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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 385 479
Rank change year-on-year -114 +94 -8
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 147 142 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.48% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.51% 3.30% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 105 74
10th Percentile £416 £329 £416
25th Percentile £472 £405 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £488 £561
Median % change year-on-year +6.37% -13.14% -6.46%
75th Percentile £607 £588 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +9.73% -15.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 3
10th Percentile £60.25 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% -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 5,853 4,302 5,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 14.65% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,795 2,879 3,517
10th Percentile £350 £330 £355
25th Percentile £410 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £686 £694 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 80 232
10th Percentile £34.85 £20.74 £31.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £45.82 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.04 £77.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +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 10 June 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

SonarQube
Top 14 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 10 June 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 -111 134 £518 +6.21% 28
UK excluding London -64 90 £510 +9.73% 31
London -99 46 £593 +7.73% 1
Work from Home -54 45 £537 +10.56% 13
North of England -58 37 £475 +7.34% 17
Midlands -60 27 £512 +7.84%
West Midlands -41 23 £512 +2.45%
South East -60 21 £513 +2.40% 7
North East -11 17 £513 +10.22% 8
North West -37 12 £431 +9.67% 5
East of England -16 9 £510 +58.69% 1
Yorkshire -52 8 £500 +5.26% 4
South West -21 4 £525 -12.50% 1
East Midlands -36 3 - -

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 20 (13.61%) Confluence
2 8 (5.44%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.76%) nginx
4 6 (4.08%) Apache
5 3 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.04%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.68%) Camunda
6 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.94%) AWS
2 45 (30.61%) Azure
3 42 (28.57%) GitHub
4 34 (23.13%) GCP
5 32 (21.77%) OpenShift
6 31 (21.09%) Amazon EC2
6 31 (21.09%) Amazon S3
7 28 (19.05%) Route 53
8 22 (14.97%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (14.29%) AWS KMS
10 20 (13.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (13.61%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (11.56%) Serverless
13 14 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (4.76%) OCI
17 4 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
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
4 3 (2.04%) MQTT
4 3 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 21 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 20 (13.61%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (12.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (6.80%) Metadata
5 8 (5.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.40%) MySQL
7 4 (2.72%) Flink
8 3 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.04%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.04%) Big Data
8 3 (2.04%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.68%) JasperReports
10 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.68%) Redis
10 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 60 (40.82%) Jenkins
2 39 (26.53%) Git
3 38 (25.85%) Maven
4 35 (23.81%) GitLab
5 33 (22.45%) JUnit
6 21 (14.29%) JIRA
7 19 (12.93%) Mockito
8 14 (9.52%) DbUnit
8 14 (9.52%) Snyk
9 13 (8.84%) jMock
10 12 (8.16%) Bitbucket
10 12 (8.16%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (7.48%) Artifactory
12 10 (6.80%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (6.12%) IntelliJ
14 7 (4.76%) CircleCI
15 6 (4.08%) Cucumber
15 6 (4.08%) Gradle
16 5 (3.40%) REST Assured
16 5 (3.40%) Selenium
General
1 35 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 33 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.65%) Finance
4 16 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.52%) Banking
6 7 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.76%) Publishing
7 6 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.04%) Automotive
8 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (36.05%) Developer
2 39 (26.53%) Java Developer
3 33 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (15.65%) Senior
5 18 (12.24%) Senior Developer
6 16 (10.88%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.84%) Java Engineer
8 12 (8.16%) Architect
9 11 (7.48%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.12%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.12%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 8 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (5.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.40%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.40%) Technical Architect
14 4 (2.72%) Consultant
14 4 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (29.93%) AngularJS
2 36 (24.49%) Spring
3 35 (23.81%) Spring Boot
4 27 (18.37%) Node.js
4 27 (18.37%) Quarkus
5 25 (17.01%) RESTful
6 23 (15.65%) REST
6 23 (15.65%) Web Services
7 21 (14.29%) Hibernate
7 21 (14.29%) JPA
8 20 (13.61%) Spring Cloud
8 20 (13.61%) YAML
9 19 (12.93%) SOAP
10 18 (12.24%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (12.24%) Spring Batch
10 18 (12.24%) Spring Integration
11 14 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (8.84%) PowerMock
13 12 (8.16%) SLSA
14 11 (7.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.36%) Blog
5 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.68%) Life Science
6 1 (0.68%) LIMS
6 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.68%) NHS
6 1 (0.68%) PKI
6 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.68%) Replication
6 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.73%) Linux
2 4 (2.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 87 (59.18%) DevOps
3 68 (46.26%) Agile
4 57 (38.78%) DevSecOps
5 54 (36.73%) Scrum
6 48 (32.65%) Software Engineering
7 47 (31.97%) Containerisation
7 47 (31.97%) Test Automation
8 43 (29.25%) TDD
9 41 (27.89%) Microservices
10 36 (24.49%) SDLC
11 34 (23.13%) Unit Testing
12 33 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (21.77%) Sprint Planning
14 29 (19.73%) BDD
15 25 (17.01%) Front End Development
16 23 (15.65%) Sprint Review
17 21 (14.29%) Code Quality
17 21 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
17 21 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (59.86%) Java
2 34 (23.13%) SQL
3 32 (21.77%) Python
4 11 (7.48%) Groovy
5 7 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.40%) Bash
6 5 (3.40%) Go
7 4 (2.72%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.04%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.04%) Rust
8 3 (2.04%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.36%) C#
9 2 (1.36%) C++
10 1 (0.68%) COBOL
10 1 (0.68%) RPG
10 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (49.66%) Security Cleared
2 65 (44.22%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.80%) Degree
4 8 (5.44%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.68%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (23.81%) QA
2 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.04%) WCAG
4 2 (1.36%) PSD2
4 2 (1.36%) SEPA
5 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (37.41%) 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 78 (53.06%) Kubernetes
2 51 (34.69%) Terraform
3 48 (32.65%) Grafana
4 34 (23.13%) Prometheus
5 30 (20.41%) Argo
6 23 (15.65%) Ansible
7 8 (5.44%) Consul
7 8 (5.44%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.76%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.76%) Istio
9 6 (4.08%) Puppet
10 4 (2.72%) Podman
11 3 (2.04%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.36%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (23.13%) Red Hat
2 21 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 17 (11.56%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (8.84%) Checkmarx
5 12 (8.16%) Veracode
6 11 (7.48%) Sonatype
7 10 (6.80%) Dynatrace
7 10 (6.80%) Google
8 6 (4.08%) Salesforce
8 6 (4.08%) Tenable
9 5 (3.40%) Guidewire
10 4 (2.72%) Microsoft
11 3 (2.04%) Cognizant
11 3 (2.04%) Databricks
11 3 (2.04%) NVIDIA
11 3 (2.04%) Oracle
11 3 (2.04%) SAP
11 3 (2.04%) Splunk
12 2 (1.36%) IBM
13 1 (0.68%) Pega