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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 371 493
Rank change year-on-year -125 +122 -23
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 187 196 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.60% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.99% 3.95% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 143 52
10th Percentile £400 £283 £414
25th Percentile £450 £385 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £483 £597
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -19.10% -0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £685
90th Percentile £680 £700 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £465 £600
% change year-on-year +9.73% -22.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 6,264 4,965 5,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.53% 15.20% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,002 3,337 3,251
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 111 176
10th Percentile £24.11 £29.00 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -124 172 £513 +6.77% 87
UK excluding London -92 113 £510 +9.73% 39
Work from Home -78 66 £520 +15.56% 37
London -102 64 £584 -4.34% 52
North of England -59 50 £513 +22.75% 20
Midlands -43 39 £475 -2.56% 4
West Midlands -34 36 £476 -17.22% 4
North East -17 29 £511 +9.95% 13
South East -50 27 £601 +20.13% 7
Yorkshire -41 11 £514 +31.79% 3
North West -63 10 £519 +29.30% 4
East of England -22 6 £570 -32.94% 1
Scotland -25 3 £450 - 1
South West -48 3 £300 -57.14% 5
East Midlands -24 2 £335 +24.07%

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 19 (10.16%) Confluence
2 11 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.81%) Apache
4 8 (4.28%) Camunda
5 7 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (2.67%) SharePoint
7 4 (2.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 87 (46.52%) AWS
2 64 (34.22%) GitHub
3 54 (28.88%) Azure
4 52 (27.81%) OpenShift
5 41 (21.93%) GCP
6 31 (16.58%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (15.51%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (10.16%) Amazon S3
9 17 (9.09%) Serverless
10 15 (8.02%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (6.95%) AWS KMS
12 12 (6.42%) Route 53
13 11 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.81%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (4.81%) OCI
15 8 (4.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (4.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.21%) Firewall
2 4 (2.14%) MQTT
2 4 (2.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.97%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.49%) DynamoDB
2 14 (7.49%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.42%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (5.35%) Metadata
5 8 (4.28%) MySQL
6 5 (2.67%) Flink
6 5 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.14%) Apache Hive
7 4 (2.14%) Big Data
7 4 (2.14%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.14%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.14%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.14%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (47.59%) Jenkins
2 69 (36.90%) Git
3 64 (34.22%) GitLab
3 64 (34.22%) Maven
4 57 (30.48%) JUnit
5 31 (16.58%) Mockito
6 22 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 21 (11.23%) Cucumber
7 21 (11.23%) JIRA
8 20 (10.70%) Gradle
9 19 (10.16%) Selenium
10 17 (9.09%) Snyk
11 14 (7.49%) Bitbucket Server
11 14 (7.49%) Gatling
12 12 (6.42%) Postman
12 12 (6.42%) REST Assured
13 10 (5.35%) Artifactory
14 7 (3.74%) DbUnit
14 7 (3.74%) IntelliJ
14 7 (3.74%) LoadRunner
General
1 49 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.72%) Finance
3 31 (16.58%) Public Sector
4 29 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (12.30%) Banking
6 9 (4.81%) Publishing
7 6 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.60%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.07%) Automotive
10 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Front Office
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (38.50%) Developer
2 53 (28.34%) Java Developer
3 39 (20.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (15.51%) Senior
5 19 (10.16%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (8.02%) Java Engineer
8 12 (6.42%) Lead
8 12 (6.42%) Quality Engineer
8 12 (6.42%) Software Engineer
9 11 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (4.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Lead Developer
12 7 (3.74%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) Architect
13 6 (3.21%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (32.09%) AngularJS
1 60 (32.09%) Spring
2 55 (29.41%) Spring Boot
2 55 (29.41%) Terraform
3 38 (20.32%) Quarkus
4 32 (17.11%) Kafka
5 30 (16.04%) JPA
5 30 (16.04%) Node.js
6 29 (15.51%) Hibernate
6 29 (15.51%) REST
7 28 (14.97%) RESTful
7 28 (14.97%) SOAP
7 28 (14.97%) Web Services
8 24 (12.83%) ActiveMQ
8 24 (12.83%) React
9 22 (11.76%) HTML
10 21 (11.23%) Spring Cloud
11 18 (9.63%) CSS
11 18 (9.63%) YAML
12 17 (9.09%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.04%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.42%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.81%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.21%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.07%) PKI
11 1 (0.53%) Life Science
11 1 (0.53%) LIMS
11 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.53%) NHS
11 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (18.72%) Linux
2 10 (5.35%) Unix
3 5 (2.67%) Windows
4 4 (2.14%) VMS
5 1 (0.53%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (66.84%) CI/CD
2 108 (57.75%) Agile
3 101 (54.01%) DevOps
4 89 (47.59%) Scrum
5 88 (47.06%) Test Automation
6 74 (39.57%) Microservices
7 73 (39.04%) DevSecOps
8 62 (33.16%) Software Engineering
9 58 (31.02%) SDLC
10 55 (29.41%) TDD
11 49 (26.20%) Containerisation
12 48 (25.67%) Front End Development
13 46 (24.60%) Sprint Planning
14 44 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
15 41 (21.93%) Unit Testing
16 33 (17.65%) Code Quality
16 33 (17.65%) Sprint Review
17 31 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 30 (16.04%) BDD
19 29 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (67.91%) Java
2 57 (30.48%) Python
3 48 (25.67%) SQL
4 30 (16.04%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.16%) Bash
6 16 (8.56%) Groovy
6 16 (8.56%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.81%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.14%) Bicep
9 4 (2.14%) Rust
10 3 (1.60%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.07%) Go
12 1 (0.53%) C#
12 1 (0.53%) COBOL
12 1 (0.53%) Korn
12 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (43.32%) Security Cleared
2 76 (40.64%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.23%) Degree
4 19 (10.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (8.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.74%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.60%) CISSP
7 3 (1.60%) GIAC
7 3 (1.60%) ISEB
7 3 (1.60%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.07%) CSSLP
8 2 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.53%) GSEC
9 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (28.88%) QA
2 18 (9.63%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.42%) WCAG
4 4 (2.14%) NIST
4 4 (2.14%) PSD2
4 4 (2.14%) SEPA
5 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.53%) GDPR
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (43.32%) Docker
2 6 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.67%) Postfix
4 2 (1.07%) HDFS
5 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 112 (59.89%) Kubernetes
2 47 (25.13%) Grafana
3 41 (21.93%) Argo
4 35 (18.72%) Prometheus
5 31 (16.58%) Ansible
6 9 (4.81%) HP Fortify
7 7 (3.74%) Istio
8 6 (3.21%) Puppet
9 5 (2.67%) Podman
10 4 (2.14%) Control-M
11 2 (1.07%) Kibana
11 2 (1.07%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.53%) Consul
Vendors
1 37 (19.79%) Red Hat
2 15 (8.02%) Checkmarx
3 14 (7.49%) IBM
4 13 (6.95%) Google
5 12 (6.42%) Veracode
6 11 (5.88%) Databricks
6 11 (5.88%) Oracle
6 11 (5.88%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.28%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (4.28%) Tenable
8 7 (3.74%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.74%) SAP
9 6 (3.21%) Microsoft
10 5 (2.67%) Splunk
11 4 (2.14%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.14%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.53%) LabVantage
13 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.53%) UiPath