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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 328 447
Rank change year-on-year -151 +119 +13
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 148 180 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.65% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.81% 4.45% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 131 62
10th Percentile £447 £276 £429
25th Percentile £480 £382 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £475 £597
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -20.44% -0.50%
75th Percentile £601 £647 £675
90th Percentile £731 £693 £699
UK median daily rate £516 £475 £594
% change year-on-year +8.67% -20.03% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £68.50 - £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 5,258 4,042 4,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.51% 14.67% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,345 2,800 2,830
10th Percentile £356 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 96 184
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.13 £31.78
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.05 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -115 50 £596 -2.25% 9
North of England -69 47 £510 +28.30% 13
North East -12 29 £511 +9.95% 11
South East -51 29 £601 +20.13% 3
Midlands -60 26 £518 +9.00% 5
West Midlands -51 21 £525 +5.00% 3
Yorkshire -43 9 £514 +31.88%
North West -57 9 £500 +27.23% 2
East of England - 9 £510 -
East Midlands -30 4 £335 +22.71% 2
South West -54 2 - - 3
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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 7 (4.73%) Confluence
2 6 (4.05%) Apache
3 5 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.38%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 65 (43.92%) AWS
2 46 (31.08%) OpenShift
3 45 (30.41%) Azure
3 45 (30.41%) GitHub
4 38 (25.68%) GCP
5 29 (19.59%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (14.19%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (10.81%) Amazon S3
8 15 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (9.46%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (8.78%) Route 53
11 12 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (7.43%) AWS KMS
12 11 (7.43%) Serverless
13 10 (6.76%) OCI
14 9 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (3.38%) Azure AKS
15 5 (3.38%) Entra ID
15 5 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 4 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.70%) Firewall
1 4 (2.70%) MQTT
1 4 (2.70%) Network Security
2 3 (2.03%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.46%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (8.11%) DynamoDB
4 11 (7.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (7.43%) Metadata
5 6 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.70%) Flink
7 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.70%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.70%) Tableau
8 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.35%) MySQL
9 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 66 (44.59%) Jenkins
2 47 (31.76%) Git
3 44 (29.73%) Maven
4 39 (26.35%) GitLab
5 34 (22.97%) JUnit
6 17 (11.49%) Mockito
7 16 (10.81%) Snyk
8 14 (9.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 12 (8.11%) Gradle
10 10 (6.76%) Postman
11 9 (6.08%) Artifactory
11 9 (6.08%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (6.08%) Cucumber
11 9 (6.08%) Selenium
12 8 (5.41%) DbUnit
12 8 (5.41%) IntelliJ
12 8 (5.41%) JIRA
13 7 (4.73%) CircleCI
13 7 (4.73%) jMock
13 7 (4.73%) LoadRunner
General
1 32 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.57%) Finance
2 26 (17.57%) Public Sector
3 21 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.14%) Banking
5 10 (6.76%) Publishing
6 3 (2.03%) Automotive
6 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.35%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Advertising
8 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (37.84%) Developer
2 42 (28.38%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (16.22%) Senior
5 17 (11.49%) Java Engineer
6 16 (10.81%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.14%) Software Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.76%) Java Software Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 8 (5.41%) Architect
10 8 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (5.41%) Lead
11 7 (4.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.05%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.38%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (35.81%) AngularJS
2 44 (29.73%) Terraform
3 40 (27.03%) Quarkus
3 40 (27.03%) Spring Boot
4 39 (26.35%) Spring
5 27 (18.24%) Node.js
6 26 (17.57%) Kafka
7 19 (12.84%) RESTful
7 19 (12.84%) SOAP
8 17 (11.49%) JPA
8 17 (11.49%) REST
8 17 (11.49%) Web Services
9 16 (10.81%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (10.81%) Hibernate
10 15 (10.14%) Spring Cloud
10 15 (10.14%) YAML
11 14 (9.46%) JSON
12 12 (8.11%) HTML
12 12 (8.11%) React
13 11 (7.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) PKI
7 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.89%) Linux
2 8 (5.41%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (57.43%) CI/CD
2 83 (56.08%) DevOps
3 81 (54.73%) Agile
4 70 (47.30%) DevSecOps
5 66 (44.59%) Scrum
6 62 (41.89%) Test Automation
7 58 (39.19%) Software Engineering
8 50 (33.78%) SDLC
9 49 (33.11%) Microservices
10 42 (28.38%) Front End Development
10 42 (28.38%) Sprint Planning
11 41 (27.70%) Unit Testing
12 36 (24.32%) Containerisation
13 35 (23.65%) Sprint Review
14 33 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (22.30%) TDD
15 24 (16.22%) Static Application Security Testing
16 23 (15.54%) BDD
17 22 (14.86%) Code Quality
18 21 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (68.24%) Java
2 38 (25.68%) Python
2 38 (25.68%) SQL
3 17 (11.49%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.11%) Groovy
5 7 (4.73%) Bash
6 6 (4.05%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.38%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.70%) Rust
9 3 (2.03%) Go
9 3 (2.03%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.03%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.68%) Bicep
10 1 (0.68%) C#
10 1 (0.68%) COBOL
10 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (49.32%) Security Cleared
2 65 (43.92%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.11%) Degree
4 8 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.05%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.38%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.03%) CISSP
7 3 (2.03%) GIAC
7 3 (2.03%) ISEB
7 3 (2.03%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
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 47 (31.76%) QA
2 10 (6.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.70%) NIST
3 4 (2.70%) PSD2
3 4 (2.70%) SEPA
3 4 (2.70%) WCAG
4 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (39.86%) Docker
2 6 (4.05%) Postfix
3 1 (0.68%) Squid
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (62.84%) Kubernetes
2 43 (29.05%) Argo
3 32 (21.62%) Grafana
4 25 (16.89%) Prometheus
5 23 (15.54%) Ansible
6 10 (6.76%) HP Fortify
7 8 (5.41%) Istio
7 8 (5.41%) Puppet
8 5 (3.38%) Podman
9 4 (2.70%) Control-M
10 3 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.35%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.68%) Consul
12 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 40 (27.03%) Red Hat
2 14 (9.46%) Checkmarx
3 11 (7.43%) Oracle
3 11 (7.43%) Sonatype
4 10 (6.76%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (6.08%) Atlassian
5 9 (6.08%) Google
6 8 (5.41%) IBM
7 7 (4.73%) Veracode
8 6 (4.05%) Databricks
8 6 (4.05%) SAP
9 4 (2.70%) Microsoft
9 4 (2.70%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.70%) Tenable
10 3 (2.03%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.68%) Foundry
11 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.68%) Pega
11 1 (0.68%) Splunk
11 1 (0.68%) UiPath