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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 422 494
Rank change year-on-year -65 +72 +1
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 131 107 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.24% 2.62% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 84 73
10th Percentile £405 £392 £425
25th Percentile £459 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -6.25% -4.68%
75th Percentile £593 £652 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +10.87% -16.36% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £54.63 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 5,856 4,087 5,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.84% 13.97% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,905 2,743 3,487
10th Percentile £344 £340 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 73 175
10th Percentile £39.53 £25.41 £32.23
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75.44 £75.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.95 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.65% +4.03% +0.81%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -79 121 £513 -3.34% 43
UK excluding London -61 83 £510 +10.87% 38
North of England -50 38 £441 -3.19% 18
London -83 38 £525 -7.08% 6
Work from Home -38 32 £525 - 20
Midlands -54 24 £525 +10.53% 3
West Midlands -45 18 £537 +12.95% 2
North East -5 16 £513 +10.81% 16
North West -25 14 £431 +9.54%
South East -51 14 £513 -1.20% 12
Yorkshire -52 8 £450 -13.25% 2
South West - 8 £650 - 3
East Midlands -32 6 £525 +10.53% 1
East of England -31 5 £500 +55.58% 2
Scotland +6 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 (17.56%) Confluence
2 7 (5.34%) nginx
3 5 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.05%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.53%) Apache
5 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 62 (47.33%) AWS
2 43 (32.82%) Azure
3 37 (28.24%) GitHub
4 30 (22.90%) OpenShift
5 23 (17.56%) Amazon S3
6 21 (16.03%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (16.03%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (14.50%) GCP
7 19 (14.50%) Route 53
8 18 (13.74%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (12.98%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (12.98%) Serverless
10 14 (10.69%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (9.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (9.16%) AWS KMS
13 11 (8.40%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (7.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (6.87%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (3.82%) Amazon Kinesis
16 5 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.87%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.34%) DNS
2 7 (5.34%) Firewall
2 7 (5.34%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.69%) DynamoDB
1 14 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.92%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (8.40%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (6.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (6.11%) Metadata
6 7 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.82%) Redis
8 4 (3.05%) DocumentDB
9 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.29%) MySQL
10 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.53%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.53%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.53%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.53%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.76%) Big Data
11 1 (0.76%) Flink
11 1 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (36.64%) Jenkins
2 34 (25.95%) Git
3 26 (19.85%) GitLab
3 26 (19.85%) Maven
4 25 (19.08%) JIRA
5 21 (16.03%) JUnit
6 18 (13.74%) Bitbucket
7 13 (9.92%) Artifactory
8 12 (9.16%) Snyk
9 11 (8.40%) Mockito
10 9 (6.87%) DbUnit
10 9 (6.87%) jMock
11 7 (5.34%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (5.34%) Cucumber
11 7 (5.34%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (3.82%) Selenium
13 4 (3.05%) CircleCI
13 4 (3.05%) IntelliJ
13 4 (3.05%) Postman
14 3 (2.29%) Cypress.io
General
1 29 (22.14%) Public Sector
2 25 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.74%) Finance
4 10 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.11%) Banking
6 7 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.82%) Publishing
8 3 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.53%) Automotive
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (36.64%) Developer
2 27 (20.61%) Java Developer
3 24 (18.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (13.74%) Senior
5 17 (12.98%) Software Engineer
6 13 (9.92%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.40%) Architect
8 10 (7.63%) Java Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
12 5 (3.82%) Lead
12 5 (3.82%) React Developer
12 5 (3.82%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.82%) Technical Architect
13 4 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (28.24%) AngularJS
2 27 (20.61%) Node.js
3 26 (19.85%) Spring
4 24 (18.32%) Quarkus
4 24 (18.32%) Spring Boot
5 21 (16.03%) YAML
6 18 (13.74%) REST
7 17 (12.98%) RESTful
8 16 (12.21%) Web Services
9 13 (9.92%) Hibernate
9 13 (9.92%) JPA
10 12 (9.16%) Spring Cloud
11 11 (8.40%) ActiveMQ
11 11 (8.40%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (8.40%) SOAP
11 11 (8.40%) Spring Batch
11 11 (8.40%) Spring Integration
12 9 (6.87%) Bootstrap
12 9 (6.87%) JSON
12 9 (6.87%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.98%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.29%) Blog
3 3 (2.29%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.27%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Unix
3 2 (1.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (57.25%) CI/CD
2 74 (56.49%) DevOps
3 61 (46.56%) Agile
4 51 (38.93%) DevSecOps
5 44 (33.59%) Scrum
5 44 (33.59%) Test Automation
6 35 (26.72%) Software Engineering
7 34 (25.95%) Containerisation
7 34 (25.95%) SDLC
8 33 (25.19%) Unit Testing
9 31 (23.66%) Sprint Planning
9 31 (23.66%) TDD
10 27 (20.61%) Microservices
11 25 (19.08%) Front End Development
11 25 (19.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (17.56%) BDD
13 20 (15.27%) Sprint Review
14 18 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (12.98%) Static Application Security Testing
16 15 (11.45%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 76 (58.02%) Java
2 24 (18.32%) Python
3 23 (17.56%) SQL
4 9 (6.87%) Groovy
5 7 (5.34%) Go
6 5 (3.82%) Bash
6 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.82%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.05%) C++
7 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.29%) C#
9 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.76%) C
10 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.76%) ProC
10 1 (0.76%) RPG
10 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 63 (48.09%) Security Cleared
2 54 (41.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.82%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.82%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.05%) Degree
4 4 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.37%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.05%) WCAG
3 2 (1.53%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 46 (35.11%) Docker
2 8 (6.11%) Postfix
3 7 (5.34%) Squid
4 1 (0.76%) HDFS
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (47.33%) Kubernetes
2 37 (28.24%) Terraform
3 28 (21.37%) Grafana
4 25 (19.08%) Argo
5 20 (15.27%) Prometheus
6 14 (10.69%) Ansible
7 7 (5.34%) Consul
7 7 (5.34%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.34%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.82%) Istio
8 5 (3.82%) Puppet
9 4 (3.05%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.53%) Podman
10 2 (1.53%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (22.14%) Red Hat
2 16 (12.21%) Atlassian
3 13 (9.92%) Veracode
4 11 (8.40%) Checkmarx
4 11 (8.40%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (7.63%) Dynatrace
6 8 (6.11%) Sonatype
7 7 (5.34%) Microsoft
7 7 (5.34%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.82%) Databricks
8 5 (3.82%) Google
8 5 (3.82%) Guidewire
8 5 (3.82%) SAP
9 4 (3.05%) Oracle
10 3 (2.29%) Cognizant
11 2 (1.53%) Splunk
12 1 (0.76%) Acunetix
12 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.76%) Netsparker
12 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow