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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 360 455
Rank change year-on-year -89 +95 +3
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 151 153 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.56% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.88% 3.95% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 116 62
10th Percentile £431 £276 £426
25th Percentile £475 £384 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £585
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% -18.73% -2.58%
75th Percentile £601 £647 £669
90th Percentile £705 £688 £699
UK median daily rate £516 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +8.67% -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 5,244 3,869 4,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.20% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 2,647 2,938
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
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 238 89 216
10th Percentile £29.42 £39.25 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.94 £50.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.15 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £64.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.89% -1.15% +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 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 21 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 -54 50 £500 +22.03% 5
London -91 46 £593 -5.01% 7
South East -54 29 £513 +2.40% 1
North East -21 27 £511 +10.54% 4
Midlands -51 26 £494 +21.61% 1
West Midlands -47 22 £494 +3.95% 1
North West -52 13 £431 +9.67%
Yorkshire -50 10 £500 +17.65% 1
East of England - 9 £510 -
South West -38 4 £525 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -23 3 - -
SonarQube
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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 20 (13.25%) Confluence
2 7 (4.64%) nginx
3 6 (3.97%) Apache
4 5 (3.31%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.99%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.32%) Camunda
7 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 69 (45.70%) AWS
2 44 (29.14%) OpenShift
3 42 (27.81%) Azure
4 35 (23.18%) GitHub
5 34 (22.52%) GCP
6 29 (19.21%) Amazon S3
7 28 (18.54%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (17.22%) Route 53
9 24 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (13.91%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (12.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (11.92%) AWS KMS
13 17 (11.26%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (10.60%) Serverless
15 11 (7.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (5.96%) OCI
18 8 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
19 4 (2.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.96%) Firewall
1 9 (5.96%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.64%) DNS
2 7 (4.64%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.64%) VPN
3 4 (2.65%) MQTT
3 4 (2.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.57%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (13.91%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (12.58%) DynamoDB
4 18 (11.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.28%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (7.28%) Metadata
6 5 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.65%) Flink
7 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.99%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.32%) MySQL
9 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.66%) Power BI
10 1 (0.66%) Redis
10 1 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.66%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 65 (43.05%) Jenkins
2 47 (31.13%) Git
3 44 (29.14%) Maven
4 36 (23.84%) GitLab
4 36 (23.84%) JUnit
5 22 (14.57%) Mockito
6 20 (13.25%) JIRA
7 14 (9.27%) DbUnit
8 13 (8.61%) Bitbucket Server
8 13 (8.61%) jMock
8 13 (8.61%) Sonatype Nexus
9 12 (7.95%) Snyk
10 11 (7.28%) Bitbucket
11 10 (6.62%) Gradle
12 9 (5.96%) Artifactory
12 9 (5.96%) IntelliJ
13 8 (5.30%) Cucumber
14 7 (4.64%) REST Assured
15 6 (3.97%) CircleCI
15 6 (3.97%) Selenium
General
1 33 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.87%) Public Sector
3 24 (15.89%) Finance
4 17 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.27%) Banking
6 9 (5.96%) Publishing
7 7 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.99%) Automotive
9 3 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 60 (39.74%) Developer
2 45 (29.80%) Java Developer
3 33 (21.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (11.92%) Java Engineer
4 18 (11.92%) Software Engineer
5 17 (11.26%) Senior
6 14 (9.27%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.61%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (7.95%) Architect
9 11 (7.28%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (7.28%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.31%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.31%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.31%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.31%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (37.75%) AngularJS
2 42 (27.81%) Spring Boot
3 41 (27.15%) Spring
4 40 (26.49%) Quarkus
5 31 (20.53%) Node.js
6 27 (17.88%) RESTful
7 22 (14.57%) Hibernate
7 22 (14.57%) JPA
8 20 (13.25%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (13.25%) REST
8 20 (13.25%) Spring Cloud
8 20 (13.25%) YAML
9 19 (12.58%) SOAP
10 18 (11.92%) Kafka
10 18 (11.92%) Spring Batch
10 18 (11.92%) Spring Integration
10 18 (11.92%) Web Services
11 13 (8.61%) PowerMock
12 12 (7.95%) Bootstrap
13 11 (7.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.92%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.93%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.99%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.99%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.32%) PKI
7 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
7 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.88%) Linux
2 4 (2.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (59.60%) CI/CD
2 88 (58.28%) DevOps
3 86 (56.95%) Agile
4 70 (46.36%) Scrum
5 67 (44.37%) DevSecOps
6 57 (37.75%) Software Engineering
7 54 (35.76%) Test Automation
8 49 (32.45%) SDLC
9 48 (31.79%) Microservices
10 45 (29.80%) Unit Testing
11 43 (28.48%) TDD
12 41 (27.15%) Containerisation
12 41 (27.15%) Sprint Planning
13 40 (26.49%) Front End Development
14 35 (23.18%) Sprint Review
15 31 (20.53%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (19.87%) BDD
17 22 (14.57%) Performance Tuning
17 22 (14.57%) Static Application Security Testing
18 20 (13.25%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 103 (68.21%) Java
2 34 (22.52%) SQL
3 29 (19.21%) Python
4 12 (7.95%) Groovy
5 8 (5.30%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.64%) Bash
7 6 (3.97%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.65%) Go
8 4 (2.65%) Rust
9 3 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.99%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.32%) C#
11 1 (0.66%) COBOL
11 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (50.99%) Security Cleared
2 70 (46.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.62%) Degree
4 9 (5.96%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.64%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.99%) CISSP
9 3 (1.99%) GIAC
10 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.66%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.66%) GSEC
11 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (29.80%) QA
2 7 (4.64%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.99%) NIST
3 3 (1.99%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.32%) PSD2
4 2 (1.32%) SEPA
5 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (37.09%) Docker
2 11 (7.28%) Postfix
3 7 (4.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 91 (60.26%) Kubernetes
2 46 (30.46%) Terraform
3 41 (27.15%) Argo
3 41 (27.15%) Grafana
4 28 (18.54%) Prometheus
5 21 (13.91%) Ansible
6 9 (5.96%) Istio
6 9 (5.96%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.64%) Consul
7 7 (4.64%) FortiGate
7 7 (4.64%) Puppet
8 4 (2.65%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.65%) Podman
9 2 (1.32%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 46 (30.46%) Red Hat
2 21 (13.91%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.26%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (8.61%) Checkmarx
5 12 (7.95%) Veracode
6 11 (7.28%) Sonatype
7 9 (5.96%) Dynatrace
7 9 (5.96%) Google
8 5 (3.31%) Oracle
8 5 (3.31%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.65%) Microsoft
9 4 (2.65%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.65%) Tenable
10 3 (1.99%) Databricks
10 3 (1.99%) IBM
10 3 (1.99%) SAP
11 1 (0.66%) Pega
11 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.66%) Thales
11 1 (0.66%) UiPath