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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 388 476
Rank change year-on-year -112 +88 +14
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 158 175 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.54% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.54% 3.65% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 130 72
10th Percentile £430 £276 £413
25th Percentile £475 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £625 £615 £656
90th Percentile £703 £688 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £421 £585
% change year-on-year +21.07% -27.93% -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 6,212 4,788 5,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 14.66% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,990 3,222 3,427
10th Percentile £350 £325 £351
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 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 104 232
10th Percentile £26.05 £23.25 £26.20
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.11
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.80 £73.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +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

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 23 July 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 23 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 -132 144 £514 +9.59% 21
UK excluding London -75 105 £510 +21.07% 17
Work from Home -80 54 £593 +24.74% 8
North of England -57 47 £500 +25.79% 11
London -100 41 £601 -3.73% 6
South East -53 29 £513 +2.40%
North East -17 27 £511 +10.54% 10
Midlands -60 27 £511 +26.99% 3
West Midlands -53 23 £511 +7.47% 3
Yorkshire -48 10 £500 +28.21%
North West -53 10 £465 +18.32% 1
East of England - 9 £510 -
South West -38 4 £525 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -25 3 - -
Scotland -4 1 £375 - 2

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 12 (7.59%) Confluence
2 9 (5.70%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.43%) Apache
4 4 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.27%) Camunda
5 2 (1.27%) nginx
5 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 75 (47.47%) AWS
2 50 (31.65%) Azure
3 46 (29.11%) OpenShift
4 44 (27.85%) GitHub
5 39 (24.68%) GCP
6 28 (17.72%) Amazon S3
7 26 (16.46%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (15.82%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (14.56%) Route 53
11 21 (13.29%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (13.29%) AWS KMS
12 20 (12.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (9.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (9.49%) Serverless
14 11 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (5.70%) OCI
17 8 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
18 5 (3.16%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.53%) Firewall
1 4 (2.53%) MQTT
1 4 (2.53%) Network Security
1 4 (2.53%) OpenVPN
2 2 (1.27%) DNS
2 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.92%) DynamoDB
1 22 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (13.29%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (11.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (6.96%) Metadata
5 8 (5.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.16%) MySQL
8 4 (2.53%) Flink
8 4 (2.53%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.90%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.90%) Big Data
9 3 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.90%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 75 (47.47%) Jenkins
2 48 (30.38%) Git
3 46 (29.11%) Maven
4 44 (27.85%) GitLab
5 38 (24.05%) JUnit
6 22 (13.92%) Mockito
7 17 (10.76%) Snyk
8 14 (8.86%) DbUnit
8 14 (8.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (8.23%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (8.23%) jMock
10 12 (7.59%) JIRA
11 11 (6.96%) Artifactory
11 11 (6.96%) Gradle
12 9 (5.70%) IntelliJ
13 8 (5.06%) Bitbucket
13 8 (5.06%) CircleCI
13 8 (5.06%) Cucumber
14 7 (4.43%) REST Assured
14 7 (4.43%) Selenium
General
1 35 (22.15%) Public Sector
2 29 (18.35%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.56%) Finance
4 18 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.23%) Banking
6 9 (5.70%) Publishing
7 5 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.90%) Automotive
8 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (37.34%) Developer
2 45 (28.48%) Java Developer
3 38 (24.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (12.03%) Senior
4 19 (12.03%) Software Engineer
5 18 (11.39%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.86%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 11 (6.96%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (6.96%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (5.06%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.43%) Architect
12 7 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.80%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (36.08%) AngularJS
2 42 (26.58%) Spring Boot
3 41 (25.95%) Spring
4 40 (25.32%) Quarkus
5 32 (20.25%) Node.js
6 24 (15.19%) RESTful
7 22 (13.92%) Hibernate
7 22 (13.92%) JPA
8 21 (13.29%) REST
9 20 (12.66%) ActiveMQ
9 20 (12.66%) Spring Cloud
9 20 (12.66%) YAML
10 19 (12.03%) SOAP
11 18 (11.39%) Kafka
11 18 (11.39%) Spring Batch
11 18 (11.39%) Spring Integration
11 18 (11.39%) Web Services
12 15 (9.49%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (8.86%) JSON
13 14 (8.86%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.90%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.27%) PKI
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.63%) Life Science
7 1 (0.63%) LIMS
7 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.25%) Linux
2 4 (2.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (63.92%) CI/CD
2 95 (60.13%) DevOps
3 83 (52.53%) Agile
4 75 (47.47%) DevSecOps
5 70 (44.30%) Scrum
6 62 (39.24%) Software Engineering
7 59 (37.34%) Test Automation
8 48 (30.38%) Microservices
8 48 (30.38%) SDLC
9 47 (29.75%) Containerisation
10 42 (26.58%) Unit Testing
11 41 (25.95%) Sprint Planning
12 40 (25.32%) Front End Development
12 40 (25.32%) TDD
13 37 (23.42%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (22.15%) Sprint Review
15 27 (17.09%) BDD
16 25 (15.82%) Static Application Security Testing
17 23 (14.56%) Performance Tuning
18 20 (12.66%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 102 (64.56%) Java
2 37 (23.42%) Python
3 35 (22.15%) SQL
4 14 (8.86%) Groovy
5 9 (5.70%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.06%) Bash
6 8 (5.06%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.53%) Go
7 4 (2.53%) Rust
8 3 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.90%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.27%) C#
10 1 (0.63%) COBOL
10 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (51.90%) Security Cleared
2 74 (46.84%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.33%) Degree
4 9 (5.70%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.43%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.16%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.90%) CISSP
8 3 (1.90%) GIAC
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.27%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.63%) GSEC
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (29.75%) QA
2 7 (4.43%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.90%) NIST
3 3 (1.90%) WCAG
4 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.27%) PSD2
4 2 (1.27%) SEPA
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (39.24%) Docker
2 11 (6.96%) Postfix
3 3 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.27%) HDFS
4 2 (1.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 97 (61.39%) Kubernetes
2 52 (32.91%) Terraform
3 46 (29.11%) Grafana
4 42 (26.58%) Argo
5 32 (20.25%) Prometheus
6 27 (17.09%) Ansible
7 9 (5.70%) Istio
8 8 (5.06%) Puppet
9 6 (3.80%) Podman
10 4 (2.53%) HP Fortify
10 4 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.90%) Consul
12 2 (1.27%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.27%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 41 (25.95%) Red Hat
2 17 (10.76%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (10.13%) Atlassian
4 14 (8.86%) Checkmarx
5 12 (7.59%) Sonatype
6 10 (6.33%) Google
7 9 (5.70%) Veracode
8 7 (4.43%) Tenable
9 5 (3.16%) Dynatrace
9 5 (3.16%) Oracle
10 4 (2.53%) Databricks
10 4 (2.53%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.53%) Splunk
11 3 (1.90%) IBM
11 3 (1.90%) Microsoft
11 3 (1.90%) SAP
12 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.63%) LabVantage
13 1 (0.63%) Pega
13 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow