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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 372 472
Rank change year-on-year -121 +100 +9
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 168 187 96
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.57% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.70% 3.82% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 134 71
10th Percentile £436 £276 £413
25th Percentile £477 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £626 £608 £675
90th Percentile £692 £688 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +20.12% -29.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £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 4,897 5,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.68% 14.87% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,001 3,301 3,288
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £596 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 111 209
10th Percentile £34.54 £27.94 £27.60
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £48.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.58 £85.25 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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 13 August 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 13 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 -115 152 £525 +11.23% 37
UK excluding London -93 104 £511 +20.12% 21
Work from Home -75 60 £573 +22.39% 21
London -108 52 £601 -1.56% 18
North of England -55 47 £510 +28.30% 12
South East -46 30 £601 +20.13% 1
North East -18 29 £511 +9.95% 11
Midlands -59 27 £518 +26.28% 6
West Midlands -36 24 £518 +3.55% 4
Yorkshire -42 9 £514 +31.88% 1
North West -59 9 £500 +27.23%
East of England - 9 £510 -
Scotland -7 3 £450 -
South West -41 3 - - 2
East Midlands -30 2 - - 2

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 (5.95%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.76%) Apache
2 8 (4.76%) Confluence
3 7 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.98%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.19%) Camunda
7 1 (0.60%) nginx
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 79 (47.02%) AWS
2 56 (33.33%) Azure
3 53 (31.55%) GitHub
4 48 (28.57%) OpenShift
5 42 (25.00%) GCP
6 32 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (16.07%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (14.88%) Amazon S3
9 21 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (10.71%) Route 53
11 17 (10.12%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (10.12%) AWS KMS
12 15 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (8.93%) Serverless
13 10 (5.95%) OCI
14 9 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.38%) Firewall
1 4 (2.38%) MQTT
1 4 (2.38%) Network Security
2 3 (1.79%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.69%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (10.71%) DynamoDB
3 17 (10.12%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (8.93%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (6.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.55%) Metadata
6 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.98%) MySQL
6 5 (2.98%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.38%) Flink
7 4 (2.38%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.38%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.38%) Tableau
8 3 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.79%) Apache Hive
8 3 (1.79%) Big Data
8 3 (1.79%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 79 (47.02%) Jenkins
2 49 (29.17%) Git
2 49 (29.17%) GitLab
3 47 (27.98%) Maven
4 38 (22.62%) JUnit
5 20 (11.90%) Mockito
5 20 (11.90%) Snyk
6 14 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
8 11 (6.55%) DbUnit
8 11 (6.55%) Gradle
8 11 (6.55%) Postman
9 10 (5.95%) jMock
10 9 (5.36%) Artifactory
10 9 (5.36%) Cucumber
11 8 (4.76%) CircleCI
11 8 (4.76%) IntelliJ
11 8 (4.76%) JIRA
11 8 (4.76%) Selenium
12 7 (4.17%) LoadRunner
General
1 36 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 32 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.48%) Finance
4 23 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.93%) Banking
6 10 (5.95%) Publishing
7 4 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.79%) Automotive
8 3 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
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 60 (35.71%) Developer
2 45 (26.79%) Java Developer
3 37 (22.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (14.88%) Senior
5 17 (10.12%) Java Engineer
5 17 (10.12%) Software Engineer
6 16 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 12 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (6.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (5.95%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.76%) Architect
11 8 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (4.76%) Lead
12 7 (4.17%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 44 (26.19%) Spring Boot
3 43 (25.60%) Spring
4 41 (24.40%) Quarkus
5 32 (19.05%) Node.js
6 24 (14.29%) Kafka
7 23 (13.69%) REST
8 22 (13.10%) SOAP
9 21 (12.50%) RESTful
10 20 (11.90%) Web Services
11 19 (11.31%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (11.31%) JPA
12 18 (10.71%) Hibernate
12 18 (10.71%) Spring Cloud
13 17 (10.12%) YAML
14 15 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (8.93%) JSON
15 14 (8.33%) SLSA
15 14 (8.33%) Spring Batch
15 14 (8.33%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.79%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.19%) PKI
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.60%) Life Science
8 1 (0.60%) LIMS
8 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.60%) NHS
8 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.64%) Linux
2 8 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (61.31%) CI/CD
2 101 (60.12%) DevOps
3 85 (50.60%) Agile
4 78 (46.43%) DevSecOps
5 71 (42.26%) Scrum
6 65 (38.69%) Test Automation
7 63 (37.50%) Software Engineering
8 54 (32.14%) Microservices
9 50 (29.76%) SDLC
10 43 (25.60%) Containerisation
10 43 (25.60%) Front End Development
10 43 (25.60%) Sprint Planning
11 40 (23.81%) Unit Testing
12 38 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 38 (22.62%) TDD
13 36 (21.43%) Sprint Review
14 27 (16.07%) Static Application Security Testing
15 25 (14.88%) BDD
16 23 (13.69%) Code Quality
17 21 (12.50%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 108 (64.29%) Java
2 48 (28.57%) Python
3 43 (25.60%) SQL
4 19 (11.31%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.33%) Groovy
6 9 (5.36%) Bash
7 8 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.38%) Go
9 4 (2.38%) Rust
10 3 (1.79%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.79%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.60%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) C#
11 1 (0.60%) COBOL
11 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (49.40%) Security Cleared
2 76 (45.24%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.14%) Degree
4 9 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.98%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.79%) CISSP
8 3 (1.79%) GIAC
8 3 (1.79%) ISEB
8 3 (1.79%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.19%) CSSLP
9 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.60%) GSEC
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (29.17%) QA
2 10 (5.95%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.38%) NIST
3 4 (2.38%) PSD2
3 4 (2.38%) SEPA
3 4 (2.38%) WCAG
4 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 66 (39.29%) Docker
2 8 (4.76%) Postfix
3 4 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 104 (61.90%) Kubernetes
2 54 (32.14%) Terraform
3 44 (26.19%) Argo
3 44 (26.19%) Grafana
4 32 (19.05%) Prometheus
5 27 (16.07%) Ansible
6 10 (5.95%) HP Fortify
7 9 (5.36%) Istio
8 8 (4.76%) Puppet
9 5 (2.98%) Podman
10 4 (2.38%) Control-M
11 3 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.19%) Consul
12 2 (1.19%) Kibana
12 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.19%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 41 (24.40%) Red Hat
2 14 (8.33%) Checkmarx
3 13 (7.74%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 12 (7.14%) Sonatype
5 10 (5.95%) Google
5 10 (5.95%) Oracle
6 9 (5.36%) Databricks
7 8 (4.76%) IBM
7 8 (4.76%) SAP
8 7 (4.17%) Tenable
9 6 (3.57%) Veracode
10 4 (2.38%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.38%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.38%) Splunk
11 3 (1.79%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.60%) LabVantage
12 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.60%) Pega
12 1 (0.60%) UiPath