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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 418 478
Rank change year-on-year -56 +60 +17
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 143 109 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.47% 2.64% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 84 73
10th Percentile £409 £387 £426
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -7.05% -7.17%
75th Percentile £588 £629 £650
90th Percentile £658 £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 21 0 3
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £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 5,784 4,131 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.48% 14.02% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,852 2,777 3,452
10th Percentile £343 £338 £356
25th Percentile £404 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 67 183
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.92 £31.97
25th Percentile £60.68 £51.53 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.44 £76.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -84 128 £518 +3.04% 31
UK excluding London -44 89 £510 +9.68% 27
North of England -45 40 £441 -4.24% 15
London -63 40 £525 -5.41% 4
Work from Home -29 39 £525 +0.96% 14
Midlands -50 25 £525 +10.53% 3
West Midlands -41 19 £514 +8.21%
North East -7 17 £513 +10.22% 12
North West -33 15 £431 +9.54% 1
South East -49 15 £513 +2.40% 5
East of England -23 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -53 8 £450 -13.25% 2
East Midlands -36 6 £525 +24.70% 3
South West - 5 £625 - 3
Scotland -2 1 £329 -52.04%

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 23 (16.08%) Confluence
2 7 (4.90%) nginx
3 5 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.80%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 68 (47.55%) AWS
2 43 (30.07%) Azure
2 43 (30.07%) GitHub
3 31 (21.68%) OpenShift
4 28 (19.58%) Amazon S3
5 26 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (16.08%) GCP
6 23 (16.08%) Route 53
7 21 (14.69%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (13.99%) Amazon SQS
8 20 (13.99%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (13.99%) Serverless
9 17 (11.89%) AWS KMS
10 16 (11.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (11.19%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (9.79%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.29%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.90%) DNS
2 7 (4.90%) Firewall
2 7 (4.90%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.29%) DynamoDB
2 17 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (11.19%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (9.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.59%) Metadata
7 7 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.50%) MySQL
8 5 (3.50%) Redis
9 4 (2.80%) DocumentDB
10 3 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.10%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.10%) Big Data
10 3 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.10%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.10%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.40%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.40%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.40%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 53 (37.06%) Jenkins
2 38 (26.57%) Git
3 29 (20.28%) GitLab
3 29 (20.28%) JUnit
4 28 (19.58%) Maven
5 25 (17.48%) JIRA
6 19 (13.29%) Bitbucket
7 14 (9.79%) Mockito
7 14 (9.79%) Snyk
8 12 (8.39%) Artifactory
9 11 (7.69%) DbUnit
9 11 (7.69%) jMock
10 9 (6.29%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (5.59%) IntelliJ
12 7 (4.90%) Cucumber
13 6 (4.20%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (3.50%) CircleCI
14 5 (3.50%) Postman
14 5 (3.50%) Selenium
15 3 (2.10%) Cypress.io
General
1 35 (24.48%) Public Sector
2 26 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.69%) Finance
4 12 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.99%) Banking
6 7 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.50%) Publishing
8 3 (2.10%) Automotive
8 3 (2.10%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.40%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Advertising
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (36.36%) Developer
2 33 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 28 (19.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (13.29%) Senior
5 18 (12.59%) Software Engineer
6 13 (9.09%) Architect
6 13 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.69%) Java Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 7 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (4.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Lead
10 6 (4.20%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (3.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) React Developer
11 5 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (29.37%) AngularJS
2 31 (21.68%) Spring
3 30 (20.98%) Node.js
4 29 (20.28%) Spring Boot
5 25 (17.48%) Quarkus
6 20 (13.99%) REST
6 20 (13.99%) YAML
7 19 (13.29%) RESTful
7 19 (13.29%) Web Services
8 16 (11.19%) Hibernate
8 16 (11.19%) JPA
9 15 (10.49%) Spring Cloud
10 14 (9.79%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (9.79%) SOAP
10 14 (9.79%) Spring Batch
10 14 (9.79%) Spring Integration
11 11 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (7.69%) PowerMock
12 10 (6.99%) JSON
12 10 (6.99%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.69%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.10%) Blog
3 3 (2.10%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.40%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.70%) Life Science
5 1 (0.70%) LIMS
5 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.70%) NHS
5 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.70%) Replication
5 1 (0.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.78%) Linux
2 4 (2.80%) Unix
3 2 (1.40%) Windows
4 1 (0.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (59.44%) CI/CD
2 81 (56.64%) DevOps
3 66 (46.15%) Agile
4 52 (36.36%) DevSecOps
5 48 (33.57%) Scrum
6 46 (32.17%) Test Automation
7 43 (30.07%) Software Engineering
8 39 (27.27%) SDLC
9 38 (26.57%) Containerisation
10 37 (25.87%) TDD
11 34 (23.78%) Unit Testing
12 33 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
13 31 (21.68%) Microservices
14 30 (20.98%) Infrastructure as Code
15 28 (19.58%) BDD
16 24 (16.78%) Front End Development
17 22 (15.38%) Sprint Review
18 21 (14.69%) Static Application Security Testing
19 20 (13.99%) Code Quality
20 17 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 85 (59.44%) Java
2 28 (19.58%) Python
3 27 (18.88%) SQL
4 10 (6.99%) Groovy
5 7 (4.90%) Go
6 5 (3.50%) Bash
6 5 (3.50%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.50%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.80%) C++
7 4 (2.80%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.80%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.10%) C#
9 1 (0.70%) C
9 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.70%) ProC
9 1 (0.70%) RPG
9 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (47.55%) Security Cleared
2 59 (41.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.20%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.20%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.80%) Degree
5 1 (0.70%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (23.08%) QA
2 3 (2.10%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.10%) WCAG
3 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (34.27%) Docker
2 10 (6.99%) Postfix
3 7 (4.90%) Squid
4 3 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 66 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 42 (29.37%) Terraform
3 35 (24.48%) Grafana
4 26 (18.18%) Argo
5 25 (17.48%) Prometheus
6 16 (11.19%) Ansible
7 8 (5.59%) Consul
8 7 (4.90%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.90%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (3.50%) Istio
9 5 (3.50%) Puppet
10 4 (2.80%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.40%) Podman
11 2 (1.40%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (20.98%) Red Hat
2 18 (12.59%) Atlassian
3 15 (10.49%) Checkmarx
4 14 (9.79%) Jaspersoft
5 13 (9.09%) Veracode
6 10 (6.99%) Dynatrace
7 9 (6.29%) Google
7 9 (6.29%) Sonatype
8 7 (4.90%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.50%) Databricks
9 5 (3.50%) Guidewire
9 5 (3.50%) Microsoft
9 5 (3.50%) SAP
10 4 (2.80%) Oracle
10 4 (2.80%) Splunk
11 3 (2.10%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.10%) Tenable
12 1 (0.70%) LabVantage
12 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.70%) OutSystems