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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 421 485
Rank change year-on-year -69 +64 +10
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 120 98 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.04% 2.40% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 74 70
10th Percentile £400 £384 £424
25th Percentile £431 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £555
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -2.97% -5.53%
75th Percentile £628 £661 £650
90th Percentile £748 £700 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +21.39% -22.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 5,871 4,088 5,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.37% 13.84% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,954 2,720 3,507
10th Percentile £340 £337 £358
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 72 193
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.03 £37.00
25th Percentile £58.04 £47.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.14% +1.20% +1.63%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -92 111 £522 -5.13% 47
UK excluding London -31 75 £516 +21.39% 40
London -65 36 £525 -7.08% 10
North of England -56 34 £441 +3.65% 22
Work from Home -37 27 £525 -2.23% 20
Midlands -42 24 £571 +20.21% 3
North West -14 18 £431 +9.67%
West Midlands -51 18 £575 +21.05% 2
South East -43 11 £550 +2.42% 12
South West - 11 £700 - 2
North East -6 10 - - 15
East Midlands -33 6 £525 +16.15% 1
Yorkshire -57 6 £450 -13.25% 7
East of England -21 3 £510 +59.53% 1
Scotland +1 2 £484 -29.38%

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 23 (19.17%) Confluence
2 7 (5.83%) nginx
3 5 (4.17%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.50%) Appian
6 1 (0.83%) Apache
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 57 (47.50%) AWS
2 45 (37.50%) Azure
3 37 (30.83%) GitHub
4 24 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 20 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 20 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (13.33%) Route 53
7 16 (13.33%) Serverless
8 15 (12.50%) GCP
9 14 (11.67%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (9.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (7.50%) AWS KMS
11 9 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (5.00%) Azure AKS
14 5 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.50%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.83%) DNS
2 7 (5.83%) Firewall
2 7 (5.83%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.17%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (9.17%) DynamoDB
3 9 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.83%) Redis
5 5 (4.17%) DocumentDB
5 5 (4.17%) Metadata
6 3 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.67%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.67%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.67%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 33 (27.50%) Git
3 27 (22.50%) JIRA
4 26 (21.67%) GitLab
5 23 (19.17%) Bitbucket
6 22 (18.33%) Maven
7 19 (15.83%) JUnit
8 14 (11.67%) Artifactory
9 12 (10.00%) Snyk
10 10 (8.33%) Cucumber
10 10 (8.33%) Mockito
10 10 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (7.50%) Selenium
12 7 (5.83%) DbUnit
12 7 (5.83%) jMock
13 6 (5.00%) Postman
14 5 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (3.33%) Cypress.io
16 3 (2.50%) Gradle
16 3 (2.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 28 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.67%) Public Sector
3 17 (14.17%) Finance
4 10 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.67%) Banking
7 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.50%) Publishing
7 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.67%) Automotive
9 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (35.00%) Developer
2 20 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 17 (14.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (11.67%) Senior
5 13 (10.83%) Software Engineer
6 12 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) Architect
8 9 (7.50%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) React Developer
10 6 (5.00%) Security Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Lead
11 5 (4.17%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
12 4 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 4 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.67%) AngularJS
2 22 (18.33%) Node.js
3 21 (17.50%) Spring
3 21 (17.50%) YAML
4 19 (15.83%) REST
4 19 (15.83%) Spring Boot
5 15 (12.50%) RESTful
5 15 (12.50%) Web Services
6 14 (11.67%) Quarkus
7 12 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (10.00%) Hibernate
7 12 (10.00%) JPA
8 10 (8.33%) JSON
8 10 (8.33%) SOAP
8 10 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
9 9 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (7.50%) Spring Batch
9 9 (7.50%) Spring Integration
10 8 (6.67%) Bootstrap
10 8 (6.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.83%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.50%) Blog
3 3 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.67%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.67%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.83%) Contactless
5 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.83%) Linux
2 5 (4.17%) Unix
3 3 (2.50%) Windows
4 1 (0.83%) Android
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Embedded Compact
4 1 (0.83%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 65 (54.17%) DevOps
3 50 (41.67%) Agile
4 42 (35.00%) DevSecOps
5 36 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 34 (28.33%) Scrum
7 33 (27.50%) Containerisation
8 31 (25.83%) SDLC
9 28 (23.33%) Software Engineering
9 28 (23.33%) TDD
10 27 (22.50%) Microservices
11 26 (21.67%) Sprint Planning
11 26 (21.67%) Unit Testing
12 24 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (16.67%) BDD
13 20 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (14.17%) Front End Development
15 16 (13.33%) Code Quality
16 15 (12.50%) Static Application Security Testing
17 14 (11.67%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 58 (48.33%) Java
2 21 (17.50%) Python
3 19 (15.83%) SQL
4 10 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.83%) Go
5 7 (5.83%) Groovy
6 5 (4.17%) Bash
6 5 (4.17%) C++
6 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.33%) C#
8 3 (2.50%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.67%) C
9 2 (1.67%) R
9 2 (1.67%) Rust
10 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.83%) RPG
10 1 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (44.17%) Security Cleared
2 44 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.50%) Degree
7 1 (0.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.83%) QA
2 4 (3.33%) NCSC
3 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.50%) WCAG
4 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (44.17%) Docker
2 7 (5.83%) Squid
3 6 (5.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 55 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 35 (29.17%) Terraform
3 24 (20.00%) Grafana
4 16 (13.33%) Ansible
4 16 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 15 (12.50%) Argo
6 7 (5.83%) Consul
6 7 (5.83%) FortiGate
6 7 (5.83%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (5.00%) Puppet
8 5 (4.17%) Istio
9 4 (3.33%) HP Fortify
10 3 (2.50%) Podman
11 2 (1.67%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.67%) rkt
11 2 (1.67%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 22 (18.33%) Red Hat
2 19 (15.83%) Veracode
3 14 (11.67%) Atlassian
4 13 (10.83%) Dynatrace
5 11 (9.17%) Checkmarx
6 9 (7.50%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (5.83%) Microsoft
7 7 (5.83%) Salesforce
8 5 (4.17%) Databricks
8 5 (4.17%) Guidewire
8 5 (4.17%) Sonatype
9 4 (3.33%) Oracle
9 4 (3.33%) SAP
10 3 (2.50%) Cisco
10 3 (2.50%) Cognizant
10 3 (2.50%) Google
10 3 (2.50%) Splunk
11 1 (0.83%) Acunetix
11 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.83%) Xamarin