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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 408 494
Rank change year-on-year -91 +86 -4
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 146 108 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.51% 2.64% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 84 70
10th Percentile £409 £382 £425
25th Percentile £450 £425 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £502 £563
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -10.84% -5.06%
75th Percentile £591 £629 £650
90th Percentile £671 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +9.68% -15.45% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 3
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - £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 5,825 4,097 5,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.35% 14.02% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,858 2,742 3,476
10th Percentile £347 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 66 195
10th Percentile £37.93 £26.77 £32.23
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.30 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.38 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.40% -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

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -74 130 £518 +3.53% 27
UK excluding London -54 89 £510 +9.68% 24
Work from Home -35 44 £525 +4.69% 11
London -63 42 £550 -0.90% 5
North of England -50 40 £431 -2.60% 13
Midlands -56 25 £525 +10.53% 2
West Midlands -44 19 £514 +5.44%
North East -4 18 £513 +10.22% 11
South East -47 16 £513 +2.40% 5
North West -30 14 £430 +9.41% 1
East of England -30 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -52 8 £450 +5.88% 1
East Midlands -30 6 £525 +43.05% 2
South West - 4 £625 - 2
Scotland -2 1 £329 -52.04% 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 23 (15.75%) Confluence
2 7 (4.79%) nginx
3 5 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.74%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.05%) Apache
6 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 69 (47.26%) AWS
2 44 (30.14%) Azure
3 43 (29.45%) GitHub
4 33 (22.60%) OpenShift
5 28 (19.18%) Amazon S3
6 26 (17.81%) Amazon EC2
6 26 (17.81%) GCP
7 23 (15.75%) Route 53
8 21 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (13.70%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (13.70%) Serverless
10 17 (11.64%) AWS KMS
11 16 (10.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (9.59%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (8.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (8.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (3.42%) Azure AKS
14 5 (3.42%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.16%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.79%) DNS
2 7 (4.79%) Firewall
2 7 (4.79%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.01%) DynamoDB
2 17 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (10.96%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (9.59%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.48%) Metadata
7 7 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.42%) MySQL
8 5 (3.42%) Redis
9 4 (2.74%) DocumentDB
10 3 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.05%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.05%) Big Data
10 3 (2.05%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.05%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.37%) Flink
11 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.37%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.37%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 54 (36.99%) Jenkins
2 38 (26.03%) Git
3 31 (21.23%) GitLab
4 29 (19.86%) JUnit
4 29 (19.86%) Maven
5 25 (17.12%) JIRA
6 18 (12.33%) Bitbucket
7 15 (10.27%) Snyk
8 14 (9.59%) Mockito
9 13 (8.90%) Artifactory
10 11 (7.53%) DbUnit
10 11 (7.53%) jMock
11 9 (6.16%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (5.48%) Cucumber
12 8 (5.48%) IntelliJ
13 7 (4.79%) CircleCI
14 6 (4.11%) Selenium
14 6 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (3.42%) Postman
16 4 (2.74%) Gradle
General
1 37 (25.34%) Public Sector
2 28 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.70%) Finance
4 13 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.85%) Banking
6 7 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.42%) Publishing
8 3 (2.05%) Automotive
8 3 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (35.62%) Developer
2 33 (22.60%) Java Developer
3 29 (19.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (13.70%) Senior
4 20 (13.70%) Software Engineer
5 14 (9.59%) Java Engineer
5 14 (9.59%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.90%) Architect
7 10 (6.85%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 7 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (4.79%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (4.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) React Developer
11 5 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (30.14%) AngularJS
2 32 (21.92%) Spring
3 30 (20.55%) Node.js
3 30 (20.55%) Spring Boot
4 27 (18.49%) Quarkus
5 20 (13.70%) REST
6 19 (13.01%) RESTful
6 19 (13.01%) Web Services
6 19 (13.01%) YAML
7 16 (10.96%) Hibernate
7 16 (10.96%) JPA
7 16 (10.96%) Spring Cloud
8 14 (9.59%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (9.59%) SOAP
8 14 (9.59%) Spring Batch
8 14 (9.59%) Spring Integration
9 13 (8.90%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (7.53%) PowerMock
11 10 (6.85%) JSON
11 10 (6.85%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.05%) Blog
3 3 (2.05%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.37%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Life Science
5 1 (0.68%) LIMS
5 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.68%) NHS
5 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.12%) Linux
2 5 (3.42%) Unix
3 2 (1.37%) Windows
4 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (57.53%) CI/CD
2 81 (55.48%) DevOps
3 66 (45.21%) Agile
4 54 (36.99%) DevSecOps
5 49 (33.56%) Test Automation
6 48 (32.88%) Scrum
6 48 (32.88%) Software Engineering
7 41 (28.08%) Containerisation
8 40 (27.40%) SDLC
9 39 (26.71%) TDD
10 36 (24.66%) Unit Testing
11 35 (23.97%) Sprint Planning
12 32 (21.92%) Microservices
13 31 (21.23%) Infrastructure as Code
14 29 (19.86%) BDD
15 26 (17.81%) Front End Development
16 24 (16.44%) Sprint Review
17 20 (13.70%) Code Quality
17 20 (13.70%) Static Application Security Testing
18 18 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 89 (60.96%) Java
2 29 (19.86%) Python
3 28 (19.18%) SQL
4 10 (6.85%) Groovy
5 7 (4.79%) Go
6 5 (3.42%) Bash
6 5 (3.42%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.42%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.74%) C#
7 4 (2.74%) C++
7 4 (2.74%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.05%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.68%) C
9 1 (0.68%) COBOL
9 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) ProC
9 1 (0.68%) RPG
9 1 (0.68%) VB
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (47.26%) Security Cleared
2 60 (41.10%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.11%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.11%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.42%) Degree
5 4 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.68%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.66%) QA
2 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (34.93%) Docker
2 10 (6.85%) Postfix
3 7 (4.79%) Squid
4 3 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 71 (48.63%) Kubernetes
2 43 (29.45%) Terraform
3 37 (25.34%) Grafana
4 28 (19.18%) Argo
5 26 (17.81%) Prometheus
6 18 (12.33%) Ansible
7 8 (5.48%) Consul
8 7 (4.79%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.79%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (3.42%) Istio
9 5 (3.42%) Puppet
10 4 (2.74%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.37%) Podman
11 2 (1.37%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (21.92%) Red Hat
2 18 (12.33%) Atlassian
3 14 (9.59%) Checkmarx
3 14 (9.59%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (8.22%) Veracode
5 10 (6.85%) Dynatrace
5 10 (6.85%) Google
6 9 (6.16%) Sonatype
7 7 (4.79%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.42%) Guidewire
8 5 (3.42%) Microsoft
9 4 (2.74%) Databricks
9 4 (2.74%) Oracle
9 4 (2.74%) SAP
9 4 (2.74%) Splunk
10 3 (2.05%) Cognizant
10 3 (2.05%) Tenable
11 1 (0.68%) Acunetix
11 1 (0.68%) IBM
11 1 (0.68%) Pega