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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 442 514
Rank change year-on-year -15 +72 -39
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 130 82 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.40% 1.92% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 54 56
10th Percentile £359 £413 £425
25th Percentile £400 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £620 £650
90th Percentile £790 £727 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £579 £563
% change year-on-year -0.65% +2.89% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £48.55 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 5,413 4,272 5,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 13.46% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,723 2,680 3,762
10th Percentile £340 £332 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -6.72% -4.29%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £510
% change year-on-year -0.42% -6.47% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 73 209
10th Percentile £39.00 £30.25 £45.62
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.85 £76.05 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +1 122 £575 +1.77% 36
UK excluding London -20 71 £575 -0.65% 29
London 0 49 £600 +6.19% 7
North of England -28 35 £400 -12.09% 15
Work from Home -5 34 £409 -24.26% 15
Midlands -29 23 £700 +14.38% 5
North West -9 20 £425 +19.38% 6
West Midlands -27 17 £700 +14.38% 3
South West - 16 £700 - 4
South East -14 9 £649 -0.19% 5
Yorkshire -49 8 £390 -33.05% 6
North East -8 7 - - 3
East Midlands - 6 £398 - 2
Scotland +3 2 £484 -6.97%
East of England -13 1 £850 +165.88% 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 16 (12.31%) Confluence
2 7 (5.38%) Appian
3 5 (3.85%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.54%) Mule
6 1 (0.77%) Apache
6 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 60 (46.15%) Azure
2 49 (37.69%) GitHub
3 48 (36.92%) AWS
4 31 (23.85%) GCP
5 26 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (16.92%) OpenShift
7 20 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (13.85%) Serverless
9 16 (12.31%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (12.31%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (12.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 15 (11.54%) Datadog
11 12 (9.23%) PaaS
12 11 (8.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (8.46%) Azure AKS
12 11 (8.46%) npm
13 10 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (6.15%) Apigee
14 8 (6.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.38%) Firewall
2 2 (1.54%) SSH
3 1 (0.77%) HTTP
3 1 (0.77%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.77%) Internet
3 1 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.54%) Redis
2 13 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 10 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.38%) DocumentDB
4 7 (5.38%) Power BI
5 6 (4.62%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.62%) MySQL
5 6 (4.62%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.85%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.85%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.31%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.54%) Impala
8 2 (1.54%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.54%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 54 (41.54%) Jenkins
2 42 (32.31%) Git
3 32 (24.62%) GitLab
4 24 (18.46%) JIRA
5 21 (16.15%) Maven
5 21 (16.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 19 (14.62%) Selenium
7 17 (13.08%) Bitbucket
8 15 (11.54%) Artifactory
9 14 (10.77%) Cucumber
9 14 (10.77%) JUnit
9 14 (10.77%) Postman
10 13 (10.00%) Gradle
10 13 (10.00%) Snyk
11 12 (9.23%) Cypress.io
12 8 (6.15%) webpack
13 7 (5.38%) Robot Framework
14 5 (3.85%) CircleCI
14 5 (3.85%) Gatling
14 5 (3.85%) SonarLint
General
1 34 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.62%) Banking
3 17 (13.08%) Finance
4 14 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.38%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Publishing
8 4 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.54%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.77%) Retail
11 1 (0.77%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 34 (26.15%) Developer
2 23 (17.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (14.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 12 (9.23%) Lead
4 12 (9.23%) Senior
5 11 (8.46%) Java Developer
6 10 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Architect
7 9 (6.92%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Java Architect
10 6 (4.62%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (4.62%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.62%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.85%) GCP DevOps
11 5 (3.85%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) React Developer
12 4 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.69%) REST
2 18 (13.85%) JSON
2 18 (13.85%) Spring Boot
3 17 (13.08%) React
3 17 (13.08%) YAML
4 15 (11.54%) Node.js
5 14 (10.77%) Kafka
5 14 (10.77%) Spring
6 12 (9.23%) AngularJS
6 12 (9.23%) RESTful
7 11 (8.46%) J2EE
8 10 (7.69%) .NET
8 10 (7.69%) CSS
8 10 (7.69%) CSS3
8 10 (7.69%) HTML
8 10 (7.69%) HTML5
9 9 (6.92%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (6.15%) Jest
10 8 (6.15%) XML
11 7 (5.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.38%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.62%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.62%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.85%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.08%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.08%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.31%) Autonomous Agent
7 3 (2.31%) Blog
7 3 (2.31%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.54%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.46%) Linux
2 6 (4.62%) Windows
3 3 (2.31%) Unix
3 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.54%) Android
5 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.77%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.77%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (66.15%) CI/CD
2 74 (56.92%) DevOps
3 52 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 47 (36.15%) Agile
5 45 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (31.54%) Test Automation
7 40 (30.77%) DevSecOps
8 31 (23.85%) SDLC
8 31 (23.85%) Software Engineering
9 28 (21.54%) Microservices
10 24 (18.46%) Migration
11 23 (17.69%) Code Quality
11 23 (17.69%) Unit Testing
12 22 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (16.15%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (16.15%) Sprint Planning
14 20 (15.38%) AI
15 19 (14.62%) Scrum
16 18 (13.85%) Event-Driven
16 18 (13.85%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 43 (33.08%) Java
2 40 (30.77%) Python
3 24 (18.46%) JavaScript
4 16 (12.31%) SQL
5 7 (5.38%) Go
5 7 (5.38%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.38%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.62%) Bash
7 5 (3.85%) C++
7 5 (3.85%) Groovy
8 4 (3.08%) C#
9 3 (2.31%) Rust
10 2 (1.54%) C
10 2 (1.54%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.54%) R
10 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.77%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.77%) ProC
11 1 (0.77%) RPG
Qualifications
1 46 (35.38%) Security Cleared
2 33 (25.38%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.08%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.38%) Degree
6 6 (4.62%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.08%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.54%) OCP
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.77%) CISSP
10 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.77%) MCP
10 1 (0.77%) OSCP
10 1 (0.77%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.85%) QA
2 11 (8.46%) NCSC
3 8 (6.15%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.31%) WCAG
5 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.77%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.77%) GDPR
5 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.77%) NIST
5 1 (0.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (58.46%) Docker
2 2 (1.54%) HDFS
3 1 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (43.85%) Kubernetes
2 53 (40.77%) Terraform
3 21 (16.15%) Ansible
4 11 (8.46%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.69%) Grafana
6 9 (6.92%) Argo
7 8 (6.15%) Puppet
8 7 (5.38%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.85%) Podman
10 4 (3.08%) Istio
11 3 (2.31%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.54%) Kibana
12 2 (1.54%) rkt
13 1 (0.77%) Cilium
13 1 (0.77%) Rancher
13 1 (0.77%) Rsyslog
13 1 (0.77%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (10.77%) Veracode
2 12 (9.23%) Google
3 10 (7.69%) Checkmarx
4 9 (6.92%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.92%) Red Hat
4 9 (6.92%) Splunk
5 7 (5.38%) Cisco
5 7 (5.38%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.62%) DocuSign
7 5 (3.85%) Gigya
7 5 (3.85%) Guidewire
8 4 (3.08%) Databricks
9 3 (2.31%) Cognizant
9 3 (2.31%) Oracle
9 3 (2.31%) Perforce
10 2 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.54%) SAP
10 2 (1.54%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.77%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.77%) OutSystems