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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 314 363
Rank change year-on-year +41 +49 +49
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 93 56 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.22% 2.57% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 43 41
10th Percentile £270 £373 £463
25th Percentile £362 £513 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.42% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £500 £675 -
90th Percentile £588 £687 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £597 £600
% change year-on-year -20.44% -0.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -

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 2,203 2,175 2,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.25% 11.97% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,497 1,379 1,882
10th Percentile £309 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £670 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 172 171
10th Percentile £27.94 £40.94 £46.18
25th Percentile £51.53 £54.27 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.27%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +20 39 £402 -27.89% 14
Midlands +11 34 £443 -27.70% 1
North West +14 23 £393 -28.55% 10
West Midlands +2 18 £500 -18.30% 1
East Midlands +11 16 £273 -23.31%
South East +15 15 £501 -23.00% 7
Yorkshire -7 11 £390 -31.43% 3
South West +25 7 £655 +24.76% 2
North East -2 5 £465 -15.45% 1
Scotland -8 1 - - 10
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 12 (12.90%) JBoss
2 9 (9.68%) Confluence
3 3 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.23%) Mule
4 1 (1.08%) Appian
4 1 (1.08%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 60 (64.52%) AWS
2 31 (33.33%) Azure
3 22 (23.66%) Amazon SQS
4 18 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (18.28%) GCP
5 17 (18.28%) OpenShift
6 15 (16.13%) Amazon S3
7 14 (15.05%) GitHub
7 14 (15.05%) Route 53
7 14 (15.05%) Serverless
8 13 (13.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (13.98%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (9.68%) AWS KMS
10 8 (8.60%) npm
11 7 (7.53%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (7.53%) Datadog
12 6 (6.45%) Apigee
12 6 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (5.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) SSH
1 3 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.15%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (2.15%) DNS
2 2 (2.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.11%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (20.43%) NoSQL
3 17 (18.28%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (17.20%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (17.20%) RDBMS
4 16 (17.20%) Relational Database
5 15 (16.13%) DynamoDB
6 13 (13.98%) MySQL
7 12 (12.90%) MongoDB
8 11 (11.83%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (9.68%) Redis
10 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
11 5 (5.38%) BigQuery
12 4 (4.30%) DocumentDB
13 3 (3.23%) Big Data
13 3 (3.23%) Delta Lake
13 3 (3.23%) Hadoop
13 3 (3.23%) MariaDB
13 3 (3.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 60 (64.52%) Git
2 59 (63.44%) Jenkins
3 34 (36.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 32 (34.41%) JIRA
5 31 (33.33%) Maven
6 30 (32.26%) GitLab
7 22 (23.66%) JUnit
8 21 (22.58%) Bitbucket Server
8 21 (22.58%) Selenium
9 18 (19.35%) Mockito
10 17 (18.28%) Cucumber
11 15 (16.13%) Bitbucket
11 15 (16.13%) TeamCity
12 11 (11.83%) CA Release Automation
13 10 (10.75%) Artifactory
14 9 (9.68%) REST Assured
15 7 (7.53%) Cypress.io
15 7 (7.53%) DbUnit
15 7 (7.53%) Gradle
15 7 (7.53%) gulp
General
1 24 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.73%) Public Sector
3 19 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.83%) Finance
5 8 (8.60%) Law
6 7 (7.53%) Banking
7 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.30%) Police
8 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (44.09%) Developer
2 29 (31.18%) Java Developer
3 12 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (11.83%) Software Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (6.45%) Architect
6 6 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Java Architect
6 6 (6.45%) Java Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Java Technical Architect
6 6 (6.45%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.38%) AWS Developer
7 5 (5.38%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (5.38%) Lead
7 5 (5.38%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (51.61%) Spring Boot
2 29 (31.18%) REST
3 25 (26.88%) Spring
4 23 (24.73%) React
4 23 (24.73%) RESTful
5 22 (23.66%) Hibernate
5 22 (23.66%) Node.js
6 18 (19.35%) JPA
7 17 (18.28%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (15.05%) CSS
8 14 (15.05%) HTML
8 14 (15.05%) Jest
9 13 (13.98%) AngularJS
9 13 (13.98%) Kafka
10 12 (12.90%) Redux
10 12 (12.90%) SOAP
10 12 (12.90%) Spring Batch
10 12 (12.90%) Spring Cloud
11 11 (11.83%) ActiveMQ
11 11 (11.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (7.53%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.38%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.38%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.88%) Linux
2 12 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (12.90%) Windows
3 3 (3.23%) Unix
4 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (67.74%) DevOps
2 57 (61.29%) Microservices
3 54 (58.06%) CI/CD
4 40 (43.01%) Agile
5 36 (38.71%) Containerisation
5 36 (38.71%) Continuous Integration
6 34 (36.56%) Test Automation
7 28 (30.11%) TDD
8 23 (24.73%) Code Quality
9 21 (22.58%) Scrum
10 19 (20.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (20.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (18.28%) Software Engineering
13 14 (15.05%) Configuration Management
13 14 (15.05%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (13.98%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (12.90%) Event-Driven
15 12 (12.90%) Migration
15 12 (12.90%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (63.44%) Java
2 29 (31.18%) Python
2 29 (31.18%) SQL
3 24 (25.81%) JavaScript
4 12 (12.90%) Perl
5 10 (10.75%) Bash
6 6 (6.45%) Groovy
6 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.23%) C#
8 2 (2.15%) Ruby
8 2 (2.15%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.08%) Go
9 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (43.01%) Security Cleared
2 34 (36.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.23%) Degree
3 3 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.08%) CISSP
5 1 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.08%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.08%) OCP
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.83%) QA
2 5 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.30%) WCAG
4 3 (3.23%) NCSC
5 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 56 (60.22%) Docker
2 12 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.53%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 44 (47.31%) Kubernetes
2 32 (34.41%) Terraform
3 21 (22.58%) Ansible
4 15 (16.13%) Progress Chef
5 14 (15.05%) Prometheus
6 13 (13.98%) Grafana
7 12 (12.90%) Kibana
8 10 (10.75%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (10.75%) Podman
9 4 (4.30%) Argo
10 3 (3.23%) Istio
11 2 (2.15%) Puppet
12 1 (1.08%) Cilium
12 1 (1.08%) Packer
12 1 (1.08%) Rsyslog
12 1 (1.08%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (18.28%) Red Hat
2 15 (16.13%) Splunk
3 12 (12.90%) AppDynamics
4 10 (10.75%) Cloudera
5 8 (8.60%) Atlassian
5 8 (8.60%) Veracode
6 7 (7.53%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (7.53%) Microsoft
7 5 (5.38%) Gigya
8 4 (4.30%) Checkmarx
9 3 (3.23%) Cisco
9 3 (3.23%) Perforce
9 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.15%) Dynatrace
10 2 (2.15%) Oracle
10 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.08%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (1.08%) NVIDIA
11 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
11 1 (1.08%) Teradata