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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 485 497
Rank change year-on-year +53 +12 -39
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 165 81 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.00% 1.70% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 54 85
10th Percentile £316 £413 £443
25th Percentile £385 £503 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -1.17% -
75th Percentile £659 £685 £650
90th Percentile £714 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £606 £588
% change year-on-year -20.05% +3.15% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £45.85 - -
25th Percentile £47.88 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £54.38 - -
90th Percentile £54.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 5,508 4,764 5,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 13.01% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,947 4,175
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 124 226
10th Percentile £29.63 £28.47 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.38 £47.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.12 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.83 £87.66
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

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 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 +57 151 £538 -12.17% 19
UK excluding London +21 89 £485 -20.05% 18
London +33 59 £610 -2.40% 3
Work from Home +41 56 £460 -17.95% 9
North of England -9 44 £400 -22.89% 10
Midlands -4 31 £575 -6.05%
North West +7 29 £400 +12.36% 5
West Midlands -26 22 £700 +14.38%
South West - 17 £700 - 4
Yorkshire -36 11 £390 -34.04% 3
East Midlands - 9 £270 -
South East +4 7 £550 -12.00% 4
North East -4 4 £425 - 2
Scotland -4 1 £639 +35.24%
East of England -17 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 22 (13.33%) Confluence
2 7 (4.24%) Appian
3 5 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.03%) JBoss
4 4 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.42%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.21%) Mule
5 2 (1.21%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.61%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) CICS
6 1 (0.61%) nginx
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 69 (41.82%) Azure
2 66 (40.00%) AWS
3 54 (32.73%) GitHub
4 40 (24.24%) GCP
5 31 (18.79%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (15.76%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (13.33%) Serverless
9 21 (12.73%) OpenShift
10 19 (11.52%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (10.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 14 (8.48%) npm
13 13 (7.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (7.88%) Datadog
14 12 (7.27%) Azure AKS
14 12 (7.27%) PaaS
15 11 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.24%) Firewall
2 5 (3.03%) SSH
3 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.21%) DNS
4 2 (1.21%) SSL
5 1 (0.61%) HTTP
5 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.61%) Internet
5 1 (0.61%) Network Security
5 1 (0.61%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.61%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.52%) Redis
3 18 (10.91%) NoSQL
4 14 (8.48%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (8.48%) DynamoDB
5 13 (7.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (6.67%) Relational Database
7 10 (6.06%) RDBMS
8 8 (4.85%) DocumentDB
8 8 (4.85%) MongoDB
8 8 (4.85%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.24%) Power BI
10 6 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.64%) MySQL
11 5 (3.03%) BigQuery
11 5 (3.03%) Hadoop
11 5 (3.03%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.42%) Big Data
13 3 (1.82%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 79 (47.88%) Jenkins
2 69 (41.82%) Git
3 47 (28.48%) GitLab
4 37 (22.42%) JIRA
5 36 (21.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 35 (21.21%) Maven
7 28 (16.97%) Selenium
8 27 (16.36%) JUnit
9 22 (13.33%) Bitbucket
10 20 (12.12%) Cucumber
11 17 (10.30%) Artifactory
11 17 (10.30%) Mockito
12 16 (9.70%) Postman
13 15 (9.09%) Cypress.io
14 14 (8.48%) Gradle
14 14 (8.48%) Snyk
15 10 (6.06%) TeamCity
16 8 (4.85%) Bitbucket Server
17 7 (4.24%) Gatling
17 7 (4.24%) Robot Framework
General
1 42 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.36%) Finance
3 24 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 23 (13.94%) Banking
5 7 (4.24%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.03%) Publishing
8 4 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.21%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.61%) German Language
11 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Military
11 1 (0.61%) Retail
11 1 (0.61%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 49 (29.70%) Developer
2 30 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (16.36%) Java Developer
