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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 355 488
Rank change year-on-year -133 +133 -17
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 185 198 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.60% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.96% 3.95% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 146 60
10th Percentile £414 £279 £424
25th Percentile £462 £382 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £606
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -21.62% +1.00%
75th Percentile £601 £623 £685
90th Percentile £680 £700 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £463 £612
% change year-on-year +10.38% -24.43% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £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 6,243 5,018 5,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.21% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 3,389 3,252
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 111 178
10th Percentile £34.59 £30.75 £27.40
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.50 £50.81
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £87.50 £71.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 10 September 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 10 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 -129 170 £515 +8.34% 38
UK excluding London -100 116 £511 +10.38% 23
Work from Home -79 67 £528 +17.22% 16
London -101 59 £593 - 19
North of England -63 52 £511 +27.49% 12
Midlands -52 37 £511 +7.47% 3
West Midlands -34 32 £513 -4.60% 1
North East -21 30 £511 +9.95% 9
South East -51 28 £601 +20.13% 5
Yorkshire -46 11 £514 +31.79% 3
North West -70 11 £500 +27.23%
East of England -20 9 £510 -40.00%
East Midlands -25 4 £335 +24.07% 2
Scotland -38 3 £450 -
South West -51 2 - - 3

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 21 (11.35%) Confluence
2 11 (5.95%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.32%) Apache
3 8 (4.32%) Camunda
4 7 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.70%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 82 (44.32%) AWS
2 59 (31.89%) GitHub
3 56 (30.27%) Azure
4 54 (29.19%) OpenShift
5 43 (23.24%) GCP
6 33 (17.84%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (9.73%) Amazon S3
9 17 (9.19%) Serverless
10 14 (7.57%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (7.03%) AWS KMS
12 12 (6.49%) Route 53
13 11 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (4.86%) OCI
16 8 (4.32%) Azure AKS
16 8 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (4.32%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (4.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.24%) Firewall
2 4 (2.16%) MQTT
2 4 (2.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.59%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.57%) DynamoDB
3 13 (7.03%) Relational Database
4 12 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (5.41%) Metadata
7 7 (3.78%) MySQL
8 6 (3.24%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.16%) Apache Hive
9 4 (2.16%) Big Data
9 4 (2.16%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.16%) Flink
9 4 (2.16%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.16%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.16%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (48.11%) Jenkins
2 68 (36.76%) Git
3 62 (33.51%) Maven
4 60 (32.43%) GitLab
5 55 (29.73%) JUnit
6 30 (16.22%) Mockito
7 24 (12.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (11.89%) JIRA
9 19 (10.27%) Gradle
10 17 (9.19%) Snyk
11 16 (8.65%) Cucumber
12 15 (8.11%) Selenium
13 14 (7.57%) Bitbucket Server
14 12 (6.49%) Postman
14 12 (6.49%) REST Assured
15 10 (5.41%) Gatling
16 8 (4.32%) Artifactory
16 8 (4.32%) IntelliJ
17 7 (3.78%) JMeter
17 7 (3.78%) LoadRunner
General
1 45 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.92%) Finance
3 32 (17.30%) Public Sector
4 28 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.89%) Banking
6 9 (4.86%) Publishing
7 6 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.16%) Automotive
8 4 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.62%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Advertising
11 1 (0.54%) Front Office
11 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (39.46%) Developer
2 53 (28.65%) Java Developer
3 41 (22.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (17.30%) Senior
5 20 (10.81%) Senior Developer
6 18 (9.73%) Java Engineer
7 16 (8.65%) Senior Java Developer
8 15 (8.11%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.49%) Lead
10 11 (5.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 10 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.41%) Java Software Engineer
12 9 (4.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 8 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (4.32%) Quality Engineer
14 7 (3.78%) Architect
14 7 (3.78%) GCP Engineer
14 7 (3.78%) Lead Developer
14 7 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (3.78%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (32.43%) AngularJS
2 58 (31.35%) Spring
3 57 (30.81%) Spring Boot
4 55 (29.73%) Terraform
5 40 (21.62%) Quarkus
6 32 (17.30%) Kafka
7 31 (16.76%) Node.js
8 29 (15.68%) JPA
9 28 (15.14%) Hibernate
9 28 (15.14%) REST
10 27 (14.59%) RESTful
10 27 (14.59%) Web Services
11 26 (14.05%) SOAP
12 23 (12.43%) ActiveMQ
13 22 (11.89%) React
14 21 (11.35%) Spring Cloud
15 20 (10.81%) HTML
16 18 (9.73%) YAML
17 16 (8.65%) CSS
18 15 (8.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.84%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.86%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.24%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.24%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.08%) PKI
10 1 (0.54%) Life Science
10 1 (0.54%) LIMS
10 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.54%) NHS
10 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.30%) Linux
2 11 (5.95%) Unix
3 4 (2.16%) VMS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (65.41%) CI/CD
2 107 (57.84%) Agile
3 101 (54.59%) DevOps
4 86 (46.49%) Scrum
4 86 (46.49%) Test Automation
5 75 (40.54%) DevSecOps
6 71 (38.38%) Microservices
7 65 (35.14%) Software Engineering
8 59 (31.89%) SDLC
9 53 (28.65%) TDD
10 51 (27.57%) Containerisation
11 50 (27.03%) Front End Development
11 50 (27.03%) Sprint Planning
12 42 (22.70%) Unit Testing
13 41 (22.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (18.92%) Sprint Review
15 34 (18.38%) Code Quality
16 29 (15.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (15.14%) BDD
18 25 (13.51%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 129 (69.73%) Java
2 56 (30.27%) Python
3 48 (25.95%) SQL
4 28 (15.14%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.65%) Groovy
6 15 (8.11%) Bash
6 15 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.86%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.78%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.16%) Bicep
9 4 (2.16%) Rust
10 3 (1.62%) Go
10 3 (1.62%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.54%) C#
11 1 (0.54%) COBOL
11 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (42.70%) Security Cleared
2 72 (38.92%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.27%) Degree
4 15 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.78%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.24%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.62%) CISSP
8 3 (1.62%) GIAC
8 3 (1.62%) ISEB
8 3 (1.62%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.08%) CSSLP
9 2 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.54%) GSEC
10 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (29.19%) QA
2 15 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.86%) WCAG
4 4 (2.16%) NIST
4 4 (2.16%) PSD2
4 4 (2.16%) SEPA
5 3 (1.62%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.54%) GDPR
7 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 78 (42.16%) Docker
2 6 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.70%) Postfix
4 2 (1.08%) HDFS
5 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 111 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 47 (25.41%) Grafana
3 43 (23.24%) Argo
4 35 (18.92%) Prometheus
5 29 (15.68%) Ansible
6 9 (4.86%) HP Fortify
6 9 (4.86%) Istio
7 8 (4.32%) Puppet
8 5 (2.70%) Podman
9 4 (2.16%) Control-M
10 2 (1.08%) Kibana
10 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.54%) Consul
Vendors
1 39 (21.08%) Red Hat
2 18 (9.73%) Checkmarx
3 15 (8.11%) Google
4 14 (7.57%) IBM
5 12 (6.49%) Veracode
6 11 (5.95%) Databricks
6 11 (5.95%) Oracle
6 11 (5.95%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.32%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (4.32%) Tenable
8 7 (3.78%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.78%) SAP
9 6 (3.24%) Microsoft
10 5 (2.70%) Splunk
11 4 (2.16%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.16%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.62%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.54%) LabVantage
13 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.54%) UiPath