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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 477 482
Rank change year-on-year +65 +5 -11
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 165 81 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.99% 1.69% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 54 84
10th Percentile £316 £413 £450
25th Percentile £385 £503 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -1.17% -
75th Percentile £661 £685 £650
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £606 £588
% change year-on-year -17.49% +3.15% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £65.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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 5,526 4,783 5,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.30% 13.04% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,803 2,965 4,152
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.91%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 125 226
10th Percentile £29.75 £29.13 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.50 £47.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.78 £87.66
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 27 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +66 151 £550 -10.13% 21
UK excluding London +16 89 £500 -17.49% 18
London +21 59 £610 -2.40% 5
Work from Home +35 56 £460 -17.95% 12
North of England -4 44 £400 -22.89% 10
Midlands -6 31 £575 -6.05%
North West +5 29 £400 +12.36% 5
West Midlands -18 22 £700 +14.38%
South West - 17 £700 - 4
Yorkshire -34 11 £390 -34.04% 3
East Midlands - 9 £270 -
South East -2 7 £550 -12.00% 4
North East -5 4 £425 - 2
Scotland -2 1 £639 +35.24%
East of England -14 1 £850 +167.30%

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 (13.94%) Confluence
2 7 (4.24%) Appian
3 5 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.03%) JBoss
4 4 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.42%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.21%) Mule
5 2 (1.21%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.61%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) CICS
6 1 (0.61%) nginx
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 69 (41.82%) Azure
2 65 (39.39%) AWS
3 54 (32.73%) GitHub
4 40 (24.24%) GCP
5 31 (18.79%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (15.15%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (12.73%) OpenShift
8 21 (12.73%) Serverless
9 18 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (10.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (8.48%) npm
11 13 (7.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (7.88%) Datadog
12 12 (7.27%) Azure AKS
12 12 (7.27%) PaaS
13 11 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.24%) Firewall
2 5 (3.03%) SSH
3 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.21%) DNS
4 2 (1.21%) SSL
5 1 (0.61%) HTTP
5 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.61%) Internet
5 1 (0.61%) Network Security
5 1 (0.61%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.61%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (10.91%) NoSQL
2 18 (10.91%) Redis
3 14 (8.48%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (8.48%) DynamoDB
4 13 (7.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 10 (6.06%) RDBMS
7 8 (4.85%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.85%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.24%) DocumentDB
8 7 (4.24%) Power BI
9 6 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.64%) MySQL
10 5 (3.03%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.03%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.03%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.42%) Big Data
12 3 (1.82%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 80 (48.48%) Jenkins
2 69 (41.82%) Git
3 47 (28.48%) GitLab
4 38 (23.03%) JIRA
5 36 (21.82%) Maven
5 36 (21.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 28 (16.97%) JUnit
6 28 (16.97%) Selenium
7 23 (13.94%) Bitbucket
8 20 (12.12%) Cucumber
9 18 (10.91%) Artifactory
10 17 (10.30%) Mockito
11 16 (9.70%) Postman
12 15 (9.09%) Cypress.io
12 15 (9.09%) Gradle
13 14 (8.48%) Snyk
14 10 (6.06%) TeamCity
15 8 (4.85%) Bitbucket Server
16 7 (4.24%) Gatling
16 7 (4.24%) Robot Framework
General
1 43 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.36%) Finance
3 23 (13.94%) Banking
3 23 (13.94%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (4.24%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.03%) Publishing
6 4 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.21%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.61%) German Language
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Military
9 1 (0.61%) Retail
9 1 (0.61%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 48 (29.09%) Developer
2 30 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (16.36%) Java Developer
