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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 409 479
Rank change year-on-year -75 +70 +20
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 139 108 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.40% 2.63% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 84 73
10th Percentile £409 £387 £425
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £523 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -9.13% -2.13%
75th Percentile £588 £652 £650
90th Percentile £663 £700 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +10.27% -15.91% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 2
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 5,797 4,108 5,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.64% 14.02% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,856 2,749 3,458
10th Percentile £340 £338 £356
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £625
90th Percentile £687 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 73 175
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.30 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.91 £51.25 £42.97
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.95 £87.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -94 126 £518 -1.38% 40
UK excluding London -46 87 £510 +10.27% 35
London -74 39 £525 -6.67% 8
North of England -47 38 £441 -3.72% 18
Work from Home -28 36 £525 - 19
Midlands -48 24 £525 +10.53% 2
West Midlands -45 18 £514 +8.21% 1
North East -9 15 £513 +10.22% 16
North West -32 15 £431 +9.54% 1
South East -46 14 £513 +2.40% 10
East of England -21 9 £510 +58.69% 3
Yorkshire -51 8 £450 -13.25% 1
East Midlands -31 6 £525 +24.70% 1
South West - 6 £625 - 3
Scotland +4 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 (16.55%) Confluence
2 7 (5.04%) nginx
3 5 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.88%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.44%) Apache
7 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 66 (47.48%) AWS
2 43 (30.94%) GitHub
3 42 (30.22%) Azure
4 29 (20.86%) OpenShift
5 26 (18.71%) Amazon S3
6 24 (17.27%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (16.55%) GCP
8 22 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (15.83%) Route 53
9 20 (14.39%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (13.67%) Amazon SQS
10 19 (13.67%) Serverless
11 15 (10.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (10.79%) AWS KMS
11 15 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (9.35%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (8.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (3.60%) Amazon Kinesis
15 5 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.47%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.04%) DNS
2 7 (5.04%) Firewall
2 7 (5.04%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.23%) DynamoDB
2 16 (11.51%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (10.79%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (9.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.76%) Metadata
7 7 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.60%) Redis
9 4 (2.88%) DocumentDB
9 4 (2.88%) MySQL
10 3 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.16%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.44%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.44%) Big Data
11 2 (1.44%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.44%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.44%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.44%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 52 (37.41%) Jenkins
2 38 (27.34%) Git
3 28 (20.14%) GitLab
3 28 (20.14%) Maven
4 27 (19.42%) JUnit
5 25 (17.99%) JIRA
6 19 (13.67%) Bitbucket
7 14 (10.07%) Snyk
8 13 (9.35%) Artifactory
8 13 (9.35%) Mockito
9 10 (7.19%) DbUnit
9 10 (7.19%) jMock
10 8 (5.76%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (5.76%) IntelliJ
11 7 (5.04%) Cucumber
12 6 (4.32%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (3.60%) CircleCI
13 5 (3.60%) Selenium
14 4 (2.88%) Postman
15 3 (2.16%) Cypress.io
General
1 33 (23.74%) Public Sector
2 26 (18.71%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.11%) Finance
4 11 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.19%) Banking
6 7 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.60%) Publishing
9 3 (2.16%) Automotive
9 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.44%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
11 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (36.69%) Developer
2 31 (22.30%) Java Developer
3 27 (19.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.39%) Senior
5 18 (12.95%) Software Engineer
6 14 (10.07%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.35%) Architect
8 10 (7.19%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (5.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.32%) Lead
11 6 (4.32%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.60%) React Developer
12 5 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (28.06%) AngularJS
2 31 (22.30%) Spring
3 29 (20.86%) Node.js
3 29 (20.86%) Spring Boot
4 23 (16.55%) Quarkus
5 20 (14.39%) REST
5 20 (14.39%) YAML
6 18 (12.95%) RESTful
6 18 (12.95%) Web Services
7 15 (10.79%) Hibernate
7 15 (10.79%) JPA
8 14 (10.07%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (9.35%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (9.35%) SOAP
9 13 (9.35%) Spring Batch
9 13 (9.35%) Spring Integration
10 11 (7.91%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (7.19%) JSON
11 10 (7.19%) PowerMock
11 10 (7.19%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.11%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.16%) Blog
3 3 (2.16%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.44%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.72%) Life Science
5 1 (0.72%) LIMS
5 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.72%) NHS
5 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.72%) Replication
5 1 (0.72%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.83%) Linux
2 4 (2.88%) Unix
3 2 (1.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (59.71%) CI/CD
2 79 (56.83%) DevOps
3 64 (46.04%) Agile
4 50 (35.97%) DevSecOps
5 45 (32.37%) Scrum
6 43 (30.94%) Test Automation
7 41 (29.50%) Software Engineering
8 37 (26.62%) SDLC
9 36 (25.90%) Containerisation
9 36 (25.90%) TDD
10 32 (23.02%) Unit Testing
11 31 (22.30%) Sprint Planning
12 30 (21.58%) Microservices
13 29 (20.86%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (19.42%) BDD
15 23 (16.55%) Front End Development
16 21 (15.11%) Static Application Security Testing
17 20 (14.39%) Code Quality
17 20 (14.39%) Sprint Review
18 18 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 83 (59.71%) Java
2 26 (18.71%) Python
2 26 (18.71%) SQL
3 10 (7.19%) Groovy
4 7 (5.04%) Go
5 6 (4.32%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.32%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.60%) Bash
7 4 (2.88%) C++
7 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.16%) C#
9 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.72%) ProC
10 1 (0.72%) RPG
10 1 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 64 (46.04%) Security Cleared
2 55 (39.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.60%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.60%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.88%) Degree
5 1 (0.72%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.58%) QA
2 4 (2.88%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.88%) WCAG
3 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 48 (34.53%) Docker
2 9 (6.47%) Postfix
3 7 (5.04%) Squid
4 2 (1.44%) HDFS
4 2 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (44.60%) Kubernetes
2 40 (28.78%) Terraform
3 32 (23.02%) Grafana
4 24 (17.27%) Argo
5 23 (16.55%) Prometheus
6 15 (10.79%) Ansible
7 7 (5.04%) Consul
7 7 (5.04%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.04%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.60%) Istio
8 5 (3.60%) Puppet
9 4 (2.88%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.44%) Podman
10 2 (1.44%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 28 (20.14%) Red Hat
2 17 (12.23%) Atlassian
3 15 (10.79%) Checkmarx
4 13 (9.35%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (9.35%) Veracode
5 10 (7.19%) Dynatrace
6 9 (6.47%) Google
6 9 (6.47%) Sonatype
7 7 (5.04%) Salesforce
8 6 (4.32%) Microsoft
9 5 (3.60%) Databricks
9 5 (3.60%) Guidewire
9 5 (3.60%) SAP
10 4 (2.88%) Oracle
11 3 (2.16%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.16%) Splunk
12 2 (1.44%) Tenable
13 1 (0.72%) LabVantage
13 1 (0.72%) OutSystems
13 1 (0.72%) Thales