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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 460 502
Rank change year-on-year +49 +42 -33
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 175 78 121
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.20% 1.63% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 52 86
10th Percentile £313 £413 £450
25th Percentile £385 £534 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £675 £685 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £606 £600
% change year-on-year -21.62% +1.00% +9.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £65.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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 5,463 4,789 6,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.29% 12.96% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,761 2,963 4,222
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 128 233
10th Percentile £29.00 £23.95 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.19 £46.23 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -2.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £83.60 £75.00 £86.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 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 +66 160 £565 -7.68% 22
UK excluding London +24 88 £475 -21.62% 22
London +50 71 £610 -2.40% 4
Work from Home +49 58 £460 -19.39% 14
North of England -6 41 £400 -22.89% 12
Midlands -11 31 £575 -6.05%
North West +4 28 £401 +12.64% 6
West Midlands -7 24 £700 +14.38%
South West - 18 £700 - 3
Yorkshire -28 9 £390 -34.04% 4
South East +4 7 £550 -12.00% 6
East Midlands - 7 £270 -
North East -3 4 £425 - 2
Scotland -6 2 £639 +35.24% 1
East of England -14 1 £850 +167.30%

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 21 (12.00%) Confluence
2 7 (4.00%) Appian
3 5 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.86%) JBoss
4 4 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.29%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.14%) Mule
5 2 (1.14%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.57%) Apache
6 1 (0.57%) CICS
6 1 (0.57%) nginx
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 79 (45.14%) Azure
2 73 (41.71%) AWS
3 63 (36.00%) GitHub
4 49 (28.00%) GCP
5 30 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (14.86%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (13.14%) OpenShift
9 18 (10.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 18 (10.29%) Serverless
10 16 (9.14%) npm
11 15 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (7.43%) Datadog
13 13 (7.43%) PaaS
14 11 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (6.29%) Azure AKS
14 11 (6.29%) Route 53
15 10 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.57%) Firewall
2 5 (2.86%) SSH
3 3 (1.71%) SSL
3 3 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.14%) DNS
4 2 (1.14%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.57%) HTTP
5 1 (0.57%) Internet
5 1 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.57%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (10.29%) NoSQL
3 17 (9.71%) Redis
4 16 (9.14%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (8.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (8.00%) DynamoDB
7 11 (6.29%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.71%) RDBMS
9 8 (4.57%) MongoDB
9 8 (4.57%) SQL Server
10 7 (4.00%) Power BI
11 6 (3.43%) DocumentDB
11 6 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.43%) MySQL
12 5 (2.86%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.86%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.86%) Oracle Database
13 4 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.29%) Big Data
14 3 (1.71%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 79 (45.14%) Jenkins
2 71 (40.57%) Git
3 46 (26.29%) GitLab
4 38 (21.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 37 (21.14%) Maven
6 36 (20.57%) JIRA
7 30 (17.14%) JUnit
8 26 (14.86%) Selenium
9 21 (12.00%) Bitbucket
10 18 (10.29%) Cucumber
10 18 (10.29%) Mockito
11 17 (9.71%) Artifactory
12 16 (9.14%) Postman
13 15 (8.57%) Cypress.io
13 15 (8.57%) Gradle
14 14 (8.00%) Snyk
15 13 (7.43%) Burp Suite
15 13 (7.43%) Metasploit
16 11 (6.29%) TeamCity
17 9 (5.14%) webpack
General
1 50 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.14%) Finance
3 28 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 26 (14.86%) Banking
5 8 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.86%) Publishing
8 3 (1.71%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.14%) Military
9 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) German Language
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
10 1 (0.57%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 48 (27.43%) Developer
2 29 (16.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (16.57%) Java Developer
3 21 (12.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 19 (10.86%) Security Engineer
5 14 (8.00%) Lead
