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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 371 476
Rank change year-on-year -120 +105 0
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 170 188 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.57% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.69% 3.83% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 137 68
10th Percentile £441 £276 £409
25th Percentile £478 £385 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £480 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £626 £615 £675
90th Percentile £690 £688 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £425 £606
% change year-on-year +20.12% -29.87% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
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 6,312 4,903 4,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 14.91% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,046 3,312 3,269
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £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 £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 112 214
10th Percentile £31.50 £26.23 £28.98
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.34 £85.10 £73.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +4.00%

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 8 August 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 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 8 August 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 -126 154 £522 +9.85% 42
UK excluding London -81 108 £511 +20.12% 26
Work from Home -83 63 £550 +16.53% 19
London -102 50 £601 -5.80% 20
North of England -72 47 £510 +26.87% 13
South East -46 30 £601 +20.13% 1
Midlands -53 30 £512 +26.17% 7
North East -19 29 £511 +9.95% 11
West Midlands -43 26 £512 +2.45% 5
Yorkshire -40 10 £514 +31.79% 1
East of England - 9 £510 -
North West -61 8 £463 +17.68% 1
Scotland -8 3 £450 - 1
East Midlands -24 3 - - 2
South West -47 3 - - 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 10 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.29%) Confluence
3 8 (4.71%) Apache
4 7 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.18%) Camunda
5 2 (1.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 82 (48.24%) AWS
2 57 (33.53%) Azure
3 54 (31.76%) GitHub
4 49 (28.82%) OpenShift
5 41 (24.12%) GCP
6 34 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (16.47%) Amazon S3
8 27 (15.88%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (14.12%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (12.35%) Route 53
11 19 (11.18%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (11.18%) AWS KMS
12 17 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (9.41%) Serverless
14 15 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (5.88%) OCI
15 10 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
18 7 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.94%) Firewall
2 4 (2.35%) MQTT
2 4 (2.35%) Network Security
2 4 (2.35%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.18%) DNS
3 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.12%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 19 (11.18%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.47%) Metadata
6 6 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.94%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.94%) MySQL
8 4 (2.35%) Flink
8 4 (2.35%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.76%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.76%) Big Data
9 3 (1.76%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.76%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.76%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 81 (47.65%) Jenkins
2 53 (31.18%) Git
3 49 (28.82%) GitLab
4 48 (28.24%) Maven
5 41 (24.12%) JUnit
6 22 (12.94%) Mockito
7 20 (11.76%) Snyk
8 14 (8.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (7.65%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (7.06%) DbUnit
11 11 (6.47%) Gradle
11 11 (6.47%) jMock
12 10 (5.88%) Cucumber
13 9 (5.29%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.29%) JIRA
13 9 (5.29%) Selenium
14 8 (4.71%) CircleCI
14 8 (4.71%) IntelliJ
15 7 (4.12%) Postman
15 7 (4.12%) REST Assured
General
1 38 (22.35%) Public Sector
2 32 (18.82%) Social Skills
3 27 (15.88%) Finance
4 20 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.41%) Banking
6 10 (5.88%) Publishing
7 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.76%) Automotive
8 3 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Advertising
10 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (36.47%) Developer
2 47 (27.65%) Java Developer
3 39 (22.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (13.53%) Senior
5 18 (10.59%) Software Engineer
6 17 (10.00%) Java Engineer
7 16 (9.41%) Senior Developer
8 14 (8.24%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 12 (7.06%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (5.29%) Architect
11 9 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (4.12%) Lead
14 6 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (3.53%) Data Engineer
14 6 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (34.71%) AngularJS
2 45 (26.47%) Spring
2 45 (26.47%) Spring Boot
3 42 (24.71%) Quarkus
4 33 (19.41%) Node.js
5 24 (14.12%) REST
6 21 (12.35%) ActiveMQ
6 21 (12.35%) RESTful
7 20 (11.76%) Hibernate
7 20 (11.76%) JPA
7 20 (11.76%) Kafka
7 20 (11.76%) SOAP
7 20 (11.76%) Spring Cloud
8 18 (10.59%) Web Services
9 17 (10.00%) YAML
10 16 (9.41%) Spring Batch
10 16 (9.41%) Spring Integration
11 15 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (8.24%) React
12 14 (8.24%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.76%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.18%) PKI
8 1 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.59%) Life Science
8 1 (0.59%) LIMS
8 1 (0.59%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.59%) NHS
8 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.24%) Linux
2 5 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (62.94%) CI/CD
2 105 (61.76%) DevOps
3 89 (52.35%) Agile
4 79 (46.47%) DevSecOps
5 74 (43.53%) Scrum
6 64 (37.65%) Software Engineering
6 64 (37.65%) Test Automation
7 57 (33.53%) Microservices
8 50 (29.41%) SDLC
9 45 (26.47%) Containerisation
10 44 (25.88%) Front End Development
11 43 (25.29%) Sprint Planning
12 41 (24.12%) TDD
12 41 (24.12%) Unit Testing
13 39 (22.94%) Infrastructure as Code
14 37 (21.76%) Sprint Review
15 27 (15.88%) Static Application Security Testing
16 26 (15.29%) BDD
17 23 (13.53%) Code Quality
18 22 (12.94%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 106 (62.35%) Java
2 45 (26.47%) Python
3 40 (23.53%) SQL
4 14 (8.24%) Groovy
4 14 (8.24%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.29%) Bash
6 8 (4.71%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.12%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.35%) Go
8 4 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.35%) Rust
9 2 (1.18%) C#
10 1 (0.59%) Bicep
10 1 (0.59%) COBOL
10 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (49.41%) Security Cleared
2 77 (45.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.88%) Degree
4 9 (5.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.12%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.76%) CISSP
8 3 (1.76%) GIAC
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.18%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.59%) GSEC
10 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (30.00%) QA
2 11 (6.47%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.94%) WCAG
4 4 (2.35%) NIST
4 4 (2.35%) PSD2
4 4 (2.35%) SEPA
5 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.59%) GDPR
6 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (40.59%) Docker
2 9 (5.29%) Postfix
3 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.18%) HDFS
4 2 (1.18%) Squid
5 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 106 (62.35%) Kubernetes
2 56 (32.94%) Terraform
3 47 (27.65%) Grafana
4 45 (26.47%) Argo
5 33 (19.41%) Prometheus
6 29 (17.06%) Ansible
7 9 (5.29%) Istio
8 8 (4.71%) Puppet
9 6 (3.53%) HP Fortify
10 5 (2.94%) Podman
11 4 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.76%) Consul
13 2 (1.18%) FortiGate
13 2 (1.18%) Kibana
13 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.18%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 43 (25.29%) Red Hat
2 15 (8.82%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (8.24%) Atlassian
3 14 (8.24%) Checkmarx
4 12 (7.06%) Sonatype
5 10 (5.88%) Google
6 9 (5.29%) Databricks
7 7 (4.12%) Tenable
8 6 (3.53%) Veracode
9 5 (2.94%) Oracle
10 4 (2.35%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.35%) IBM
10 4 (2.35%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.35%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.35%) SAP
10 4 (2.35%) Splunk
11 1 (0.59%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.59%) Pega
11 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.59%) UiPath