SonarQube Contract Job Trends

SonarSource SonarQube
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SonarQube skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 498 462
Rank change year-on-year +133 -36 +28
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 197 75 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.20% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.93% 1.48% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 55 120
10th Percentile £284 £418 £455
25th Percentile £385 £540 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% - -
75th Percentile £630 £685 £650
90th Percentile £700 £723 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £606 £600
% change year-on-year -23.27% +1.00% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 5,013 5,075 6,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 13.27% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,372 3,242 4,640
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 175 243
10th Percentile £31.28 £28.09 £45.94
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.13 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.25
90th Percentile £87.05 £73.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +141 182 £475 -20.83% 112
UK excluding London +59 100 £465 -23.27% 121
London +82 82 £610 +1.67% 23
Work from Home +69 81 £450 -24.62% 115
North of England +19 43 £410 -26.50% 36
Midlands +12 36 £475 -22.39% 17
North West +6 25 £400 -11.70% 24
West Midlands +1 24 £575 -6.05% 9
South East +29 14 £501 -24.45% 25
Yorkshire -3 13 £390 -31.88% 8
South West +29 12 £700 +19.15% 8
East Midlands - 12 £270 - 7
North East 0 5 £465 -15.45% 4
Scotland -9 1 - - 19
East of England - 1 £850 - 10

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 22 (11.17%) Confluence
2 7 (3.55%) JBoss
3 5 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.03%) Appian
5 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.52%) Mule
6 2 (1.02%) Apache
6 2 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.02%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.51%) CICS
7 1 (0.51%) nginx
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.51%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.51%) Endur
2 1 (0.51%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 98 (49.75%) AWS
2 84 (42.64%) Azure
3 52 (26.40%) GitHub
4 50 (25.38%) GCP
5 38 (19.29%) Amazon SQS
6 27 (13.71%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (12.69%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (12.18%) Serverless
9 22 (11.17%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (10.15%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (9.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (9.14%) OpenShift
13 16 (8.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 15 (7.61%) PaaS
14 15 (7.61%) Route 53
15 14 (7.11%) Amazon S3
15 14 (7.11%) npm
16 13 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (5.58%) Azure AKS
18 10 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.08%) Firewall
2 5 (2.54%) Network Security
2 5 (2.54%) SSH
2 5 (2.54%) SSL
3 4 (2.03%) DNS
3 4 (2.03%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.51%) HTTP
6 1 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.51%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.80%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (11.68%) NoSQL
2 23 (11.68%) Redis
3 22 (11.17%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (10.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 18 (9.14%) DynamoDB
6 17 (8.63%) MongoDB
7 14 (7.11%) MySQL
8 12 (6.09%) Relational Database
9 11 (5.58%) RDBMS
10 10 (5.08%) DocumentDB
10 10 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (5.08%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.05%) Oracle Database
11 6 (3.05%) Power BI
12 5 (2.54%) Big Data
12 5 (2.54%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.54%) Hadoop
13 4 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.52%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 97 (49.24%) Jenkins
2 89 (45.18%) Git
3 60 (30.46%) GitLab
4 49 (24.87%) Maven
5 47 (23.86%) JIRA
6 46 (23.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 37 (18.78%) JUnit
8 34 (17.26%) Selenium
9 28 (14.21%) Mockito
10 23 (11.68%) Cucumber
11 19 (9.64%) Bitbucket
12 18 (9.14%) Artifactory
13 15 (7.61%) Bitbucket Server
13 15 (7.61%) REST Assured
13 15 (7.61%) TeamCity
14 14 (7.11%) Cypress.io
14 14 (7.11%) Postman
15 13 (6.60%) Burp Suite
15 13 (6.60%) Metasploit
16 12 (6.09%) Gradle
General
1 57 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.83%) Public Sector
3 32 (16.24%) Finance
4 26 (13.20%) Banking
5 21 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.08%) Law
7 6 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.54%) Publishing
9 4 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.03%) Police
9 4 (2.03%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.02%) Legal
10 2 (1.02%) Military
10 2 (1.02%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.51%) German Language
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Retail
11 1 (0.51%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 64 (32.49%) Developer
2 44 (22.34%) Java Developer
