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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 434 486
Rank change year-on-year -54 +52 +15
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 118 97 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.03% 2.40% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 72 69
10th Percentile £400 £382 £413
25th Percentile £431 £422 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -6.38%
75th Percentile £628 £663 £650
90th Percentile £748 £700 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +21.39% -22.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 5,819 4,048 5,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 13.81% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,919 2,684 3,558
10th Percentile £340 £335 £356
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 67 197
10th Percentile £35.00 £23.34 £37.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -79 109 £522 -5.13% 43
UK excluding London -41 73 £516 +21.39% 38
London -61 36 £525 -7.89% 9
North of England -40 34 £441 +3.65% 20
Work from Home -39 26 £525 -2.23% 21
Midlands -45 22 £571 +20.21% 5
North West -22 18 £431 +9.67% 2
West Midlands -40 18 £575 +21.05% 4
South East -42 11 £550 +2.42% 12
South West - 11 £700 - 1
North East -3 10 - - 16
Yorkshire -59 6 £450 -13.25% 2
East Midlands -39 4 £525 +16.15% 1
East of England -21 3 £510 +59.53% 1
Scotland +9 2 £484 -29.38%

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 21 (17.80%) Confluence
2 7 (5.93%) nginx
3 5 (4.24%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.54%) Appian
6 1 (0.85%) Apache
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 57 (48.31%) AWS
2 43 (36.44%) Azure
3 37 (31.36%) GitHub
4 24 (20.34%) OpenShift
5 20 (16.95%) Amazon S3
6 18 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (13.56%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (13.56%) Route 53
7 16 (13.56%) Serverless
8 15 (12.71%) GCP
9 14 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (9.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (9.32%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (7.63%) AWS KMS
11 9 (7.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.63%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.93%) DNS
2 7 (5.93%) Firewall
2 7 (5.93%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.93%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.32%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (9.32%) DynamoDB
3 9 (7.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (5.93%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.93%) Redis
5 5 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.24%) DocumentDB
5 5 (4.24%) Metadata
6 3 (2.54%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.69%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.69%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.69%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (38.98%) Jenkins
2 31 (26.27%) Git
3 26 (22.03%) GitLab
4 25 (21.19%) JIRA
5 22 (18.64%) Maven
6 21 (17.80%) Bitbucket
7 19 (16.10%) JUnit
8 12 (10.17%) Artifactory
8 12 (10.17%) Snyk
9 10 (8.47%) Cucumber
9 10 (8.47%) Mockito
10 9 (7.63%) Selenium
11 8 (6.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (5.93%) DbUnit
12 7 (5.93%) jMock
13 6 (5.08%) Postman
14 5 (4.24%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (3.39%) Cypress.io
16 3 (2.54%) Gradle
16 3 (2.54%) Robot Framework
General
1 26 (22.03%) Public Sector
1 26 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.41%) Finance
3 10 (8.47%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.78%) Banking
6 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.54%) Publishing
6 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.69%) Automotive
8 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (35.59%) Developer
2 20 (16.95%) Java Developer
3 15 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (11.02%) Software Engineer
5 12 (10.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 12 (10.17%) Senior
6 10 (8.47%) Architect
7 9 (7.63%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) React Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Lead
9 5 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (2.54%) Evangelist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (22.03%) AngularJS
2 22 (18.64%) Node.js
3 21 (17.80%) Spring
3 21 (17.80%) YAML
4 19 (16.10%) REST
4 19 (16.10%) Spring Boot
5 15 (12.71%) RESTful
5 15 (12.71%) Web Services
6 14 (11.86%) Quarkus
7 12 (10.17%) Hibernate
7 12 (10.17%) JPA
8 10 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (8.47%) JSON
8 10 (8.47%) SOAP
8 10 (8.47%) Spring Cloud
9 9 (7.63%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (7.63%) Spring Batch
9 9 (7.63%) Spring Integration
10 8 (6.78%) LDAP
10 8 (6.78%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.54%) Blog
3 3 (2.54%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.69%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.85%) Contactless
5 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.41%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Unix
2 3 (2.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) Android
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Embedded Compact
3 1 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (61.86%) CI/CD
2 63 (53.39%) DevOps
3 48 (40.68%) Agile
4 42 (35.59%) DevSecOps
5 36 (30.51%) Test Automation
6 34 (28.81%) Scrum
7 31 (26.27%) Containerisation
7 31 (26.27%) SDLC
8 28 (23.73%) Software Engineering
8 28 (23.73%) TDD
9 26 (22.03%) Unit Testing
10 25 (21.19%) Microservices
11 24 (20.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (20.34%) Sprint Planning
12 20 (16.95%) BDD
12 20 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (14.41%) Front End Development
14 16 (13.56%) Code Quality
15 15 (12.71%) Static Application Security Testing
16 14 (11.86%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 56 (47.46%) Java
2 21 (17.80%) Python
3 19 (16.10%) SQL
4 10 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.93%) Go
5 7 (5.93%) Groovy
6 5 (4.24%) Bash
6 5 (4.24%) C++
6 5 (4.24%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.24%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.39%) C#
8 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.69%) C
9 2 (1.69%) R
9 2 (1.69%) Rust
10 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.85%) ProC
10 1 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (44.07%) Security Cleared
2 44 (37.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.08%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.24%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.54%) Degree
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.10%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) NCSC
3 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.54%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (43.22%) Docker
2 7 (5.93%) Squid
3 6 (5.08%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 53 (44.92%) Kubernetes
2 35 (29.66%) Terraform
3 24 (20.34%) Grafana
4 16 (13.56%) Prometheus
5 15 (12.71%) Argo
6 14 (11.86%) Ansible
7 7 (5.93%) Consul
7 7 (5.93%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.93%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (3.39%) HP Fortify
8 4 (3.39%) Puppet
9 3 (2.54%) Istio
9 3 (2.54%) Podman
10 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.69%) rkt
10 2 (1.69%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 22 (18.64%) Red Hat
2 19 (16.10%) Veracode
3 14 (11.86%) Atlassian
4 13 (11.02%) Dynatrace
5 11 (9.32%) Checkmarx
6 9 (7.63%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (5.93%) Microsoft
7 7 (5.93%) Salesforce
8 5 (4.24%) Databricks
8 5 (4.24%) Guidewire
8 5 (4.24%) Sonatype
9 4 (3.39%) Oracle
9 4 (3.39%) SAP
10 3 (2.54%) Cisco
10 3 (2.54%) Cognizant
10 3 (2.54%) Google
10 3 (2.54%) Splunk
11 1 (0.85%) Acunetix
11 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.85%) Xamarin