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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 339 461
Rank change year-on-year -115 +122 -15
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 149 142 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.57% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.91% 3.99% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 106 60
10th Percentile £413 £297 £424
25th Percentile £475 £402 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £482 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.88% -12.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £623 £650
90th Percentile £713 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £485 £569
% change year-on-year +6.84% -14.73% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 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 5,127 3,558 4,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.83% 14.24% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,320 2,415 3,002
10th Percentile £350 £335 £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 237 73 234
10th Percentile £28.97 £27.59 £32.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £48.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% -9.23% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +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 23 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 23 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 -51 48 £500 +13.06% 10
London -101 47 £593 +4.41% 2
South East -45 27 £513 +2.40% 2
Midlands -50 27 £512 +15.76%
North East -16 25 £511 +10.54% 7
West Midlands -46 23 £512 +2.45%
North West -41 14 £431 +9.67% 2
East of England -19 9 £510 +58.69%
Yorkshire -48 9 £507 +6.74% 1
South West -31 4 £525 -12.50% 1
East Midlands -28 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 (13.42%) Confluence
2 7 (4.70%) nginx
3 6 (4.03%) Apache
4 5 (3.36%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.01%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.67%) Camunda
6 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 62 (41.61%) AWS
2 41 (27.52%) Azure
2 41 (27.52%) OpenShift
3 35 (23.49%) GitHub
4 32 (21.48%) GCP
5 28 (18.79%) Amazon EC2
5 28 (18.79%) Amazon S3
6 26 (17.45%) Route 53
7 23 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (13.42%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (12.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (12.08%) AWS KMS
11 17 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (10.07%) Serverless
13 11 (7.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (4.70%) OCI
17 4 (2.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.04%) Firewall
1 9 (6.04%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.70%) DNS
2 7 (4.70%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.70%) VPN
3 4 (2.68%) MQTT
3 4 (2.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.09%) Amazon RDS
1 21 (14.09%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (12.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 18 (12.08%) DynamoDB
3 11 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (6.71%) Metadata
5 5 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.68%) Flink
7 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.34%) MySQL
8 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.67%) Power BI
9 1 (0.67%) Redis
9 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 58 (38.93%) Jenkins
2 43 (28.86%) Git
3 38 (25.50%) Maven
4 34 (22.82%) JUnit
5 31 (20.81%) GitLab
6 20 (13.42%) JIRA
6 20 (13.42%) Mockito
7 14 (9.40%) DbUnit
8 13 (8.72%) jMock
9 12 (8.05%) Bitbucket Server
9 12 (8.05%) Snyk
9 12 (8.05%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (7.38%) Bitbucket
11 9 (6.04%) Artifactory
11 9 (6.04%) IntelliJ
12 8 (5.37%) Cucumber
12 8 (5.37%) Gradle
13 6 (4.03%) CircleCI
13 6 (4.03%) REST Assured
13 6 (4.03%) Selenium
General
1 32 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.13%) Public Sector
3 23 (15.44%) Finance
4 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.40%) Banking
6 7 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.70%) Publishing
7 4 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.01%) Automotive
8 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 58 (38.93%) Developer
2 44 (29.53%) Java Developer
3 31 (20.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (14.09%) Senior
5 18 (12.08%) Java Engineer
5 18 (12.08%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.08%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.72%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 12 (8.05%) Architect
8 11 (7.38%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (7.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (5.37%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) GCP Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) Technical Architect
13 4 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (2.68%) Cloud Architect
13 4 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (36.24%) AngularJS
2 38 (25.50%) Quarkus
2 38 (25.50%) Spring
3 37 (24.83%) Spring Boot
4 27 (18.12%) RESTful
5 26 (17.45%) Node.js
6 24 (16.11%) REST
7 23 (15.44%) Web Services
8 21 (14.09%) Hibernate
8 21 (14.09%) JPA
9 20 (13.42%) Spring Cloud
9 20 (13.42%) YAML
10 19 (12.75%) SOAP
11 18 (12.08%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (12.08%) Spring Batch
11 18 (12.08%) Spring Integration
12 14 (9.40%) Kafka
13 13 (8.72%) PowerMock
14 11 (7.38%) Bootstrap
15 10 (6.71%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.08%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.01%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.34%) PKI
6 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.67%) NHS
6 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.67%) Replication
6 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.12%) Linux
2 4 (2.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (57.05%) CI/CD
2 82 (55.03%) DevOps
3 80 (53.69%) Agile
4 66 (44.30%) Scrum
5 64 (42.95%) DevSecOps
6 55 (36.91%) Software Engineering
7 54 (36.24%) Test Automation
8 47 (31.54%) SDLC
9 45 (30.20%) Microservices
10 44 (29.53%) Unit Testing
11 43 (28.86%) Sprint Planning
11 43 (28.86%) TDD
12 41 (27.52%) Containerisation
13 35 (23.49%) Front End Development
14 33 (22.15%) Sprint Review
15 31 (20.81%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (20.13%) BDD
17 22 (14.77%) Static Application Security Testing
18 20 (13.42%) Kanban
18 20 (13.42%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 96 (64.43%) Java
2 33 (22.15%) SQL
3 27 (18.12%) Python
4 10 (6.71%) Groovy
5 6 (4.03%) Bash
5 6 (4.03%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.68%) Go
6 4 (2.68%) Rust
7 3 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.34%) C#
8 2 (1.34%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.67%) COBOL
9 1 (0.67%) RPG
9 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (48.32%) Security Cleared
2 64 (42.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.04%) Degree
4 8 (5.37%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.70%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.01%) CISSP
8 3 (2.01%) GIAC
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.67%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.67%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (28.19%) QA
2 5 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.01%) NIST
3 3 (2.01%) WCAG
4 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.34%) PSD2
4 2 (1.34%) SEPA
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (36.24%) Docker
2 11 (7.38%) Postfix
3 7 (4.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 85 (57.05%) Kubernetes
2 45 (30.20%) Terraform
3 41 (27.52%) Grafana
4 39 (26.17%) Argo
5 28 (18.79%) Prometheus
6 21 (14.09%) Ansible
7 9 (6.04%) Istio
7 9 (6.04%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.70%) Consul
8 7 (4.70%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.70%) Puppet
9 4 (2.68%) HP Fortify
9 4 (2.68%) Podman
10 2 (1.34%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (29.53%) Red Hat
2 21 (14.09%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.41%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (9.40%) Checkmarx
5 13 (8.72%) Veracode
6 10 (6.71%) Sonatype
7 9 (6.04%) Dynatrace
7 9 (6.04%) Google
8 6 (4.03%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.36%) Guidewire
10 4 (2.68%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.68%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.68%) Oracle
10 4 (2.68%) Tenable
11 3 (2.01%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.01%) Databricks
11 3 (2.01%) SAP
12 2 (1.34%) IBM
13 1 (0.67%) Acunetix
13 1 (0.67%) Pega