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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 385 477
Rank change year-on-year -116 +92 -15
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 162 169 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.52% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.59% 3.58% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 127 77
10th Percentile £430 £279 £420
25th Percentile £475 £393 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £601 £634 £650
90th Percentile £701 £688 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £425 £569
% change year-on-year +20.00% -25.27% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £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 6,266 4,715 5,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 14.53% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,037 3,171 3,549
10th Percentile £350 £326 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £690 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 101 250
10th Percentile £26.15 £22.05 £30.93
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.30% -2.31% +5.69%

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 July 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 July 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 -111 149 £516 +8.67% 16
UK excluding London -73 105 £510 +20.00% 11
Work from Home -67 54 £560 +17.89% 8
North of England -56 48 £500 +18.69% 6
London -86 46 £593 -5.01% 7
South East -47 27 £513 +2.40% 1
Midlands -59 27 £512 +26.17% 1
North East -13 25 £511 +10.54% 4
West Midlands -56 23 £512 +7.84%
North West -56 14 £431 +9.95% 2
East of England -17 9 £510 +58.69%
Yorkshire -47 9 £507 +12.67%
South West -35 4 £525 -14.29% 2
East Midlands -31 3 - - 1
Scotland -7 1 £375 - 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 20 (12.35%) Confluence
2 9 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.32%) Apache
3 7 (4.32%) nginx
4 4 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.85%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.62%) Camunda
6 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 76 (46.91%) AWS
2 49 (30.25%) Azure
3 43 (26.54%) GitHub
4 42 (25.93%) OpenShift
5 36 (22.22%) GCP
6 32 (19.75%) Amazon S3
7 31 (19.14%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (17.28%) Route 53
9 24 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (14.20%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (12.96%) AWS KMS
12 20 (12.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (12.35%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (11.73%) Serverless
14 15 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (9.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (8.02%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
17 7 (4.32%) OCI
18 5 (3.09%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.56%) Firewall
1 9 (5.56%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.32%) DNS
2 7 (4.32%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.32%) VPN
3 4 (2.47%) MQTT
3 4 (2.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (12.96%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (12.96%) DynamoDB
3 18 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (6.79%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (6.17%) Metadata
6 8 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.09%) MySQL
8 4 (2.47%) Flink
9 3 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.85%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.85%) Big Data
9 3 (1.85%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.85%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.85%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.23%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.62%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 70 (43.21%) Jenkins
2 47 (29.01%) Git
3 45 (27.78%) GitLab
4 42 (25.93%) Maven
5 36 (22.22%) JUnit
6 21 (12.96%) Mockito
7 20 (12.35%) JIRA
8 16 (9.88%) Snyk
9 14 (8.64%) DbUnit
10 13 (8.02%) jMock
11 12 (7.41%) Bitbucket
11 12 (7.41%) Bitbucket Server
11 12 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (6.17%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.56%) Gradle
13 9 (5.56%) IntelliJ
14 8 (4.94%) Cucumber
15 7 (4.32%) CircleCI
16 6 (3.70%) REST Assured
16 6 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 36 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 34 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.20%) Finance
4 18 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.64%) Banking
6 7 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.32%) Publishing
7 5 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.85%) Automotive
8 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (35.80%) Developer
2 45 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 35 (21.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (12.35%) Senior
5 19 (11.73%) Software Engineer
6 18 (11.11%) Java Engineer
7 15 (9.26%) Senior Developer
8 13 (8.02%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 12 (7.41%) Architect
10 11 (6.79%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (6.79%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 8 (4.94%) AWS DevOps
14 6 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
15 5 (3.09%) Consultant
15 5 (3.09%) GCP Engineer
15 5 (3.09%) Technical Architect
16 4 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 41 (25.31%) Spring
3 40 (24.69%) Spring Boot
4 38 (23.46%) Quarkus
5 30 (18.52%) Node.js
6 28 (17.28%) RESTful
7 21 (12.96%) Hibernate
7 21 (12.96%) JPA
7 21 (12.96%) REST
7 21 (12.96%) YAML
8 20 (12.35%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (12.35%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (11.73%) SOAP
9 19 (11.73%) Web Services
10 18 (11.11%) Spring Batch
10 18 (11.11%) Spring Integration
11 17 (10.49%) Kafka
12 14 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (8.02%) PowerMock
14 12 (7.41%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.23%) PKI
6 1 (0.62%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.62%) Life Science
6 1 (0.62%) LIMS
6 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.62%) NHS
6 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.62%) Replication
6 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.14%) Linux
2 4 (2.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.62%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (62.35%) CI/CD
2 95 (58.64%) DevOps
3 83 (51.23%) Agile
4 70 (43.21%) DevSecOps
5 67 (41.36%) Scrum
6 58 (35.80%) Software Engineering
7 56 (34.57%) Test Automation
8 48 (29.63%) Microservices
9 47 (29.01%) SDLC
10 46 (28.40%) Containerisation
11 44 (27.16%) Unit Testing
12 43 (26.54%) TDD
13 40 (24.69%) Sprint Planning
14 38 (23.46%) Front End Development
15 36 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
16 33 (20.37%) Sprint Review
17 30 (18.52%) BDD
18 24 (14.81%) Static Application Security Testing
19 21 (12.96%) Code Quality
19 21 (12.96%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 101 (62.35%) Java
2 35 (21.60%) Python
3 34 (20.99%) SQL
4 11 (6.79%) Groovy
5 8 (4.94%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.94%) Shell Script
6 7 (4.32%) Bash
7 4 (2.47%) Go
7 4 (2.47%) Rust
8 3 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.23%) C#
9 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.62%) COBOL
10 1 (0.62%) RPG
10 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 76 (46.91%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.56%) Degree
4 8 (4.94%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.32%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.85%) CISSP
8 3 (1.85%) GIAC
9 2 (1.23%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.62%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (27.78%) QA
2 7 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.85%) NIST
3 3 (1.85%) WCAG
4 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.23%) PSD2
4 2 (1.23%) SEPA
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (37.04%) Docker
2 11 (6.79%) Postfix
3 7 (4.32%) Squid
4 3 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 96 (59.26%) Kubernetes
2 55 (33.95%) Terraform
3 50 (30.86%) Grafana
4 40 (24.69%) Argo
5 36 (22.22%) Prometheus
6 26 (16.05%) Ansible
7 9 (5.56%) Istio
7 9 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (4.94%) Consul
9 7 (4.32%) FortiGate
9 7 (4.32%) Puppet
10 5 (3.09%) Podman
11 4 (2.47%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.23%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (27.16%) Red Hat
2 21 (12.96%) Atlassian
3 17 (10.49%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (9.26%) Checkmarx
5 13 (8.02%) Veracode
6 11 (6.79%) Sonatype
7 10 (6.17%) Dynatrace
7 10 (6.17%) Google
8 7 (4.32%) Tenable
9 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
10 5 (3.09%) Oracle
11 4 (2.47%) Databricks
11 4 (2.47%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.47%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.85%) SAP
12 3 (1.85%) Splunk
13 2 (1.23%) IBM
14 1 (0.62%) Acunetix
14 1 (0.62%) Cognizant
14 1 (0.62%) Pega