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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 812 640
Rank change year-on-year +444 -172 +54
Permanent jobs citing SonarQube 374 95 350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.092% 0.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.20% 1.00% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 102 58 91
10th Percentile £51,936 £47,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £82,688 £83,127 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,400 £104,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,870 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +24.78% - +4.35%

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 6,028 9,520 13,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 9.18% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,562 6,582 8,354
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Top 17 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 31 May 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
Work from Home +360 324 £78,810 +31.35% 86
England +369 313 £74,870 +24.78% 84
UK excluding London +388 306 £74,870 +24.78% 57
North of England +149 133 £78,810 +37.06% 22
North West +105 121 £85,253 +48.27% 14
Midlands +122 78 £75,000 +25.00% 8
London +139 65 £68,750 -31.25% 33
Scotland +171 53 £64,905 -8.03% 1
West Midlands +82 39 £75,000 +25.00% 7
East Midlands +75 39 - - 1
South East +90 21 £62,500 - 8
East of England +63 15 - -
Yorkshire +56 6 £74,870 +54.35% 5
North East - 6 £60,000 - 3
South West +106 5 £65,000 +2.30% 10
Northern Ireland +46 5 £55,000 - 6
Wales +44 4 £65,000 - 1

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
1 201 (53.74%) Confluence
2 8 (2.14%) nginx
2 8 (2.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 306 (81.82%) AWS
2 303 (81.02%) Azure
3 183 (48.93%) GCP
4 33 (8.82%) GitHub
5 22 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (4.01%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (2.94%) Apigee
10 11 (2.94%) AWS KMS
11 10 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (2.67%) Route 53
12 8 (2.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 8 (2.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (1.87%) Serverless
14 6 (1.60%) IaaS
14 6 (1.60%) PaaS
14 6 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) SAN
2 1 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (67.65%) SQL Server
2 32 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (5.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (3.48%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.67%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.60%) Redis
9 3 (0.80%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.80%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.80%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.27%) Metadata
10 1 (0.27%) MySQL
10 1 (0.27%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 299 (79.95%) Maven
2 298 (79.68%) JIRA
3 296 (79.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 267 (71.39%) GitLab
5 265 (70.86%) Selenium
6 259 (69.25%) Bitbucket
7 258 (68.98%) Cucumber
8 77 (20.59%) Jenkins
9 60 (16.04%) Git
10 36 (9.63%) JUnit
11 23 (6.15%) Mockito
12 21 (5.61%) TeamCity
13 18 (4.81%) Ant
14 12 (3.21%) Postman
15 11 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
15 11 (2.94%) DbUnit
15 11 (2.94%) jMock
16 8 (2.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 8 (2.14%) Gradle
16 8 (2.14%) TestNG
General
1 298 (79.68%) Finance
2 278 (74.33%) Banking
3 248 (66.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (24.33%) Investment Banking
5 90 (24.06%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (24.06%) Retail
6 46 (12.30%) Social Skills
7 29 (7.75%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (2.41%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.87%) Games
11 4 (1.07%) Front Office
12 2 (0.53%) Local Government
13 1 (0.27%) Advertising
13 1 (0.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 267 (71.39%) Software Engineer
2 42 (11.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (6.95%) Developer
4 21 (5.61%) Lead
5 19 (5.08%) Senior
6 18 (4.81%) Python Engineer
7 17 (4.55%) Architect
7 17 (4.55%) DevOps Architect
7 17 (4.55%) Lead Developer
8 13 (3.48%) Java Developer
9 12 (3.21%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (3.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (2.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 8 (2.14%) Java Engineer
12 8 (2.14%) Lead Java Developer
13 7 (1.87%) Android Developer
13 7 (1.87%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (78.07%) Spring
2 281 (75.13%) Spring Boot
3 263 (70.32%) JPA
4 259 (69.25%) Kafka
5 253 (67.65%) React
6 250 (66.84%) CSS
6 250 (66.84%) HTML
7 247 (66.04%) Redux
8 182 (48.66%) Hibernate
9 132 (35.29%) REST
10 123 (32.89%) RESTful
11 93 (24.87%) CSS3
11 93 (24.87%) HTML5
12 90 (24.06%) Jest
12 90 (24.06%) Sass
13 17 (4.55%) Web Services
14 15 (4.01%) AngularJS
14 15 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (4.01%) SOAP
15 14 (3.74%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 249 (66.58%) Product Ownership
2 247 (66.04%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.14%) Life Science
5 8 (2.14%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.87%) Mobile Games
7 6 (1.60%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.07%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.27%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.27%) IoT
10 1 (0.27%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.27%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.03%) Linux
2 14 (3.74%) Unix
3 7 (1.87%) Android
3 7 (1.87%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.80%) Windows
5 1 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (93.32%) DevOps
2 317 (84.76%) CI/CD
3 314 (83.96%) Agile
4 293 (78.34%) Containerisation
5 292 (78.07%) Microservices
6 290 (77.54%) Test Automation
7 284 (75.94%) Software Engineering
8 263 (70.32%) SDLC
9 253 (67.65%) Front End Development
10 249 (66.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 247 (66.04%) Performance Optimisation
12 195 (52.14%) TDD
13 160 (42.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 157 (41.98%) Clean Code
15 119 (31.82%) Mentoring
16 106 (28.34%) Migration
17 91 (24.33%) User Experience
18 90 (24.06%) Responsive Web Design
18 90 (24.06%) Strategic Thinking
19 37 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 315 (84.22%) Java
2 280 (74.87%) JavaScript
3 270 (72.19%) SQL
4 91 (24.33%) TypeScript
5 48 (12.83%) Python
6 12 (3.21%) Go
7 9 (2.41%) Groovy
8 7 (1.87%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.87%) Objective-C
8 7 (1.87%) Swift
9 6 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.34%) C#
11 3 (0.80%) Perl
11 3 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (5.61%) Security Cleared
2 10 (2.67%) Degree
3 9 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.41%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.80%) OCP
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (69.25%) QA
2 90 (24.06%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.60%) NCSC
4 4 (1.07%) SLA
System Software
1 330 (88.24%) Docker
2 4 (1.07%) Postfix
3 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 323 (86.36%) Kubernetes
2 56 (14.97%) Terraform
3 44 (11.76%) Ansible
4 14 (3.74%) Grafana
4 14 (3.74%) Istio
5 11 (2.94%) Packer
6 10 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.14%) Kustomize
8 7 (1.87%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.07%) Argo
9 4 (1.07%) Puppet
10 3 (0.80%) Control-M
10 3 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 247 (66.04%) Solace
2 24 (6.42%) Atlassian
3 10 (2.67%) Google
4 9 (2.41%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.14%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.14%) New Relic
6 6 (1.60%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.60%) IBM
7 4 (1.07%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.07%) Splunk
8 3 (0.80%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (0.80%) Oracle
8 3 (0.80%) VMware
9 1 (0.27%) CyberSource
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.27%) YouTube