SonarQube Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

SonarSource SonarQube
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SonarQube skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 116 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 25 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.70% 0.15% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.84% 1.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 20 1 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £555 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £367 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.89% - -
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile £850 - -
England median daily rate £531 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -3.50% +0.92% -9.17%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 517 255 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.57% 12.34% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 168 160
10th Percentile £314 £337 £260
25th Percentile £403 £391 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +6.74% -14.75%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £536
90th Percentile £638 £648 £589
England median daily rate £500 £505 £533
% change year-on-year -0.99% -5.21% -7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £20.42 £22.01 -
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.71 £10.50
Median hourly rate £26.61 £37.85 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.71% -34.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.61 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.80 £54.70 £62.96
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SonarQube job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SonarQube
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SonarQube.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SonarQube

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the Midlands

SonarQube
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SonarQube within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 February 2026. 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
West Midlands -27 21 £675 - 6
East Midlands -18 4 £525 +43.05% 2
SonarQube
England

SonarQube
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (16.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 21 (84.00%) Azure
2 14 (56.00%) GitHub
3 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 10 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (24.00%) Azure AKS
5 5 (20.00%) GCP
5 5 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (16.00%) AWS KMS
6 4 (16.00%) Datadog
6 4 (16.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (16.00%) npm
6 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
6 4 (16.00%) Pulumi
6 4 (16.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (16.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.00%) Metadata
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Git
2 12 (48.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (40.00%) Maven
4 9 (36.00%) JUnit
5 6 (24.00%) Bitbucket
6 5 (20.00%) Artifactory
6 5 (20.00%) GitLab
6 5 (20.00%) JIRA
6 5 (20.00%) Selenium
6 5 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (16.00%) CircleCI
7 4 (16.00%) Cypress.io
7 4 (16.00%) Gradle
7 4 (16.00%) Mockito
7 4 (16.00%) Postman
7 4 (16.00%) Snyk
7 4 (16.00%) webpack
8 3 (12.00%) DbUnit
8 3 (12.00%) jMock
9 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (60.00%) YAML
2 8 (32.00%) REST
3 6 (24.00%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (24.00%) JSON
4 5 (20.00%) Node.js
4 5 (20.00%) Spring
5 4 (16.00%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (16.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (16.00%) Hibernate
5 4 (16.00%) JPA
5 4 (16.00%) SOAP
5 4 (16.00%) Spring Batch
5 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
5 4 (16.00%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (16.00%) Spring Integration
5 4 (16.00%) Web Services
6 3 (12.00%) PowerMock
7 2 (8.00%) RESTful
7 2 (8.00%) SLSA
8 1 (4.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) CI/CD
1 24 (96.00%) DevOps
2 20 (80.00%) Containerisation
3 15 (60.00%) DevSecOps
3 15 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (36.00%) Agile
6 9 (36.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 8 (32.00%) Microservices
8 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (20.00%) Scrum
9 5 (20.00%) SDLC
9 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (20.00%) Task Automation
9 5 (20.00%) TDD
10 4 (16.00%) BPMN
10 4 (16.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 4 (16.00%) Software Delivery
10 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) C#
4 2 (8.00%) Groovy
5 1 (4.00%) C++
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (76.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (48.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) NCSC
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (88.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (72.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (64.00%) Terraform
3 9 (36.00%) Grafana
4 8 (32.00%) Ansible
5 6 (24.00%) Puppet
6 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
7 4 (16.00%) Podman
7 4 (16.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (8.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Jaspersoft
1 4 (16.00%) Splunk
2 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.00%) Sonatype
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow