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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 370 471
Rank change year-on-year -124 +101 -3
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 169 182 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.55% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.71% 3.72% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 135 72
10th Percentile £439 £276 £413
25th Percentile £479 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £475 £606
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -21.62% +1.00%
75th Percentile £626 £615 £675
90th Percentile £696 £688 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £418 £600
% change year-on-year +22.28% -30.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 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 6,235 4,896 5,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.72% 14.88% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,998 3,319 3,304
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 109 214
10th Percentile £27.19 £25.24 £26.59
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.34 £84.05 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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

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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 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

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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

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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 5 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 -138 153 £519 +9.17% 47
UK excluding London -81 111 £511 +22.28% 28
Work from Home -75 62 £530 +11.58% 30
North of England -46 48 £510 +29.77% 13
London -85 46 £618 -3.14% 24
Midlands -58 32 £512 +27.43% 5
North East -15 30 £511 +10.54% 11
South East -52 30 £601 +20.13% 2
West Midlands -46 28 £512 +5.08% 4
Yorkshire -46 10 £514 +31.79% 1
East of England - 9 £510 -
North West -61 8 £463 +17.68% 1
Scotland -9 3 £450 - 2
East Midlands -23 3 - - 1
South West -48 3 - - 5

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 11 (6.51%) Confluence
2 10 (5.92%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.73%) Apache
4 7 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.18%) Camunda
5 2 (1.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 82 (48.52%) AWS
2 57 (33.73%) Azure
3 52 (30.77%) GitHub
4 50 (29.59%) OpenShift
5 40 (23.67%) GCP
6 32 (18.93%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (17.75%) Amazon S3
8 26 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (13.61%) Route 53
10 21 (12.43%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (12.43%) AWS KMS
11 19 (11.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (9.47%) Serverless
13 15 (8.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (5.92%) OCI
14 10 (5.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
17 7 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.96%) Firewall
2 4 (2.37%) MQTT
2 4 (2.37%) Network Security
2 4 (2.37%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.18%) DNS
3 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (13.02%) DynamoDB
3 21 (12.43%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (11.24%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (6.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.51%) Metadata
6 6 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.96%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.96%) MySQL
8 4 (2.37%) Flink
8 4 (2.37%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.78%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.78%) Big Data
9 3 (1.78%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.78%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 81 (47.93%) Jenkins
2 54 (31.95%) Git
3 49 (28.99%) Maven
4 47 (27.81%) GitLab
5 43 (25.44%) JUnit
6 24 (14.20%) Mockito
7 18 (10.65%) Snyk
8 14 (8.28%) DbUnit
8 14 (8.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (7.69%) jMock
10 11 (6.51%) Gradle
10 11 (6.51%) JIRA
11 10 (5.92%) Cucumber
12 9 (5.33%) Artifactory
12 9 (5.33%) Selenium
13 8 (4.73%) CircleCI
13 8 (4.73%) IntelliJ
14 7 (4.14%) Bitbucket
14 7 (4.14%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (23.67%) Public Sector
2 33 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.38%) Finance
4 19 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.88%) Banking
6 10 (5.92%) Publishing
7 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.78%) Automotive
8 3 (1.78%) 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 63 (37.28%) Developer
2 49 (28.99%) Java Developer
3 38 (22.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (12.43%) Senior
5 19 (11.24%) Software Engineer
6 18 (10.65%) Java Engineer
7 16 (9.47%) Senior Developer
8 14 (8.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 12 (7.10%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (6.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Architect
11 9 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Python Engineer
14 5 (2.96%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (2.96%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (36.69%) AngularJS
2 46 (27.22%) Spring
2 46 (27.22%) Spring Boot
3 43 (25.44%) Quarkus
4 34 (20.12%) Node.js
5 25 (14.79%) REST
6 22 (13.02%) ActiveMQ
6 22 (13.02%) Hibernate
6 22 (13.02%) JPA
6 22 (13.02%) Spring Cloud
7 21 (12.43%) RESTful
7 21 (12.43%) SOAP
8 19 (11.24%) Web Services
9 18 (10.65%) Kafka
9 18 (10.65%) Spring Batch
9 18 (10.65%) Spring Integration
10 17 (10.06%) YAML
11 15 (8.88%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (8.28%) JSON
12 14 (8.28%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.47%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.55%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.78%) 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%) 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
8 1 (0.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.93%) Linux
2 4 (2.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (62.72%) CI/CD
2 104 (61.54%) DevOps
3 91 (53.85%) Agile
4 79 (46.75%) DevSecOps
5 77 (45.56%) Scrum
6 64 (37.87%) Software Engineering
6 64 (37.87%) Test Automation
7 57 (33.73%) Microservices
8 50 (29.59%) SDLC
9 47 (27.81%) Containerisation
10 44 (26.04%) Front End Development
10 44 (26.04%) Sprint Planning
11 43 (25.44%) TDD
12 42 (24.85%) Unit Testing
13 38 (22.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (22.49%) Sprint Review
14 28 (16.57%) BDD
15 26 (15.38%) Static Application Security Testing
16 24 (14.20%) Kanban
16 24 (14.20%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 107 (63.31%) Java
2 43 (25.44%) Python
3 39 (23.08%) SQL
4 14 (8.28%) Groovy
5 12 (7.10%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.73%) Bash
6 8 (4.73%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.14%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.37%) Go
8 4 (2.37%) Rust
9 3 (1.78%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.18%) C#
11 1 (0.59%) Bicep
11 1 (0.59%) COBOL
11 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (50.30%) Security Cleared
2 78 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.92%) Degree
4 9 (5.33%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.96%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.78%) CISSP
9 3 (1.78%) GIAC
10 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.18%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.59%) GSEC
11 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (30.77%) QA
2 11 (6.51%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.96%) WCAG
4 4 (2.37%) NIST
4 4 (2.37%) PSD2
4 4 (2.37%) 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 (40.83%) Docker
2 11 (6.51%) Postfix
3 4 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.18%) HDFS
4 2 (1.18%) Squid
5 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 105 (62.13%) Kubernetes
2 55 (32.54%) Terraform
3 49 (28.99%) Grafana
4 46 (27.22%) Argo
5 33 (19.53%) Prometheus
6 28 (16.57%) Ansible
7 9 (5.33%) Istio
8 8 (4.73%) Puppet
9 5 (2.96%) Podman
10 4 (2.37%) HP Fortify
10 4 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.78%) Consul
12 2 (1.18%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.18%) Kibana
12 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.18%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 44 (26.04%) Red Hat
2 17 (10.06%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (9.47%) Atlassian
4 13 (7.69%) Checkmarx
5 12 (7.10%) Sonatype
6 10 (5.92%) Google
7 9 (5.33%) Databricks
8 7 (4.14%) Tenable
9 5 (2.96%) Veracode
10 4 (2.37%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.37%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.37%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.37%) Oracle
10 4 (2.37%) Splunk
11 3 (1.78%) IBM
11 3 (1.78%) SAP
12 1 (0.59%) Foundry
12 1 (0.59%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.59%) Pega
12 1 (0.59%) UiPath