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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 352 445
Rank change year-on-year -118 +93 +8
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 148 154 96
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.57% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.81% 4.02% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 118 65
10th Percentile £431 £276 £425
25th Percentile £475 £382 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -15.93% -5.83%
75th Percentile £601 £639 £650
90th Percentile £695 £688 £715
UK median daily rate £518 £475 £594
% change year-on-year +9.09% -20.03% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £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 5,260 3,831 4,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.76% 14.12% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,383 2,623 3,030
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
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 235 88 230
10th Percentile £28.08 £30.05 £32.87
25th Percentile £57.63 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £68.00 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -3.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.04
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 15 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 15 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 -55 48 £500 +19.76% 3
London -95 45 £593 -2.87% 7
South East -50 27 £513 +2.40% 1
Midlands -57 27 £512 +26.17% 2
North East -20 25 £511 +10.54% 3
West Midlands -56 23 £512 +7.84% 1
North West -49 14 £431 +9.95%
East of England -13 9 £510 +58.69%
Yorkshire -50 9 £507 +6.74%
South West -33 4 £525 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -23 3 - - 1
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 20 (13.51%) Confluence
2 7 (4.73%) nginx
3 6 (4.05%) Apache
4 5 (3.38%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.03%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.68%) Camunda
6 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.03%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 67 (45.27%) AWS
2 42 (28.38%) Azure
3 41 (27.70%) OpenShift
4 35 (23.65%) GitHub
5 32 (21.62%) GCP
6 29 (19.59%) Amazon S3
7 28 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (17.57%) Route 53
9 24 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (14.19%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (12.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (12.16%) AWS KMS
13 17 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (10.81%) Serverless
15 11 (7.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
18 8 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
19 7 (4.73%) OCI
20 4 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.08%) Firewall
1 9 (6.08%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.73%) DNS
2 7 (4.73%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.73%) VPN
3 4 (2.70%) MQTT
3 4 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (14.19%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (12.84%) DynamoDB
4 18 (12.16%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.43%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (6.76%) Metadata
7 5 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.70%) Flink
9 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.35%) MySQL
10 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.68%) Delta 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 63 (42.57%) Jenkins
2 47 (31.76%) Git
3 42 (28.38%) Maven
4 36 (24.32%) GitLab
5 35 (23.65%) JUnit
6 21 (14.19%) Mockito
7 20 (13.51%) JIRA
8 14 (9.46%) DbUnit
9 13 (8.78%) jMock
10 12 (8.11%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (8.11%) Snyk
10 12 (8.11%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (7.43%) Bitbucket
12 9 (6.08%) Artifactory
12 9 (6.08%) Gradle
12 9 (6.08%) IntelliJ
13 8 (5.41%) Cucumber
14 6 (4.05%) CircleCI
14 6 (4.05%) REST Assured
14 6 (4.05%) Selenium
General
1 33 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.95%) Public Sector
3 23 (15.54%) Finance
4 17 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.78%) Banking
6 7 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.73%) Publishing
7 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.03%) Automotive
8 3 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 58 (39.19%) Developer
2 45 (30.41%) Java Developer
3 31 (20.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (12.16%) Java Engineer
4 18 (12.16%) Software Engineer
5 17 (11.49%) Senior
6 14 (9.46%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (8.11%) Architect
9 11 (7.43%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (7.43%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.38%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.38%) Technical Architect
14 4 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
14 4 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (37.16%) AngularJS
2 41 (27.70%) Spring
2 41 (27.70%) Spring Boot
3 38 (25.68%) Quarkus
4 29 (19.59%) Node.js
5 28 (18.92%) RESTful
6 21 (14.19%) Hibernate
6 21 (14.19%) JPA
7 20 (13.51%) ActiveMQ
7 20 (13.51%) REST
7 20 (13.51%) Spring Cloud
7 20 (13.51%) YAML
8 19 (12.84%) SOAP
9 18 (12.16%) Spring Batch
9 18 (12.16%) Spring Integration
9 18 (12.16%) Web Services
10 17 (11.49%) Kafka
11 13 (8.78%) PowerMock
12 12 (8.11%) Bootstrap
13 10 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.03%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.35%) PKI
6 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.68%) NHS
6 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.24%) Linux
2 4 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 86 (58.11%) DevOps
3 84 (56.76%) Agile
4 67 (45.27%) Scrum
5 64 (43.24%) DevSecOps
6 55 (37.16%) Software Engineering
7 51 (34.46%) Test Automation
8 47 (31.76%) Microservices
8 47 (31.76%) SDLC
9 44 (29.73%) Unit Testing
10 43 (29.05%) TDD
11 41 (27.70%) Containerisation
12 39 (26.35%) Sprint Planning
13 38 (25.68%) Front End Development
14 33 (22.30%) Sprint Review
15 31 (20.95%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (20.27%) BDD
17 21 (14.19%) Static Application Security Testing
18 20 (13.51%) Code Quality
18 20 (13.51%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 99 (66.89%) Java
2 33 (22.30%) SQL
3 28 (18.92%) Python
4 11 (7.43%) Groovy
5 7 (4.73%) Bash
5 7 (4.73%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.05%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.70%) Go
7 4 (2.70%) Rust
8 3 (2.03%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.03%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.35%) C#
10 1 (0.68%) COBOL
10 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (51.35%) Security Cleared
2 68 (45.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) AWS Certification
3 9 (6.08%) Degree
4 7 (4.73%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.03%) CISSP
7 3 (2.03%) GIAC
8 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.68%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.68%) GSEC
9 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (29.05%) QA
2 7 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.03%) NIST
3 3 (2.03%) WCAG
4 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.35%) PSD2
4 2 (1.35%) SEPA
5 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (37.84%) Docker
2 11 (7.43%) Postfix
3 7 (4.73%) Squid
Systems Management
1 86 (58.11%) Kubernetes
2 45 (30.41%) Terraform
3 41 (27.70%) Grafana
4 39 (26.35%) Argo
5 28 (18.92%) Prometheus
6 21 (14.19%) Ansible
7 9 (6.08%) Istio
7 9 (6.08%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.73%) Consul
8 7 (4.73%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.73%) Puppet
9 4 (2.70%) HP Fortify
9 4 (2.70%) Podman
10 2 (1.35%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (29.73%) Red Hat
2 21 (14.19%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.49%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (8.78%) Checkmarx
5 12 (8.11%) Veracode
6 10 (6.76%) Sonatype
7 9 (6.08%) Dynatrace
7 9 (6.08%) Google
8 6 (4.05%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.38%) Oracle
10 4 (2.70%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.70%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.70%) Tenable
11 3 (2.03%) Databricks
11 3 (2.03%) SAP
12 2 (1.35%) IBM
13 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.68%) Pega
13 1 (0.68%) Thales
13 1 (0.68%) UiPath