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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 365 492
Rank change year-on-year -141 +127 -15
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 180 199 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.60% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.83% 3.91% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 142 49
10th Percentile £393 £283 £410
25th Percentile £441 £380 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £586
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -14.68% -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £675
90th Percentile £660 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £594
% change year-on-year +6.32% -20.03% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.44 - £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 6,371 5,092 5,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.60% 15.40% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,070 3,437 3,152
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 111 172
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.05 £31.43
25th Percentile £50.29 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £73.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 October 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 1 October 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 -120 165 £510 +2.00% 69
UK excluding London -91 109 £505 +6.32% 44
London -105 62 £510 -16.39% 34
Work from Home -87 61 £514 +12.17% 31
North of England -70 45 £514 +27.94% 17
Midlands -43 43 £459 -8.20% 7
West Midlands -24 40 £467 -18.78% 6
South East -48 26 £690 +37.86% 6
North East -13 25 £510 +20.00% 12
North West -65 11 £537 +31.06% 3
Yorkshire -44 9 £514 +31.88% 2
East of England -21 6 £570 -32.94% 1
Scotland -20 3 £450 -29.58% 2
South West -47 3 £300 -57.14% 8
East Midlands -24 2 £335 +24.07% 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 20 (11.11%) Confluence
2 10 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.00%) Camunda
4 8 (4.44%) Apache
5 7 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (2.78%) SharePoint
7 4 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.56%) IIS
8 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 86 (47.78%) AWS
2 66 (36.67%) GitHub
3 53 (29.44%) Azure
4 45 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 39 (21.67%) GCP
6 31 (17.22%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 16 (8.89%) Serverless
10 14 (7.78%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (6.67%) AWS KMS
12 11 (6.11%) GitHub Copilot
12 11 (6.11%) Route 53
13 10 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 8 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (4.44%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.44%) Firewall
2 4 (2.22%) MQTT
2 4 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.22%) DynamoDB
3 13 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (4.44%) Metadata
7 8 (4.44%) MySQL
8 4 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.22%) Apache Hive
8 4 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.22%) Big Data
8 4 (2.22%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.22%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.22%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.22%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.22%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (47.78%) Jenkins
2 74 (41.11%) Git
3 67 (37.22%) GitLab
4 63 (35.00%) Maven
5 62 (34.44%) JUnit
6 32 (17.78%) Mockito
7 27 (15.00%) Cucumber
8 24 (13.33%) Selenium
8 24 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (12.22%) JIRA
10 21 (11.67%) Gradle
11 18 (10.00%) Gatling
12 14 (7.78%) Bitbucket Server
13 13 (7.22%) Postman
13 13 (7.22%) REST Assured
13 13 (7.22%) Snyk
14 9 (5.00%) Artifactory
15 7 (3.89%) JMeter
15 7 (3.89%) LoadRunner
15 7 (3.89%) SoapUI
General
1 54 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.00%) Finance
3 29 (16.11%) Public Sector
4 28 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (14.44%) Banking
6 7 (3.89%) Publishing
7 6 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.11%) Automotive
9 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (37.78%) Developer
2 49 (27.22%) Java Developer
3 32 (17.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (15.56%) Senior
5 17 (9.44%) Quality Engineer
6 16 (8.89%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.78%) Senior Java Developer
8 13 (7.22%) Java Engineer
8 13 (7.22%) Lead
9 12 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.44%) Consultant
12 8 (4.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 8 (4.44%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.89%) GCP DevOps
13 7 (3.89%) Lead Developer
14 6 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (34.44%) Spring
2 53 (29.44%) Spring Boot
2 53 (29.44%) Terraform
3 52 (28.89%) AngularJS
4 34 (18.89%) Kafka
5 30 (16.67%) JPA
5 30 (16.67%) Quarkus
6 29 (16.11%) Hibernate
6 29 (16.11%) SOAP
6 29 (16.11%) Web Services
7 28 (15.56%) REST
8 27 (15.00%) Node.js
8 27 (15.00%) RESTful
9 26 (14.44%) React
10 25 (13.89%) HTML
11 24 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
12 22 (12.22%) Playwright
13 20 (11.11%) CSS
14 19 (10.56%) Spring Cloud
15 18 (10.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.11%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.89%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.89%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.11%) PKI
9 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.56%) Life Science
9 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.00%) Linux
2 12 (6.67%) Unix
3 6 (3.33%) Windows
4 5 (2.78%) VMS
5 2 (1.11%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (71.11%) CI/CD
2 107 (59.44%) Agile
3 98 (54.44%) DevOps
4 87 (48.33%) Scrum
4 87 (48.33%) Test Automation
5 78 (43.33%) Microservices
6 63 (35.00%) DevSecOps
7 58 (32.22%) TDD
8 53 (29.44%) SDLC
8 53 (29.44%) Software Engineering
9 46 (25.56%) Containerisation
10 42 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 41 (22.78%) Front End Development
11 41 (22.78%) Sprint Planning
12 34 (18.89%) Code Quality
12 34 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (18.89%) Unit Testing
13 33 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (17.78%) BDD
15 29 (16.11%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 121 (67.22%) Java
2 56 (31.11%) Python
3 45 (25.00%) SQL
4 33 (18.33%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.56%) Bash
6 16 (8.89%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.33%) Groovy
8 12 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.56%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.22%) Bicep
10 4 (2.22%) Rust
11 3 (1.67%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.56%) C#
12 1 (0.56%) COBOL
12 1 (0.56%) Go
12 1 (0.56%) Korn
12 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (42.78%) Security Cleared
2 71 (39.44%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (12.22%) Degree
5 16 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.44%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.89%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.89%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.67%) CISSP
8 3 (1.67%) GIAC
8 3 (1.67%) ISEB
8 3 (1.67%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.56%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.56%) GSEC
10 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (28.33%) QA
2 22 (12.22%) Accessibility
3 16 (8.89%) WCAG
4 4 (2.22%) NIST
4 4 (2.22%) PSD2
4 4 (2.22%) SEPA
5 3 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (46.11%) Docker
2 8 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.22%) Postfix
4 2 (1.11%) HDFS
5 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 107 (59.44%) Kubernetes
2 45 (25.00%) Grafana
3 33 (18.33%) Argo
4 32 (17.78%) Prometheus
5 30 (16.67%) Ansible
6 10 (5.56%) HP Fortify
7 7 (3.89%) Istio
8 6 (3.33%) Puppet
9 5 (2.78%) Podman
10 4 (2.22%) Control-M
11 2 (1.11%) Kibana
11 2 (1.11%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.56%) Consul
Vendors
1 31 (17.22%) Red Hat
2 16 (8.89%) IBM
3 14 (7.78%) Checkmarx
3 14 (7.78%) Google
4 13 (7.22%) Veracode
5 12 (6.67%) Databricks
6 10 (5.56%) Oracle
7 9 (5.00%) Sonatype
8 8 (4.44%) Tenable
9 7 (3.89%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (3.89%) Microsoft
9 7 (3.89%) SAP
10 6 (3.33%) Atlassian
11 5 (2.78%) Splunk
12 4 (2.22%) AppDynamics
12 4 (2.22%) Dynatrace
12 4 (2.22%) NVIDIA
13 2 (1.11%) Foundry
14 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.56%) UiPath