SonarQube Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

SonarSource SonarQube
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring SonarQube skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 101 113
Rank change year-on-year -20 +12 +59
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 21 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.95% 0.66% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.66% 6.70% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 1
10th Percentile £480 £575 -
25th Percentile £563 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £612 £675
Median % change year-on-year +14.38% -9.33% -
75th Percentile - £685 £738
90th Percentile £850 - -
England median daily rate £550 £612 £575
% change year-on-year -10.13% +6.43% -4.17%

All Development Application Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 371 179 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.78% 9.81% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 126 105
10th Percentile £363 £358 £321
25th Percentile £433 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +11.51% -11.90%
75th Percentile £570 £633 £575
90th Percentile £700 £709 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £37.88 - £57.16
25th Percentile £40.69 £56.25 £60.40
Median hourly rate £46.25 £57.50 £66.59
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% -13.65% -
75th Percentile £52.69 £58.75 £73.58
90th Percentile £56.03 - £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

SonarQube job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

SonarQube
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

SonarQube
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SonarQube in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SonarQube in the West Midlands

SonarQube
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 December 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
Worcestershire - 14 £700 - 1
Herefordshire -11 10 £700 +14.38%
Birmingham -6 4 £402 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
SonarQube
England

SonarQube
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 (19.05%) OpenStack
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) GitHub
2 16 (76.19%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (28.57%) AWS
4 6 (28.57%) GCP
5 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) OpenShift
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (19.05%) Azure AKS
6 4 (19.05%) Datadog
6 4 (19.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (19.05%) npm
6 4 (19.05%) Pulumi
7 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (4.76%) IaaS
8 1 (4.76%) Route 53
8 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) SSH
1 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Big Data
2 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
2 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Parquet
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.76%) Redis
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Git
1 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 8 (38.10%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (23.81%) Bitbucket
3 5 (23.81%) JUnit
3 5 (23.81%) Maven
4 4 (19.05%) Artifactory
4 4 (19.05%) CircleCI
4 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
4 4 (19.05%) GitLab
4 4 (19.05%) Gradle
4 4 (19.05%) Postman
4 4 (19.05%) Selenium
4 4 (19.05%) Snyk
4 4 (19.05%) webpack
5 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (9.52%) MLflow
5 2 (9.52%) Poetry
5 2 (9.52%) PyCharm
5 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (4.76%) Finance
1 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
1 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (71.43%) YAML
2 7 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (23.81%) REST
4 4 (19.05%) Flask
4 4 (19.05%) JSON
5 3 (14.29%) NumPy
5 3 (14.29%) Pandas
6 2 (9.52%) Apache Avro
6 2 (9.52%) RESTful
6 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
7 1 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (4.76%) Django
7 1 (4.76%) Hibernate
7 1 (4.76%) JPA
7 1 (4.76%) OAuth
7 1 (4.76%) SOAP
7 1 (4.76%) Spring
7 1 (4.76%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (4.76%) Swagger
7 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (90.48%) CI/CD
2 19 (90.48%) Containerisation
3 15 (71.43%) DevSecOps
3 15 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 11 (52.38%) Regulatory Compliance
5 10 (47.62%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (23.81%) SDLC
7 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (19.05%) Software Delivery
7 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Task Automation
8 3 (14.29%) Agile
8 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (9.52%) ETL
9 2 (9.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Bash
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) Security Cleared
2 14 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 13 (61.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (95.24%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (90.48%) Kubernetes
2 15 (71.43%) Terraform
3 6 (28.57%) Grafana
3 6 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 5 (23.81%) Ansible
4 5 (23.81%) Progress Chef
5 4 (19.05%) Podman
5 4 (19.05%) Puppet
6 2 (9.52%) Argo
6 2 (9.52%) Istio
7 1 (4.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Splunk
2 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.52%) Cloudera
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) Jaspersoft