SonarQube Contracts in the North West

SonarSource SonarQube
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring SonarQube skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SonarQube over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 130 153
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 0
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 7 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.25% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.55% 2.33% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £381 £485 £486
25th Percentile £392 £525 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -28.55% +5.72% -13.29%
75th Percentile £433 £575 £564
90th Percentile £485 - £608
England median daily rate £501 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -9.00% -6.78% +0.43%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 274 301 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.92% 10.93% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 231 322
10th Percentile £329 £375 £325
25th Percentile £391 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £675 £656
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £54.02 £40.52 £38.16
25th Percentile £63.25 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.63 £53.44
90th Percentile £81.35 £81.45 £56.38
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing SonarQube as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for SonarQube in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SonarQube in the North West.

Daily rate trend for SonarQube in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SonarQube in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for SonarQube in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheshire - 6 £393 - 1
Manchester +11 1 £465 -15.45% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Kong
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (71.43%) RDBMS
1 5 (71.43%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (85.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (71.43%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (71.43%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (71.43%) JIRA
3 5 (71.43%) TeamCity
4 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 1 (14.29%) GitLab
4 1 (14.29%) gulp
4 1 (14.29%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 5 (71.43%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) Apache CXF
3 1 (14.29%) Dropwizard
3 1 (14.29%) Express.js
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) JAX-RS
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) MEAN Stack
3 1 (14.29%) MERN Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Mongoose
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) Sequelize
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Code Quality
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Build Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Runbook
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Perl
3 4 (57.14%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (85.71%) Progress Chef
2 5 (71.43%) Kibana
3 1 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) AppDynamics
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 3 (42.86%) Cloudera
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft