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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 405 473
Rank change year-on-year -77 +68 +4
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 144 112 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.39% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.51% 2.72% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 87 73
10th Percentile £409 £376 £425
25th Percentile £463 £425 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £560
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -10.63% -5.68%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £692 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +9.68% -15.45% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 3
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 5,727 4,118 5,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.13% 14.21% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,748 2,750 3,428
10th Percentile £347 £340 £353
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 71 202
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.04 £33.20
25th Percentile £59.19 £47.75 £46.38
Median hourly rate £66.75 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £79.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -83 130 £519 +3.60% 27
UK excluding London -53 86 £510 +9.68% 24
London -75 45 £579 +5.23% 3
Work from Home -42 43 £525 +7.69% 12
North of England -50 38 £441 -0.45% 10
Midlands -42 25 £525 +24.70% 5
West Midlands -42 19 £514 +5.44% 3
North East -7 17 £513 +10.22% 9
South East -51 15 £513 +2.40% 7
North West -30 13 £431 +9.54%
East of England -21 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -45 8 £450 +5.88% 1
East Midlands -31 6 £525 +48.51% 2
South West -29 4 £625 +4.17% 1
Scotland +4 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 22 (15.28%) Confluence
2 7 (4.86%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.86%) nginx
3 5 (3.47%) Apache
4 4 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.78%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.78%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 68 (47.22%) AWS
2 46 (31.94%) Azure
3 43 (29.86%) GitHub
4 32 (22.22%) OpenShift
5 28 (19.44%) Amazon S3
6 27 (18.75%) GCP
7 26 (18.06%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (15.97%) Route 53
9 22 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (13.19%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (13.19%) Serverless
12 17 (11.81%) AWS KMS
13 16 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (9.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (9.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 5 (3.47%) Azure AKS
17 5 (3.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.25%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.86%) DNS
2 7 (4.86%) Firewall
2 7 (4.86%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.19%) DynamoDB
2 17 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (9.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (6.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.56%) Metadata
7 7 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.47%) MySQL
9 4 (2.78%) Flink
9 4 (2.78%) Redis
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.08%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.08%) Big Data
10 3 (2.08%) DocumentDB
10 3 (2.08%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.08%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.39%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.39%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.39%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 54 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 36 (25.00%) Git
3 33 (22.92%) Maven
4 30 (20.83%) GitLab
5 27 (18.75%) JUnit
6 24 (16.67%) JIRA
7 18 (12.50%) Bitbucket
8 15 (10.42%) Snyk
9 14 (9.72%) Mockito
10 12 (8.33%) Artifactory
11 11 (7.64%) DbUnit
11 11 (7.64%) jMock
12 9 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (5.56%) IntelliJ
14 7 (4.86%) CircleCI
15 6 (4.17%) Cucumber
16 5 (3.47%) Gradle
16 5 (3.47%) Selenium
16 5 (3.47%) Sonatype Nexus
17 3 (2.08%) Postman
General
1 35 (24.31%) Public Sector
2 31 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.58%) Finance
4 13 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.33%) Banking
6 7 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.47%) Publishing
9 3 (2.08%) Automotive
9 3 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Advertising
11 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (36.81%) Developer
2 35 (24.31%) Java Developer
3 29 (20.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (15.28%) Senior
5 18 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 16 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.42%) Architect
8 14 (9.72%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.94%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 7 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.47%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 5 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.47%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.47%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (29.86%) AngularJS
2 33 (22.92%) Spring
3 31 (21.53%) Spring Boot
4 29 (20.14%) Node.js
5 26 (18.06%) Quarkus
6 20 (13.89%) REST
7 19 (13.19%) RESTful
7 19 (13.19%) Web Services
7 19 (13.19%) YAML
8 18 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
9 16 (11.11%) Hibernate
9 16 (11.11%) JPA
10 14 (9.72%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (9.72%) SOAP
10 14 (9.72%) Spring Batch
10 14 (9.72%) Spring Integration
11 13 (9.03%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (7.64%) PowerMock
13 10 (6.94%) JSON
13 10 (6.94%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.08%) Blog
3 3 (2.08%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.39%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.69%) Life Science
5 1 (0.69%) LIMS
5 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.69%) NHS
5 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.36%) Linux
2 5 (3.47%) Unix
3 2 (1.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (56.25%) CI/CD
1 81 (56.25%) DevOps
2 65 (45.14%) Agile
3 52 (36.11%) DevSecOps
4 49 (34.03%) Software Engineering
5 47 (32.64%) Scrum
5 47 (32.64%) Test Automation
6 42 (29.17%) Containerisation
7 39 (27.08%) SDLC
7 39 (27.08%) TDD
8 35 (24.31%) Microservices
9 34 (23.61%) Sprint Planning
9 34 (23.61%) Unit Testing
10 30 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (18.75%) BDD
12 25 (17.36%) Front End Development
13 23 (15.97%) Sprint Review
14 20 (13.89%) Static Application Security Testing
15 19 (13.19%) Code Quality
16 17 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 88 (61.11%) Java
2 30 (20.83%) SQL
3 28 (19.44%) Python
4 10 (6.94%) Groovy
5 7 (4.86%) Go
6 5 (3.47%) Bash
6 5 (3.47%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.47%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.78%) C#
7 4 (2.78%) C++
7 4 (2.78%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.69%) C
9 1 (0.69%) COBOL
9 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.69%) ProC
9 1 (0.69%) RPG
9 1 (0.69%) VB
9 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (46.53%) Security Cleared
2 58 (40.28%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.86%) Degree
4 5 (3.47%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.69%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (23.61%) QA
2 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.08%) WCAG
3 2 (1.39%) PSD2
3 2 (1.39%) SEPA
System Software
1 54 (37.50%) Docker
2 10 (6.94%) Postfix
3 7 (4.86%) Squid
4 3 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.39%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 74 (51.39%) Kubernetes
2 44 (30.56%) Terraform
3 37 (25.69%) Grafana
4 29 (20.14%) Argo
5 26 (18.06%) Prometheus
6 18 (12.50%) Ansible
7 8 (5.56%) Consul
8 7 (4.86%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.86%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (3.47%) Istio
9 5 (3.47%) Puppet
10 4 (2.78%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.39%) Podman
11 2 (1.39%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (21.53%) Red Hat
2 18 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 14 (9.72%) Checkmarx
3 14 (9.72%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (8.33%) Veracode
5 10 (6.94%) Dynatrace
5 10 (6.94%) Google
6 9 (6.25%) Sonatype
7 7 (4.86%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.47%) Guidewire
8 5 (3.47%) Microsoft
9 4 (2.78%) Databricks
9 4 (2.78%) Oracle
9 4 (2.78%) SAP
9 4 (2.78%) Splunk
10 3 (2.08%) Cognizant
10 3 (2.08%) Tenable
11 1 (0.69%) Acunetix
11 1 (0.69%) IBM
11 1 (0.69%) Pega