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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 367 486
Rank change year-on-year -128 +119 -11
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 185 193 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.59% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.96% 3.90% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 141 55
10th Percentile £400 £283 £418
25th Percentile £457 £385 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £601 £625 £685
90th Percentile £680 £700 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £465 £606
% change year-on-year +10.22% -23.27% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 6,259 4,949 5,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.50% 15.25% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,011 3,330 3,252
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 111 176
10th Percentile £25.40 £30.75 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.50 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.50 £72.81
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -129 170 £514 +8.21% 83
UK excluding London -98 111 £513 +10.22% 38
Work from Home -76 66 £525 +16.67% 32
London -101 64 £584 -4.34% 46
North of England -63 50 £513 +25.08% 18
Midlands -42 37 £511 +7.47% 6
West Midlands -42 32 £513 -4.60% 5
North East -14 29 £511 +9.95% 14
South East -51 27 £601 +20.13% 8
Yorkshire -34 11 £514 +31.79% 2
North West -60 10 £519 +29.63% 2
East of England -24 6 £570 -32.94%
East Midlands -19 4 £335 +24.07% 1
Scotland -15 3 £450 - 1
South West -57 3 £300 -57.14% 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 21 (11.35%) Confluence
2 11 (5.95%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.86%) Apache
4 8 (4.32%) Camunda
5 7 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (2.70%) SharePoint
7 4 (2.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 83 (44.86%) AWS
2 60 (32.43%) GitHub
3 56 (30.27%) Azure
4 52 (28.11%) OpenShift
5 41 (22.16%) GCP
6 33 (17.84%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (15.68%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (10.27%) Amazon S3
9 17 (9.19%) Serverless
10 15 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (7.03%) AWS KMS
12 12 (6.49%) Route 53
13 11 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (5.95%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.86%) OCI
15 8 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (4.32%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.24%) Firewall
2 4 (2.16%) MQTT
2 4 (2.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.14%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.57%) DynamoDB
2 14 (7.57%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (6.49%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.41%) Metadata
5 8 (4.32%) MySQL
6 5 (2.70%) Flink
6 5 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.16%) Apache Hive
7 4 (2.16%) Big Data
7 4 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.16%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.16%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.16%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (49.19%) Jenkins
2 67 (36.22%) Git
3 64 (34.59%) Maven
4 60 (32.43%) GitLab
5 53 (28.65%) JUnit
6 31 (16.76%) Mockito
7 24 (12.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 23 (12.43%) JIRA
9 20 (10.81%) Gradle
10 17 (9.19%) Cucumber
10 17 (9.19%) Snyk
11 15 (8.11%) Selenium
12 14 (7.57%) Bitbucket Server
13 12 (6.49%) Artifactory
13 12 (6.49%) Postman
13 12 (6.49%) REST Assured
14 10 (5.41%) Gatling
15 7 (3.78%) CircleCI
15 7 (3.78%) DbUnit
15 7 (3.78%) IntelliJ
General
1 47 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.92%) Finance
3 31 (16.76%) Public Sector
4 29 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (12.43%) Banking
6 9 (4.86%) Publishing
7 6 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.62%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.08%) Automotive
10 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Advertising
11 1 (0.54%) Front Office
11 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (38.92%) Developer
2 53 (28.65%) Java Developer
3 41 (22.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (16.76%) Senior
5 19 (10.27%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.65%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (8.11%) Java Engineer
8 12 (6.49%) Lead
8 12 (6.49%) Software Engineer
9 11 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (5.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (4.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Quality Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Architect
12 7 (3.78%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Lead Developer
12 7 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (32.43%) AngularJS
2 56 (30.27%) Spring
3 55 (29.73%) Spring Boot
3 55 (29.73%) Terraform
4 38 (20.54%) Quarkus
5 32 (17.30%) Kafka
6 30 (16.22%) JPA
6 30 (16.22%) Node.js
7 29 (15.68%) Hibernate
7 29 (15.68%) REST
8 28 (15.14%) RESTful
8 28 (15.14%) SOAP
8 28 (15.14%) Web Services
9 24 (12.97%) ActiveMQ
9 24 (12.97%) React
10 22 (11.89%) HTML
11 21 (11.35%) Spring Cloud
12 18 (9.73%) CSS
12 18 (9.73%) YAML
13 15 (8.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.30%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.86%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.24%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.24%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.08%) PKI
11 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.54%) Life Science
11 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.00%) Linux
2 12 (6.49%) Unix
3 5 (2.70%) Windows
4 4 (2.16%) VMS
5 1 (0.54%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (66.49%) CI/CD
2 106 (57.30%) Agile
3 103 (55.68%) DevOps
4 85 (45.95%) Scrum
5 84 (45.41%) Test Automation
6 73 (39.46%) DevSecOps
7 72 (38.92%) Microservices
8 62 (33.51%) Software Engineering
9 57 (30.81%) SDLC
10 51 (27.57%) Containerisation
10 51 (27.57%) TDD
11 48 (25.95%) Front End Development
11 48 (25.95%) Sprint Planning
12 44 (23.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (22.16%) Unit Testing
14 33 (17.84%) Code Quality
14 33 (17.84%) Sprint Review
15 30 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (14.05%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 125 (67.57%) Java
2 57 (30.81%) Python
3 48 (25.95%) SQL
4 30 (16.22%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.27%) Bash
6 16 (8.65%) Groovy
6 16 (8.65%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.95%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.86%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.16%) Bicep
9 4 (2.16%) Rust
10 3 (1.62%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.08%) Go
12 1 (0.54%) C#
12 1 (0.54%) COBOL
12 1 (0.54%) Korn
12 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (44.32%) Security Cleared
2 76 (41.08%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.35%) Degree
4 15 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.78%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.78%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.62%) CISSP
6 3 (1.62%) GIAC
6 3 (1.62%) ISEB
6 3 (1.62%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.08%) CSSLP
7 2 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.54%) GSEC
8 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (27.57%) QA
2 14 (7.57%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.32%) WCAG
4 4 (2.16%) NIST
4 4 (2.16%) PSD2
4 4 (2.16%) SEPA
5 3 (1.62%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.54%) GDPR
7 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 79 (42.70%) Docker
2 6 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.70%) Postfix
4 2 (1.08%) HDFS
5 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 110 (59.46%) Kubernetes
2 47 (25.41%) Grafana
3 41 (22.16%) Argo
4 35 (18.92%) Prometheus
5 33 (17.84%) Ansible
6 9 (4.86%) HP Fortify
6 9 (4.86%) Istio
7 8 (4.32%) Puppet
8 5 (2.70%) Podman
9 4 (2.16%) Control-M
10 2 (1.08%) Kibana
10 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.54%) Consul
Vendors
1 37 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 15 (8.11%) Checkmarx
3 14 (7.57%) IBM
4 13 (7.03%) Google
5 12 (6.49%) Veracode
6 11 (5.95%) Databricks
6 11 (5.95%) Oracle
6 11 (5.95%) Sonatype
7 8 (4.32%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (4.32%) Tenable
8 7 (3.78%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.78%) SAP
9 6 (3.24%) Microsoft
10 5 (2.70%) Splunk
11 4 (2.16%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.16%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.62%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.54%) LabVantage
13 1 (0.54%) Pega
13 1 (0.54%) webMethods