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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 439 518
Rank change year-on-year -16 +79 -49
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 134 77 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.52% 1.82% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 51 49
10th Percentile £358 £413 £423
25th Percentile £393 £501 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -1.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £623 £650
90th Percentile £788 £703 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £606 £575
% change year-on-year -5.12% +5.39% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £47.88 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £60.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 5,324 4,242 5,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.63% 13.35% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,647 2,671 3,762
10th Percentile £338 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £513
% change year-on-year -0.42% -6.93% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 72 198
10th Percentile £39.00 £28.88 £43.59
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.26
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.15 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +17 125 £575 - 32
UK excluding London -11 75 £575 -5.12% 23
London +5 48 £583 +3.10% 9
Work from Home -1 37 £409 -26.96% 11
North of England -14 36 £400 -22.89% 11
Midlands -24 25 £700 +14.38% 5
North West -7 20 £425 +19.38%
West Midlands -20 19 £700 +14.38% 3
South West - 16 £700 - 4
Yorkshire -43 10 £390 -34.04% 5
South East 0 9 £550 -15.38% 3
North East -4 6 - - 6
East Midlands - 6 £398 - 2
Scotland 0 2 £484 -6.97%
East of England -17 1 £850 +167.30%

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 16 (11.94%) Confluence
2 7 (5.22%) Appian
3 5 (3.73%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.49%) Mule
6 1 (0.75%) Apache
6 1 (0.75%) CICS
6 1 (0.75%) JBoss
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 62 (46.27%) Azure
2 52 (38.81%) GitHub
3 51 (38.06%) AWS
4 32 (23.88%) GCP
5 27 (20.15%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (17.16%) OpenShift
7 22 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (14.93%) Serverless
9 19 (14.18%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (11.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 15 (11.19%) Datadog
13 12 (8.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (8.96%) Azure AKS
13 12 (8.96%) PaaS
14 11 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (8.21%) npm
15 10 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (5.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.22%) Firewall
2 3 (2.24%) SSH
3 1 (0.75%) DNS
3 1 (0.75%) HTTP
3 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.75%) Internet
3 1 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.75%) SMTP
3 1 (0.75%) SSL
3 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.69%) Redis
2 15 (11.19%) NoSQL
3 12 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (8.21%) DynamoDB
5 8 (5.97%) DocumentDB
6 7 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (5.22%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.22%) Power BI
6 7 (5.22%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (4.48%) MySQL
7 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.73%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.24%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.24%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.24%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.49%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 59 (44.03%) Jenkins
2 48 (35.82%) Git
3 33 (24.63%) GitLab
4 26 (19.40%) JIRA
5 23 (17.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 22 (16.42%) Maven
7 19 (14.18%) Selenium
8 18 (13.43%) Bitbucket
9 16 (11.94%) JUnit
10 15 (11.19%) Artifactory
10 15 (11.19%) Postman
11 14 (10.45%) Cucumber
11 14 (10.45%) Snyk
12 13 (9.70%) Gradle
13 12 (8.96%) Cypress.io
14 8 (5.97%) webpack
15 7 (5.22%) Robot Framework
16 6 (4.48%) Gatling
16 6 (4.48%) Mockito
17 5 (3.73%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.18%) Banking
3 18 (13.43%) Finance
4 15 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.22%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.73%) Publishing
8 4 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.49%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.75%) Retail
11 1 (0.75%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 34 (25.37%) Developer
2 26 (19.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (14.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 12 (8.96%) Java Developer
4 12 (8.96%) Lead
5 11 (8.21%) Senior
6 10 (7.46%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (6.72%) Architect
7 9 (6.72%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (6.72%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Java Architect
10 6 (4.48%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (4.48%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.73%) GCP DevOps
11 5 (3.73%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) React Developer
11 5 (3.73%) Senior Developer
12 4 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.91%) REST
2 21 (15.67%) Spring Boot
3 19 (14.18%) JSON
3 19 (14.18%) React
4 18 (13.43%) Kafka
5 17 (12.69%) YAML
6 16 (11.94%) Node.js
6 16 (11.94%) Spring
7 13 (9.70%) RESTful
8 12 (8.96%) AngularJS
9 11 (8.21%) CSS
9 11 (8.21%) CSS3
9 11 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (8.21%) HTML
9 11 (8.21%) HTML5
9 11 (8.21%) J2EE
10 10 (7.46%) .NET
11 8 (5.97%) Jest
11 8 (5.97%) Spring Cloud
11 8 (5.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.22%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.48%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.73%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.24%) Autonomous Agent
7 3 (2.24%) Blog
7 3 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.24%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.49%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.49%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.19%) Linux
2 7 (5.22%) Windows
3 4 (2.99%) Unix
4 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.49%) Android
6 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (65.67%) CI/CD
2 80 (59.70%) DevOps
3 54 (40.30%) Containerisation
4 49 (36.57%) Agile
5 46 (34.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (29.85%) DevSecOps
6 40 (29.85%) Test Automation
7 32 (23.88%) Microservices
8 31 (23.13%) Software Engineering
9 30 (22.39%) SDLC
10 26 (19.40%) Code Quality
11 24 (17.91%) Migration
11 24 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.91%) Unit Testing
12 21 (15.67%) AI
12 21 (15.67%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (14.18%) Scrum
13 19 (14.18%) Sprint Planning
13 19 (14.18%) TDD
14 18 (13.43%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 44 (32.84%) Python
2 43 (32.09%) Java
3 25 (18.66%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.43%) SQL
5 9 (6.72%) Bash
6 8 (5.97%) Groovy
7 7 (5.22%) Go
7 7 (5.22%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.22%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.73%) C++
9 4 (2.99%) C#
10 3 (2.24%) Rust
10 3 (2.24%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.49%) C
11 2 (1.49%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.49%) R
12 1 (0.75%) COBOL
12 1 (0.75%) Perl
12 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (34.33%) Security Cleared
2 33 (24.63%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.69%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.22%) Degree
6 6 (4.48%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.99%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.49%) OCP
9 2 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.75%) CISSP
10 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.75%) MCP
10 1 (0.75%) OSCP
10 1 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.43%) QA
2 11 (8.21%) NCSC
3 8 (5.97%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.99%) WCAG
5 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (59.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) HDFS
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (44.78%) Kubernetes
2 55 (41.04%) Terraform
3 21 (15.67%) Ansible
4 12 (8.96%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.46%) Grafana
6 9 (6.72%) Argo
7 8 (5.97%) Progress Chef
7 8 (5.97%) Puppet
8 5 (3.73%) Istio
8 5 (3.73%) Podman
9 3 (2.24%) Kibana
10 2 (1.49%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.49%) rkt
11 1 (0.75%) Cilium
11 1 (0.75%) Control-M
11 1 (0.75%) Rancher
11 1 (0.75%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (9.70%) Veracode
2 12 (8.96%) Google
3 11 (8.21%) Red Hat
3 11 (8.21%) Splunk
4 9 (6.72%) Checkmarx
4 9 (6.72%) Dynatrace
4 9 (6.72%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.22%) Cisco
6 6 (4.48%) DocuSign
7 5 (3.73%) Gigya
8 4 (2.99%) Databricks
8 4 (2.99%) Guidewire
8 4 (2.99%) Oracle
9 3 (2.24%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (2.24%) Perforce
10 2 (1.49%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.49%) Cognizant
10 2 (1.49%) SAP
10 2 (1.49%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.75%) VMware