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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 463 510
Rank change year-on-year +24 +47 -34
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 152 78 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.76% 1.72% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 53 58
10th Percentile £343 £415 £436
25th Percentile £385 £510 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £628
90th Percentile £776 £738 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £612 £575
% change year-on-year -6.05% +6.43% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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 5,507 4,529 5,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.94% 13.29% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,780 2,863 3,977
10th Percentile £342 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £411 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.37% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 86 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £41.88 £44.98
25th Percentile £53.75 £51.06 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £77.26
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.13 £89.63
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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 +31 140 £575 -6.05% 25
UK excluding London +17 83 £575 -6.05% 21
London +21 55 £610 -12.86% 8
Work from Home +16 44 £425 -24.11% 7
North of England -18 40 £400 -22.89% 7
Midlands -21 27 £650 +6.21% 3
North West 0 25 £400 +12.36%
West Midlands -20 21 £700 +14.38% 1
South West - 18 £700 - 4
Yorkshire -45 11 £390 -34.04% 3
South East -14 7 £550 -15.38% 5
East Midlands - 6 £398 - 2
North East -6 4 - - 4
Scotland +5 2 £484 -6.97% 2
East of England -22 1 £850 +167.30%

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 18 (11.84%) Confluence
2 7 (4.61%) Appian
3 6 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.29%) OpenStack
5 4 (2.63%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.63%) JBoss
6 2 (1.32%) Mule
7 1 (0.66%) Apache
7 1 (0.66%) CICS
7 1 (0.66%) nginx
7 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.66%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 72 (47.37%) Azure
2 62 (40.79%) AWS
3 60 (39.47%) GitHub
4 42 (27.63%) GCP
5 31 (20.39%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (16.45%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (16.45%) OpenShift
7 21 (13.82%) Serverless
8 20 (13.16%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (11.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 15 (9.87%) Datadog
11 13 (8.55%) Azure AKS
11 13 (8.55%) PaaS
12 12 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (7.89%) npm
13 10 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.61%) Firewall
2 5 (3.29%) SSH
3 3 (1.97%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.32%) DNS
4 2 (1.32%) SSL
5 1 (0.66%) HTTP
5 1 (0.66%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.66%) Internet
5 1 (0.66%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.66%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.50%) Redis
2 18 (11.84%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.89%) DynamoDB
5 10 (6.58%) Relational Database
6 9 (5.92%) RDBMS
7 8 (5.26%) DocumentDB
7 8 (5.26%) MongoDB
8 7 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (4.61%) Power BI
9 6 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (3.95%) MySQL
10 5 (3.29%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.29%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.29%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.63%) Big Data
11 4 (2.63%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.97%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 72 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 57 (37.50%) Git
3 42 (27.63%) GitLab
4 33 (21.71%) JIRA
5 30 (19.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 28 (18.42%) Maven
7 25 (16.45%) Selenium
8 21 (13.82%) Bitbucket
8 21 (13.82%) JUnit
9 18 (11.84%) Artifactory
10 17 (11.18%) Postman
11 16 (10.53%) Cucumber
11 16 (10.53%) Snyk
12 15 (9.87%) Gradle
13 13 (8.55%) Cypress.io
14 11 (7.24%) Mockito
15 8 (5.26%) TeamCity
15 8 (5.26%) webpack
16 7 (4.61%) Gatling
16 7 (4.61%) Robot Framework
General
1 42 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.76%) Finance
3 22 (14.47%) Banking
4 21 (13.82%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.61%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.29%) Publishing
8 4 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.97%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.97%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.32%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.66%) German Language
11 1 (0.66%) Military
11 1 (0.66%) Retail
11 1 (0.66%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 32 (21.05%) Developer
2 30 (19.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (13.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 14 (9.21%) Java Developer
4 14 (9.21%) Lead
