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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 129 137
Rank change year-on-year +15 +8 +69
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 38 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.39% 0.45% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.13% 4.23% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 11 1
10th Percentile £270 £575 -
25th Percentile £362 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £612 £675
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% -9.33% +29.31%
75th Percentile £700 £685 £738
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -14.68% -2.33% -

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 416 284 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.19% 10.69% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 198 184
10th Percentile £306 £350 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £578
90th Percentile £638 £685 £659
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £37.88 - -
25th Percentile £40.69 £65.00 £76.59
Median hourly rate £46.25 £70.00 £78.19
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% -10.47% +64.60%
75th Percentile £52.69 £75.00 £79.78
90th Percentile £56.03 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 13 October 2025.

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 13 October 2025. 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 -1 28 £575 -6.05% 3
East Midlands - 10 £270 - 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 4 (10.53%) Confluence
1 4 (10.53%) OpenStack
2 3 (7.89%) Mule
3 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.63%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) GitHub
2 16 (42.11%) AWS
3 15 (39.47%) Azure
4 11 (28.95%) Amazon S3
5 9 (23.68%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (23.68%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (18.42%) AWS KMS
7 7 (18.42%) GCP
7 7 (18.42%) Route 53
8 5 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (13.16%) OpenShift
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (10.53%) Azure AKS
9 4 (10.53%) Datadog
9 4 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (10.53%) npm
9 4 (10.53%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) SSH
1 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (23.68%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (23.68%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (18.42%) DynamoDB
4 5 (13.16%) NoSQL
5 3 (7.89%) MariaDB
5 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
5 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.26%) Big Data
6 2 (5.26%) Delta Lake
6 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
6 2 (5.26%) Parquet
7 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.63%) Redis
7 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (55.26%) Git
2 18 (47.37%) JUnit
3 17 (44.74%) Jenkins
3 17 (44.74%) Maven
4 12 (31.58%) Mockito
4 12 (31.58%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (28.95%) Bitbucket
6 9 (23.68%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (18.42%) GitLab
7 7 (18.42%) Selenium
8 5 (13.16%) DbUnit
8 5 (13.16%) JIRA
8 5 (13.16%) jMock
9 4 (10.53%) Artifactory
9 4 (10.53%) CircleCI
9 4 (10.53%) Cypress.io
9 4 (10.53%) Gradle
9 4 (10.53%) Snyk
9 4 (10.53%) TeamCity
9 4 (10.53%) webpack
General
1 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Developer
2 18 (47.37%) Java Developer
3 9 (23.68%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Lead
5 4 (10.53%) Lead Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Java Web Developer
8 1 (2.63%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.63%) SQL Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (47.37%) Spring Boot
2 15 (39.47%) REST
2 15 (39.47%) Spring
3 14 (36.84%) YAML
4 12 (31.58%) Hibernate
4 12 (31.58%) JPA
5 10 (26.32%) RESTful
5 10 (26.32%) Spring Batch
5 10 (26.32%) Spring Cloud
6 9 (23.68%) ActiveMQ
6 9 (23.68%) SOAP
7 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
7 7 (18.42%) Bootstrap
7 7 (18.42%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (18.42%) Spring Integration
7 7 (18.42%) Web Services
8 5 (13.16%) PowerMock
8 5 (13.16%) Swagger
9 4 (10.53%) J2EE
9 4 (10.53%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.53%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (78.95%) DevOps
2 27 (71.05%) CI/CD
3 25 (65.79%) Containerisation
4 17 (44.74%) Microservices
4 17 (44.74%) Test Automation
5 16 (42.11%) Agile
6 15 (39.47%) DevSecOps
7 14 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (31.58%) Scrum
8 12 (31.58%) TDD
9 11 (28.95%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (26.32%) Regulatory Compliance
11 9 (23.68%) Platform Engineering
12 5 (13.16%) BDD
12 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
12 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (13.16%) Kanban
12 5 (13.16%) Open Source
12 5 (13.16%) Risk Management
12 5 (13.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) Java
2 16 (42.11%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) Python
4 4 (10.53%) Bash
4 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.89%) Groovy
6 1 (2.63%) Go
6 1 (2.63%) Perl
6 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 17 (44.74%) SC Cleared
3 13 (34.21%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) NCSC
2 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 29 (76.32%) Docker
2 5 (13.16%) Postfix
3 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (36.84%) Terraform
3 12 (31.58%) Grafana
3 12 (31.58%) Prometheus
4 5 (13.16%) Ansible
4 5 (13.16%) Progress Chef
5 4 (10.53%) Podman
5 4 (10.53%) Puppet
6 2 (5.26%) Argo
6 2 (5.26%) Istio
7 1 (2.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Atlassian
1 5 (13.16%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (13.16%) Splunk
2 4 (10.53%) Checkmarx
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.89%) Veracode
4 2 (5.26%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.63%) Teradata