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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 493 473
Rank change year-on-year +39 -20 +207
Permanent jobs citing SonarQube 55 73 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.52% 2.05% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12 56 75
10th Percentile £49,575 £55,000 £50,686
25th Percentile £50,250 £60,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -18.37% +13.76%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,625 £84,056
90th Percentile - £93,778 £91,934
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +7.69% -18.37% -0.46%

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 2,184 3,554 3,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.15% 9.89% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,380 1,996 3,062
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,279 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,325 £82,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 January 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 January 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 +27 34 £77,500 -9.09% 11
Yorkshire +5 24 £77,500 -9.09% 4
Scotland +20 15 - -
North West +21 7 - - 1
North East +12 3 £76,250 +36.77% 6
South West +2 3 - - 4
South East +7 2 £70,000 -6.67% 3
Midlands -5 2 - - 4
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
Wales -4 1 £50,000 -23.08%
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 4 (7.27%) Camunda
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.91%) AWS
2 21 (38.18%) AWS CloudFormation
2 21 (38.18%) Serverless
3 20 (36.36%) Amazon ECR
3 20 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
3 20 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 20 (36.36%) Apigee
3 20 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (36.36%) AWS Step Functions
4 7 (12.73%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (12.73%) Azure
5 3 (5.45%) GitHub
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.64%) GCP
6 2 (3.64%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.64%) PaaS
6 2 (3.64%) Slack
7 1 (1.82%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.27%) Broadband
2 2 (3.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (36.36%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.64%) CockroachDB
2 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.64%) Tableau
3 1 (1.82%) Big Data
3 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (87.27%) Jenkins
2 47 (85.45%) GitLab
3 23 (41.82%) Maven
4 22 (40.00%) Cypress.io
5 7 (12.73%) Bitbucket
6 6 (10.91%) Selenium
6 6 (10.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (7.27%) JIRA
8 3 (5.45%) Artifactory
8 3 (5.45%) Git
8 3 (5.45%) JMeter
8 3 (5.45%) LoadRunner
9 2 (3.64%) Checkstyle
9 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
9 2 (3.64%) Gradle
9 2 (3.64%) JUnit
9 2 (3.64%) Mockito
9 2 (3.64%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (3.64%) TeamCity
9 2 (3.64%) TestNG
General
1 15 (27.27%) Games
1 15 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 15 (27.27%) Marketing
2 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Developer
2 16 (29.09%) Lead
3 15 (27.27%) Architect
4 14 (25.45%) Salesforce Architect
5 10 (18.18%) Java Developer
6 8 (14.55%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 8 (14.55%) Technical Architect
7 7 (12.73%) Technical Leader
8 6 (10.91%) Software Developer
9 5 (9.09%) AWS Developer
10 4 (7.27%) Backend Developer
10 4 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Lead Developer
10 4 (7.27%) Salesforce Solution Architect
10 4 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (5.45%) Automation Test Lead
11 3 (5.45%) Lead Test Engineer
11 3 (5.45%) Test Automation Engineer
11 3 (5.45%) Test Engineer
12 2 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (41.82%) Spring Boot
2 21 (38.18%) REST
3 20 (36.36%) AngularJS
3 20 (36.36%) Gherkin
3 20 (36.36%) Jest
4 15 (27.27%) Lightning Web Components
4 15 (27.27%) SOAP
4 15 (27.27%) Visualforce
5 12 (21.82%) Spring
6 5 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (7.27%) Node.js
8 3 (5.45%) Kafka
8 3 (5.45%) Middleware
9 2 (3.64%) Bootstrap
9 2 (3.64%) CSS
9 2 (3.64%) CSS3
9 2 (3.64%) Express.js
9 2 (3.64%) HTML
9 2 (3.64%) Sass
9 2 (3.64%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.09%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (92.73%) DevOps
2 41 (74.55%) CI/CD
3 38 (69.09%) Agile
4 27 (49.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (38.18%) Scrum
6 20 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (30.91%) Secure Coding
7 17 (30.91%) Static Code Analysis
8 16 (29.09%) Roadmaps
9 15 (27.27%) Community of Practice
9 15 (27.27%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 15 (27.27%) Continuous Delivery
9 15 (27.27%) Design Patterns
9 15 (27.27%) Event-Driven
9 15 (27.27%) OO
9 15 (27.27%) PLM
9 15 (27.27%) Technical Analysis
9 15 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
9 15 (27.27%) TOGAF
10 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 33 (60.00%) Java
2 22 (40.00%) Bash
2 22 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 19 (34.55%) Groovy
4 15 (27.27%) Apex Code
4 15 (27.27%) SOQL
4 15 (27.27%) SOSL
5 10 (18.18%) Python
6 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
6 7 (12.73%) SQL
7 3 (5.45%) C#
8 2 (3.64%) Go
8 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) AWS Certification
2 7 (12.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 7 (12.73%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 28 (50.91%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) vCloud
2 2 (3.64%) vSphere
3 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (41.82%) HP Fortify
2 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.91%) Terraform
4 5 (9.09%) Ansible
4 5 (9.09%) Grafana
5 4 (7.27%) Control-M
5 4 (7.27%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.64%) Rundeck
7 1 (1.82%) Kibana
7 1 (1.82%) logstash
Vendors
1 17 (30.91%) Splunk
2 16 (29.09%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.27%) Oracle
3 4 (7.27%) VMware
4 3 (5.45%) Google
4 3 (5.45%) IBM
5 2 (3.64%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.82%) Qualys