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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 102 100
Rank change year-on-year -32 -2 +22
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 38 25 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.07% 1.36% 0.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.38% 9.29% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 11
10th Percentile £416 £468 £575
25th Percentile £436 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £612
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -6.05% -9.33%
75th Percentile £528 £700 £685
90th Percentile £558 - -
England median daily rate £510 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +2.00% -16.67% -

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 515 269 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.45% 14.66% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 186 140
10th Percentile £358 £368 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -6.37% +2.94%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £612
90th Percentile £607 £688 £707
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £15.28 £37.88 £57.13
25th Percentile £36.24 £40.69 £58.44
Median hourly rate £64.75 £46.25 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -27.45% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £52.69 £70.94
90th Percentile - £56.03 £73.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 28 September 2026.

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 28 September 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
Solihull -2 15 - -
Shropshire -29 15 £450 - 3
Birmingham -16 5 £511 +7.47% 1
Warwickshire - 2 £514 -
Worcestershire -4 1 £575 -17.86%
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 10 (26.32%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 37 (97.37%) AWS
2 17 (44.74%) GitHub
3 8 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 8 (21.05%) GitHub Copilot
3 8 (21.05%) Route 53
4 7 (18.42%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (18.42%) AWS KMS
5 5 (13.16%) Azure
6 4 (10.53%) GCP
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.26%) OCI
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.63%) npm
8 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (44.74%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (21.05%) Relational Database
3 7 (18.42%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (18.42%) DynamoDB
4 3 (7.89%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (89.47%) JUnit
2 33 (86.84%) Git
3 22 (57.89%) Jenkins
3 22 (57.89%) Maven
4 17 (44.74%) GitLab
4 17 (44.74%) Mockito
5 16 (42.11%) Selenium
6 15 (39.47%) Cucumber
6 15 (39.47%) Gatling
7 10 (26.32%) JIRA
8 5 (13.16%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (13.16%) DbUnit
8 5 (13.16%) jMock
9 2 (5.26%) Artifactory
9 2 (5.26%) Cypress.io
9 2 (5.26%) Postman
9 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (2.63%) CircleCI
10 1 (2.63%) TestRail
10 1 (2.63%) webpack
General
1 23 (60.53%) Social Skills
2 18 (47.37%) Public Sector
3 14 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Publishing
6 1 (2.63%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Developer
1 17 (44.74%) Java Developer
2 15 (39.47%) Quality Engineer
3 12 (31.58%) Senior
4 11 (28.95%) Senior Developer
4 11 (28.95%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Lead
6 4 (10.53%) Lead Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (2.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (2.63%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (2.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (81.58%) Spring
2 18 (47.37%) REST
2 18 (47.37%) SOAP
3 17 (44.74%) ActiveMQ
3 17 (44.74%) AngularJS
3 17 (44.74%) Hibernate
3 17 (44.74%) JPA
3 17 (44.74%) Spring Boot
4 16 (42.11%) Playwright
4 16 (42.11%) Spring Cloud
4 16 (42.11%) Web Services
5 15 (39.47%) Gherkin
5 15 (39.47%) WireMock
6 14 (36.84%) RESTful
7 7 (18.42%) Node.js
7 7 (18.42%) Spring Batch
7 7 (18.42%) Spring Integration
8 5 (13.16%) Bootstrap
8 5 (13.16%) PowerMock
8 5 (13.16%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (92.11%) CI/CD
2 34 (89.47%) Agile
3 33 (86.84%) Microservices
3 33 (86.84%) Scrum
3 33 (86.84%) TDD
4 25 (65.79%) Test Automation
5 21 (55.26%) BDD
6 19 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (44.74%) Containerisation
7 17 (44.74%) Kanban
8 15 (39.47%) Coaching
8 15 (39.47%) OWASP
9 14 (36.84%) Pair Programming
9 14 (36.84%) Software Testing
10 13 (34.21%) Manual Testing
10 13 (34.21%) Security Testing
11 12 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (31.58%) SDLC
11 12 (31.58%) Test Strategy
12 11 (28.95%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 36 (94.74%) Java
2 11 (28.95%) TypeScript
3 8 (21.05%) SQL
4 5 (13.16%) Python
5 3 (7.89%) Groovy
6 1 (2.63%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (31.58%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (42.11%) Accessibility
2 14 (36.84%) WCAG
3 13 (34.21%) QA
System Software
1 34 (89.47%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (47.37%) Grafana
3 14 (36.84%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.26%) Ansible
4 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.26%) Puppet
5 1 (2.63%) Argo
5 1 (2.63%) Istio
5 1 (2.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Jaspersoft
2 5 (13.16%) Atlassian
3 3 (7.89%) Sonatype
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk