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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 354 501
Rank change year-on-year -148 +147 -24
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 179 201 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.61% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.83% 3.97% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 147 49
10th Percentile £393 £285 £413
25th Percentile £446 £383 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £488 £594
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -17.93% -1.00%
75th Percentile £598 £647 £685
90th Percentile £666 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £472 £597
% change year-on-year +6.99% -20.94% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.44 - £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 6,331 5,063 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 15.31% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,047 3,408 3,229
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 110 176
10th Percentile £22.68 £28.94 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.75 £73.88
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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 26 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 26 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 -131 164 £510 +4.67% 84
UK excluding London -99 106 £505 +6.99% 50
London -99 64 £525 -13.93% 44
Work from Home -68 63 £515 +10.29% 28
North of England -73 44 £514 +21.02% 21
Midlands -41 41 £467 -6.60% 7
West Midlands -32 38 £475 -17.39% 6
North East -20 24 £510 +9.68% 14
South East -61 24 £690 +37.86% 8
North West -61 11 £537 +31.06% 6
Yorkshire -45 9 £514 +31.88% 1
East of England -29 6 £570 -32.94% 1
Scotland -22 3 £450 -29.58% 1
South West -49 3 £300 -57.14% 8
East Midlands -25 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 11 (6.15%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.03%) Apache
3 9 (5.03%) Camunda
4 7 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.79%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 86 (48.04%) AWS
2 66 (36.87%) GitHub
3 54 (30.17%) Azure
4 45 (25.14%) 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%) Route 53
13 10 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.59%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (5.59%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (4.47%) Kong
15 8 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.91%) 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 5 (2.79%) Flink
9 4 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.23%) Apache Hive
9 4 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.23%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.23%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.23%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.23%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.23%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (48.04%) Jenkins
2 71 (39.66%) Git
3 66 (36.87%) GitLab
4 63 (35.20%) Maven
5 60 (33.52%) JUnit
6 32 (17.88%) Mockito
7 25 (13.97%) Cucumber
8 23 (12.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (12.29%) Gradle
9 22 (12.29%) JIRA
9 22 (12.29%) Selenium
10 17 (9.50%) Gatling
11 15 (8.38%) Snyk
12 14 (7.82%) Bitbucket Server
13 13 (7.26%) Postman
13 13 (7.26%) REST Assured
14 10 (5.59%) Artifactory
15 7 (3.91%) JMeter
15 7 (3.91%) LoadRunner
15 7 (3.91%) SoapUI
General
1 53 (29.61%) 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
8 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.12%) Automotive
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 67 (37.43%) Developer
2 48 (26.82%) Java Developer
3 34 (18.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (15.64%) Senior
5 17 (9.50%) Senior Developer
6 15 (8.38%) Quality Engineer
6 15 (8.38%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (7.82%) Java Engineer
8 13 (7.26%) Lead
9 12 (6.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.59%) Software Engineer
11 9 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 7 (3.91%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Lead Developer
14 6 (3.35%) Architect
14 6 (3.35%) Consultant
14 6 (3.35%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (34.08%) Spring
2 54 (30.17%) Spring Boot
3 53 (29.61%) Terraform
4 52 (29.05%) AngularJS
5 34 (18.99%) Kafka
6 30 (16.76%) JPA
6 30 (16.76%) Quarkus
7 29 (16.20%) Hibernate
7 29 (16.20%) SOAP
8 28 (15.64%) REST
8 28 (15.64%) Web Services
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 20 (11.17%) CSS
13 20 (11.17%) Playwright
13 20 (11.17%) Spring Cloud
14 16 (8.94%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.08%) 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
5 6 (3.35%) 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%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.12%) PKI
10 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.56%) LIMS
10 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.56%) NHS
10 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.55%) Linux
2 11 (6.15%) Unix
3 5 (2.79%) Windows
4 4 (2.23%) VMS
5 2 (1.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (70.39%) CI/CD
2 104 (58.10%) Agile
3 97 (54.19%) DevOps
4 85 (47.49%) Scrum
4 85 (47.49%) Test Automation
5 77 (43.02%) Microservices
6 62 (34.64%) DevSecOps
7 58 (32.40%) TDD
8 54 (30.17%) Software Engineering
9 53 (29.61%) SDLC
10 47 (26.26%) Containerisation
11 42 (23.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (22.91%) Front End Development
12 41 (22.91%) Sprint Planning
13 34 (18.99%) Unit Testing
14 33 (18.44%) Code Quality
14 33 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (17.88%) BDD
15 32 (17.88%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (16.20%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 119 (66.48%) Java
2 55 (30.73%) Python
3 47 (26.26%) SQL
4 33 (18.44%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.06%) Bash
6 16 (8.94%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.82%) Groovy
8 11 (6.15%) PowerShell
9 9 (5.03%) 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 75 (41.90%) Security Cleared
2 70 (39.11%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.85%) Degree
4 21 (11.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (9.50%) 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 50 (27.93%) QA
2 20 (11.17%) Accessibility
3 14 (7.82%) 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 82 (45.81%) Docker
2 7 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.23%) Postfix
4 2 (1.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 105 (58.66%) Kubernetes
2 45 (25.14%) Grafana
3 33 (18.44%) Argo
3 33 (18.44%) Prometheus
4 30 (16.76%) Ansible
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 31 (17.32%) Red Hat
2 16 (8.94%) IBM
3 13 (7.26%) Checkmarx
3 13 (7.26%) Google
3 13 (7.26%) Veracode
4 12 (6.70%) Databricks
5 10 (5.59%) Oracle
6 9 (5.03%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.47%) Tenable
8 7 (3.91%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (3.91%) Microsoft
8 7 (3.91%) SAP
9 6 (3.35%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.79%) Splunk
11 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.23%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.68%) AppDynamics
13 2 (1.12%) Foundry
14 1 (0.56%) LabVantage
14 1 (0.56%) Pega