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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 490 497
Rank change year-on-year +113 +7 -26
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 187 67 139
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.66% 1.37% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 44 98
10th Percentile £284 £404 £450
25th Percentile £378 £498 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £574 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.85% -4.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £659 £650
90th Percentile £708 £738 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £47.05 - -
25th Percentile £50.88 - -
Median hourly rate £59.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.38 - -
90th Percentile £68.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 - -

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 5,112 4,906 6,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.41% 13.24% 13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,459 3,061 4,464
10th Percentile £327 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.24% -0.90%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £723 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -3.06% -4.39% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 164 242
10th Percentile £20.42 £26.33 £45.88
25th Percentile £44.13 £50.56 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.84%
75th Percentile £69.06 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.25 £71.88 £90.00
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 20 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 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 +115 174 £500 -15.68% 28
UK excluding London +59 96 £475 -20.83% 21
London +68 78 £610 +7.96% 13
Work from Home +78 70 £469 -9.81% 46
North of England +10 42 £401 -19.60% 7
Midlands +8 39 £500 -18.30% 1
West Midlands +3 29 £613 +0.08% 1
North West +10 27 £402 +12.92% 1
South West - 18 £700 - 4
Yorkshire -18 13 £390 -33.48% 2
East Midlands - 10 £270 -
South East +14 6 £500 -16.67% 6
Scotland +3 2 £639 +50.35% 1
North East -3 2 £425 - 4
East of England -3 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 21 (11.23%) Confluence
2 7 (3.74%) Appian
3 5 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.67%) JBoss
4 4 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.14%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.60%) Mule
6 2 (1.07%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.53%) Apache
7 1 (0.53%) CICS
7 1 (0.53%) nginx
7 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.53%) Endur
2 1 (0.53%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 86 (45.99%) Azure
2 81 (43.32%) AWS
3 60 (32.09%) GitHub
4 51 (27.27%) GCP
5 31 (16.58%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (16.04%) Amazon SQS
7 26 (13.90%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (11.23%) OpenShift
9 19 (10.16%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (9.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 17 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (8.56%) npm
12 16 (8.56%) Serverless
13 15 (8.02%) PaaS
13 15 (8.02%) Route 53
14 14 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (6.95%) Amazon S3
15 13 (6.95%) Azure AKS
16 12 (6.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.35%) Firewall
2 5 (2.67%) SSH
2 5 (2.67%) SSL
3 4 (2.14%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.14%) Network Security
4 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.07%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.07%) DNS
6 1 (0.53%) HTTP
6 1 (0.53%) Internet
6 1 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.53%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.72%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (11.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 21 (11.23%) NoSQL
4 18 (9.63%) DynamoDB
5 16 (8.56%) Redis
6 13 (6.95%) MongoDB
7 11 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.35%) MySQL
8 10 (5.35%) RDBMS
9 8 (4.28%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.74%) Power BI
11 6 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.21%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.67%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.67%) Hadoop
13 4 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.14%) Big Data
13 4 (2.14%) DocumentDB
14 3 (1.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 89 (47.59%) Jenkins
2 81 (43.32%) Git
3 51 (27.27%) GitLab
4 48 (25.67%) Maven
5 42 (22.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 38 (20.32%) JUnit
7 35 (18.72%) JIRA
8 29 (15.51%) Selenium
9 27 (14.44%) Mockito
10 21 (11.23%) Bitbucket
11 19 (10.16%) Artifactory
12 16 (8.56%) Cucumber
12 16 (8.56%) Cypress.io
13 15 (8.02%) Postman
13 15 (8.02%) TeamCity
14 14 (7.49%) Gradle
14 14 (7.49%) Snyk
15 13 (6.95%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (6.95%) Burp Suite
15 13 (6.95%) Metasploit
General
1 53 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.11%) Finance
2 32 (17.11%) Public Sector
3 26 (13.90%) Banking
4 13 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.74%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.67%) Publishing
8 2 (1.07%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.07%) Military
