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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 481 503
Rank change year-on-year +52 +22 -38
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 165 78 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.04% 1.64% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 52 86
10th Percentile £315 £413 £450
25th Percentile £385 £534 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £663 £685 £650
90th Percentile £729 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £606 £600
% change year-on-year -21.62% +1.00% +9.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £65.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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 5,430 4,749 6,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 12.98% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,743 2,941 4,213
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 123 232
10th Percentile £29.00 £27.81 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.06 £47.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.77
90th Percentile £84.00 £74.89 £86.40
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 24 November 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 24 November 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 24 November 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 +45 151 £550 -10.13% 19
UK excluding London +22 86 £475 -21.62% 19
London +17 63 £610 -2.40% 3
Work from Home +47 56 £460 -19.39% 14
North of England -7 41 £400 -22.89% 10
Midlands -8 31 £575 -6.05%
North West +5 28 £401 +12.64% 5
West Midlands -3 24 £700 +14.38%
South West - 17 £700 - 3
Yorkshire -31 9 £390 -34.04% 3
South East +2 7 £550 -12.00% 5
East Midlands - 7 £270 -
North East -5 4 £425 - 2
Scotland +2 1 £639 +35.24% 1
East of England -12 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 (12.73%) Confluence
2 7 (4.24%) Appian
3 5 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.03%) JBoss
4 4 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.42%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.21%) Mule
5 2 (1.21%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.61%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) CICS
6 1 (0.61%) nginx
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 70 (42.42%) Azure
2 65 (39.39%) AWS
3 56 (33.94%) GitHub
4 40 (24.24%) GCP
5 30 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (15.76%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (12.73%) OpenShift
9 18 (10.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 18 (10.91%) Serverless
10 15 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (8.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (8.48%) npm
12 13 (7.88%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (7.88%) Datadog
12 13 (7.88%) PaaS
13 11 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (6.67%) Azure AKS
13 11 (6.67%) Route 53
14 10 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.85%) Firewall
2 5 (3.03%) SSH
3 3 (1.82%) SSL
3 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.21%) DNS
4 2 (1.21%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.21%) Network Security
5 1 (0.61%) HTTP
5 1 (0.61%) Internet
5 1 (0.61%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.61%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (10.91%) NoSQL
3 17 (10.30%) Redis
4 16 (9.70%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (8.48%) DynamoDB
7 11 (6.67%) Relational Database
8 10 (6.06%) RDBMS
9 8 (4.85%) MongoDB
9 8 (4.85%) SQL Server
10 7 (4.24%) Power BI
11 6 (3.64%) DocumentDB
11 6 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.64%) MySQL
12 5 (3.03%) BigQuery
12 5 (3.03%) Hadoop
12 5 (3.03%) Oracle Database
13 4 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.42%) Big Data
14 3 (1.82%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 79 (47.88%) Jenkins
2 68 (41.21%) Git
3 46 (27.88%) GitLab
4 36 (21.82%) JIRA
4 36 (21.82%) Maven
5 35 (21.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 30 (18.18%) JUnit
7 26 (15.76%) Selenium
8 21 (12.73%) Bitbucket
9 18 (10.91%) Cucumber
9 18 (10.91%) Mockito
10 17 (10.30%) Artifactory
11 16 (9.70%) Postman
12 15 (9.09%) Gradle
13 14 (8.48%) Snyk
14 13 (7.88%) Cypress.io
15 10 (6.06%) TeamCity
16 9 (5.45%) Bitbucket Server
17 7 (4.24%) Gatling
17 7 (4.24%) Robot Framework
General
1 41 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.36%) Finance
3 23 (13.94%) Banking
3 23 (13.94%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (4.24%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.03%) Publishing
6 3 (1.82%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.21%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.61%) German Language
8 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Military
8 1 (0.61%) Retail
8 1 (0.61%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 47 (28.48%) Developer
2 29 (17.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (16.97%) Java Developer
