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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 391 469
Rank change year-on-year -89 +78 +30
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 149 131 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.55% 3.16% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 98 74
10th Percentile £410 £361 £416
25th Percentile £456 £425 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £555
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -9.91% -7.50%
75th Percentile £626 £648 £650
90th Percentile £710 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +9.68% -15.45% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 3
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 5,833 4,144 5,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.50% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,810 2,794 3,436
10th Percentile £350 £340 £353
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 £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 70 215
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.86 £29.30
25th Percentile £54.69 £45.48 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.19 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.04 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -107 135 £519 +6.37% 19
UK excluding London -78 91 £510 +9.68% 22
London -90 46 £550 -
Work from Home -53 41 £525 +8.75% 5
North of England -52 37 £450 -2.17% 12
Midlands -64 27 £525 +10.58% 2
West Midlands -48 23 £525 +10.58% 1
South East -50 20 £513 +2.40% 4
North East -12 17 £513 +10.22% 4
North West -34 14 £431 +9.67% 4
East of England -21 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -52 6 £450 -5.26% 4
South West -28 5 £575 -4.17%
East Midlands -39 3 - - 1
Scotland -2 1 £329 -52.04% 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 (13.42%) Confluence
2 8 (5.37%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.70%) nginx
4 6 (4.03%) Apache
5 4 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.68%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.67%) Camunda
6 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.31%) AWS
2 47 (31.54%) Azure
3 45 (30.20%) GitHub
4 36 (24.16%) OpenShift
5 32 (21.48%) GCP
6 30 (20.13%) Amazon EC2
6 30 (20.13%) Amazon S3
7 27 (18.12%) Route 53
8 22 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (14.09%) Amazon SQS
9 21 (14.09%) AWS KMS
10 20 (13.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (10.74%) Serverless
12 14 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (8.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (3.36%) OCI
17 4 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.04%) OpenVPN
2 8 (5.37%) Firewall
3 7 (4.70%) DNS
3 7 (4.70%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.70%) VPN
4 2 (1.34%) MQTT
4 2 (1.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.09%) DynamoDB
1 21 (14.09%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (13.42%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (12.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (6.04%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (5.37%) Metadata
6 5 (3.36%) MySQL
7 4 (2.68%) Flink
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.01%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.01%) Big Data
8 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.34%) Redis
10 1 (0.67%) JasperReports
10 1 (0.67%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 59 (39.60%) Jenkins
2 40 (26.85%) Git
3 37 (24.83%) Maven
4 34 (22.82%) JUnit
5 33 (22.15%) GitLab
6 21 (14.09%) JIRA
7 19 (12.75%) Mockito
8 15 (10.07%) Bitbucket
8 15 (10.07%) Snyk
9 14 (9.40%) DbUnit
10 13 (8.72%) jMock
11 12 (8.05%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (7.38%) Artifactory
13 10 (6.71%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (6.04%) IntelliJ
15 7 (4.70%) CircleCI
15 7 (4.70%) Gradle
16 6 (4.03%) Cucumber
16 6 (4.03%) Selenium
17 5 (3.36%) REST Assured
General
1 36 (24.16%) Public Sector
2 31 (20.81%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.11%) Finance
4 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.40%) Banking
6 7 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.36%) Publishing
9 3 (2.01%) Automotive
9 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
11 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (35.57%) Developer
2 38 (25.50%) Java Developer
3 31 (20.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (14.77%) Senior
5 18 (12.08%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.08%) Software Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) Java Engineer
7 13 (8.72%) Architect
8 11 (7.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.71%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 7 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.36%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (3.36%) Technical Architect
15 4 (2.68%) Consultant
15 4 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (29.53%) AngularJS
2 36 (24.16%) Spring
3 35 (23.49%) Spring Boot
4 27 (18.12%) Node.js
4 27 (18.12%) Quarkus
5 24 (16.11%) REST
5 24 (16.11%) RESTful
6 23 (15.44%) Web Services
7 21 (14.09%) Hibernate
7 21 (14.09%) JPA
8 20 (13.42%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (12.75%) SOAP
9 19 (12.75%) YAML
10 18 (12.08%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (12.08%) Spring Batch
10 18 (12.08%) Spring Integration
11 13 (8.72%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (8.72%) PowerMock
12 11 (7.38%) Bootstrap
12 11 (7.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.42%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.01%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.34%) Blog
5 2 (1.34%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.67%) Life Science
6 1 (0.67%) LIMS
6 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.67%) NHS
6 1 (0.67%) PKI
6 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.79%) Linux
2 4 (2.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (60.40%) CI/CD
2 86 (57.72%) DevOps
3 67 (44.97%) Agile
4 56 (37.58%) DevSecOps
5 53 (35.57%) Scrum
6 49 (32.89%) Test Automation
7 48 (32.21%) Software Engineering
8 46 (30.87%) Containerisation
9 44 (29.53%) TDD
10 40 (26.85%) Microservices
10 40 (26.85%) SDLC
11 34 (22.82%) Unit Testing
12 32 (21.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 32 (21.48%) Sprint Planning
13 29 (19.46%) BDD
14 25 (16.78%) Front End Development
15 23 (15.44%) Sprint Review
16 21 (14.09%) Code Quality
17 20 (13.42%) Performance Tuning
17 20 (13.42%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 90 (60.40%) Java
2 36 (24.16%) SQL
3 29 (19.46%) Python
4 9 (6.04%) Groovy
5 6 (4.03%) Go
5 6 (4.03%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.36%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.68%) Bash
8 3 (2.01%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.34%) C#
9 2 (1.34%) C++
9 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.34%) Rust
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 (48.32%) Security Cleared
2 63 (42.28%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.04%) Degree
4 7 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.03%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.03%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.67%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.82%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.01%) WCAG
4 2 (1.34%) PSD2
4 2 (1.34%) SEPA
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (37.58%) Docker
2 11 (7.38%) Postfix
3 7 (4.70%) Squid
4 3 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 79 (53.02%) Kubernetes
2 48 (32.21%) Terraform
3 46 (30.87%) Grafana
4 32 (21.48%) Prometheus
5 29 (19.46%) Argo
6 21 (14.09%) Ansible
7 8 (5.37%) Consul
8 7 (4.70%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.70%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (4.03%) Istio
10 5 (3.36%) Puppet
11 4 (2.68%) Podman
12 2 (1.34%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.34%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (22.82%) Red Hat
2 21 (14.09%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.41%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (9.40%) Checkmarx
5 13 (8.72%) Veracode
6 10 (6.71%) Dynatrace
6 10 (6.71%) Google
7 9 (6.04%) Sonatype
8 7 (4.70%) Salesforce
9 6 (4.03%) Microsoft
10 5 (3.36%) Guidewire
10 5 (3.36%) Tenable
11 4 (2.68%) Databricks
11 4 (2.68%) Oracle
11 4 (2.68%) SAP
11 4 (2.68%) Splunk
12 3 (2.01%) Cognizant
13 2 (1.34%) IBM
13 2 (1.34%) NVIDIA
14 1 (0.67%) UiPath