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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 344 458
Rank change year-on-year -107 +114 -18
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 147 134 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.54% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.89% 3.82% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 100 59
10th Percentile £413 £310 £423
25th Percentile £475 £402 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £486 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% -11.59% -8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £633 £648
90th Percentile £713 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £488 £563
% change year-on-year +6.29% -13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 1 3
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
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 5,082 3,507 4,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.82% 14.14% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,378 2,994
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 71 228
10th Percentile £30.75 £27.50 £32.61
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +4.84%

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 June 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 18 June 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 -46 47 £500 +17.65% 8
London -80 46 £593 +6.76% 1
Midlands -52 27 £512 +7.84%
South East -42 26 £513 +2.40% 3
North East -18 24 £511 +10.54% 5
West Midlands -40 23 £512 +2.45%
North West -33 14 £431 +9.67% 2
East of England -19 9 £510 +58.69%
Yorkshire -57 9 £507 +6.74% 1
South West -23 4 £525 -12.50% 1
East Midlands -32 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 20 (13.61%) Confluence
2 7 (4.76%) nginx
3 6 (4.08%) Apache
4 5 (3.40%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.04%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.68%) Camunda
6 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 61 (41.50%) AWS
2 40 (27.21%) Azure
2 40 (27.21%) OpenShift
3 35 (23.81%) GitHub
4 32 (21.77%) GCP
5 28 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
5 28 (19.05%) Amazon S3
6 26 (17.69%) Route 53
7 22 (14.97%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (13.61%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (12.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (12.24%) AWS KMS
11 17 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (10.20%) Serverless
13 11 (7.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (4.76%) OCI
17 4 (2.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.12%) Firewall
1 9 (6.12%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.76%) DNS
2 7 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.76%) VPN
3 4 (2.72%) MQTT
3 4 (2.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (13.61%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (12.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (12.24%) DynamoDB
4 11 (7.48%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (6.80%) Metadata
6 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.72%) Flink
8 3 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.36%) MySQL
9 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.68%) Power BI
10 1 (0.68%) Redis
10 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 57 (38.78%) Jenkins
2 42 (28.57%) Git
3 37 (25.17%) Maven
4 33 (22.45%) JUnit
5 30 (20.41%) GitLab
6 20 (13.61%) JIRA
7 19 (12.93%) Mockito
8 14 (9.52%) DbUnit
9 13 (8.84%) jMock
10 12 (8.16%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (8.16%) Snyk
10 12 (8.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (7.48%) Bitbucket
12 9 (6.12%) Artifactory
12 9 (6.12%) IntelliJ
13 8 (5.44%) Cucumber
14 7 (4.76%) Gradle
15 6 (4.08%) CircleCI
15 6 (4.08%) REST Assured
15 6 (4.08%) Selenium
General
1 31 (21.09%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.41%) Public Sector
3 23 (15.65%) Finance
4 15 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.52%) Banking
6 7 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.76%) Publishing
7 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.04%) Automotive
8 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 57 (38.78%) Developer
2 43 (29.25%) Java Developer
3 31 (21.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (14.29%) Senior
5 18 (12.24%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.24%) Software Engineer
6 17 (11.56%) Java Engineer
7 13 (8.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (8.16%) Architect
9 11 (7.48%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (7.48%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.40%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.40%) Technical Architect
14 4 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (2.72%) Cloud Architect
14 4 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (36.05%) AngularJS
2 37 (25.17%) Quarkus
2 37 (25.17%) Spring
3 36 (24.49%) Spring Boot
4 26 (17.69%) Node.js
4 26 (17.69%) RESTful
5 23 (15.65%) REST
5 23 (15.65%) Web Services
6 21 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 21 (14.29%) JPA
7 20 (13.61%) Spring Cloud
7 20 (13.61%) YAML
8 19 (12.93%) SOAP
9 18 (12.24%) ActiveMQ
9 18 (12.24%) Spring Batch
9 18 (12.24%) Spring Integration
10 13 (8.84%) Kafka
10 13 (8.84%) PowerMock
11 11 (7.48%) Bootstrap
12 10 (6.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.36%) 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
6 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.37%) Linux
2 4 (2.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 81 (55.10%) DevOps
3 78 (53.06%) Agile
4 64 (43.54%) Scrum
5 63 (42.86%) DevSecOps
6 54 (36.73%) Software Engineering
7 53 (36.05%) Test Automation
8 46 (31.29%) SDLC
9 44 (29.93%) Microservices
10 43 (29.25%) TDD
10 43 (29.25%) Unit Testing
11 41 (27.89%) Containerisation
11 41 (27.89%) Sprint Planning
12 34 (23.13%) Front End Development
13 32 (21.77%) Sprint Review
14 31 (21.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (20.41%) BDD
16 22 (14.97%) Static Application Security Testing
17 20 (13.61%) Kanban
17 20 (13.61%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 94 (63.95%) Java
2 33 (22.45%) SQL
3 27 (18.37%) Python
4 10 (6.80%) Groovy
5 6 (4.08%) Bash
5 6 (4.08%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.72%) Go
6 4 (2.72%) Rust
7 3 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.04%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.36%) C#
8 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.68%) COBOL
9 1 (0.68%) RPG
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 62 (42.18%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.12%) Degree
4 8 (5.44%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.04%) CISSP
8 3 (2.04%) GIAC
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.68%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.68%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (27.89%) QA
2 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.04%) NIST
3 3 (2.04%) WCAG
4 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.36%) PSD2
4 2 (1.36%) SEPA
5 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (36.05%) Docker
2 11 (7.48%) Postfix
3 7 (4.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 83 (56.46%) Kubernetes
2 45 (30.61%) Terraform
3 41 (27.89%) Grafana
4 38 (25.85%) Argo
5 28 (19.05%) Prometheus
6 21 (14.29%) Ansible
7 9 (6.12%) Istio
7 9 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.76%) Consul
8 7 (4.76%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.76%) Puppet
9 4 (2.72%) HP Fortify
9 4 (2.72%) Podman
10 2 (1.36%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (29.25%) Red Hat
2 21 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.56%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (9.52%) Checkmarx
5 13 (8.84%) Veracode
6 10 (6.80%) Sonatype
7 9 (6.12%) Dynatrace
7 9 (6.12%) Google
8 6 (4.08%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.40%) Guidewire
10 4 (2.72%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.72%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.72%) Tenable
11 3 (2.04%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.04%) Databricks
11 3 (2.04%) Oracle
11 3 (2.04%) SAP
12 2 (1.36%) IBM
13 1 (0.68%) Pega
13 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow