SonarQube Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SonarSource SonarQube
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SonarQube skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 107 125
Rank change year-on-year -9 +18 +42
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 11 13 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.60% 0.64% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.87% 4.55% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 4
10th Percentile £501 £525 -
25th Percentile £605 £559 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% +15.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £573
90th Percentile £925 £740 £636
Central London median daily rate £610 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +6.09% +15.00% -19.35%

All Development Application Skills
City of London

SonarQube falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 284 286 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.49% 14.11% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 163 178
10th Percentile £353 £365 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £572
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -0.79% -8.48%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £686
90th Percentile £769 £738 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -0.05% -3.30% -7.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +26.09%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SonarQube relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SonarQube job vacancy trend in the City of London

SonarQube
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SonarQube.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the City of London

SonarQube
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
2 4 (36.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (27.27%) Slack
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
4 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
5 1 (9.09%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) ChatGPT
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (9.09%) Google Gemini
5 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) Impala
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (9.09%) Pinecone
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) GitLab
2 4 (36.36%) Selenium
3 3 (27.27%) Gradle
3 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) Maven
4 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 1 (9.09%) Gatling
4 1 (9.09%) Hamcrest
4 1 (9.09%) JUnit
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (9.09%) Postman
4 1 (9.09%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Retail Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Evangelist
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
1 2 (18.18%) LangChain
2 1 (9.09%) Faiss
2 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
2 1 (9.09%) J2EE
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
2 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
3 2 (18.18%) AI Agents
3 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (9.09%) Blog
4 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (9.09%) Market Risk
4 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
3 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (36.36%) Migration
5 4 (36.36%) Observability
5 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (36.36%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) AI
6 3 (27.27%) Application Packaging
6 3 (27.27%) GitOps
6 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
6 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
6 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
7 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
7 2 (18.18%) Prompt Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) C
4 1 (9.09%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) ProC
4 1 (9.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) MCP
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) EU AI Act
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Argo
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Istio
4 1 (9.09%) Kibana
4 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) DocuSign
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) OutSystems
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Tenable