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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 477 494
Rank change year-on-year +81 +17 -24
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 181 73 128
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.40% 1.53% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 50 93
10th Percentile £285 £413 £450
25th Percentile £379 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -1.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £685 £650
90th Percentile £704 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £46.60 - -
25th Percentile £49.75 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile £67.00 - -
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 5,326 4,771 6,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.40% 13.16% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,667 2,986 4,287
10th Percentile £329 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £684 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £505
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.47% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 134 242
10th Percentile £21.44 £24.98 £45.88
25th Percentile £49.38 £46.25 £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.31 £88.53
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

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025. 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 +78 168 £525 -12.50% 64
UK excluding London +32 93 £475 -20.83% 55
London +52 76 £610 +2.31% 26
Work from Home +53 64 £469 -15.50% 28
North of England -1 42 £402 -22.51% 16
Midlands +1 36 £575 -6.05% 2
West Midlands -11 28 £650 +6.21%
North West +12 26 £410 +15.10% 4
South West - 17 £700 - 7
Yorkshire -21 13 £390 -34.04% 4
East Midlands - 8 £270 - 2
South East +8 7 £550 -8.33% 26
North East -9 3 £425 - 8
Scotland -2 2 £639 +35.24% 1
East of England -14 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 19 (10.50%) Confluence
2 7 (3.87%) Appian
3 6 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.76%) JBoss
5 4 (2.21%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.21%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.10%) Mule
6 2 (1.10%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.55%) Apache
7 1 (0.55%) CICS
7 1 (0.55%) nginx
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.55%) Endur
2 1 (0.55%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 82 (45.30%) Azure
2 80 (44.20%) AWS
3 61 (33.70%) GitHub
4 49 (27.07%) GCP
5 30 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (15.47%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (13.26%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (12.15%) OpenShift
9 18 (9.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 17 (9.39%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (8.84%) npm
12 15 (8.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (8.29%) Serverless
13 14 (7.73%) PaaS
14 13 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (7.18%) Route 53
15 12 (6.63%) Azure AKS
15 12 (6.63%) Datadog
16 11 (6.08%) Amazon S3
16 11 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.97%) Firewall
2 5 (2.76%) SSH
3 4 (2.21%) SSL
4 3 (1.66%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.10%) DNS
5 2 (1.10%) Network Security
6 1 (0.55%) HTTP
6 1 (0.55%) Internet
6 1 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.55%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.23%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (11.60%) NoSQL
3 20 (11.05%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (10.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (8.84%) DynamoDB
5 16 (8.84%) Redis
6 12 (6.63%) MongoDB
7 11 (6.08%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.52%) MySQL
8 10 (5.52%) RDBMS
9 7 (3.87%) Power BI
9 7 (3.87%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.31%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.76%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.76%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.21%) Big Data
12 4 (2.21%) DocumentDB
13 3 (1.66%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 85 (46.96%) Jenkins
2 78 (43.09%) Git
3 47 (25.97%) GitLab
4 45 (24.86%) Maven
5 42 (23.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 36 (19.89%) JUnit
7 34 (18.78%) JIRA
8 27 (14.92%) Selenium
9 24 (13.26%) Mockito
10 20 (11.05%) Bitbucket
11 19 (10.50%) Artifactory
12 16 (8.84%) Cucumber
13 15 (8.29%) Cypress.io
13 15 (8.29%) Gradle
13 15 (8.29%) Postman
13 15 (8.29%) TeamCity
14 14 (7.73%) Snyk
15 13 (7.18%) Burp Suite
15 13 (7.18%) Metasploit
16 10 (5.52%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 51 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.34%) Finance
3 30 (16.57%) Public Sector
4 26 (14.36%) Banking
5 10 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.87%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.76%) Publishing
9 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.10%) Military
9 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.55%) German Language
10 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
10 1 (0.55%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 57 (31.49%) Developer
2 38 (20.99%) Java Developer
3 28 (15.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (11.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 18 (9.94%) Lead
5 18 (9.94%) Security Engineer
6 13 (7.18%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 12 (6.63%) GCP Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) Senior
9 8 (4.42%) Architect
9 8 (4.42%) Lead Developer
9 8 (4.42%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.31%) Java Architect
11 6 (3.31%) Java Technical Architect
11 6 (3.31%) Lead Java Developer
11 6 (3.31%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (28.73%) Spring Boot
2 40 (22.10%) REST
3 35 (19.34%) Spring
4 30 (16.57%) React
4 30 (16.57%) RESTful
5 25 (13.81%) CSS
5 25 (13.81%) Hibernate
5 25 (13.81%) HTML
6 24 (13.26%) Node.js
7 22 (12.15%) JPA
7 22 (12.15%) JSON
7 22 (12.15%) Kafka
8 18 (9.94%) J2EE
8 18 (9.94%) SOAP
8 18 (9.94%) Spring Cloud
9 17 (9.39%) Bootstrap
9 17 (9.39%) CSS3
9 17 (9.39%) HTML5
9 17 (9.39%) Jest
10 16 (8.84%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.97%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.76%) N-Tier
4 5 (2.76%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.21%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.66%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.81%) Linux
2 12 (6.63%) Unix
3 10 (5.52%) Windows
4 6 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.10%) Android
7 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (71.82%) CI/CD
2 104 (57.46%) DevOps
3 68 (37.57%) Containerisation
4 66 (36.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (35.91%) Agile
6 57 (31.49%) Microservices
7 52 (28.73%) DevSecOps
8 47 (25.97%) Test Automation
9 39 (21.55%) SDLC
9 39 (21.55%) TDD
10 34 (18.78%) Code Quality
11 31 (17.13%) Scrum
12 30 (16.57%) OWASP
13 28 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (14.36%) Software Engineering
14 26 (14.36%) Unit Testing
15 25 (13.81%) Migration
16 24 (13.26%) Continuous Integration
16 24 (13.26%) Mentoring
17 23 (12.71%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 74 (40.88%) Java
2 68 (37.57%) Python
3 46 (25.41%) JavaScript
4 39 (21.55%) SQL
5 29 (16.02%) Bash
6 14 (7.73%) Groovy
6 14 (7.73%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.52%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.87%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.31%) C#
10 5 (2.76%) Go
10 5 (2.76%) Perl
11 3 (1.66%) Rust
12 2 (1.10%) R
13 1 (0.55%) Bicep
13 1 (0.55%) C++
13 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.55%) Swift
13 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (40.88%) Security Cleared
2 59 (32.60%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.50%) DV Cleared
4 14 (7.73%) OSCP
5 13 (7.18%) CREST Certified
5 13 (7.18%) Tigerscheme
6 10 (5.52%) CHECK Team Member
7 7 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.76%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.21%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.21%) Degree
10 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.10%) CISSP
10 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.10%) OCP
10 2 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.60%) NCSC
2 18 (9.94%) QA
3 11 (6.08%) Accessibility
4 9 (4.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (2.21%) GDPR
5 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.21%) WCAG
6 3 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.10%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.10%) NIST
7 2 (1.10%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.55%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.55%) GRC
System Software
1 103 (56.91%) Docker
2 5 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.21%) Postfix
4 2 (1.10%) HDFS
5 1 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (40.88%) Kubernetes
2 64 (35.36%) Terraform
3 25 (13.81%) Ansible
4 18 (9.94%) Prometheus
5 16 (8.84%) Grafana
6 13 (7.18%) Nmap
7 12 (6.63%) Progress Chef
8 9 (4.97%) Argo
9 7 (3.87%) Kibana
10 6 (3.31%) Puppet
11 5 (2.76%) Istio
12 4 (2.21%) Podman
13 2 (1.10%) HP Fortify
13 2 (1.10%) Nessus
13 2 (1.10%) rkt
14 1 (0.55%) Control-M
14 1 (0.55%) Packer
14 1 (0.55%) Rancher
14 1 (0.55%) Rsyslog
14 1 (0.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (16.57%) Veracode
2 19 (10.50%) Splunk
3 15 (8.29%) Google
4 13 (7.18%) Microsoft
4 13 (7.18%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.63%) Dynatrace
6 9 (4.97%) Checkmarx
6 9 (4.97%) Cisco
7 8 (4.42%) Oracle
8 7 (3.87%) Cloudera
9 6 (3.31%) CA Agile Central
9 6 (3.31%) DocuSign
9 6 (3.31%) Perforce
10 5 (2.76%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.76%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.76%) Gigya
11 4 (2.21%) Databricks
11 4 (2.21%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (1.10%) Qualys
12 2 (1.10%) Xamarin