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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 446 514
Rank change year-on-year -16 +68 -51
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 127 81 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.28% 1.91% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 53 63
10th Percentile £376 £394 £426
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £672 £590 £650
90th Percentile £790 £702 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £571 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +24.13% -16.36% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £50.58 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £67.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 5,562 4,234 5,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.97% 13.67% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 2,686 3,716
10th Percentile £343 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 66 206
10th Percentile £35.40 £25.75 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.25 £48.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £82.90 £79.23 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -29 120 £550 - 43
UK excluding London -11 73 £571 +24.13% 37
London -35 45 £525 -4.55% 12
North of England -40 36 £431 -5.38% 11
Work from Home -13 25 £525 -5.41% 19
Midlands -33 23 £700 +24.44% 9
North West -7 20 £428 +14.46% 3
West Midlands -34 19 £700 +24.44% 7
South West - 16 £700 - 2
South East -22 10 £550 -15.38% 15
North East -8 9 - - 4
Yorkshire -59 7 £511 -12.36% 4
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 2
Scotland +9 2 £484 -29.38%
East of England -24 1 £850 +165.88% 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 30 (23.62%) Confluence
2 7 (5.51%) Appian
2 7 (5.51%) OpenStack
3 6 (4.72%) nginx
4 3 (2.36%) 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 1 (0.79%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 54 (42.52%) Azure
2 46 (36.22%) AWS
3 40 (31.50%) GitHub
4 24 (18.90%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (17.32%) OpenShift
6 17 (13.39%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (12.60%) GCP
7 16 (12.60%) Serverless
8 14 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (7.87%) Amazon S3
10 10 (7.87%) Route 53
11 9 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (6.30%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (6.30%) npm
12 8 (6.30%) PaaS
12 8 (6.30%) Power Platform
12 8 (6.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.09%) Firewall
2 6 (4.72%) DNS
2 6 (4.72%) OpenVPN
2 6 (4.72%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.72%) VPN
3 1 (0.79%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.79%) Internet
3 1 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) Redis
2 7 (5.51%) Power BI
3 6 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.94%) DocumentDB
4 5 (3.94%) Metadata
5 4 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.15%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.36%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.36%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.57%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.57%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 42 (33.07%) Jenkins
2 35 (27.56%) JIRA
3 32 (25.20%) Git
3 32 (25.20%) GitLab
4 22 (17.32%) Bitbucket
5 20 (15.75%) Maven
6 16 (12.60%) Selenium
7 15 (11.81%) Artifactory
7 15 (11.81%) Cucumber
8 14 (11.02%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (10.24%) JUnit
10 11 (8.66%) Cypress.io
10 11 (8.66%) Postman
11 10 (7.87%) Snyk
12 7 (5.51%) Robot Framework
13 5 (3.94%) Gradle
13 5 (3.94%) webpack
14 4 (3.15%) CircleCI
14 4 (3.15%) Mockito
15 3 (2.36%) Gatling
General
1 33 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.39%) Finance
3 13 (10.24%) Banking
3 13 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.87%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.51%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.36%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.36%) Publishing
9 2 (1.57%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 38 (29.92%) Developer
2 20 (15.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (13.39%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 13 (10.24%) Senior
5 12 (9.45%) Lead
6 11 (8.66%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.09%) Architect
8 8 (6.30%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.51%) React Developer
9 7 (5.51%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.15%) UI Developer
13 3 (2.36%) AWS Architect
13 3 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
13 3 (2.36%) Evangelist
13 3 (2.36%) Java Software Engineer
13 3 (2.36%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.05%) YAML
2 19 (14.96%) JSON
3 18 (14.17%) REST
4 17 (13.39%) AngularJS
4 17 (13.39%) Node.js
5 14 (11.02%) React
6 11 (8.66%) .NET
6 11 (8.66%) RESTful
6 11 (8.66%) Spring
7 10 (7.87%) Quarkus
8 9 (7.09%) OpenID
8 9 (7.09%) Spring Boot
8 9 (7.09%) Web Services
9 8 (6.30%) CSS
9 8 (6.30%) CSS3
9 8 (6.30%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (6.30%) HTML
9 8 (6.30%) HTML5
9 8 (6.30%) XML
10 7 (5.51%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.94%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.15%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.15%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.36%) Blog
4 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.57%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.79%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.24%) Linux
2 4 (3.15%) Unix
2 4 (3.15%) Windows
3 2 (1.57%) Android
4 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Embedded Compact
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (62.20%) CI/CD
2 67 (52.76%) DevOps
3 47 (37.01%) Agile
4 42 (33.07%) DevSecOps
4 42 (33.07%) Test Automation
5 35 (27.56%) Containerisation
6 33 (25.98%) Software Engineering
7 32 (25.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (25.20%) SDLC
8 27 (21.26%) Unit Testing
9 24 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (18.11%) Code Quality
10 23 (18.11%) Scrum
10 23 (18.11%) Sprint Planning
11 21 (16.54%) TDD
12 18 (14.17%) Microservices
13 17 (13.39%) Front End Development
14 16 (12.60%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (12.60%) Roadmaps
15 14 (11.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 45 (35.43%) Java
2 28 (22.05%) Python
3 22 (17.32%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.45%) SQL
5 9 (7.09%) Groovy
6 7 (5.51%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.51%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.72%) Bash
7 6 (4.72%) Go
8 5 (3.94%) C#
8 5 (3.94%) C++
9 3 (2.36%) Rust
10 2 (1.57%) C
10 2 (1.57%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.57%) R
10 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.79%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.79%) ProC
11 1 (0.79%) RPG
Qualifications
1 53 (41.73%) Security Cleared
2 41 (32.28%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.81%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.72%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.94%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.15%) Degree
8 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.79%) CISSP
10 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.79%) OCP
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.79%) OSCP
10 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.81%) QA
2 10 (7.87%) NCSC
3 6 (4.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (46.46%) Docker
2 6 (4.72%) Squid
3 2 (1.57%) Postfix
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (42.52%) Kubernetes
2 44 (34.65%) Terraform
3 18 (14.17%) Ansible
4 17 (13.39%) Grafana
5 16 (12.60%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.66%) Argo
7 6 (4.72%) Consul
7 6 (4.72%) FortiGate
7 6 (4.72%) Puppet
7 6 (4.72%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.94%) Podman
9 4 (3.15%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.36%) HP Fortify
10 3 (2.36%) Istio
11 2 (1.57%) rkt
12 1 (0.79%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (17.32%) Veracode
2 18 (14.17%) Red Hat
3 14 (11.02%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.30%) Atlassian
4 8 (6.30%) Checkmarx
4 8 (6.30%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.30%) Splunk
5 7 (5.51%) Cisco
5 7 (5.51%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.72%) DocuSign
7 5 (3.94%) Guidewire
8 4 (3.15%) Databricks
8 4 (3.15%) Google
8 4 (3.15%) Oracle
8 4 (3.15%) Sonatype
9 3 (2.36%) Cognizant
9 3 (2.36%) Perforce
10 2 (1.57%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.57%) SAP
10 2 (1.57%) Xamarin