SonarQube Contract Job Trends in the North East

SonarSource SonarQube
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SonarQube skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.66% 1.03% -
As % of the Development Applications category 2.67% 4.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% - -
England median daily rate £500 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -14.68% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
75th Percentile £51.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £59.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -26.25% - -

All Development Application Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 75 66 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 24.59% 22.68% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 27 8
10th Percentile £380 £325 £387
25th Percentile £431 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £440 £448
Median % change year-on-year +17.05% -1.68% -18.64%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £494
90th Percentile £600 £597 £640
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £37.70 - -
25th Percentile £40.25 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% - -
75th Percentile £51.75 - -
90th Percentile £51.90 £56.08 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SonarQube relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

SonarQube job vacancy trend in the North East

SonarQube
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SonarQube.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SonarQube within the North East region over the 6 months to 13 October 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear -7 2 £425 -12.82% 4
SonarQube
England

SonarQube
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Quarkus
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat