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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 358 463
Rank change year-on-year -150 +105 +26
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 166 191 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.58% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.66% 3.88% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 138 70
10th Percentile £436 £276 £411
25th Percentile £477 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £597
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -20.44% -0.50%
75th Percentile £626 £615 £675
90th Percentile £692 £688 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £460 £600
% change year-on-year +11.10% -23.42% -
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 6,242 4,923 4,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.65% 14.98% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,008 3,317 3,278
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 £594 £600 £625
90th Percentile £691 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 112 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.99 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £85.03 £73.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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 18 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 18 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 -158 150 £525 +10.53% 32
UK excluding London -94 102 £511 +11.10% 26
Work from Home -73 60 £573 +22.72% 15
London -104 51 £601 -1.56% 9
North of England -71 47 £510 +26.87% 12
North East -15 29 £511 +9.95% 10
South East -61 29 £601 +20.13% 2
Midlands -60 26 £518 +17.01% 9
West Midlands -41 23 £518 +3.55% 7
Yorkshire -46 9 £514 +31.88%
North West -61 9 £500 +27.23% 2
East of England - 9 £510 -
Scotland -9 3 £450 -
South West -45 3 - - 3
East Midlands -32 2 - - 2

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 7 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.20%) Camunda
7 1 (0.60%) nginx
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.99%) AWS
2 56 (33.73%) Azure
3 53 (31.93%) GitHub
4 47 (28.31%) OpenShift
5 42 (25.30%) GCP
6 32 (19.28%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (16.27%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (14.46%) Amazon S3
9 20 (12.05%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (10.24%) Route 53
11 16 (9.64%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (9.64%) AWS KMS
12 15 (9.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (9.04%) Serverless
13 14 (8.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (6.02%) OCI
15 9 (5.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
17 7 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
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 22 (13.25%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.24%) DynamoDB
3 16 (9.64%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (8.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (6.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.63%) Metadata
6 5 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.01%) MySQL
6 5 (3.01%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.41%) Flink
7 4 (2.41%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.41%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.41%) Tableau
8 3 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.81%) Apache Hive
8 3 (1.81%) Big Data
8 3 (1.81%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.81%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.81%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 78 (46.99%) Jenkins
2 49 (29.52%) GitLab
3 48 (28.92%) Git
4 46 (27.71%) Maven
5 37 (22.29%) JUnit
6 20 (12.05%) Snyk
7 19 (11.45%) Mockito
8 14 (8.43%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (6.63%) Bitbucket Server
9 11 (6.63%) Gradle
9 11 (6.63%) Postman
10 10 (6.02%) DbUnit
11 9 (5.42%) Artifactory
11 9 (5.42%) Cucumber
11 9 (5.42%) jMock
12 8 (4.82%) CircleCI
12 8 (4.82%) IntelliJ
12 8 (4.82%) JIRA
12 8 (4.82%) Selenium
13 7 (4.22%) LoadRunner
General
1 35 (21.08%) Public Sector
2 32 (19.28%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.66%) Finance
4 22 (13.25%) 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 44 (26.51%) Java Developer
3 37 (22.29%) 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 11 (6.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.82%) Architect
11 8 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (4.82%) Lead
12 7 (4.22%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.61%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (32.53%) AngularJS
2 43 (25.90%) Spring Boot
3 42 (25.30%) Spring
4 40 (24.10%) Quarkus
5 31 (18.67%) Node.js
6 24 (14.46%) Kafka
7 22 (13.25%) REST
8 21 (12.65%) SOAP
9 20 (12.05%) RESTful
10 19 (11.45%) Web Services
11 18 (10.84%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (10.84%) JPA
12 17 (10.24%) Hibernate
12 17 (10.24%) Spring Cloud
12 17 (10.24%) YAML
13 15 (9.04%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (9.04%) JSON
14 14 (8.43%) SLSA
15 13 (7.83%) React
15 13 (7.83%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.46%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.23%) 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%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.81%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.20%) PKI
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.60%) Life Science
8 1 (0.60%) LIMS
8 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.60%) NHS
8 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.28%) Linux
2 8 (4.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (62.05%) CI/CD
2 101 (60.84%) DevOps
3 83 (50.00%) Agile
4 77 (46.39%) DevSecOps
5 69 (41.57%) Scrum
6 64 (38.55%) Test Automation
7 62 (37.35%) Software Engineering
8 53 (31.93%) Microservices
9 49 (29.52%) SDLC
10 42 (25.30%) Containerisation
10 42 (25.30%) Front End Development
10 42 (25.30%) Sprint Planning
11 39 (23.49%) Unit Testing
12 38 (22.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (22.29%) 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 21 (12.65%) AI
Programming Languages
1 106 (63.86%) Java
2 48 (28.92%) Python
3 42 (25.30%) SQL
4 19 (11.45%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.43%) Groovy
6 9 (5.42%) Bash
7 8 (4.82%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.22%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.41%) Go
9 4 (2.41%) Rust
10 3 (1.81%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.81%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.60%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) C#
11 1 (0.60%) COBOL
11 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (49.40%) Security Cleared
2 75 (45.18%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.23%) Degree
4 9 (5.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.22%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.61%) 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 48 (28.92%) 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 8 (4.82%) 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
1 103 (62.05%) Kubernetes
2 54 (32.53%) Terraform
3 43 (25.90%) Argo
3 43 (25.90%) Grafana
4 32 (19.28%) Prometheus
5 27 (16.27%) Ansible
6 10 (6.02%) HP Fortify
7 9 (5.42%) Istio
8 8 (4.82%) Puppet
9 5 (3.01%) Podman
10 4 (2.41%) Control-M
11 3 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.20%) Consul
12 2 (1.20%) Kibana
12 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.20%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 40 (24.10%) Red Hat
2 14 (8.43%) Checkmarx
3 12 (7.23%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (7.23%) Sonatype
4 11 (6.63%) Atlassian
5 10 (6.02%) Google
5 10 (6.02%) Oracle
6 9 (5.42%) Databricks
7 8 (4.82%) IBM
7 8 (4.82%) SAP
8 7 (4.22%) Tenable
9 6 (3.61%) Veracode
10 4 (2.41%) 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