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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 373 490
Rank change year-on-year -154 +117 +7
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 171 192 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.58% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 3.76% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 140 49
10th Percentile £380 £286 £410
25th Percentile £435 £381 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -12.66% -4.58%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £638
90th Percentile £660 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +0.42% -17.39% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 1
10th Percentile £62.50 £47.05 -
25th Percentile £69.81 £50.88 £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% -26.25% -
75th Percentile - £65.38 £85.00
90th Percentile - £68.15 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £59.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +18.64% -26.25% -

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 6,500 5,104 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 15.37% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,165 3,464 3,138
10th Percentile £354 £326 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 111 168
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £29.67
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £71.88
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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 15 October 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 15 October 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 -144 160 £505 +1.00% 68
UK excluding London -91 104 £477 +0.42% 49
London -101 62 £510 -16.39% 27
Work from Home -88 59 £495 +6.00% 34
North of England -68 46 £514 +27.94% 20
Midlands -44 42 £450 -9.96% 9
West Midlands -33 39 £455 -25.78% 8
South East -47 28 £690 +37.93% 4
North East -11 27 £510 +20.00% 10
North West -67 10 £537 +31.06% 6
Yorkshire -44 9 £514 +31.88% 4
Scotland -21 3 £450 -29.58% 5
South West -51 3 £300 -57.14% 4
East Midlands -19 2 £335 +24.07% 1
East of England -27 1 £50 -94.12% 3

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 20 (11.70%) Confluence
2 9 (5.26%) Camunda
3 8 (4.68%) Apache Spark
4 7 (4.09%) Apache
5 6 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (2.92%) SharePoint
7 4 (2.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.58%) IIS
8 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 84 (49.12%) AWS
2 59 (34.50%) GitHub
3 51 (29.82%) Azure
4 48 (28.07%) OpenShift
5 36 (21.05%) GCP
6 29 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (8.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 13 (7.60%) Amazon S3
9 13 (7.60%) Serverless
10 9 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.68%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.09%) AWS KMS
12 7 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (4.09%) OCI
13 6 (3.51%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.68%) Firewall
2 4 (2.34%) MQTT
2 4 (2.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (9.94%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.60%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.68%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.68%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.68%) MySQL
5 7 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (4.09%) Metadata
6 6 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.34%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.34%) Flink
8 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.34%) Tableau
9 3 (1.75%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 81 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 72 (42.11%) Git
3 66 (38.60%) GitLab
4 60 (35.09%) Maven
5 59 (34.50%) JUnit
6 32 (18.71%) Cucumber
7 31 (18.13%) Mockito
8 27 (15.79%) Selenium
9 25 (14.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 23 (13.45%) Gradle
11 22 (12.87%) JIRA
12 21 (12.28%) Gatling
13 13 (7.60%) Postman
13 13 (7.60%) REST Assured
14 12 (7.02%) Bitbucket Server
15 11 (6.43%) Snyk
16 8 (4.68%) Artifactory
17 7 (4.09%) JMeter
17 7 (4.09%) LoadRunner
17 7 (4.09%) SoapUI
General
1 58 (33.92%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.71%) Finance
3 26 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (14.04%) Public Sector
5 23 (13.45%) Banking
6 7 (4.09%) Publishing
7 6 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.75%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Automotive
10 1 (0.58%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) German Language
10 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 67 (39.18%) Developer
2 47 (27.49%) Java Developer
3 28 (16.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (15.20%) Senior
5 20 (11.70%) Quality Engineer
6 15 (8.77%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.60%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Java Engineer
8 12 (7.02%) Lead
9 11 (6.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (4.09%) Consultant
13 7 (4.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 7 (4.09%) GCP DevOps
14 6 (3.51%) Data Engineer
14 6 (3.51%) Lead Developer
15 5 (2.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 5 (2.92%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (33.33%) Spring
2 51 (29.82%) AngularJS
3 47 (27.49%) Spring Boot
3 47 (27.49%) Terraform
4 36 (21.05%) Kafka
5 30 (17.54%) Quarkus
6 28 (16.37%) React
6 28 (16.37%) SOAP
6 28 (16.37%) Web Services
7 27 (15.79%) JPA
7 27 (15.79%) RESTful
8 26 (15.20%) Hibernate
8 26 (15.20%) HTML
9 25 (14.62%) Playwright
9 25 (14.62%) REST
10 23 (13.45%) ActiveMQ
10 23 (13.45%) Node.js
11 21 (12.28%) CSS
11 21 (12.28%) Gherkin
12 19 (11.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.20%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.60%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.85%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.09%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.17%) PKI
10 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (19.88%) Linux
2 14 (8.19%) Unix
3 6 (3.51%) Windows
4 5 (2.92%) VMS
5 4 (2.34%) macOS
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (70.18%) CI/CD
2 108 (63.16%) Agile
3 92 (53.80%) Test Automation
4 89 (52.05%) DevOps
5 88 (51.46%) Scrum
6 79 (46.20%) Microservices
7 62 (36.26%) DevSecOps
8 56 (32.75%) TDD
9 51 (29.82%) SDLC
10 48 (28.07%) Software Engineering
11 44 (25.73%) Containerisation
12 43 (25.15%) Front End Development
13 42 (24.56%) Sprint Planning
14 37 (21.64%) Unit Testing
15 35 (20.47%) Infrastructure as Code
16 34 (19.88%) Stakeholder Management
17 33 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (18.13%) BDD
19 30 (17.54%) Code Quality
19 30 (17.54%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 117 (68.42%) Java
2 54 (31.58%) Python
3 43 (25.15%) SQL
4 34 (19.88%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.70%) Bash
6 15 (8.77%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.60%) Groovy
8 12 (7.02%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.85%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.34%) Bicep
10 4 (2.34%) Rust
11 3 (1.75%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.58%) C#
12 1 (0.58%) COBOL
12 1 (0.58%) Go
12 1 (0.58%) Korn
12 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (43.27%) Security Cleared
2 68 (39.77%) SC Cleared
3 24 (14.04%) Degree
4 23 (13.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.85%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.68%) AWS Certification
8 7 (4.09%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.75%) CISSP
9 3 (1.75%) GIAC
9 3 (1.75%) ISEB
9 3 (1.75%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.58%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.58%) GSEC
11 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (30.41%) QA
2 25 (14.62%) Accessibility
3 19 (11.11%) WCAG
4 4 (2.34%) NIST
4 4 (2.34%) PSD2
4 4 (2.34%) SEPA
5 3 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.58%) GDPR
7 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (49.12%) Docker
2 6 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.17%) Postfix
4 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 111 (64.91%) Kubernetes
2 39 (22.81%) Grafana
3 36 (21.05%) Argo
4 29 (16.96%) Ansible
5 27 (15.79%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.85%) HP Fortify
7 8 (4.68%) Istio
8 6 (3.51%) Puppet
9 5 (2.92%) Podman
10 4 (2.34%) Control-M
11 2 (1.17%) Kibana
11 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.58%) Consul
Vendors
1 33 (19.30%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.36%) IBM
3 13 (7.60%) Veracode
4 12 (7.02%) Oracle
5 11 (6.43%) Databricks
5 11 (6.43%) Google
6 9 (5.26%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.09%) Microsoft
7 7 (4.09%) Sonatype
8 6 (3.51%) SAP
8 6 (3.51%) Tenable
9 4 (2.34%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.34%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.34%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (2.34%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.75%) Splunk
11 2 (1.17%) Foundry
12 1 (0.58%) Pega
12 1 (0.58%) UiPath