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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 376 491
Rank change year-on-year -144 +115 +8
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 171 192 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.58% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 3.74% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 140 49
10th Percentile £380 £286 £410
25th Percentile £433 £381 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £568
Median % change year-on-year - -11.89% -5.42%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £638
90th Percentile £660 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +0.21% -17.39% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 1
10th Percentile £62.50 £47.05 -
25th Percentile £69.81 £50.88 £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% -26.25% -
75th Percentile - £65.38 £85.00
90th Percentile - £68.15 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £59.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +18.64% -26.25% -

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 6,507 5,129 5,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.76% 15.42% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,181 3,467 3,142
10th Percentile £352 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 119 165
10th Percentile £22.68 £20.03 £28.09
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.38 £51.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.50 £71.88
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

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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 16 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

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 16 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 -153 161 £500 - 59
UK excluding London -87 105 £476 +0.21% 47
London -107 62 £510 -16.39% 23
Work from Home -92 58 £514 +10.18% 34
North of England -62 46 £514 +27.94% 20
Midlands -44 43 £450 -9.98% 8
West Midlands -34 40 £450 -26.50% 7
South East -38 28 £690 +37.93% 4
North East -13 27 £510 +20.00% 11
North West -63 10 £537 +31.06% 5
Yorkshire -37 9 £514 +31.88% 4
Scotland -26 3 £450 -29.58% 6
South West -49 3 £300 -57.14% 2
East Midlands -14 2 £335 +24.07% 1
East of England -27 1 £50 -94.12% 3

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 (11.70%) Confluence
2 9 (5.26%) Camunda
3 7 (4.09%) Apache
3 7 (4.09%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.92%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.58%) IIS
7 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 84 (49.12%) AWS
2 60 (35.09%) GitHub
3 50 (29.24%) Azure
4 48 (28.07%) OpenShift
5 36 (21.05%) GCP
6 29 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (8.77%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (7.02%) Amazon S3
9 12 (7.02%) Serverless
10 9 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.68%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (4.09%) OCI
13 6 (3.51%) Azure AKS
13 6 (3.51%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.68%) Firewall
2 4 (2.34%) MQTT
2 4 (2.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (9.94%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.60%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.68%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.09%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.09%) Metadata
5 7 (4.09%) MySQL
6 6 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.34%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.34%) Flink
8 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.34%) Tableau
9 3 (1.75%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.58%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 81 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 73 (42.69%) Git
3 66 (38.60%) GitLab
4 60 (35.09%) JUnit
4 60 (35.09%) Maven
5 33 (19.30%) Cucumber
6 31 (18.13%) Mockito
7 28 (16.37%) Selenium
8 25 (14.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 23 (13.45%) Gradle
10 22 (12.87%) Gatling
10 22 (12.87%) JIRA
11 13 (7.60%) Postman
11 13 (7.60%) REST Assured
12 12 (7.02%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (6.43%) Snyk
14 8 (4.68%) Artifactory
15 7 (4.09%) JMeter
15 7 (4.09%) LoadRunner
15 7 (4.09%) SoapUI
General
1 59 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.71%) Finance
3 26 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (14.04%) Public Sector
5 23 (13.45%) Banking
6 7 (4.09%) Publishing
7 6 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.75%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Automotive
10 1 (0.58%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) German Language
10 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 67 (39.18%) Developer
2 47 (27.49%) Java Developer
3 27 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (15.20%) Senior
5 21 (12.28%) Quality Engineer
6 15 (8.77%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.60%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Java Engineer
8 12 (7.02%) Lead
9 11 (6.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (4.09%) Consultant
13 7 (4.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 7 (4.09%) GCP DevOps
14 6 (3.51%) Data Engineer
14 6 (3.51%) Lead Developer
15 5 (2.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 5 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (33.92%) Spring
2 51 (29.82%) AngularJS
3 47 (27.49%) Spring Boot
4 46 (26.90%) Terraform
5 36 (21.05%) Kafka
6 30 (17.54%) Quarkus
7 28 (16.37%) React
7 28 (16.37%) SOAP
7 28 (16.37%) Web Services
8 27 (15.79%) JPA
8 27 (15.79%) RESTful
9 26 (15.20%) Hibernate
9 26 (15.20%) HTML
9 26 (15.20%) Playwright
10 25 (14.62%) REST
11 23 (13.45%) ActiveMQ
11 23 (13.45%) Node.js
12 22 (12.87%) Gherkin
13 21 (12.28%) CSS
14 20 (11.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.20%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.60%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.85%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.09%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.17%) PKI
9 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.30%) Linux
2 14 (8.19%) Unix
3 6 (3.51%) Windows
4 5 (2.92%) VMS
5 4 (2.34%) macOS
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (70.18%) CI/CD
2 109 (63.74%) Agile
3 93 (54.39%) Test Automation
4 89 (52.05%) Scrum
5 88 (51.46%) DevOps
6 80 (46.78%) Microservices
7 62 (36.26%) DevSecOps
8 57 (33.33%) TDD
9 51 (29.82%) SDLC
10 48 (28.07%) Software Engineering
11 43 (25.15%) Containerisation
11 43 (25.15%) Front End Development
12 42 (24.56%) Sprint Planning
13 37 (21.64%) Unit Testing
14 35 (20.47%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (19.88%) Infrastructure as Code
16 33 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (18.71%) BDD
18 30 (17.54%) OWASP
18 30 (17.54%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 118 (69.01%) Java
2 53 (30.99%) Python
3 43 (25.15%) SQL
4 34 (19.88%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.70%) Bash
6 15 (8.77%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.60%) Groovy
8 12 (7.02%) PowerShell
9 9 (5.26%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.34%) Bicep
10 4 (2.34%) Rust
11 3 (1.75%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.58%) C#
12 1 (0.58%) COBOL
12 1 (0.58%) Go
12 1 (0.58%) Korn
12 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (42.69%) Security Cleared
2 67 (39.18%) SC Cleared
3 24 (14.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 24 (14.04%) Degree
4 18 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.85%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.68%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.09%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.75%) CISSP
8 3 (1.75%) GIAC
8 3 (1.75%) ISEB
8 3 (1.75%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.58%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.58%) GSEC
10 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (30.41%) QA
2 26 (15.20%) Accessibility
3 20 (11.70%) WCAG
4 4 (2.34%) NIST
4 4 (2.34%) PSD2
4 4 (2.34%) SEPA
5 3 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.58%) GDPR
7 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 85 (49.71%) Docker
2 5 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.17%) Postfix
4 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 111 (64.91%) Kubernetes
2 38 (22.22%) Grafana
3 36 (21.05%) Argo
4 29 (16.96%) Ansible
5 26 (15.20%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.85%) HP Fortify
7 8 (4.68%) Istio
8 6 (3.51%) Puppet
9 5 (2.92%) Podman
10 4 (2.34%) Control-M
11 2 (1.17%) Kibana
11 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.58%) Consul
Vendors
1 33 (19.30%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.36%) IBM
3 13 (7.60%) Veracode
4 12 (7.02%) Oracle
5 11 (6.43%) Databricks
5 11 (6.43%) Google
6 9 (5.26%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.09%) Microsoft
7 7 (4.09%) Sonatype
8 6 (3.51%) SAP
9 5 (2.92%) Tenable
10 4 (2.34%) AppDynamics
10 4 (2.34%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.34%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (2.34%) NVIDIA
11 2 (1.17%) Foundry
11 2 (1.17%) Splunk
12 1 (0.58%) Pega
12 1 (0.58%) UiPath