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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 456 519
Rank change year-on-year +22 +63 -65
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 145 78 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.67% 1.82% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 52 49
10th Percentile £359 £413 £428
25th Percentile £385 £501 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £666 £685 £650
90th Percentile £784 £734 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £612 £575
% change year-on-year -6.05% +6.43% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £47.88 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £60.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 5,436 4,296 5,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.77% 13.26% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,737 2,703 3,790
10th Percentile £338 £330 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.37% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 72 201
10th Percentile £39.00 £28.88 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.60 £76.15 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +17 134 £575 -1.58% 26
UK excluding London -3 79 £575 -6.05% 22
London +8 53 £583 +1.97% 4
Work from Home +12 42 £406 -27.59% 8
North of England -24 36 £400 -22.89% 13
Midlands -27 27 £650 +6.21% 4
West Midlands -33 21 £700 +14.38% 2
North West -3 20 £425 +19.38%
South West - 18 £700 - 1
Yorkshire -42 10 £390 -34.04% 5
South East -12 9 £550 -15.38% 4
North East -7 6 - - 8
East Midlands - 6 £398 - 2
Scotland 0 2 £484 -6.97%
East of England -13 1 £850 +167.30%

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 16 (11.03%) Confluence
2 7 (4.83%) Appian
3 6 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.45%) OpenStack
5 4 (2.76%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.38%) Mule
7 1 (0.69%) Apache
7 1 (0.69%) CICS
7 1 (0.69%) JBoss
7 1 (0.69%) nginx
7 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 67 (46.21%) Azure
2 56 (38.62%) GitHub
3 54 (37.24%) AWS
4 37 (25.52%) GCP
5 30 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (16.55%) OpenShift
8 20 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
8 20 (13.79%) Serverless
9 18 (12.41%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (11.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 15 (10.34%) Datadog
12 13 (8.97%) Azure AKS
13 12 (8.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (8.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (8.28%) PaaS
14 11 (7.59%) npm
15 10 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (5.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.83%) Firewall
2 5 (3.45%) SSH
3 3 (2.07%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.38%) DNS
4 2 (1.38%) SSL
5 1 (0.69%) HTTP
5 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.69%) Internet
5 1 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.10%) Redis
2 18 (12.41%) NoSQL
3 16 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.28%) DynamoDB
5 8 (5.52%) DocumentDB
5 8 (5.52%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (4.83%) Power BI
6 7 (4.83%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (4.14%) MySQL
7 6 (4.14%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.45%) BigQuery
8 5 (3.45%) Hadoop
8 5 (3.45%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.76%) Big Data
10 3 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.07%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.07%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 69 (47.59%) Jenkins
2 53 (36.55%) Git
3 39 (26.90%) GitLab
4 29 (20.00%) JIRA
5 25 (17.24%) Maven
5 25 (17.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 20 (13.79%) Selenium
7 19 (13.10%) JUnit
8 18 (12.41%) Bitbucket
9 17 (11.72%) Postman
10 16 (11.03%) Artifactory
10 16 (11.03%) Snyk
11 14 (9.66%) Cucumber
11 14 (9.66%) Gradle
12 12 (8.28%) Cypress.io
13 9 (6.21%) Mockito
14 8 (5.52%) webpack
15 7 (4.83%) Gatling
15 7 (4.83%) Robot Framework
16 6 (4.14%) Xcode
General
1 37 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.86%) Finance
3 21 (14.48%) Banking
4 17 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.83%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.45%) Publishing
8 4 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.07%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.07%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.38%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.69%) German Language
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
11 1 (0.69%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 35 (24.14%) Developer
