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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 366 472
Rank change year-on-year -134 +106 +7
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 179 191 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.59% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.91% 3.87% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 143 63
10th Percentile £413 £277 £434
25th Percentile £461 £385 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £600 £647 £680
90th Percentile £680 £700 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £460 £612
% change year-on-year +11.10% -24.92% +2.00%
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% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 6,159 4,940 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.49% 15.20% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,974 3,328 3,251
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 115 179
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.65 £27.60
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.00 £51.13
Median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.70 £71.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 3 September 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

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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 3 September 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 -138 164 £514 +8.28% 60
UK excluding London -83 114 £511 +11.10% 28
Work from Home -61 66 £528 +17.22% 25
London -96 55 £593 -2.87% 36
North of England -48 52 £511 +27.49% 10
Midlands -48 35 £511 +7.47% 6
North East -17 30 £511 +9.95% 9
West Midlands -41 30 £513 +2.55% 2
South East -52 28 £601 +20.19% 5
Yorkshire -40 11 £514 +31.79% 1
North West -60 11 £500 +26.10%
East of England -13 9 £510 -40.00%
East Midlands -27 4 £335 +24.07% 4
Scotland -21 3 £450 -
South West -46 2 - - 7

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 19 (10.61%) Confluence
2 11 (6.15%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.47%) Apache
3 8 (4.47%) Camunda
4 5 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.79%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 79 (44.13%) AWS
2 55 (30.73%) GitHub
3 54 (30.17%) OpenShift
4 53 (29.61%) Azure
5 43 (24.02%) GCP
6 31 (17.32%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (12.29%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (10.06%) Amazon S3
9 17 (9.50%) Serverless
10 14 (7.82%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (7.26%) AWS KMS
12 12 (6.70%) Route 53
13 11 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (5.59%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (5.03%) OCI
16 8 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (4.47%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (4.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 8 (4.47%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.35%) Firewall
2 4 (2.23%) MQTT
2 4 (2.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.97%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.82%) DynamoDB
3 11 (6.15%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.15%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (5.59%) Metadata
5 7 (3.91%) MySQL
6 6 (3.35%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.23%) Apache Hive
7 4 (2.23%) Big Data
7 4 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.23%) Flink
7 4 (2.23%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.23%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.23%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.23%) Tableau
8 3 (1.68%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 87 (48.60%) Jenkins
2 65 (36.31%) Git
3 60 (33.52%) GitLab
3 60 (33.52%) Maven
4 53 (29.61%) JUnit
5 28 (15.64%) Mockito
6 24 (13.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 20 (11.17%) JIRA
8 19 (10.61%) Gradle
9 16 (8.94%) Cucumber
9 16 (8.94%) Snyk
10 15 (8.38%) Selenium
11 14 (7.82%) Bitbucket Server
12 12 (6.70%) Postman
12 12 (6.70%) REST Assured
13 10 (5.59%) Gatling
14 8 (4.47%) IntelliJ
15 7 (3.91%) DbUnit
15 7 (3.91%) JMeter
15 7 (3.91%) LoadRunner
General
1 43 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.44%) Finance
3 30 (16.76%) Public Sector
4 26 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (12.29%) Banking
6 9 (5.03%) Publishing
7 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Automotive
9 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (39.66%) Developer
2 51 (28.49%) Java Developer
3 40 (22.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (15.64%) Senior
5 19 (10.61%) Senior Developer
6 18 (10.06%) Java Engineer
7 15 (8.38%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (8.38%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Lead
8 11 (6.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.59%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Quality Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Architect
12 7 (3.91%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.35%) Consultant
13 6 (3.35%) GCP DevOps
13 6 (3.35%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (32.40%) AngularJS
2 56 (31.28%) Spring
3 55 (30.73%) Spring Boot
4 54 (30.17%) Terraform
5 40 (22.35%) Quarkus
6 32 (17.88%) Kafka
7 31 (17.32%) Node.js
8 27 (15.08%) JPA
9 26 (14.53%) Hibernate
10 25 (13.97%) REST
10 25 (13.97%) RESTful
10 25 (13.97%) Web Services
11 24 (13.41%) SOAP
12 22 (12.29%) React
13 21 (11.73%) ActiveMQ
14 20 (11.17%) HTML
15 19 (10.61%) Spring Cloud
16 18 (10.06%) YAML
17 16 (8.94%) CSS
18 15 (8.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.03%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.35%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.12%) PKI
10 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.56%) Life Science
10 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.32%) Linux
2 11 (6.15%) Unix
3 4 (2.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (64.80%) CI/CD
2 105 (58.66%) Agile
3 98 (54.75%) DevOps
4 83 (46.37%) Scrum
4 83 (46.37%) Test Automation
5 75 (41.90%) DevSecOps
6 69 (38.55%) Microservices
7 64 (35.75%) Software Engineering
8 57 (31.84%) SDLC
9 51 (28.49%) TDD
10 48 (26.82%) Containerisation
10 48 (26.82%) Front End Development
10 48 (26.82%) Sprint Planning
11 42 (23.46%) Unit Testing
12 39 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (19.55%) Sprint Review
14 32 (17.88%) Code Quality
15 28 (15.64%) BDD
16 27 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (70.95%) Java
2 53 (29.61%) Python
3 46 (25.70%) SQL
4 28 (15.64%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.94%) Groovy
6 13 (7.26%) Bash
6 13 (7.26%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.03%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.79%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.23%) Rust
10 3 (1.68%) Bicep
10 3 (1.68%) Go
10 3 (1.68%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.56%) C#
11 1 (0.56%) COBOL
11 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (43.02%) Security Cleared
2 70 (39.11%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.61%) Degree
4 15 (8.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.35%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.68%) CISSP
7 3 (1.68%) GIAC
7 3 (1.68%) ISEB
7 3 (1.68%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.12%) CSSLP
8 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.56%) GSEC
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (30.17%) QA
2 15 (8.38%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.03%) WCAG
4 4 (2.23%) NIST
4 4 (2.23%) PSD2
4 4 (2.23%) SEPA
5 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 74 (41.34%) Docker
2 6 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.79%) Postfix
4 2 (1.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 109 (60.89%) Kubernetes
2 45 (25.14%) Grafana
3 43 (24.02%) Argo
4 33 (18.44%) Prometheus
5 27 (15.08%) Ansible
6 9 (5.03%) HP Fortify
6 9 (5.03%) Istio
7 8 (4.47%) Puppet
8 5 (2.79%) Podman
9 4 (2.23%) Control-M
10 2 (1.12%) Kibana
10 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.56%) Consul
Vendors
1 39 (21.79%) Red Hat
2 18 (10.06%) Checkmarx
3 15 (8.38%) Google
4 14 (7.82%) IBM
5 12 (6.70%) Veracode
6 11 (6.15%) Oracle
6 11 (6.15%) Sonatype
7 9 (5.03%) Databricks
8 8 (4.47%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (4.47%) Tenable
9 7 (3.91%) Atlassian
10 6 (3.35%) Microsoft
10 6 (3.35%) SAP
11 5 (2.79%) Splunk
12 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
12 4 (2.23%) NVIDIA
13 3 (1.68%) AppDynamics
14 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.56%) Pega
14 1 (0.56%) UiPath