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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 361 497
Rank change year-on-year -143 +136 -6
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 179 197 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.60% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.82% 3.90% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 141 49
10th Percentile £395 £283 £410
25th Percentile £443 £380 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £586
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -14.68% -2.33%
75th Percentile £590 £650 £675
90th Percentile £660 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £594
% change year-on-year +6.32% -20.03% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £67.56 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 6,348 5,056 4,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.57% 15.40% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,059 3,413 3,134
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 111 171
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.05 £31.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £74.00
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

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 30 September 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

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 30 September 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 -139 164 £510 +2.00% 61
UK excluding London -94 107 £505 +6.32% 36
London -103 63 £518 -15.16% 32
Work from Home -93 60 £515 +12.27% 29
Midlands -32 43 £459 -8.20% 6
North of England -80 43 £514 +27.94% 15
West Midlands -31 40 £467 -18.78% 5
South East -50 24 £690 +37.86% 4
North East -17 23 £510 +20.00% 12
North West -66 11 £537 +31.06% 2
Yorkshire -47 9 £514 +31.88% 1
East of England -21 6 £570 -32.94% 1
Scotland -18 3 £450 -29.58% 1
South West -49 3 £300 -57.14% 6
East Midlands -26 2 £335 +24.07% 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 (11.17%) Confluence
2 10 (5.59%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.03%) Camunda
4 8 (4.47%) Apache
5 7 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (2.79%) SharePoint
7 4 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.56%) IIS
8 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 87 (48.60%) AWS
2 67 (37.43%) GitHub
3 53 (29.61%) Azure
4 43 (24.02%) OpenShift
5 39 (21.79%) GCP
6 31 (17.32%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (15.08%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (10.06%) Amazon S3
9 16 (8.94%) Serverless
10 14 (7.82%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (6.70%) AWS KMS
12 11 (6.15%) GitHub Copilot
12 11 (6.15%) Route 53
13 10 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.59%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (5.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 8 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (4.47%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) Firewall
2 4 (2.23%) MQTT
2 4 (2.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.08%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.38%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.26%) DynamoDB
3 13 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (4.47%) Metadata
7 8 (4.47%) MySQL
8 4 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.23%) Apache Hive
8 4 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.23%) Big Data
8 4 (2.23%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.23%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.23%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.23%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (48.60%) Jenkins
2 74 (41.34%) Git
3 68 (37.99%) GitLab
4 63 (35.20%) Maven
5 62 (34.64%) JUnit
6 32 (17.88%) Mockito
7 27 (15.08%) Cucumber
8 24 (13.41%) Selenium
8 24 (13.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (12.29%) JIRA
10 21 (11.73%) Gradle
11 18 (10.06%) Gatling
12 14 (7.82%) Bitbucket Server
12 14 (7.82%) Snyk
13 13 (7.26%) Postman
13 13 (7.26%) REST Assured
14 9 (5.03%) Artifactory
15 7 (3.91%) JMeter
15 7 (3.91%) LoadRunner
15 7 (3.91%) SoapUI
General
1 54 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.11%) Finance
3 30 (16.76%) Public Sector
4 28 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (14.53%) Banking
6 7 (3.91%) Publishing
7 6 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.12%) Automotive
9 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (36.87%) Developer
2 47 (26.26%) Java Developer
3 33 (18.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (15.64%) Senior
5 17 (9.50%) Quality Engineer
6 16 (8.94%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.82%) Senior Java Developer
8 13 (7.26%) Java Engineer
8 13 (7.26%) Lead
9 12 (6.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.03%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Consultant
11 8 (4.47%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 8 (4.47%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) GCP DevOps
12 7 (3.91%) Lead Developer
13 6 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.35%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (34.64%) Spring
2 54 (30.17%) Terraform
3 53 (29.61%) Spring Boot
4 50 (27.93%) AngularJS
5 34 (18.99%) Kafka
6 30 (16.76%) JPA
7 29 (16.20%) Hibernate
7 29 (16.20%) SOAP
7 29 (16.20%) Web Services
8 28 (15.64%) Quarkus
8 28 (15.64%) REST
9 27 (15.08%) Node.js
9 27 (15.08%) RESTful
10 26 (14.53%) React
11 25 (13.97%) HTML
12 24 (13.41%) ActiveMQ
13 22 (12.29%) Playwright
14 20 (11.17%) CSS
15 19 (10.61%) Spring Cloud
16 18 (10.06%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.70%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.59%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.12%) PKI
9 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.56%) Life Science
9 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.11%) Linux
2 12 (6.70%) Unix
3 6 (3.35%) Windows
4 5 (2.79%) VMS
5 2 (1.12%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (72.07%) CI/CD
2 105 (58.66%) Agile
3 99 (55.31%) DevOps
4 86 (48.04%) Test Automation
5 85 (47.49%) Scrum
6 78 (43.58%) Microservices
7 62 (34.64%) DevSecOps
8 58 (32.40%) TDD
9 51 (28.49%) SDLC
9 51 (28.49%) Software Engineering
10 47 (26.26%) Containerisation
11 43 (24.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 39 (21.79%) Front End Development
12 39 (21.79%) Sprint Planning
13 34 (18.99%) Code Quality
13 34 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (18.44%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (17.88%) BDD
15 32 (17.88%) Unit Testing
16 28 (15.64%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 119 (66.48%) Java
2 56 (31.28%) Python
3 45 (25.14%) SQL
4 33 (18.44%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.61%) Bash
6 16 (8.94%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.38%) Groovy
8 12 (6.70%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.59%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.23%) Bicep
10 4 (2.23%) Rust
11 3 (1.68%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.56%) C#
12 1 (0.56%) COBOL
12 1 (0.56%) Go
12 1 (0.56%) Korn
12 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (42.46%) Security Cleared
2 70 (39.11%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (12.29%) Degree
5 16 (8.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.47%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.91%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.68%) CISSP
8 3 (1.68%) GIAC
8 3 (1.68%) ISEB
8 3 (1.68%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.56%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.56%) GSEC
10 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (27.37%) QA
2 22 (12.29%) Accessibility
3 16 (8.94%) WCAG
4 4 (2.23%) NIST
4 4 (2.23%) PSD2
4 4 (2.23%) SEPA
5 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (46.93%) Docker
2 8 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.23%) Postfix
4 2 (1.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 106 (59.22%) Kubernetes
2 46 (25.70%) Grafana
3 33 (18.44%) Prometheus
4 31 (17.32%) Ansible
4 31 (17.32%) Argo
5 10 (5.59%) HP Fortify
6 7 (3.91%) Istio
7 6 (3.35%) Puppet
8 5 (2.79%) Podman
9 4 (2.23%) Control-M
10 2 (1.12%) Kibana
10 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.56%) Consul
Vendors
1 29 (16.20%) Red Hat
2 16 (8.94%) IBM
3 14 (7.82%) Checkmarx
3 14 (7.82%) Google
4 13 (7.26%) Veracode
5 12 (6.70%) Databricks
6 10 (5.59%) Oracle
7 9 (5.03%) Sonatype
8 8 (4.47%) Tenable
9 7 (3.91%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (3.91%) Microsoft
9 7 (3.91%) SAP
10 6 (3.35%) Atlassian
11 5 (2.79%) Splunk
12 4 (2.23%) AppDynamics
12 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
12 4 (2.23%) NVIDIA
13 2 (1.12%) Foundry
14 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.56%) UiPath