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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 349 452
Rank change year-on-year -126 +103 +17
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 143 159 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.58% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.72% 4.06% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 119 62
10th Percentile £443 £270 £429
25th Percentile £479 £373 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £467 £597
Median % change year-on-year +10.65% -21.86% -0.50%
75th Percentile £626 £634 £675
90th Percentile £732 £688 £699
UK median daily rate £519 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +9.17% -20.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 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 5,263 3,912 4,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.30% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,361 2,686 2,920
10th Percentile £350 £325 £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 £632
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 236 91 213
10th Percentile £28.53 £40.00 £31.97
25th Percentile £55.94 £50.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £73.95
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 24 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 24 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 -53 45 £500 +25.79% 9
London -111 42 £601 -5.80% 8
South East -49 29 £513 +2.40%
North East -15 27 £511 +10.54% 9
Midlands -58 27 £511 +31.40% 5
West Midlands -54 23 £511 +7.47% 5
Yorkshire -44 10 £500 +28.21%
East of England - 9 £510 -
North West -54 8 £463 +17.68%
South West -42 4 £525 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -25 3 - -
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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 10 (6.99%) Confluence
2 6 (4.20%) Apache
3 5 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.40%) Camunda
5 2 (1.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 66 (46.15%) AWS
2 45 (31.47%) OpenShift
3 44 (30.77%) Azure
4 37 (25.87%) GitHub
5 35 (24.48%) GCP
6 26 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (16.78%) Amazon S3
8 23 (16.08%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (14.69%) Amazon SQS
9 21 (14.69%) Route 53
10 19 (13.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (13.29%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (12.59%) AWS KMS
12 11 (7.69%) Serverless
13 9 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (6.29%) OCI
14 6 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (2.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.80%) Firewall
1 4 (2.80%) MQTT
1 4 (2.80%) Network Security
1 4 (2.80%) OpenVPN
2 2 (1.40%) DNS
2 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (14.69%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (13.29%) DynamoDB
4 18 (12.59%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.69%) Metadata
6 6 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.80%) Flink
8 4 (2.80%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.10%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.40%) MySQL
10 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.70%) Power BI
11 1 (0.70%) Redis
11 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 66 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 48 (33.57%) Git
3 45 (31.47%) Maven
4 37 (25.87%) JUnit
5 33 (23.08%) GitLab
6 22 (15.38%) Mockito
7 14 (9.79%) DbUnit
7 14 (9.79%) Snyk
7 14 (9.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
8 13 (9.09%) jMock
9 11 (7.69%) Gradle
10 10 (6.99%) Artifactory
10 10 (6.99%) JIRA
11 9 (6.29%) IntelliJ
12 8 (5.59%) Cucumber
13 7 (4.90%) Bitbucket
13 7 (4.90%) CircleCI
13 7 (4.90%) REST Assured
13 7 (4.90%) Selenium
General
1 30 (20.98%) Public Sector
2 28 (19.58%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.08%) Finance
4 17 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.09%) Banking
6 9 (6.29%) Publishing
7 4 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.10%) Automotive
8 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 58 (40.56%) Developer
2 45 (31.47%) Java Developer
3 34 (23.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (12.59%) Java Engineer
4 18 (12.59%) Software Engineer
5 17 (11.89%) Senior
6 14 (9.79%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 11 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (5.59%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Architect
10 7 (4.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.50%) GCP Engineer
12 5 (3.50%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.50%) Software Developer
13 4 (2.80%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (39.86%) AngularJS
2 42 (29.37%) Spring Boot
3 41 (28.67%) Spring
4 40 (27.97%) Quarkus
5 31 (21.68%) Node.js
6 22 (15.38%) RESTful
7 21 (14.69%) Hibernate
7 21 (14.69%) JPA
7 21 (14.69%) REST
8 20 (13.99%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (13.99%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (13.29%) SOAP
10 18 (12.59%) Kafka
10 18 (12.59%) Spring Batch
10 18 (12.59%) Spring Integration
10 18 (12.59%) Web Services
11 17 (11.89%) YAML
12 13 (9.09%) PowerMock
13 12 (8.39%) Bootstrap
13 12 (8.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.40%) PKI
7 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.70%) NHS
7 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.58%) Linux
2 4 (2.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (60.84%) CI/CD
2 85 (59.44%) DevOps
3 82 (57.34%) Agile
4 69 (48.25%) DevSecOps
4 69 (48.25%) Scrum
5 58 (40.56%) Software Engineering
6 54 (37.76%) Test Automation
7 48 (33.57%) Microservices
8 47 (32.87%) SDLC
9 42 (29.37%) Containerisation
10 40 (27.97%) Front End Development
10 40 (27.97%) Sprint Planning
10 40 (27.97%) Unit Testing
11 38 (26.57%) TDD
12 35 (24.48%) Sprint Review
13 33 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (18.88%) BDD
15 23 (16.08%) Static Application Security Testing
16 22 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
17 20 (13.99%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 98 (68.53%) Java
2 34 (23.78%) SQL
3 29 (20.28%) Python
4 12 (8.39%) Groovy
5 8 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.90%) Bash
7 6 (4.20%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.80%) Go
8 4 (2.80%) Rust
9 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.10%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.40%) C#
11 1 (0.70%) COBOL
11 1 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (51.05%) Security Cleared
2 65 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.99%) Degree
4 9 (6.29%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.90%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.10%) CISSP
8 3 (2.10%) GIAC
9 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.70%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.70%) GSEC
10 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (31.47%) QA
2 7 (4.90%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.80%) NIST
4 3 (2.10%) WCAG
5 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.40%) PSD2
5 2 (1.40%) SEPA
6 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.70%) GDPR
6 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (40.56%) Docker
2 11 (7.69%) Postfix
3 2 (1.40%) Squid
Systems Management
1 88 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 43 (30.07%) Terraform
3 41 (28.67%) Argo
4 37 (25.87%) Grafana
5 24 (16.78%) Prometheus
6 23 (16.08%) Ansible
7 9 (6.29%) Istio
8 8 (5.59%) Puppet
9 5 (3.50%) Podman
10 4 (2.80%) HP Fortify
10 4 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.40%) Consul
11 2 (1.40%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.40%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 41 (28.67%) Red Hat
2 17 (11.89%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (11.19%) Atlassian
4 13 (9.09%) Checkmarx
5 11 (7.69%) Sonatype
6 9 (6.29%) Google
7 7 (4.90%) Veracode
8 5 (3.50%) Oracle
9 4 (2.80%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.80%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.80%) Tenable
10 3 (2.10%) Databricks
10 3 (2.10%) IBM
10 3 (2.10%) Microsoft
10 3 (2.10%) SAP
11 1 (0.70%) Pega
11 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.70%) Splunk
11 1 (0.70%) Thales