4 20 (12.12%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 14 (8.48%) Lead
6 12 (7.27%) GCP Engineer
7 11 (6.67%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Architect
9 8 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Senior
10 7 (4.24%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Java Architect
11 6 (3.64%) Java Technical Architect
11 6 (3.64%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.64%) UI Developer
12 5 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) GCP DevOps
12 5 (3.03%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (24.85%) Spring Boot
2 32 (19.39%) React
3 30 (18.18%) REST
4 27 (16.36%) Node.js
5 26 (15.76%) Spring
6 22 (13.33%) CSS
6 22 (13.33%) HTML
6 22 (13.33%) JSON
7 21 (12.73%) Kafka
8 18 (10.91%) Hibernate
8 18 (10.91%) RESTful
9 17 (10.30%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (10.30%) Jest
10 16 (9.70%) CSS3
10 16 (9.70%) HTML5
10 16 (9.70%) YAML
11 15 (9.09%) JPA
12 14 (8.48%) AngularJS
12 14 (8.48%) J2EE
12 14 (8.48%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.45%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.03%) N-Tier
4 5 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.42%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.82%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (1.82%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.21%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.94%) Linux
2 12 (7.27%) Windows
3 7 (4.24%) Unix
4 6 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.21%) Android
7 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (69.70%) CI/CD
2 100 (60.61%) DevOps
3 66 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 60 (36.36%) Agile
5 58 (35.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (31.52%) Microservices
7 45 (27.27%) DevSecOps
8 43 (26.06%) Test Automation
9 34 (20.61%) Code Quality
9 34 (20.61%) TDD
10 31 (18.79%) SDLC
11 27 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (16.36%) Software Engineering
11 27 (16.36%) Unit Testing
12 24 (14.55%) Migration
13 22 (13.33%) Mentoring
13 22 (13.33%) Scrum
14 21 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (12.12%) Front End Development
16 19 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (38.18%) Java
1 63 (38.18%) Python
2 39 (23.64%) JavaScript
3 31 (18.79%) SQL
4 22 (13.33%) Bash
5 14 (8.48%) Groovy
6 12 (7.27%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.85%) C#
7 8 (4.85%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.64%) Go
8 6 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.03%) Perl
10 3 (1.82%) C++
10 3 (1.82%) Rust
11 2 (1.21%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.21%) R
12 1 (0.61%) Bicep
12 1 (0.61%) JCL
12 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 46 (27.88%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.91%) DV Cleared
4 11 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.64%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.64%) OSCP
6 5 (3.03%) CREST Certified
6 5 (3.03%) Degree
6 5 (3.03%) Tigerscheme
7 4 (2.42%) CHECK Team Member
8 3 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.21%) CISSP
9 2 (1.21%) OCP
9 2 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) GIAC
10 1 (0.61%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.70%) QA
2 15 (9.09%) NCSC
3 11 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.42%) WCAG
5 3 (1.82%) GDPR
6 2 (1.21%) NIST
6 2 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.21%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.61%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.61%) GRC
7 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
System Software
1 99 (60.00%) Docker
2 5 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.21%) HDFS
3 2 (1.21%) Postfix
4 1 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (44.85%) Kubernetes
2 64 (38.79%) Terraform
3 26 (15.76%) Ansible
4 15 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.88%) Grafana
6 12 (7.27%) Progress Chef
7 10 (6.06%) Argo
8 8 (4.85%) Puppet
9 7 (4.24%) Istio
9 7 (4.24%) Kibana
10 5 (3.03%) Nmap
11 4 (2.42%) Podman
12 3 (1.82%) HP Fortify
13 2 (1.21%) rkt
14 1 (0.61%) Cilium
14 1 (0.61%) Control-M
14 1 (0.61%) Packer
14 1 (0.61%) Rancher
14 1 (0.61%) Rsyslog
14 1 (0.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (13.33%) Veracode
2 18 (10.91%) Splunk
3 14 (8.48%) Google
3 14 (8.48%) Red Hat
4 12 (7.27%) Dynatrace
5 11 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 9 (5.45%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.24%) Cisco
7 7 (4.24%) Cloudera
8 6 (3.64%) DocuSign
8 6 (3.64%) Perforce
9 5 (3.03%) AppDynamics
9 5 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (3.03%) Gigya
9 5 (3.03%) Oracle
10 3 (1.82%) Databricks
11 2 (1.21%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (1.21%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.61%) Qualys