3 29 (14.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.12%) Lead
5 15 (7.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 14 (7.11%) Security Engineer
7 13 (6.60%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 12 (6.09%) GCP Engineer
9 11 (5.58%) Architect
9 11 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (5.58%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.06%) Lead Developer
11 8 (4.06%) Senior
12 7 (3.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 7 (3.55%) Java Engineer
12 7 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.05%) JavaScript Engineer
13 6 (3.05%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (30.46%) Spring Boot
2 49 (24.87%) REST
3 42 (21.32%) React
4 39 (19.80%) Spring
5 34 (17.26%) Node.js
6 33 (16.75%) Hibernate
7 32 (16.24%) RESTful
8 28 (14.21%) Kafka
9 27 (13.71%) CSS
9 27 (13.71%) HTML
10 26 (13.20%) JPA
11 21 (10.66%) Spring Cloud
12 20 (10.15%) AngularJS
12 20 (10.15%) SOAP
13 19 (9.64%) J2EE
13 19 (9.64%) Jest
14 17 (8.63%) Bootstrap
14 17 (8.63%) JSON
14 17 (8.63%) Web Services
15 16 (8.12%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.57%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.54%) N-Tier
4 5 (2.54%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.03%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.52%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.02%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.72%) Linux
2 14 (7.11%) Windows
3 12 (6.09%) Unix
4 10 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.05%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.02%) Android
6 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.02%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (61.42%) CI/CD
2 115 (58.38%) DevOps
3 75 (38.07%) Containerisation
4 74 (37.56%) Microservices
5 72 (36.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 66 (33.50%) Agile
7 49 (24.87%) Test Automation
8 42 (21.32%) DevSecOps
8 42 (21.32%) TDD
9 38 (19.29%) Continuous Integration
10 36 (18.27%) Code Quality
10 36 (18.27%) SDLC
11 32 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (15.23%) OWASP
13 28 (14.21%) Scrum
14 27 (13.71%) Software Engineering
15 24 (12.18%) Mentoring
15 24 (12.18%) Migration
15 24 (12.18%) Secure Coding
16 23 (11.68%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (44.67%) Java
2 74 (37.56%) Python
3 54 (27.41%) JavaScript
4 44 (22.34%) SQL
5 33 (16.75%) Bash
6 16 (8.12%) PowerShell
7 15 (7.61%) Groovy
8 10 (5.08%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.55%) C#
9 7 (3.55%) Perl
10 6 (3.05%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.52%) Go
12 2 (1.02%) COBOL
12 2 (1.02%) JCL
12 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.02%) Ruby
12 2 (1.02%) Swift
13 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.51%) Rust
13 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (48.22%) Security Cleared
2 82 (41.62%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.60%) CREST Certified
3 13 (6.60%) OSCP
3 13 (6.60%) Tigerscheme
4 12 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.08%) CHECK Team Member
6 6 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.54%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.03%) Degree
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.02%) OCP
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
10 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.51%) MCP
10 1 (0.51%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.63%) NCSC
2 16 (8.12%) QA
3 10 (5.08%) Accessibility
4 9 (4.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (3.55%) GDPR
6 6 (3.05%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.54%) HIPAA
8 4 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (2.03%) WCAG
9 2 (1.02%) NIST
9 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.51%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.51%) GRC
System Software
1 107 (54.31%) Docker
2 9 (4.57%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.05%) Postfix
4 4 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.52%) vSphere
6 2 (1.02%) HDFS
6 2 (1.02%) vCloud
6 2 (1.02%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (41.12%) Kubernetes
2 77 (39.09%) Terraform
3 33 (16.75%) Ansible
4 21 (10.66%) Prometheus
5 17 (8.63%) Grafana
6 13 (6.60%) Nmap
6 13 (6.60%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.58%) Kibana
7 11 (5.58%) Podman
8 10 (5.08%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (4.57%) Argo
10 5 (2.54%) HP Fortify
10 5 (2.54%) Istio
10 5 (2.54%) Nessus
11 4 (2.03%) Puppet
12 1 (0.51%) Control-M
12 1 (0.51%) Packer
12 1 (0.51%) Rancher
12 1 (0.51%) Rsyslog
12 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (12.69%) Veracode
2 19 (9.64%) Splunk
3 16 (8.12%) Google
4 15 (7.61%) Microsoft
5 13 (6.60%) Red Hat
6 11 (5.58%) Dynatrace
7 8 (4.06%) Cloudera
7 8 (4.06%) Oracle
8 7 (3.55%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.55%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.55%) Checkmarx
8 7 (3.55%) Cisco
9 6 (3.05%) CA Agile Central
9 6 (3.05%) DocuSign
9 6 (3.05%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (3.05%) Perforce
10 5 (2.54%) Gigya
10 5 (2.54%) Qualys
11 4 (2.03%) VMware
12 2 (1.02%) Salesforce