SonarQube Contract Job Trends

SonarSource SonarQube
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SonarQube skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 402 471
Rank change year-on-year -89 +69 +34
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 139 108 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.38% 2.65% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 84 73
10th Percentile £409 £392 £425
25th Percentile £463 £430 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -6.25% -4.68%
75th Percentile £588 £652 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +9.73% -15.45% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £54.63 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,845 4,069 5,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.74% 13.93% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,737 3,489
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £405 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 71 175
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.25 £32.23
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.16 £45.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.25 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.84% +0.81%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SonarQube job vacancy trend in the UK

SonarQube
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SonarQube.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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 -69 127 £516 -2.85% 43
UK excluding London -60 88 £510 +9.73% 38
North of England -54 39 £441 -3.72% 18
London -84 39 £525 -7.08% 6
Work from Home -41 34 £525 - 20
Midlands -49 24 £525 +10.53% 3
West Midlands -48 18 £525 +10.58% 2
North East -6 16 £513 +10.22% 16
North West -21 15 £431 +9.54%
South East -46 14 £513 +2.40% 12
East of England -27 9 £510 +58.69% 2
Yorkshire -52 8 £450 -13.25% 2
South West - 7 £638 - 3
East Midlands -33 6 £525 +10.53% 1
Scotland +7 1 £329 -52.04%

SonarQube
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (16.55%) Confluence
2 7 (5.04%) nginx
3 5 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.88%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.44%) Apache
5 2 (1.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 64 (46.04%) AWS
2 43 (30.94%) Azure
3 42 (30.22%) GitHub
4 30 (21.58%) OpenShift
5 24 (17.27%) Amazon S3
6 23 (16.55%) GCP
7 22 (15.83%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (14.39%) Route 53
9 19 (13.67%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (12.95%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (12.95%) Serverless
11 14 (10.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (10.07%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (9.35%) AWS KMS
13 12 (8.63%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (7.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (3.60%) Amazon Kinesis
16 5 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.47%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.04%) DNS
2 7 (5.04%) Firewall
2 7 (5.04%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.79%) DynamoDB
1 15 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.07%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (8.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (5.76%) Metadata
6 7 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.60%) Redis
8 4 (2.88%) DocumentDB
9 3 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.16%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.16%) MySQL
10 2 (1.44%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.44%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.44%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.72%) Flink
11 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 51 (36.69%) Jenkins
2 38 (27.34%) Git
3 28 (20.14%) Maven
4 27 (19.42%) GitLab
5 26 (18.71%) JUnit
6 25 (17.99%) JIRA
7 19 (13.67%) Bitbucket
8 14 (10.07%) Artifactory
9 13 (9.35%) Snyk
10 12 (8.63%) Mockito
11 9 (6.47%) DbUnit
11 9 (6.47%) jMock
12 8 (5.76%) IntelliJ
13 7 (5.04%) Bitbucket Server
13 7 (5.04%) Cucumber
13 7 (5.04%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (3.60%) Selenium
15 4 (2.88%) CircleCI
15 4 (2.88%) Postman
16 3 (2.16%) Gradle
General
1 31 (22.30%) Public Sector
2 26 (18.71%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.11%) Finance
4 10 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.19%) Banking
5 7 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.60%) Publishing
8 3 (2.16%) Automotive
8 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.44%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.72%) Advertising
10 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (36.69%) Developer
2 30 (21.58%) Java Developer
3 26 (18.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.39%) Senior
5 19 (13.67%) Software Engineer
6 14 (10.07%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.35%) Architect
8 11 (7.91%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (4.32%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (4.32%) Lead
12 6 (4.32%) Senior Java Developer
13 5 (3.60%) React Developer
13 5 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (3.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.60%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (28.06%) AngularJS
2 31 (22.30%) Spring
3 30 (21.58%) Node.js
4 29 (20.86%) Spring Boot
5 24 (17.27%) Quarkus
6 21 (15.11%) YAML
7 19 (13.67%) REST
8 17 (12.23%) RESTful
8 17 (12.23%) Web Services
9 14 (10.07%) Hibernate
9 14 (10.07%) JPA
10 13 (9.35%) Spring Cloud
11 12 (8.63%) ActiveMQ
11 12 (8.63%) SOAP
11 12 (8.63%) Spring Batch
11 12 (8.63%) Spring Integration
12 11 (7.91%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (7.19%) JSON
13 10 (7.19%) SLSA
14 9 (6.47%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.11%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.16%) Blog
3 3 (2.16%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.44%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.72%) Life Science
5 1 (0.72%) LIMS
5 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.72%) NHS
5 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.72%) Replication
5 1 (0.72%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.39%) Linux
2 4 (2.88%) Unix
3 2 (1.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (58.99%) CI/CD
2 77 (55.40%) DevOps
3 64 (46.04%) Agile
4 51 (36.69%) DevSecOps
5 45 (32.37%) Scrum
6 44 (31.65%) Test Automation
7 42 (30.22%) Software Engineering
8 38 (27.34%) SDLC
9 35 (25.18%) Containerisation
9 35 (25.18%) TDD
10 33 (23.74%) Unit Testing
11 32 (23.02%) Sprint Planning
12 29 (20.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (20.86%) Microservices
13 26 (18.71%) BDD
14 25 (17.99%) Front End Development
15 21 (15.11%) Sprint Review
15 21 (15.11%) Static Application Security Testing
16 20 (14.39%) Code Quality
17 18 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 84 (60.43%) Java
2 25 (17.99%) Python
2 25 (17.99%) SQL
3 10 (7.19%) Groovy
4 7 (5.04%) Go
4 7 (5.04%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.32%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.60%) Bash
7 4 (2.88%) C++
7 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.16%) C#
9 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.72%) ProC
10 1 (0.72%) RPG
10 1 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 63 (45.32%) Security Cleared
2 54 (38.85%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.60%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.60%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.88%) Degree
5 3 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.30%) QA
2 4 (2.88%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.88%) WCAG
3 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (33.81%) Docker
2 8 (5.76%) Postfix
3 7 (5.04%) Squid
4 1 (0.72%) HDFS
4 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (44.60%) Kubernetes
2 39 (28.06%) Terraform
3 29 (20.86%) Grafana
4 25 (17.99%) Argo
5 20 (14.39%) Prometheus
6 14 (10.07%) Ansible
7 7 (5.04%) Consul
7 7 (5.04%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.04%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.60%) Istio
8 5 (3.60%) Puppet
9 4 (2.88%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.44%) Podman
10 2 (1.44%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (20.86%) Red Hat
2 16 (11.51%) Atlassian
3 15 (10.79%) Checkmarx
4 13 (9.35%) Veracode
5 12 (8.63%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (7.19%) Dynatrace
7 9 (6.47%) Google
7 9 (6.47%) Sonatype
8 7 (5.04%) Microsoft
8 7 (5.04%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.60%) Databricks
9 5 (3.60%) Guidewire
9 5 (3.60%) SAP
10 4 (2.88%) Oracle
11 3 (2.16%) Cognizant
12 2 (1.44%) Splunk
13 1 (0.72%) LabVantage
13 1 (0.72%) OutSystems
13 1 (0.72%) Tenable
13 1 (0.72%) Thales