SonarQube Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SonarSource SonarQube
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 454 620
Rank change year-on-year +6 +166 +34
Permanent jobs citing SonarQube 87 68 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.60% 2.30% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12 59 48
10th Percentile £49,575 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £50,250 £65,000 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £76,538
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -2.01% +13.39%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £84,625 £93,778 -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +19.23% -21.21% +6.45%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,419 2,954 5,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.56% 10.55% 10.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,605 1,927 4,449
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,777 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £84,200
UK 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 UK excluding London

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

SonarQube job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SonarQube
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SonarQube.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SonarQube in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SonarQube in the UK excluding London

SonarQube
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SonarQube within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 -23 40 £77,500 -9.09% 17
Scotland +26 38 - -
Yorkshire -10 36 £77,500 +3.51% 1
South West -37 5 - - 3
West Midlands -17 2 - - 4
North West -18 2 £44,500 -47.80% 3
North East -20 2 £85,000 +39.92% 13
South East -26 2 £70,000 +3.70% 9
Midlands -42 2 - - 4
SonarQube
UK

SonarQube
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (3.45%) Apache
1 3 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 39 (44.83%) AWS
2 34 (39.08%) Serverless
3 33 (37.93%) Amazon ECR
3 33 (37.93%) Amazon ECS
3 33 (37.93%) Amazon S3
3 33 (37.93%) Apigee
3 33 (37.93%) AWS Lambda
3 33 (37.93%) AWS Step Functions
4 32 (36.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (19.54%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (4.60%) Azure
7 3 (3.45%) GCP
8 2 (2.30%) GitHub
8 2 (2.30%) Slack
9 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (45.98%) Broadband
2 2 (2.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (37.93%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.30%) Big Data
3 2 (2.30%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.30%) Tableau
4 1 (1.15%) Metadata
4 1 (1.15%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 81 (93.10%) GitLab
2 80 (91.95%) Jenkins
3 36 (41.38%) Cypress.io
3 36 (41.38%) Maven
4 9 (10.34%) Selenium
5 7 (8.05%) Cucumber
6 5 (5.75%) JIRA
7 4 (4.60%) JMeter
7 4 (4.60%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.30%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.30%) Checkstyle
8 2 (2.30%) ESLint
8 2 (2.30%) Gradle
8 2 (2.30%) JUnit
8 2 (2.30%) Mockito
8 2 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (2.30%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.30%) TestNG
9 1 (1.15%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (45.98%) Games
1 40 (45.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 40 (45.98%) Marketing
2 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (3.45%) Finance
2 3 (3.45%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (45.98%) Architect
2 38 (43.68%) Salesforce Architect
3 27 (31.03%) Developer
4 24 (27.59%) Java Developer
5 20 (22.99%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 20 (22.99%) Technical Architect
6 16 (18.39%) Lead
7 12 (13.79%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 12 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (9.20%) AWS Developer
9 6 (6.90%) Systems Architect
9 6 (6.90%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (3.45%) Automation Test Lead
11 3 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 3 (3.45%) Lead Developer
11 3 (3.45%) Lead Test Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (48.28%) REST
2 40 (45.98%) Lightning Web Components
2 40 (45.98%) SOAP
2 40 (45.98%) Visualforce
3 35 (40.23%) Spring Boot
4 33 (37.93%) AngularJS
4 33 (37.93%) Gherkin
4 33 (37.93%) Jest
5 11 (12.64%) Spring
6 7 (8.05%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (3.45%) Kafka
7 3 (3.45%) Middleware
7 3 (3.45%) Node.js
7 3 (3.45%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.45%) Swagger
7 3 (3.45%) Vue
8 2 (2.30%) Drools
8 2 (2.30%) OAuth
8 2 (2.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (50.57%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.30%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.15%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.15%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (96.55%) DevOps
2 78 (89.66%) CI/CD
3 73 (83.91%) Agile
4 49 (56.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (50.57%) Scrum
6 43 (49.43%) Continuous Integration
7 42 (48.28%) Design Patterns
7 42 (48.28%) Static Code Analysis
8 41 (47.13%) Continuous Delivery
8 41 (47.13%) Event-Driven
9 40 (45.98%) Community of Practice
9 40 (45.98%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 40 (45.98%) OO
9 40 (45.98%) PLM
9 40 (45.98%) Roadmaps
9 40 (45.98%) Technical Analysis
9 40 (45.98%) Technology Roadmap
9 40 (45.98%) TOGAF
10 21 (24.14%) Secure Coding
11 18 (20.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.28%) Java
2 40 (45.98%) Apex Code
2 40 (45.98%) SOQL
2 40 (45.98%) SOSL
3 37 (42.53%) Bash
4 36 (41.38%) TypeScript
5 33 (37.93%) Groovy
6 13 (14.94%) Python
7 9 (10.34%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.45%) C#
9 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.30%) Rust
9 2 (2.30%) SQL
10 1 (1.15%) C++
10 1 (1.15%) Go
10 1 (1.15%) JCL
Qualifications
1 25 (28.74%) AWS Certification
2 17 (19.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (19.54%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (9.20%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.45%) Degree
5 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 38 (43.68%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) vSphere
3 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (42.53%) HP Fortify
2 9 (10.34%) Grafana
2 9 (10.34%) Terraform
3 6 (6.90%) Ansible
4 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.60%) Control-M
6 3 (3.45%) Kibana
6 3 (3.45%) logstash
6 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.30%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (49.43%) Splunk
2 40 (45.98%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.60%) Oracle
4 3 (3.45%) Google
4 3 (3.45%) IBM
5 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.30%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.30%) Veracode
5 2 (2.30%) VMware
6 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.15%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.15%) Tenable