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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 109 118
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 +20
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 6 13 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.28% 0.75% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.14% 4.83% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 6
10th Percentile £393 - £532
25th Percentile £438 £425 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £610 £713
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% -14.39% +35.71%
75th Percentile £569 £615 £738
90th Percentile £588 £650 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £580 £713
% change year-on-year -9.48% -18.60% +35.71%

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 280 269 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.90% 15.59% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 188 183
10th Percentile £363 £355 £365
25th Percentile £453 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -3.08% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £709
90th Percentile £738 £721 £797
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile - £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -74.00% - -

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 7 October 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) eggPlant
1 3 (50.00%) Postman
1 3 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) JMeter
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) Mockito
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Lead
2 4 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 3 (50.00%) Kafka
3 3 (50.00%) Middleware
4 2 (33.33%) .NET
4 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) JPA
4 2 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 2 (33.33%) Spring
4 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) XBRL
4 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) API Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) Korn
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISEB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) HP Fortify
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) SAP