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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 99 113
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 +64
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 28 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.40% 0.64% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.07% 6.32% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 1
10th Percentile £475 £575 -
25th Percentile £500 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -9.33% -
75th Percentile £700 £685 £738
90th Percentile £820 - -
England median daily rate £506 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -14.63% -1.17% -

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 347 190 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.32% 10.06% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 133 114
10th Percentile £368 £358 £325
25th Percentile £428 £426 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £566 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £711 £688
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% -
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 - - +4.00%

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 30 October 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 30 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
Worcestershire - 14 £700 -
Herefordshire -9 10 £700 +14.38%
Birmingham +8 8 £475 -
Solihull - 3 - -
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 (14.29%) OpenStack
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) GitHub
2 16 (57.14%) Azure
3 13 (46.43%) AWS
4 10 (35.71%) Amazon S3
5 8 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (21.43%) AWS KMS
6 6 (21.43%) GCP
6 6 (21.43%) Route 53
7 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (17.86%) OpenShift
8 4 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (14.29%) Azure AKS
8 4 (14.29%) Datadog
8 4 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (14.29%) npm
8 4 (14.29%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) SSH
1 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (21.43%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.14%) Big Data
4 2 (7.14%) Delta Lake
4 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.14%) Parquet
5 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.57%) Redis
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (57.14%) Git
1 16 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 12 (42.86%) JUnit
2 12 (42.86%) Maven
3 8 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (21.43%) Mockito
5 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket
5 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (14.29%) Artifactory
6 4 (14.29%) CircleCI
6 4 (14.29%) Cypress.io
6 4 (14.29%) DbUnit
6 4 (14.29%) GitLab
6 4 (14.29%) Gradle
6 4 (14.29%) jMock
6 4 (14.29%) Postman
6 4 (14.29%) Selenium
6 4 (14.29%) Snyk
6 4 (14.29%) webpack
7 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Developer
3 8 (28.57%) Java Developer
4 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Lead
5 4 (14.29%) Lead Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) YAML
2 12 (42.86%) REST
3 9 (32.14%) Spring Boot
4 8 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (28.57%) JPA
4 8 (28.57%) SOAP
4 8 (28.57%) Spring
5 7 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (25.00%) RESTful
6 6 (21.43%) AngularJS
6 6 (21.43%) Bootstrap
6 6 (21.43%) Hibernate
6 6 (21.43%) Spring Batch
6 6 (21.43%) Spring Cloud
6 6 (21.43%) Spring Integration
6 6 (21.43%) Web Services
7 4 (14.29%) Flask
7 4 (14.29%) JSON
7 4 (14.29%) PowerMock
8 3 (10.71%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) DevOps
2 24 (85.71%) Containerisation
3 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 15 (53.57%) DevSecOps
4 15 (53.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (53.57%) Test Automation
5 11 (39.29%) Regulatory Compliance
6 10 (35.71%) Agile
6 10 (35.71%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (32.14%) Microservices
7 9 (32.14%) Scrum
8 8 (28.57%) TDD
9 7 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (17.86%) SDLC
11 4 (14.29%) Configuration Management
11 4 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
11 4 (14.29%) Kanban
11 4 (14.29%) Open Source
11 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
5 3 (10.71%) Groovy
6 1 (3.57%) Go
6 1 (3.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (60.71%) SC Cleared
3 14 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (96.43%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Postfix
3 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (67.86%) Kubernetes
2 15 (53.57%) Terraform
3 11 (39.29%) Grafana
3 11 (39.29%) Prometheus
4 5 (17.86%) Ansible
4 5 (17.86%) Progress Chef
5 4 (14.29%) Podman
5 4 (14.29%) Puppet
6 2 (7.14%) Argo
6 2 (7.14%) Istio
7 1 (3.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Splunk
2 4 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 4 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.14%) Cloudera
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.57%) AppDynamics