SonarQube Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 307 373
Rank change year-on-year +43 +66 +3
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 40 38 104
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.70% 2.05% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 68
10th Percentile £413 £424 £500
25th Percentile £425 £475 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +8.33% +10.50%
75th Percentile £549 - £650
90th Percentile £590 £688 £721
UK median daily rate £501 £561 £593
% change year-on-year -10.82% -5.27% +5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +47.37%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

SonarQube falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

SonarQube
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SonarQube as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SonarQube trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SonarQube
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SonarQube.

SonarQube daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SonarQube daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SonarQube
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SonarQube.

SonarQube hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SonarQube
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (15.00%) JBoss
2 4 (10.00%) Confluence
3 3 (7.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.50%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (65.00%) AWS
2 14 (35.00%) Azure
3 10 (25.00%) Serverless
4 8 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (10.00%) GitHub
6 4 (10.00%) OpenShift
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.00%) GCP
8 2 (5.00%) Kong
8 2 (5.00%) NuGet
8 2 (5.00%) PaaS
8 2 (5.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) DNS
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) HTTP
1 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) Redis
2 7 (17.50%) DocumentDB
2 7 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.50%) MySQL
4 3 (7.50%) Neo4j
4 3 (7.50%) RDBMS
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 19 (47.50%) Jenkins
2 17 (42.50%) Git
2 17 (42.50%) JIRA
3 14 (35.00%) GitLab
4 12 (30.00%) Selenium
5 7 (17.50%) Cucumber
5 7 (17.50%) JUnit
5 7 (17.50%) REST Assured
6 6 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (12.50%) Artifactory
7 5 (12.50%) Maven
8 4 (10.00%) Postman
9 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
9 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (7.50%) CA Release Automation
9 3 (7.50%) Mockito
9 3 (7.50%) TeamCity
10 2 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (5.00%) gulp
10 2 (5.00%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
4 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Law
5 4 (10.00%) Police
6 2 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (15.00%) JavaScript Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Lead
5 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Lead Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Lead Java Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Python Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) REST
2 11 (27.50%) Spring Boot
3 9 (22.50%) Node.js
3 9 (22.50%) React
4 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
4 7 (17.50%) ARM Templates
4 7 (17.50%) Kafka
5 6 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (15.00%) Swagger
6 5 (12.50%) CSS
6 5 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 5 (12.50%) HTML
6 5 (12.50%) Java EE
6 5 (12.50%) Spring
7 3 (7.50%) JPA
7 3 (7.50%) JSP
7 3 (7.50%) LDAP
7 3 (7.50%) OpenAPI
7 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (7.50%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Windows
2 6 (15.00%) Linux
3 5 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.00%) Unix
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) DevOps
2 22 (55.00%) Microservices
3 16 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (32.50%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (30.00%) Agile
5 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 11 (27.50%) Containerisation
6 11 (27.50%) Test Automation
7 8 (20.00%) Configuration Management
8 7 (17.50%) Software Architecture
8 7 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (15.00%) Code Quality
9 6 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (12.50%) Build Automation
10 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (12.50%) Scrum
11 4 (10.00%) Analytics
11 4 (10.00%) Front End Development
11 4 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Java
2 13 (32.50%) JavaScript
3 10 (25.00%) Python
3 10 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (12.50%) Bash
6 3 (7.50%) Perl
6 3 (7.50%) PL/SQL
7 2 (5.00%) C#
7 2 (5.00%) Groovy
7 2 (5.00%) Ruby
7 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.50%) COBOL
8 1 (2.50%) JCL
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) CEH
2 1 (2.50%) CISM
2 1 (2.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 20 (50.00%) Docker
2 6 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (47.50%) Kubernetes
1 19 (47.50%) Terraform
2 8 (20.00%) Ansible
3 5 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (12.50%) Podman
3 5 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 4 (10.00%) Kibana
4 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.50%) Puppet
6 2 (5.00%) Argo
6 2 (5.00%) Grafana
7 1 (2.50%) HP Fortify
7 1 (2.50%) logstash
7 1 (2.50%) Nessus
7 1 (2.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Splunk
2 5 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.50%) AppDynamics
4 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.00%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle
5 2 (5.00%) Veracode
6 1 (2.50%) Adobe
6 1 (2.50%) Black Duck
6 1 (2.50%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco
6 1 (2.50%) DocuSign
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) Qualys
6 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.50%) Tenable
6 1 (2.50%) VMware