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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 446 513
Rank change year-on-year -23 +67 -51
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 124 83 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.23% 2.00% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 55 62
10th Percentile £378 £373 £426
25th Percentile £413 £428 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £650
90th Percentile £792 £702 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +26.24% -22.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 5,569 4,148 5,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 13.62% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,811 2,640 3,733
10th Percentile £340 £332 £361
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £626
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 65 217
10th Percentile £29.38 £25.65 £39.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £79.39 £86.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -33 117 £531 -3.50% 38
UK excluding London -28 75 £537 +26.24% 32
London -37 40 £525 -6.25% 11
North of England -39 36 £431 -2.16% 7
Midlands -33 25 £613 +66.89% 12
Work from Home -33 24 £520 -1.05% 17
West Midlands -29 21 £675 - 10
North West -12 20 £428 +16.49%
South West - 15 £700 - 1
South East -18 10 £488 -25.00% 12
North East -6 9 - - 4
Yorkshire -52 7 £511 -12.36% 3
East Midlands -20 4 £525 +43.05% 2
Scotland +3 2 £484 -29.38%
East of England -24 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 28 (22.58%) Confluence
2 7 (5.65%) OpenStack
3 6 (4.84%) Appian
3 6 (4.84%) 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 51 (41.13%) Azure
2 49 (39.52%) AWS
3 40 (32.26%) GitHub
4 23 (18.55%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (18.55%) OpenShift
5 17 (13.71%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (12.90%) Serverless
7 14 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (11.29%) GCP
8 12 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (9.68%) Amazon S3
8 12 (9.68%) Route 53
9 11 (8.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (6.45%) npm
12 7 (5.65%) Azure AKS
13 6 (4.84%) Power Platform
13 6 (4.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.45%) Firewall
2 6 (4.84%) DNS
2 6 (4.84%) OpenVPN
2 6 (4.84%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.84%) VPN
3 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.45%) Redis
2 7 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.84%) DynamoDB
3 6 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.03%) DocumentDB
4 5 (4.03%) Metadata
4 5 (4.03%) Power BI
5 4 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.42%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.61%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.61%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.61%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (33.06%) Jenkins
2 34 (27.42%) Git
3 32 (25.81%) GitLab
3 32 (25.81%) JIRA
4 22 (17.74%) Bitbucket
5 21 (16.94%) Maven
6 16 (12.90%) Selenium
7 15 (12.10%) Artifactory
7 15 (12.10%) Cucumber
7 15 (12.10%) JUnit
8 12 (9.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (8.87%) Cypress.io
10 10 (8.06%) Postman
10 10 (8.06%) Snyk
11 6 (4.84%) Robot Framework
12 5 (4.03%) Gradle
12 5 (4.03%) Mockito
12 5 (4.03%) webpack
13 4 (3.23%) CircleCI
13 4 (3.23%) Gatling
General
1 31 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.90%) Finance
3 15 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.06%) Banking
4 10 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.84%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.61%) Publishing
9 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
9 1 (0.81%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 40 (32.26%) Developer
2 19 (15.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (12.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) Java Developer
4 13 (10.48%) Senior
5 11 (8.87%) Lead
6 9 (7.26%) Architect
6 9 (7.26%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) React Developer
7 7 (5.65%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.84%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.23%) UI Developer
11 3 (2.42%) Java Engineer
11 3 (2.42%) JavaScript Developer
11 3 (2.42%) Node.js Developer
11 3 (2.42%) Salesforce Developer
11 3 (2.42%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.77%) YAML
2 19 (15.32%) AngularJS
2 19 (15.32%) Node.js
2 19 (15.32%) REST
3 18 (14.52%) JSON
4 14 (11.29%) React
5 13 (10.48%) Spring
6 12 (9.68%) RESTful
7 11 (8.87%) Quarkus
8 10 (8.06%) Spring Boot
8 10 (8.06%) Web Services
9 9 (7.26%) .NET
9 9 (7.26%) OpenID
10 8 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (5.65%) CSS
11 7 (5.65%) CSS3
11 7 (5.65%) HTML
11 7 (5.65%) HTML5
11 7 (5.65%) JPA
11 7 (5.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.03%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.42%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.42%) Blog
4 3 (2.42%) Mobile App
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%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.81%) Contactless
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.29%) Linux
2 4 (3.23%) Windows
3 3 (2.42%) Unix
4 2 (1.61%) Android
5 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.81%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (62.90%) CI/CD
2 64 (51.61%) DevOps
3 48 (38.71%) Agile
4 43 (34.68%) Test Automation
5 42 (33.87%) DevSecOps
6 35 (28.23%) Containerisation
7 32 (25.81%) SDLC
7 32 (25.81%) Software Engineering
8 29 (23.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (21.77%) Unit Testing
10 26 (20.97%) Scrum
11 23 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (18.55%) Sprint Planning
11 23 (18.55%) TDD
12 21 (16.94%) Code Quality
13 19 (15.32%) Microservices
14 17 (13.71%) Front End Development
15 15 (12.10%) BDD
16 14 (11.29%) Platform Engineering
17 13 (10.48%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (38.71%) Java
2 25 (20.16%) Python
3 20 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.48%) SQL
5 8 (6.45%) Groovy
6 7 (5.65%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.65%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.84%) Bash
7 6 (4.84%) Go
8 5 (4.03%) C#
8 5 (4.03%) C++
9 3 (2.42%) Rust
10 2 (1.61%) C
10 2 (1.61%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.61%) R
11 1 (0.81%) Bicep
11 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.81%) RPG
11 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.81%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (44.35%) Security Cleared
2 43 (34.68%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.29%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.45%) 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 17 (13.71%) QA
2 9 (7.26%) NCSC
3 7 (5.65%) 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 57 (45.97%) Docker
2 6 (4.84%) Squid
3 3 (2.42%) Postfix
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (43.55%) Kubernetes
2 41 (33.06%) Terraform
3 19 (15.32%) Grafana
4 17 (13.71%) Ansible
5 16 (12.90%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.68%) Argo
7 6 (4.84%) Consul
7 6 (4.84%) FortiGate
7 6 (4.84%) Puppet
7 6 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (4.03%) Podman
9 4 (3.23%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.42%) HP Fortify
10 3 (2.42%) Istio
11 2 (1.61%) rkt
12 1 (0.81%) Rancher
Vendors
1 21 (16.94%) Veracode
2 18 (14.52%) Red Hat
3 13 (10.48%) Dynatrace
4 9 (7.26%) Atlassian
5 8 (6.45%) Checkmarx
5 8 (6.45%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.65%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.65%) Splunk
7 6 (4.84%) Cisco
8 5 (4.03%) Guidewire
9 4 (3.23%) Databricks
9 4 (3.23%) DocuSign
9 4 (3.23%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (3.23%) Sonatype
10 3 (2.42%) Cognizant
10 3 (2.42%) Oracle
10 3 (2.42%) Perforce
11 2 (1.61%) Google
11 2 (1.61%) SAP
11 2 (1.61%) Xamarin