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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 377 473
Rank change year-on-year -127 +96 +11
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 168 190 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.58% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.69% 3.88% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 139 68
10th Percentile £441 £276 £409
25th Percentile £478 £385 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £626 £615 £675
90th Percentile £690 £688 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £425 £606
% change year-on-year +20.12% -29.87% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £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 6,254 4,902 5,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.71% 14.89% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,014 3,308 3,280
10th Percentile £350 £324 £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 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 113 213
10th Percentile £34.59 £28.03 £28.65
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £47.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.34 £84.95 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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 11 August 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 11 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 -132 152 £521 +9.77% 50
UK excluding London -82 106 £511 +20.12% 29
Work from Home -81 62 £550 +17.27% 28
London -117 50 £601 -1.56% 24
North of England -67 47 £510 +26.87% 14
South East -57 30 £601 +20.13% 1
North East -18 29 £511 +9.95% 12
Midlands -59 29 £512 +26.17% 7
West Midlands -46 26 £512 +2.45% 5
Yorkshire -46 9 £514 +31.88% 1
North West -53 9 £500 +27.23% 1
East of England - 9 £510 -
Scotland -10 3 £450 - 1
South West -39 3 - - 6
East Midlands -25 2 - - 2

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 10 (5.95%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.76%) Apache
2 8 (4.76%) Confluence
3 7 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.19%) Camunda
4 2 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
5 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 81 (48.21%) AWS
2 57 (33.93%) Azure
3 54 (32.14%) GitHub
4 48 (28.57%) OpenShift
5 41 (24.40%) GCP
6 33 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (16.07%) Amazon S3
7 27 (16.07%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (13.69%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (11.90%) Route 53
10 19 (11.31%) Amazon SQS
10 19 (11.31%) AWS KMS
11 17 (10.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (8.93%) Serverless
13 9 (5.36%) OCI
13 9 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.38%) Firewall
1 4 (2.38%) MQTT
1 4 (2.38%) Network Security
2 3 (1.79%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.88%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (11.90%) DynamoDB
3 19 (11.31%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (10.12%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (6.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (5.95%) Metadata
7 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.98%) MySQL
7 5 (2.98%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.38%) Flink
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.79%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.79%) Big Data
9 3 (1.79%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.79%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 81 (48.21%) Jenkins
2 53 (31.55%) Git
3 50 (29.76%) GitLab
4 48 (28.57%) Maven
5 41 (24.40%) JUnit
6 22 (13.10%) Mockito
7 20 (11.90%) Snyk
8 14 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (7.74%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (7.14%) DbUnit
11 11 (6.55%) Gradle
11 11 (6.55%) jMock
12 10 (5.95%) Cucumber
13 9 (5.36%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.36%) Selenium
14 8 (4.76%) CircleCI
14 8 (4.76%) IntelliJ
14 8 (4.76%) JIRA
14 8 (4.76%) Postman
15 7 (4.17%) REST Assured
General
1 38 (22.62%) Public Sector
2 33 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 27 (16.07%) Finance
4 21 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.52%) Banking
6 9 (5.36%) Publishing
7 4 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.79%) Automotive
8 3 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (36.90%) Developer
2 47 (27.98%) Java Developer
3 37 (22.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (14.29%) Senior
5 18 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 17 (10.12%) Java Engineer
7 16 (9.52%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (5.95%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.76%) Architect
11 8 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.17%) Lead
13 6 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.57%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (34.52%) AngularJS
2 46 (27.38%) Spring
2 46 (27.38%) Spring Boot
3 41 (24.40%) Quarkus
4 33 (19.64%) Node.js
5 25 (14.88%) REST
6 22 (13.10%) RESTful
7 21 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
7 21 (12.50%) JPA
7 21 (12.50%) Kafka
7 21 (12.50%) SOAP
8 20 (11.90%) Hibernate
8 20 (11.90%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (11.31%) Web Services
10 16 (9.52%) Spring Batch
10 16 (9.52%) Spring Integration
10 16 (9.52%) YAML
11 15 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (8.33%) JSON
12 14 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.79%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.19%) PKI
9 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.60%) Life Science
9 1 (0.60%) LIMS
9 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.60%) NHS
9 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.05%) Linux
2 6 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (63.10%) CI/CD
2 103 (61.31%) DevOps
3 89 (52.98%) Agile
4 77 (45.83%) DevSecOps
5 74 (44.05%) Scrum
6 64 (38.10%) Software Engineering
6 64 (38.10%) Test Automation
7 57 (33.93%) Microservices
8 50 (29.76%) SDLC
9 45 (26.79%) Containerisation
10 43 (25.60%) Front End Development
10 43 (25.60%) Sprint Planning
11 41 (24.40%) TDD
12 40 (23.81%) Unit Testing
13 38 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (21.43%) Sprint Review
15 26 (15.48%) BDD
15 26 (15.48%) Static Application Security Testing
16 23 (13.69%) Code Quality
17 22 (13.10%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 107 (63.69%) Java
2 45 (26.79%) Python
3 42 (25.00%) SQL
4 16 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.74%) Groovy
6 9 (5.36%) Bash
7 8 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.38%) Go
9 4 (2.38%) Rust
10 3 (1.79%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.60%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) C#
11 1 (0.60%) COBOL
11 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (49.40%) Security Cleared
2 76 (45.24%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.95%) Degree
4 9 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.98%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.79%) CISSP
8 3 (1.79%) GIAC
9 2 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.19%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.60%) GSEC
10 1 (0.60%) ISEB
10 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (29.76%) QA
2 11 (6.55%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.98%) WCAG
4 4 (2.38%) NIST
4 4 (2.38%) PSD2
4 4 (2.38%) SEPA
5 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (41.07%) Docker
2 9 (5.36%) Postfix
3 4 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 104 (61.90%) Kubernetes
2 53 (31.55%) Terraform
3 46 (27.38%) Grafana
4 44 (26.19%) Argo
5 32 (19.05%) Prometheus
6 28 (16.67%) Ansible
7 9 (5.36%) Istio
8 8 (4.76%) Puppet
9 7 (4.17%) HP Fortify
10 5 (2.98%) Podman
11 3 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.19%) Consul
12 2 (1.19%) Kibana
12 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.19%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.60%) Control-M
13 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 41 (24.40%) Red Hat
2 15 (8.93%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (8.33%) Checkmarx
4 13 (7.74%) Atlassian
5 11 (6.55%) Sonatype
6 10 (5.95%) Google
7 9 (5.36%) Databricks
8 7 (4.17%) Oracle
8 7 (4.17%) Tenable
9 6 (3.57%) Veracode
10 5 (2.98%) IBM
10 5 (2.98%) SAP
11 4 (2.38%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.38%) NVIDIA
11 4 (2.38%) Splunk
12 3 (1.79%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.60%) LabVantage
13 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.60%) Pega
13 1 (0.60%) UiPath