5 12 (7.89%) GCP Engineer
6 11 (7.24%) Security Engineer
7 10 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Architect
8 9 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Senior
10 6 (3.95%) Java Architect
10 6 (3.95%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (3.95%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.29%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (3.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.29%) GCP DevOps
11 5 (3.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.29%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.74%) Spring Boot
2 24 (15.79%) REST
3 22 (14.47%) Kafka
4 21 (13.82%) React
5 20 (13.16%) JSON
6 19 (12.50%) Spring
7 18 (11.84%) Node.js
8 17 (11.18%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (11.18%) YAML
9 15 (9.87%) CSS
9 15 (9.87%) HTML
10 14 (9.21%) J2EE
10 14 (9.21%) RESTful
11 13 (8.55%) AngularJS
11 13 (8.55%) CSS3
11 13 (8.55%) HTML5
12 11 (7.24%) Spring Cloud
13 10 (6.58%) .NET
13 10 (6.58%) Bootstrap
13 10 (6.58%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.92%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.92%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.95%) AI Agents
3 6 (3.95%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.29%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.97%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (1.97%) Blog
6 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.97%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.97%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.32%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.82%) Linux
2 10 (6.58%) Windows
3 6 (3.95%) Unix
4 5 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.32%) Android
7 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.66%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (71.05%) CI/CD
2 94 (61.84%) DevOps
3 63 (41.45%) Containerisation
4 56 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (35.53%) Agile
6 46 (30.26%) DevSecOps
7 42 (27.63%) Microservices
8 40 (26.32%) Test Automation
9 37 (24.34%) SDLC
10 33 (21.71%) Code Quality
11 29 (19.08%) Software Engineering
12 28 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (17.11%) Migration
14 24 (15.79%) TDD
14 24 (15.79%) Unit Testing
15 22 (14.47%) AI
15 22 (14.47%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (13.82%) Mentoring
17 19 (12.50%) Scrum
18 18 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (38.16%) Python
2 51 (33.55%) Java
3 29 (19.08%) JavaScript
4 24 (15.79%) SQL
5 18 (11.84%) Bash
6 13 (8.55%) Groovy
7 10 (6.58%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.61%) Go
8 7 (4.61%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.29%) C#
9 5 (3.29%) C++
9 5 (3.29%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.63%) Perl
11 3 (1.97%) Rust
12 2 (1.32%) C
12 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.32%) R
13 1 (0.66%) COBOL
13 1 (0.66%) JCL
13 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (34.87%) Security Cleared
2 40 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.84%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.61%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.61%) Degree
6 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.29%) OSCP
7 4 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.63%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.63%) Tigerscheme
8 3 (1.97%) CHECK Team Member
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.32%) CISSP
9 2 (1.32%) OCP
9 2 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.18%) QA
2 15 (9.87%) NCSC
3 8 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.63%) WCAG
5 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.32%) NIST
7 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.66%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.66%) GDPR
7 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (63.16%) Docker
2 4 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.32%) HDFS
4 1 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 63 (41.45%) Terraform
3 26 (17.11%) Ansible
4 14 (9.21%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.89%) Grafana
5 12 (7.89%) Progress Chef
6 11 (7.24%) Argo
7 9 (5.92%) Puppet
8 7 (4.61%) Istio
9 6 (3.95%) Kibana
10 5 (3.29%) Podman
11 4 (2.63%) Nmap
12 2 (1.32%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.32%) rkt
13 1 (0.66%) Cilium
13 1 (0.66%) Control-M
13 1 (0.66%) Rancher
13 1 (0.66%) Rsyslog
13 1 (0.66%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (12.50%) Veracode
2 18 (11.84%) Splunk
3 14 (9.21%) Google
3 14 (9.21%) Red Hat
4 13 (8.55%) Dynatrace
5 11 (7.24%) Microsoft
6 10 (6.58%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.61%) Cisco
8 6 (3.95%) Cloudera
8 6 (3.95%) DocuSign
8 6 (3.95%) Oracle
9 5 (3.29%) AppDynamics
9 5 (3.29%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (3.29%) Gigya
10 4 (2.63%) Databricks
11 3 (1.97%) Perforce
12 2 (1.32%) SAP
12 2 (1.32%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.66%) IBM
13 1 (0.66%) VMware