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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 370 490
Rank change year-on-year -133 +120 -24
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 186 202 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.61% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.94% 4.01% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 148 52
10th Percentile £400 £285 £414
25th Percentile £450 £384 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £494 £597
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -17.29% -0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £685
90th Percentile £660 £700 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £472 £600
% change year-on-year +6.99% -21.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.63 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 6,334 5,035 5,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 15.26% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,048 3,387 3,232
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 111 176
10th Percentile £22.81 £29.00 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.88
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 25 September 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
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 25 September 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 -135 171 £511 +4.72% 84
UK excluding London -98 110 £505 +6.99% 48
London -111 66 £550 -9.84% 44
Work from Home -74 65 £515 +10.40% 36
North of England -59 47 £514 +20.94% 21
Midlands -41 41 £467 -6.60% 7
West Midlands -26 38 £475 -17.39% 6
North East -23 25 £510 +9.68% 14
South East -60 25 £690 +37.86% 6
Yorkshire -39 11 £514 +31.79% 1
North West -70 11 £537 +31.06% 6
East of England -28 6 £570 -32.94% 1
Scotland -26 3 £450 -29.58% 1
South West -47 3 £300 -57.14% 8
East Midlands -21 2 £335 +24.07% 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 20 (10.75%) Confluence
2 11 (5.91%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.84%) Apache
3 9 (4.84%) Camunda
4 7 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.69%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 90 (48.39%) AWS
2 67 (36.02%) GitHub
3 56 (30.11%) Azure
4 47 (25.27%) OpenShift
5 41 (22.04%) GCP
6 32 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (9.68%) Amazon S3
9 17 (9.14%) Serverless
10 14 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (6.45%) AWS KMS
12 11 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (5.91%) Route 53
13 10 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (5.38%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.84%) OCI
15 8 (4.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 8 (4.30%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) Firewall
2 4 (2.15%) MQTT
2 4 (2.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.05%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.06%) Relational Database
3 13 (6.99%) DynamoDB
3 13 (6.99%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.91%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (5.38%) Metadata
6 9 (4.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (4.84%) MySQL
7 5 (2.69%) Flink
7 5 (2.69%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.15%) Apache Hive
8 4 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.15%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.15%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.15%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (47.85%) Jenkins
2 71 (38.17%) Git
3 67 (36.02%) GitLab
4 65 (34.95%) Maven
5 60 (32.26%) JUnit
6 32 (17.20%) Mockito
7 25 (13.44%) Cucumber
8 23 (12.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (11.83%) Gradle
9 22 (11.83%) JIRA
9 22 (11.83%) Selenium
10 17 (9.14%) Gatling
10 17 (9.14%) Snyk
11 14 (7.53%) Bitbucket Server
12 13 (6.99%) Postman
12 13 (6.99%) REST Assured
13 10 (5.38%) Artifactory
14 7 (3.76%) JMeter
14 7 (3.76%) LoadRunner
14 7 (3.76%) SoapUI
General
1 54 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.35%) Finance
3 31 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 28 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (13.98%) Banking
6 9 (4.84%) Publishing
7 6 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.15%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.08%) Automotive
9 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Advertising
10 1 (0.54%) Front Office
10 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 70 (37.63%) Developer
2 49 (26.34%) Java Developer
3 38 (20.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (15.59%) Senior
5 18 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 15 (8.06%) Quality Engineer
6 15 (8.06%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (7.53%) Java Engineer
8 13 (6.99%) Lead
9 12 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (5.91%) Software Engineer
11 9 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (4.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 8 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 7 (3.76%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (3.76%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.76%) Python Engineer
14 6 (3.23%) Architect
14 6 (3.23%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (33.33%) Spring
2 56 (30.11%) Terraform
3 55 (29.57%) Spring Boot
4 54 (29.03%) AngularJS
5 35 (18.82%) Kafka
6 32 (17.20%) Quarkus
7 30 (16.13%) JPA
7 30 (16.13%) Node.js
8 29 (15.59%) Hibernate
8 29 (15.59%) SOAP
9 28 (15.05%) REST
9 28 (15.05%) RESTful
9 28 (15.05%) Web Services
10 26 (13.98%) React
11 25 (13.44%) HTML
12 24 (12.90%) ActiveMQ
13 20 (10.75%) CSS
13 20 (10.75%) Playwright
13 20 (10.75%) Spring Cloud
14 18 (9.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.38%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.08%) PKI
10 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.54%) LIMS
10 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.54%) NHS
10 1 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (18.82%) Linux
2 11 (5.91%) Unix
3 5 (2.69%) Windows
4 4 (2.15%) VMS
5 2 (1.08%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (70.43%) CI/CD
2 107 (57.53%) Agile
3 102 (54.84%) DevOps
4 90 (48.39%) Test Automation
5 86 (46.24%) Scrum
6 78 (41.94%) Microservices
7 67 (36.02%) DevSecOps
8 58 (31.18%) TDD
9 56 (30.11%) Software Engineering
10 53 (28.49%) SDLC
11 49 (26.34%) Containerisation
12 44 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (22.58%) Front End Development
13 42 (22.58%) Sprint Planning
14 36 (19.35%) Unit Testing
15 34 (18.28%) Code Quality
16 33 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (17.20%) BDD
17 32 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
18 30 (16.13%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 124 (66.67%) Java
2 57 (30.65%) Python
3 49 (26.34%) SQL
4 33 (17.74%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.68%) Bash
6 16 (8.60%) Groovy
6 16 (8.60%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.91%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.84%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.15%) Bicep
9 4 (2.15%) Rust
10 3 (1.61%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.54%) C#
11 1 (0.54%) COBOL
11 1 (0.54%) Go
11 1 (0.54%) Korn
11 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 78 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 72 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.37%) Degree
4 21 (11.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (9.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.30%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.76%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.76%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.61%) CISSP
8 3 (1.61%) GIAC
8 3 (1.61%) ISEB
8 3 (1.61%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.54%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.54%) GSEC
10 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (27.96%) QA
2 21 (11.29%) Accessibility
3 15 (8.06%) WCAG
4 4 (2.15%) NIST
4 4 (2.15%) PSD2
4 4 (2.15%) SEPA
5 3 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.54%) GDPR
7 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (45.16%) Docker
2 7 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.15%) Postfix
4 2 (1.08%) HDFS
5 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 110 (59.14%) Kubernetes
2 46 (24.73%) Grafana
3 35 (18.82%) Argo
4 34 (18.28%) Prometheus
5 31 (16.67%) Ansible
6 10 (5.38%) HP Fortify
7 7 (3.76%) Istio
8 6 (3.23%) Puppet
9 5 (2.69%) Podman
10 4 (2.15%) Control-M
11 2 (1.08%) Kibana
11 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.54%) Consul
Vendors
1 32 (17.20%) Red Hat
2 16 (8.60%) IBM
3 13 (6.99%) Checkmarx
3 13 (6.99%) Google
3 13 (6.99%) Veracode
4 12 (6.45%) Databricks
5 11 (5.91%) Oracle
5 11 (5.91%) Sonatype
6 8 (4.30%) Tenable
7 7 (3.76%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (3.76%) Microsoft
7 7 (3.76%) SAP
8 6 (3.23%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.69%) Splunk
10 4 (2.15%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.15%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.61%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.08%) Foundry
13 1 (0.54%) LabVantage
13 1 (0.54%) Pega