6 13 (7.43%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 12 (6.86%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Senior
10 7 (4.00%) Architect
11 6 (3.43%) Java Architect
11 6 (3.43%) Java Technical Architect
11 6 (3.43%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.43%) UI Developer
12 5 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (2.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (25.14%) Spring Boot
2 33 (18.86%) REST
3 32 (18.29%) React
4 27 (15.43%) Spring
5 24 (13.71%) CSS
5 24 (13.71%) HTML
6 23 (13.14%) Node.js
6 23 (13.14%) RESTful
7 22 (12.57%) JSON
8 21 (12.00%) Kafka
9 20 (11.43%) Hibernate
10 17 (9.71%) Jest
10 17 (9.71%) JPA
11 16 (9.14%) CSS3
11 16 (9.14%) HTML5
11 16 (9.14%) YAML
12 15 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (8.57%) J2EE
13 14 (8.00%) Redux
13 14 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.71%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.14%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.86%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.86%) N-Tier
4 5 (2.86%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.29%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.71%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.71%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.14%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.29%) Linux
2 12 (6.86%) Windows
3 7 (4.00%) Unix
4 6 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.14%) Android
7 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (70.86%) CI/CD
2 102 (58.29%) DevOps
3 67 (38.29%) Containerisation
3 67 (38.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (35.43%) Agile
5 54 (30.86%) DevSecOps
6 50 (28.57%) Microservices
7 45 (25.71%) Test Automation
8 39 (22.29%) SDLC
9 36 (20.57%) TDD
10 35 (20.00%) Code Quality
11 29 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (16.57%) Software Engineering
12 28 (16.00%) Unit Testing
13 27 (15.43%) OWASP
14 24 (13.71%) Migration
14 24 (13.71%) Scrum
15 22 (12.57%) Mentoring
15 22 (12.57%) Secure Coding
16 21 (12.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (41.14%) Python
2 65 (37.14%) Java
3 39 (22.29%) JavaScript
4 33 (18.86%) SQL
5 30 (17.14%) Bash
6 14 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 13 (7.43%) Groovy
8 8 (4.57%) C#
8 8 (4.57%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.00%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.43%) Go
11 5 (2.86%) Perl
12 3 (1.71%) C++
12 3 (1.71%) Rust
13 2 (1.14%) R
14 1 (0.57%) JCL
14 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.57%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.57%) Ruby
14 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 69 (39.43%) Security Cleared
2 55 (31.43%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.86%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.00%) OSCP
5 13 (7.43%) CREST Certified
5 13 (7.43%) Tigerscheme
6 10 (5.71%) CHECK Team Member
7 9 (5.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.43%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.86%) Degree
10 4 (2.29%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (1.14%) CISSP
12 2 (1.14%) OCP
12 2 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.57%) GIAC
13 1 (0.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.00%) NCSC
2 16 (9.14%) QA
3 11 (6.29%) Accessibility
4 9 (5.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (5.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (2.29%) GDPR
5 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.29%) WCAG
6 3 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.14%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.14%) NIST
7 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.57%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.57%) GRC
System Software
1 99 (56.57%) Docker
2 5 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.71%) Postfix
4 2 (1.14%) HDFS
5 1 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (42.29%) Kubernetes
2 65 (37.14%) Terraform
3 25 (14.29%) Ansible
4 16 (9.14%) Prometheus
5 14 (8.00%) Grafana
6 13 (7.43%) Nmap
7 12 (6.86%) Progress Chef
8 10 (5.71%) Argo
9 7 (4.00%) Kibana
10 6 (3.43%) Puppet
11 5 (2.86%) Istio
12 4 (2.29%) Podman
13 2 (1.14%) HP Fortify
13 2 (1.14%) Nessus
13 2 (1.14%) rkt
14 1 (0.57%) Cilium
14 1 (0.57%) Packer
14 1 (0.57%) Rancher
14 1 (0.57%) Rsyslog
14 1 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (17.14%) Veracode
2 18 (10.29%) Splunk
3 14 (8.00%) Google
3 14 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 13 (7.43%) Microsoft
5 12 (6.86%) Dynatrace
6 9 (5.14%) Checkmarx
6 9 (5.14%) Cisco
7 7 (4.00%) Cloudera
8 6 (3.43%) DocuSign
8 6 (3.43%) Perforce
9 5 (2.86%) AppDynamics
9 5 (2.86%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (2.86%) Gigya
9 5 (2.86%) Oracle
10 4 (2.29%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.71%) Databricks
11 3 (1.71%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (1.14%) Qualys
12 2 (1.14%) Xamarin