3 (1.73%) GIAC
8 3 (1.73%) ISEB
8 3 (1.73%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.58%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.58%) GSEC
10 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (30.06%) QA
2 18 (10.40%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.94%) WCAG
4 4 (2.31%) NIST
4 4 (2.31%) PSD2
4 4 (2.31%) SEPA
5 2 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 78 (45.09%) Docker
2 5 (2.89%) Postfix
3 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (60.12%) Kubernetes
2 41 (23.70%) Argo
3 39 (22.54%) Grafana
4 31 (17.92%) Prometheus
5 28 (16.18%) Ansible
6 9 (5.20%) HP Fortify
7 7 (4.05%) Istio
8 6 (3.47%) Puppet
9 5 (2.89%) Podman
10 4 (2.31%) Control-M
11 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (21.39%) Red Hat
2 14 (8.09%) IBM
3 13 (7.51%) Checkmarx
4 12 (6.94%) Google
4 12 (6.94%) Veracode
5 11 (6.36%) Oracle
6 10 (5.78%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.62%) Databricks
7 8 (4.62%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (4.05%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.05%) SAP
9 5 (2.89%) Tenable
10 4 (2.31%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.31%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.31%) NVIDIA
11 2 (1.16%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.16%) Splunk
12 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.58%) UiPath
12 1 (0.58%) webMethods