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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 478 498
Rank change year-on-year +60 +20 -29
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 161 83 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.91% 1.74% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 56 73
10th Percentile £299 £413 £438
25th Percentile £380 £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £685 £650
90th Percentile £743 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £612 £575
% change year-on-year -24.14% +6.43% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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 5,535 4,773 5,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.17% 13.21% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,838 2,981 4,073
10th Percentile £331 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £541
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.26% -2.53%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £514
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.07% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 116 222
10th Percentile £30.45 £34.66 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.00 £46.81 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.26
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £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 5 December 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
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 5 December 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 +43 149 £550 -10.13% 35
UK excluding London +12 88 £464 -24.14% 33
London +24 59 £610 -7.92% 5
Work from Home +31 54 £438 -21.88% 13
North of England -9 44 £400 -22.89% 17
Midlands -11 29 £575 -6.05% 2
North West +6 28 £400 +12.36% 7
West Midlands -18 20 £700 +14.38% 1
South West - 17 £700 - 5
Yorkshire -26 11 £390 -34.04% 6
East Midlands - 9 £270 - 1
South East -5 7 £550 -12.00% 8
North East -2 5 £425 - 4
Scotland +5 2 £484 -6.97% 1
East of England -16 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 22 (13.66%) Confluence
2 7 (4.35%) Appian
3 6 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.48%) JBoss
4 4 (2.48%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.24%) Mule
5 2 (1.24%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.62%) Apache
6 1 (0.62%) CICS
6 1 (0.62%) nginx
6 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.62%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 70 (43.48%) Azure
2 61 (37.89%) AWS
3 55 (34.16%) GitHub
4 40 (24.84%) GCP
5 32 (19.88%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (15.53%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (13.66%) OpenShift
7 22 (13.66%) Serverless
8 21 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (11.80%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (11.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (8.70%) npm
12 13 (8.07%) Datadog
12 13 (8.07%) PaaS
13 12 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (7.45%) Azure AKS
14 11 (6.83%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.35%) Firewall
2 5 (3.11%) SSH
3 3 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.24%) DNS
4 2 (1.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.62%) HTTP
5 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.62%) Internet
5 1 (0.62%) Network Security
5 1 (0.62%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.62%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.80%) Redis
2 18 (11.18%) NoSQL
3 16 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.45%) DynamoDB
5 10 (6.21%) Relational Database
6 9 (5.59%) RDBMS
7 8 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (4.97%) DocumentDB
7 8 (4.97%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.97%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (4.35%) Power BI
9 6 (3.73%) MySQL
10 5 (3.11%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.11%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.11%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.48%) Big Data
12 3 (1.86%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 73 (45.34%) Jenkins
2 62 (38.51%) Git
3 48 (29.81%) GitLab
4 36 (22.36%) JIRA
5 35 (21.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 33 (20.50%) Maven
7 28 (17.39%) Selenium
8 25 (15.53%) JUnit
9 22 (13.66%) Bitbucket
10 20 (12.42%) Cucumber
11 17 (10.56%) Artifactory
12 16 (9.94%) Postman
13 15 (9.32%) Cypress.io
13 15 (9.32%) Mockito
14 14 (8.70%) Gradle
14 14 (8.70%) Snyk
15 9 (5.59%) TeamCity
16 7 (4.35%) Gatling
16 7 (4.35%) Robot Framework
16 7 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 42 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.77%) Finance
3 23 (14.29%) Banking
4 22 (13.66%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.11%) Publishing
8 4 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.24%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.62%) German Language
11 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Military
11 1 (0.62%) Retail
11 1 (0.62%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 44 (27.33%) Developer
2 31 (19.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (13.66%) Java Developer
