SonarCloud Contracts

SonarSource SonarCloud
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SonarCloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SonarCloud 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 508 579 702
Rank change year-on-year +71 +123 +137
Contract jobs citing SonarCloud 12 3 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.007% 0.027%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.021% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £458 - £493
25th Percentile £516 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.16%
75th Percentile £638 - £650
90th Percentile £644 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

SonarCloud falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SonarCloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SonarCloud in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SonarCloud.

Daily rate trend for SonarCloud in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarCloud over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SonarCloud in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SonarCloud within the UK 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
England +65 10 £575 - 10
UK excluding London +66 5 £575 - 2
Work from Home +44 5 £588 - 2
London - 5 £625 - 8
South East - 4 £575 - 2
Midlands +21 1 £475 -
West Midlands +13 1 £475 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Figma
1 4 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
1 5 (41.67%) Snyk
2 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Moq
2 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Android Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Android Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Compliance Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Compliance Project Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Data Compliance Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Security Compliance Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Security Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (33.33%) Dagger
1 4 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 4 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) ADO
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Android Development
2 4 (33.33%) MVVM
2 4 (33.33%) OWASP
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) SIEM
5 1 (8.33%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) EU AI Act
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) New Relic
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat