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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 356 494
Rank change year-on-year -148 +138 -9
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 182 194 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.60% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.96% 3.94% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 142 61
10th Percentile £414 £277 £425
25th Percentile £462 £385 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £601 £639 £685
90th Percentile £680 £700 £700
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 6,150 4,925 5,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.24% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,968 3,320 3,250
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 £600 £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 248 110 181
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £28.00
25th Percentile £52.88 £50.25 £50.75
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 £87.50 £71.50
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 4 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 4 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 -125 167 £515 +8.34% 59
UK excluding London -78 114 £511 +11.10% 26
Work from Home -73 66 £528 +17.22% 29
London -114 58 £593 -2.87% 38
North of England -67 52 £511 +27.81% 9
Midlands -47 35 £511 +7.47% 6
North East -12 30 £511 +9.95% 8
West Midlands -39 30 £513 +2.55% 2
South East -57 28 £601 +20.13% 5
Yorkshire -42 11 £514 +31.79% 1
North West -62 11 £500 +27.23%
East of England -10 9 £510 -40.00%
East Midlands -29 4 £335 +24.07% 4
Scotland -19 3 £450 -
South West -52 2 - - 6

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 (10.44%) Confluence
2 11 (6.04%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.40%) Apache
3 8 (4.40%) Camunda
4 7 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.75%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 80 (43.96%) AWS
2 58 (31.87%) GitHub
3 56 (30.77%) Azure
4 54 (29.67%) OpenShift
5 43 (23.63%) GCP
6 33 (18.13%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (9.89%) Amazon S3
9 17 (9.34%) Serverless
10 14 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (7.14%) AWS KMS
12 12 (6.59%) Route 53
13 11 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (4.95%) OCI
16 8 (4.40%) Azure AKS
16 8 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (4.40%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (4.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) Firewall
2 4 (2.20%) MQTT
2 4 (2.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.74%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 12 (6.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (6.04%) Relational Database
4 11 (6.04%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (5.49%) Metadata
6 7 (3.85%) MySQL
7 6 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.20%) Apache Hive
8 4 (2.20%) Big Data
8 4 (2.20%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.20%) Flink
8 4 (2.20%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.20%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.20%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (47.80%) Jenkins
2 66 (36.26%) Git
3 60 (32.97%) GitLab
3 60 (32.97%) Maven
4 53 (29.12%) JUnit
5 28 (15.38%) Mockito
6 24 (13.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 20 (10.99%) JIRA
8 19 (10.44%) Gradle
9 17 (9.34%) Snyk
10 16 (8.79%) Cucumber
11 15 (8.24%) Selenium
12 14 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
13 12 (6.59%) Postman
13 12 (6.59%) REST Assured
14 10 (5.49%) Gatling
15 8 (4.40%) IntelliJ
16 7 (3.85%) DbUnit
16 7 (3.85%) JMeter
16 7 (3.85%) LoadRunner
General
1 43 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.68%) Finance
3 30 (16.48%) Public Sector
4 26 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (12.09%) Banking
6 9 (4.95%) Publishing
7 4 (2.20%) Automotive
7 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.65%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Advertising
10 1 (0.55%) Front Office
10 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (39.01%) Developer
2 51 (28.02%) Java Developer
3 41 (22.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (17.03%) Senior
5 19 (10.44%) Senior Developer
6 18 (9.89%) Java Engineer
7 15 (8.24%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (8.24%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.04%) Lead
8 11 (6.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.49%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (4.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Quality Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Architect
12 7 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.30%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (31.87%) AngularJS
2 56 (30.77%) Spring
3 55 (30.22%) Spring Boot
3 55 (30.22%) Terraform
4 40 (21.98%) Quarkus
5 32 (17.58%) Kafka
6 31 (17.03%) Node.js
7 27 (14.84%) JPA
8 26 (14.29%) Hibernate
8 26 (14.29%) REST
9 25 (13.74%) RESTful
9 25 (13.74%) Web Services
10 24 (13.19%) SOAP
11 22 (12.09%) React
12 21 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
13 20 (10.99%) HTML
14 19 (10.44%) Spring Cloud
15 18 (9.89%) YAML
16 16 (8.79%) CSS
17 15 (8.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.03%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.95%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.30%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.10%) PKI
10 1 (0.55%) Life Science
10 1 (0.55%) LIMS
10 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.55%) NHS
10 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.03%) Linux
2 11 (6.04%) Unix
3 4 (2.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (64.84%) CI/CD
2 105 (57.69%) Agile
3 100 (54.95%) DevOps
4 84 (46.15%) Scrum
4 84 (46.15%) Test Automation
5 75 (41.21%) DevSecOps
6 69 (37.91%) Microservices
7 64 (35.16%) Software Engineering
8 57 (31.32%) SDLC
9 51 (28.02%) TDD
10 49 (26.92%) Containerisation
11 48 (26.37%) Front End Development
11 48 (26.37%) Sprint Planning
12 42 (23.08%) Unit Testing
13 40 (21.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (19.23%) Sprint Review
15 32 (17.58%) Code Quality
16 28 (15.38%) BDD
17 27 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (69.78%) Java
2 55 (30.22%) Python
3 48 (26.37%) SQL
4 28 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.79%) Groovy
6 14 (7.69%) Bash
7 13 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.95%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.30%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.20%) Bicep
10 4 (2.20%) Rust
11 3 (1.65%) Go
11 3 (1.65%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.55%) C#
12 1 (0.55%) COBOL
12 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 70 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.44%) Degree
4 15 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.30%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.30%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.65%) CISSP
8 3 (1.65%) GIAC
8 3 (1.65%) ISEB
8 3 (1.65%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.10%) CSSLP
9 2 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.55%) GSEC
10 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (29.67%) QA
2 15 (8.24%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.95%) WCAG
4 4 (2.20%) NIST
4 4 (2.20%) PSD2
4 4 (2.20%) SEPA
5 3 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.55%) GDPR
7 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (41.76%) Docker
2 6 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.75%) Postfix
4 2 (1.10%) HDFS
5 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 111 (60.99%) Kubernetes
2 45 (24.73%) Grafana
3 43 (23.63%) Argo
4 33 (18.13%) Prometheus
5 28 (15.38%) Ansible
6 9 (4.95%) HP Fortify
6 9 (4.95%) Istio
7 8 (4.40%) Puppet
8 5 (2.75%) Podman
9 4 (2.20%) Control-M
10 2 (1.10%) Kibana
10 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.55%) Consul
Vendors
1 39 (21.43%) Red Hat
2 18 (9.89%) Checkmarx
3 15 (8.24%) Google
4 14 (7.69%) IBM
5 12 (6.59%) Veracode
6 11 (6.04%) Databricks
6 11 (6.04%) Oracle
6 11 (6.04%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.40%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (4.40%) Tenable
8 7 (3.85%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.85%) SAP
9 6 (3.30%) Microsoft
10 5 (2.75%) Splunk
11 4 (2.20%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.20%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.65%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.55%) LabVantage
13 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.55%) UiPath