8 2 (1.07%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.53%) German Language
9 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.53%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 60 (32.09%) Developer
2 40 (21.39%) Java Developer
3 28 (14.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (11.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 17 (9.09%) Security Engineer
6 16 (8.56%) Lead
7 13 (6.95%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 12 (6.42%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (4.81%) Architect
9 9 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.81%) Senior
10 8 (4.28%) Lead Developer
10 8 (4.28%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.21%) Java Architect
12 6 (3.21%) Java Technical Architect
12 6 (3.21%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (29.41%) Spring Boot
2 43 (22.99%) REST
3 37 (19.79%) Spring
4 33 (17.65%) RESTful
5 32 (17.11%) React
6 28 (14.97%) Hibernate
7 26 (13.90%) CSS
7 26 (13.90%) HTML
8 25 (13.37%) JPA
8 25 (13.37%) Node.js
9 23 (12.30%) Kafka
10 22 (11.76%) JSON
11 21 (11.23%) Spring Cloud
12 20 (10.70%) SOAP
13 19 (10.16%) Bootstrap
13 19 (10.16%) J2EE
14 18 (9.63%) Jest
15 17 (9.09%) AngularJS
15 17 (9.09%) CSS3
15 17 (9.09%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.81%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.67%) N-Tier
5 5 (2.67%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.14%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.60%) Autonomous Agent
7 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.07%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.07%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.97%) Linux
2 12 (6.42%) Unix
2 12 (6.42%) Windows
3 6 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.60%) Android
6 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 107 (57.22%) DevOps
3 72 (38.50%) Containerisation
4 69 (36.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (35.83%) Agile
6 61 (32.62%) Microservices
7 52 (27.81%) DevSecOps
8 47 (25.13%) Test Automation
9 42 (22.46%) TDD
10 40 (21.39%) SDLC
11 36 (19.25%) Code Quality
12 31 (16.58%) OWASP
13 30 (16.04%) Scrum
14 29 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (14.44%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (13.90%) Secure Coding
16 26 (13.90%) Unit Testing
17 25 (13.37%) Migration
17 25 (13.37%) Software Engineering
18 23 (12.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (40.64%) Java
2 74 (39.57%) Python
3 47 (25.13%) JavaScript
4 41 (21.93%) SQL
5 33 (17.65%) Bash
6 16 (8.56%) PowerShell
7 15 (8.02%) Groovy
8 10 (5.35%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.74%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.21%) C#
11 5 (2.67%) Go
11 5 (2.67%) Perl
12 3 (1.60%) Rust
13 2 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.07%) R
13 2 (1.07%) Ruby
13 2 (1.07%) Swift
14 1 (0.53%) C++
14 1 (0.53%) COBOL
14 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (41.71%) Security Cleared
2 63 (33.69%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.16%) DV Cleared
4 14 (7.49%) OSCP
5 13 (6.95%) CREST Certified
5 13 (6.95%) Tigerscheme
6 10 (5.35%) CHECK Team Member
7 7 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.67%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.67%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.14%) Degree
10 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.07%) CISSP
10 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.07%) OCP
10 2 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.23%) NCSC
2 17 (9.09%) QA
3 11 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 9 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (3.21%) GDPR
6 5 (2.67%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.14%) HIPAA
7 4 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (2.14%) WCAG
8 2 (1.07%) NIST
8 2 (1.07%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.53%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.53%) GRC
System Software
1 106 (56.68%) Docker
2 6 (3.21%) Postfix
3 5 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.07%) HDFS
5 1 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 67 (35.83%) Terraform
3 28 (14.97%) Ansible
4 21 (11.23%) Prometheus
5 19 (10.16%) Grafana
6 13 (6.95%) Nmap
6 13 (6.95%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.28%) Argo
8 7 (3.74%) Kibana
9 6 (3.21%) Puppet
10 5 (2.67%) Istio
11 4 (2.14%) HP Fortify
11 4 (2.14%) Nessus
11 4 (2.14%) Podman
12 2 (1.07%) rkt
13 1 (0.53%) Cilium
13 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.53%) Packer
13 1 (0.53%) Rancher
13 1 (0.53%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 30 (16.04%) Veracode
2 19 (10.16%) Splunk
3 15 (8.02%) Google
3 15 (8.02%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.42%) Dynatrace
4 12 (6.42%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.35%) Checkmarx
6 9 (4.81%) Cisco
7 8 (4.28%) Oracle
8 7 (3.74%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.74%) Cloudera
9 6 (3.21%) CA Agile Central
9 6 (3.21%) DocuSign
9 6 (3.21%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (3.21%) Perforce
10 5 (2.67%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.67%) Gigya
11 4 (2.14%) Qualys
12 3 (1.60%) Databricks
13 2 (1.07%) OpenAI