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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 370 495
Rank change year-on-year -117 +125 -21
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 187 196 72
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.59% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.98% 3.90% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 144 57
10th Percentile £407 £278 £420
25th Percentile £458 £384 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £600 £618 £685
90th Percentile £680 £700 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £463 £612
% change year-on-year +10.38% -24.43% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 - £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 6,283 5,021 5,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.52% 15.21% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,026 3,381 3,277
10th Percentile £355 £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 £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 256 112 179
10th Percentile £26.00 £31.28 £27.60
25th Percentile £52.09 £50.75 £50.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.05 £71.88
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 12 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 12 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 -136 172 £513 +7.89% 49
UK excluding London -92 114 £511 +10.38% 24
Work from Home -77 66 £525 +16.67% 144
London -92 63 £592 -0.08% 28
North of England -66 51 £511 +27.49% 12
Midlands -48 37 £511 +7.47% 4
West Midlands -40 32 £513 -4.60% 2
North East -21 29 £511 +9.95% 9
South East -45 27 £601 +20.13% 5
Yorkshire -46 11 £514 +31.79% 2
North West -62 11 £500 +27.23% 1
East of England -13 9 £510 -40.00%
East Midlands -25 4 £335 +24.07% 2
Scotland -22 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 (11.23%) Confluence
2 11 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.28%) Apache
3 8 (4.28%) Camunda
4 7 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.67%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 83 (44.39%) AWS
2 62 (33.16%) GitHub
3 57 (30.48%) Azure
4 52 (27.81%) OpenShift
5 44 (23.53%) GCP
6 33 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (14.97%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (9.63%) Amazon S3
9 17 (9.09%) Serverless
10 14 (7.49%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (6.95%) AWS KMS
12 12 (6.42%) Route 53
13 11 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (5.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (4.81%) OCI
16 8 (4.28%) Azure AKS
16 8 (4.28%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (4.28%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (4.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.21%) Firewall
2 4 (2.14%) MQTT
2 4 (2.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.97%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.49%) DynamoDB
2 14 (7.49%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (5.35%) Metadata
6 8 (4.28%) MySQL
7 6 (3.21%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.67%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.14%) Apache Hive
9 4 (2.14%) Big Data
9 4 (2.14%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.14%) Flink
9 4 (2.14%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.14%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (48.13%) Jenkins
2 69 (36.90%) Git
3 63 (33.69%) Maven
4 60 (32.09%) GitLab
5 56 (29.95%) JUnit
6 31 (16.58%) Mockito
7 24 (12.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (11.76%) JIRA
9 20 (10.70%) Gradle
10 17 (9.09%) Cucumber
10 17 (9.09%) Snyk
11 15 (8.02%) Selenium
12 14 (7.49%) Bitbucket Server
13 12 (6.42%) Postman
13 12 (6.42%) REST Assured
14 11 (5.88%) Artifactory
15 10 (5.35%) Gatling
16 8 (4.28%) IntelliJ
17 7 (3.74%) JMeter
17 7 (3.74%) LoadRunner
General
1 47 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.79%) Finance
3 32 (17.11%) Public Sector
4 28 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.76%) Banking
6 9 (4.81%) Publishing
7 6 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.14%) Automotive
8 4 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.60%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Front Office
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 74 (39.57%) Developer
2 54 (28.88%) Java Developer
3 41 (21.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (17.11%) Senior
5 20 (10.70%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.56%) Java Engineer
6 16 (8.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 13 (6.95%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.42%) Lead
9 11 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (5.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Quality Engineer
13 7 (3.74%) Architect
13 7 (3.74%) GCP Engineer
13 7 (3.74%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.74%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (31.55%) AngularJS
1 59 (31.55%) Spring
2 58 (31.02%) Spring Boot
3 55 (29.41%) Terraform
4 38 (20.32%) Quarkus
5 33 (17.65%) Kafka
6 32 (17.11%) Node.js
7 29 (15.51%) JPA
8 28 (14.97%) Hibernate
8 28 (14.97%) REST
8 28 (14.97%) RESTful
8 28 (14.97%) Web Services
9 27 (14.44%) SOAP
10 24 (12.83%) ActiveMQ
11 23 (12.30%) React
12 21 (11.23%) HTML
12 21 (11.23%) Spring Cloud
13 18 (9.63%) YAML
14 17 (9.09%) CSS
15 15 (8.02%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.81%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.21%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.07%) PKI
11 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.53%) Life Science
11 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (19.25%) Linux
2 12 (6.42%) Unix
3 4 (2.14%) VMS
3 4 (2.14%) Windows
4 1 (0.53%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (66.84%) CI/CD
2 106 (56.68%) Agile
3 105 (56.15%) DevOps
4 85 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 84 (44.92%) Scrum
6 73 (39.04%) DevSecOps
7 72 (38.50%) Microservices
8 63 (33.69%) Software Engineering
9 57 (30.48%) SDLC
10 54 (28.88%) TDD
11 52 (27.81%) Containerisation
12 48 (25.67%) Front End Development
12 48 (25.67%) Sprint Planning
13 44 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (21.93%) Unit Testing
15 35 (18.72%) Code Quality
16 33 (17.65%) Sprint Review
17 30 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
18 29 (15.51%) BDD
19 26 (13.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (68.45%) Java
2 59 (31.55%) Python
3 48 (25.67%) SQL
4 29 (15.51%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.63%) Bash
6 16 (8.56%) Groovy
7 15 (8.02%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.35%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.81%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.14%) Bicep
10 4 (2.14%) Rust
11 3 (1.60%) Go
11 3 (1.60%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.53%) C#
12 1 (0.53%) COBOL
12 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (44.39%) Security Cleared
2 76 (40.64%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.70%) Degree
4 15 (8.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.21%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.60%) CISSP
8 3 (1.60%) GIAC
8 3 (1.60%) ISEB
8 3 (1.60%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.07%) CSSLP
9 2 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.53%) GSEC
10 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (27.81%) QA
2 15 (8.02%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.81%) WCAG
4 4 (2.14%) NIST
4 4 (2.14%) PSD2
4 4 (2.14%) SEPA
5 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.53%) GDPR
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 79 (42.25%) Docker
2 6 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.67%) Postfix
4 2 (1.07%) HDFS
5 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 110 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 47 (25.13%) Grafana
3 41 (21.93%) Argo
4 35 (18.72%) Prometheus
5 32 (17.11%) Ansible
6 9 (4.81%) HP Fortify
6 9 (4.81%) Istio
7 8 (4.28%) Puppet
8 5 (2.67%) Podman
9 4 (2.14%) Control-M
10 2 (1.07%) Kibana
10 2 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.53%) Consul
Vendors
1 37 (19.79%) Red Hat
2 18 (9.63%) Checkmarx
3 16 (8.56%) Google
4 14 (7.49%) IBM
5 12 (6.42%) Veracode
6 11 (5.88%) Databricks
6 11 (5.88%) Oracle
6 11 (5.88%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.28%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (4.28%) Tenable
8 7 (3.74%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.74%) SAP
9 6 (3.21%) Microsoft
10 5 (2.67%) Splunk
11 4 (2.14%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.14%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.53%) Pega
13 1 (0.53%) UiPath