SonarQube Contracts

SonarSource SonarQube
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SonarQube skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SonarQube over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 478 475
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -14
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 110 220 422
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.39% 0.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.11% 2.77% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 154 259
10th Percentile £425 £466 £440
25th Percentile £504 £516 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +4.35% +16.16%
75th Percentile £650 £709 £669
90th Percentile £688 £850 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £596 £550
% change year-on-year -7.76% +8.41% +18.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +75.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

SonarQube is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,219 7,949 15,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.05% 14.27% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,482 5,606 11,098
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £660 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 222 201
10th Percentile £30.60 £45.12 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +18.27% +7.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.70 £82.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SonarQube.

Daily rate trend for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the UK

SonarQube
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SonarQube.

Hourly rate trend for SonarQube in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SonarQube within the UK over the 6 months to 8 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -2 90 £550 -8.33% 14
UK excluding London +21 59 £550 -7.76% 7
Work from Home +45 38 £650 +8.33% 9
London -28 33 £510 -21.54% 7
South East -14 25 £650 +8.33% 2
North of England +31 13 £550 +1.85% 1
South West +20 13 £525 -23.64% 2
North West +21 8 £550 +5.72%
Midlands +17 5 £356 -25.83% 1
East Midlands - 5 £356 -
Yorkshire +19 4 £569 +33.82%
Wales +18 2 £666 +2.50%
Scotland +35 1 £375 -38.27%
North East +11 1 £550 -34.05% 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 5 (4.55%) JBoss
2 3 (2.73%) IIS
3 2 (1.82%) nginx
3 2 (1.82%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.91%) Confluence
4 1 (0.91%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 65 (59.09%) AWS
2 62 (56.36%) Azure
3 33 (30.00%) GitHub
4 29 (26.36%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (13.64%) PaaS
7 12 (10.91%) IaaS
7 12 (10.91%) Serverless
8 10 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (9.09%) SaaS
9 9 (8.18%) Amazon S3
9 9 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.27%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (7.27%) GCP
11 7 (6.36%) OpenShift
12 6 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (5.45%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (5.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) HTTP
2 1 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.91%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.82%) MySQL
2 12 (10.91%) Relational Database
3 11 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 10 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 8 (7.27%) RDBMS
6 7 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (5.45%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.45%) DynamoDB
8 5 (4.55%) SQLite
9 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.91%) Big Data
11 1 (0.91%) Power BI
11 1 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 36 (32.73%) Git
2 36 (32.73%) Selenium
3 29 (26.36%) Cucumber
4 27 (24.55%) GitLab
5 25 (22.73%) REST Assured
6 18 (16.36%) JIRA
7 13 (11.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (8.18%) Maven
9 8 (7.27%) Artifactory
10 7 (6.36%) Appium
10 7 (6.36%) Burp Suite
10 7 (6.36%) Postman
11 6 (5.45%) AppScan
12 5 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (4.55%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (4.55%) Checkstyle
12 5 (4.55%) JUnit
12 5 (4.55%) TeamCity
13 4 (3.64%) Robot Framework
General
1 39 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.27%) Law
4 17 (15.45%) Finance
5 13 (11.82%) Banking
5 13 (11.82%) Police
6 6 (5.45%) Legal
7 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.64%) Retail
9 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Publishing
10 1 (0.91%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (22.73%) Developer
2 23 (20.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (17.27%) Java Engineer
4 16 (14.55%) Software Engineer
5 13 (11.82%) Senior
5 13 (11.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 9 (8.18%) Site Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (5.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) React Developer
11 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (31.82%) REST
2 24 (21.82%) Java EE
3 22 (20.00%) ARM Templates
4 15 (13.64%) HTML
5 14 (12.73%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (12.73%) JSON
5 14 (12.73%) Spring Boot
6 12 (10.91%) Node.js
6 12 (10.91%) RESTful
7 11 (10.00%) .NET
8 10 (9.09%) Azure Blueprints
8 10 (9.09%) React
8 10 (9.09%) YAML
9 9 (8.18%) Spring
10 8 (7.27%) .NET Core
10 8 (7.27%) .NET Framework
10 8 (7.27%) CSS
10 8 (7.27%) React Native
10 8 (7.27%) Web Services
10 8 (7.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.18%) Mobile App
4 8 (7.27%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.73%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.73%) Solar Panel
7 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.82%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.00%) Linux
2 10 (9.09%) Windows
3 6 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.55%) Unix
5 4 (3.64%) Android
5 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.73%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (88.18%) DevOps
2 56 (50.91%) Test Automation
3 53 (48.18%) Software Engineering
4 47 (42.73%) CI/CD
5 39 (35.45%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (34.55%) Continuous Integration
7 37 (33.64%) Containerisation
8 29 (26.36%) Agile
8 29 (26.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (22.73%) Decision-Making
9 25 (22.73%) Software Architecture
9 25 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
10 23 (20.91%) Code Quality
10 23 (20.91%) Configuration Management
11 18 (16.36%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (14.55%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (14.55%) Project Management
13 15 (13.64%) Microservices
13 15 (13.64%) Scrum
14 14 (12.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.55%) Java
2 20 (18.18%) Python
3 19 (17.27%) Bash
4 16 (14.55%) SQL
5 13 (11.82%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.82%) PowerShell
6 12 (10.91%) C#
7 6 (5.45%) Go
8 5 (4.55%) Kotlin
8 5 (4.55%) Perl
9 3 (2.73%) Swift
10 2 (1.82%) Bicep
10 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.91%) PHP
11 1 (0.91%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (53.64%) Security Cleared
2 48 (43.64%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 10 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.64%) Degree
6 3 (2.73%) SANS
7 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.82%) HND
8 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.09%) NCSC
1 10 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (2.73%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
System Software
1 64 (58.18%) Docker
2 10 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 68 (61.82%) Ansible
2 59 (53.64%) Kubernetes
3 56 (50.91%) Terraform
4 13 (11.82%) Docker Swarm
4 13 (11.82%) Podman
5 12 (10.91%) HP Fortify
6 11 (10.00%) Progress Chef
6 11 (10.00%) Prometheus
7 9 (8.18%) Puppet
8 7 (6.36%) Grafana
8 7 (6.36%) Graylog
9 6 (5.45%) Kibana
9 6 (5.45%) Nessus
9 6 (5.45%) WebInspect
10 5 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (2.73%) Argo
11 3 (2.73%) Nagios
11 3 (2.73%) Netcool
11 3 (2.73%) Packer
12 1 (0.91%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 21 (19.09%) Splunk
2 15 (13.64%) Checkmarx
2 15 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 8 (7.27%) AppDynamics
5 6 (5.45%) Veracode
6 5 (4.55%) Oracle
7 4 (3.64%) Black Duck
7 4 (3.64%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.73%) VMware
8 3 (2.73%) Xamarin
9 2 (1.82%) Google
9 2 (1.82%) Mercator