SonarSource SonarQube
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SonarQube skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 727 373 684
Rank change year-on-year -354 +311 -33
Permanent jobs citing SonarQube 80 326 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.66% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.78% 8.72% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 29 62 82
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,936 £47,231
25th Percentile £50,000 £64,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,751 £103,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -14.98%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,506 3,738 6,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.96% 7.61% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,859 2,215 3,879
10th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,600 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,893 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.07% +3.44% -5.17%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SonarQube job vacancy trend in the UK

SonarQube
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SonarQube.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SonarQube within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 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
England -295 68 £70,000 -8.20% 88
UK excluding London -297 66 £70,000 -3.45% 40
North of England -150 27 £70,000 -4.31% 19
Work from Home -260 18 £82,500 +4.68% 36
Yorkshire -32 16 £80,000 +1.51% 3
South East -47 13 £82,500 +13.79% 9
London -67 13 £60,000 -23.23% 49
South West -69 13 £70,000 -11.18% 5
Scotland -38 11 - - 1
North East -56 11 £50,000 -16.67% 14
West Midlands -65 5 £41,250 -43.10% 5
Midlands -116 5 £41,250 -43.10% 6

SonarQube
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (13.75%) Apache
2 2 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) JBoss
3 1 (1.25%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 52 (65.00%) AWS
2 35 (43.75%) Serverless
3 24 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 24 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 24 (30.00%) Azure
4 23 (28.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (21.25%) Amazon ECR
5 17 (21.25%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (21.25%) Apigee
5 17 (21.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 13 (16.25%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (13.75%) GCP
7 11 (13.75%) GitHub
8 10 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (8.75%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (7.50%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
12 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) Broadband
2 3 (3.75%) MQTT
2 3 (3.75%) Network Security
3 1 (1.25%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.25%) DynamoDB
2 13 (16.25%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.75%) ZAP BI
4 2 (2.50%) Big Data
4 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 68 (85.00%) Jenkins
2 60 (75.00%) GitLab
3 26 (32.50%) Cypress.io
4 25 (31.25%) Cucumber
5 22 (27.50%) Maven
6 12 (15.00%) Git
7 11 (13.75%) JIRA
7 11 (13.75%) Selenium
8 10 (12.50%) Artifactory
9 9 (11.25%) Bitbucket
10 7 (8.75%) Postman
11 6 (7.50%) JMeter
11 6 (7.50%) JUnit
11 6 (7.50%) TeamCity
12 5 (6.25%) LoadRunner
12 5 (6.25%) REST Assured
13 4 (5.00%) Burp Suite
13 4 (5.00%) Gatling
13 4 (5.00%) HP UFT
13 4 (5.00%) Snyk
General
1 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Finance
3 8 (10.00%) Marketing
4 7 (8.75%) Games
4 7 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.75%) Military
7 2 (2.50%) Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Advertising
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (33.75%) Developer
2 18 (22.50%) Java Developer
3 17 (21.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (18.75%) Software Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (13.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 10 (12.50%) Architect
6 10 (12.50%) Senior
7 8 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
8 6 (7.50%) Technical Architect
9 5 (6.25%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 5 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) AWS Developer
10 4 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Java Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.75%) QA Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (41.25%) Terraform
2 21 (26.25%) AngularJS
3 20 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (25.00%) REST
3 20 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 18 (22.50%) Gherkin
4 18 (22.50%) Jest
5 11 (13.75%) Lightning Web Components
5 11 (13.75%) SOAP
5 11 (13.75%) Visualforce
6 10 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
7 9 (11.25%) Node.js
7 9 (11.25%) Vue
8 8 (10.00%) React
9 7 (8.75%) Spring
10 6 (7.50%) .NET
10 6 (7.50%) Keycloak
10 6 (7.50%) RESTful
11 5 (6.25%) Playwright
11 5 (6.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
1 9 (11.25%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.75%) Private Cloud
3 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.75%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.50%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Kali Linux
3 3 (3.75%) Windows
4 1 (1.25%) Debian
4 1 (1.25%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (1.25%) ThreadX
4 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 69 (86.25%) DevOps
3 54 (67.50%) Agile
4 30 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 26 (32.50%) SDLC
6 24 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (28.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (26.25%) Containerisation
8 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (25.00%) Software Engineering
10 19 (23.75%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (21.25%) Microservices
13 16 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
13 16 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
14 15 (18.75%) ITIL
14 15 (18.75%) Secure Coding
14 15 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 14 (17.50%) Collaborative Culture
16 13 (16.25%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (60.00%) Java
2 38 (47.50%) Python
3 31 (38.75%) Bash
4 28 (35.00%) TypeScript
5 23 (28.75%) Groovy
6 16 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 13 (16.25%) Rust
8 11 (13.75%) Apex Code
8 11 (13.75%) SOQL
9 10 (12.50%) C++
10 9 (11.25%) Go
11 8 (10.00%) SOSL
12 7 (8.75%) SQL
13 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
14 4 (5.00%) Perl
15 3 (3.75%) C#
16 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
17 1 (1.25%) C
17 1 (1.25%) Embedded C
17 1 (1.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 15 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 15 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
4 14 (17.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 12 (15.00%) Degree
6 4 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.00%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.75%) OCP
7 3 (3.75%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.25%) HNC
8 1 (1.25%) HND
8 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.50%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) NIST
3 2 (2.50%) PSD2
3 2 (2.50%) SEPA
4 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) vSphere
3 1 (1.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (36.25%) Ansible
1 29 (36.25%) Kubernetes
2 25 (31.25%) Grafana
3 21 (26.25%) HP Fortify
4 11 (13.75%) Kibana
5 10 (12.50%) logstash
6 7 (8.75%) Prometheus
6 7 (8.75%) Puppet
7 4 (5.00%) Packer
8 3 (3.75%) Control-M
8 3 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (3.75%) Podman
8 3 (3.75%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Salesforce
2 8 (10.00%) Splunk
3 5 (6.25%) AppDynamics
4 4 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.00%) Google
4 4 (5.00%) IBM
4 4 (5.00%) Tenable
4 4 (5.00%) Veracode
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.75%) NVIDIA
5 3 (3.75%) Perforce
5 3 (3.75%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.75%) VMware
6 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.25%) NCR
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle