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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 388 476
Rank change year-on-year -109 +88 -5
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 150 136 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.57% 3.22% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 101 72
10th Percentile £417 £363 £425
25th Percentile £475 £413 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £561
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -10.91% -6.46%
75th Percentile £626 £588 £650
90th Percentile £723 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -15.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 3
10th Percentile £60.25 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% -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 5,844 4,227 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.90% 14.61% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,801 2,817 3,453
10th Percentile £350 £340 £351
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 75 221
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.85 £26.24
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.21 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 5 June 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
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 5 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 -94 137 £519 +6.37% 30
UK excluding London -75 92 £512 +10.00% 32
London -88 46 £571 +3.86% 4
Work from Home -46 44 £525 +7.74% 15
North of England -61 37 £475 +3.26% 19
Midlands -46 28 £514 +8.21% 1
West Midlands -43 24 £514 +2.80% 1
South East -56 21 £513 +2.40% 6
North East -16 17 £513 +10.22% 9
North West -33 13 £431 +9.67% 6
East of England -20 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -49 7 £475 - 4
South West -27 5 £575 -4.17%
East Midlands -32 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 (13.33%) Confluence
2 8 (5.33%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.67%) nginx
4 6 (4.00%) Apache
5 4 (2.67%) OpenStack
6 3 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.67%) Camunda
7 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 70 (46.67%) AWS
2 49 (32.67%) Azure
3 46 (30.67%) GitHub
4 35 (23.33%) GCP
4 35 (23.33%) OpenShift
5 31 (20.67%) Amazon EC2
5 31 (20.67%) Amazon S3
6 28 (18.67%) Route 53
7 22 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (14.00%) AWS KMS
8 21 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (11.33%) Serverless
11 15 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (4.00%) OCI
16 4 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.00%) OpenVPN
2 8 (5.33%) Firewall
3 7 (4.67%) DNS
3 7 (4.67%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.67%) VPN
4 3 (2.00%) MQTT
4 3 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.00%) Amazon RDS
1 21 (14.00%) DynamoDB
1 21 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (6.00%) Metadata
5 8 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.33%) MySQL
7 4 (2.67%) Flink
8 3 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.00%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.00%) Big Data
8 3 (2.00%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.00%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.33%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.67%) JasperReports
10 1 (0.67%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.67%) Redis
10 1 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 61 (40.67%) Jenkins
2 40 (26.67%) Git
3 38 (25.33%) Maven
4 35 (23.33%) GitLab
5 34 (22.67%) JUnit
6 21 (14.00%) JIRA
7 19 (12.67%) Mockito
8 16 (10.67%) Snyk
9 15 (10.00%) Bitbucket
10 14 (9.33%) DbUnit
11 13 (8.67%) jMock
12 12 (8.00%) Artifactory
12 12 (8.00%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (7.33%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (6.00%) IntelliJ
15 7 (4.67%) CircleCI
15 7 (4.67%) Gradle
16 6 (4.00%) Cucumber
16 6 (4.00%) Selenium
17 5 (3.33%) REST Assured
General
1 34 (22.67%) Public Sector
2 33 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.67%) Finance
4 16 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.33%) Banking
6 7 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.00%) Publishing
8 3 (2.00%) Automotive
8 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Advertising
10 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (35.33%) Developer
2 39 (26.00%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (15.33%) Senior
5 18 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 17 (11.33%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.67%) Architect
7 13 (8.67%) Java Engineer
8 11 (7.33%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 8 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (3.33%) Technical Architect
15 4 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
15 4 (2.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (29.33%) AngularJS
2 36 (24.00%) Spring
3 35 (23.33%) Spring Boot
4 27 (18.00%) Node.js
4 27 (18.00%) Quarkus
5 25 (16.67%) RESTful
6 24 (16.00%) REST
7 23 (15.33%) Web Services
8 21 (14.00%) Hibernate
8 21 (14.00%) JPA
9 20 (13.33%) Spring Cloud
9 20 (13.33%) YAML
10 19 (12.67%) SOAP
11 18 (12.00%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (12.00%) Spring Batch
11 18 (12.00%) Spring Integration
12 14 (9.33%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (8.67%) PowerMock
14 12 (8.00%) Kafka
15 11 (7.33%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.67%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.00%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.33%) Blog
5 2 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.67%) Life Science
6 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.67%) NHS
6 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (2.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (62.00%) CI/CD
2 87 (58.00%) DevOps
3 68 (45.33%) Agile
4 59 (39.33%) DevSecOps
5 54 (36.00%) Scrum
6 49 (32.67%) Software Engineering
7 48 (32.00%) Containerisation
7 48 (32.00%) Test Automation
8 43 (28.67%) TDD
9 42 (28.00%) Microservices
10 40 (26.67%) SDLC
11 34 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (22.67%) Unit Testing
12 32 (21.33%) Sprint Planning
13 29 (19.33%) BDD
14 25 (16.67%) Front End Development
15 23 (15.33%) Sprint Review
16 22 (14.67%) Static Application Security Testing
17 21 (14.00%) Code Quality
18 20 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 90 (60.00%) Java
2 35 (23.33%) SQL
3 31 (20.67%) Python
4 10 (6.67%) Groovy
5 7 (4.67%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.33%) Bash
6 5 (3.33%) Go
7 4 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.00%) Rust
8 3 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.33%) C#
9 2 (1.33%) C++
10 1 (0.67%) C
10 1 (0.67%) COBOL
10 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.67%) ProC
10 1 (0.67%) RPG
10 1 (0.67%) VB
10 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 64 (42.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.67%) Degree
4 8 (5.33%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.67%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.67%) CISSP
8 1 (0.67%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.67%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (23.33%) QA
2 4 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.00%) WCAG
4 2 (1.33%) PSD2
4 2 (1.33%) SEPA
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (38.67%) Docker
2 11 (7.33%) Postfix
3 7 (4.67%) Squid
4 3 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 81 (54.00%) Kubernetes
2 51 (34.00%) Terraform
3 48 (32.00%) Grafana
4 34 (22.67%) Prometheus
5 30 (20.00%) Argo
6 23 (15.33%) Ansible
7 8 (5.33%) Consul
7 8 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.67%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.67%) Istio
8 7 (4.67%) Puppet
9 5 (3.33%) Podman
10 3 (2.00%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.33%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.33%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 34 (22.67%) Red Hat
2 21 (14.00%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.33%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (10.00%) Checkmarx
5 14 (9.33%) Veracode
6 10 (6.67%) Dynatrace
6 10 (6.67%) Google
6 10 (6.67%) Sonatype
7 7 (4.67%) Salesforce
8 6 (4.00%) Microsoft
8 6 (4.00%) Tenable
9 5 (3.33%) Guidewire
10 4 (2.67%) Oracle
10 4 (2.67%) Splunk
11 3 (2.00%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.00%) Databricks
11 3 (2.00%) NVIDIA
11 3 (2.00%) SAP
12 2 (1.33%) IBM
13 1 (0.67%) Pega