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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 409 477
Rank change year-on-year -73 +68 +14
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 141 112 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.38% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.44% 2.71% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 87 74
10th Percentile £409 £389 £427
25th Percentile £450 £425 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £588
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% -11.49% -0.42%
75th Percentile £586 £653 £650
90th Percentile £660 £700 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +9.68% -15.45% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 2
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 5,790 4,129 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.54% 14.03% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,857 2,775 3,471
10th Percentile £343 £338 £356
25th Percentile £404 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 68 180
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.06 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.46 £51.77 £45.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £76.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.93 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.40% - +1.63%

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 19 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

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 19 April 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 -73 127 £518 +3.04% 36
UK excluding London -61 88 £510 +9.68% 31
London -65 40 £525 -6.25% 7
North of England -53 39 £441 -4.24% 15
Work from Home -36 38 £525 +0.48% 19
Midlands -52 25 £525 +10.53% 3
West Midlands -45 19 £514 +8.21% 2
North East -4 16 £513 +10.22% 12
North West -34 15 £431 +9.54% 1
South East -45 15 £513 +2.40% 8
East of England -23 9 £510 +58.69% 3
Yorkshire -54 8 £450 -13.25% 2
East Midlands -32 6 £525 +24.70% 1
South West - 5 £625 - 3
Scotland +2 1 £329 -52.04%

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 23 (16.31%) Confluence
2 7 (4.96%) nginx
3 5 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.84%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.84%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 67 (47.52%) AWS
2 43 (30.50%) Azure
2 43 (30.50%) GitHub
3 30 (21.28%) OpenShift
4 28 (19.86%) Amazon S3
5 26 (18.44%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (16.31%) GCP
6 23 (16.31%) Route 53
7 21 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (14.18%) Amazon SQS
8 20 (14.18%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (14.18%) Serverless
9 17 (12.06%) AWS KMS
10 16 (11.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (11.35%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (9.93%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (9.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.38%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.96%) DNS
2 7 (4.96%) Firewall
2 7 (4.96%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.48%) DynamoDB
2 17 (12.06%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (11.35%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (9.93%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.67%) Metadata
7 7 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.55%) MySQL
8 5 (3.55%) Redis
9 4 (2.84%) DocumentDB
10 3 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.13%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.13%) Big Data
10 3 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.13%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.13%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.42%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.42%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.42%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 52 (36.88%) Jenkins
2 38 (26.95%) Git
3 28 (19.86%) GitLab
3 28 (19.86%) JUnit
3 28 (19.86%) Maven
4 25 (17.73%) JIRA
5 19 (13.48%) Bitbucket
6 14 (9.93%) Mockito
6 14 (9.93%) Snyk
7 12 (8.51%) Artifactory
8 11 (7.80%) DbUnit
8 11 (7.80%) jMock
9 9 (6.38%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (5.67%) IntelliJ
11 7 (4.96%) Cucumber
12 6 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (3.55%) CircleCI
13 5 (3.55%) Selenium
14 4 (2.84%) Postman
15 3 (2.13%) Gradle
General
1 35 (24.82%) Public Sector
2 26 (18.44%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.89%) Finance
4 12 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.09%) Banking
6 7 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.55%) Publishing
9 3 (2.13%) Automotive
9 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.42%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Advertising
11 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 51 (36.17%) Developer
2 32 (22.70%) Java Developer
3 28 (19.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (13.48%) Senior
5 18 (12.77%) Software Engineer
6 13 (9.22%) Architect
6 13 (9.22%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.80%) Java Engineer
8 8 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (5.67%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (4.96%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 6 (4.26%) Lead
10 6 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) React Developer
11 5 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (3.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (29.08%) AngularJS
2 31 (21.99%) Spring
3 30 (21.28%) Node.js
4 29 (20.57%) Spring Boot
5 24 (17.02%) Quarkus
6 20 (14.18%) REST
6 20 (14.18%) YAML
7 19 (13.48%) RESTful
7 19 (13.48%) Web Services
8 16 (11.35%) Hibernate
8 16 (11.35%) JPA
9 15 (10.64%) Spring Cloud
10 14 (9.93%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (9.93%) SOAP
10 14 (9.93%) Spring Batch
10 14 (9.93%) Spring Integration
11 11 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (7.80%) PowerMock
12 10 (7.09%) JSON
12 10 (7.09%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.13%) Blog
3 3 (2.13%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.42%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.71%) Life Science
5 1 (0.71%) LIMS
5 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.71%) NHS
5 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.71%) Replication
5 1 (0.71%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.02%) Linux
2 4 (2.84%) Unix
3 2 (1.42%) Windows
4 1 (0.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (59.57%) CI/CD
2 80 (56.74%) DevOps
3 65 (46.10%) Agile
4 51 (36.17%) DevSecOps
5 47 (33.33%) Scrum
6 44 (31.21%) Test Automation
7 42 (29.79%) Software Engineering
8 38 (26.95%) Containerisation
8 38 (26.95%) SDLC
9 37 (26.24%) TDD
10 33 (23.40%) Unit Testing
11 32 (22.70%) Sprint Planning
12 31 (21.99%) Microservices
13 30 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (19.86%) BDD
15 23 (16.31%) Front End Development
16 21 (14.89%) Sprint Review
16 21 (14.89%) Static Application Security Testing
17 20 (14.18%) Code Quality
18 17 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 84 (59.57%) Java
2 27 (19.15%) Python
2 27 (19.15%) SQL
3 10 (7.09%) Groovy
4 7 (4.96%) Go
5 5 (3.55%) Bash
5 5 (3.55%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.55%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.84%) C++
6 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.13%) C#
7 3 (2.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.71%) C
8 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.71%) ProC
8 1 (0.71%) RPG
8 1 (0.71%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 57 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.26%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.84%) Degree
5 1 (0.71%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (21.99%) QA
2 3 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.13%) WCAG
3 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (34.75%) Docker
2 10 (7.09%) Postfix
3 7 (4.96%) Squid
4 3 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 64 (45.39%) Kubernetes
2 41 (29.08%) Terraform
3 34 (24.11%) Grafana
4 25 (17.73%) Argo
5 24 (17.02%) Prometheus
6 15 (10.64%) Ansible
7 7 (4.96%) Consul
7 7 (4.96%) FortiGate
7 7 (4.96%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.55%) Istio
8 5 (3.55%) Puppet
9 4 (2.84%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.42%) Podman
10 2 (1.42%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (20.57%) Red Hat
2 18 (12.77%) Atlassian
3 15 (10.64%) Checkmarx
4 14 (9.93%) Jaspersoft
5 13 (9.22%) Veracode
6 10 (7.09%) Dynatrace
7 9 (6.38%) Google
7 9 (6.38%) Sonatype
8 7 (4.96%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.55%) Databricks
9 5 (3.55%) Guidewire
9 5 (3.55%) Microsoft
9 5 (3.55%) SAP
10 4 (2.84%) Oracle
10 4 (2.84%) Splunk
11 3 (2.13%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.13%) Tenable
12 1 (0.71%) LabVantage
12 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.71%) OutSystems