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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 381 470
Rank change year-on-year -125 +89 +9
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 156 174 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.53% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.52% 3.59% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 129 72
10th Percentile £442 £275 £413
25th Percentile £480 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £626 £615 £675
90th Percentile £712 £688 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £418 £597
% change year-on-year +22.22% -30.07% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £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 6,197 4,845 5,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.74% 14.70% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,975 3,270 3,358
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 106 221
10th Percentile £26.00 £24.05 £25.99
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.68 £84.50 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 27 July 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 July 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 -129 142 £516 +9.37% 25
UK excluding London -78 102 £510 +22.22% 19
Work from Home -70 54 £593 +24.74% 9
North of England -62 45 £500 +25.79% 11
London -90 42 £618 -3.14% 7
Midlands -57 28 £511 +31.40% 6
South East -58 28 £601 +20.13%
North East -19 27 £511 +10.54% 10
West Midlands -43 24 £511 +7.47% 5
Yorkshire -46 10 £500 +28.21%
East of England - 9 £510 -
North West -58 8 £463 +17.68% 1
East Midlands -26 3 - - 1
South West -42 3 - - 1
Scotland -4 1 £375 - 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 11 (7.05%) Confluence
2 9 (5.77%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.49%) Apache
4 4 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.28%) Camunda
5 2 (1.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 76 (48.72%) AWS
2 51 (32.69%) Azure
3 46 (29.49%) OpenShift
4 45 (28.85%) GitHub
5 39 (25.00%) GCP
6 28 (17.95%) Amazon S3
7 26 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (14.74%) Route 53
10 21 (13.46%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (13.46%) AWS KMS
11 20 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (9.62%) Serverless
13 10 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (6.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (5.77%) OCI
15 8 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (3.21%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.56%) Firewall
1 4 (2.56%) MQTT
1 4 (2.56%) Network Security
1 4 (2.56%) OpenVPN
2 2 (1.28%) DNS
2 2 (1.28%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.74%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (14.10%) DynamoDB
3 21 (13.46%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.05%) Metadata
6 8 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.21%) MySQL
9 4 (2.56%) Flink
9 4 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.92%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.92%) Big Data
10 3 (1.92%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.92%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.28%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.28%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.28%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 76 (48.72%) Jenkins
2 48 (30.77%) Git
3 47 (30.13%) Maven
4 43 (27.56%) GitLab
5 39 (25.00%) JUnit
6 23 (14.74%) Mockito
7 18 (11.54%) Snyk
8 14 (8.97%) DbUnit
8 14 (8.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (8.33%) jMock
10 11 (7.05%) Gradle
10 11 (7.05%) JIRA
11 10 (6.41%) Artifactory
12 8 (5.13%) CircleCI
12 8 (5.13%) IntelliJ
13 7 (4.49%) Bitbucket
13 7 (4.49%) Cucumber
13 7 (4.49%) REST Assured
13 7 (4.49%) Selenium
General
1 35 (22.44%) Public Sector
2 30 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.74%) Finance
4 18 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.97%) Banking
6 9 (5.77%) Publishing
7 5 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.92%) Automotive
8 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (37.18%) Developer
2 45 (28.85%) Java Developer
3 37 (23.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (12.18%) Senior
4 19 (12.18%) Software Engineer
5 18 (11.54%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.97%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 11 (7.05%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (7.05%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (5.13%) Architect
11 8 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.21%) Consultant
13 5 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.21%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (37.18%) AngularJS
2 43 (27.56%) Spring Boot
3 41 (26.28%) Spring
4 40 (25.64%) Quarkus
5 32 (20.51%) Node.js
6 22 (14.10%) Hibernate
6 22 (14.10%) JPA
6 22 (14.10%) REST
6 22 (14.10%) RESTful
7 21 (13.46%) ActiveMQ
7 21 (13.46%) Spring Cloud
8 20 (12.82%) SOAP
9 18 (11.54%) Kafka
9 18 (11.54%) Spring Batch
9 18 (11.54%) Spring Integration
9 18 (11.54%) Web Services
9 18 (11.54%) YAML
10 15 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (8.97%) JSON
11 14 (8.97%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.28%) PKI
7 1 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.64%) Life Science
7 1 (0.64%) LIMS
7 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.64%) NHS
7 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.51%) Linux
2 4 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (64.10%) CI/CD
2 96 (61.54%) DevOps
3 82 (52.56%) Agile
4 75 (48.08%) DevSecOps
5 69 (44.23%) Scrum
6 62 (39.74%) Software Engineering
7 58 (37.18%) Test Automation
8 50 (32.05%) Microservices
9 47 (30.13%) Containerisation
10 46 (29.49%) SDLC
11 40 (25.64%) Front End Development
11 40 (25.64%) Sprint Planning
11 40 (25.64%) Unit Testing
12 39 (25.00%) TDD
13 36 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (22.44%) Sprint Review
15 26 (16.67%) BDD
15 26 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
16 23 (14.74%) Performance Tuning
17 21 (13.46%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 100 (64.10%) Java
2 37 (23.72%) Python
3 34 (21.79%) SQL
4 14 (8.97%) Groovy
5 9 (5.77%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.49%) Bash
8 4 (2.56%) Go
8 4 (2.56%) Rust
8 4 (2.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.28%) C#
9 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.64%) COBOL
10 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (52.56%) Security Cleared
2 75 (48.08%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.41%) Degree
4 9 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.49%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.92%) CISSP
8 3 (1.92%) GIAC
9 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.28%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.64%) GSEC
10 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (30.13%) QA
2 7 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.56%) NIST
4 3 (1.92%) PSD2
4 3 (1.92%) SEPA
4 3 (1.92%) WCAG
5 2 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.64%) GDPR
6 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (41.03%) Docker
2 11 (7.05%) Postfix
3 3 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.28%) HDFS
4 2 (1.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 98 (62.82%) Kubernetes
2 52 (33.33%) Terraform
3 47 (30.13%) Grafana
4 43 (27.56%) Argo
5 33 (21.15%) Prometheus
6 28 (17.95%) Ansible
7 9 (5.77%) Istio
8 8 (5.13%) Puppet
9 6 (3.85%) Podman
10 4 (2.56%) HP Fortify
10 4 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.92%) Consul
12 2 (1.28%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.28%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.28%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 41 (26.28%) Red Hat
2 17 (10.90%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (10.26%) Atlassian
4 13 (8.33%) Checkmarx
5 12 (7.69%) Sonatype
6 10 (6.41%) Google
7 7 (4.49%) Tenable
7 7 (4.49%) Veracode
8 5 (3.21%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.56%) Databricks
9 4 (2.56%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.56%) Oracle
9 4 (2.56%) Splunk
10 3 (1.92%) IBM
10 3 (1.92%) SAP
11 2 (1.28%) Microsoft
12 1 (0.64%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.64%) Pega
12 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.64%) UiPath