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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 376 470
Rank change year-on-year -125 +94 +18
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 165 170 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.52% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.66% 3.56% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 128 72
10th Percentile £431 £280 £413
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 £618 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +20.00% -26.09% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £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 6,204 4,773 5,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.76% 14.63% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,985 3,215 3,430
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 102 234
10th Percentile £26.00 £22.45 £26.60
25th Percentile £55.94 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.68 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +5.69%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -106 151 £514 +8.97% 20
UK excluding London -85 107 £510 +20.00% 16
Work from Home -70 55 £581 +22.37% 7
North of England -58 49 £500 +25.79% 12
London -99 46 £593 -5.01% 5
South East -45 29 £513 +2.40%
North East -15 27 £511 +10.54% 10
Midlands -57 27 £511 +25.74% 2
West Midlands -48 23 £511 +7.47% 2
North West -53 12 £431 +9.67% 2
Yorkshire -47 10 £500 +28.21%
East of England - 9 £510 -
South West -37 4 £525 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -23 3 - -
Scotland -17 1 £375 - 1

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 19 (11.52%) Confluence
2 9 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.24%) Apache
3 7 (4.24%) nginx
4 4 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.42%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.21%) Camunda
6 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 80 (48.48%) AWS
2 50 (30.30%) Azure
3 46 (27.88%) OpenShift
4 44 (26.67%) GitHub
5 39 (23.64%) GCP
6 33 (20.00%) Amazon S3
7 31 (18.79%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (16.97%) Route 53
9 25 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (12.73%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (12.73%) AWS KMS
12 20 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (12.12%) Serverless
13 16 (9.70%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (5.45%) OCI
17 5 (3.03%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.45%) Firewall
1 9 (5.45%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.24%) DNS
2 7 (4.24%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.24%) VPN
3 4 (2.42%) MQTT
3 4 (2.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.33%) DynamoDB
1 22 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (12.73%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (10.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (6.67%) Metadata
5 8 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.03%) MySQL
7 4 (2.42%) Flink
7 4 (2.42%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.82%) Apache Hive
8 3 (1.82%) Big Data
8 3 (1.82%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.82%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.21%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.21%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.21%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.61%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 75 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 48 (29.09%) Git
3 46 (27.88%) GitLab
3 46 (27.88%) Maven
4 38 (23.03%) JUnit
5 22 (13.33%) Mockito
6 19 (11.52%) JIRA
7 17 (10.30%) Snyk
8 14 (8.48%) DbUnit
8 14 (8.48%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (7.88%) Bitbucket
9 13 (7.88%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (7.88%) jMock
10 11 (6.67%) Artifactory
10 11 (6.67%) Gradle
11 9 (5.45%) IntelliJ
12 8 (4.85%) CircleCI
12 8 (4.85%) Cucumber
13 7 (4.24%) REST Assured
13 7 (4.24%) Selenium
General
1 35 (21.21%) Public Sector
2 34 (20.61%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.94%) Finance
4 18 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.88%) Banking
6 9 (5.45%) Publishing
7 7 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.82%) Automotive
9 3 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.21%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (35.76%) Developer
2 45 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 38 (23.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (11.52%) Senior
4 19 (11.52%) Software Engineer
5 18 (10.91%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.48%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (7.27%) Architect
9 11 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 8 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
14 6 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.64%) Python Engineer
15 5 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
15 5 (3.03%) GCP Engineer
15 5 (3.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (34.55%) AngularJS
2 42 (25.45%) Spring Boot
3 41 (24.85%) Spring
4 40 (24.24%) Quarkus
5 32 (19.39%) Node.js
6 26 (15.76%) RESTful
7 22 (13.33%) Hibernate
7 22 (13.33%) JPA
7 22 (13.33%) YAML
8 21 (12.73%) REST
9 20 (12.12%) ActiveMQ
9 20 (12.12%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (11.52%) SOAP
11 18 (10.91%) Kafka
11 18 (10.91%) Spring Batch
11 18 (10.91%) Spring Integration
11 18 (10.91%) Web Services
12 15 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (8.48%) JSON
13 14 (8.48%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.42%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.21%) PKI
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.61%) Life Science
7 1 (0.61%) LIMS
7 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.61%) NHS
7 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.39%) Linux
2 4 (2.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (62.42%) CI/CD
2 100 (60.61%) DevOps
3 85 (51.52%) Agile
4 75 (45.45%) DevSecOps
5 70 (42.42%) Scrum
6 62 (37.58%) Software Engineering
7 59 (35.76%) Test Automation
8 50 (30.30%) SDLC
9 48 (29.09%) Microservices
10 47 (28.48%) Containerisation
11 44 (26.67%) Unit Testing
12 42 (25.45%) TDD
13 41 (24.85%) Sprint Planning
14 40 (24.24%) Front End Development
15 37 (22.42%) Infrastructure as Code
16 35 (21.21%) Sprint Review
17 29 (17.58%) BDD
18 25 (15.15%) Static Application Security Testing
19 23 (13.94%) Performance Tuning
20 21 (12.73%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 104 (63.03%) Java
2 37 (22.42%) Python
3 35 (21.21%) SQL
4 14 (8.48%) Groovy
5 9 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.85%) Bash
6 8 (4.85%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.42%) Go
7 4 (2.42%) Rust
8 3 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.82%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.21%) C#
10 1 (0.61%) COBOL
10 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (52.73%) Security Cleared
2 79 (47.88%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.06%) Degree
4 9 (5.45%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.24%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.03%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.82%) CISSP
8 3 (1.82%) GIAC
9 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.21%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) GSEC
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (28.48%) QA
2 7 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.82%) NIST
3 3 (1.82%) WCAG
4 2 (1.21%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.21%) PSD2
4 2 (1.21%) SEPA
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (37.58%) Docker
2 11 (6.67%) Postfix
3 7 (4.24%) Squid
4 3 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.21%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 102 (61.82%) Kubernetes
2 57 (34.55%) Terraform
3 51 (30.91%) Grafana
4 42 (25.45%) Argo
5 37 (22.42%) Prometheus
6 27 (16.36%) Ansible
7 9 (5.45%) Istio
7 9 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (4.85%) Consul
8 8 (4.85%) Puppet
9 7 (4.24%) FortiGate
10 6 (3.64%) Podman
11 4 (2.42%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.21%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.21%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 46 (27.88%) Red Hat
2 21 (12.73%) Atlassian
3 17 (10.30%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (8.48%) Checkmarx
5 12 (7.27%) Sonatype
6 11 (6.67%) Veracode
7 10 (6.06%) Dynatrace
7 10 (6.06%) Google
8 7 (4.24%) Tenable
9 5 (3.03%) Oracle
10 4 (2.42%) Databricks
10 4 (2.42%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.42%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.42%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.42%) Splunk
11 3 (1.82%) IBM
11 3 (1.82%) SAP
12 1 (0.61%) LabVantage
12 1 (0.61%) Pega
12 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow