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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 90 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 23 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.72% 0.58% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.49% 4.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £463 £466 -
25th Percentile £476 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.74% - -
75th Percentile £555 £500 -
90th Percentile £576 - -
England median daily rate £519 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.71% -9.09% -7.37%

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 512 198 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.09% 14.32% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 124 150
10th Percentile £350 £375 £260
25th Percentile £407 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% +8.56% -16.04%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £538
90th Percentile £575 £638 £553
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 12
10th Percentile £25.00 - £10.50
25th Percentile £34.54 £56.25 £43.88
Median hourly rate £65.75 £57.50 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year +14.35% +1.10% +70.36%
75th Percentile £73.25 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.14% -11.35% +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
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 24 May 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 -8 11 - -
Birmingham -19 11 £511 +7.47%
Shropshire - 1 £514 -
Warwickshire - 1 £550 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £575 -
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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 21 (91.30%) AWS
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon EC2
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon S3
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon SQS
2 17 (73.91%) AWS KMS
2 17 (73.91%) Route 53
3 9 (39.13%) Azure
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.35%) Datadog
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.35%) npm
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.35%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (73.91%) Amazon Aurora
1 17 (73.91%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (73.91%) DynamoDB
1 17 (73.91%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (95.65%) Maven
2 21 (91.30%) Jenkins
3 20 (86.96%) JUnit
4 19 (82.61%) Git
5 17 (73.91%) Mockito
6 13 (56.52%) DbUnit
6 13 (56.52%) jMock
7 11 (47.83%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (13.04%) Selenium
9 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
9 2 (8.70%) GitLab
9 2 (8.70%) JIRA
9 2 (8.70%) Postman
10 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
10 1 (4.35%) Gatling
10 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
10 1 (4.35%) Snyk
10 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (4.35%) TestRail
10 1 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 17 (73.91%) Public Sector
2 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Developer
1 17 (73.91%) Java Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 6 (26.09%) Senior Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (82.61%) REST
2 18 (78.26%) SOAP
2 18 (78.26%) Spring
3 17 (73.91%) ActiveMQ
3 17 (73.91%) AngularJS
3 17 (73.91%) Hibernate
3 17 (73.91%) JPA
3 17 (73.91%) Spring Batch
3 17 (73.91%) Spring Boot
3 17 (73.91%) Spring Integration
3 17 (73.91%) Web Services
4 16 (69.57%) Spring Cloud
5 14 (60.87%) Node.js
6 13 (56.52%) PowerMock
7 11 (47.83%) Bootstrap
7 11 (47.83%) RESTful
8 4 (17.39%) JSON
8 4 (17.39%) YAML
9 3 (13.04%) SLSA
10 2 (8.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Agile
1 19 (82.61%) DevOps
1 19 (82.61%) TDD
2 18 (78.26%) Containerisation
2 18 (78.26%) Microservices
2 18 (78.26%) Scrum
3 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
4 15 (65.22%) Kanban
5 13 (56.52%) BDD
6 12 (52.17%) BPMN
6 12 (52.17%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (47.83%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (47.83%) Open Source
8 10 (43.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (39.13%) Biometrics
9 9 (39.13%) Decision-Making
10 4 (17.39%) DevSecOps
10 4 (17.39%) Digital Identity
10 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) Java
2 16 (69.57%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Python
4 3 (13.04%) Groovy
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (60.87%) SC Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Certification
3 5 (21.74%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (82.61%) Docker
2 11 (47.83%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) Grafana
2 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
3 4 (17.39%) Terraform
4 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.35%) Ansible
5 1 (4.35%) Podman
5 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (56.52%) Atlassian
3 3 (13.04%) Sonatype
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk