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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 384 483
Rank change year-on-year -110 +99 0
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 156 142 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.48% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 3.30% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 105 74
10th Percentile £418 £329 £416
25th Percentile £475 £405 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £488 £561
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -13.14% -6.46%
75th Percentile £601 £588 £650
90th Percentile £706 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +9.68% -15.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 1 3
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
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 5,934 4,301 5,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 14.61% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,840 2,874 3,526
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £625
90th Percentile £686 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 81 233
10th Percentile £34.90 £20.85 £31.34
25th Percentile £57.93 £46.92 £46.25
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 £82.96 £77.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -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 12 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 12 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 -104 143 £515 +5.57% 21
UK excluding London -51 100 £510 +9.68% 21
Work from Home -61 50 £537 +10.56% 8
London -91 45 £571 +3.86% 2
North of England -48 44 £500 +12.99% 12
Midlands -60 27 £512 +7.84%
South East -58 26 £513 +2.40% 4
North East -15 24 £511 +9.95% 6
West Midlands -47 23 £512 +2.45%
North West -30 12 £431 +9.67% 4
East of England -14 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -49 8 £500 +5.26% 2
South West -22 4 £525 -12.50% 1
East Midlands -31 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 (12.82%) Confluence
2 8 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.49%) nginx
4 6 (3.85%) Apache
5 3 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.92%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.64%) Camunda
6 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 70 (44.87%) AWS
2 46 (29.49%) Azure
3 41 (26.28%) GitHub
3 41 (26.28%) OpenShift
4 35 (22.44%) GCP
5 31 (19.87%) Amazon EC2
5 31 (19.87%) Amazon S3
6 28 (17.95%) Route 53
7 23 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (13.46%) AWS KMS
9 20 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (11.54%) Serverless
11 14 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (8.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (4.49%) OCI
15 4 (2.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.77%) OpenVPN
2 8 (5.13%) Firewall
3 7 (4.49%) DNS
3 7 (4.49%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.49%) VPN
4 4 (2.56%) MQTT
4 4 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.46%) Amazon RDS
1 21 (13.46%) DynamoDB
2 20 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (7.05%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (6.41%) Metadata
6 8 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.21%) MySQL
8 4 (2.56%) Flink
9 3 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.92%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.92%) Big Data
9 3 (1.92%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.92%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.28%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.64%) JasperReports
11 1 (0.64%) Redis
11 1 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 60 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 40 (25.64%) Git
3 38 (24.36%) Maven
4 37 (23.72%) GitLab
5 33 (21.15%) JUnit
6 20 (12.82%) JIRA
7 19 (12.18%) Mockito
8 15 (9.62%) Snyk
9 14 (8.97%) DbUnit
10 13 (8.33%) jMock
11 12 (7.69%) Bitbucket
11 12 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (7.05%) Artifactory
13 10 (6.41%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (5.77%) IntelliJ
15 7 (4.49%) CircleCI
16 6 (3.85%) Cucumber
16 6 (3.85%) Gradle
17 5 (3.21%) REST Assured
17 5 (3.21%) Selenium
General
1 35 (22.44%) Public Sector
2 32 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.46%) Finance
4 15 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.69%) Banking
6 7 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.49%) Publishing
7 6 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.92%) Automotive
8 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.28%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (36.54%) Developer
2 43 (27.56%) Java Developer
3 33 (21.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (14.74%) Senior
5 19 (12.18%) Software Engineer
6 18 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 17 (10.90%) Java Engineer
8 13 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 12 (7.69%) Architect
10 11 (7.05%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (7.05%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 8 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.21%) Consultant
14 5 (3.21%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (3.21%) Technical Architect
15 4 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (33.97%) AngularJS
2 36 (23.08%) Quarkus
2 36 (23.08%) Spring
3 35 (22.44%) Spring Boot
4 26 (16.67%) Node.js
4 26 (16.67%) RESTful
5 23 (14.74%) REST
5 23 (14.74%) Web Services
6 21 (13.46%) Hibernate
6 21 (13.46%) JPA
6 21 (13.46%) YAML
7 20 (12.82%) Spring Cloud
8 19 (12.18%) SOAP
9 18 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
9 18 (11.54%) Spring Batch
9 18 (11.54%) Spring Integration
10 14 (8.97%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (8.33%) PowerMock
12 12 (7.69%) Kafka
12 12 (7.69%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.64%) Life Science
5 1 (0.64%) LIMS
5 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.64%) NHS
5 1 (0.64%) PKI
5 1 (0.64%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.64%) Replication
5 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.23%) Linux
2 4 (2.56%) Unix
3 1 (0.64%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (59.62%) CI/CD
2 87 (55.77%) DevOps
3 77 (49.36%) Agile
4 68 (43.59%) DevSecOps
5 64 (41.03%) Scrum
6 56 (35.90%) Test Automation
7 55 (35.26%) Software Engineering
8 46 (29.49%) Containerisation
9 44 (28.21%) SDLC
10 43 (27.56%) TDD
10 43 (27.56%) Unit Testing
11 42 (26.92%) Microservices
12 41 (26.28%) Sprint Planning
13 35 (22.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 34 (21.79%) Front End Development
15 32 (20.51%) Sprint Review
16 29 (18.59%) BDD
17 22 (14.10%) Static Application Security Testing
18 21 (13.46%) Performance Tuning
19 20 (12.82%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 95 (60.90%) Java
2 33 (21.15%) SQL
3 31 (19.87%) Python
4 11 (7.05%) Groovy
5 8 (5.13%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.21%) Bash
7 4 (2.56%) Go
7 4 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.56%) Rust
8 3 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.28%) C#
9 2 (1.28%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.64%) COBOL
10 1 (0.64%) RPG
10 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (51.28%) Security Cleared
2 72 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.77%) Degree
4 8 (5.13%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.49%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.64%) CISSP
9 1 (0.64%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.64%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (27.56%) QA
2 4 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.92%) WCAG
4 2 (1.28%) NIST
4 2 (1.28%) PSD2
4 2 (1.28%) SEPA
5 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) GDPR
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (35.90%) Docker
2 11 (7.05%) Postfix
3 7 (4.49%) Squid
4 3 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 89 (57.05%) Kubernetes
2 53 (33.97%) Terraform
3 49 (31.41%) Grafana
4 39 (25.00%) Argo
5 35 (22.44%) Prometheus
6 25 (16.03%) Ansible
7 8 (5.13%) Consul
7 8 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.49%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.49%) Istio
8 7 (4.49%) Puppet
9 5 (3.21%) Podman
10 3 (1.92%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.28%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (27.56%) Red Hat
2 21 (13.46%) Atlassian
3 17 (10.90%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (8.33%) Checkmarx
5 12 (7.69%) Veracode
6 11 (7.05%) Sonatype
7 10 (6.41%) Google
8 9 (5.77%) Dynatrace
9 7 (4.49%) Tenable
10 6 (3.85%) Salesforce
11 5 (3.21%) Guidewire
12 4 (2.56%) Microsoft
12 4 (2.56%) NVIDIA
13 3 (1.92%) Cognizant
13 3 (1.92%) Databricks
13 3 (1.92%) Oracle
13 3 (1.92%) SAP
13 3 (1.92%) Splunk
14 2 (1.28%) IBM
15 1 (0.64%) Pega