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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 365 472
Rank change year-on-year -137 +107 +17
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 166 191 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.58% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.67% 3.86% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 138 70
10th Percentile £436 £276 £411
25th Percentile £477 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £475 £597
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -20.44% -0.50%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £675
90th Percentile £694 £688 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £442 £600
% change year-on-year +15.66% -26.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £68.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% 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 6,218 4,950 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.62% 15.08% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,000 3,338 3,271
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 114 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.08 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £84.58 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 August 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
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 August 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 -152 150 £521 +9.77% 40
UK excluding London -107 102 £512 +15.66% 28
Work from Home -87 59 £575 +23.79% 21
London -105 51 £600 -1.64% 16
North of England -49 47 £510 +28.30% 14
North East -14 29 £511 +9.95% 12
South East -43 29 £601 +20.13% 3
Midlands -63 26 £525 +18.64% 7
West Midlands -50 22 £525 +5.00% 5
Yorkshire -42 9 £514 +31.88%
North West -51 9 £500 +27.23% 2
East of England - 9 £510 -
Scotland -12 3 £450 - 1
East Midlands -30 3 - - 2
South West -42 3 - - 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 10 (6.02%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.82%) Apache
2 8 (4.82%) Confluence
3 6 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.20%) Camunda
7 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.60%) nginx
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 76 (45.78%) AWS
2 55 (33.13%) Azure
3 53 (31.93%) GitHub
4 47 (28.31%) OpenShift
5 42 (25.30%) GCP
6 31 (18.67%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (16.27%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (13.86%) Amazon S3
9 19 (11.45%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (9.64%) Route 53
10 16 (9.64%) Serverless
11 15 (9.04%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (9.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (9.04%) AWS KMS
12 13 (7.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (6.02%) OCI
14 9 (5.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
17 6 (3.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) Firewall
1 4 (2.41%) MQTT
1 4 (2.41%) Network Security
2 3 (1.81%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.65%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (9.64%) DynamoDB
3 15 (9.04%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (7.83%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (6.63%) Metadata
6 10 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.01%) MySQL
7 5 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.41%) Flink
8 4 (2.41%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.41%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.41%) Tableau
9 3 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.81%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.81%) Big Data
9 3 (1.81%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.81%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 78 (46.99%) Jenkins
2 50 (30.12%) GitLab
3 48 (28.92%) Git
4 45 (27.11%) Maven
5 36 (21.69%) JUnit
6 20 (12.05%) Snyk
7 18 (10.84%) Mockito
8 14 (8.43%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (6.63%) Gradle
9 11 (6.63%) Postman
10 10 (6.02%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (5.42%) Artifactory
11 9 (5.42%) Cucumber
11 9 (5.42%) DbUnit
11 9 (5.42%) JIRA
12 8 (4.82%) CircleCI
12 8 (4.82%) IntelliJ
12 8 (4.82%) jMock
12 8 (4.82%) Selenium
13 7 (4.22%) LoadRunner
General
1 34 (20.48%) Public Sector
2 33 (19.88%) Social Skills
3 27 (16.27%) Finance
4 23 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.04%) Banking
6 10 (6.02%) Publishing
7 4 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.81%) Automotive
8 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (35.54%) Developer
2 43 (25.90%) Java Developer
3 38 (22.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (15.06%) Senior
5 17 (10.24%) Java Engineer
6 16 (9.64%) Senior Developer
6 16 (9.64%) Software Engineer
7 12 (7.23%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (6.02%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 9 (5.42%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (4.82%) Architect
10 8 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.82%) Lead
11 7 (4.22%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (33.13%) Terraform
2 53 (31.93%) AngularJS
3 42 (25.30%) Spring Boot
4 41 (24.70%) Spring
5 40 (24.10%) Quarkus
6 30 (18.07%) Node.js
7 25 (15.06%) Kafka
8 21 (12.65%) REST
9 20 (12.05%) SOAP
10 19 (11.45%) RESTful
11 18 (10.84%) Web Services
11 18 (10.84%) YAML
12 17 (10.24%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (10.24%) JPA
13 16 (9.64%) Hibernate
13 16 (9.64%) JSON
13 16 (9.64%) Spring Cloud
14 15 (9.04%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (8.43%) SLSA
16 13 (7.83%) React
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.86%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.81%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.81%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.20%) PKI
8 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.60%) Life Science
8 1 (0.60%) LIMS
8 1 (0.60%) NHS
8 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.67%) Linux
2 8 (4.82%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (61.45%) CI/CD
2 100 (60.24%) DevOps
3 84 (50.60%) Agile
4 78 (46.99%) DevSecOps
5 69 (41.57%) Scrum
6 65 (39.16%) Test Automation
7 62 (37.35%) Software Engineering
8 52 (31.33%) Microservices
9 50 (30.12%) SDLC
10 42 (25.30%) Containerisation
10 42 (25.30%) Front End Development
10 42 (25.30%) Sprint Planning
11 40 (24.10%) Unit Testing
12 39 (23.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 36 (21.69%) TDD
14 35 (21.08%) Sprint Review
15 27 (16.27%) Static Application Security Testing
16 24 (14.46%) BDD
17 23 (13.86%) Code Quality
18 22 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (63.25%) Java
2 50 (30.12%) Python
3 41 (24.70%) SQL
4 19 (11.45%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.43%) Groovy
6 10 (6.02%) Bash
7 8 (4.82%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.22%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.41%) Go
9 4 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.41%) Rust
10 3 (1.81%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.20%) Bicep
12 1 (0.60%) C#
12 1 (0.60%) COBOL
12 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (48.80%) Security Cleared
2 74 (44.58%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.23%) Degree
4 9 (5.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.22%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.22%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.01%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.81%) CISSP
8 3 (1.81%) GIAC
8 3 (1.81%) ISEB
8 3 (1.81%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.20%) CSSLP
9 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.60%) GSEC
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (29.52%) QA
2 10 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.41%) NIST
3 4 (2.41%) PSD2
3 4 (2.41%) SEPA
3 4 (2.41%) WCAG
4 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 65 (39.16%) Docker
2 7 (4.22%) Postfix
3 4 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) HDFS
5 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 104 (62.65%) Kubernetes
2 43 (25.90%) Argo
2 43 (25.90%) Grafana
3 32 (19.28%) Prometheus
4 28 (16.87%) Ansible
5 10 (6.02%) HP Fortify
6 9 (5.42%) Istio
7 8 (4.82%) Puppet
8 5 (3.01%) Podman
9 4 (2.41%) Control-M
10 3 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.20%) Consul
11 2 (1.20%) Kibana
11 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.20%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 40 (24.10%) Red Hat
2 15 (9.04%) Checkmarx
3 12 (7.23%) Sonatype
4 11 (6.63%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (6.02%) Atlassian
5 10 (6.02%) Google
5 10 (6.02%) Oracle
6 9 (5.42%) Databricks
7 8 (4.82%) IBM
8 7 (4.22%) SAP
8 7 (4.22%) Tenable
8 7 (4.22%) Veracode
9 5 (3.01%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.41%) NVIDIA
10 4 (2.41%) Splunk
11 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.60%) LabVantage
12 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.60%) Pega
12 1 (0.60%) UiPath