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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 413 474
Rank change year-on-year -66 +61 +6
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 147 116 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.40% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.55% 2.78% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 90 73
10th Percentile £409 £367 £425
25th Percentile £463 £425 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -10.67% -6.67%
75th Percentile £601 £589 £650
90th Percentile £680 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +10.27% -15.91% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 3
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 5,773 4,175 5,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 14.31% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,784 2,791 3,456
10th Percentile £350 £338 £355
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 72 206
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.03 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.40 £47.36 £46.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -9.42% +5.69%
75th Percentile £71.94 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £78.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -85 133 £519 +3.71% 24
UK excluding London -44 91 £510 +10.27% 24
Work from Home -45 44 £525 +8.19% 7
London -73 44 £571 +2.93% 1
North of England -38 40 £450 +1.69% 11
Midlands -53 29 £525 +33.76% 2
West Midlands -35 23 £525 +7.74% 1
North East -11 17 £513 +10.22% 4
North West -33 15 £431 +9.67% 3
South East -61 15 £513 +2.40% 8
East of England -21 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -50 8 £450 +5.88% 4
South West -34 5 £575 -4.17% 1
East Midlands -35 5 £525 +41.51% 1
Scotland -10 1 £329 -52.04% 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 7 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.76%) nginx
3 5 (3.40%) Apache
4 4 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.72%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 70 (47.62%) AWS
2 46 (31.29%) Azure
3 42 (28.57%) GitHub
4 32 (21.77%) Amazon S3
4 32 (21.77%) OpenShift
5 30 (20.41%) Amazon EC2
5 30 (20.41%) GCP
6 27 (18.37%) Route 53
7 22 (14.97%) Amazon SQS
8 21 (14.29%) AWS KMS
8 21 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (13.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (12.93%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (11.56%) Serverless
12 14 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (8.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (3.40%) Azure AKS
14 5 (3.40%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.12%) OpenVPN
2 8 (5.44%) Firewall
3 7 (4.76%) DNS
3 7 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.65%) DynamoDB
2 21 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (13.61%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (12.24%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.44%) Metadata
7 7 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.40%) MySQL
9 4 (2.72%) Flink
10 3 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.04%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.04%) Big Data
10 3 (2.04%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.04%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.04%) Redis
11 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.36%) DocumentDB
11 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.68%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.68%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 59 (40.14%) Jenkins
2 41 (27.89%) Git
3 38 (25.85%) Maven
4 33 (22.45%) JUnit
5 28 (19.05%) GitLab
6 22 (14.97%) JIRA
7 18 (12.24%) Mockito
8 17 (11.56%) Bitbucket
9 15 (10.20%) Snyk
10 14 (9.52%) DbUnit
11 13 (8.84%) jMock
12 12 (8.16%) Artifactory
13 11 (7.48%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (6.12%) IntelliJ
15 8 (5.44%) Cucumber
15 8 (5.44%) Selenium
16 7 (4.76%) CircleCI
16 7 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
17 6 (4.08%) Gradle
18 5 (3.40%) Postman
General
1 38 (25.85%) Public Sector
2 31 (21.09%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.97%) Finance
4 16 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.84%) Banking
6 7 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.40%) Publishing
9 3 (2.04%) Automotive
9 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (37.41%) Developer
2 39 (26.53%) Java Developer
3 31 (21.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (15.65%) Senior
5 18 (12.24%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.24%) Software Engineer
6 15 (10.20%) Architect
7 14 (9.52%) Java Engineer
8 11 (7.48%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.80%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 7 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.40%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 5 (3.40%) GCP Engineer
12 5 (3.40%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.40%) Technical Architect
13 4 (2.72%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (31.29%) AngularJS
2 38 (25.85%) Spring
3 36 (24.49%) Spring Boot
4 30 (20.41%) Node.js
5 27 (18.37%) Quarkus
6 24 (16.33%) REST
7 23 (15.65%) Web Services
8 22 (14.97%) RESTful
9 20 (13.61%) Hibernate
9 20 (13.61%) JPA
9 20 (13.61%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (12.93%) SOAP
10 19 (12.93%) YAML
11 18 (12.24%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (12.24%) Spring Batch
11 18 (12.24%) Spring Integration
12 13 (8.84%) PowerMock
13 12 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (7.48%) Bootstrap
15 10 (6.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.36%) Blog
4 2 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Life Science
5 1 (0.68%) LIMS
5 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.68%) NHS
5 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.37%) Linux
2 5 (3.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (57.82%) CI/CD
2 83 (56.46%) DevOps
3 67 (45.58%) Agile
4 52 (35.37%) DevSecOps
5 50 (34.01%) Scrum
6 48 (32.65%) Test Automation
7 47 (31.97%) Software Engineering
8 43 (29.25%) Containerisation
8 43 (29.25%) TDD
9 40 (27.21%) Microservices
10 39 (26.53%) SDLC
11 34 (23.13%) Unit Testing
12 33 (22.45%) Sprint Planning
13 31 (21.09%) BDD
13 31 (21.09%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (17.01%) Front End Development
15 23 (15.65%) Sprint Review
16 20 (13.61%) Static Application Security Testing
17 19 (12.93%) Code Quality
17 19 (12.93%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 92 (62.59%) Java
2 34 (23.13%) SQL
3 27 (18.37%) Python
4 10 (6.80%) Groovy
5 6 (4.08%) Go
5 6 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.40%) Bash
6 5 (3.40%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.72%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.36%) C#
8 2 (1.36%) C++
8 2 (1.36%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.68%) C
9 1 (0.68%) COBOL
9 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) ProC
9 1 (0.68%) RPG
9 1 (0.68%) VB
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (46.26%) Security Cleared
2 59 (40.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.08%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.08%) Degree
4 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.68%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (23.13%) QA
2 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.04%) WCAG
4 2 (1.36%) PSD2
4 2 (1.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 58 (39.46%) Docker
2 11 (7.48%) Postfix
3 7 (4.76%) Squid
4 3 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 76 (51.70%) Kubernetes
2 44 (29.93%) Terraform
3 41 (27.89%) Grafana
4 29 (19.73%) Argo
5 27 (18.37%) Prometheus
6 18 (12.24%) Ansible
7 8 (5.44%) Consul
7 8 (5.44%) Istio
8 7 (4.76%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (3.40%) Puppet
10 4 (2.72%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.36%) Podman
11 2 (1.36%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (21.09%) Red Hat
2 21 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.56%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (9.52%) Checkmarx
5 12 (8.16%) Veracode
6 10 (6.80%) Dynatrace
6 10 (6.80%) Google
7 9 (6.12%) Sonatype
8 7 (4.76%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.40%) Guidewire
9 5 (3.40%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.72%) Databricks
10 4 (2.72%) Oracle
10 4 (2.72%) SAP
10 4 (2.72%) Splunk
11 3 (2.04%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.04%) Tenable
12 1 (0.68%) Acunetix
12 1 (0.68%) IBM
12 1 (0.68%) Pega