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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 368 474
Rank change year-on-year -128 +106 -3
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 163 178 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.54% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 3.68% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 131 71
10th Percentile £444 £276 £413
25th Percentile £480 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £626 £615 £675
90th Percentile £703 £688 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £414 £600
% change year-on-year +23.38% -31.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 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 6,199 4,843 5,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 14.76% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,977 3,281 3,331
10th Percentile £350 £322 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 105 220
10th Percentile £26.10 £23.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.23
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £84.65 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 30 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

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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 30 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 -127 148 £519 +10.56% 32
UK excluding London -70 109 £511 +23.38% 25
Work from Home -74 61 £550 +15.79% 12
North of England -57 47 £505 +28.50% 13
London -101 43 £618 -3.14% 10
Midlands -60 31 £514 +32.30% 5
North East -21 30 £511 +10.54% 9
South East -52 30 £601 +20.13% 1
West Midlands -53 27 £514 +8.21% 4
Yorkshire -48 9 £507 +30.00% 1
East of England - 9 £510 -
North West -61 8 £463 +17.68% 3
Scotland -11 3 £450 - 1
East Midlands -25 3 - - 1
South West -38 3 - - 5

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 (6.13%) Confluence
2 9 (5.52%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.29%) Apache
4 4 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.23%) Camunda
5 2 (1.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 80 (49.08%) AWS
2 53 (32.52%) Azure
3 50 (30.67%) OpenShift
4 48 (29.45%) GitHub
5 39 (23.93%) GCP
6 30 (18.40%) Amazon S3
7 28 (17.18%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (15.95%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (14.11%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (14.11%) Route 53
10 21 (12.88%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (12.88%) AWS KMS
11 19 (11.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (9.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (9.20%) Serverless
13 10 (6.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (5.52%) OCI
15 8 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (3.07%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.07%) Firewall
2 4 (2.45%) MQTT
2 4 (2.45%) Network Security
2 4 (2.45%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.23%) DNS
3 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.95%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (13.50%) DynamoDB
3 21 (12.88%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (11.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (6.13%) Metadata
6 8 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.07%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.07%) MySQL
9 4 (2.45%) Flink
9 4 (2.45%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.84%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.84%) Big Data
10 3 (1.84%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.23%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 80 (49.08%) Jenkins
2 52 (31.90%) Git
3 48 (29.45%) Maven
4 46 (28.22%) GitLab
5 42 (25.77%) JUnit
6 24 (14.72%) Mockito
7 18 (11.04%) Snyk
8 14 (8.59%) DbUnit
8 14 (8.59%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (7.98%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (7.98%) jMock
10 11 (6.75%) Gradle
11 10 (6.13%) JIRA
12 9 (5.52%) Artifactory
12 9 (5.52%) Cucumber
12 9 (5.52%) Selenium
13 8 (4.91%) CircleCI
13 8 (4.91%) IntelliJ
14 7 (4.29%) Bitbucket
14 7 (4.29%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (24.54%) Public Sector
2 33 (20.25%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.11%) Finance
4 19 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.20%) Banking
6 9 (5.52%) Publishing
7 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.84%) Automotive
8 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (38.65%) Developer
2 49 (30.06%) Java Developer
3 36 (22.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (12.27%) Senior
5 19 (11.66%) Software Engineer
6 18 (11.04%) Java Engineer
7 16 (9.82%) Senior Developer
8 14 (8.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 12 (7.36%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (6.75%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (5.52%) Architect
11 9 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 8 (4.91%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.68%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.07%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (3.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (38.04%) AngularJS
2 46 (28.22%) Spring
2 46 (28.22%) Spring Boot
3 43 (26.38%) Quarkus
4 33 (20.25%) Node.js
5 24 (14.72%) REST
6 22 (13.50%) ActiveMQ
6 22 (13.50%) Hibernate
6 22 (13.50%) JPA
6 22 (13.50%) Spring Cloud
7 21 (12.88%) RESTful
7 21 (12.88%) SOAP
8 19 (11.66%) Web Services
9 18 (11.04%) Kafka
9 18 (11.04%) Spring Batch
9 18 (11.04%) Spring Integration
10 15 (9.20%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (9.20%) YAML
11 13 (7.98%) Bootstrap
11 13 (7.98%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.11%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.20%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.23%) PKI
8 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.61%) Life Science
8 1 (0.61%) LIMS
8 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.61%) NHS
8 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.63%) Linux
2 4 (2.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (63.19%) CI/CD
2 99 (60.74%) DevOps
3 89 (54.60%) Agile
4 78 (47.85%) DevSecOps
5 75 (46.01%) Scrum
6 64 (39.26%) Software Engineering
7 63 (38.65%) Test Automation
8 56 (34.36%) Microservices
9 49 (30.06%) SDLC
10 46 (28.22%) Containerisation
11 44 (26.99%) Front End Development
11 44 (26.99%) Sprint Planning
12 42 (25.77%) TDD
12 42 (25.77%) Unit Testing
13 38 (23.31%) Sprint Review
14 37 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (16.56%) BDD
16 25 (15.34%) Static Application Security Testing
17 24 (14.72%) Kanban
18 23 (14.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 105 (64.42%) Java
2 38 (23.31%) Python
3 35 (21.47%) SQL
4 13 (7.98%) Groovy
5 12 (7.36%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.91%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.29%) Bash
7 7 (4.29%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.45%) Go
8 4 (2.45%) Rust
9 2 (1.23%) C#
9 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.61%) COBOL
10 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (52.15%) Security Cleared
2 78 (47.85%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.13%) Degree
4 9 (5.52%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.29%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.07%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.84%) CISSP
8 3 (1.84%) GIAC
9 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.23%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) GSEC
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (31.90%) QA
2 10 (6.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.07%) WCAG
4 4 (2.45%) NIST
4 4 (2.45%) PSD2
4 4 (2.45%) SEPA
5 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.61%) GDPR
6 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (41.10%) Docker
2 11 (6.75%) Postfix
3 4 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.23%) HDFS
4 2 (1.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 103 (63.19%) Kubernetes
2 53 (32.52%) Terraform
3 49 (30.06%) Grafana
4 46 (28.22%) Argo
5 33 (20.25%) Prometheus
6 28 (17.18%) Ansible
7 9 (5.52%) Istio
8 8 (4.91%) Puppet
9 5 (3.07%) Podman
10 4 (2.45%) HP Fortify
10 4 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.84%) Consul
12 2 (1.23%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.23%) Kibana
12 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.23%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 44 (26.99%) Red Hat
2 17 (10.43%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (9.82%) Atlassian
4 13 (7.98%) Checkmarx
5 11 (6.75%) Sonatype
6 10 (6.13%) Google
7 7 (4.29%) Tenable
8 5 (3.07%) Databricks
8 5 (3.07%) Veracode
9 4 (2.45%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.45%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.45%) Oracle
9 4 (2.45%) Splunk
10 3 (1.84%) IBM
10 3 (1.84%) Microsoft
10 3 (1.84%) SAP
11 1 (0.61%) Foundry
11 1 (0.61%) Pega
11 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.61%) UiPath