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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 366 485
Rank change year-on-year -149 +119 -10
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 176 193 74
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.58% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.76% 3.78% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 141 48
10th Percentile £390 £283 £409
25th Percentile £438 £380 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £581
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -13.87% -3.25%
75th Percentile £588 £656 £656
90th Percentile £660 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £585
% change year-on-year +6.32% -18.73% -2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.44 - £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 6,383 5,104 5,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 15.44% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,085 3,448 3,149
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £524
Median % change year-on-year - -4.58% -4.73%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 111 170
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £32.89
25th Percentile £48.13 £46.88 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.00 £74.00
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

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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 8 October 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

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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 8 October 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 -114 163 £510 +2.00% 64
UK excluding London -97 106 £505 +6.32% 46
London -103 63 £510 -16.39% 29
Work from Home -89 59 £515 +12.27% 28
North of England -56 45 £514 +27.94% 15
Midlands -47 41 £455 -9.08% 9
West Midlands -34 38 £459 -20.17% 8
South East -46 26 £690 +37.86% 6
North East -15 25 £510 +20.00% 12
North West -60 11 £537 +31.06% 1
Yorkshire -38 9 £514 +31.88% 2
East of England -30 5 £570 -32.94% 2
Scotland -16 3 £450 -29.58% 3
South West -51 3 £300 -57.14% 4
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 (11.36%) Confluence
2 9 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.11%) Camunda
3 7 (3.98%) Apache
4 6 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.84%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.57%) IIS
7 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 85 (48.30%) AWS
2 64 (36.36%) GitHub
3 52 (29.55%) Azure
4 46 (26.14%) OpenShift
5 39 (22.16%) GCP
6 30 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (9.09%) Amazon S3
9 15 (8.52%) Serverless
10 12 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (5.68%) AWS KMS
13 9 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (5.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (5.11%) Route 53
14 8 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (4.55%) Entra ID
15 7 (3.98%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.55%) Firewall
2 4 (2.27%) MQTT
2 4 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.34%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.39%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 10 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.55%) MySQL
7 7 (3.98%) Metadata
8 5 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.27%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.27%) Flink
9 4 (2.27%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.27%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.27%) Tableau
10 3 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.70%) Big Data
10 3 (1.70%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 85 (48.30%) Jenkins
2 73 (41.48%) Git
3 66 (37.50%) GitLab
4 62 (35.23%) Maven
5 61 (34.66%) JUnit
6 32 (18.18%) Mockito
7 28 (15.91%) Cucumber
8 25 (14.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 24 (13.64%) Selenium
10 22 (12.50%) Gradle
10 22 (12.50%) JIRA
11 18 (10.23%) Gatling
12 13 (7.39%) Bitbucket Server
12 13 (7.39%) Postman
12 13 (7.39%) REST Assured
12 13 (7.39%) Snyk
13 9 (5.11%) Artifactory
14 7 (3.98%) JMeter
14 7 (3.98%) LoadRunner
14 7 (3.98%) SoapUI
General
1 55 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.89%) Finance
3 28 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 27 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (14.20%) Banking
6 7 (3.98%) Publishing
7 6 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.70%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.14%) Automotive
9 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) German Language
Job Titles
1 68 (38.64%) Developer
2 49 (27.84%) Java Developer
3 31 (17.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (15.34%) Senior
5 17 (9.66%) Quality Engineer
6 15 (8.52%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.39%) Java Engineer
7 13 (7.39%) Lead
7 13 (7.39%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.68%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (5.11%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Consultant
11 8 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 7 (3.98%) GCP DevOps
12 7 (3.98%) Lead Developer
13 6 (3.41%) Architect
13 6 (3.41%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (34.66%) Spring
2 52 (29.55%) AngularJS
2 52 (29.55%) Spring Boot
2 52 (29.55%) Terraform
3 35 (19.89%) Kafka
4 30 (17.05%) Quarkus
5 29 (16.48%) JPA
5 29 (16.48%) SOAP
5 29 (16.48%) Web Services
6 28 (15.91%) Hibernate
7 27 (15.34%) React
7 27 (15.34%) REST
7 27 (15.34%) RESTful
8 26 (14.77%) HTML
8 26 (14.77%) Node.js
9 24 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
10 22 (12.50%) Playwright
11 21 (11.93%) CSS
12 18 (10.23%) Gherkin
12 18 (10.23%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.48%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.68%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.98%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.14%) PKI
9 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.57%) NHS
9 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.89%) Linux
2 13 (7.39%) Unix
3 6 (3.41%) Windows
4 5 (2.84%) VMS
5 3 (1.70%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (71.02%) CI/CD
2 106 (60.23%) Agile
3 95 (53.98%) DevOps
4 88 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 85 (48.30%) Scrum
6 78 (44.32%) Microservices
7 62 (35.23%) DevSecOps
8 57 (32.39%) TDD
9 53 (30.11%) SDLC
10 51 (28.98%) Software Engineering
11 47 (26.70%) Containerisation
12 41 (23.30%) Front End Development
12 41 (23.30%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (23.30%) Sprint Planning
13 35 (19.89%) Unit Testing
14 34 (19.32%) Code Quality
14 34 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (17.61%) BDD
17 29 (16.48%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 119 (67.61%) Java
2 54 (30.68%) Python
3 43 (24.43%) SQL
4 33 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.36%) Bash
6 16 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.95%) Groovy
8 12 (6.82%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.68%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.27%) Bicep
10 4 (2.27%) Rust
11 3 (1.70%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.57%) C#
12 1 (0.57%) COBOL
12 1 (0.57%) Go
12 1 (0.57%) Korn
12 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (43.18%) Security Cleared
2 70 (39.77%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (13.07%) Degree
4 17 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.11%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.98%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.70%) CISSP
8 3 (1.70%) GIAC
8 3 (1.70%) ISEB
8 3 (1.70%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.57%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.57%) GSEC
10 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (28.41%) QA
2 22 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 16 (9.09%) WCAG
4 4 (2.27%) NIST
4 4 (2.27%) PSD2
4 4 (2.27%) SEPA
5 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.57%) GDPR
7 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (47.73%) Docker
2 7 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.70%) Postfix
4 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 108 (61.36%) Kubernetes
2 43 (24.43%) Grafana
3 34 (19.32%) Argo
4 30 (17.05%) Ansible
4 30 (17.05%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.68%) HP Fortify
6 8 (4.55%) Istio
7 6 (3.41%) Puppet
8 5 (2.84%) Podman
9 4 (2.27%) Control-M
10 2 (1.14%) Kibana
10 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.57%) Consul
Vendors
1 31 (17.61%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.09%) IBM
3 14 (7.95%) Google
4 13 (7.39%) Checkmarx
4 13 (7.39%) Veracode
5 11 (6.25%) Databricks
6 10 (5.68%) Oracle
7 8 (4.55%) Sonatype
8 7 (3.98%) Tenable
9 6 (3.41%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (3.41%) Microsoft
9 6 (3.41%) SAP
10 5 (2.84%) Atlassian
11 4 (2.27%) AppDynamics
11 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.27%) NVIDIA
11 4 (2.27%) Splunk
12 2 (1.14%) Foundry
13 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.57%) UiPath