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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 450 508
Rank change year-on-year -5 +58 -39
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 135 80 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.47% 1.87% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 52 62
10th Percentile £375 £392 £426
25th Percentile £410 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £672 £603 £650
90th Percentile £785 £734 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £48.55 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 5,474 4,269 5,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.20% 13.59% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,758 2,676 3,818
10th Percentile £344 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 67 209
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.40 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £89.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +2 128 £571 +3.82% 49
UK excluding London -7 75 £575 +4.55% 61
London -25 51 £525 -4.55% 13
North of England -31 40 £431 -2.05% 16
Work from Home -7 27 £467 -15.86% 55
North West -3 26 £431 +15.39% 9
Midlands -34 22 £700 +21.74% 5
West Midlands -24 19 £700 +21.74% 3
South West - 17 £700 - 3
South East -10 9 £550 -15.38% 16
North East -10 7 - - 3
Yorkshire -52 7 £498 -14.51% 4
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 2
Scotland +8 2 £484 -29.38% 16
East of England -19 1 £850 +165.88% 1

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 29 (21.48%) Confluence
2 8 (5.93%) OpenStack
3 7 (5.19%) Appian
4 5 (3.70%) nginx
5 3 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.74%) Apache
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 58 (42.96%) Azure
2 53 (39.26%) AWS
3 48 (35.56%) GitHub
4 26 (19.26%) GCP
5 24 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (16.30%) Serverless
7 20 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (14.81%) OpenShift
8 19 (14.07%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (11.11%) Datadog
10 13 (9.63%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (8.89%) PaaS
11 12 (8.89%) Route 53
12 11 (8.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (6.67%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.67%) Firewall
2 5 (3.70%) DNS
2 5 (3.70%) OpenVPN
2 5 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.70%) VPN
3 2 (1.48%) SSH
4 1 (0.74%) HTTP
4 1 (0.74%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.74%) Internet
4 1 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.74%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.37%) Redis
2 10 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.93%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.93%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.19%) Power BI
5 6 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (4.44%) DocumentDB
5 6 (4.44%) MySQL
5 6 (4.44%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.70%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.70%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.96%) Metadata
8 3 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.22%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.22%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.48%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 49 (36.30%) Jenkins
2 36 (26.67%) Git
2 36 (26.67%) GitLab
3 34 (25.19%) JIRA
4 24 (17.78%) Maven
5 21 (15.56%) Bitbucket
6 18 (13.33%) Selenium
7 17 (12.59%) Artifactory
7 17 (12.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 15 (11.11%) Cucumber
9 12 (8.89%) Cypress.io
9 12 (8.89%) Gradle
9 12 (8.89%) JUnit
9 12 (8.89%) Postman
10 11 (8.15%) Snyk
11 7 (5.19%) Robot Framework
12 6 (4.44%) webpack
13 5 (3.70%) CircleCI
13 5 (3.70%) SonarLint
14 4 (2.96%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.33%) Finance
3 14 (10.37%) Banking
3 14 (10.37%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Publishing
8 2 (1.48%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.74%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 34 (25.19%) Developer
2 22 (16.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (14.07%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 14 (10.37%) Architect
4 14 (10.37%) Senior
5 12 (8.89%) Lead
6 10 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (7.41%) Technical Architect
7 7 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) Java Developer
7 7 (5.19%) React Developer
7 7 (5.19%) Security Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.19%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Java Architect
8 6 (4.44%) Java Technical Architect
9 5 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
10 4 (2.96%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (2.96%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (2.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (21.48%) YAML
2 19 (14.07%) JSON
3 17 (12.59%) REST
3 17 (12.59%) RESTful
4 16 (11.85%) Node.js
5 14 (10.37%) React
6 13 (9.63%) Spring Boot
7 12 (8.89%) AngularJS
8 10 (7.41%) .NET
8 10 (7.41%) Spring
9 9 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (6.67%) J2EE
10 8 (5.93%) CSS
10 8 (5.93%) CSS3
10 8 (5.93%) HTML
10 8 (5.93%) HTML5
10 8 (5.93%) Kafka
10 8 (5.93%) OpenID
10 8 (5.93%) XML
11 7 (5.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.44%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.70%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.96%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.22%) Blog
6 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.48%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.48%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.48%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Linux
2 6 (4.44%) Windows
3 3 (2.22%) Unix
3 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.48%) Android
5 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 72 (53.33%) DevOps
3 49 (36.30%) Agile
4 46 (34.07%) Containerisation
5 41 (30.37%) DevSecOps
6 39 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (28.89%) Test Automation
7 35 (25.93%) SDLC
8 31 (22.96%) Software Engineering
9 28 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (18.52%) Code Quality
10 25 (18.52%) Unit Testing
11 24 (17.78%) TDD
12 22 (16.30%) Microservices
12 22 (16.30%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (14.81%) Scrum
13 20 (14.81%) Sprint Planning
14 19 (14.07%) Migration
14 19 (14.07%) Roadmaps
15 17 (12.59%) AI
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.56%) Java
2 36 (26.67%) Python
3 22 (16.30%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.37%) SQL
5 8 (5.93%) Groovy
5 8 (5.93%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.19%) Bash
6 7 (5.19%) Go
6 7 (5.19%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.70%) C++
8 4 (2.96%) C#
9 3 (2.22%) Rust
10 2 (1.48%) C
10 2 (1.48%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.48%) R
10 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.74%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.74%) ProC
11 1 (0.74%) RPG
Qualifications
1 52 (38.52%) Security Cleared
2 37 (27.41%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.59%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.70%) Degree
7 4 (2.96%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.74%) CISSP
10 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.74%) OCP
10 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.74%) OSCP
10 1 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.63%) QA
2 11 (8.15%) NCSC
3 6 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.48%) WCAG
5 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.74%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) NIST
5 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (51.11%) Docker
2 5 (3.70%) Squid
3 2 (1.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (42.96%) Kubernetes
2 55 (40.74%) Terraform
3 19 (14.07%) Ansible
4 16 (11.85%) Prometheus
5 15 (11.11%) Grafana
6 9 (6.67%) Argo
7 7 (5.19%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.19%) Puppet
8 6 (4.44%) Podman
9 5 (3.70%) Consul
9 5 (3.70%) FortiGate
9 5 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.22%) HP Fortify
10 3 (2.22%) Istio
11 2 (1.48%) Kibana
11 2 (1.48%) rkt
12 1 (0.74%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (16.30%) Veracode
2 14 (10.37%) Red Hat
3 13 (9.63%) Dynatrace
4 10 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.67%) Splunk
6 8 (5.93%) Checkmarx
7 7 (5.19%) Cisco
7 7 (5.19%) Google
7 7 (5.19%) Salesforce
8 6 (4.44%) DocuSign
9 5 (3.70%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.70%) Gigya
9 5 (3.70%) Guidewire
10 4 (2.96%) Databricks
10 4 (2.96%) Oracle
11 3 (2.22%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.22%) Perforce
11 3 (2.22%) Sonatype
12 2 (1.48%) SAP
12 2 (1.48%) Xamarin