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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 422 494
Rank change year-on-year -75 +72 +4
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 112 98 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.92% 2.43% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 74 70
10th Percentile £400 £384 £424
25th Percentile £445 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £539 £555
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -2.97% -5.53%
75th Percentile £593 £661 £650
90th Percentile £704 £700 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -22.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
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 5,820 4,037 5,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 13.86% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,918 2,698 3,507
10th Percentile £341 £337 £358
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £586 £612 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 71 190
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.00 £37.44
25th Percentile £58.04 £47.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £83.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.14% +1.20% +1.63%

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 March 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 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

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 24 March 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 -92 103 £519 -5.72% 44
UK excluding London -52 70 £510 +20.00% 39
London -79 34 £525 -7.08% 8
North of England -52 30 £431 +1.41% 20
Work from Home -48 23 £525 -2.23% 18
Midlands -51 23 £554 +16.58% 2
West Midlands -46 17 £573 +20.63% 1
North West -26 14 £431 +9.54%
North East -9 10 - - 15
South East -44 10 £488 -9.22% 13
South West - 10 £725 - 2
East Midlands -31 6 £525 +16.15% 1
Yorkshire -60 6 £450 -13.25% 5
East of England -25 4 £505 +57.97% 2
Scotland +4 1 £329 -52.04%

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 23 (20.54%) Confluence
2 7 (6.25%) nginx
3 5 (4.46%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 53 (47.32%) AWS
2 39 (34.82%) Azure
3 34 (30.36%) GitHub
4 21 (18.75%) OpenShift
5 20 (17.86%) Amazon S3
6 19 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (16.07%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (14.29%) GCP
8 16 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (14.29%) Route 53
9 15 (13.39%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (13.39%) Serverless
10 13 (11.61%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (9.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (9.82%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (8.04%) AWS KMS
12 9 (8.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (5.36%) Azure AKS
15 5 (4.46%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.04%) OpenVPN
2 7 (6.25%) DNS
2 7 (6.25%) Firewall
2 7 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 7 (6.25%) VPN
3 1 (0.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.82%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (9.82%) DynamoDB
1 11 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.46%) Metadata
4 5 (4.46%) Redis
5 4 (3.57%) DocumentDB
6 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.79%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.79%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.79%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.89%) MySQL
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (40.18%) Jenkins
2 32 (28.57%) Git
3 26 (23.21%) JIRA
4 24 (21.43%) GitLab
5 21 (18.75%) Maven
6 20 (17.86%) Bitbucket
7 19 (16.96%) JUnit
8 14 (12.50%) Artifactory
9 10 (8.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (8.04%) Mockito
10 9 (8.04%) Snyk
11 7 (6.25%) Cucumber
11 7 (6.25%) DbUnit
11 7 (6.25%) jMock
12 6 (5.36%) Selenium
13 5 (4.46%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (4.46%) Postman
14 4 (3.57%) Cypress.io
15 3 (2.68%) CircleCI
15 3 (2.68%) IntelliJ
General
1 25 (22.32%) Public Sector
2 23 (20.54%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.18%) Finance
4 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.25%) Banking
5 7 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.68%) Publishing
7 2 (1.79%) Automotive
8 1 (0.89%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (35.71%) Developer
2 19 (16.96%) Java Developer
3 16 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.50%) Senior
4 14 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 11 (9.82%) Architect
6 9 (8.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Lead
9 5 (4.46%) React Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.32%) AngularJS
2 22 (19.64%) Node.js
3 21 (18.75%) Spring
4 20 (17.86%) YAML
5 19 (16.96%) Spring Boot
6 18 (16.07%) REST
7 15 (13.39%) RESTful
8 14 (12.50%) Quarkus
8 14 (12.50%) Web Services
9 12 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (9.82%) Hibernate
10 11 (9.82%) JPA
11 9 (8.04%) ActiveMQ
11 9 (8.04%) SOAP
11 9 (8.04%) Spring Batch
11 9 (8.04%) Spring Cloud
11 9 (8.04%) Spring Integration
12 8 (7.14%) LDAP
12 8 (7.14%) OpenID
13 7 (6.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.68%) Blog
3 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.79%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.79%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.89%) Contactless
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.96%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Unix
3 3 (2.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.89%) Android
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Embedded Compact
4 1 (0.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (61.61%) CI/CD
2 64 (57.14%) DevOps
3 48 (42.86%) Agile
4 38 (33.93%) DevSecOps
5 35 (31.25%) Test Automation
6 33 (29.46%) Scrum
7 32 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 29 (25.89%) Software Engineering
9 28 (25.00%) SDLC
9 28 (25.00%) TDD
10 24 (21.43%) Microservices
10 24 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
10 24 (21.43%) Unit Testing
11 23 (20.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (18.75%) BDD
13 18 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (14.29%) Front End Development
15 15 (13.39%) Code Quality
16 14 (12.50%) Sprint Review
17 13 (11.61%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (51.79%) Java
2 19 (16.96%) Python
3 18 (16.07%) SQL
4 8 (7.14%) Go
5 6 (5.36%) Groovy
5 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.46%) Bash
6 5 (4.46%) C++
6 5 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.57%) C#
7 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.79%) C
8 2 (1.79%) R
8 2 (1.79%) Rust
8 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.89%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.89%) ProC
9 1 (0.89%) RPG
9 1 (0.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 43 (38.39%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.46%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.46%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.68%) Degree
7 1 (0.89%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.86%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.68%) NCSC
2 3 (2.68%) WCAG
3 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (39.29%) Docker
2 7 (6.25%) Squid
3 6 (5.36%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 50 (44.64%) Kubernetes
2 33 (29.46%) Terraform
3 24 (21.43%) Grafana
4 16 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 15 (13.39%) Argo
6 13 (11.61%) Ansible
7 7 (6.25%) Consul
7 7 (6.25%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (5.36%) Puppet
9 5 (4.46%) Istio
10 4 (3.57%) HP Fortify
11 3 (2.68%) Podman
12 2 (1.79%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.79%) rkt
12 2 (1.79%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 21 (18.75%) Red Hat
2 14 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 13 (11.61%) Veracode
4 12 (10.71%) Dynatrace
5 10 (8.93%) Checkmarx
6 9 (8.04%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (6.25%) Salesforce
8 6 (5.36%) Microsoft
9 5 (4.46%) Guidewire
9 5 (4.46%) Sonatype
10 4 (3.57%) Databricks
10 4 (3.57%) Google
10 4 (3.57%) SAP
11 3 (2.68%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.68%) Oracle
12 2 (1.79%) Splunk
13 1 (0.89%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.89%) Netsparker
13 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.89%) Xamarin