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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 495 695
Rank change year-on-year -98 +200 -132
Permanent jobs citing SonarQube 56 133 95
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.085% 0.34% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.56% 3.18% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 14 99 67
10th Percentile £49,725 - £53,750
25th Percentile £51,438 £55,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -15.15% +3.13%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,751 £94,717
90th Percentile £83,875 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +14.81% -18.18% +6.45%

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 3,580 4,187 7,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.41% 10.85% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,429 2,784 6,009
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -13 40 £77,500 -9.09% 23
Yorkshire -9 36 £77,500 +3.51% 2
London -52 6 £80,000 +33.33% 9
South West -30 5 - - 1
West Midlands -13 2 - - 4
North West -22 2 £44,500 -47.80% 6
North East -23 2 £85,000 +39.92% 15
South East -31 2 £70,000 +3.70% 16
Midlands -40 2 - - 5
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 (7.14%) Apache
2 3 (5.36%) Confluence
3 2 (3.57%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (80.36%) AWS
2 35 (62.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 34 (60.71%) Amazon S3
3 34 (60.71%) Serverless
4 33 (58.93%) Amazon ECR
4 33 (58.93%) Amazon ECS
4 33 (58.93%) Apigee
4 33 (58.93%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (58.93%) AWS Step Functions
5 17 (30.36%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (16.07%) Azure
7 4 (7.14%) GCP
7 4 (7.14%) GitHub
8 3 (5.36%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.57%) Slack
10 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Broadband
1 2 (3.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (58.93%) DynamoDB
2 3 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.36%) MySQL
3 2 (3.57%) Big Data
3 2 (3.57%) CockroachDB
3 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.57%) Tableau
4 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) Metadata
4 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.79%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 47 (83.93%) Jenkins
2 44 (78.57%) GitLab
3 36 (64.29%) Cypress.io
3 36 (64.29%) Maven
4 10 (17.86%) Selenium
5 8 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 8 (14.29%) JMeter
6 6 (10.71%) Bitbucket
7 5 (8.93%) JIRA
8 4 (7.14%) LoadRunner
9 3 (5.36%) Eclipse
9 3 (5.36%) Robot Framework
10 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
10 2 (3.57%) Checkstyle
10 2 (3.57%) ESLint
10 2 (3.57%) Gradle
10 2 (3.57%) JUnit
10 2 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (3.57%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.57%) TestNG
General
1 4 (7.14%) Finance
1 4 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.57%) Games
3 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (48.21%) Developer
2 24 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 17 (30.36%) Lead
4 8 (14.29%) AWS Developer
5 6 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Technical Leader
6 4 (7.14%) Lead Test Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Lead Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Salesforce Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Senior
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (62.50%) Spring Boot
2 34 (60.71%) Jest
3 33 (58.93%) AngularJS
3 33 (58.93%) Gherkin
4 12 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (19.64%) Spring
6 4 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (7.14%) Node.js
6 4 (7.14%) REST
6 4 (7.14%) Vue
7 3 (5.36%) Kafka
7 3 (5.36%) Middleware
7 3 (5.36%) OpenAPI
7 3 (5.36%) Playwright
7 3 (5.36%) Swagger
8 2 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (3.57%) SOAP
8 2 (3.57%) Spring MVC
8 2 (3.57%) Spring Security
8 2 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.79%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.79%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.79%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.07%) Linux
2 5 (8.93%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (92.86%) DevOps
2 45 (80.36%) CI/CD
3 39 (69.64%) Agile
4 21 (37.50%) Secure Coding
5 18 (32.14%) SDLC
6 17 (30.36%) ITIL
6 17 (30.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 16 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (16.07%) Clean Code
9 9 (16.07%) Code Quality
9 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (16.07%) Prototyping
10 8 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 7 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (12.50%) Software Delivery
12 6 (10.71%) Containerisation
12 6 (10.71%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (78.57%) Java
2 41 (73.21%) Bash
3 37 (66.07%) TypeScript
4 33 (58.93%) Groovy
5 15 (26.79%) Python
6 9 (16.07%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.36%) C#
8 3 (5.36%) Rust
9 2 (3.57%) Apex Code
9 2 (3.57%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.57%) SOQL
9 2 (3.57%) SOSL
9 2 (3.57%) SQL
10 1 (1.79%) C++
10 1 (1.79%) Go
10 1 (1.79%) JCL
Qualifications
1 25 (44.64%) AWS Certification
2 17 (30.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (30.36%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
4 8 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (10.71%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.36%) Degree
6 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 43 (76.79%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) vSphere
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (66.07%) HP Fortify
2 15 (26.79%) Terraform
3 12 (21.43%) Grafana
4 10 (17.86%) Ansible
4 10 (17.86%) Kubernetes
5 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.14%) Control-M
7 3 (5.36%) Kibana
7 3 (5.36%) logstash
8 2 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.79%) Argo
9 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Splunk
2 7 (12.50%) Oracle
3 5 (8.93%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.14%) Google
5 3 (5.36%) IBM
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.57%) Veracode
6 2 (3.57%) VMware
7 1 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.79%) Databricks
7 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.79%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.79%) Tenable