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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 363 474
Rank change year-on-year -139 +111 -2
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 169 194 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.59% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.75% 3.92% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 142 67
10th Percentile £433 £277 £408
25th Percentile £475 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £601 £648 £675
90th Percentile £680 £699 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £460 £600
% change year-on-year +11.47% -23.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £68.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%

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 6,139 4,948 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.44% 15.11% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,942 3,334 3,262
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 £594 £600 £623
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 258 115 191
10th Percentile £35.88 £28.13 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £74.69 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.35 £73.75
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

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -138 153 £518 +9.01% 27
UK excluding London -85 107 £513 +11.47% 21
Work from Home -83 62 £573 +23.78% 16
North of England -55 50 £513 +29.12% 12
London -108 48 £600 -1.64% 9
North East -15 29 £511 +9.95% 11
South East -52 29 £601 +20.19% 3
Midlands -68 29 £511 +7.47% 2
West Midlands -42 24 £513 +2.55% 1
North West -50 12 £509 +29.49%
East of England -13 9 £510 -40.00%
Yorkshire -40 9 £514 +31.88% 1
East Midlands -28 4 £335 +22.71% 1
Scotland -10 3 £450 -
South West -48 2 - - 4

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 10 (5.92%) Apache Spark
1 10 (5.92%) Confluence
2 8 (4.73%) Apache
3 5 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.96%) Camunda
3 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 77 (45.56%) AWS
2 57 (33.73%) GitHub
3 53 (31.36%) Azure
4 51 (30.18%) OpenShift
5 42 (24.85%) GCP
6 30 (17.75%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (11.24%) Amazon S3
9 15 (8.88%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (8.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (8.88%) Serverless
10 12 (7.10%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (7.10%) AWS KMS
10 12 (7.10%) Route 53
11 10 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (5.92%) OCI
12 8 (4.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (4.14%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (3.55%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) MQTT
1 4 (2.37%) Network Security
2 3 (1.78%) Firewall
3 2 (1.18%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 12 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (6.51%) Metadata
5 10 (5.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.73%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.96%) MySQL
8 5 (2.96%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.37%) Flink
9 4 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.37%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.37%) Tableau
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.78%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.78%) Big Data
10 3 (1.78%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 78 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 59 (34.91%) GitLab
3 51 (30.18%) Git
4 46 (27.22%) Maven
5 41 (24.26%) JUnit
6 20 (11.83%) Snyk
7 18 (10.65%) Mockito
8 17 (10.06%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (8.88%) Gradle
10 14 (8.28%) Cucumber
10 14 (8.28%) Selenium
11 11 (6.51%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (6.51%) JIRA
11 11 (6.51%) Postman
12 10 (5.92%) Gatling
13 9 (5.33%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.33%) REST Assured
14 8 (4.73%) CircleCI
14 8 (4.73%) IntelliJ
15 7 (4.14%) LoadRunner
General
1 37 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.93%) Public Sector
3 29 (17.16%) Finance
4 21 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.65%) Banking
6 10 (5.92%) Publishing
7 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.78%) Automotive
9 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Advertising
10 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (34.91%) Developer
2 40 (23.67%) Java Developer
3 37 (21.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (14.20%) Senior
5 18 (10.65%) Java Engineer
6 16 (9.47%) Software Engineer
7 15 (8.88%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.51%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (5.92%) Java Software Engineer
9 10 (5.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (5.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.73%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (4.73%) Lead
11 8 (4.73%) Quality Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Architect
12 7 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Consultant
13 6 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (31.95%) Terraform
2 51 (30.18%) AngularJS
3 44 (26.04%) Spring
4 43 (25.44%) Spring Boot
5 40 (23.67%) Quarkus
6 29 (17.16%) Kafka
7 28 (16.57%) Node.js
8 18 (10.65%) JPA
8 18 (10.65%) REST
8 18 (10.65%) RESTful
8 18 (10.65%) YAML
9 17 (10.06%) Hibernate
9 17 (10.06%) React
9 17 (10.06%) SOAP
10 16 (9.47%) JSON
11 15 (8.88%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (8.88%) HTML
11 15 (8.88%) Web Services
12 14 (8.28%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (8.28%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.55%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.78%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.18%) PKI
8 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.59%) Life Science
8 1 (0.59%) LIMS
8 1 (0.59%) NHS
8 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.57%) Linux
2 8 (4.73%) Unix
3 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (63.31%) CI/CD
2 97 (57.40%) DevOps
3 90 (53.25%) Agile
4 77 (45.56%) DevSecOps
5 74 (43.79%) Test Automation
6 73 (43.20%) Scrum
7 62 (36.69%) Software Engineering
8 57 (33.73%) Microservices
9 51 (30.18%) SDLC
10 42 (24.85%) Front End Development
10 42 (24.85%) Sprint Planning
11 41 (24.26%) TDD
11 41 (24.26%) Unit Testing
12 39 (23.08%) Containerisation
12 39 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (20.71%) Sprint Review
14 27 (15.98%) BDD
14 27 (15.98%) Static Application Security Testing
15 25 (14.79%) OWASP
15 25 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (65.68%) Java
2 49 (28.99%) Python
3 41 (24.26%) SQL
4 23 (13.61%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.28%) Groovy
6 9 (5.33%) Bash
7 8 (4.73%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.14%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.37%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.37%) Rust
10 3 (1.78%) Go
10 3 (1.78%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.18%) Bicep
12 1 (0.59%) C#
12 1 (0.59%) COBOL
12 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (46.75%) Security Cleared
2 72 (42.60%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.88%) Degree
4 13 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.55%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.55%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.78%) CISSP
8 3 (1.78%) GIAC
8 3 (1.78%) ISEB
8 3 (1.78%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.18%) CSSLP
9 2 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.59%) GSEC
10 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (31.36%) QA
2 15 (8.88%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.33%) WCAG
4 4 (2.37%) NIST
4 4 (2.37%) PSD2
4 4 (2.37%) SEPA
5 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.59%) GDPR
6 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (39.64%) Docker
2 5 (2.96%) Postfix
3 4 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 107 (63.31%) Kubernetes
2 43 (25.44%) Argo
3 39 (23.08%) Grafana
4 30 (17.75%) Prometheus
5 28 (16.57%) Ansible
6 10 (5.92%) HP Fortify
7 8 (4.73%) Istio
7 8 (4.73%) Puppet
8 5 (2.96%) Podman
9 4 (2.37%) Control-M
10 2 (1.18%) Kibana
10 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.18%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.59%) Consul
Vendors
1 39 (23.08%) Red Hat
2 15 (8.88%) Checkmarx
3 12 (7.10%) Sonatype
4 11 (6.51%) IBM
4 11 (6.51%) Oracle
5 10 (5.92%) Google
5 10 (5.92%) Veracode
6 8 (4.73%) Databricks
6 8 (4.73%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (4.14%) Atlassian
7 7 (4.14%) Tenable
8 6 (3.55%) SAP
9 5 (2.96%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.37%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.37%) Splunk
11 2 (1.18%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.59%) LabVantage
12 1 (0.59%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.59%) Pega
12 1 (0.59%) UiPath