SonarQube Contracts

SonarSource SonarQube
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SonarQube skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SonarQube over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 473 469
Rank change year-on-year +86 -4 +33
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 161 112 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.47% 2.08% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 76 151
10th Percentile £276 £419 £460
25th Percentile £401 £504 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.60% -5.21% +6.19%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £681
90th Percentile £688 £689 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -22.73% -8.33% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +75.00%
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -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 4,636 5,392 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.56% 12.45% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,105 3,569 5,592
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £692 £725 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 251 237
10th Percentile £21.22 £31.25 £45.71
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £73.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.44 £85.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +10.81%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SonarQube as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SonarQube.

Daily rate trend for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SonarQube.

Hourly rate trend for SonarQube in the UK

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Top 15 Contract 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 6 July 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 +105 148 £475 -13.64% 57
London +74 76 £624 +13.41% 23
UK excluding London +62 73 £425 -22.73% 56
Work from Home +64 66 £483 -25.69% 51
North of England +22 31 £421 -23.41% 14
Midlands +35 26 £443 +24.30% 2
North West +20 19 £392 -28.73% 7
East Midlands +10 14 £340 -4.49% 2
South East +27 12 £501 -23.00% 6
West Midlands - 12 £500 -
Yorkshire +7 6 £450 -20.88% 5
North East +4 6 £463 -15.91% 2
South West +29 3 £600 +14.29% 9
Scotland +6 1 - - 12
East of England - 1 £321 - 2

