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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 414 485
Rank change year-on-year -87 +71 +8
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 130 109 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.23% 2.68% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 83 73
10th Percentile £404 £391 £425
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -6.25% -4.68%
75th Percentile £599 £653 £650
90th Percentile £690 £700 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +10.87% -16.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £54.63 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 5,834 4,071 5,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.03% 14.01% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,908 2,721 3,518
10th Percentile £344 £338 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 74 179
10th Percentile £39.21 £25.49 £34.60
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.27 £45.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.80 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -87 121 £516 -2.85% 43
UK excluding London -57 83 £510 +10.87% 38
North of England -47 38 £441 -3.19% 18
London -82 38 £525 -7.08% 6
Work from Home -39 31 £525 - 20
Midlands -48 24 £537 +12.95% 3
West Midlands -47 18 £571 +20.21% 2
North East -3 16 £513 +10.81% 16
North West -25 14 £431 +9.54%
South East -49 14 £513 -1.20% 12
Yorkshire -54 8 £450 -13.25% 2
South West - 8 £650 - 3
East Midlands -34 6 £525 +10.53% 1
East of England -28 5 £500 +55.58% 2
Scotland +6 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 (17.69%) Confluence
2 7 (5.38%) nginx
3 5 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.85%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.08%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 62 (47.69%) AWS
2 43 (33.08%) Azure
3 37 (28.46%) GitHub
4 31 (23.85%) OpenShift
5 22 (16.92%) Amazon S3
5 22 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (15.38%) GCP
7 19 (14.62%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (13.85%) Route 53
9 17 (13.08%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (12.31%) Serverless
11 13 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (8.46%) AWS KMS
13 10 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (6.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (4.62%) Azure AKS
16 5 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.92%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.38%) DNS
2 7 (5.38%) Firewall
2 7 (5.38%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 11 (8.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (5.38%) Metadata
6 5 (3.85%) Redis
7 4 (3.08%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.31%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.54%) MySQL
9 2 (1.54%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.54%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.54%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.54%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.77%) Flink
10 1 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (36.92%) Jenkins
2 35 (26.92%) Git
3 26 (20.00%) GitLab
3 26 (20.00%) Maven
4 25 (19.23%) JIRA
5 22 (16.92%) JUnit
6 19 (14.62%) Bitbucket
7 14 (10.77%) Artifactory
8 13 (10.00%) Snyk
9 11 (8.46%) Mockito
10 9 (6.92%) DbUnit
10 9 (6.92%) jMock
11 8 (6.15%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (5.38%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (5.38%) Cucumber
13 6 (4.62%) Selenium
14 5 (3.85%) CircleCI
14 5 (3.85%) Postman
15 4 (3.08%) Cypress.io
15 4 (3.08%) Gradle
General
1 29 (22.31%) Public Sector
2 25 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.85%) Finance
4 10 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.38%) Banking
5 7 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.85%) Publishing
7 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.54%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.54%) Automotive
9 1 (0.77%) Advertising
9 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (36.92%) Developer
2 27 (20.77%) Java Developer
3 23 (17.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (13.85%) Senior
5 17 (13.08%) Software Engineer
6 13 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.46%) Architect
8 10 (7.69%) Java Engineer
9 8 (6.15%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (6.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.62%) AWS DevOps
12 5 (3.85%) Lead
12 5 (3.85%) React Developer
12 5 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.85%) Technical Architect
13 4 (3.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (28.46%) AngularJS
2 26 (20.00%) Node.js
2 26 (20.00%) Spring
3 24 (18.46%) Quarkus
3 24 (18.46%) Spring Boot
4 21 (16.15%) YAML
5 19 (14.62%) REST
6 17 (13.08%) RESTful
7 16 (12.31%) Web Services
8 13 (10.00%) Hibernate
8 13 (10.00%) JPA
9 12 (9.23%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (9.23%) Spring Cloud
10 11 (8.46%) ActiveMQ
10 11 (8.46%) SOAP
10 11 (8.46%) Spring Batch
10 11 (8.46%) Spring Integration
11 9 (6.92%) Bootstrap
11 9 (6.92%) JSON
11 9 (6.92%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.31%) Blog
3 3 (2.31%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.54%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.77%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.38%) Linux
2 4 (3.08%) Unix
3 2 (1.54%) Windows
4 1 (0.77%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (56.92%) CI/CD
2 73 (56.15%) DevOps
3 61 (46.92%) Agile
4 51 (39.23%) DevSecOps
5 45 (34.62%) Test Automation
6 44 (33.85%) Scrum
7 36 (27.69%) Software Engineering
8 35 (26.92%) Containerisation
8 35 (26.92%) SDLC
9 33 (25.38%) Unit Testing
10 31 (23.85%) Sprint Planning
10 31 (23.85%) TDD
11 27 (20.77%) Microservices
12 26 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (19.23%) Front End Development
14 23 (17.69%) BDD
15 20 (15.38%) Sprint Review
16 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (12.31%) Static Application Security Testing
18 15 (11.54%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 75 (57.69%) Java
2 23 (17.69%) SQL
3 22 (16.92%) Python
4 8 (6.15%) Groovy
5 7 (5.38%) Go
6 5 (3.85%) Bash
6 5 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.08%) C++
7 4 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.31%) C#
9 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.77%) C
10 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.77%) ProC
10 1 (0.77%) RPG
10 1 (0.77%) VB
Qualifications
1 63 (48.46%) Security Cleared
2 53 (40.77%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.08%) Degree
5 1 (0.77%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.54%) QA
2 4 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.08%) WCAG
3 2 (1.54%) NCSC
4 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (36.15%) Docker
2 8 (6.15%) Postfix
3 7 (5.38%) Squid
Systems Management
1 62 (47.69%) Kubernetes
2 36 (27.69%) Terraform
3 28 (21.54%) Grafana
4 25 (19.23%) Argo
5 20 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 15 (11.54%) Ansible
7 7 (5.38%) Consul
7 7 (5.38%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.38%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (4.62%) Puppet
9 5 (3.85%) Istio
10 4 (3.08%) HP Fortify
11 3 (2.31%) Podman
12 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.54%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 29 (22.31%) Red Hat
2 16 (12.31%) Atlassian
3 13 (10.00%) Veracode
4 11 (8.46%) Checkmarx
4 11 (8.46%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (7.69%) Dynatrace
6 7 (5.38%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.38%) Sonatype
7 6 (4.62%) Microsoft
8 5 (3.85%) Databricks
8 5 (3.85%) Google
8 5 (3.85%) Guidewire
8 5 (3.85%) SAP
9 4 (3.08%) Oracle
10 3 (2.31%) Cognizant
11 2 (1.54%) Splunk
12 1 (0.77%) Acunetix
12 1 (0.77%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.77%) Netsparker
12 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow