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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 381 482
Rank change year-on-year -128 +101 -6
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 157 175 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.54% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.53% 3.64% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 130 71
10th Percentile £435 £275 £413
25th Percentile £479 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £626 £615 £663
90th Percentile £706 £688 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £418 £585
% change year-on-year +22.22% -28.57% -2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%

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 6,204 4,807 5,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.76% 14.71% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 3,237 3,406
10th Percentile £350 £325 £351
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 104 229
10th Percentile £26.10 £23.25 £27.60
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.80 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +5.69%

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 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

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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
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 24 July 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 -126 143 £516 +10.65% 25
UK excluding London -91 103 £510 +22.22% 18
Work from Home -75 54 £593 +24.74% 12
North of England -53 45 £500 +25.79% 11
London -111 42 £601 -5.80% 8
South East -49 29 £513 +2.40%
North East -15 27 £511 +10.54% 10
Midlands -58 27 £511 +31.40% 5
West Midlands -54 23 £511 +7.47% 5
Yorkshire -44 10 £500 +28.21%
East of England - 9 £510 -
North West -54 8 £463 +17.68% 1
South West -42 4 £525 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -25 3 - -
Scotland -10 1 £375 - 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 10 (6.37%) Confluence
2 9 (5.73%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.46%) Apache
4 4 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.27%) Camunda
5 2 (1.27%) nginx
6 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 76 (48.41%) AWS
2 51 (32.48%) Azure
3 46 (29.30%) OpenShift
4 45 (28.66%) GitHub
5 39 (24.84%) GCP
6 28 (17.83%) Amazon S3
7 26 (16.56%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (16.56%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (15.92%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (14.65%) Route 53
10 21 (13.38%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (13.38%) AWS KMS
11 20 (12.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (9.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (9.55%) Serverless
13 11 (7.01%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (6.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (5.73%) OCI
16 8 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
17 5 (3.18%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) Firewall
1 4 (2.55%) MQTT
1 4 (2.55%) Network Security
1 4 (2.55%) OpenVPN
2 2 (1.27%) DNS
2 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.01%) DynamoDB
1 22 (14.01%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (13.38%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (11.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (7.01%) Metadata
5 8 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.18%) MySQL
8 4 (2.55%) Flink
8 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.91%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.91%) Big Data
9 3 (1.91%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.91%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.64%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 75 (47.77%) Jenkins
2 48 (30.57%) Git
3 46 (29.30%) Maven
4 43 (27.39%) GitLab
5 38 (24.20%) JUnit
6 22 (14.01%) Mockito
7 18 (11.46%) Snyk
8 14 (8.92%) DbUnit
8 14 (8.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (8.28%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (8.28%) jMock
10 11 (7.01%) Artifactory
10 11 (7.01%) Gradle
11 10 (6.37%) JIRA
12 9 (5.73%) IntelliJ
13 8 (5.10%) Bitbucket
13 8 (5.10%) CircleCI
13 8 (5.10%) Cucumber
14 7 (4.46%) REST Assured
14 7 (4.46%) Selenium
General
1 35 (22.29%) Public Sector
2 29 (18.47%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.65%) Finance
4 18 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.28%) Banking
6 9 (5.73%) Publishing
7 5 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.91%) Automotive
8 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (36.94%) Developer
2 45 (28.66%) Java Developer
3 38 (24.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (12.10%) Senior
4 19 (12.10%) Software Engineer
5 18 (11.46%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.92%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 11 (7.01%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (7.01%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.37%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.46%) Architect
12 7 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.82%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.18%) Consultant
14 5 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.18%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (36.31%) AngularJS
2 42 (26.75%) Spring Boot
3 41 (26.11%) Spring
4 40 (25.48%) Quarkus
5 32 (20.38%) Node.js
6 22 (14.01%) RESTful
7 21 (13.38%) Hibernate
7 21 (13.38%) JPA
7 21 (13.38%) REST
8 20 (12.74%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (12.74%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (12.10%) SOAP
9 19 (12.10%) YAML
10 18 (11.46%) Kafka
10 18 (11.46%) Spring Batch
10 18 (11.46%) Spring Integration
10 18 (11.46%) Web Services
11 15 (9.55%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (8.92%) JSON
12 14 (8.92%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.74%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.55%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.27%) PKI
7 1 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.64%) Life Science
7 1 (0.64%) LIMS
7 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.64%) NHS
7 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.38%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (63.69%) CI/CD
2 96 (61.15%) DevOps
3 82 (52.23%) Agile
4 76 (48.41%) DevSecOps
5 69 (43.95%) Scrum
6 62 (39.49%) Software Engineering
7 58 (36.94%) Test Automation
8 48 (30.57%) Microservices
9 47 (29.94%) Containerisation
9 47 (29.94%) SDLC
10 40 (25.48%) Front End Development
10 40 (25.48%) Sprint Planning
10 40 (25.48%) Unit Testing
11 38 (24.20%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (24.20%) TDD
12 35 (22.29%) Sprint Review
13 27 (17.20%) BDD
14 26 (16.56%) Static Application Security Testing
15 23 (14.65%) Performance Tuning
16 20 (12.74%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 100 (63.69%) Java
2 37 (23.57%) Python
3 35 (22.29%) SQL
4 14 (8.92%) Groovy
5 9 (5.73%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.10%) Bash
6 8 (5.10%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.55%) Go
7 4 (2.55%) Rust
8 3 (1.91%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.91%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.27%) C#
10 1 (0.64%) COBOL
10 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (52.23%) Security Cleared
2 74 (47.13%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.37%) Degree
4 9 (5.73%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.46%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.18%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.91%) CISSP
8 3 (1.91%) GIAC
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.27%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.64%) GSEC
10 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (29.94%) QA
2 7 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.55%) NIST
4 3 (1.91%) WCAG
5 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.27%) PSD2
5 2 (1.27%) SEPA
6 1 (0.64%) GDPR
6 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (40.13%) Docker
2 11 (7.01%) Postfix
3 3 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.27%) HDFS
4 2 (1.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 98 (62.42%) Kubernetes
2 53 (33.76%) Terraform
3 46 (29.30%) Grafana
4 42 (26.75%) Argo
5 32 (20.38%) Prometheus
6 28 (17.83%) Ansible
7 9 (5.73%) Istio
8 8 (5.10%) Puppet
9 6 (3.82%) Podman
10 4 (2.55%) HP Fortify
10 4 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.91%) Consul
12 2 (1.27%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.27%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 41 (26.11%) Red Hat
2 17 (10.83%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (10.19%) Atlassian
4 14 (8.92%) Checkmarx
5 12 (7.64%) Sonatype
6 10 (6.37%) Google
7 7 (4.46%) Tenable
7 7 (4.46%) Veracode
8 5 (3.18%) Dynatrace
8 5 (3.18%) Oracle
9 4 (2.55%) Databricks
9 4 (2.55%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.55%) Splunk
10 3 (1.91%) IBM
10 3 (1.91%) Microsoft
10 3 (1.91%) SAP
11 1 (0.64%) LabVantage
11 1 (0.64%) Pega
11 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow