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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 387 470
Rank change year-on-year -98 +83 0
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 149 135 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.56% 3.21% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 100 72
10th Percentile £413 £362 £425
25th Percentile £463 £412 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £494 £561
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -12.03% -6.46%
75th Percentile £626 £588 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +9.73% -15.45% -7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 3
10th Percentile £60.25 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% -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 5,829 4,202 5,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.93% 14.60% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,815 3,457
10th Percentile £350 £340 £351
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 75 224
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.85 £26.77
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.21 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 3 June 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
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 3 June 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 -108 135 £519 +6.37% 28
UK excluding London -67 92 £510 +9.73% 29
London -105 45 £550 - 4
Work from Home -53 42 £525 +8.24% 12
North of England -60 36 £450 -2.17% 17
Midlands -49 28 £514 +8.21% 2
West Midlands -44 24 £514 +5.44% 1
South East -52 21 £513 +2.40% 4
North East -18 17 £513 +10.22% 9
North West -32 13 £431 +9.67% 5
East of England -22 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -58 6 £450 -5.26% 3
South West -25 5 £575 -4.17%
East Midlands -35 3 - - 1
Scotland -2 1 £329 - 5

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 20 (13.42%) Confluence
2 8 (5.37%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.70%) nginx
4 6 (4.03%) Apache
5 4 (2.68%) OpenStack
6 3 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.67%) Camunda
7 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.31%) AWS
2 48 (32.21%) Azure
3 45 (30.20%) GitHub
4 36 (24.16%) OpenShift
5 34 (22.82%) GCP
6 31 (20.81%) Amazon EC2
6 31 (20.81%) Amazon S3
7 28 (18.79%) Route 53
8 22 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (14.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (14.09%) AWS KMS
10 20 (13.42%) Amazon SQS
10 20 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (11.41%) Serverless
12 15 (10.07%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (9.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (3.36%) OCI
17 4 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.04%) OpenVPN
2 8 (5.37%) Firewall
3 7 (4.70%) DNS
3 7 (4.70%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.70%) VPN
4 3 (2.01%) MQTT
4 3 (2.01%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.09%) Amazon RDS
1 21 (14.09%) DynamoDB
1 21 (14.09%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (12.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (6.71%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (5.37%) Metadata
5 5 (3.36%) MySQL
6 4 (2.68%) Flink
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.01%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.01%) Big Data
7 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.67%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.67%) Redis
9 1 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 60 (40.27%) Jenkins
2 40 (26.85%) Git
3 37 (24.83%) Maven
4 35 (23.49%) GitLab
5 34 (22.82%) JUnit
6 21 (14.09%) JIRA
7 19 (12.75%) Mockito
8 15 (10.07%) Bitbucket
8 15 (10.07%) Snyk
9 14 (9.40%) DbUnit
10 13 (8.72%) jMock
11 12 (8.05%) Artifactory
11 12 (8.05%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (7.38%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (6.04%) IntelliJ
14 7 (4.70%) CircleCI
14 7 (4.70%) Gradle
15 6 (4.03%) Cucumber
15 6 (4.03%) Selenium
16 5 (3.36%) REST Assured
General
1 35 (23.49%) Public Sector
2 32 (21.48%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.11%) Finance
4 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.40%) Banking
6 7 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.36%) Publishing
9 3 (2.01%) Automotive
9 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
11 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (35.57%) Developer
2 39 (26.17%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (15.44%) Senior
5 18 (12.08%) Senior Developer
6 17 (11.41%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.72%) Architect
7 13 (8.72%) Java Engineer
8 11 (7.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 8 (5.37%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Technical Architect
14 4 (2.68%) Consultant
14 4 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (29.53%) AngularJS
2 36 (24.16%) Spring
3 35 (23.49%) Spring Boot
4 27 (18.12%) Quarkus
5 26 (17.45%) Node.js
6 25 (16.78%) RESTful
7 24 (16.11%) REST
8 23 (15.44%) Web Services
9 21 (14.09%) Hibernate
9 21 (14.09%) JPA
10 20 (13.42%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (12.75%) SOAP
11 19 (12.75%) YAML
12 18 (12.08%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (12.08%) Spring Batch
12 18 (12.08%) Spring Integration
13 14 (9.40%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (8.72%) PowerMock
15 12 (8.05%) Kafka
16 11 (7.38%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.42%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.01%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.34%) Blog
5 2 (1.34%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.67%) Life Science
6 1 (0.67%) LIMS
6 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.67%) NHS
6 1 (0.67%) PKI
6 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.13%) Linux
2 4 (2.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (61.74%) CI/CD
2 86 (57.72%) DevOps
3 69 (46.31%) Agile
4 57 (38.26%) DevSecOps
5 54 (36.24%) Scrum
6 49 (32.89%) Test Automation
7 48 (32.21%) Containerisation
7 48 (32.21%) Software Engineering
8 44 (29.53%) TDD
9 41 (27.52%) Microservices
10 40 (26.85%) SDLC
11 34 (22.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (22.82%) Unit Testing
12 32 (21.48%) Sprint Planning
13 29 (19.46%) BDD
14 25 (16.78%) Front End Development
15 23 (15.44%) Sprint Review
16 21 (14.09%) Code Quality
17 20 (13.42%) Static Application Security Testing
18 19 (12.75%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 90 (60.40%) Java
2 35 (23.49%) SQL
3 30 (20.13%) Python
4 9 (6.04%) Groovy
5 7 (4.70%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.03%) Go
7 5 (3.36%) Bash
8 4 (2.68%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.01%) Rust
9 3 (2.01%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.34%) C#
10 2 (1.34%) C++
11 1 (0.67%) C
11 1 (0.67%) COBOL
11 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.67%) ProC
11 1 (0.67%) RPG
11 1 (0.67%) VB
11 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (48.99%) Security Cleared
2 64 (42.95%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.71%) Degree
4 7 (4.70%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.03%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.67%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (23.49%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.01%) WCAG
4 2 (1.34%) PSD2
4 2 (1.34%) SEPA
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (38.93%) Docker
2 11 (7.38%) Postfix
3 7 (4.70%) Squid
4 3 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 81 (54.36%) Kubernetes
2 50 (33.56%) Terraform
3 48 (32.21%) Grafana
4 34 (22.82%) Prometheus
5 30 (20.13%) Argo
6 23 (15.44%) Ansible
7 8 (5.37%) Consul
8 7 (4.70%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.70%) Istio
8 7 (4.70%) Puppet
8 7 (4.70%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (3.36%) Podman
10 2 (1.34%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.34%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 34 (22.82%) Red Hat
2 21 (14.09%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.41%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (9.40%) Checkmarx
5 13 (8.72%) Veracode
6 10 (6.71%) Dynatrace
6 10 (6.71%) Google
7 9 (6.04%) Sonatype
8 7 (4.70%) Salesforce
9 6 (4.03%) Microsoft
9 6 (4.03%) Tenable
10 5 (3.36%) Guidewire
11 4 (2.68%) Oracle
11 4 (2.68%) Splunk
12 3 (2.01%) Cognizant
12 3 (2.01%) Databricks
12 3 (2.01%) NVIDIA
12 3 (2.01%) SAP
13 2 (1.34%) IBM
14 1 (0.67%) Pega