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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 370 502
Rank change year-on-year -123 +132 -13
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 176 191 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.58% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.87% 3.84% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 142 64
10th Percentile £413 £277 £416
25th Percentile £458 £385 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £678
90th Percentile £680 £700 £697
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £460 £612
% change year-on-year +10.98% -24.84% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 6,142 4,974 5,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.45% 15.19% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,948 3,352 3,278
10th Percentile £355 £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 £597 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 114 180
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.59 £27.80
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.00 £86.15 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -135 161 £514 +8.28% 55
UK excluding London -81 110 £511 +10.98% 29
Work from Home -68 64 £528 +17.22% 27
London -106 53 £593 -2.87% 29
North of England -56 52 £511 +28.62% 14
Midlands -57 31 £511 +7.47% 5
North East -20 30 £511 +9.95% 12
South East -48 28 £601 +20.19% 4
West Midlands -45 26 £513 +2.55% 1
Yorkshire -36 11 £514 +31.79% 2
North West -68 11 £500 +27.23%
East of England -14 9 £510 -40.00%
East Midlands -22 4 £335 +24.07% 4
Scotland -18 3 £450 -
South West -45 2 - - 6

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 14 (7.95%) Confluence
2 11 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.55%) Apache
4 7 (3.98%) Camunda
5 5 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.84%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 78 (44.32%) AWS
2 55 (31.25%) GitHub
3 53 (30.11%) Azure
3 53 (30.11%) OpenShift
4 43 (24.43%) GCP
5 31 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (11.36%) Amazon S3
8 17 (9.66%) Serverless
9 16 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (7.39%) AWS KMS
11 12 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (6.82%) Route 53
12 11 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.68%) OCI
14 9 (5.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
15 8 (4.55%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) Firewall
2 4 (2.27%) MQTT
2 4 (2.27%) Network Security
3 2 (1.14%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.95%) DynamoDB
3 12 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (6.25%) Metadata
5 10 (5.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (5.68%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.98%) MySQL
6 7 (3.98%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.41%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.27%) Apache Hive
8 4 (2.27%) Big Data
8 4 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.27%) Flink
8 4 (2.27%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.27%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.27%) Tableau
9 3 (1.70%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 84 (47.73%) Jenkins
2 60 (34.09%) Git
3 59 (33.52%) GitLab
4 55 (31.25%) Maven
5 48 (27.27%) JUnit
6 23 (13.07%) Mockito
7 22 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 18 (10.23%) Gradle
9 16 (9.09%) Cucumber
9 16 (9.09%) Snyk
10 15 (8.52%) JIRA
10 15 (8.52%) Selenium
11 13 (7.39%) Bitbucket Server
12 12 (6.82%) Postman
13 11 (6.25%) REST Assured
14 10 (5.68%) Gatling
15 9 (5.11%) Artifactory
16 8 (4.55%) IntelliJ
17 7 (3.98%) JMeter
17 7 (3.98%) LoadRunner
General
1 39 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.18%) Finance
3 28 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 22 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (11.93%) Banking
6 10 (5.68%) Publishing
7 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.70%) Automotive
9 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (37.50%) Developer
2 46 (26.14%) Java Developer
3 39 (22.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (14.20%) Senior
5 18 (10.23%) Java Engineer
6 16 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 15 (8.52%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (5.68%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.55%) Lead
12 8 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
13 7 (3.98%) Architect
13 7 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (3.98%) Python Engineer
14 6 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (3.41%) GCP Engineer
14 6 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (31.82%) Terraform
2 54 (30.68%) AngularJS
3 51 (28.98%) Spring
4 50 (28.41%) Spring Boot
5 40 (22.73%) Quarkus
6 33 (18.75%) Kafka
7 31 (17.61%) Node.js
8 22 (12.50%) JPA
9 21 (11.93%) Hibernate
9 21 (11.93%) React
9 21 (11.93%) REST
9 21 (11.93%) RESTful
10 20 (11.36%) SOAP
10 20 (11.36%) Web Services
11 19 (10.80%) HTML
11 19 (10.80%) YAML
12 17 (9.66%) ActiveMQ
13 16 (9.09%) JSON
14 15 (8.52%) CSS
14 15 (8.52%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.20%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.84%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.14%) PKI
8 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.57%) Life Science
8 1 (0.57%) LIMS
8 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.57%) NHS
8 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.18%) Linux
2 10 (5.68%) Unix
3 3 (1.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (64.20%) CI/CD
2 100 (56.82%) DevOps
3 99 (56.25%) Agile
4 78 (44.32%) Scrum
4 78 (44.32%) Test Automation
5 75 (42.61%) DevSecOps
6 64 (36.36%) Microservices
7 63 (35.80%) Software Engineering
8 53 (30.11%) SDLC
9 46 (26.14%) TDD
10 44 (25.00%) Front End Development
10 44 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
11 43 (24.43%) Containerisation
12 42 (23.86%) Unit Testing
13 40 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (19.89%) Sprint Review
15 28 (15.91%) BDD
15 28 (15.91%) Code Quality
16 26 (14.77%) Static Application Security Testing
17 25 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (68.75%) Java
2 53 (30.11%) Python
3 45 (25.57%) SQL
4 27 (15.34%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.09%) Groovy
6 12 (6.82%) Bash
7 10 (5.68%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.11%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.84%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.27%) Rust
11 3 (1.70%) Bicep
11 3 (1.70%) Go
11 3 (1.70%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.57%) C#
12 1 (0.57%) COBOL
12 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 78 (44.32%) Security Cleared
2 71 (40.34%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.23%) Degree
4 15 (8.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.41%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.70%) CISSP
7 3 (1.70%) GIAC
7 3 (1.70%) ISEB
7 3 (1.70%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.14%) CSSLP
8 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.57%) GSEC
9 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (30.68%) QA
2 15 (8.52%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.11%) WCAG
4 4 (2.27%) NIST
4 4 (2.27%) PSD2
4 4 (2.27%) SEPA
5 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (40.34%) Docker
2 5 (2.84%) Postfix
2 5 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 110 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 43 (24.43%) Argo
3 40 (22.73%) Grafana
4 29 (16.48%) Prometheus
5 26 (14.77%) Ansible
6 9 (5.11%) HP Fortify
6 9 (5.11%) Istio
7 8 (4.55%) Puppet
8 5 (2.84%) Podman
9 4 (2.27%) Control-M
10 2 (1.14%) Kibana
10 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.14%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.57%) Consul
Vendors
1 39 (22.16%) Red Hat
2 17 (9.66%) Checkmarx
3 14 (7.95%) Google
4 13 (7.39%) IBM
5 12 (6.82%) Sonatype
6 11 (6.25%) Oracle
6 11 (6.25%) Veracode
7 9 (5.11%) Databricks
8 8 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (4.55%) Tenable
9 7 (3.98%) Atlassian
10 6 (3.41%) Microsoft
10 6 (3.41%) SAP
11 5 (2.84%) Splunk
12 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
12 4 (2.27%) NVIDIA
13 2 (1.14%) AppDynamics
14 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.57%) Pega
14 1 (0.57%) UiPath