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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 430 492
Rank change year-on-year -73 +62 -14
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 123 94 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.11% 2.32% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 69 70
10th Percentile £400 £378 £413
25th Percentile £441 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £628 £663 £650
90th Percentile £724 £700 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £521 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +22.68% -22.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 5,830 4,053 5,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.51% 13.73% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,919 2,674 3,574
10th Percentile £343 £331 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £629
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 68 201
10th Percentile £35.00 £23.76 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.94 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.20% - +1.63%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -60 114 £525 -4.55% 39
UK excluding London -31 75 £521 +22.68% 34
London -74 39 £525 -7.08% 9
North of England -45 34 £441 +3.65% 18
Work from Home -34 27 £525 -2.23% 18
Midlands -39 24 £575 +27.21% 4
West Midlands -45 20 £575 - 4
North West -20 18 £431 +9.95% 3
South West - 12 £700 - 3
South East -43 11 £550 +2.42% 9
North East -5 10 - - 14
Yorkshire -56 6 £450 -13.25% 1
East Midlands -31 4 £525 +16.15%
East of England -25 3 £510 +59.53% 1
Scotland +11 2 £484 -29.38%

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 24 (19.51%) Confluence
2 7 (5.69%) nginx
3 6 (4.88%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.44%) Appian
6 1 (0.81%) Apache
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 61 (49.59%) AWS
2 46 (37.40%) Azure
3 40 (32.52%) GitHub
4 25 (20.33%) OpenShift
5 20 (16.26%) Amazon S3
6 19 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (13.82%) GCP
8 17 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (13.01%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (13.01%) Route 53
9 16 (13.01%) Serverless
10 14 (11.38%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (10.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (7.32%) AWS KMS
13 9 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (4.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (4.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.32%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.69%) DNS
2 7 (5.69%) Firewall
2 7 (5.69%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.69%) VPN
3 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.94%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (8.94%) DynamoDB
3 9 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.69%) Redis
5 5 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.07%) DocumentDB
5 5 (4.07%) Metadata
6 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.63%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.63%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.63%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 50 (40.65%) Jenkins
2 33 (26.83%) Git
3 29 (23.58%) GitLab
4 28 (22.76%) JIRA
5 23 (18.70%) Maven
6 22 (17.89%) Bitbucket
6 22 (17.89%) JUnit
7 13 (10.57%) Artifactory
7 13 (10.57%) Snyk
8 12 (9.76%) Cucumber
8 12 (9.76%) Selenium
9 10 (8.13%) Mockito
9 10 (8.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (7.32%) Postman
11 7 (5.69%) Cypress.io
11 7 (5.69%) DbUnit
11 7 (5.69%) jMock
12 5 (4.07%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (3.25%) Gatling
13 4 (3.25%) Gradle
General
1 28 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.14%) Public Sector
3 18 (14.63%) Finance
4 10 (8.13%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.32%) Banking
6 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.44%) Publishing
6 3 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.63%) Automotive
8 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
8 1 (0.81%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 43 (34.96%) Developer
2 20 (16.26%) Java Developer
3 16 (13.01%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (11.38%) Senior
5 13 (10.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 13 (10.57%) Software Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Architect
7 9 (7.32%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.88%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) React Developer
8 6 (4.88%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Lead
9 5 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.25%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (2.44%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.14%) AngularJS
2 23 (18.70%) YAML
3 22 (17.89%) Node.js
4 21 (17.07%) Spring
5 20 (16.26%) REST
6 19 (15.45%) Spring Boot
7 16 (13.01%) RESTful
8 15 (12.20%) Web Services
9 14 (11.38%) Quarkus
10 12 (9.76%) Hibernate
10 12 (9.76%) JPA
10 12 (9.76%) JSON
11 11 (8.94%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (8.13%) SOAP
12 10 (8.13%) Spring Cloud
13 9 (7.32%) ActiveMQ
13 9 (7.32%) OpenID
13 9 (7.32%) Spring Batch
13 9 (7.32%) Spring Integration
14 8 (6.50%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.44%) Blog
3 3 (2.44%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.44%) Private Cloud
3 3 (2.44%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.63%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.81%) Contactless
5 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.81%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.81%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.45%) Linux
2 3 (2.44%) Unix
2 3 (2.44%) Windows
3 2 (1.63%) Android
4 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Embedded Compact
4 1 (0.81%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (62.60%) CI/CD
2 68 (55.28%) DevOps
3 51 (41.46%) Agile
4 44 (35.77%) DevSecOps
5 40 (32.52%) Test Automation
6 35 (28.46%) Scrum
7 34 (27.64%) Containerisation
8 32 (26.02%) SDLC
9 30 (24.39%) Software Engineering
9 30 (24.39%) TDD
10 27 (21.95%) Unit Testing
11 26 (21.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (20.33%) Microservices
13 24 (19.51%) Sprint Planning
14 21 (17.07%) BDD
15 20 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (13.82%) Code Quality
16 17 (13.82%) Front End Development
17 15 (12.20%) Static Application Security Testing
18 14 (11.38%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 58 (47.15%) Java
2 21 (17.07%) Python
3 19 (15.45%) SQL
4 11 (8.94%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.69%) Go
5 7 (5.69%) Groovy
6 6 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.07%) Bash
7 5 (4.07%) C++
7 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.25%) C#
9 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.63%) C
10 2 (1.63%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.63%) R
10 2 (1.63%) Rust
11 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.81%) RPG
11 1 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 56 (45.53%) Security Cleared
2 47 (38.21%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.07%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.44%) Degree
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.26%) QA
2 5 (4.07%) NCSC
3 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.44%) WCAG
5 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 56 (45.53%) Docker
2 7 (5.69%) Squid
3 6 (4.88%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 56 (45.53%) Kubernetes
2 37 (30.08%) Terraform
3 25 (20.33%) Grafana
4 17 (13.82%) Prometheus
5 15 (12.20%) Ansible
5 15 (12.20%) Argo
6 7 (5.69%) Consul
6 7 (5.69%) FortiGate
6 7 (5.69%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (4.07%) Puppet
8 4 (3.25%) HP Fortify
8 4 (3.25%) Podman
9 3 (2.44%) Istio
9 3 (2.44%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.63%) rkt
10 2 (1.63%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 22 (17.89%) Red Hat
2 19 (15.45%) Veracode
3 14 (11.38%) Atlassian
4 13 (10.57%) Dynatrace
5 11 (8.94%) Checkmarx
6 9 (7.32%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (5.69%) Microsoft
7 7 (5.69%) Salesforce
8 6 (4.88%) Splunk
9 5 (4.07%) Databricks
9 5 (4.07%) Guidewire
9 5 (4.07%) Sonatype
10 4 (3.25%) Oracle
10 4 (3.25%) SAP
11 3 (2.44%) Cisco
11 3 (2.44%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.44%) Google
12 2 (1.63%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.81%) Acunetix
13 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow