SonarQube Job Trends in England

SonarSource SonarQube
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SonarQube skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 550 556
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 -7
Permanent jobs citing SonarQube 45 130 124
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.085% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.43% 2.59% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 14 90 97
10th Percentile £50,250 - £50,686
25th Percentile £63,743 £55,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -21.21% +3.13%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £89,125 £93,778 £101,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +7.69% -18.37% -0.46%

All Development Application Skills
England

SonarQube falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,141 5,013 5,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.94% 10.41% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,152 2,862 4,663
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,603 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SonarQube relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

SonarQube job vacancy trend in England

SonarQube
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SonarQube.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SonarQube in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SonarQube in England

SonarQube
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SonarQube within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +27 34 £77,500 -9.09% 12
Yorkshire +5 24 £77,500 -9.09% 4
North West +21 7 - - 2
London -7 4 £112,500 +87.50% 8
North East +12 3 £76,250 +36.77% 6
South West +2 3 - - 4
South East +7 2 £70,000 -6.67% 2
Midlands -5 2 - - 4
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
SonarQube
UK

SonarQube
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (8.89%) Camunda
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (73.33%) AWS
2 23 (51.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 21 (46.67%) Amazon S3
3 21 (46.67%) Serverless
4 20 (44.44%) Amazon ECR
4 20 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (44.44%) Apigee
4 20 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (44.44%) AWS Step Functions
5 11 (24.44%) Azure
6 7 (15.56%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (8.89%) GitHub
7 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
8 3 (6.67%) GCP
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.44%) PaaS
9 2 (4.44%) Slack
10 1 (2.22%) OCI
10 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (44.44%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.44%) CockroachDB
2 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.44%) MySQL
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) Tableau
3 1 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 33 (73.33%) GitLab
3 23 (51.11%) Maven
4 22 (48.89%) Cypress.io
5 10 (22.22%) Bitbucket
6 7 (15.56%) Selenium
6 7 (15.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (13.33%) JMeter
8 4 (8.89%) Git
8 4 (8.89%) JIRA
9 3 (6.67%) Artifactory
9 3 (6.67%) LoadRunner
10 2 (4.44%) Checkstyle
10 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
10 2 (4.44%) Eclipse
10 2 (4.44%) Gradle
10 2 (4.44%) JUnit
10 2 (4.44%) Mockito
10 2 (4.44%) TeamCity
10 2 (4.44%) TestNG
General
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Developer
2 17 (37.78%) Lead
3 10 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 7 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Technical Leader
5 6 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 5 (11.11%) AWS Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Backend Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Lead Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Lead Test Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Senior
7 4 (8.89%) Test Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Automation Test Lead
8 3 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (51.11%) Spring Boot
2 21 (46.67%) Jest
3 20 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 20 (44.44%) Gherkin
4 12 (26.67%) Spring
5 9 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (13.33%) REST
7 3 (6.67%) CSS
7 3 (6.67%) HTML
7 3 (6.67%) HTML5
7 3 (6.67%) Kafka
7 3 (6.67%) Middleware
7 3 (6.67%) Node.js
7 3 (6.67%) React
7 3 (6.67%) Sass
8 2 (4.44%) JWT
8 2 (4.44%) LESS
8 2 (4.44%) OAuth2
8 2 (4.44%) OpenAPI
8 2 (4.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.22%) Hackathon
4 1 (2.22%) Online Games
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (88.89%) DevOps
2 29 (64.44%) CI/CD
3 27 (60.00%) Agile
4 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (35.56%) Secure Coding
5 15 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 15 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (22.22%) SDLC
8 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
9 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
9 7 (15.56%) ITIL
9 7 (15.56%) Scrum
9 7 (15.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 6 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 6 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
10 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
10 6 (13.33%) Unit Testing
11 5 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 34 (75.56%) Java
2 24 (53.33%) Bash
3 23 (51.11%) TypeScript
4 19 (42.22%) Groovy
5 11 (24.44%) Python
6 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
6 7 (15.56%) SQL
7 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.44%) C#
8 2 (4.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) AWS Certification
2 7 (15.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 32 (71.11%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) vCloud
2 2 (4.44%) vSphere
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (51.11%) HP Fortify
2 13 (28.89%) Kubernetes
3 11 (24.44%) Terraform
4 8 (17.78%) Ansible
5 7 (15.56%) Grafana
6 4 (8.89%) Control-M
6 4 (8.89%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
7 2 (4.44%) Argo
7 2 (4.44%) Rundeck
8 1 (2.22%) Kibana
8 1 (2.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle
2 4 (8.89%) Atlassian
2 4 (8.89%) Google
2 4 (8.89%) Splunk
2 4 (8.89%) VMware
3 3 (6.67%) IBM
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.44%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce