SonarQube Jobs

SonarSource SonarQube
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SonarQube skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SonarQube over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 791 587
Rank change year-on-year +238 -204 +124
Permanent jobs citing SonarQube 131 94 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.096% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.38% 0.98% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 100 58 119
10th Percentile £54,600 £50,350 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,188 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -14.52% +10.71%
75th Percentile £82,751 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £104,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - +9.09%

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 5,498 9,566 15,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 9.73% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,807 6,755 9,183
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SonarQube as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SonarQube.

Salary trend for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Top 15 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 30 April 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
England +222 118 £72,500 +11.54% 47
Work from Home +231 81 £76,905 +28.18% 39
London +139 70 £60,000 -40.00% 17
UK excluding London +215 63 £75,000 +25.00% 33
North of England +98 24 £85,253 +48.27% 12
Midlands +57 14 £75,000 +25.00% 3
West Midlands +54 14 £75,000 +25.00% 2
South East +118 13 £60,000 -7.69% 4
North West +39 13 £85,253 +48.27% 6
Yorkshire +76 9 £76,840 - 3
South West +114 8 £65,000 -7.90% 7
Wales +46 7 £65,000 - 3
Scotland +129 5 £78,810 +11.67%
Northern Ireland +40 5 £55,000 - 3
North East - 2 £60,750 - 3

SonarQube
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 48 (36.64%) Confluence
2 8 (6.11%) nginx
2 8 (6.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (47.33%) Azure
2 53 (40.46%) AWS
3 35 (26.72%) GitHub
4 29 (22.14%) GCP
5 24 (18.32%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (16.79%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (12.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 13 (9.92%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (9.92%) Apigee
9 9 (6.87%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (6.87%) Serverless
10 8 (6.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 8 (6.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (6.11%) IaaS
10 8 (6.11%) PaaS
10 8 (6.11%) SaaS
11 5 (3.82%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.82%) AWS KMS
11 5 (3.82%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) SAN
2 1 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.61%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.45%) NoSQL
3 14 (10.69%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (6.11%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (6.11%) Redis
6 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.76%) MySQL
9 1 (0.76%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 81 (61.83%) Jenkins
2 64 (48.85%) Git
3 55 (41.98%) JIRA
4 54 (41.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 51 (38.93%) Maven
6 30 (22.90%) JUnit
7 27 (20.61%) TeamCity
8 22 (16.79%) Ant
9 21 (16.03%) Selenium
10 18 (13.74%) GitLab
11 15 (11.45%) Mockito
12 12 (9.16%) Cucumber
13 11 (8.40%) Postman
14 10 (7.63%) Bitbucket
15 9 (6.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (6.87%) Gradle
16 8 (6.11%) TestNG
17 7 (5.34%) Artifactory
18 6 (4.58%) AppScan
19 5 (3.82%) jMock
General
1 56 (42.75%) Finance
2 49 (37.40%) Social Skills
3 36 (27.48%) Banking
4 27 (20.61%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.87%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.11%) Games
7 4 (3.05%) Front Office
8 3 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.53%) Local Government
9 2 (1.53%) Retail
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (30.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (18.32%) Software Engineer
3 22 (16.79%) Architect
3 22 (16.79%) Developer
3 22 (16.79%) DevOps Architect
3 22 (16.79%) Senior
4 16 (12.21%) Lead
5 15 (11.45%) Python Engineer
6 12 (9.16%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Lead Developer
9 9 (6.87%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (6.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Java Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Android Developer
11 7 (5.34%) iOS Android Developer
11 7 (5.34%) iOS Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Lead Android Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Lead iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (29.01%) REST
1 38 (29.01%) Spring
2 31 (23.66%) RESTful
3 25 (19.08%) Spring Boot
4 20 (15.27%) Hibernate
5 15 (11.45%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (9.92%) Web Services
7 11 (8.40%) Kafka
7 11 (8.40%) Node.js
8 10 (7.63%) Swagger
9 9 (6.87%) Django
9 9 (6.87%) FastAPI
9 9 (6.87%) Flask
10 8 (6.11%) Gherkin
10 8 (6.11%) Guice
10 8 (6.11%) JAX-RS
10 8 (6.11%) JPA
10 8 (6.11%) Mustache
10 8 (6.11%) OpenAPI
10 8 (6.11%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.45%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.69%) Onboarding
3 11 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (7.63%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (6.87%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (6.87%) Mobile App
6 8 (6.11%) Life Science
6 8 (6.11%) Mobile Games
7 4 (3.05%) Mainframe
8 3 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.29%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.53%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.76%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.76%) IoT
10 1 (0.76%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (32.06%) Linux
2 15 (11.45%) Unix
3 8 (6.11%) Android
3 8 (6.11%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.53%) Windows
5 1 (0.76%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (82.44%) DevOps
2 68 (51.91%) CI/CD
3 66 (50.38%) Agile
4 45 (34.35%) Test Automation
5 44 (33.59%) Software Engineering
6 42 (32.06%) Microservices
7 36 (27.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (27.48%) Static Code Analysis
8 35 (26.72%) TDD
9 34 (25.95%) Mentoring
10 32 (24.43%) Containerisation
10 32 (24.43%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (21.37%) Event-Driven
12 27 (20.61%) Static Application Security Testing
13 24 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (16.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 20 (15.27%) Code Quality
16 19 (14.50%) OO
16 19 (14.50%) Release Management
17 18 (13.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 61 (46.56%) Java
2 44 (33.59%) Python
3 38 (29.01%) JavaScript
4 27 (20.61%) SQL
5 12 (9.16%) Go
6 9 (6.87%) Groovy
7 8 (6.11%) Kotlin
7 8 (6.11%) Objective-C
7 8 (6.11%) Swift
8 6 (4.58%) C#
8 6 (4.58%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.05%) Perl
10 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (16.03%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (7.63%) Degree
4 9 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.05%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.29%) OCP
6 3 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.92%) QA
2 8 (6.11%) NCSC
3 6 (4.58%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (58.02%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Postfix
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (61.83%) Kubernetes
2 57 (43.51%) Terraform
3 43 (32.82%) Ansible
4 16 (12.21%) Istio
5 12 (9.16%) Grafana
5 12 (9.16%) Packer
6 9 (6.87%) Progress Chef
6 9 (6.87%) Prometheus
7 8 (6.11%) Kustomize
8 6 (4.58%) Puppet
9 4 (3.05%) Argo
9 4 (3.05%) Control-M
10 2 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 16 (12.21%) Atlassian
2 10 (7.63%) Google
2 10 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.87%) New Relic
3 9 (6.87%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.34%) IBM
5 5 (3.82%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.05%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.29%) Splunk
8 2 (1.53%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.53%) Oracle
8 2 (1.53%) VMware
9 1 (0.76%) CyberSource
9 1 (0.76%) YouTube