2 27 (18.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (14.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 13 (8.97%) Java Developer
5 12 (8.28%) Lead
6 11 (7.59%) GCP Engineer
6 11 (7.59%) Senior
7 9 (6.21%) Architect
7 9 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Java Architect
10 6 (4.14%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (4.14%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.45%) GCP DevOps
11 5 (3.45%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) React Developer
11 5 (3.45%) Senior Developer
12 4 (2.76%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.62%) REST
2 25 (17.24%) Spring Boot
3 21 (14.48%) Kafka
4 20 (13.79%) JSON
5 19 (13.10%) React
5 19 (13.10%) Spring
6 17 (11.72%) YAML
7 16 (11.03%) Node.js
8 14 (9.66%) AngularJS
8 14 (9.66%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (9.66%) J2EE
8 14 (9.66%) RESTful
9 13 (8.97%) CSS
9 13 (8.97%) CSS3
9 13 (8.97%) HTML
9 13 (8.97%) HTML5
10 11 (7.59%) Spring Cloud
11 10 (6.90%) .NET
11 10 (6.90%) Bootstrap
12 9 (6.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.52%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.14%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.14%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.45%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.76%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.07%) Autonomous Agent
7 3 (2.07%) Blog
7 3 (2.07%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.38%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.38%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.41%) Linux
2 7 (4.83%) Windows
3 6 (4.14%) Unix
4 3 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.38%) Android
5 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (66.21%) CI/CD
2 87 (60.00%) DevOps
3 62 (42.76%) Containerisation
4 53 (36.55%) Agile
5 51 (35.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (30.34%) DevSecOps
7 42 (28.97%) Test Automation
8 36 (24.83%) Microservices
9 35 (24.14%) SDLC
10 31 (21.38%) Software Engineering
11 29 (20.00%) Code Quality
12 28 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (17.93%) Unit Testing
14 25 (17.24%) Migration
15 22 (15.17%) AI
16 21 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (14.48%) TDD
17 20 (13.79%) Mentoring
17 20 (13.79%) Scrum
18 19 (13.10%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.48%) Python
2 47 (32.41%) Java
3 27 (18.62%) JavaScript
4 22 (15.17%) SQL
5 14 (9.66%) Bash
6 13 (8.97%) Groovy
7 9 (6.21%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.83%) Go
8 7 (4.83%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.45%) C++
9 5 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.76%) C#
11 3 (2.07%) Rust
12 2 (1.38%) C
12 2 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.38%) R
13 1 (0.69%) Bicep
13 1 (0.69%) COBOL
13 1 (0.69%) Perl
13 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (35.17%) Security Cleared
2 38 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.72%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.83%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.83%) Degree
6 5 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.38%) CISSP
8 2 (1.38%) OCP
8 2 (1.38%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.69%) MCP
9 1 (0.69%) OSCP
9 1 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.10%) QA
2 12 (8.28%) NCSC
3 8 (5.52%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.76%) WCAG
5 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.69%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.69%) GDPR
7 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (62.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) HDFS
3 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (47.59%) Kubernetes
2 61 (42.07%) Terraform
3 25 (17.24%) Ansible
4 14 (9.66%) Prometheus
5 12 (8.28%) Argo
5 12 (8.28%) Grafana
6 8 (5.52%) Progress Chef
6 8 (5.52%) Puppet
7 7 (4.83%) Istio
8 5 (3.45%) Podman
9 3 (2.07%) Kibana
10 2 (1.38%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.38%) rkt
11 1 (0.69%) Cilium
11 1 (0.69%) Control-M
11 1 (0.69%) Rancher
11 1 (0.69%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (10.34%) Splunk
2 13 (8.97%) Google
2 13 (8.97%) Red Hat
2 13 (8.97%) Veracode
3 12 (8.28%) Dynatrace
4 10 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.21%) Checkmarx
6 7 (4.83%) Cisco
7 6 (4.14%) DocuSign
7 6 (4.14%) Oracle
8 5 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (3.45%) Gigya
9 4 (2.76%) Databricks
9 4 (2.76%) Guidewire
10 3 (2.07%) Cloudera
10 3 (2.07%) Perforce
11 2 (1.38%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.38%) Cognizant
11 2 (1.38%) SAP
11 2 (1.38%) Xamarin