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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 368 483
Rank change year-on-year -138 +115 +4
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 168 191 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.58% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.75% 3.86% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 142 67
10th Percentile £429 £277 £408
25th Percentile £469 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £601 £648 £675
90th Percentile £688 £699 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £460 £600
% change year-on-year +11.26% -23.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +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 6,120 4,947 5,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 15.10% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 3,335 3,261
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £623
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 114 184
10th Percentile £35.13 £28.59 £28.98
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.58 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -124 155 £515 +8.38% 60
UK excluding London -86 106 £512 +11.26% 33
Work from Home -81 61 £530 +16.16% 28
London -104 51 £593 -2.87% 30
North of England -59 50 £513 +28.93% 19
North East -17 30 £511 +9.95% 17
Midlands -57 29 £511 +7.47% 4
South East -43 28 £601 +20.19% 4
West Midlands -46 24 £513 +2.55% 1
North West -58 11 £500 +27.23%
East of England -14 9 £510 -40.00%
Yorkshire -51 9 £514 +31.88% 2
East Midlands -23 4 £335 +24.07% 3
Scotland -13 3 £450 -
South West -48 2 - - 6

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 11 (6.55%) Confluence
2 10 (5.95%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.76%) Apache
4 6 (3.57%) Camunda
5 5 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.98%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 75 (44.64%) AWS
2 54 (32.14%) GitHub
3 52 (30.95%) OpenShift
4 51 (30.36%) Azure
5 40 (23.81%) GCP
6 30 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (13.10%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (11.31%) Amazon S3
9 15 (8.93%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (8.93%) Serverless
10 12 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (7.14%) AWS KMS
10 12 (7.14%) Route 53
11 11 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (5.95%) OCI
13 8 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (4.17%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.38%) MQTT
1 4 (2.38%) Network Security
2 3 (1.79%) Firewall
3 2 (1.19%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.74%) DynamoDB
3 12 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (6.55%) Metadata
5 10 (5.95%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.36%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.57%) MySQL
7 6 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.98%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.38%) Flink
9 4 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.38%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.38%) Tableau
10 3 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.79%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.79%) Big Data
10 3 (1.79%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 78 (46.43%) Jenkins
2 57 (33.93%) GitLab
3 54 (32.14%) Git
4 50 (29.76%) Maven
5 44 (26.19%) JUnit
6 20 (11.90%) Mockito
7 18 (10.71%) Sonatype Nexus
8 17 (10.12%) Gradle
9 16 (9.52%) Snyk
10 15 (8.93%) Cucumber
11 14 (8.33%) Selenium
12 12 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
12 12 (7.14%) JIRA
13 11 (6.55%) Postman
14 10 (5.95%) Gatling
14 10 (5.95%) REST Assured
15 9 (5.36%) Artifactory
16 8 (4.76%) IntelliJ
17 7 (4.17%) JMeter
17 7 (4.17%) LoadRunner
General
1 38 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.86%) Finance
3 28 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.90%) Banking
5 10 (5.95%) Publishing
6 4 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.79%) Automotive
8 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Advertising
9 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (37.50%) Developer
2 43 (25.60%) Java Developer
3 36 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (14.29%) Senior
5 18 (10.71%) Java Engineer
6 15 (8.93%) Senior Developer
6 15 (8.93%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 11 (6.55%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (5.95%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.76%) Lead
10 8 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Architect
11 7 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.17%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.98%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (30.95%) AngularJS
2 51 (30.36%) Terraform
3 48 (28.57%) Spring
4 47 (27.98%) Spring Boot
5 40 (23.81%) Quarkus
6 32 (19.05%) Kafka
7 30 (17.86%) Node.js
8 20 (11.90%) React
9 19 (11.31%) JPA
9 19 (11.31%) REST
9 19 (11.31%) RESTful
10 18 (10.71%) Hibernate
10 18 (10.71%) HTML
10 18 (10.71%) SOAP
10 18 (10.71%) YAML
11 16 (9.52%) JSON
11 16 (9.52%) Web Services
12 15 (8.93%) ActiveMQ
13 14 (8.33%) CSS
13 14 (8.33%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.79%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.19%) PKI
8 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.60%) Life Science
8 1 (0.60%) LIMS
8 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.60%) NHS
8 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.26%) Linux
2 8 (4.76%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 95 (56.55%) DevOps
3 93 (55.36%) Agile
4 74 (44.05%) Scrum
4 74 (44.05%) Test Automation
5 73 (43.45%) DevSecOps
6 62 (36.90%) Software Engineering
7 61 (36.31%) Microservices
8 51 (30.36%) SDLC
9 43 (25.60%) Front End Development
9 43 (25.60%) TDD
10 42 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
10 42 (25.00%) Unit Testing
11 37 (22.02%) Containerisation
12 35 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (20.83%) Sprint Review
13 28 (16.67%) BDD
14 26 (15.48%) Code Quality
14 26 (15.48%) Static Application Security Testing
15 25 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (68.45%) Java
2 49 (29.17%) Python
3 43 (25.60%) SQL
4 26 (15.48%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.33%) Groovy
6 9 (5.36%) Bash
7 8 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.38%) Rust
10 3 (1.79%) Go
10 3 (1.79%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.19%) Bicep
12 1 (0.60%) C#
12 1 (0.60%) COBOL
12 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 70 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.12%) Degree
4 14 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.79%) CISSP
7 3 (1.79%) GIAC
7 3 (1.79%) ISEB
7 3 (1.79%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.19%) CSSLP
8 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.60%) GSEC
9 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (32.14%) QA
2 15 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.36%) WCAG
4 4 (2.38%) NIST
4 4 (2.38%) PSD2
4 4 (2.38%) SEPA
5 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 65 (38.69%) Docker
2 5 (2.98%) Postfix
3 4 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 105 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 43 (25.60%) Argo
3 35 (20.83%) Grafana
4 26 (15.48%) Prometheus
5 24 (14.29%) Ansible
6 9 (5.36%) HP Fortify
6 9 (5.36%) Istio
7 8 (4.76%) Puppet
8 5 (2.98%) Podman
9 4 (2.38%) Control-M
10 2 (1.19%) Kibana
10 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.19%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.60%) Consul
Vendors
1 39 (23.21%) Red Hat
2 15 (8.93%) Checkmarx
3 12 (7.14%) IBM
3 12 (7.14%) Sonatype
4 11 (6.55%) Google
4 11 (6.55%) Oracle
5 10 (5.95%) Veracode
6 8 (4.76%) Databricks
6 8 (4.76%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (4.17%) Atlassian
7 7 (4.17%) Tenable
8 6 (3.57%) SAP
9 5 (2.98%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.38%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.38%) Splunk
11 3 (1.79%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.60%) LabVantage
12 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.60%) Pega
12 1 (0.60%) UiPath