SonarQube Contracts

SonarSource SonarQube
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SonarQube skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SonarQube over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 487 430
Rank change year-on-year +10 -57 +12
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 110 225 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.14% 2.63% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 155 289
10th Percentile £425 £453 £448
25th Percentile £503 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £593 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% +3.95% +15.15%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £650
90th Percentile £688 £850 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +22.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - - £41.50
25th Percentile £75.00 - £43.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +47.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £51.25
90th Percentile - - £53.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% +27.27% +4.76%

All Development Application Skills
UK

SonarQube is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,129 8,565 15,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 14.86% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,435 6,035 11,220
10th Percentile £354 £384 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 236 216
10th Percentile £32.10 £44.62 £38.54
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.04 £82.50 £76.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 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 14 May 2024. 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 +15 90 £550 -7.17% 19
UK excluding London +46 59 £550 -6.38% 6
Work from Home +53 39 £650 +8.33% 8
London -16 32 £508 -17.14% 9
South East +2 26 £650 +10.64% 1
South West +10 13 £525 -23.64% 1
North of England +27 12 £550 - 2
North West +31 7 £550 +5.72%
Midlands +25 5 £356 -25.83% 2
East Midlands - 5 £356 -
Yorkshire +21 4 £569 +3.41% 2
Wales +21 2 £666 +2.50%
Scotland +32 1 £375 -47.00%
North East +11 1 £550 -34.05%

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 5 (4.55%) JBoss
2 3 (2.73%) IIS
2 3 (2.73%) nginx
2 3 (2.73%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 63 (57.27%) AWS
2 60 (54.55%) Azure
3 31 (28.18%) GitHub
4 30 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (14.55%) PaaS
6 12 (10.91%) IaaS
6 12 (10.91%) Serverless
7 10 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (9.09%) SaaS
8 9 (8.18%) Amazon S3
8 9 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (7.27%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (7.27%) OpenShift
10 6 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.45%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (5.45%) GCP
10 6 (5.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) HTTP
2 1 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.91%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.91%) NoSQL
1 12 (10.91%) Relational Database
2 10 (9.09%) MySQL
2 10 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.18%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (8.18%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (7.27%) RDBMS
5 6 (5.45%) Data Lake
5 6 (5.45%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.55%) SQLite
7 3 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.91%) Big Data
9 1 (0.91%) Power BI
9 1 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 37 (33.64%) Selenium
3 35 (31.82%) Git
4 32 (29.09%) Cucumber
5 26 (23.64%) GitLab
5 26 (23.64%) REST Assured
6 18 (16.36%) JIRA
7 14 (12.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (10.00%) Maven
9 8 (7.27%) Artifactory
10 7 (6.36%) Burp Suite
10 7 (6.36%) Postman
11 6 (5.45%) AppScan
11 6 (5.45%) Bitbucket
12 5 (4.55%) Appium
12 5 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (4.55%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (4.55%) Checkstyle
12 5 (4.55%) JUnit
12 5 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.27%) Law
4 16 (14.55%) Finance
5 13 (11.82%) Police
6 11 (10.00%) Banking
7 6 (5.45%) Legal
8 4 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.64%) Retail
9 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Publishing
10 1 (0.91%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (20.91%) Developer
2 22 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 17 (15.45%) Software Engineer
5 13 (11.82%) Senior
5 13 (11.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 9 (8.18%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (8.18%) Site Engineer
7 8 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (7.27%) Java Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (5.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Architect
10 5 (4.55%) React Developer
10 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (34.55%) REST
2 24 (21.82%) Java EE
3 22 (20.00%) ARM Templates
4 16 (14.55%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (12.73%) JSON
5 14 (12.73%) Spring Boot
6 13 (11.82%) .NET
6 13 (11.82%) HTML
7 10 (9.09%) Azure Blueprints
7 10 (9.09%) YAML
8 9 (8.18%) Node.js
8 9 (8.18%) Spring
9 8 (7.27%) .NET Core
9 8 (7.27%) .NET Framework
9 8 (7.27%) React Native
9 8 (7.27%) RESTful
10 7 (6.36%) Kafka
10 7 (6.36%) React
10 7 (6.36%) Web Services
11 6 (5.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.27%) Public Cloud
4 7 (6.36%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.64%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.73%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.73%) Solar Panel
7 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.82%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.18%) Linux
2 10 (9.09%) Windows
3 5 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.64%) Unix
4 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.73%) Android
6 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (84.55%) DevOps
2 56 (50.91%) Test Automation
3 54 (49.09%) Software Engineering
4 48 (43.64%) CI/CD
5 39 (35.45%) Continuous Integration
6 37 (33.64%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (32.73%) Containerisation
8 29 (26.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (23.64%) Agile
9 26 (23.64%) Technical Leadership
10 25 (22.73%) Decision-Making
10 25 (22.73%) Software Architecture
11 23 (20.91%) Configuration Management
12 21 (19.09%) Code Quality
13 18 (16.36%) Deployment Automation
14 16 (14.55%) Project Management
15 15 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (12.73%) Scrum
16 14 (12.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 13 (11.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.55%) Java
2 21 (19.09%) Python
3 19 (17.27%) Bash
4 16 (14.55%) SQL
5 14 (12.73%) PowerShell
6 13 (11.82%) C#
7 11 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.45%) Go
9 5 (4.55%) Perl
10 4 (3.64%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.82%) Bicep
11 2 (1.82%) Swift
12 1 (0.91%) PHP
12 1 (0.91%) Scala
12 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (53.64%) Security Cleared
2 48 (43.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (8.18%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.73%) Degree
5 3 (2.73%) SANS
6 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.82%) HND
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) QA
2 10 (9.09%) NCSC
3 3 (2.73%) ISO 22301
3 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
System Software
1 65 (59.09%) Docker
2 10 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 68 (61.82%) Ansible
2 58 (52.73%) Kubernetes
2 58 (52.73%) Terraform
3 13 (11.82%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (10.91%) HP Fortify
4 12 (10.91%) Podman
5 11 (10.00%) Progress Chef
5 11 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.18%) Puppet
7 7 (6.36%) Grafana
7 7 (6.36%) Graylog
8 6 (5.45%) Kibana
8 6 (5.45%) Nessus
8 6 (5.45%) WebInspect
9 5 (4.55%) Packer
9 5 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.73%) Argo
10 3 (2.73%) Kustomize
10 3 (2.73%) Nagios
10 3 (2.73%) Netcool
Vendors
1 21 (19.09%) Splunk
2 16 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 14 (12.73%) Checkmarx
3 14 (12.73%) Red Hat
4 8 (7.27%) AppDynamics
5 6 (5.45%) Veracode
6 4 (3.64%) Black Duck
6 4 (3.64%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.64%) Oracle
6 4 (3.64%) Xamarin
7 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.73%) VMware
8 2 (1.82%) Mercator