4 21 (12.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 14 (8.48%) Lead
6 12 (7.27%) GCP Engineer
6 12 (7.27%) Security Engineer
7 8 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (4.85%) Senior
7 8 (4.85%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.24%) Architect
9 6 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 6 (3.64%) Java Architect
9 6 (3.64%) Java Technical Architect
9 6 (3.64%) Technical Architect
9 6 (3.64%) UI Developer
10 5 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.03%) GCP DevOps
10 5 (3.03%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (24.85%) Spring Boot
2 33 (20.00%) REST
3 30 (18.18%) React
4 27 (16.36%) Spring
5 23 (13.94%) Node.js
6 22 (13.33%) CSS
6 22 (13.33%) HTML
6 22 (13.33%) JSON
7 21 (12.73%) Kafka
8 20 (12.12%) Hibernate
8 20 (12.12%) RESTful
9 17 (10.30%) JPA
10 16 (9.70%) CSS3
10 16 (9.70%) HTML5
10 16 (9.70%) YAML
11 15 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (9.09%) Jest
12 14 (8.48%) J2EE
12 14 (8.48%) Redux
12 14 (8.48%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.30%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.45%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.03%) N-Tier
4 5 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.42%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.82%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.82%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.21%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.15%) Linux
2 12 (7.27%) Windows
3 6 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.64%) Unix
4 3 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.21%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (70.30%) CI/CD
2 100 (60.61%) DevOps
3 67 (40.61%) Containerisation
4 60 (36.36%) Agile
4 60 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (30.30%) Microservices
6 47 (28.48%) DevSecOps
7 43 (26.06%) Test Automation
8 36 (21.82%) TDD
9 33 (20.00%) Code Quality
10 31 (18.79%) SDLC
11 28 (16.97%) Unit Testing
12 27 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (16.36%) Software Engineering
13 24 (14.55%) Migration
13 24 (14.55%) Scrum
14 20 (12.12%) Front End Development
14 20 (12.12%) Mentoring
14 20 (12.12%) OWASP
15 19 (11.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (39.39%) Python
2 62 (37.58%) Java
3 36 (21.82%) JavaScript
4 33 (20.00%) SQL
5 23 (13.94%) Bash
6 14 (8.48%) PowerShell
7 13 (7.88%) Groovy
8 8 (4.85%) C#
9 6 (3.64%) Go
9 6 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.64%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.03%) Perl
11 3 (1.82%) C++
11 3 (1.82%) Rust
12 2 (1.21%) R
13 1 (0.61%) JCL
13 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.61%) Ruby
13 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 63 (38.18%) Security Cleared
2 50 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.91%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.24%) OSCP
6 6 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.64%) CREST Certified
6 6 (3.64%) Tigerscheme
7 5 (3.03%) CHECK Team Member
7 5 (3.03%) Degree
8 4 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.21%) CISSP
10 2 (1.21%) OCP
10 2 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.61%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.61%) GIAC
11 1 (0.61%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.70%) NCSC
1 16 (9.70%) QA
2 11 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.42%) GDPR
4 4 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.42%) WCAG
5 3 (1.82%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.21%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.21%) NIST
6 2 (1.21%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.61%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.61%) GRC
System Software
1 98 (59.39%) Docker
2 5 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.82%) Postfix
4 2 (1.21%) HDFS
5 1 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (44.85%) Kubernetes
2 65 (39.39%) Terraform
3 25 (15.15%) Ansible
4 16 (9.70%) Prometheus
5 14 (8.48%) Grafana
6 12 (7.27%) Progress Chef
7 10 (6.06%) Argo
8 7 (4.24%) Kibana
9 6 (3.64%) Nmap
9 6 (3.64%) Puppet
10 5 (3.03%) Istio
11 4 (2.42%) Podman
12 2 (1.21%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.21%) Nessus
12 2 (1.21%) rkt
13 1 (0.61%) Control-M
13 1 (0.61%) Packer
13 1 (0.61%) Rancher
13 1 (0.61%) Rsyslog
13 1 (0.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (13.94%) Veracode
2 18 (10.91%) Splunk
3 14 (8.48%) Google
3 14 (8.48%) Red Hat
4 12 (7.27%) Dynatrace
5 11 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 9 (5.45%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.24%) Cisco
7 7 (4.24%) Cloudera
8 6 (3.64%) DocuSign
8 6 (3.64%) Perforce
9 5 (3.03%) AppDynamics
9 5 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (3.03%) Gigya
9 5 (3.03%) Oracle
10 4 (2.42%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.82%) Databricks
11 3 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (1.21%) Qualys
12 2 (1.21%) Xamarin