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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 480 506
Rank change year-on-year +72 +26 -39
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 184 75 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.37% 1.59% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 50 90
10th Percentile £285 £413 £450
25th Percentile £385 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -1.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £685 £650
90th Percentile £715 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -18.75% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £65.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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 5,464 4,718 6,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.30% 13.02% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,766 2,939 4,189
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £507
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.75% -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 131 238
10th Percentile £29.00 £24.84 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.00 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.26
90th Percentile £82.40 £74.44 £89.13
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

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 +68 169 £550 -9.24% 45
UK excluding London +24 93 £488 -18.75% 37
London +41 75 £610 -2.40% 12
Work from Home +41 62 £472 -14.95% 22
North of England -6 44 £401 -22.70% 22
Midlands -13 33 £575 -6.05% 1
North West +1 27 £402 +12.92% 7
West Midlands -12 26 £650 +6.21%
South West - 18 £700 - 6
Yorkshire -35 13 £390 -34.04% 10
South East +8 7 £550 -8.33% 6
East Midlands - 7 £270 - 1
North East -4 4 £425 - 5
Scotland 0 2 £639 +35.24% 1
East of England -18 1 £850 +167.30%

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 21 (11.41%) Confluence
2 7 (3.80%) Appian
3 6 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.72%) JBoss
5 4 (2.17%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.17%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.09%) Mule
6 2 (1.09%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.54%) Apache
7 1 (0.54%) CICS
7 1 (0.54%) nginx
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Endur
1 1 (0.54%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 85 (46.20%) Azure
2 81 (44.02%) AWS
3 64 (34.78%) GitHub
4 49 (26.63%) GCP
5 32 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (14.67%) Amazon SQS
7 26 (14.13%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (12.50%) OpenShift
9 18 (9.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 17 (9.24%) Serverless
11 16 (8.70%) npm
12 15 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (8.15%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (7.61%) PaaS
14 13 (7.07%) Datadog
14 13 (7.07%) Route 53
15 12 (6.52%) Azure AKS
16 11 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.89%) Firewall
2 5 (2.72%) SSH
3 4 (2.17%) SSL
4 3 (1.63%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.09%) DNS
5 2 (1.09%) Network Security
6 1 (0.54%) HTTP
6 1 (0.54%) Internet
6 1 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.54%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (11.41%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.78%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (9.24%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (8.70%) DynamoDB
5 16 (8.70%) Redis
6 12 (6.52%) MongoDB
7 11 (5.98%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.43%) MySQL
8 10 (5.43%) RDBMS
9 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.80%) Power BI
11 6 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (2.72%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.72%) DocumentDB
12 5 (2.72%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.72%) Oracle Database
13 4 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.17%) Big Data
14 3 (1.63%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 85 (46.20%) Jenkins
2 78 (42.39%) Git
3 50 (27.17%) GitLab
4 43 (23.37%) Sonatype Nexus
5 42 (22.83%) Maven
6 36 (19.57%) JIRA
7 32 (17.39%) JUnit
8 26 (14.13%) Selenium
9 21 (11.41%) Bitbucket
10 20 (10.87%) Artifactory
11 19 (10.33%) Mockito
12 18 (9.78%) Cucumber
13 16 (8.70%) Postman
14 15 (8.15%) Cypress.io
14 15 (8.15%) Gradle
15 14 (7.61%) Snyk
16 13 (7.07%) Burp Suite
16 13 (7.07%) Metasploit
16 13 (7.07%) TeamCity
17 10 (5.43%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 51 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.93%) Finance
3 29 (15.76%) Public Sector
4 26 (14.13%) Banking
5 10 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.80%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.72%) Publishing
8 3 (1.63%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.09%) Military
9 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) German Language
10 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
10 1 (0.54%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 55 (29.89%) Developer
