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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 348 489
Rank change year-on-year -145 +141 -12
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 189 194 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.60% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.00% 3.92% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 141 52
10th Percentile £400 £283 £414
25th Percentile £450 £385 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £485 £597
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% -18.76% -0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £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 6,305 4,948 5,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 15.23% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,030 3,327 3,222
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 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 108 176
10th Percentile £24.08 £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 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.90 £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 22 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 22 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 -142 173 £513 +6.44% 71
UK excluding London -88 113 £510 +9.73% 41
Work from Home -69 67 £520 +15.56% 27
London -94 65 £575 -5.74% 35
North of England -61 50 £513 +22.75% 19
Midlands -47 39 £475 -2.56% 6
West Midlands -36 36 £476 -17.22% 6
North East -12 29 £511 +9.95% 13
South East -50 27 £601 +20.13% 8
Yorkshire -46 11 £514 +31.79% 2
North West -65 10 £519 +29.30% 4
East of England -27 6 £570 -32.94% 1
Scotland -22 3 £450 - 1
South West -46 3 £300 -57.14% 4
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 (10.05%) Confluence
2 11 (5.82%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.76%) Apache
4 8 (4.23%) Camunda
5 7 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (2.65%) SharePoint
7 4 (2.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 88 (46.56%) AWS
2 65 (34.39%) GitHub
3 56 (29.63%) Azure
4 52 (27.51%) OpenShift
5 42 (22.22%) GCP
6 32 (16.93%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (15.34%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (10.05%) Amazon S3
9 17 (8.99%) Serverless
10 15 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (6.88%) AWS KMS
12 12 (6.35%) Route 53
13 11 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (5.82%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (4.76%) OCI
15 8 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 8 (4.23%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.70%) Firewall
2 4 (2.12%) MQTT
2 4 (2.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.34%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.94%) Relational Database
3 14 (7.41%) DynamoDB
4 12 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (6.35%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (5.29%) Metadata
6 9 (4.76%) MySQL
7 5 (2.65%) Flink
7 5 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.12%) Apache Hive
8 4 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.12%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.12%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.12%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (47.62%) Jenkins
2 70 (37.04%) Git
3 65 (34.39%) Maven
4 64 (33.86%) GitLab
5 58 (30.69%) JUnit
6 32 (16.93%) Mockito
7 22 (11.64%) Cucumber
7 22 (11.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (11.11%) Gradle
8 21 (11.11%) JIRA
9 19 (10.05%) Selenium
10 17 (8.99%) Snyk
11 14 (7.41%) Bitbucket Server
11 14 (7.41%) Gatling
12 12 (6.35%) Postman
12 12 (6.35%) REST Assured
13 10 (5.29%) Artifactory
14 7 (3.70%) CircleCI
14 7 (3.70%) DbUnit
14 7 (3.70%) IntelliJ
General
1 51 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.52%) Finance
3 31 (16.40%) Public Sector
4 29 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (12.70%) Banking
6 9 (4.76%) Publishing
7 6 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.59%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.06%) Automotive
10 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Front Office
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (38.62%) Developer
2 54 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 39 (20.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (15.87%) Senior
5 19 (10.05%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.47%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (7.94%) Java Engineer
8 12 (6.35%) Lead
8 12 (6.35%) Quality Engineer
8 12 (6.35%) Software Engineer
9 11 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (5.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.70%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.17%) Architect
12 6 (3.17%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (32.28%) AngularJS
1 61 (32.28%) Spring
2 56 (29.63%) Spring Boot
2 56 (29.63%) Terraform
3 38 (20.11%) Quarkus
4 33 (17.46%) Kafka
5 31 (16.40%) Node.js
6 30 (15.87%) JPA
7 29 (15.34%) Hibernate
7 29 (15.34%) REST
7 29 (15.34%) RESTful
7 29 (15.34%) SOAP
7 29 (15.34%) Web Services
8 25 (13.23%) ActiveMQ
8 25 (13.23%) React
9 23 (12.17%) HTML
10 21 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (10.05%) CSS
12 18 (9.52%) YAML
13 17 (8.99%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.06%) 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 36 (19.05%) Linux
2 11 (5.82%) Unix
3 5 (2.65%) Windows
4 4 (2.12%) VMS
5 2 (1.06%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (67.20%) CI/CD
2 109 (57.67%) Agile
3 103 (54.50%) DevOps
4 89 (47.09%) Scrum
4 89 (47.09%) Test Automation
5 75 (39.68%) Microservices
6 74 (39.15%) DevSecOps
7 62 (32.80%) Software Engineering
8 58 (30.69%) SDLC
9 56 (29.63%) TDD
10 50 (26.46%) Containerisation
11 48 (25.40%) Front End Development
12 46 (24.34%) Sprint Planning
13 45 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (22.22%) Unit Testing
15 35 (18.52%) Code Quality
16 33 (17.46%) Sprint Review
17 32 (16.93%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (16.40%) BDD
19 30 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (67.72%) Java
2 57 (30.16%) Python
3 49 (25.93%) SQL
4 31 (16.40%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.05%) Bash
6 16 (8.47%) Groovy
6 16 (8.47%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.82%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.76%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.12%) Bicep
9 4 (2.12%) Rust
10 3 (1.59%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.06%) Go
12 1 (0.53%) C#
12 1 (0.53%) COBOL
12 1 (0.53%) Korn
12 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (43.39%) Security Cleared
2 77 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.64%) Degree
4 19 (10.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.23%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.70%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.70%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.59%) CISSP
8 3 (1.59%) GIAC
8 3 (1.59%) ISEB
8 3 (1.59%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.06%) CSSLP
9 2 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.53%) GSEC
10 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (28.57%) QA
2 18 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.35%) WCAG
4 4 (2.12%) NIST
4 4 (2.12%) PSD2
4 4 (2.12%) SEPA
5 3 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.53%) GDPR
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 82 (43.39%) Docker
2 7 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.65%) Postfix
4 2 (1.06%) HDFS
5 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 113 (59.79%) Kubernetes
2 47 (24.87%) Grafana
3 41 (21.69%) Argo
4 35 (18.52%) Prometheus
5 31 (16.40%) Ansible
6 9 (4.76%) HP Fortify
7 7 (3.70%) Istio
8 6 (3.17%) Puppet
9 5 (2.65%) Podman
10 4 (2.12%) Control-M
11 2 (1.06%) Kibana
11 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.53%) Consul
Vendors
1 37 (19.58%) Red Hat
2 15 (7.94%) Checkmarx
3 14 (7.41%) Google
3 14 (7.41%) IBM
4 12 (6.35%) Databricks
4 12 (6.35%) Veracode
5 11 (5.82%) Oracle
5 11 (5.82%) Sonatype
6 8 (4.23%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (4.23%) Tenable
7 7 (3.70%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.70%) Microsoft
7 7 (3.70%) SAP
8 5 (2.65%) Splunk
9 4 (2.12%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.12%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.59%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.06%) Foundry
12 1 (0.53%) LabVantage
12 1 (0.53%) Pega