4 20 (12.42%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 15 (9.32%) Lead
6 12 (7.45%) GCP Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.97%) Architect
9 8 (4.97%) Senior
9 8 (4.97%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) Java Architect
10 6 (3.73%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (3.73%) Technical Architect
10 6 (3.73%) UI Developer
11 5 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (3.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (22.36%) Spring Boot
2 30 (18.63%) React
3 28 (17.39%) REST
4 25 (15.53%) Node.js
5 22 (13.66%) CSS
5 22 (13.66%) HTML
5 22 (13.66%) JSON
6 21 (13.04%) Kafka
7 20 (12.42%) Spring
8 17 (10.56%) Jest
9 16 (9.94%) CSS3
9 16 (9.94%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (9.94%) HTML5
9 16 (9.94%) RESTful
9 16 (9.94%) YAML
10 14 (8.70%) J2EE
10 14 (8.70%) Redux
11 13 (8.07%) AngularJS
12 12 (7.45%) Hibernate
12 12 (7.45%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.59%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.59%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.11%) AI Agents
3 5 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.11%) N-Tier
3 5 (3.11%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.48%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.86%) Autonomous Agent
5 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.86%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.24%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.62%) Contactless
7 1 (0.62%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.42%) Linux
2 11 (6.83%) Windows
3 7 (4.35%) Unix
4 5 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.86%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.24%) Android
7 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.62%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 99 (61.49%) DevOps
3 63 (39.13%) Containerisation
4 60 (37.27%) Agile
5 59 (36.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (28.57%) DevSecOps
6 46 (28.57%) Microservices
7 45 (27.95%) Test Automation
8 33 (20.50%) Code Quality
8 33 (20.50%) SDLC
8 33 (20.50%) TDD
9 28 (17.39%) Software Engineering
9 28 (17.39%) Unit Testing
10 27 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (14.29%) Migration
12 22 (13.66%) Mentoring
12 22 (13.66%) Scrum
13 21 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
14 20 (12.42%) Front End Development
15 19 (11.80%) AI
Programming Languages
1 63 (39.13%) Python
2 58 (36.02%) Java
3 39 (24.22%) JavaScript
4 29 (18.01%) SQL
5 22 (13.66%) Bash
6 14 (8.70%) Groovy
7 12 (7.45%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.97%) C#
9 7 (4.35%) Go
10 6 (3.73%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.73%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.48%) Perl
12 3 (1.86%) C++
12 3 (1.86%) Rust
13 2 (1.24%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.24%) R
14 1 (0.62%) Bicep
14 1 (0.62%) JCL
14 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 56 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.47%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.18%) DV Cleared
4 11 (6.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.73%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.73%) OSCP
6 5 (3.11%) CREST Certified
6 5 (3.11%) Degree
6 5 (3.11%) Tigerscheme
7 4 (2.48%) CHECK Team Member
8 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.24%) CISSP
9 2 (1.24%) OCP
9 2 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.62%) GIAC
10 1 (0.62%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.94%) QA
2 15 (9.32%) NCSC
3 11 (6.83%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.48%) WCAG
5 3 (1.86%) GDPR
6 2 (1.24%) NIST
6 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.24%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.62%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.62%) GRC
7 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
System Software
1 95 (59.01%) Docker
2 4 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.24%) HDFS
4 1 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (44.10%) Kubernetes
2 65 (40.37%) Terraform
3 26 (16.15%) Ansible
4 13 (8.07%) Prometheus
5 11 (6.83%) Argo
5 11 (6.83%) Grafana
5 11 (6.83%) Progress Chef
6 8 (4.97%) Puppet
7 7 (4.35%) Istio
8 6 (3.73%) Kibana
9 5 (3.11%) Nmap
10 4 (2.48%) Podman
11 3 (1.86%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.24%) rkt
13 1 (0.62%) Control-M
13 1 (0.62%) Nessus
13 1 (0.62%) Packer
13 1 (0.62%) Rancher
13 1 (0.62%) Rsyslog
13 1 (0.62%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (13.66%) Veracode
2 17 (10.56%) Splunk
3 14 (8.70%) Google
3 14 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 12 (7.45%) Dynatrace
5 10 (6.21%) Microsoft
6 9 (5.59%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.35%) Cisco
8 6 (3.73%) Cloudera
8 6 (3.73%) DocuSign
8 6 (3.73%) Perforce
9 5 (3.11%) AppDynamics
9 5 (3.11%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (3.11%) Gigya
9 5 (3.11%) Oracle
10 4 (2.48%) Databricks
11 2 (1.24%) SAP
11 2 (1.24%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.62%) IBM
12 1 (0.62%) Qualys