SonarQube
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (10.56%) JBoss
2 13 (8.07%) Confluence
3 5 (3.11%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.48%) Apache
5 3 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.62%) Mule
6 1 (0.62%) nginx
6 1 (0.62%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (1.24%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.62%) Endur
2 1 (0.62%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 102 (63.35%) AWS
2 66 (40.99%) Azure
3 28 (17.39%) GCP
4 25 (15.53%) Amazon SQS
4 25 (15.53%) GitHub
4 25 (15.53%) OpenShift
5 19 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (9.94%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (9.32%) Amazon S3
8 13 (8.07%) Serverless
9 12 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (7.45%) Route 53
10 11 (6.83%) AWS KMS
10 11 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.35%) Kong
12 7 (4.35%) npm
13 6 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.11%) PaaS
15 4 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) Network Security
2 3 (1.86%) DNS
2 3 (1.86%) Firewall
2 3 (1.86%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.86%) SSL
3 2 (1.24%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (19.88%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.80%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (10.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (10.56%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (10.56%) Relational Database
4 14 (8.70%) RDBMS
5 13 (8.07%) MongoDB
6 12 (7.45%) MySQL
7 11 (6.83%) Redis
7 11 (6.83%) SQL Server
8 10 (6.21%) DynamoDB
8 10 (6.21%) NoSQL
9 8 (4.97%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.86%) Big Data
10 3 (1.86%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.86%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.62%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 84 (52.17%) Git
2 77 (47.83%) Jenkins
3 45 (27.95%) GitLab
4 44 (27.33%) Maven
5 43 (26.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 41 (25.47%) JIRA
7 37 (22.98%) JUnit
8 28 (17.39%) Selenium
9 27 (16.77%) Bitbucket Server
10 23 (14.29%) Mockito
11 21 (13.04%) TeamCity
12 18 (11.18%) Cucumber
13 15 (9.32%) Artifactory
13 15 (9.32%) Bitbucket
14 13 (8.07%) Burp Suite
14 13 (8.07%) CA Release Automation
14 13 (8.07%) Metasploit
15 12 (7.45%) REST Assured
16 11 (6.83%) gulp
17 10 (6.21%) IntelliJ
General
1 56 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 39 (24.22%) Public Sector
3 30 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (16.77%) Finance
5 11 (6.83%) Law
6 10 (6.21%) Banking
7 6 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.48%) Police
9 3 (1.86%) Legal
9 3 (1.86%) Military
10 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (39.75%) Developer
2 47 (29.19%) Java Developer
3 22 (13.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (12.42%) Lead
5 15 (9.32%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (8.07%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 13 (8.07%) Security Engineer
7 12 (7.45%) Lead Developer
8 11 (6.83%) Lead Java Developer
9 9 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (4.97%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 8 (4.97%) Senior
11 7 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (4.35%) Java Engineer
12 6 (3.73%) Architect
12 6 (3.73%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (37.27%) Spring Boot
2 40 (24.84%) REST
3 38 (23.60%) Spring
4 36 (22.36%) React
5 35 (21.74%) Hibernate
6 32 (19.88%) Node.js
7 30 (18.63%) JPA
8 26 (16.15%) AngularJS
9 22 (13.66%) RESTful
10 20 (12.42%) CSS
10 20 (12.42%) HTML
11 18 (11.18%) SOAP
12 17 (10.56%) Kafka
13 16 (9.94%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (9.94%) Web Services
14 14 (8.70%) Spring Cloud
15 13 (8.07%) ActiveMQ
15 13 (8.07%) Bootstrap
15 13 (8.07%) Jest
16 12 (7.45%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.45%) Public Cloud
2 11 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.48%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.86%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.24%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.88%) Linux
2 25 (15.53%) Windows
3 19 (11.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (6.83%) Unix
5 7 (4.35%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.48%) CentOS
7 1 (0.62%) Android
7 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (57.76%) DevOps
2 84 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 77 (47.83%) Microservices
4 49 (30.43%) Agile
4 49 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 43 (26.71%) Test Automation
7 36 (22.36%) Containerisation
8 32 (19.88%) TDD
9 29 (18.01%) Code Quality
10 28 (17.39%) Scrum
10 28 (17.39%) Software Engineering
11 25 (15.53%) DevSecOps
12 24 (14.91%) Secure Coding
13 23 (14.29%) Configuration Management
13 23 (14.29%) Open Source
14 21 (13.04%) SDLC
15 20 (12.42%) Deployment Automation
15 20 (12.42%) OWASP
15 20 (12.42%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 90 (55.90%) Java
2 59 (36.65%) Python
3 47 (29.19%) JavaScript
4 42 (26.09%) SQL
5 27 (16.77%) Bash
6 21 (13.04%) PowerShell
7 16 (9.94%) Perl
8 10 (6.21%) C#
9 8 (4.97%) Go
9 8 (4.97%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.11%) Groovy
11 4 (2.48%) Ruby
11 4 (2.48%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.86%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.62%) COBOL
13 1 (0.62%) JCL
13 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 84 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 71 (44.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.07%) CREST Certified
3 13 (8.07%) OSCP
3 13 (8.07%) Tigerscheme
4 10 (6.21%) CHECK Team Member
5 9 (5.59%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.86%) SANS
7 2 (1.24%) Sun Certification
8 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.62%) GIAC
8 1 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.59%) NCSC
2 8 (4.97%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (4.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (4.35%) GDPR
3 7 (4.35%) QA
4 6 (3.73%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.11%) HIPAA
6 4 (2.48%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.62%) GRC
7 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.62%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (44.10%) Docker
2 20 (12.42%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.97%) Postfix
4 4 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.86%) vCloud
5 3 (1.86%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (1.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (42.24%) Kubernetes
2 44 (27.33%) Terraform
3 29 (18.01%) Ansible
4 17 (10.56%) Kibana
4 17 (10.56%) Progress Chef
5 14 (8.70%) Prometheus
6 13 (8.07%) Grafana
6 13 (8.07%) Nmap
7 10 (6.21%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (6.21%) Podman
8 5 (3.11%) HP Fortify
8 5 (3.11%) Nessus
9 4 (2.48%) Argo
10 3 (1.86%) Puppet
11 2 (1.24%) Packer
12 1 (0.62%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (14.91%) Veracode
2 23 (14.29%) Splunk
3 15 (9.32%) Red Hat
4 14 (8.70%) AppDynamics
4 14 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 11 (6.83%) Atlassian
6 8 (4.97%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (4.35%) Cloudera
7 7 (4.35%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.73%) Checkmarx
9 5 (3.11%) Oracle
9 5 (3.11%) Qualys
10 4 (2.48%) Perforce
10 4 (2.48%) VMware
11 3 (1.86%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.86%) Cisco
11 3 (1.86%) Coverity
11 3 (1.86%) Google
11 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.24%) Databricks