SonarQube Job Trends in the Thames Valley

SonarSource SonarQube
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SonarQube skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 177 172
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +88
Permanent jobs citing SonarQube 7 14 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.33% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.21% 2.95% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £70,500 - -
25th Percentile £71,250 £84,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £92,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +12.12% -5.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,750 £84,688
90th Percentile - - £86,375
South East median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -9.09% +3.13%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 317 475 499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.09% 11.05% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 145 242 371
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,625 £45,750
25th Percentile £33,250 £46,250 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,800 £97,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SonarQube job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SonarQube
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SonarQube.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SonarQube within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 November 2025. 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
Buckinghamshire +14 4 £75,000 -14.77%
Berkshire -8 3 £72,500 -21.62% 6
SonarQube
South East

SonarQube
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
3 3 (42.86%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (85.71%) Git
3 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (42.86%) DbUnit
3 3 (42.86%) GitLab
3 3 (42.86%) jMock
3 3 (42.86%) JUnit
3 3 (42.86%) Maven
3 3 (42.86%) Mockito
4 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
1 3 (42.86%) Bootstrap
1 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
1 3 (42.86%) JPA
1 3 (42.86%) PowerMock
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Batch
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Integration
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Runbook
3 4 (57.14%) Validation
4 3 (42.86%) BDD
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (42.86%) Kanban
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Open Source
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
4 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
2 4 (57.14%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Docker Swarm
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) Jaspersoft