SonarQube Job Trends in the South East

SonarSource SonarQube
England > South East

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 259 392
Rank change year-on-year -30 +133 -49
Permanent jobs citing SonarQube 13 19 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.089% 0.24% 0.055%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.03% 3.17% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 8
10th Percentile £54,500 - £55,125
25th Percentile £65,313 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £66,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.53% +6.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £94,375 £73,750 £69,375
90th Percentile £97,500 - £80,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -25.00%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 641 599 1,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.38% 7.68% 7.96%
Number of salaries quoted 466 391 1,068
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,938 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -9.69%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

SonarQube job vacancy trend in the South East

SonarQube
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SonarQube.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SonarQube in the South East over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SonarQube in the South East

SonarQube
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SonarQube within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Berkshire +6 6 £82,500 +13.79%
Thames Valley +4 6 £82,500 +13.79%
Hampshire -30 6 £95,000 +58.33% 1
Surrey - 1 £60,000 - 3
SonarQube
England

SonarQube
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
1 11 (84.62%) Serverless
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) MQTT
1 3 (23.08%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (7.69%) Broadband
2 1 (7.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) GitLab
2 9 (69.23%) Git
3 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
4 6 (46.15%) JIRA
5 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
6 4 (30.77%) Artifactory
7 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Games
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) JSON
3 4 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (30.77%) YAML
4 3 (23.08%) gRPC
4 3 (23.08%) Kafka
4 3 (23.08%) Keycloak
4 3 (23.08%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (15.38%) React
6 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.69%) Jest
6 1 (7.69%) LAMP
6 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (7.69%) Node.js
6 1 (7.69%) pytest
6 1 (7.69%) SOAP
6 1 (7.69%) Spring
6 1 (7.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (23.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Debian
2 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 11 (84.62%) Deployment Automation
2 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (84.62%) Microservices
3 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
3 8 (61.54%) DevOps
4 7 (53.85%) Agile
5 6 (46.15%) Auto-Scaling
5 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
5 6 (46.15%) Observability
5 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
6 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
6 5 (38.46%) Edge Computing
6 5 (38.46%) SDLC
6 5 (38.46%) Security Hardening
6 5 (38.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (38.46%) Software Delivery
6 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Groovy
3 5 (38.46%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) Rust
4 4 (30.77%) Perl
5 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
6 1 (7.69%) Bash
6 1 (7.69%) PHP
6 1 (7.69%) SOQL
6 1 (7.69%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) HNC
3 1 (7.69%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Ansible
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
1 11 (84.62%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Grafana
2 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
2 5 (38.46%) Puppet
3 4 (30.77%) Packer
4 3 (23.08%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) AppDynamics
1 5 (38.46%) Tenable
2 4 (30.77%) IBM
3 3 (23.08%) NVIDIA
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk