SonarQube Contracts

SonarSource SonarQube
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SonarQube skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SonarQube over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 497 438
Rank change year-on-year +5 -59 -1
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 106 227 495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.07% 2.51% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 156 305
10th Percentile £425 £469 £450
25th Percentile £501 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £593 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% +13.64%
75th Percentile £650 £696 £650
90th Percentile £688 £850 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - - £41.50
25th Percentile £75.00 - £43.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +47.37% +18.75%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £51.25
90th Percentile - - £53.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% +27.27% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

SonarQube is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SonarQube as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SonarQube.

Daily rate trend for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SonarQube.

Hourly rate trend for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Top 14 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 +20 86 £550 -6.78% 25
UK excluding London +47 59 £550 -6.38% 16
Work from Home +65 38 £650 +8.33% 11
London -6 28 £500 -17.53% 9
South East +7 26 £650 +10.64% 4
South West +22 13 £525 -22.22% 4
North of England +35 12 £550 - 6
North West +19 7 £550 +5.72% 2
Midlands +24 5 £356 -25.83% 1
East Midlands - 5 £356 -
Yorkshire +20 4 £569 +3.41% 3
Wales +17 2 £666 +2.50%
Scotland +27 1 £375 -47.00% 1
North East +19 1 £550 -34.05% 1

SonarQube
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.72%) JBoss
2 3 (2.83%) IIS
2 3 (2.83%) nginx
2 3 (2.83%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 61 (57.55%) AWS
2 59 (55.66%) Azure
3 30 (28.30%) GitHub
4 29 (27.36%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (15.09%) PaaS
6 12 (11.32%) IaaS
7 11 (10.38%) Serverless
8 10 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (9.43%) SaaS
9 9 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.55%) OpenShift
11 7 (6.60%) Amazon S3
11 7 (6.60%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (6.60%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (5.66%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (5.66%) GCP
12 6 (5.66%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) HTTP
2 1 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.94%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.32%) NoSQL
1 12 (11.32%) Relational Database
2 10 (9.43%) MySQL
2 10 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.43%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.49%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (7.55%) RDBMS
5 7 (6.60%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (5.66%) Data Lake
6 6 (5.66%) DynamoDB
7 5 (4.72%) SQLite
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.94%) Big Data
10 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (50.94%) Jenkins
2 36 (33.96%) Selenium
3 34 (32.08%) Git
4 32 (30.19%) Cucumber
5 26 (24.53%) GitLab
5 26 (24.53%) REST Assured
6 18 (16.98%) JIRA
7 13 (12.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (10.38%) Maven
9 8 (7.55%) Artifactory
10 7 (6.60%) Burp Suite
11 6 (5.66%) AppScan
11 6 (5.66%) Bitbucket
11 6 (5.66%) Postman
12 5 (4.72%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (4.72%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (4.72%) Checkstyle
12 5 (4.72%) JUnit
12 5 (4.72%) TeamCity
13 4 (3.77%) Robot Framework
General
1 37 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.92%) Law
4 15 (14.15%) Finance
5 13 (12.26%) Police
6 10 (9.43%) Banking
7 6 (5.66%) Legal
8 4 (3.77%) Retail
9 3 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.89%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.94%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (20.75%) Developer
2 20 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (18.87%) Java Engineer
3 17 (16.04%) Software Engineer
4 13 (12.26%) Senior
4 13 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) Site Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Java Developer
7 7 (6.60%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (4.72%) React Developer
8 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (35.85%) REST
2 24 (22.64%) Java EE
3 22 (20.75%) ARM Templates
4 16 (15.09%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (13.21%) JSON
5 14 (13.21%) Spring Boot
6 13 (12.26%) HTML
7 12 (11.32%) .NET
8 10 (9.43%) Azure Blueprints
8 10 (9.43%) YAML
9 9 (8.49%) Spring
10 8 (7.55%) .NET Core
10 8 (7.55%) .NET Framework
10 8 (7.55%) Node.js
11 7 (6.60%) Kafka
11 7 (6.60%) React
11 7 (6.60%) React Native
11 7 (6.60%) RESTful
11 7 (6.60%) Web Services
12 6 (5.66%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.43%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.43%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.55%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.66%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.77%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.83%) Solar Panel
7 2 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.89%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.87%) Linux
2 10 (9.43%) Windows
3 5 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.77%) Unix
4 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.83%) Android
6 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (83.96%) DevOps
2 54 (50.94%) Software Engineering
2 54 (50.94%) Test Automation
3 48 (45.28%) CI/CD
4 39 (36.79%) Continuous Integration
5 36 (33.96%) Containerisation
5 36 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (27.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (24.53%) Technical Leadership
8 25 (23.58%) Decision-Making
8 25 (23.58%) Software Architecture
9 24 (22.64%) Agile
10 23 (21.70%) Configuration Management
11 21 (19.81%) Code Quality
12 18 (16.98%) Deployment Automation
13 16 (15.09%) Project Management
14 15 (14.15%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (13.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 13 (12.26%) Scrum
16 13 (12.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 38 (35.85%) Java
2 21 (19.81%) Python
3 19 (17.92%) Bash
4 15 (14.15%) SQL
5 13 (12.26%) PowerShell
6 12 (11.32%) C#
7 10 (9.43%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.66%) Go
9 5 (4.72%) Perl
10 4 (3.77%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.89%) Bicep
12 1 (0.94%) PHP
12 1 (0.94%) Scala
12 1 (0.94%) Swift
12 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (53.77%) Security Cleared
2 46 (43.40%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (8.49%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.83%) Degree
5 3 (2.83%) SANS
6 2 (1.89%) HND
7 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.38%) QA
2 10 (9.43%) NCSC
3 3 (2.83%) ISO 22301
3 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 65 (61.32%) Docker
2 10 (9.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 67 (63.21%) Ansible
2 56 (52.83%) Kubernetes
2 56 (52.83%) Terraform
3 13 (12.26%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (11.32%) HP Fortify
4 12 (11.32%) Podman
5 11 (10.38%) Progress Chef
6 9 (8.49%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.49%) Puppet
7 7 (6.60%) Grafana
7 7 (6.60%) Graylog
8 6 (5.66%) Kibana
8 6 (5.66%) Nessus
8 6 (5.66%) WebInspect
9 5 (4.72%) Packer
10 3 (2.83%) Argo
10 3 (2.83%) Kustomize
10 3 (2.83%) Nagios
10 3 (2.83%) Netcool
10 3 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (19.81%) Splunk
2 15 (14.15%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.32%) Checkmarx
3 12 (11.32%) Red Hat
4 8 (7.55%) AppDynamics
5 6 (5.66%) Veracode
6 4 (3.77%) Black Duck
6 4 (3.77%) Oracle
6 4 (3.77%) Xamarin
7 3 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.83%) VMware
8 2 (1.89%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.89%) Mercator