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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 464 483
Rank change year-on-year +57 +19 -37
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 114 110 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.74% 2.14% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 73 155
10th Percentile £367 £425 £453
25th Percentile £425 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £593
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -5.49% +3.49%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £700
90th Percentile £700 £688 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -15.45% -6.38% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +75.00%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +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 4,163 5,133 8,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 12.06% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,792 3,442 5,983
10th Percentile £335 £353 £381
25th Percentile £410 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 205 231
10th Percentile £25.25 £32.23 £44.60
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £71.89
90th Percentile £83.75 £79.00 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +5.69% +11.82%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SonarQube in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SonarQube in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

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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 16 May 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 +79 103 £500 -9.09% 88
London +52 57 £550 +8.37% 42
UK excluding London +34 46 £465 -15.45% 64
Work from Home +31 45 £485 -25.35% 68
Midlands +24 15 £393 +10.25% 5
North of England +20 14 £443 -19.55% 18
South East +38 13 £501 -23.00% 24
East Midlands +15 11 £371 +4.21% 1
North West +9 8 £393 -28.55% 10
North East +3 5 £465 -15.45% 2
West Midlands - 4 £488 - 4
South West +30 2 £600 +14.29% 7
Scotland +10 2 £685 +82.67% 2
Yorkshire +11 1 £425 -25.27% 6
East of England - 1 £321 -

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 13 (11.40%) JBoss
2 7 (6.14%) Confluence
3 5 (4.39%) Apache
4 4 (3.51%) nginx
5 3 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.63%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.75%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.88%) Camunda
7 1 (0.88%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 70 (61.40%) AWS
2 41 (35.96%) Azure
3 19 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 16 (14.04%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (11.40%) GCP
6 12 (10.53%) GitHub
7 11 (9.65%) Amazon S3
7 11 (9.65%) Serverless
8 10 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (6.14%) Kong
12 6 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (5.26%) Route 53
13 5 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (4.39%) AWS KMS
14 4 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (1.75%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) DNS
2 3 (2.63%) Network Security
3 2 (1.75%) Firewall
4 1 (0.88%) HTTP
4 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (14.04%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (14.04%) Redis
3 13 (11.40%) Relational Database
4 11 (9.65%) MongoDB
5 10 (8.77%) RDBMS
6 9 (7.89%) MySQL
7 8 (7.02%) DocumentDB
7 8 (7.02%) SQL Server
8 7 (6.14%) NoSQL
9 6 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (4.39%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.63%) Big Data
11 3 (2.63%) Neo4j
11 3 (2.63%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.75%) Impala
12 2 (1.75%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 60 (52.63%) Jenkins
2 55 (48.25%) Git
3 34 (29.82%) JIRA
4 33 (28.95%) GitLab
5 24 (21.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 22 (19.30%) Maven
7 21 (18.42%) JUnit
8 20 (17.54%) Bitbucket Server
9 19 (16.67%) Selenium
10 13 (11.40%) TeamCity
11 12 (10.53%) Bitbucket
11 12 (10.53%) Cucumber
11 12 (10.53%) REST Assured
12 11 (9.65%) Artifactory
12 11 (9.65%) Mockito
13 10 (8.77%) CA Release Automation
14 8 (7.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (7.02%) gulp
15 7 (6.14%) Snyk
16 6 (5.26%) Postman
General
1 41 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (17.54%) Public Sector
4 17 (14.91%) Finance
5 11 (9.65%) Law
6 5 (4.39%) Banking
7 4 (3.51%) Police
8 3 (2.63%) Legal
9 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (32.46%) Developer
2 21 (18.42%) Java Developer
3 20 (17.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.28%) Lead
5 11 (9.65%) Software Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) Senior
7 8 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (6.14%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) JavaScript Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (28.07%) Spring Boot
2 23 (20.18%) React
2 23 (20.18%) REST
2 23 (20.18%) Spring
3 19 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 19 (16.67%) Node.js
4 18 (15.79%) Hibernate
5 17 (14.91%) Kafka
6 15 (13.16%) CSS
6 15 (13.16%) HTML
7 14 (12.28%) JPA
8 13 (11.40%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (9.65%) ARM Templates
9 11 (9.65%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (8.77%) .NET
10 10 (8.77%) Express.js
11 9 (7.89%) Java EE
11 9 (7.89%) Swagger
12 8 (7.02%) Spring Cloud
13 7 (6.14%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.77%) Public Cloud
2 7 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.05%) Linux
2 21 (18.42%) Windows
3 17 (14.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (7.02%) Windows Server
5 7 (6.14%) Unix
6 5 (4.39%) CentOS
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.88%) Android
7 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (66.67%) DevOps
2 52 (45.61%) CI/CD
2 52 (45.61%) Microservices
3 38 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 33 (28.95%) Test Automation
5 32 (28.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (27.19%) Agile
6 31 (27.19%) Software Engineering
7 27 (23.68%) Containerisation
8 23 (20.18%) Code Quality
9 21 (18.42%) Configuration Management
10 19 (16.67%) Open Source
11 17 (14.91%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (14.04%) Mentoring
13 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (12.28%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (12.28%) Software Architecture
15 13 (11.40%) Scrum
16 12 (10.53%) Migration
16 12 (10.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.86%) Java
2 42 (36.84%) Python
3 32 (28.07%) JavaScript
4 26 (22.81%) SQL
5 18 (15.79%) PowerShell
6 15 (13.16%) Bash
7 13 (11.40%) Perl
8 9 (7.89%) C#
9 7 (6.14%) Go
10 4 (3.51%) Groovy
10 4 (3.51%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.63%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.63%) Ruby
11 3 (2.63%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.88%) COBOL
12 1 (0.88%) JCL
12 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 48 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.39%) SANS
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.88%) CEH
5 1 (0.88%) CISM
5 1 (0.88%) CISSP
5 1 (0.88%) Degree
5 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.51%) GDPR
1 4 (3.51%) QA
2 3 (2.63%) HIPAA
2 3 (2.63%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.75%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.75%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) NCSC
4 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (46.49%) Docker
2 16 (14.04%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.51%) Postfix
3 4 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.63%) vCloud
4 3 (2.63%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (53.51%) Kubernetes
2 40 (35.09%) Terraform
3 29 (25.44%) Ansible
4 14 (12.28%) Kibana
5 12 (10.53%) Progress Chef
6 10 (8.77%) Docker Swarm
6 10 (8.77%) Podman
6 10 (8.77%) Prometheus
7 9 (7.89%) Grafana
8 5 (4.39%) Argo
9 3 (2.63%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.63%) Nessus
9 3 (2.63%) Puppet
10 2 (1.75%) Packer
11 1 (0.88%) Istio
11 1 (0.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (17.54%) Splunk
2 11 (9.65%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.77%) AppDynamics
3 10 (8.77%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.02%) Veracode
5 6 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 6 (5.26%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.39%) Coverity
6 5 (4.39%) Oracle
7 4 (3.51%) Checkmarx
7 4 (3.51%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (3.51%) VMware
8 3 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (2.63%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.63%) Qualys
8 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.75%) Google
10 1 (0.88%) Pega
10 1 (0.88%) Perforce
10 1 (0.88%) Teradata