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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 383 483
Rank change year-on-year -117 +100 +1
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 163 169 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.52% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 3.53% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 127 73
10th Percentile £429 £279 £413
25th Percentile £475 £388 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £601 £620 £650
90th Percentile £686 £688 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £425 £585
% change year-on-year +20.00% -27.29% -2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%

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 6,194 4,783 5,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.74% 14.58% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,975 3,216 3,453
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 103 236
10th Percentile £25.80 £22.64 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.00 £46.11
Median hourly rate £65.75 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £73.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +5.69%

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

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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 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

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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

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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 July 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 -106 150 £514 +8.28% 13
UK excluding London -88 106 £510 +20.00% 8
Work from Home -60 56 £570 +20.00% 4
North of England -59 49 £500 +24.38% 4
London -97 46 £593 -5.01% 7
South East -53 29 £513 +2.40% 1
North East -15 27 £511 +10.54% 3
Midlands -47 26 £511 +25.74% 1
West Midlands -55 22 £511 +7.47% 1
North West -54 14 £431 +9.95%
East of England - 9 £510 -
Yorkshire -51 8 £500 +17.65% 1
South West -37 4 £525 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -24 3 - -
Scotland -16 1 £375 - 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 21 (12.88%) Confluence
2 9 (5.52%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.29%) Apache
3 7 (4.29%) nginx
4 4 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.84%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.23%) Camunda
7 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 76 (46.63%) AWS
2 49 (30.06%) Azure
3 45 (27.61%) OpenShift
4 43 (26.38%) GitHub
5 35 (21.47%) GCP
6 33 (20.25%) Amazon S3
7 31 (19.02%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (17.18%) Route 53
9 24 (14.72%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (14.11%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (12.88%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (12.88%) AWS KMS
12 20 (12.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (12.27%) Serverless
13 15 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (9.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (8.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (3.68%) OCI
17 5 (3.07%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.52%) Firewall
1 9 (5.52%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.29%) DNS
2 7 (4.29%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.29%) VPN
3 4 (2.45%) MQTT
3 4 (2.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.50%) DynamoDB
1 22 (13.50%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (12.88%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (11.04%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (6.75%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.52%) Metadata
6 8 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.07%) MySQL
8 4 (2.45%) Flink
8 4 (2.45%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.84%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.84%) Big Data
9 3 (1.84%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.84%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.23%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 71 (43.56%) Jenkins
2 47 (28.83%) Git
2 47 (28.83%) GitLab
3 43 (26.38%) Maven
4 37 (22.70%) JUnit
5 22 (13.50%) Mockito
6 21 (12.88%) JIRA
7 16 (9.82%) Snyk
8 14 (8.59%) DbUnit
9 13 (7.98%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (7.98%) jMock
9 13 (7.98%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (7.36%) Bitbucket
11 10 (6.13%) Artifactory
11 10 (6.13%) Gradle
12 9 (5.52%) IntelliJ
13 8 (4.91%) Cucumber
14 7 (4.29%) CircleCI
14 7 (4.29%) REST Assured
15 6 (3.68%) Selenium
General
1 36 (22.09%) Public Sector
2 34 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.72%) Finance
4 18 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.59%) Banking
6 7 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.68%) Publishing
8 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.84%) Automotive
9 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (37.42%) Developer
2 45 (27.61%) Java Developer
3 34 (20.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (11.66%) Senior
4 19 (11.66%) Software Engineer
5 18 (11.04%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.59%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.98%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (7.36%) Architect
9 11 (6.75%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (6.75%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 8 (4.91%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.07%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (3.07%) Software Developer
14 5 (3.07%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (34.97%) AngularJS
2 42 (25.77%) Spring Boot
3 41 (25.15%) Spring
4 40 (24.54%) Quarkus
5 29 (17.79%) Node.js
6 28 (17.18%) RESTful
7 22 (13.50%) Hibernate
7 22 (13.50%) JPA
8 20 (12.27%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (12.27%) REST
8 20 (12.27%) Spring Cloud
8 20 (12.27%) YAML
9 19 (11.66%) SOAP
10 18 (11.04%) Kafka
10 18 (11.04%) Spring Batch
10 18 (11.04%) Spring Integration
10 18 (11.04%) Web Services
11 14 (8.59%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (7.98%) PowerMock
13 12 (7.36%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.27%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.20%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.45%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.23%) PKI
6 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.61%) Life Science
6 1 (0.61%) LIMS
6 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.61%) NHS
6 1 (0.61%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.02%) Linux
2 4 (2.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (61.96%) CI/CD
2 96 (58.90%) DevOps
3 87 (53.37%) Agile
4 71 (43.56%) DevSecOps
5 70 (42.94%) Scrum
6 60 (36.81%) Software Engineering
7 58 (35.58%) Test Automation
8 49 (30.06%) SDLC
9 48 (29.45%) Microservices
10 46 (28.22%) Containerisation
10 46 (28.22%) Unit Testing
11 44 (26.99%) TDD
12 41 (25.15%) Sprint Planning
13 40 (24.54%) Front End Development
14 36 (22.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 35 (21.47%) Sprint Review
16 30 (18.40%) BDD
17 22 (13.50%) Static Application Security Testing
18 21 (12.88%) Code Quality
19 20 (12.27%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 103 (63.19%) Java
2 35 (21.47%) SQL
3 34 (20.86%) Python
4 11 (6.75%) Groovy
5 9 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.91%) Bash
6 8 (4.91%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.45%) Go
7 4 (2.45%) Rust
8 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.84%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.23%) C#
10 1 (0.61%) COBOL
10 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (53.37%) Security Cleared
2 79 (48.47%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.13%) Degree
4 9 (5.52%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.29%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.45%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.84%) CISSP
9 3 (1.84%) GIAC
10 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.23%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.61%) GSEC
11 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (28.83%) QA
2 7 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.84%) NIST
3 3 (1.84%) WCAG
4 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.23%) PSD2
4 2 (1.23%) SEPA
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (37.42%) Docker
2 11 (6.75%) Postfix
3 7 (4.29%) Squid
4 3 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 98 (60.12%) Kubernetes
2 54 (33.13%) Terraform
3 50 (30.67%) Grafana
4 42 (25.77%) Argo
5 36 (22.09%) Prometheus
6 26 (15.95%) Ansible
7 9 (5.52%) Istio
7 9 (5.52%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (4.91%) Consul
9 7 (4.29%) FortiGate
9 7 (4.29%) Puppet
10 5 (3.07%) Podman
11 4 (2.45%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.23%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 46 (28.22%) Red Hat
2 21 (12.88%) Atlassian
3 17 (10.43%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (8.59%) Checkmarx
5 13 (7.98%) Veracode
6 10 (6.13%) Dynatrace
6 10 (6.13%) Google
6 10 (6.13%) Sonatype
7 7 (4.29%) Tenable
8 6 (3.68%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.07%) Oracle
10 4 (2.45%) Databricks
10 4 (2.45%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.45%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.84%) IBM
11 3 (1.84%) SAP
11 3 (1.84%) Splunk
12 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.61%) Pega
12 1 (0.61%) UiPath