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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 374 477
Rank change year-on-year -112 +103 -13
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 160 153 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.51% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.66% 3.49% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 114 73
10th Percentile £413 £316 £415
25th Percentile £475 £406 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £484 £565
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -14.34% -5.83%
75th Percentile £601 £584 £650
90th Percentile £701 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +10.87% -16.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 3
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +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 6,010 4,378 5,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 14.66% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 2,927 3,523
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £410 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 84 248
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £27.40
25th Percentile £56.25 £46.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +5.69%

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 20 June 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

SonarQube
Top 14 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 20 June 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 -94 148 £515 +7.21% 24
UK excluding London -73 104 £510 +10.87% 20
Work from Home -59 52 £543 +13.41% 15
North of England -53 48 £500 +13.06% 9
London -100 46 £593 +7.73% 7
South East -47 27 £513 +2.40% 3
Midlands -57 27 £512 +15.76%
North East -16 25 £511 +10.54% 5
West Midlands -48 23 £512 +2.45%
North West -44 14 £431 +9.67% 3
East of England -25 9 £510 +58.69%
Yorkshire -55 9 £507 +6.74% 1
South West -27 4 £525 -12.50% 5
East Midlands -28 3 - -

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 20 (12.50%) Confluence
2 8 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.38%) nginx
4 6 (3.75%) Apache
5 3 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.88%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.63%) Camunda
6 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.88%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 70 (43.75%) AWS
2 47 (29.38%) Azure
3 43 (26.88%) GitHub
4 42 (26.25%) OpenShift
5 36 (22.50%) GCP
6 31 (19.38%) Amazon EC2
6 31 (19.38%) Amazon S3
7 28 (17.50%) Route 53
8 23 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (13.13%) AWS KMS
11 20 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (11.25%) Serverless
13 14 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (8.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (4.38%) OCI
17 4 (2.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.63%) Firewall
1 9 (5.63%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.38%) DNS
2 7 (4.38%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.38%) VPN
3 4 (2.50%) MQTT
3 4 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.13%) Amazon RDS
1 21 (13.13%) DynamoDB
2 20 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (11.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (6.88%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (6.25%) Metadata
6 8 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.13%) MySQL
8 4 (2.50%) Flink
9 3 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.88%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.88%) Big Data
9 3 (1.88%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.88%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.25%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.63%) JasperReports
11 1 (0.63%) Redis
11 1 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 42 (26.25%) Git
3 39 (24.38%) GitLab
4 38 (23.75%) Maven
5 34 (21.25%) JUnit
6 20 (12.50%) JIRA
7 19 (11.88%) Mockito
8 16 (10.00%) Snyk
9 14 (8.75%) DbUnit
10 13 (8.13%) jMock
11 12 (7.50%) Bitbucket
11 12 (7.50%) Bitbucket Server
11 12 (7.50%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (6.25%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.63%) IntelliJ
14 8 (5.00%) Cucumber
15 7 (4.38%) CircleCI
15 7 (4.38%) Gradle
16 6 (3.75%) REST Assured
16 6 (3.75%) Selenium
General
1 35 (21.88%) Public Sector
2 32 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.38%) Finance
4 16 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.75%) Banking
6 7 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.38%) Publishing
7 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.88%) Automotive
8 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (35.63%) Developer
2 43 (26.88%) Java Developer
3 35 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (14.38%) Senior
5 19 (11.88%) Software Engineer
6 18 (11.25%) Java Engineer
6 18 (11.25%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (7.50%) Architect
9 11 (6.88%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (6.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) Consultant
13 5 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) Technical Architect
14 4 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (33.75%) AngularJS
2 38 (23.75%) Quarkus
3 37 (23.13%) Spring
4 36 (22.50%) Spring Boot
5 27 (16.88%) Node.js
6 26 (16.25%) RESTful
7 23 (14.38%) REST
7 23 (14.38%) Web Services
8 21 (13.13%) Hibernate
8 21 (13.13%) JPA
8 21 (13.13%) YAML
9 20 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (11.88%) SOAP
11 18 (11.25%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (11.25%) Spring Batch
11 18 (11.25%) Spring Integration
12 14 (8.75%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (8.13%) Kafka
13 13 (8.13%) PowerMock
14 12 (7.50%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.25%) PKI
6 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.63%) Life Science
6 1 (0.63%) LIMS
6 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.63%) NHS
6 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.63%) Replication
6 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.38%) Linux
2 4 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 90 (56.25%) DevOps
3 79 (49.38%) Agile
4 70 (43.75%) DevSecOps
5 65 (40.63%) Scrum
6 58 (36.25%) Software Engineering
6 58 (36.25%) Test Automation
7 47 (29.38%) SDLC
8 46 (28.75%) Containerisation
9 44 (27.50%) Microservices
9 44 (27.50%) Unit Testing
10 43 (26.88%) TDD
11 42 (26.25%) Sprint Planning
12 36 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (21.88%) Front End Development
14 33 (20.63%) Sprint Review
15 30 (18.75%) BDD
16 24 (15.00%) Static Application Security Testing
17 21 (13.13%) Performance Tuning
18 20 (12.50%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 97 (60.63%) Java
2 33 (20.63%) Python
2 33 (20.63%) SQL
3 11 (6.88%) Groovy
4 8 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 7 (4.38%) Bash
6 4 (2.50%) Go
6 4 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.50%) Rust
7 3 (1.88%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.25%) C#
8 2 (1.25%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.63%) COBOL
9 1 (0.63%) RPG
9 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 72 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.63%) Degree
4 8 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.38%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.88%) CISSP
8 3 (1.88%) GIAC
9 2 (1.25%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.63%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (27.50%) QA
2 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.88%) NIST
3 3 (1.88%) WCAG
4 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.25%) PSD2
4 2 (1.25%) SEPA
5 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (36.25%) Docker
2 11 (6.88%) Postfix
3 7 (4.38%) Squid
4 3 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 93 (58.13%) Kubernetes
2 54 (33.75%) Terraform
3 50 (31.25%) Grafana
4 40 (25.00%) Argo
5 36 (22.50%) Prometheus
6 26 (16.25%) Ansible
7 9 (5.63%) Istio
7 9 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (5.00%) Consul
9 7 (4.38%) FortiGate
9 7 (4.38%) Puppet
10 5 (3.13%) Podman
11 4 (2.50%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.25%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (27.50%) Red Hat
2 21 (13.13%) Atlassian
3 17 (10.63%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (9.38%) Checkmarx
5 13 (8.13%) Veracode
6 11 (6.88%) Sonatype
7 10 (6.25%) Dynatrace
7 10 (6.25%) Google
8 7 (4.38%) Tenable
9 6 (3.75%) Salesforce
10 5 (3.13%) Guidewire
11 4 (2.50%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.50%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.88%) Cognizant
12 3 (1.88%) Databricks
12 3 (1.88%) Oracle
12 3 (1.88%) SAP
12 3 (1.88%) Splunk
13 2 (1.25%) IBM
14 1 (0.63%) Pega