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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 324 437
Rank change year-on-year -152 +113 +16
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 150 176 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.64% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.84% 4.34% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 128 63
10th Percentile £450 £274 £434
25th Percentile £485 £375 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £620 £618 £675
90th Percentile £731 £688 £698
UK median daily rate £521 £475 £597
% change year-on-year +9.77% -20.44% -0.50%
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 5,284 4,051 4,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.58% 14.68% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 2,807 2,834
10th Percentile £356 £320 £356
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 £600 £631
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 96 183
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.13 £33.01
25th Percentile £58.25 £51.05 £54.18
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 £73.95
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 20 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 20 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 -105 51 £600 -1.64% 16
North of England -49 47 £510 +28.30% 13
North East -14 29 £511 +9.95% 11
South East -43 29 £601 +20.13% 3
Midlands -63 26 £525 +18.64% 7
West Midlands -50 22 £525 +5.00% 5
Yorkshire -42 9 £514 +31.88%
North West -51 9 £500 +27.23% 2
East of England - 9 £510 -
East Midlands -30 3 - - 2
South West -42 3 - - 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 7 (4.67%) Confluence
2 6 (4.00%) Apache
3 5 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.33%) Camunda
6 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.67%) nginx
6 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 66 (44.00%) AWS
2 47 (31.33%) Azure
3 46 (30.67%) GitHub
4 45 (30.00%) OpenShift
5 38 (25.33%) GCP
6 30 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (11.33%) Amazon S3
9 16 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (9.33%) Route 53
12 13 (8.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (8.00%) AWS KMS
14 11 (7.33%) Serverless
15 10 (6.67%) OCI
16 9 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
17 5 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
17 5 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
17 5 (3.33%) Entra ID
17 5 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.67%) Firewall
1 4 (2.67%) MQTT
1 4 (2.67%) Network Security
2 3 (2.00%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.67%) DNS
3 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.67%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (8.67%) DynamoDB
4 12 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.33%) Metadata
6 7 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.67%) Flink
8 4 (2.67%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.67%) Tableau
9 3 (2.00%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.00%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.33%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.33%) MySQL
11 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.67%) Power BI
11 1 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 67 (44.67%) Jenkins
2 47 (31.33%) Git
3 44 (29.33%) Maven
4 38 (25.33%) GitLab
5 35 (23.33%) JUnit
6 18 (12.00%) Mockito
7 16 (10.67%) Snyk
8 14 (9.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (7.33%) Gradle
10 10 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (6.67%) Postman
11 9 (6.00%) Artifactory
11 9 (6.00%) Cucumber
11 9 (6.00%) DbUnit
12 8 (5.33%) IntelliJ
12 8 (5.33%) JIRA
12 8 (5.33%) jMock
12 8 (5.33%) Selenium
13 7 (4.67%) CircleCI
13 7 (4.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 32 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.00%) Finance
2 27 (18.00%) Public Sector
3 22 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.00%) Banking
5 10 (6.67%) Publishing
6 3 (2.00%) Automotive
6 3 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.67%) Advertising
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (38.00%) Developer
2 43 (28.67%) Java Developer
3 33 (22.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (16.00%) Senior
5 17 (11.33%) Java Engineer
6 16 (10.67%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 8 (5.33%) Architect
10 8 (5.33%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (5.33%) Lead
11 7 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.00%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (35.33%) AngularJS
2 44 (29.33%) Terraform
3 40 (26.67%) Quarkus
3 40 (26.67%) Spring Boot
4 39 (26.00%) Spring
5 28 (18.67%) Node.js
6 25 (16.67%) Kafka
7 20 (13.33%) SOAP
8 19 (12.67%) RESTful
9 18 (12.00%) REST
9 18 (12.00%) Web Services
10 17 (11.33%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (11.33%) JPA
11 16 (10.67%) Hibernate
11 16 (10.67%) Spring Cloud
12 15 (10.00%) YAML
13 14 (9.33%) JSON
14 12 (8.00%) Spring Batch
14 12 (8.00%) Spring Integration
15 11 (7.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) PKI
7 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.67%) NHS
7 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.00%) Linux
2 8 (5.33%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (58.00%) CI/CD
2 86 (57.33%) DevOps
3 81 (54.00%) Agile
4 71 (47.33%) DevSecOps
5 68 (45.33%) Scrum
6 61 (40.67%) Test Automation
7 58 (38.67%) Software Engineering
8 50 (33.33%) Microservices
8 50 (33.33%) SDLC
9 42 (28.00%) Front End Development
9 42 (28.00%) Sprint Planning
10 40 (26.67%) Unit Testing
11 37 (24.67%) Containerisation
12 35 (23.33%) Sprint Review
13 34 (22.67%) TDD
14 33 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (16.00%) BDD
15 24 (16.00%) Static Application Security Testing
16 22 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (14.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 101 (67.33%) Java
2 39 (26.00%) Python
2 39 (26.00%) SQL
3 16 (10.67%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.00%) Groovy
5 8 (5.33%) Bash
6 6 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.67%) Go
8 4 (2.67%) Rust
9 3 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.00%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.67%) Bicep
10 1 (0.67%) C#
10 1 (0.67%) COBOL
10 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (48.67%) Security Cleared
2 66 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.00%) Degree
4 8 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.67%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.67%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.33%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.00%) CISSP
8 3 (2.00%) GIAC
8 3 (2.00%) ISEB
8 3 (2.00%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.67%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.67%) GSEC
10 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (31.33%) QA
2 10 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.67%) NIST
3 4 (2.67%) PSD2
3 4 (2.67%) SEPA
3 4 (2.67%) WCAG
4 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (40.00%) Docker
2 7 (4.67%) Postfix
3 1 (0.67%) Squid
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (62.67%) Kubernetes
2 43 (28.67%) Argo
3 33 (22.00%) Grafana
4 25 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 23 (15.33%) Ansible
6 10 (6.67%) HP Fortify
7 9 (6.00%) Istio
8 8 (5.33%) Puppet
9 5 (3.33%) Podman
10 4 (2.67%) Control-M
11 3 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.33%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.33%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.67%) Consul
13 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 40 (26.67%) Red Hat
2 14 (9.33%) Checkmarx
3 11 (7.33%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (7.33%) Sonatype
4 10 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 10 (6.67%) Oracle
5 9 (6.00%) Google
6 8 (5.33%) IBM
7 7 (4.67%) Databricks
7 7 (4.67%) SAP
7 7 (4.67%) Veracode
8 4 (2.67%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.67%) NVIDIA
8 4 (2.67%) Tenable
9 3 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.67%) Foundry
10 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.67%) Pega
10 1 (0.67%) Splunk
10 1 (0.67%) UiPath