SonarQube Contracts in the UK excluding London

SonarSource SonarQube
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 294 340 385
Rank change year-on-year +46 +45 +4
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 42 59 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.45% 2.60% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 43 62
10th Percentile £362 £375 £453
25th Percentile £393 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% -6.38% +6.82%
75th Percentile £501 £663 £634
90th Percentile £537 £688 £723
UK median daily rate £501 £561 £593
% change year-on-year -10.82% -5.27% +5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +27.27%
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +47.37%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SonarQube as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SonarQube in the UK excluding London

SonarQube
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SonarQube in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SonarQube in the UK excluding London

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK excluding London

SonarQube
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SonarQube in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SonarQube in the UK excluding London

SonarQube
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SonarQube within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +21 14 £443 -19.55% 12
South East +33 13 £501 -23.00% 5
Midlands +29 12 £475 +33.43% 3
East Midlands +13 8 £367 +3.09% 1
North West +17 7 £393 -28.55% 6
North East +4 5 £465 -15.45% 2
West Midlands - 4 £488 - 2
Scotland +14 2 £685 +82.67% 1
Yorkshire +6 2 £425 -25.27% 4
East of England - 1 £321 - 1
SonarQube
UK

SonarQube
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (21.43%) JBoss
2 4 (9.52%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (73.81%) AWS
2 17 (40.48%) Azure
3 9 (21.43%) OpenShift
4 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (11.90%) Kong
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (9.52%) AWS KMS
6 4 (9.52%) Route 53
6 4 (9.52%) Serverless
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.76%) GCP
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub
7 2 (4.76%) NuGet
7 2 (4.76%) PaaS
7 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (19.05%) RDBMS
2 8 (19.05%) Relational Database
3 6 (14.29%) MySQL
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (11.90%) MongoDB
4 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
5 4 (9.52%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.38%) DocumentDB
7 1 (2.38%) Looker
7 1 (2.38%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.38%) Metadata
7 1 (2.38%) Power BI
7 1 (2.38%) Redis
7 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 24 (57.14%) Git
3 22 (52.38%) JIRA
4 17 (40.48%) GitLab
5 16 (38.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (33.33%) Selenium
7 13 (30.95%) Bitbucket Server
8 11 (26.19%) Cucumber
8 11 (26.19%) Maven
9 9 (21.43%) CA Release Automation
9 9 (21.43%) REST Assured
9 9 (21.43%) TeamCity
10 7 (16.67%) Artifactory
11 6 (14.29%) gulp
11 6 (14.29%) JUnit
11 6 (14.29%) Mockito
12 4 (9.52%) DbUnit
12 4 (9.52%) jMock
13 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
13 3 (7.14%) Chocolatey
General
1 16 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
4 8 (19.05%) Law
5 4 (9.52%) Police
6 3 (7.14%) Finance
7 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (38.10%) Developer
2 9 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Java Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Developer
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (2.38%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (47.62%) Spring Boot
2 14 (33.33%) REST
3 11 (26.19%) AngularJS
3 11 (26.19%) Hibernate
4 10 (23.81%) Spring
5 9 (21.43%) ARM Templates
5 9 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (21.43%) Java EE
5 9 (21.43%) React
6 8 (19.05%) Node.js
7 7 (16.67%) Kafka
8 6 (14.29%) JPA
9 5 (11.90%) Apache CXF
9 5 (11.90%) Express.js
9 5 (11.90%) JAX-RS
9 5 (11.90%) MEAN Stack
9 5 (11.90%) Mongoose
9 5 (11.90%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (11.90%) RESTful
9 5 (11.90%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 14 (33.33%) Linux
2 10 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (21.43%) Windows
4 1 (2.38%) CentOS
4 1 (2.38%) Unix
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (80.95%) DevOps
2 25 (59.52%) Microservices
3 23 (54.76%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
5 15 (35.71%) Test Automation
6 14 (33.33%) Agile
6 14 (33.33%) Configuration Management
6 14 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (26.19%) Code Quality
8 10 (23.81%) Open Source
8 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
8 10 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (21.43%) Build Automation
9 9 (21.43%) Decision-Making
9 9 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
9 9 (21.43%) Migration
9 9 (21.43%) Software Architecture
10 8 (19.05%) TDD
11 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Java
2 13 (30.95%) Python
3 12 (28.57%) SQL
4 9 (21.43%) Perl
5 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
6 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
7 3 (7.14%) Bash
7 3 (7.14%) C#
8 2 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (40.48%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) CEH
3 1 (2.38%) CISM
3 1 (2.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (69.05%) Docker
2 9 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.52%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 24 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 23 (54.76%) Terraform
3 16 (38.10%) Ansible
4 12 (28.57%) Progress Chef
5 10 (23.81%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (21.43%) Kibana
6 9 (21.43%) Podman
7 4 (9.52%) Grafana
7 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
8 3 (7.14%) Puppet
9 1 (2.38%) Argo
9 1 (2.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Red Hat
2 9 (21.43%) AppDynamics
2 9 (21.43%) Splunk
3 4 (9.52%) Atlassian
3 4 (9.52%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (7.14%) Cloudera
4 3 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (4.76%) Veracode
6 1 (2.38%) Adobe
6 1 (2.38%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.38%) DocuSign
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.38%) Perforce