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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 422 492
Rank change year-on-year -59 +70 +1
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 128 105 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.36% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.20% 2.58% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 81 74
10th Percentile £403 £391 £425
25th Percentile £453 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £537 £555
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% -3.24% -5.53%
75th Percentile £604 £656 £650
90th Percentile £709 £700 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +10.87% -16.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £54.63 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 5,822 4,073 5,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.11% 13.91% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,895 2,731 3,532
10th Percentile £343 £340 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £606 £627
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 73 182
10th Percentile £39.53 £25.41 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.59 £82.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -84 119 £518 -3.58% 43
UK excluding London -39 83 £510 +10.87% 38
North of England -48 38 £441 -3.19% 18
London -74 36 £525 -7.08% 6
Work from Home -33 30 £525 - 20
Midlands -52 24 £554 +16.58% 3
West Midlands -40 18 £573 +20.63% 2
North East -2 16 £513 +10.81% 16
North West -31 14 £431 +9.54%
South East -43 14 £513 -4.56% 12
South West - 10 £725 - 3
Yorkshire -60 8 £450 -13.25% 2
East Midlands -36 6 £525 +10.53% 1
East of England -26 4 £505 +57.13% 2
Scotland +7 1 £329 -52.04%

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 23 (17.97%) Confluence
2 7 (5.47%) nginx
3 5 (3.91%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 59 (46.09%) AWS
2 43 (33.59%) Azure
3 35 (27.34%) GitHub
4 31 (24.22%) OpenShift
5 21 (16.41%) Amazon S3
5 21 (16.41%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (14.84%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (14.84%) GCP
7 17 (13.28%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (13.28%) Route 53
8 16 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (12.50%) Serverless
9 13 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (8.59%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (7.81%) AWS KMS
13 9 (7.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (7.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (4.69%) Azure AKS
15 5 (3.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.03%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.47%) DNS
2 7 (5.47%) Firewall
2 7 (5.47%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.38%) DynamoDB
3 10 (7.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (5.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.47%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.47%) Metadata
5 5 (3.91%) Redis
6 4 (3.13%) DocumentDB
7 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.56%) MySQL
8 2 (1.56%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.56%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.56%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.78%) Flink
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (36.72%) Jenkins
2 33 (25.78%) Git
3 26 (20.31%) JIRA
4 25 (19.53%) GitLab
4 25 (19.53%) Maven
5 20 (15.63%) Bitbucket
5 20 (15.63%) JUnit
6 15 (11.72%) Artifactory
7 12 (9.38%) Snyk
8 10 (7.81%) Mockito
9 8 (6.25%) DbUnit
9 8 (6.25%) jMock
9 8 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (5.47%) Cucumber
11 6 (4.69%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (4.69%) Selenium
12 5 (3.91%) Postman
13 4 (3.13%) CircleCI
13 4 (3.13%) Cypress.io
13 4 (3.13%) Gradle
General
1 27 (21.09%) Public Sector
2 25 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.28%) Finance
4 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.47%) Banking
5 7 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.91%) Publishing
7 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.56%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) Advertising
9 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (36.72%) Developer
2 26 (20.31%) Java Developer
3 22 (17.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (13.28%) Senior
4 17 (13.28%) Software Engineer
5 12 (9.38%) Senior Developer
6 11 (8.59%) Architect
7 10 (7.81%) Java Engineer
8 9 (7.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (3.91%) AWS DevOps
12 5 (3.91%) Lead
12 5 (3.91%) React Developer
12 5 (3.91%) Technical Architect
13 4 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
13 4 (3.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (28.13%) AngularJS
2 25 (19.53%) Node.js
3 24 (18.75%) Quarkus
3 24 (18.75%) Spring
4 22 (17.19%) Spring Boot
4 22 (17.19%) YAML
5 19 (14.84%) REST
6 17 (13.28%) RESTful
7 15 (11.72%) Web Services
8 12 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (9.38%) Hibernate
8 12 (9.38%) JPA
9 11 (8.59%) Spring Cloud
10 10 (7.81%) ActiveMQ
10 10 (7.81%) SOAP
10 10 (7.81%) Spring Batch
10 10 (7.81%) Spring Integration
11 9 (7.03%) JSON
12 8 (6.25%) LDAP
12 8 (6.25%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.34%) Blog
3 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.56%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.56%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.78%) Contactless
5 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.78%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.63%) Linux
2 4 (3.13%) Unix
3 3 (2.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.78%) Android
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Embedded Compact
4 1 (0.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (57.03%) CI/CD
2 70 (54.69%) DevOps
3 60 (46.88%) Agile
4 51 (39.84%) DevSecOps
5 46 (35.94%) Test Automation
6 43 (33.59%) Scrum
7 36 (28.13%) Software Engineering
8 35 (27.34%) SDLC
9 34 (26.56%) Containerisation
9 34 (26.56%) Unit Testing
10 31 (24.22%) Sprint Planning
11 30 (23.44%) TDD
12 27 (21.09%) Microservices
13 25 (19.53%) Front End Development
13 25 (19.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (17.19%) BDD
15 20 (15.63%) Sprint Review
16 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (11.72%) Static Application Security Testing
18 14 (10.94%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 73 (57.03%) Java
2 21 (16.41%) Python
2 21 (16.41%) SQL
3 8 (6.25%) Groovy
4 6 (4.69%) Go
4 6 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.91%) Bash
5 5 (3.91%) C++
5 5 (3.91%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.13%) C#
6 4 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.56%) C
7 2 (1.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.78%) ProC
8 1 (0.78%) RPG
8 1 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 62 (48.44%) Security Cleared
2 52 (40.63%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.69%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.91%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.91%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.13%) Degree
6 1 (0.78%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.09%) QA
2 4 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.13%) WCAG
3 3 (2.34%) NCSC
4 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 46 (35.94%) Docker
2 7 (5.47%) Postfix
2 7 (5.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 62 (48.44%) Kubernetes
2 36 (28.13%) Terraform
3 26 (20.31%) Grafana
4 25 (19.53%) Argo
5 18 (14.06%) Prometheus
6 14 (10.94%) Ansible
7 7 (5.47%) Consul
7 7 (5.47%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.47%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (4.69%) Puppet
9 5 (3.91%) Istio
10 4 (3.13%) HP Fortify
11 3 (2.34%) Podman
12 2 (1.56%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.56%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 29 (22.66%) Red Hat
2 15 (11.72%) Atlassian
3 13 (10.16%) Veracode
4 10 (7.81%) Checkmarx
4 10 (7.81%) Dynatrace
4 10 (7.81%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (5.47%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.47%) Sonatype
6 6 (4.69%) Microsoft
7 5 (3.91%) Guidewire
8 4 (3.13%) Databricks
8 4 (3.13%) Google
8 4 (3.13%) Oracle
8 4 (3.13%) SAP
9 3 (2.34%) Cognizant
10 2 (1.56%) Splunk
11 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.78%) Netsparker
11 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.78%) Xamarin