SonarQube Contracts

SonarSource SonarQube
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SonarQube skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SonarQube over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 494 489
Rank change year-on-year +83 -5 -50
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 108 106 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 2.05% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 70 156
10th Percentile £382 £425 £469
25th Percentile £425 £501 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £563 £593
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% -5.06% +5.33%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £696
90th Percentile £700 £688 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -15.45% -6.38% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +47.37%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +27.27%

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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SonarQube as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SonarQube.

Daily rate trend for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SonarQube.

Hourly rate trend for SonarQube in the UK

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Top 14 Contract 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 30 April 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 +73 96 £501 -9.00% 47
London +62 55 £555 +11.00% 17
UK excluding London +37 42 £465 -15.45% 33
Work from Home +53 41 £502 -22.85% 39
North of England +30 14 £443 -19.55% 12
South East +30 13 £501 -23.00% 4
Midlands +31 12 £475 +33.43% 3
East Midlands +13 8 £367 +3.09% 1
North West +10 6 £393 -28.55% 6
North East +4 5 £465 -15.45% 3
West Midlands - 4 £488 - 2
Yorkshire +14 3 £425 -25.27% 3
Scotland +10 2 £685 +82.67%
East of England - 1 £321 - 1

SonarQube
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (12.04%) JBoss
2 7 (6.48%) Apache
2 7 (6.48%) Confluence
3 5 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.63%) nginx
4 3 (2.78%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.85%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.93%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.93%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 69 (63.89%) AWS
2 34 (31.48%) Azure
3 18 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 16 (14.81%) Amazon SQS
5 12 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (10.19%) Amazon S3
6 11 (10.19%) GCP
6 11 (10.19%) Serverless
7 10 (9.26%) GitHub
8 9 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (7.41%) Kong
10 7 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (5.56%) Route 53
12 5 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (4.63%) AWS KMS
13 4 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.70%) dbt
13 4 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) DNS
2 1 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) HTTP
2 1 (0.93%) Network Security
2 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (14.81%) Redis
3 13 (12.04%) Relational Database
4 10 (9.26%) MongoDB
4 10 (9.26%) RDBMS
5 9 (8.33%) MySQL
6 8 (7.41%) DocumentDB
6 8 (7.41%) SQL Server
7 7 (6.48%) DynamoDB
7 7 (6.48%) NoSQL
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (4.63%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (2.78%) Big Data
11 3 (2.78%) Flink
11 3 (2.78%) Neo4j
11 3 (2.78%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.85%) Impala
Development Applications
1 57 (52.78%) Jenkins
2 56 (51.85%) Git
3 34 (31.48%) JIRA
4 30 (27.78%) GitLab
5 26 (24.07%) Sonatype Nexus
6 21 (19.44%) Maven
7 19 (17.59%) Bitbucket Server
8 17 (15.74%) JUnit
8 17 (15.74%) Selenium
9 13 (12.04%) Cucumber
10 12 (11.11%) Artifactory
11 11 (10.19%) Bitbucket
11 11 (10.19%) REST Assured
11 11 (10.19%) TeamCity
12 10 (9.26%) CA Release Automation
13 8 (7.41%) gulp
13 8 (7.41%) Mockito
14 7 (6.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (5.56%) IntelliJ
15 6 (5.56%) Snyk
General
1 38 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.59%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.89%) Finance
5 11 (10.19%) Law
6 4 (3.70%) Banking
6 4 (3.70%) Police
7 3 (2.78%) Legal
8 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (31.48%) Developer
2 22 (20.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (17.59%) Java Developer
4 15 (13.89%) Lead
5 11 (10.19%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (7.41%) Senior
7 7 (6.48%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (5.56%) JavaScript Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Technical Leader
10 4 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.78%) Spring Boot
2 22 (20.37%) React
3 21 (19.44%) REST
4 19 (17.59%) Node.js
4 19 (17.59%) Spring
5 18 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 17 (15.74%) Kafka
7 15 (13.89%) Hibernate
8 14 (12.96%) CSS
8 14 (12.96%) HTML
9 13 (12.04%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (12.04%) JPA
10 11 (10.19%) ARM Templates
10 11 (10.19%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (9.26%) Express.js
12 9 (8.33%) .NET
12 9 (8.33%) Java EE
13 7 (6.48%) Apache CXF
13 7 (6.48%) JAX-RS
13 7 (6.48%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Public Cloud
2 6 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.78%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.22%) Linux
2 19 (17.59%) Windows
3 18 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.48%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.63%) CentOS
6 4 (3.70%) Unix
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (70.37%) DevOps
2 50 (46.30%) Microservices
3 49 (45.37%) CI/CD
4 37 (34.26%) Continuous Integration
5 31 (28.70%) Software Engineering
5 31 (28.70%) Test Automation
6 28 (25.93%) Agile
6 28 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (23.15%) Containerisation
8 20 (18.52%) Code Quality
8 20 (18.52%) Configuration Management
9 19 (17.59%) Open Source
10 17 (15.74%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (13.89%) Deployment Automation
11 15 (13.89%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (12.04%) Software Architecture
13 12 (11.11%) Build Automation
14 11 (10.19%) Analytics
14 11 (10.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 46 (42.59%) Java
2 40 (37.04%) Python
3 32 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 28 (25.93%) SQL
5 16 (14.81%) PowerShell
6 13 (12.04%) Perl
7 12 (11.11%) Bash
8 9 (8.33%) C#
9 7 (6.48%) Go
10 4 (3.70%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.70%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.85%) Groovy
12 2 (1.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.93%) COBOL
13 1 (0.93%) JCL
13 1 (0.93%) PHP
13 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (48.15%) Security Cleared
2 44 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.63%) SANS
5 1 (0.93%) CEH
5 1 (0.93%) CISM
5 1 (0.93%) CISSP
5 1 (0.93%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.85%) GDPR
1 2 (1.85%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (1.85%) NIST
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.93%) NCSC
2 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.93%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (48.15%) Docker
2 16 (14.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.70%) Postfix
5 3 (2.78%) vCloud
5 3 (2.78%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (2.78%) vSphere
6 1 (0.93%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 57 (52.78%) Kubernetes
2 42 (38.89%) Terraform
3 28 (25.93%) Ansible
4 14 (12.96%) Kibana
5 12 (11.11%) Progress Chef
6 10 (9.26%) Podman
7 9 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (8.33%) Prometheus
8 8 (7.41%) Grafana
9 6 (5.56%) Argo
10 5 (4.63%) Puppet
11 2 (1.85%) Istio
11 2 (1.85%) Packer
12 1 (0.93%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.93%) logstash
12 1 (0.93%) Nessus
12 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (18.52%) Splunk
2 11 (10.19%) Red Hat
3 10 (9.26%) AppDynamics
4 8 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.41%) Veracode
5 6 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 6 (5.56%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.63%) Coverity
6 5 (4.63%) VMware
7 4 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (2.78%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.78%) Confluent
8 3 (2.78%) IBM
8 3 (2.78%) Oracle
8 3 (2.78%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.85%) Checkmarx
9 2 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.93%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.93%) Databricks