2 34 (18.48%) Java Developer
3 29 (15.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (11.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 19 (10.33%) Security Engineer
6 16 (8.70%) Lead
7 13 (7.07%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 12 (6.52%) GCP Engineer
9 10 (5.43%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.35%) Architect
11 8 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.35%) Senior
12 7 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 6 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.26%) Java Technical Architect
13 6 (3.26%) Lead Developer
13 6 (3.26%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (26.63%) Spring Boot
2 37 (20.11%) REST
3 31 (16.85%) React
4 30 (16.30%) RESTful
4 30 (16.30%) Spring
5 26 (14.13%) Node.js
6 24 (13.04%) CSS
6 24 (13.04%) HTML
7 22 (11.96%) Hibernate
7 22 (11.96%) JSON
8 21 (11.41%) Kafka
9 19 (10.33%) JPA
10 17 (9.24%) J2EE
10 17 (9.24%) Jest
11 16 (8.70%) CSS3
11 16 (8.70%) HTML5
11 16 (8.70%) YAML
12 15 (8.15%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (8.15%) SOAP
12 15 (8.15%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.24%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.89%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.72%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.72%) N-Tier
4 5 (2.72%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.63%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (1.63%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.09%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.67%) Linux
2 12 (6.52%) Windows
3 9 (4.89%) Unix
4 6 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.09%) Android
7 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (70.65%) CI/CD
2 107 (58.15%) DevOps
3 68 (36.96%) Containerisation
3 68 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (34.78%) Agile
5 55 (29.89%) Microservices
6 54 (29.35%) DevSecOps
7 49 (26.63%) Test Automation
8 40 (21.74%) SDLC
9 38 (20.65%) TDD
10 35 (19.02%) Code Quality
11 30 (16.30%) OWASP
12 29 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (15.76%) Scrum
12 29 (15.76%) Software Engineering
13 28 (15.22%) Unit Testing
14 24 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (13.04%) Migration
15 23 (12.50%) Mentoring
15 23 (12.50%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 73 (39.67%) Java
2 72 (39.13%) Python
3 45 (24.46%) JavaScript
4 39 (21.20%) SQL
5 30 (16.30%) Bash
6 15 (8.15%) PowerShell
7 13 (7.07%) Groovy
8 9 (4.89%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.35%) C#
9 8 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.26%) Go
11 5 (2.72%) Perl
12 3 (1.63%) C++
12 3 (1.63%) Rust
13 2 (1.09%) R
14 1 (0.54%) Bicep
14 1 (0.54%) JCL
14 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 75 (40.76%) Security Cleared
2 61 (33.15%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.33%) DV Cleared
4 14 (7.61%) OSCP
5 13 (7.07%) CREST Certified
5 13 (7.07%) Tigerscheme
6 10 (5.43%) CHECK Team Member
7 8 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.26%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.72%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.72%) Degree
10 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (1.09%) CISSP
11 2 (1.09%) OCP
11 2 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.54%) CSSLP
12 1 (0.54%) GIAC
12 1 (0.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.41%) NCSC
2 18 (9.78%) QA
3 11 (5.98%) Accessibility
4 9 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (2.17%) GDPR
5 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.17%) WCAG
6 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.09%) NIST
7 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.54%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.54%) GRC
System Software
1 103 (55.98%) Docker
2 5 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.17%) Postfix
4 2 (1.09%) HDFS
5 1 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (40.76%) Kubernetes
2 66 (35.87%) Terraform
3 26 (14.13%) Ansible
4 17 (9.24%) Prometheus
5 15 (8.15%) Grafana
6 13 (7.07%) Nmap
7 12 (6.52%) Progress Chef
8 10 (5.43%) Argo
9 7 (3.80%) Kibana
10 6 (3.26%) Puppet
11 5 (2.72%) Istio
12 4 (2.17%) Podman
13 2 (1.09%) HP Fortify
13 2 (1.09%) Nessus
13 2 (1.09%) rkt
14 1 (0.54%) Cilium
14 1 (0.54%) Control-M
14 1 (0.54%) Rancher
14 1 (0.54%) Rsyslog
14 1 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (16.30%) Veracode
2 18 (9.78%) Splunk
3 14 (7.61%) Google
3 14 (7.61%) Red Hat
4 13 (7.07%) Microsoft
5 12 (6.52%) Dynatrace
6 9 (4.89%) Checkmarx
6 9 (4.89%) Cisco
7 7 (3.80%) Cloudera
8 6 (3.26%) DocuSign
8 6 (3.26%) Perforce
9 5 (2.72%) AppDynamics
9 5 (2.72%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.72%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (2.72%) Gigya
9 5 (2.72%) Oracle
10 4 (2.17%) Databricks
10 4 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (1.09%) Qualys
11 2 (1.09%) Xamarin