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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 440 485
Rank change year-on-year -42 +45 -30
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 122 87 97
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.15% 2.12% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 58 63
10th Percentile £381 £377 £426
25th Percentile £422 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -7.56%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £650
90th Percentile £773 £701 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +23.53% -22.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 5,662 4,097 5,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.82% 13.56% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,871 2,637 3,713
10th Percentile £344 £328 £363
25th Percentile £405 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 63 214
10th Percentile £31.20 £26.30 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £79.69 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

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 24 February 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 24 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Top 14 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 24 February 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 -35 115 £525 -4.55% 38
UK excluding London -17 74 £525 +23.53% 34
London -53 41 £525 -7.08% 7
North of England -46 35 £431 +1.41% 12
Midlands -36 26 £575 +56.68% 10
Work from Home -16 24 £495 -7.91% 17
West Midlands -35 22 £575 - 8
North West -17 19 £430 +17.17% 3
South West - 15 £700 - 2
North East -8 9 - - 6
South East -25 9 £550 -7.33% 9
Yorkshire -55 7 £511 -1.59% 3
East Midlands -28 4 £525 +43.05% 2
Scotland +12 2 £484 -29.38% 1

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 26 (21.31%) Confluence
2 7 (5.74%) OpenStack
3 6 (4.92%) nginx
4 5 (4.10%) Appian
5 4 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.82%) Apache
6 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 55 (45.08%) AWS
2 49 (40.16%) Azure
3 38 (31.15%) GitHub
4 23 (18.85%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (18.85%) OpenShift
5 16 (13.11%) Amazon S3
5 16 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (13.11%) Route 53
6 15 (12.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (12.30%) Serverless
7 14 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (11.48%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (9.84%) GCP
9 8 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (6.56%) AWS KMS
10 7 (5.74%) npm
11 6 (4.92%) Azure AKS
11 6 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.92%) DNS
1 6 (4.92%) Firewall
1 6 (4.92%) OpenVPN
1 6 (4.92%) TCP/IP
1 6 (4.92%) VPN
2 1 (0.82%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.82%) Internet
2 1 (0.82%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (8.20%) DynamoDB
1 10 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (5.74%) Redis
4 6 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.10%) DocumentDB
6 4 (3.28%) Metadata
6 4 (3.28%) Power BI
7 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.64%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.64%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.64%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.64%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.64%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.82%) MySQL
8 1 (0.82%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 46 (37.70%) Jenkins
2 35 (28.69%) Git
3 31 (25.41%) GitLab
4 30 (24.59%) JIRA
5 25 (20.49%) Maven
6 22 (18.03%) Bitbucket
7 19 (15.57%) JUnit
8 15 (12.30%) Artifactory
8 15 (12.30%) Selenium
9 14 (11.48%) Cucumber
10 12 (9.84%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (8.20%) Cypress.io
11 10 (8.20%) Postman
11 10 (8.20%) Snyk
12 9 (7.38%) Mockito
13 6 (4.92%) DbUnit
13 6 (4.92%) jMock
14 5 (4.10%) Gradle
14 5 (4.10%) Robot Framework
14 5 (4.10%) webpack
General
1 30 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.57%) Public Sector
3 16 (13.11%) Finance
4 10 (8.20%) Banking
4 10 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.10%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Publishing
10 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.82%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 42 (34.43%) Developer
2 20 (16.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (13.93%) Java Developer
4 15 (12.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 14 (11.48%) Senior
6 9 (7.38%) Architect
6 9 (7.38%) Lead
6 9 (7.38%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) React Developer
9 6 (4.92%) Security Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 3 (2.46%) AWS Architect
12 3 (2.46%) Java Engineer
12 3 (2.46%) Node.js Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.49%) YAML
2 23 (18.85%) AngularJS
3 22 (18.03%) Node.js
3 22 (18.03%) REST
4 17 (13.93%) Spring
5 16 (13.11%) JSON
6 14 (11.48%) RESTful
6 14 (11.48%) Spring Boot
6 14 (11.48%) Web Services
7 13 (10.66%) React
8 11 (9.02%) Hibernate
8 11 (9.02%) JPA
8 11 (9.02%) Quarkus
9 9 (7.38%) OpenID
9 9 (7.38%) SOAP
9 9 (7.38%) Spring Cloud
10 8 (6.56%) Bootstrap
10 8 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (6.56%) Spring Batch
10 8 (6.56%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.74%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.10%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.46%) Blog
4 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.64%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.82%) Contactless
6 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.82%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.82%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.75%) Linux
2 4 (3.28%) Windows
3 3 (2.46%) Unix
4 2 (1.64%) Android
5 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (63.93%) CI/CD
2 65 (53.28%) DevOps
3 50 (40.98%) Agile
4 40 (32.79%) DevSecOps
4 40 (32.79%) Test Automation
5 36 (29.51%) Containerisation
6 32 (26.23%) Scrum
7 31 (25.41%) SDLC
8 30 (24.59%) Software Engineering
9 26 (21.31%) TDD
9 26 (21.31%) Unit Testing
10 25 (20.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (19.67%) Microservices
12 22 (18.03%) Sprint Planning
13 21 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (15.57%) Code Quality
15 17 (13.93%) BDD
16 16 (13.11%) Front End Development
17 13 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 13 (10.66%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (42.62%) Java
2 22 (18.03%) Python
3 18 (14.75%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.93%) SQL
5 8 (6.56%) Groovy
6 7 (5.74%) Bash
6 7 (5.74%) Go
6 7 (5.74%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.74%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.10%) C#
7 5 (4.10%) C++
8 3 (2.46%) Rust
9 2 (1.64%) C
9 2 (1.64%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.64%) R
10 1 (0.82%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.82%) ProC
10 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (44.26%) Security Cleared
2 43 (35.25%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.84%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.74%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.92%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.46%) Degree
8 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.82%) CISSP
9 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.82%) OCP
9 1 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.82%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.11%) QA
2 7 (5.74%) NCSC
3 6 (4.92%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.64%) WCAG
5 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 57 (46.72%) Docker
2 6 (4.92%) Squid
3 5 (4.10%) Postfix
4 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (40.98%) Kubernetes
2 36 (29.51%) Terraform
3 21 (17.21%) Grafana
4 14 (11.48%) Ansible
4 14 (11.48%) Prometheus
5 12 (9.84%) Argo
6 6 (4.92%) Consul
6 6 (4.92%) FortiGate
6 6 (4.92%) Puppet
6 6 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (4.10%) Podman
8 4 (3.28%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.46%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.46%) Istio
10 2 (1.64%) rkt
11 1 (0.82%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (16.39%) Veracode
2 18 (14.75%) Red Hat
3 13 (10.66%) Dynatrace
4 12 (9.84%) Atlassian
5 8 (6.56%) Checkmarx
5 8 (6.56%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (5.74%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.74%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.74%) Splunk
7 5 (4.10%) Cisco
7 5 (4.10%) Databricks
7 5 (4.10%) Guidewire
8 4 (3.28%) SAP
8 4 (3.28%) Sonatype
9 3 (2.46%) Cognizant
9 3 (2.46%) DocuSign
9 3 (2.46%) Oracle
10 2 (1.64%) Perforce
10 2 (1.64%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.82%) VMware