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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 411 493
Rank change year-on-year -87 +82 -1
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 127 109 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.18% 2.69% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 82 74
10th Percentile £403 £391 £425
25th Percentile £453 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £531 £555
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -4.32% -5.53%
75th Percentile £604 £655 £650
90th Percentile £693 £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 5,833 4,058 5,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.06% 13.97% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,914 2,719 3,533
10th Percentile £343 £338 £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 £603 £627
90th Percentile £686 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 72 182
10th Percentile £39.53 £25.33 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £49.50 £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 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -87 118 £518 -3.58% 43
UK excluding London -50 81 £510 +10.87% 38
North of England -48 38 £441 -3.19% 18
London -89 37 £525 -7.08% 6
Work from Home -53 31 £525 - 20
Midlands -57 23 £537 +12.95% 3
West Midlands -44 17 £571 +20.21% 2
North East -2 16 £513 +10.81% 16
North West -32 14 £431 +9.54%
South East -45 14 £513 -4.56% 12
Yorkshire -52 8 £450 -13.25% 2
South West - 8 £650 - 3
East Midlands -32 6 £525 +10.53% 1
East of England -25 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 (18.11%) Confluence
2 7 (5.51%) nginx
3 5 (3.94%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.79%) Apache
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 60 (47.24%) AWS
2 42 (33.07%) Azure
3 35 (27.56%) GitHub
4 31 (24.41%) OpenShift
5 21 (16.54%) Amazon S3
5 21 (16.54%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (14.96%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (14.96%) GCP
7 18 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (13.39%) Route 53
9 16 (12.60%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (12.60%) Serverless
10 13 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (9.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (8.66%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (7.87%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (7.87%) AWS KMS
14 9 (7.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (4.72%) Azure AKS
16 5 (3.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.09%) OpenVPN
2 7 (5.51%) DNS
2 7 (5.51%) Firewall
2 7 (5.51%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.45%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.45%) DynamoDB
3 10 (7.87%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (5.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.51%) Metadata
5 5 (3.94%) Redis
6 4 (3.15%) DocumentDB
7 3 (2.36%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.57%) MySQL
8 2 (1.57%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.57%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.57%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.79%) Flink
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (37.01%) Jenkins
2 33 (25.98%) Git
3 26 (20.47%) GitLab
4 25 (19.69%) JIRA
4 25 (19.69%) Maven
5 20 (15.75%) JUnit
6 19 (14.96%) Bitbucket
7 14 (11.02%) Artifactory
8 13 (10.24%) Snyk
9 10 (7.87%) Mockito
10 8 (6.30%) DbUnit
10 8 (6.30%) jMock
10 8 (6.30%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (5.51%) Cucumber
12 6 (4.72%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (4.72%) Selenium
13 5 (3.94%) CircleCI
13 5 (3.94%) Postman
14 4 (3.15%) Cypress.io
14 4 (3.15%) Gradle
General
1 28 (22.05%) Public Sector
2 25 (19.69%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.39%) Finance
4 9 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.51%) Banking
5 7 (5.51%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.94%) Publishing
7 3 (2.36%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.57%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.57%) Automotive
9 1 (0.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (37.01%) Developer
2 26 (20.47%) Java Developer
3 23 (18.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (13.39%) Senior
5 16 (12.60%) Software Engineer
6 12 (9.45%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.66%) Architect
8 10 (7.87%) Java Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
12 5 (3.94%) Lead
12 5 (3.94%) React Developer
12 5 (3.94%) Technical Architect
13 4 (3.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.15%) Security Engineer
13 4 (3.15%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (28.35%) AngularJS
2 25 (19.69%) Node.js
3 24 (18.90%) Quarkus
3 24 (18.90%) Spring
4 22 (17.32%) Spring Boot
5 21 (16.54%) YAML
6 18 (14.17%) REST
7 16 (12.60%) RESTful
8 15 (11.81%) Web Services
9 12 (9.45%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (9.45%) Hibernate
9 12 (9.45%) JPA
10 11 (8.66%) Spring Cloud
11 10 (7.87%) ActiveMQ
11 10 (7.87%) SOAP
11 10 (7.87%) Spring Batch
11 10 (7.87%) Spring Integration
12 9 (7.09%) JSON
13 8 (6.30%) LDAP
13 8 (6.30%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.60%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.36%) Blog
3 3 (2.36%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.57%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.57%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.57%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.96%) Linux
2 4 (3.15%) Unix
3 2 (1.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (56.69%) CI/CD
2 70 (55.12%) DevOps
3 59 (46.46%) Agile
4 51 (40.16%) DevSecOps
5 45 (35.43%) Test Automation
6 42 (33.07%) Scrum
7 35 (27.56%) SDLC
7 35 (27.56%) Software Engineering
8 34 (26.77%) Containerisation
9 33 (25.98%) Unit Testing
10 31 (24.41%) Sprint Planning
11 29 (22.83%) TDD
12 26 (20.47%) Microservices
13 25 (19.69%) Front End Development
13 25 (19.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (16.54%) BDD
15 20 (15.75%) Sprint Review
16 18 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (11.81%) Static Application Security Testing
18 14 (11.02%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 73 (57.48%) Java
2 21 (16.54%) Python
2 21 (16.54%) SQL
3 8 (6.30%) Groovy
4 6 (4.72%) Go
5 5 (3.94%) Bash
5 5 (3.94%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.94%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.15%) C++
6 4 (3.15%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.36%) C#
8 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.79%) C
9 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.79%) ProC
9 1 (0.79%) RPG
9 1 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 62 (48.82%) Security Cleared
2 52 (40.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.94%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.94%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.94%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.15%) Degree
5 1 (0.79%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.26%) QA
2 4 (3.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.15%) WCAG
3 2 (1.57%) NCSC
4 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 46 (36.22%) Docker
2 7 (5.51%) Postfix
2 7 (5.51%) Squid
Systems Management
1 62 (48.82%) Kubernetes
2 36 (28.35%) Terraform
3 27 (21.26%) Grafana
4 25 (19.69%) Argo
5 19 (14.96%) Prometheus
6 15 (11.81%) Ansible
7 7 (5.51%) Consul
7 7 (5.51%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.51%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (4.72%) Puppet
9 5 (3.94%) Istio
10 4 (3.15%) HP Fortify
11 3 (2.36%) Podman
12 2 (1.57%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.57%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 29 (22.83%) Red Hat
2 15 (11.81%) Atlassian
3 13 (10.24%) Veracode
4 10 (7.87%) Checkmarx
4 10 (7.87%) Dynatrace
4 10 (7.87%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (5.51%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.51%) Sonatype
6 6 (4.72%) Microsoft
7 5 (3.94%) Guidewire
8 4 (3.15%) Databricks
8 4 (3.15%) Google
8 4 (3.15%) Oracle
8 4 (3.15%) SAP
9 3 (2.36%) Cognizant
10 2 (1.57%) Splunk
11 1 (0.79%) Acunetix
11 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.79%) Netsparker
11 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow