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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 100 96
Rank change year-on-year -37 -4 +19
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 32 23 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.92% 1.27% 0.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.35% 8.65% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 11
10th Percentile £459 £444 £575
25th Percentile £463 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £612
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -12.17% -9.33%
75th Percentile £543 £700 £685
90th Percentile £584 - -
England median daily rate £515 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +8.34% -20.83% -

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 504 266 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.45% 14.69% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 185 143
10th Percentile £358 £369 £354
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -7.06% -0.14%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £612
90th Percentile £591 £658 £711
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £33.23 £37.88 £55.25
25th Percentile £55.10 £40.69 £55.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.35% -19.57% +72.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £52.69 £66.88
90th Percentile £75.75 £56.03 £71.75
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 14 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 14 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 -6 16 - -
Shropshire -43 8 £495 - 1
Birmingham -11 5 £511 +7.47%
Warwickshire - 2 £514 -
Worcestershire -2 1 £575 -17.86% 2
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 (31.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 31 (96.88%) AWS
2 10 (31.25%) GitHub
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon S3
3 9 (28.13%) Route 53
4 8 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 6 (18.75%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (15.63%) Azure
7 4 (12.50%) GCP
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (6.25%) OCI
9 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 1 (3.13%) npm
9 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (56.25%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (28.13%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 8 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 28 (87.50%) JUnit
2 27 (84.38%) Git
3 23 (71.88%) Jenkins
3 23 (71.88%) Maven
4 18 (56.25%) Mockito
5 10 (31.25%) GitLab
5 10 (31.25%) JIRA
6 9 (28.13%) Selenium
7 8 (25.00%) Cucumber
7 8 (25.00%) Gatling
8 6 (18.75%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (18.75%) DbUnit
8 6 (18.75%) jMock
9 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
9 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
9 2 (6.25%) Postman
9 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (3.13%) CircleCI
10 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (3.13%) TestRail
General
1 18 (56.25%) Public Sector
2 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (46.88%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Publishing
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Developer
1 18 (56.25%) Java Developer
2 13 (40.63%) Senior
3 12 (37.50%) Senior Developer
3 12 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 8 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Lead
6 4 (12.50%) Lead Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Python Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) QA Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (78.13%) Spring
2 19 (59.38%) REST
2 19 (59.38%) SOAP
3 18 (56.25%) ActiveMQ
3 18 (56.25%) AngularJS
3 18 (56.25%) Hibernate
3 18 (56.25%) JPA
3 18 (56.25%) Spring Boot
4 17 (53.13%) Spring Cloud
4 17 (53.13%) Web Services
5 15 (46.88%) RESTful
6 9 (28.13%) Playwright
7 8 (25.00%) Gherkin
7 8 (25.00%) Spring Batch
7 8 (25.00%) Spring Integration
7 8 (25.00%) WireMock
8 7 (21.88%) Node.js
9 6 (18.75%) Bootstrap
9 6 (18.75%) PowerMock
10 5 (15.63%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 7 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) Agile
1 28 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 27 (84.38%) Microservices
2 27 (84.38%) Scrum
2 27 (84.38%) TDD
3 18 (56.25%) Containerisation
3 18 (56.25%) Kanban
3 18 (56.25%) Test Automation
4 15 (46.88%) BDD
5 13 (40.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (37.50%) DevOps
7 11 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (34.38%) SDLC
8 10 (31.25%) Code Quality
8 10 (31.25%) Translating Business Requirements
9 9 (28.13%) API Development
9 9 (28.13%) Sprint Planning
10 8 (25.00%) API Integration
10 8 (25.00%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 30 (93.75%) Java
2 11 (34.38%) TypeScript
3 9 (28.13%) SQL
4 5 (15.63%) Python
5 3 (9.38%) Groovy
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (28.13%) Accessibility
2 8 (25.00%) QA
3 7 (21.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (87.50%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) Grafana
2 15 (46.88%) Prometheus
3 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.25%) Puppet
5 1 (3.13%) Argo
5 1 (3.13%) Istio
5 1 (3.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (18.75%) Atlassian
3 3 (9.38%) Sonatype
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk