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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 369 482
Rank change year-on-year -145 +113 +6
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 174 191 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.58% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.67% 3.74% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 139 49
10th Percentile £385 £285 £410
25th Percentile £436 £380 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -12.66% -4.58%
75th Percentile £588 £666 £638
90th Percentile £660 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +0.42% -17.39% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 1
10th Percentile £62.50 £47.05 -
25th Percentile £69.81 £50.88 £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% -26.25% -
75th Percentile - £65.38 £85.00
90th Percentile - £68.15 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £59.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +18.64% -26.25% -

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 6,508 5,108 4,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 15.40% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,171 3,468 3,117
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 111 168
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £29.67
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.00 £71.88
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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 14 October 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 14 October 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 -139 162 £510 +2.00% 69
UK excluding London -97 105 £477 +0.42% 53
London -119 63 £510 -16.39% 30
Work from Home -78 61 £495 +6.00% 36
North of England -68 46 £514 +27.94% 19
Midlands -46 43 £450 -9.96% 9
West Midlands -34 40 £455 -20.94% 8
South East -42 28 £690 +37.93% 5
North East -16 27 £510 +20.00% 10
North West -68 10 £537 +31.06% 7
Yorkshire -37 9 £514 +31.88% 2
Scotland -22 3 £450 -29.58% 10
South West -47 3 £300 -57.14% 4
East Midlands -25 2 £335 +24.07% 1
East of England -28 1 £50 -94.12% 2

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 20 (11.49%) Confluence
2 9 (5.17%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.17%) Camunda
3 7 (4.02%) Apache
4 6 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.57%) IIS
7 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 87 (50.00%) AWS
2 61 (35.06%) GitHub
3 52 (29.89%) Azure
4 48 (27.59%) OpenShift
5 36 (20.69%) GCP
6 29 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (14.37%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (8.62%) Amazon S3
9 14 (8.05%) GitHub Copilot
9 14 (8.05%) Serverless
10 11 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (5.17%) AWS KMS
11 9 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (4.60%) Entra ID
12 8 (4.60%) Route 53
13 7 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.60%) Firewall
2 4 (2.30%) MQTT
2 4 (2.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.52%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (9.77%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.47%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.75%) DynamoDB
5 9 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (5.17%) MySQL
6 8 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.60%) MongoDB
7 7 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (4.02%) Metadata
8 5 (2.87%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.30%) Flink
9 4 (2.30%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.30%) Tableau
10 3 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.72%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.72%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 83 (47.70%) Jenkins
2 73 (41.95%) Git
3 68 (39.08%) GitLab
4 61 (35.06%) Maven
5 60 (34.48%) JUnit
6 32 (18.39%) Cucumber
6 32 (18.39%) Mockito
7 27 (15.52%) Selenium
8 25 (14.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 23 (13.22%) Gradle
10 22 (12.64%) JIRA
11 21 (12.07%) Gatling
12 13 (7.47%) Bitbucket Server
12 13 (7.47%) Postman
12 13 (7.47%) REST Assured
13 12 (6.90%) Snyk
14 8 (4.60%) Artifactory
15 7 (4.02%) JMeter
15 7 (4.02%) LoadRunner
15 7 (4.02%) SoapUI
General
1 58 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.39%) Finance
3 27 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (14.94%) Public Sector
5 23 (13.22%) Banking
6 7 (4.02%) Publishing
7 6 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Automotive
10 1 (0.57%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) German Language
10 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 68 (39.08%) Developer
2 48 (27.59%) Java Developer
3 29 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (14.94%) Senior
5 20 (11.49%) Quality Engineer
6 15 (8.62%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.47%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (6.90%) Java Engineer
8 12 (6.90%) Lead
9 11 (6.32%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) Consultant
13 7 (4.02%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) GCP DevOps
14 6 (3.45%) Data Engineer
14 6 (3.45%) Lead Developer
15 5 (2.87%) DevOps Consultant
15 5 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (33.33%) Spring
2 52 (29.89%) AngularJS
3 49 (28.16%) Terraform
4 48 (27.59%) Spring Boot
5 36 (20.69%) Kafka
6 30 (17.24%) Quarkus
7 29 (16.67%) SOAP
7 29 (16.67%) Web Services
8 28 (16.09%) JPA
8 28 (16.09%) React
8 28 (16.09%) RESTful
9 27 (15.52%) Hibernate
10 26 (14.94%) HTML
10 26 (14.94%) REST
11 25 (14.37%) Playwright
12 24 (13.79%) ActiveMQ
13 23 (13.22%) Node.js
14 21 (12.07%) CSS
14 21 (12.07%) Gherkin
15 19 (10.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.47%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.75%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.02%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.15%) PKI
10 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.69%) Linux
2 14 (8.05%) Unix
3 6 (3.45%) Windows
4 5 (2.87%) VMS
5 4 (2.30%) macOS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (70.11%) CI/CD
2 109 (62.64%) Agile
3 93 (53.45%) Test Automation
4 92 (52.87%) DevOps
5 89 (51.15%) Scrum
6 80 (45.98%) Microservices
7 63 (36.21%) DevSecOps
8 57 (32.76%) TDD
9 51 (29.31%) SDLC
10 48 (27.59%) Software Engineering
11 46 (26.44%) Containerisation
12 43 (24.71%) Front End Development
13 42 (24.14%) Sprint Planning
14 37 (21.26%) Unit Testing
15 36 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
16 35 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
17 33 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (18.39%) BDD
19 30 (17.24%) OWASP
19 30 (17.24%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 118 (67.82%) Java
2 55 (31.61%) Python
3 44 (25.29%) SQL
4 34 (19.54%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.49%) Bash
6 15 (8.62%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.47%) Groovy
8 12 (6.90%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.75%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.30%) Bicep
10 4 (2.30%) Rust
11 3 (1.72%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.57%) C#
12 1 (0.57%) COBOL
12 1 (0.57%) Go
12 1 (0.57%) Korn
12 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (44.25%) Security Cleared
2 71 (40.80%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.79%) Degree
4 23 (13.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.75%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.60%) AWS Certification
8 7 (4.02%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.72%) CISSP
9 3 (1.72%) GIAC
9 3 (1.72%) ISEB
9 3 (1.72%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.57%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.57%) GSEC
11 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (29.89%) QA
2 25 (14.37%) Accessibility
3 19 (10.92%) WCAG
4 4 (2.30%) NIST
4 4 (2.30%) PSD2
4 4 (2.30%) SEPA
5 3 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.57%) GDPR
7 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 86 (49.43%) Docker
2 7 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.72%) Postfix
4 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 113 (64.94%) Kubernetes
2 42 (24.14%) Grafana
3 36 (20.69%) Argo
4 30 (17.24%) Ansible
4 30 (17.24%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.75%) HP Fortify
6 8 (4.60%) Istio
7 6 (3.45%) Puppet
8 5 (2.87%) Podman
9 4 (2.30%) Control-M
10 2 (1.15%) Kibana
10 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.57%) Consul
Vendors
1 33 (18.97%) Red Hat
2 16 (9.20%) IBM
3 13 (7.47%) Veracode
4 12 (6.90%) Oracle
5 11 (6.32%) Databricks
5 11 (6.32%) Google
6 9 (5.17%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.02%) Microsoft
7 7 (4.02%) Sonatype
7 7 (4.02%) Tenable
8 6 (3.45%) SAP
9 5 (2.87%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.87%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (2.30%) AppDynamics
10 4 (2.30%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.30%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.30%) Splunk
11 2 (1.15%) Foundry
12 1 (0.57%) Pega
12 1 (0.57%) UiPath