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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 428 502
Rank change year-on-year -64 +74 -23
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 120 94 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.09% 2.31% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 64 65
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £452 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £700 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £440 £525
% change year-on-year +19.32% -16.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 5,740 4,078 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.59% 13.70% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,884 2,674 3,615
10th Percentile £343 £330 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 70 210
10th Percentile £34.53 £24.59 £37.50
25th Percentile £54.69 £47.63 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £74.45 £71.25 £73.73
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £83.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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

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 9 March 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 9 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Top 14 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 9 March 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 -48 111 £525 -4.55% 47
UK excluding London -42 71 £525 +19.32% 66
London -48 40 £525 -7.89% 8
North of England -38 32 £450 +2.27% 19
Work from Home -34 25 £525 -2.23% 49
Midlands -42 25 £575 +27.21% 6
West Midlands -35 21 £575 - 6
North West -12 17 £431 +13.72% 7
South West - 14 £700 - 3
South East -38 10 £550 +2.42% 14
North East -5 9 - - 10
Yorkshire -58 6 £450 -13.25% 2
East Midlands -34 4 £525 +16.15%
Scotland +8 2 £484 -29.38% 20

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 24 (20.00%) Confluence
2 7 (5.83%) nginx
3 6 (5.00%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.33%) Appian
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 60 (50.00%) AWS
2 46 (38.33%) Azure
3 38 (31.67%) GitHub
4 23 (19.17%) OpenShift
5 20 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 19 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (13.33%) Route 53
10 15 (12.50%) Serverless
11 14 (11.67%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (11.67%) GCP
12 13 (10.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (7.50%) AWS KMS
14 9 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (4.17%) Azure AKS
15 5 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.50%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.83%) DNS
2 7 (5.83%) Firewall
2 7 (5.83%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.17%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (9.17%) DynamoDB
1 11 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.83%) Redis
4 5 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.17%) DocumentDB
4 5 (4.17%) Metadata
5 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.67%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.67%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.67%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.83%) Big Data
6 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 50 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 31 (25.83%) GitLab
3 30 (25.00%) Git
4 28 (23.33%) JIRA
5 23 (19.17%) Maven
6 22 (18.33%) Bitbucket
7 19 (15.83%) JUnit
8 14 (11.67%) Artifactory
9 13 (10.83%) Cucumber
9 13 (10.83%) Selenium
9 13 (10.83%) Snyk
10 10 (8.33%) Mockito
10 10 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (7.50%) Postman
12 7 (5.83%) Cypress.io
12 7 (5.83%) DbUnit
12 7 (5.83%) jMock
13 5 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (3.33%) CircleCI
14 4 (3.33%) Gradle
General
1 28 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 15 (12.50%) Finance
4 11 (9.17%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.50%) Banking
7 4 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.50%) Publishing
9 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
9 1 (0.83%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 40 (33.33%) Developer
2 18 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 17 (14.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (11.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 13 (10.83%) Senior
6 10 (8.33%) Architect
6 10 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.00%) React Developer
8 6 (5.00%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Lead
9 5 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (2.50%) AWS Architect
11 3 (2.50%) Evangelist
11 3 (2.50%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 24 (20.00%) YAML
2 20 (16.67%) Node.js
2 20 (16.67%) REST
3 17 (14.17%) Spring
4 15 (12.50%) RESTful
4 15 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 15 (12.50%) Web Services
5 13 (10.83%) JSON
6 12 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (10.00%) Hibernate
6 12 (10.00%) JPA
6 12 (10.00%) Quarkus
7 10 (8.33%) SOAP
7 10 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
8 9 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (7.50%) OpenID
8 9 (7.50%) Spring Batch
8 9 (7.50%) Spring Integration
9 8 (6.67%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.50%) Cloud Native
1 9 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.50%) Blog
2 3 (2.50%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.50%) Private Cloud
2 3 (2.50%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.67%) AI Agents
3 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.83%) Contactless
4 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.83%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Windows
3 3 (2.50%) Unix
4 2 (1.67%) Android
5 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.83%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 66 (55.00%) DevOps
3 49 (40.83%) Agile
4 44 (36.67%) DevSecOps
5 38 (31.67%) Test Automation
6 35 (29.17%) Containerisation
7 34 (28.33%) Scrum
8 30 (25.00%) SDLC
9 27 (22.50%) Software Engineering
9 27 (22.50%) TDD
10 26 (21.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (20.83%) Unit Testing
12 24 (20.00%) Microservices
13 23 (19.17%) Sprint Planning
14 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (15.00%) BDD
16 16 (13.33%) Code Quality
17 15 (12.50%) Front End Development
18 14 (11.67%) Static Application Security Testing
19 13 (10.83%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (43.33%) Java
2 19 (15.83%) Python
3 18 (15.00%) SQL
4 12 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.83%) Groovy
5 7 (5.83%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.00%) Go
7 5 (4.17%) Bash
7 5 (4.17%) C#
7 5 (4.17%) C++
7 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.50%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.67%) C
9 2 (1.67%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.67%) R
9 2 (1.67%) Rust
10 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.83%) RPG
10 1 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 49 (40.83%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.50%) Degree
7 1 (0.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.33%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) NCSC
3 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.67%) WCAG
5 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (48.33%) Docker
2 7 (5.83%) Squid
3 6 (5.00%) Postfix
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 38 (31.67%) Terraform
3 26 (21.67%) Grafana
4 18 (15.00%) Prometheus
5 16 (13.33%) Ansible
6 13 (10.83%) Argo
7 7 (5.83%) Consul
7 7 (5.83%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.83%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (4.17%) Puppet
9 4 (3.33%) HP Fortify
9 4 (3.33%) Podman
10 3 (2.50%) Istio
10 3 (2.50%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.67%) rkt
11 2 (1.67%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.83%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 20 (16.67%) Veracode
2 14 (11.67%) Atlassian
3 13 (10.83%) Dynatrace
4 9 (7.50%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (6.67%) Checkmarx
6 7 (5.83%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.83%) Salesforce
7 6 (5.00%) Splunk
8 5 (4.17%) Databricks
8 5 (4.17%) Guidewire
8 5 (4.17%) Sonatype
9 4 (3.33%) Cisco
9 4 (3.33%) SAP
10 3 (2.50%) Cognizant
10 3 (2.50%) Oracle
11 2 (1.67%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.83%) Acunetix
12 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow