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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 369 478
Rank change year-on-year -148 +109 +9
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 167 193 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.59% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.68% 3.89% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 141 68
10th Percentile £429 £276 £409
25th Percentile £475 £385 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £597
Median % change year-on-year +8.34% -20.44% -0.50%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £675
90th Percentile £688 £693 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £460 £600
% change year-on-year +11.04% -23.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £68.50 - £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 6,233 4,958 5,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.58% 15.11% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,003 3,341 3,265
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 114 197
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.08 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.58 £72.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -140 151 £515 +8.34% 30
UK excluding London -95 104 £510 +11.04% 24
Work from Home -73 61 £575 +26.03% 17
London -112 50 £596 -2.25% 10
North of England -59 47 £510 +28.30% 14
North East -19 29 £511 +9.95% 11
South East -54 29 £601 +20.19% 3
Midlands -55 29 £511 +7.47% 3
West Midlands -44 24 £518 +3.55% 2
Yorkshire -40 9 £514 +31.88% 1
North West -63 9 £500 +27.23% 2
East of England - 9 £510 -
East Midlands -27 4 £335 +22.71% 1
Scotland -14 3 £450 -
South West -47 2 - - 4

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 (5.99%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.79%) Apache
2 8 (4.79%) Confluence
3 5 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.20%) Camunda
6 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.60%) nginx
6 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.71%) AWS
2 55 (32.93%) GitHub
3 53 (31.74%) Azure
4 48 (28.74%) OpenShift
5 42 (25.15%) GCP
6 30 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (15.57%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (13.17%) Amazon S3
9 18 (10.78%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (9.58%) Serverless
11 15 (8.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (8.98%) Route 53
12 14 (8.38%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (8.38%) AWS KMS
13 12 (7.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (5.99%) OCI
15 9 (5.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
18 6 (3.59%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) Firewall
1 4 (2.40%) MQTT
1 4 (2.40%) Network Security
2 3 (1.80%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.98%) DynamoDB
3 14 (8.38%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (7.19%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (6.59%) Metadata
6 9 (5.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.99%) MySQL
7 5 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.40%) Flink
8 4 (2.40%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.40%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.40%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.40%) Tableau
9 3 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.80%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.80%) Big Data
9 3 (1.80%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.80%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 77 (46.11%) Jenkins
2 54 (32.34%) GitLab
3 51 (30.54%) Git
4 45 (26.95%) Maven
5 38 (22.75%) JUnit
6 20 (11.98%) Snyk
7 17 (10.18%) Mockito
8 14 (8.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 12 (7.19%) Cucumber
9 12 (7.19%) Gradle
9 12 (7.19%) Selenium
10 11 (6.59%) Postman
11 9 (5.39%) Artifactory
11 9 (5.39%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (5.39%) JIRA
12 8 (4.79%) CircleCI
12 8 (4.79%) DbUnit
12 8 (4.79%) Gatling
12 8 (4.79%) IntelliJ
13 7 (4.19%) LoadRunner
General
1 36 (21.56%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.36%) Public Sector
3 26 (15.57%) Finance
4 22 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.98%) Banking
6 10 (5.99%) Publishing
7 4 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.80%) Automotive
9 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (34.73%) Developer
2 42 (25.15%) Java Developer
3 37 (22.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (14.97%) Senior
5 17 (10.18%) Java Engineer
6 16 (9.58%) Senior Developer
6 16 (9.58%) Software Engineer
7 12 (7.19%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (5.99%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 9 (5.39%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (4.79%) Architect
10 8 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (4.79%) Lead
11 7 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.19%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.59%) Consultant
12 6 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (32.93%) Terraform
2 53 (31.74%) AngularJS
3 44 (26.35%) Spring
4 42 (25.15%) Spring Boot
5 40 (23.95%) Quarkus
6 29 (17.37%) Node.js
7 26 (15.57%) Kafka
8 20 (11.98%) REST
9 19 (11.38%) RESTful
9 19 (11.38%) SOAP
10 18 (10.78%) YAML
11 17 (10.18%) JPA
11 17 (10.18%) Web Services
12 16 (9.58%) ActiveMQ
12 16 (9.58%) Hibernate
12 16 (9.58%) JSON
13 15 (8.98%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (8.98%) Spring Cloud
14 14 (8.38%) React
14 14 (8.38%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.77%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.20%) PKI
8 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.60%) Life Science
8 1 (0.60%) LIMS
8 1 (0.60%) NHS
8 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.37%) Linux
2 8 (4.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (61.68%) CI/CD
2 97 (58.08%) DevOps
3 87 (52.10%) Agile
4 77 (46.11%) DevSecOps
5 70 (41.92%) Scrum
6 69 (41.32%) Test Automation
7 62 (37.13%) Software Engineering
8 54 (32.34%) Microservices
9 50 (29.94%) SDLC
10 42 (25.15%) Front End Development
10 42 (25.15%) Sprint Planning
11 41 (24.55%) Containerisation
11 41 (24.55%) Unit Testing
12 39 (23.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (22.75%) TDD
14 35 (20.96%) Sprint Review
15 27 (16.17%) Static Application Security Testing
16 26 (15.57%) BDD
17 24 (14.37%) Code Quality
17 24 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (64.67%) Java
2 49 (29.34%) Python
3 40 (23.95%) SQL
4 20 (11.98%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.38%) Groovy
6 9 (5.39%) Bash
7 8 (4.79%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.19%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.40%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.40%) Rust
10 3 (1.80%) Go
10 3 (1.80%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.20%) Bicep
12 1 (0.60%) C#
12 1 (0.60%) COBOL
12 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (49.10%) Security Cleared
2 74 (44.31%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.19%) Degree
4 11 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.59%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.80%) CISSP
7 3 (1.80%) GIAC
7 3 (1.80%) ISEB
7 3 (1.80%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.20%) CSSLP
8 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.60%) GSEC
9 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (31.14%) QA
2 13 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.19%) WCAG
4 4 (2.40%) NIST
4 4 (2.40%) PSD2
4 4 (2.40%) SEPA
5 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (40.12%) Docker
2 6 (3.59%) Postfix
3 4 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) HDFS
5 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 106 (63.47%) Kubernetes
2 43 (25.75%) Argo
3 42 (25.15%) Grafana
4 32 (19.16%) Prometheus
5 28 (16.77%) Ansible
6 10 (5.99%) HP Fortify
7 8 (4.79%) Istio
7 8 (4.79%) Puppet
8 5 (2.99%) Podman
9 4 (2.40%) Control-M
10 3 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.20%) Consul
11 2 (1.20%) Kibana
11 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.20%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 40 (23.95%) Red Hat
2 15 (8.98%) Checkmarx
3 12 (7.19%) Sonatype
4 11 (6.59%) Oracle
5 10 (5.99%) Google
5 10 (5.99%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (5.39%) Atlassian
7 8 (4.79%) Databricks
7 8 (4.79%) IBM
8 7 (4.19%) Tenable
8 7 (4.19%) Veracode
9 6 (3.59%) SAP
10 5 (2.99%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.40%) NVIDIA
11 4 (2.40%) Splunk
12 3 (1.80%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.60%) LabVantage
13 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.60%) Pega
13 1 (0.60%) UiPath