4 20 (12.12%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 14 (8.48%) Lead
6 12 (7.27%) GCP Engineer
7 11 (6.67%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Architect
9 8 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Senior
9 8 (4.85%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) Java Architect
10 6 (3.64%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (3.64%) Technical Architect
10 6 (3.64%) UI Developer
11 5 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 5 (3.03%) GCP DevOps
11 5 (3.03%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.03%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (24.85%) Spring Boot
2 31 (18.79%) React
3 30 (18.18%) REST
4 27 (16.36%) Spring
5 26 (15.76%) Node.js
6 22 (13.33%) CSS
6 22 (13.33%) HTML
6 22 (13.33%) JSON
7 21 (12.73%) Kafka
8 18 (10.91%) Hibernate
8 18 (10.91%) RESTful
9 17 (10.30%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (10.30%) Jest
10 16 (9.70%) CSS3
10 16 (9.70%) HTML5
10 16 (9.70%) YAML
11 15 (9.09%) JPA
12 14 (8.48%) AngularJS
12 14 (8.48%) J2EE
12 14 (8.48%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.45%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.03%) N-Tier
4 5 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.42%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.82%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (1.82%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.21%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.55%) Linux
2 12 (7.27%) Windows
3 7 (4.24%) Unix
4 6 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.21%) Android
7 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (70.30%) CI/CD
2 100 (60.61%) DevOps
3 67 (40.61%) Containerisation
4 61 (36.97%) Agile
5 58 (35.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (30.91%) Microservices
7 45 (27.27%) DevSecOps
8 43 (26.06%) Test Automation
9 34 (20.61%) Code Quality
9 34 (20.61%) TDD
10 31 (18.79%) SDLC
11 28 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (16.97%) Software Engineering
11 28 (16.97%) Unit Testing
12 24 (14.55%) Migration
13 22 (13.33%) Mentoring
13 22 (13.33%) Scrum
14 21 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (12.12%) Front End Development
16 19 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (38.79%) Java
2 63 (38.18%) Python
3 38 (23.03%) JavaScript
4 31 (18.79%) SQL
5 22 (13.33%) Bash
6 14 (8.48%) Groovy
7 12 (7.27%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.85%) C#
8 8 (4.85%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.64%) Go
9 6 (3.64%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.03%) Perl
11 3 (1.82%) C++
11 3 (1.82%) Rust
12 2 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.21%) R
13 1 (0.61%) Bicep
13 1 (0.61%) JCL
13 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (36.97%) Security Cleared
2 47 (28.48%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.91%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.64%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.64%) OSCP
6 5 (3.03%) CREST Certified
6 5 (3.03%) Degree
6 5 (3.03%) Tigerscheme
7 4 (2.42%) CHECK Team Member
8 3 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.21%) CISSP
9 2 (1.21%) OCP
9 2 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) GIAC
10 1 (0.61%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.70%) QA
2 15 (9.09%) NCSC
3 11 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.42%) WCAG
5 3 (1.82%) GDPR
6 2 (1.21%) NIST
6 2 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.21%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.61%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.61%) GRC
7 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
System Software
1 99 (60.00%) Docker
2 5 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.21%) HDFS
3 2 (1.21%) Postfix
4 1 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (44.85%) Kubernetes
2 64 (38.79%) Terraform
3 26 (15.76%) Ansible
4 15 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.88%) Grafana
6 12 (7.27%) Progress Chef
7 10 (6.06%) Argo
8 8 (4.85%) Puppet
9 7 (4.24%) Istio
9 7 (4.24%) Kibana
10 5 (3.03%) Nmap
11 4 (2.42%) Podman
12 3 (1.82%) HP Fortify
13 2 (1.21%) rkt
14 1 (0.61%) Cilium
14 1 (0.61%) Control-M
14 1 (0.61%) Packer
14 1 (0.61%) Rancher
14 1 (0.61%) Rsyslog
14 1 (0.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (13.33%) Veracode
2 18 (10.91%) Splunk
3 14 (8.48%) Google
3 14 (8.48%) Red Hat
4 12 (7.27%) Dynatrace
5 11 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 9 (5.45%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.24%) Cisco
7 7 (4.24%) Cloudera
8 6 (3.64%) DocuSign
8 6 (3.64%) Perforce
9 5 (3.03%) AppDynamics
9 5 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (3.03%) Gigya
9 5 (3.03%) Oracle
10 3 (1.82%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.82%) Databricks
11 2 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (1.21%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.61%) Qualys