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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 373 502
Rank change year-on-year -126 +129 -28
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 176 190 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.58% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.86% 3.85% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 141 64
10th Percentile £411 £276 £416
25th Percentile £460 £385 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £601 £650 £678
90th Percentile £682 £700 £697
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £460 £612
% change year-on-year +11.20% -24.84% +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 6,153 4,937 5,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 15.18% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,959 3,327 3,279
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 115 180
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.70 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 2 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

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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 2 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 -125 161 £515 +8.34% 59
UK excluding London -87 112 £512 +11.20% 30
Work from Home -76 65 £528 +17.22% 29
London -98 54 £593 -2.87% 32
North of England -66 51 £513 +28.93% 15
Midlands -55 34 £511 +7.47% 5
North East -20 30 £511 +9.95% 13
West Midlands -40 29 £513 +2.55% 1
South East -53 28 £601 +20.19% 4
North West -62 11 £500 +27.23%
Yorkshire -40 10 £514 +31.88% 2
East of England -15 9 £510 -40.00%
East Midlands -23 4 £335 +24.07% 4
Scotland -20 3 £450 -
South West -48 2 - - 6

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 17 (9.66%) Confluence
2 11 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.55%) Apache
4 7 (3.98%) Camunda
5 5 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.84%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 78 (44.32%) AWS
2 55 (31.25%) GitHub
3 53 (30.11%) Azure
3 53 (30.11%) OpenShift
4 42 (23.86%) GCP
5 31 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (10.23%) Amazon S3
8 17 (9.66%) Serverless
9 14 (7.95%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (7.39%) AWS KMS
11 12 (6.82%) Route 53
12 11 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.68%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (5.11%) OCI
15 8 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
15 8 (4.55%) Kong
16 7 (3.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) Firewall
2 4 (2.27%) MQTT
2 4 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.95%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.68%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (5.68%) Metadata
3 10 (5.68%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.68%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.98%) MySQL
5 6 (3.41%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.27%) Apache Hive
6 4 (2.27%) Big Data
6 4 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.27%) Flink
6 4 (2.27%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.27%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.27%) Tableau
7 3 (1.70%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 84 (47.73%) Jenkins
2 63 (35.80%) Git
3 59 (33.52%) GitLab
4 57 (32.39%) Maven
5 51 (28.98%) JUnit
6 26 (14.77%) Mockito
7 22 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 18 (10.23%) Gradle
8 18 (10.23%) JIRA
9 16 (9.09%) Cucumber
9 16 (9.09%) Snyk
10 15 (8.52%) Selenium
11 13 (7.39%) Bitbucket Server
12 12 (6.82%) Postman
13 11 (6.25%) REST Assured
14 10 (5.68%) Gatling
15 8 (4.55%) IntelliJ
16 7 (3.98%) Artifactory
16 7 (3.98%) JMeter
16 7 (3.98%) LoadRunner
General
1 42 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.18%) Finance
3 29 (16.48%) Public Sector
4 25 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (11.93%) Banking
6 9 (5.11%) Publishing
7 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.70%) Automotive
8 3 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (39.20%) Developer
2 49 (27.84%) Java Developer
3 39 (22.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (15.91%) Senior
5 19 (10.80%) Senior Developer
6 18 (10.23%) Java Engineer
7 15 (8.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (8.52%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (5.68%) Java Software Engineer
9 10 (5.68%) Lead
10 9 (5.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
12 7 (3.98%) Architect
12 7 (3.98%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.41%) Consultant
13 6 (3.41%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (32.39%) AngularJS
2 54 (30.68%) Spring
3 53 (30.11%) Spring Boot
3 53 (30.11%) Terraform
4 40 (22.73%) Quarkus
5 31 (17.61%) Kafka
5 31 (17.61%) Node.js
6 25 (14.20%) JPA
7 24 (13.64%) Hibernate
7 24 (13.64%) REST
7 24 (13.64%) RESTful
8 23 (13.07%) SOAP
8 23 (13.07%) Web Services
9 21 (11.93%) React
10 20 (11.36%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (10.80%) HTML
12 18 (10.23%) Spring Cloud
12 18 (10.23%) YAML
13 15 (8.52%) CSS
13 15 (8.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.84%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.14%) PKI
9 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.57%) Life Science
9 1 (0.57%) LIMS
9 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.57%) NHS
9 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.05%) Linux
2 10 (5.68%) Unix
3 3 (1.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (64.20%) CI/CD
2 102 (57.95%) Agile
3 97 (55.11%) DevOps
4 81 (46.02%) Scrum
4 81 (46.02%) Test Automation
5 74 (42.05%) DevSecOps
6 67 (38.07%) Microservices
7 64 (36.36%) Software Engineering
8 56 (31.82%) SDLC
9 49 (27.84%) TDD
10 47 (26.70%) Front End Development
10 47 (26.70%) Sprint Planning
11 46 (26.14%) Containerisation
12 42 (23.86%) Unit Testing
13 38 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (19.89%) Sprint Review
15 31 (17.61%) Code Quality
16 28 (15.91%) BDD
17 26 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (70.45%) Java
2 52 (29.55%) Python
3 45 (25.57%) SQL
4 27 (15.34%) JavaScript
5 15 (8.52%) Groovy
6 12 (6.82%) Bash
6 12 (6.82%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.84%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.27%) Rust
10 3 (1.70%) Bicep
10 3 (1.70%) Go
10 3 (1.70%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.57%) C#
11 1 (0.57%) COBOL
11 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (43.18%) Security Cleared
2 69 (39.20%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.23%) Degree
4 15 (8.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.41%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.70%) CISSP
7 3 (1.70%) GIAC
7 3 (1.70%) ISEB
7 3 (1.70%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.14%) CSSLP
8 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.57%) GSEC
9 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (30.68%) QA
2 15 (8.52%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.11%) WCAG
4 4 (2.27%) NIST
4 4 (2.27%) PSD2
4 4 (2.27%) SEPA
5 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (40.91%) Docker
2 5 (2.84%) Postfix
2 5 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 108 (61.36%) Kubernetes
2 43 (24.43%) Argo
2 43 (24.43%) Grafana
3 32 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 26 (14.77%) Ansible
5 9 (5.11%) HP Fortify
5 9 (5.11%) Istio
6 8 (4.55%) Puppet
7 5 (2.84%) Podman
8 4 (2.27%) Control-M
9 2 (1.14%) Kibana
9 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.57%) Consul
Vendors
1 39 (22.16%) Red Hat
2 17 (9.66%) Checkmarx
3 14 (7.95%) Google
4 13 (7.39%) IBM
5 11 (6.25%) Oracle
5 11 (6.25%) Sonatype
5 11 (6.25%) Veracode
6 9 (5.11%) Databricks
7 8 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (4.55%) Tenable
8 7 (3.98%) Atlassian
9 6 (3.41%) Microsoft
9 6 (3.41%) SAP
10 5 (2.84%) Splunk
11 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.27%) NVIDIA
12 2 (1.14%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.57%) Pega
13 1 (0.57%) UiPath