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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 105 118
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 +39
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 4 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.20% 0.71% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.49% 4.69% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £533 £499 -
25th Percentile £563 £548 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £558 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.87% +11.50% -19.35%
75th Percentile £769 £588 £573
90th Percentile £863 £636 £636
Central London median daily rate £693 £558 £500
% change year-on-year +24.22% +11.50% -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 269 277 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.53% 15.07% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 157 168
10th Percentile £357 £402 £425
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -9.17% -0.08%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £688
90th Percentile £754 £738 £762
Central London median daily rate £538 £543 £588
% change year-on-year -0.92% -7.66% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.20
25th Percentile £18.75 - £52.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.22%
75th Percentile £34.38 - £67.88
90th Percentile £59.80 - £71.40
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.22%

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 27 February 2026.

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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ChatGPT
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Gatling
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Hamcrest
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Evangelist
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Blog
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) ProC
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) OutSystems
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk