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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 108 131
Rank change year-on-year -48 +23 +32
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 24 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.59% 0.52% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.90% 4.05% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £463 £308 -
25th Percentile £480 £367 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £356
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +33.43% -25.83%
75th Percentile £542 £488 £359
90th Percentile £574 £517 £365
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.38% -4.55% -6.78%

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 615 247 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.03% 12.86% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 164 184
10th Percentile £328 £313 £260
25th Percentile £400 £406 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +6.74% -11.00%
75th Percentile £525 £531 £536
90th Percentile £575 £614 £579
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 12
10th Percentile £23.85 £22.01 £10.50
25th Percentile £25.33 £27.71 £43.88
Median hourly rate £61.50 £37.85 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.48% -32.71% +14.21%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.61 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.70 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%

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
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 15 April 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 -45 18 £514 +8.21% 1
East Midlands -31 6 £525 +24.70% 1
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 6 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) AWS
2 13 (54.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 13 (54.17%) Amazon EC2
2 13 (54.17%) Amazon S3
2 13 (54.17%) Amazon SQS
2 13 (54.17%) AWS KMS
2 13 (54.17%) Route 53
3 12 (50.00%) Azure
4 9 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub
7 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.17%) Datadog
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.17%) OCI
7 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.17%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Amazon Aurora
1 13 (54.17%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (54.17%) DynamoDB
1 13 (54.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (12.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 20 (83.33%) Git
3 17 (70.83%) Maven
4 15 (62.50%) JUnit
5 13 (54.17%) Mockito
6 10 (41.67%) DbUnit
6 10 (41.67%) jMock
7 8 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (25.00%) JIRA
9 5 (20.83%) Bitbucket
10 4 (16.67%) Artifactory
10 4 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (8.33%) GitLab
11 2 (8.33%) Selenium
12 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
12 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
12 1 (4.17%) Gradle
12 1 (4.17%) Postman
12 1 (4.17%) Snyk
12 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 14 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Developer
2 13 (54.17%) Java Developer
3 7 (29.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) Senior
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Architect
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps Architect
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (58.33%) REST
1 14 (58.33%) Spring
2 13 (54.17%) ActiveMQ
2 13 (54.17%) AngularJS
2 13 (54.17%) Hibernate
2 13 (54.17%) JPA
2 13 (54.17%) SOAP
2 13 (54.17%) Spring Batch
2 13 (54.17%) Spring Boot
2 13 (54.17%) Spring Cloud
2 13 (54.17%) Spring Integration
2 13 (54.17%) Web Services
3 11 (45.83%) Node.js
4 10 (41.67%) PowerMock
5 8 (33.33%) Bootstrap
5 8 (33.33%) RESTful
6 5 (20.83%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (16.67%) JSON
7 4 (16.67%) YAML
8 3 (12.50%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) DevOps
2 19 (79.17%) Agile
2 19 (79.17%) CI/CD
2 19 (79.17%) Microservices
3 18 (75.00%) Containerisation
4 14 (58.33%) Scrum
4 14 (58.33%) TDD
5 12 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (45.83%) Kanban
7 9 (37.50%) BDD
7 9 (37.50%) BPMN
7 9 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (33.33%) Open Source
9 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (25.00%) Biometrics
10 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
11 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps
11 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
11 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) Groovy
5 2 (8.33%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) C++
6 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) QA
1 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (83.33%) Docker
2 9 (37.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 14 (58.33%) Grafana
2 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
3 6 (25.00%) Ansible
4 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
4 5 (20.83%) Puppet
4 5 (20.83%) Terraform
5 4 (16.67%) Istio
6 1 (4.17%) Podman
6 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (41.67%) Atlassian
3 3 (12.50%) Sonatype
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk