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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 447 512
Rank change year-on-year -31 +65 -45
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 124 80 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.27% 1.89% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 52 65
10th Percentile £375 £392 £428
25th Percentile £409 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £663 £588 £650
90th Percentile £789 £702 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £571 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +24.13% -16.36% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £49.23 - -
25th Percentile £54.06 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile £63.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - -

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 5,471 4,232 5,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.99% 13.61% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,753 2,670 3,808
10th Percentile £343 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £630
90th Percentile £692 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 63 212
10th Percentile £34.85 £26.30 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.25
90th Percentile £83.40 £77.25 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -26 117 £550 - 41
UK excluding London -18 70 £571 +24.13% 35
London -30 45 £525 -4.55% 12
North of England -43 35 £428 -6.04% 11
Work from Home -17 24 £467 -15.86% 20
Midlands -28 22 £700 +24.44% 6
North West -10 20 £428 +14.46% 4
West Midlands -28 19 £700 +24.44% 4
South West - 16 £700 - 2
South East -20 9 £550 -15.38% 16
North East -9 8 - - 4
Yorkshire -56 7 £498 -14.51% 3
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 2
Scotland +7 2 £484 -29.38%
East of England -20 1 £850 +165.88% 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 29 (23.39%) Confluence
2 7 (5.65%) Appian
2 7 (5.65%) OpenStack
3 5 (4.03%) nginx
4 3 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.81%) Apache
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 53 (42.74%) Azure
2 45 (36.29%) AWS
3 40 (32.26%) GitHub
4 23 (18.55%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (16.13%) OpenShift
6 17 (13.71%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (12.90%) Serverless
8 15 (12.10%) GCP
9 14 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (7.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (7.26%) Amazon S3
11 9 (7.26%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (7.26%) Route 53
12 8 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (6.45%) npm
12 8 (6.45%) PaaS
12 8 (6.45%) Power Platform
12 8 (6.45%) PowerApps
13 7 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.45%) Firewall
2 5 (4.03%) DNS
2 5 (4.03%) OpenVPN
2 5 (4.03%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.03%) VPN
3 2 (1.61%) SSH
4 1 (0.81%) HTTP
4 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.81%) Internet
4 1 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.81%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.26%) Redis
2 7 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.65%) Power BI
3 6 (4.84%) DocumentDB
3 6 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.23%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.23%) Metadata
5 3 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.42%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.42%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.61%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.61%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.61%) Impala
6 2 (1.61%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 42 (33.87%) Jenkins
2 34 (27.42%) JIRA
3 32 (25.81%) GitLab
4 31 (25.00%) Git
5 20 (16.13%) Bitbucket
6 19 (15.32%) Maven
7 16 (12.90%) Selenium
8 15 (12.10%) Artifactory
8 15 (12.10%) Cucumber
9 14 (11.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (10.48%) JUnit
11 11 (8.87%) Cypress.io
11 11 (8.87%) Postman
12 10 (8.06%) Snyk
13 7 (5.65%) Robot Framework
14 5 (4.03%) Gradle
14 5 (4.03%) webpack
15 4 (3.23%) CircleCI
15 4 (3.23%) Mockito
15 4 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.52%) Finance
3 14 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.68%) Banking
5 9 (7.26%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.65%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.42%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.61%) Publishing
9 2 (1.61%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 36 (29.03%) Developer
2 19 (15.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (13.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) Senior
5 12 (9.68%) Lead
6 9 (7.26%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.45%) Architect
7 8 (6.45%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) React Developer
8 7 (5.65%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.23%) UI Developer
11 3 (2.42%) Head of Development
11 3 (2.42%) Java Engineer
11 3 (2.42%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (2.42%) Salesforce Developer
11 3 (2.42%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.77%) YAML
2 18 (14.52%) JSON
2 18 (14.52%) Node.js
2 18 (14.52%) REST
3 15 (12.10%) AngularJS
4 14 (11.29%) React
5 11 (8.87%) RESTful
5 11 (8.87%) Spring
6 10 (8.06%) .NET
7 9 (7.26%) Spring Boot
7 9 (7.26%) Web Services
8 8 (6.45%) CSS
8 8 (6.45%) CSS3
8 8 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (6.45%) HTML
8 8 (6.45%) HTML5
8 8 (6.45%) Kafka
8 8 (6.45%) OpenID
8 8 (6.45%) Quarkus
8 8 (6.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.03%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.23%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.42%) Blog
4 3 (2.42%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.61%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.81%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.68%) Linux
2 6 (4.84%) Windows
3 3 (2.42%) Unix
3 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.61%) Android
5 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.81%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (62.90%) CI/CD
2 66 (53.23%) DevOps
3 44 (35.48%) Agile
4 39 (31.45%) DevSecOps
5 38 (30.65%) Test Automation
6 37 (29.84%) Containerisation
7 31 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 30 (24.19%) SDLC
9 26 (20.97%) Unit Testing
10 24 (19.35%) Code Quality
11 22 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (17.74%) Scrum
12 21 (16.94%) Sprint Planning
12 21 (16.94%) TDD
13 18 (14.52%) Microservices
14 17 (13.71%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (12.10%) Front End Development
15 15 (12.10%) Roadmaps
16 14 (11.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 44 (35.48%) Java
2 28 (22.58%) Python
3 22 (17.74%) JavaScript
4 14 (11.29%) SQL
5 8 (6.45%) Groovy
5 8 (6.45%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.65%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.84%) Bash
7 6 (4.84%) Go
8 5 (4.03%) C++
9 4 (3.23%) C#
10 3 (2.42%) Rust
11 2 (1.61%) C
11 2 (1.61%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.61%) R
11 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.81%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.81%) ProC
12 1 (0.81%) RPG
Qualifications
1 50 (40.32%) Security Cleared
2 38 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.10%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.23%) Degree
8 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.81%) CISSP
10 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.81%) OCP
10 1 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.81%) OSCP
10 1 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.29%) QA
2 10 (8.06%) NCSC
3 6 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.61%) WCAG
5 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.81%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) NIST
5 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (48.39%) Docker
2 5 (4.03%) Squid
3 2 (1.61%) HDFS
3 2 (1.61%) Postfix
4 1 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (40.32%) Kubernetes
2 41 (33.06%) Terraform
3 18 (14.52%) Ansible
4 16 (12.90%) Grafana
5 15 (12.10%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.26%) Argo
7 6 (4.84%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.84%) Puppet
8 5 (4.03%) Consul
8 5 (4.03%) FortiGate
8 5 (4.03%) Podman
8 5 (4.03%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.42%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.42%) Istio
10 2 (1.61%) Kibana
10 2 (1.61%) rkt
11 1 (0.81%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (17.74%) Veracode
2 15 (12.10%) Red Hat
3 13 (10.48%) Dynatrace
4 10 (8.06%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.45%) Checkmarx
5 8 (6.45%) Splunk
6 7 (5.65%) Atlassian
6 7 (5.65%) Cisco
6 7 (5.65%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.84%) DocuSign
8 5 (4.03%) Guidewire
9 4 (3.23%) Databricks
9 4 (3.23%) Google
9 4 (3.23%) Oracle
10 3 (2.42%) Cognizant
10 3 (2.42%) Perforce
10 3 (2.42%) Sonatype
11 2 (1.61%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (1.61%) SAP
11 2 (1.61%) Xamarin