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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 406 466
Rank change year-on-year -72 +60 -1
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 145 116 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.39% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.50% 2.76% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 90 73
10th Percentile £409 £367 £425
25th Percentile £459 £425 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -10.67% -5.88%
75th Percentile £607 £589 £650
90th Percentile £694 £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 5,802 4,203 5,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.06% 14.31% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 2,814 3,452
10th Percentile £349 £334 £353
25th Percentile £408 £410 £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 242 72 205
10th Percentile £35.13 £25.03 £32.23
25th Percentile £59.06 £47.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.75 £58.88 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% -9.42% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £78.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -89 131 £519 +3.71% 29
UK excluding London -64 87 £510 +9.68% 29
London -74 45 £579 +5.23% 1
Work from Home -31 43 £525 +8.19% 69
North of England -40 41 £441 -0.45% 12
Midlands -59 24 £525 +33.76% 4
West Midlands -47 19 £514 +5.44% 2
North East -8 17 £513 +10.22% 7
North West -29 16 £431 +9.54% 3
South East -58 15 £513 +2.40% 10
East of England -19 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -51 8 £450 +5.88% 2
South West -29 5 £575 -4.17% 1
East Midlands -30 5 £525 +41.51% 2
Scotland 0 1 £329 -52.04% 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 22 (15.17%) Confluence
2 7 (4.83%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.83%) nginx
3 5 (3.45%) Apache
4 4 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.76%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 67 (46.21%) AWS
2 45 (31.03%) Azure
3 43 (29.66%) GitHub
4 32 (22.07%) OpenShift
5 30 (20.69%) GCP
6 28 (19.31%) Amazon S3
7 26 (17.93%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (15.86%) Route 53
9 21 (14.48%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (13.10%) Amazon SQS
10 19 (13.10%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (13.10%) Serverless
11 17 (11.72%) AWS KMS
12 16 (11.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (9.66%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (8.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (3.45%) Azure AKS
16 5 (3.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.21%) OpenVPN
2 8 (5.52%) Firewall
3 7 (4.83%) DNS
3 7 (4.83%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.10%) DynamoDB
2 17 (11.72%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (11.03%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (9.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.52%) Metadata
7 7 (4.83%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.45%) MySQL
9 4 (2.76%) Flink
9 4 (2.76%) Redis
10 3 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.07%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.07%) Big Data
10 3 (2.07%) DocumentDB
10 3 (2.07%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.07%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.38%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.38%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 56 (38.62%) Jenkins
2 39 (26.90%) Git
3 33 (22.76%) Maven
4 29 (20.00%) GitLab
4 29 (20.00%) JUnit
5 24 (16.55%) JIRA
6 18 (12.41%) Bitbucket
7 15 (10.34%) Snyk
8 14 (9.66%) Mockito
9 12 (8.28%) Artifactory
10 11 (7.59%) DbUnit
10 11 (7.59%) jMock
11 9 (6.21%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (6.21%) Cucumber
12 8 (5.52%) IntelliJ
13 7 (4.83%) CircleCI
13 7 (4.83%) Selenium
13 7 (4.83%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (4.14%) Gradle
15 5 (3.45%) Postman
General
1 35 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 31 (21.38%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.86%) Finance
4 14 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.66%) Banking
5 7 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.45%) Publishing
8 3 (2.07%) Automotive
8 3 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (35.86%) Developer
2 35 (24.14%) Java Developer
3 31 (21.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (14.48%) Senior
5 18 (12.41%) Software Engineer
6 16 (11.03%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.34%) Architect
8 14 (9.66%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 7 (4.83%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) Technical Architect
14 4 (2.76%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (29.66%) AngularJS
2 34 (23.45%) Spring
3 32 (22.07%) Spring Boot
4 30 (20.69%) Node.js
5 27 (18.62%) Quarkus
6 20 (13.79%) REST
7 19 (13.10%) RESTful
7 19 (13.10%) Web Services
7 19 (13.10%) YAML
8 18 (12.41%) Spring Cloud
9 16 (11.03%) Hibernate
9 16 (11.03%) JPA
10 14 (9.66%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (9.66%) SOAP
10 14 (9.66%) Spring Batch
10 14 (9.66%) Spring Integration
11 12 (8.28%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (7.59%) PowerMock
13 10 (6.90%) JSON
13 10 (6.90%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.48%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.07%) Blog
3 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.38%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
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%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.69%) NHS
5 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.24%) Linux
2 5 (3.45%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (56.55%) CI/CD
1 82 (56.55%) DevOps
2 64 (44.14%) Agile
3 52 (35.86%) DevSecOps
4 49 (33.79%) Software Engineering
4 49 (33.79%) Test Automation
5 46 (31.72%) Scrum
6 41 (28.28%) Containerisation
7 40 (27.59%) SDLC
8 39 (26.90%) TDD
9 37 (25.52%) Microservices
10 34 (23.45%) Sprint Planning
10 34 (23.45%) Unit Testing
11 31 (21.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (19.31%) BDD
13 25 (17.24%) Front End Development
14 23 (15.86%) Sprint Review
15 20 (13.79%) Static Application Security Testing
16 18 (12.41%) Code Quality
17 17 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 89 (61.38%) Java
2 30 (20.69%) SQL
3 27 (18.62%) Python
4 10 (6.90%) Groovy
5 7 (4.83%) Go
6 5 (3.45%) Bash
6 5 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.07%) C#
8 3 (2.07%) C++
9 2 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.69%) C
10 1 (0.69%) COBOL
10 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.69%) ProC
10 1 (0.69%) RPG
10 1 (0.69%) VB
10 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (45.52%) Security Cleared
2 57 (39.31%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.83%) Degree
4 5 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.07%) 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 (23.45%) QA
2 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.07%) WCAG
3 2 (1.38%) PSD2
3 2 (1.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (37.93%) Docker
2 10 (6.90%) Postfix
3 7 (4.83%) Squid
4 3 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 76 (52.41%) Kubernetes
2 44 (30.34%) Terraform
3 38 (26.21%) Grafana
4 29 (20.00%) Argo
5 27 (18.62%) Prometheus
6 18 (12.41%) Ansible
7 8 (5.52%) Consul
7 8 (5.52%) Istio
8 7 (4.83%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.83%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (3.45%) Puppet
10 4 (2.76%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.38%) Podman
11 2 (1.38%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (21.38%) Red Hat
2 18 (12.41%) Atlassian
3 14 (9.66%) Checkmarx
3 14 (9.66%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (8.28%) Veracode
5 11 (7.59%) Dynatrace
6 10 (6.90%) Google
7 9 (6.21%) Sonatype
8 7 (4.83%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.45%) Guidewire
9 5 (3.45%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.76%) Databricks
10 4 (2.76%) Oracle
10 4 (2.76%) SAP
10 4 (2.76%) Splunk
11 3 (2.07%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.07%) Tenable
12 1 (0.69%) Acunetix
12 1 (0.69%) IBM
12 1 (0.69%) Pega