SonarQube Job Trends in the North of England

SonarSource SonarQube
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SonarQube skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 245 324
Rank change year-on-year -6 +79 +80
Permanent jobs citing SonarQube 40 18 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.29% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.32% 2.86% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11 16 17
10th Percentile £49,500 £60,200 £51,500
25th Percentile £50,250 £72,899 £75,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,253 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.01% +11.44%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% -15.15% +3.13%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 633 630 1,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.63% 8.69% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 468 393 1,024
10th Percentile - £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £86,850 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SonarQube job vacancy trend in the North of England

SonarQube
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SonarQube.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SonarQube in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SonarQube in the North of England

SonarQube
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SonarQube within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Yorkshire -9 35 £77,500 +3.51% 2
North West -18 3 £44,500 -47.80% 7
North East -15 2 £85,000 +39.92% 7
SonarQube
England

SonarQube
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (5.00%) JBoss
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (90.00%) AWS
2 33 (82.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 32 (80.00%) Amazon ECR
3 32 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
3 32 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 32 (80.00%) Apigee
3 32 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
3 32 (80.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 32 (80.00%) Serverless
4 16 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.00%) Azure
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (80.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (87.50%) GitLab
2 34 (85.00%) Jenkins
3 32 (80.00%) Cypress.io
3 32 (80.00%) Maven
4 6 (15.00%) Selenium
5 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.50%) JIRA
5 3 (7.50%) JMeter
5 3 (7.50%) LoadRunner
6 2 (5.00%) Artifactory
6 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (7.50%) Finance
2 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Developer
2 23 (57.50%) Java Developer
3 15 (37.50%) Lead
4 8 (20.00%) AWS Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Technical Leader
6 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Lead Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Test Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (80.00%) AngularJS
1 32 (80.00%) Gherkin
1 32 (80.00%) Jest
1 32 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (22.50%) Spring
3 3 (7.50%) Kafka
3 3 (7.50%) Middleware
3 3 (7.50%) Node.js
4 2 (5.00%) Drools
4 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.00%) XML
5 1 (2.50%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.50%) JPA
5 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.50%) RESTful
5 1 (2.50%) Swagger
5 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (92.50%) DevOps
2 32 (80.00%) Agile
3 31 (77.50%) CI/CD
4 20 (50.00%) Secure Coding
5 18 (45.00%) SDLC
6 16 (40.00%) ITIL
6 16 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 11 (27.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (22.50%) Clean Code
8 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (22.50%) Prototyping
9 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
10 6 (15.00%) Software Delivery
11 5 (12.50%) Code Quality
11 5 (12.50%) Test Automation
12 4 (10.00%) BDD
12 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
12 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (92.50%) Java
2 32 (80.00%) TypeScript
3 31 (77.50%) Bash
3 31 (77.50%) Groovy
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (5.00%) C#
5 2 (5.00%) Go
5 2 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) AWS Certification
2 16 (40.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 16 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 36 (90.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) vSphere
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (87.50%) HP Fortify
2 6 (15.00%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) Control-M
3 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.00%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) IBM
2 2 (5.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle
2 2 (5.00%) VMware
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) Veracode