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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 366 482
Rank change year-on-year -125 +116 -12
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 162 171 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.53% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.61% 3.62% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 129 75
10th Percentile £429 £280 £418
25th Percentile £475 £391 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £601 £615 £650
90th Percentile £684 £688 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £425 £574
% change year-on-year +20.00% -25.93% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 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 6,206 4,728 5,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 14.55% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,990 3,170 3,533
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 104 245
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.94 £29.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.53 £73.90
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

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 16 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

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 16 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 -115 149 £515 +8.34% 11
UK excluding London -79 105 £510 +20.00% 8
Work from Home -86 54 £570 +20.00% 7
North of England -66 48 £500 +24.38% 3
London -99 46 £593 -2.87% 5
South East -46 27 £513 +2.40% 1
Midlands -63 27 £512 +26.17% 1
North East -19 25 £511 +10.54% 2
West Midlands -49 23 £512 +7.84% 1
North West -56 14 £431 +9.95% 1
Yorkshire -50 9 £507 +19.29%
East of England - 9 £510 -
South West -29 4 £525 -14.29% 2
East Midlands -22 3 - -
Scotland -12 1 £375 - 1

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 21 (12.96%) Confluence
2 9 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.32%) Apache
3 7 (4.32%) nginx
4 4 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.85%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.23%) Camunda
7 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 77 (47.53%) AWS
2 49 (30.25%) Azure
3 43 (26.54%) GitHub
3 43 (26.54%) OpenShift
4 36 (22.22%) GCP
5 33 (20.37%) Amazon S3
6 31 (19.14%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (17.28%) Route 53
8 24 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (14.20%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (12.96%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (12.96%) AWS KMS
11 20 (12.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (12.35%) Serverless
12 15 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (9.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (8.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (4.32%) OCI
16 5 (3.09%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.56%) Firewall
1 9 (5.56%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.32%) DNS
2 7 (4.32%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.32%) VPN
3 4 (2.47%) MQTT
3 4 (2.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.58%) DynamoDB
1 22 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (12.96%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (6.79%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (6.17%) Metadata
6 8 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.09%) MySQL
8 4 (2.47%) Flink
8 4 (2.47%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.85%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.85%) Big Data
9 3 (1.85%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.85%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.23%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 72 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 47 (29.01%) Git
2 47 (29.01%) GitLab
3 44 (27.16%) Maven
4 37 (22.84%) JUnit
5 22 (13.58%) Mockito
6 21 (12.96%) JIRA
7 16 (9.88%) Snyk
8 14 (8.64%) DbUnit
9 13 (8.02%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (8.02%) jMock
9 13 (8.02%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (7.41%) Bitbucket
11 10 (6.17%) Artifactory
11 10 (6.17%) Gradle
12 9 (5.56%) IntelliJ
13 8 (4.94%) Cucumber
14 7 (4.32%) CircleCI
14 7 (4.32%) REST Assured
15 6 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 36 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 34 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.81%) Finance
4 18 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.64%) Banking
6 7 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.32%) Publishing
7 5 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.85%) Automotive
8 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (36.42%) Developer
2 45 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 35 (21.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (11.73%) Senior
4 19 (11.73%) Software Engineer
5 18 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.02%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (7.41%) Architect
9 11 (6.79%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (6.79%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 8 (4.94%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.09%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (3.09%) Technical Architect
15 4 (2.47%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (33.95%) AngularJS
2 42 (25.93%) Spring Boot
3 41 (25.31%) Spring
4 38 (23.46%) Quarkus
5 30 (18.52%) Node.js
6 28 (17.28%) RESTful
7 22 (13.58%) Hibernate
7 22 (13.58%) JPA
8 21 (12.96%) YAML
9 20 (12.35%) ActiveMQ
9 20 (12.35%) REST
9 20 (12.35%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (11.73%) SOAP
11 18 (11.11%) Kafka
11 18 (11.11%) Spring Batch
11 18 (11.11%) Spring Integration
11 18 (11.11%) Web Services
12 14 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (8.02%) PowerMock
14 12 (7.41%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.23%) PKI
6 1 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.62%) Life Science
6 1 (0.62%) LIMS
6 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.62%) NHS
6 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.14%) Linux
2 4 (2.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 97 (59.88%) DevOps
3 85 (52.47%) Agile
4 70 (43.21%) DevSecOps
5 68 (41.98%) Scrum
6 58 (35.80%) Software Engineering
7 56 (34.57%) Test Automation
8 48 (29.63%) Microservices
9 47 (29.01%) SDLC
10 46 (28.40%) Containerisation
11 44 (27.16%) TDD
11 44 (27.16%) Unit Testing
12 39 (24.07%) Sprint Planning
13 38 (23.46%) Front End Development
14 36 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (20.37%) Sprint Review
16 30 (18.52%) BDD
17 23 (14.20%) Static Application Security Testing
18 21 (12.96%) Code Quality
18 21 (12.96%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 102 (62.96%) Java
2 35 (21.60%) Python
2 35 (21.60%) SQL
3 12 (7.41%) Groovy
4 9 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.94%) Bash
5 8 (4.94%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.47%) Go
6 4 (2.47%) Rust
7 3 (1.85%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.23%) C#
9 1 (0.62%) COBOL
9 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (52.47%) Security Cleared
2 77 (47.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.17%) Degree
4 9 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.32%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.85%) CISSP
9 3 (1.85%) GIAC
10 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.23%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.62%) GSEC
11 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (27.78%) QA
2 7 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.85%) NIST
3 3 (1.85%) WCAG
4 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.23%) PSD2
4 2 (1.23%) SEPA
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (37.65%) Docker
2 11 (6.79%) Postfix
3 7 (4.32%) Squid
4 3 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 96 (59.26%) Kubernetes
2 55 (33.95%) Terraform
3 50 (30.86%) Grafana
4 40 (24.69%) Argo
5 36 (22.22%) Prometheus
6 26 (16.05%) Ansible
7 9 (5.56%) Istio
7 9 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (4.94%) Consul
9 7 (4.32%) FortiGate
9 7 (4.32%) Puppet
10 5 (3.09%) Podman
11 4 (2.47%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.23%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (27.16%) Red Hat
2 21 (12.96%) Atlassian
3 17 (10.49%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (8.64%) Checkmarx
5 13 (8.02%) Veracode
6 11 (6.79%) Sonatype
7 10 (6.17%) Dynatrace
7 10 (6.17%) Google
8 7 (4.32%) Tenable
9 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
10 5 (3.09%) Oracle
11 4 (2.47%) Databricks
11 4 (2.47%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.47%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.85%) IBM
12 3 (1.85%) SAP
12 3 (1.85%) Splunk
13 1 (0.62%) Pega
13 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.62%) UiPath