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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 95 -
Rank change year-on-year -33 - -
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 19 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.76% 0.27% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.86% 2.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile - £553 -
25th Percentile £563 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% - -
75th Percentile - £569 -
90th Percentile £850 £573 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 391 182 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.64% 12.30% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 114 126
10th Percentile £362 £356 £260
25th Percentile £430 £425 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +9.44% -16.36%
75th Percentile £562 £575 £538
90th Percentile £700 £650 £594
England median daily rate £500 £508 £535
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £25.33 £56.25 £10.50
Median hourly rate £47.30 £57.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.73% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.75 - £65.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 9 February 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 9 February 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
Worcestershire - 13 £700 -
Herefordshire -14 9 £700 +24.44%
Birmingham -12 4 £554 - 3
Solihull -1 2 - - 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 4 (21.05%) OpenStack
2 3 (15.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) Azure
2 14 (73.68%) GitHub
3 7 (36.84%) AWS
4 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) GCP
4 5 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (21.05%) Azure AKS
5 4 (21.05%) Datadog
5 4 (21.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (21.05%) npm
5 4 (21.05%) OpenShift
5 4 (21.05%) Pulumi
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
6 2 (10.53%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
2 2 (10.53%) Metadata
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
1 8 (42.11%) Maven
2 7 (36.84%) Git
3 6 (31.58%) JUnit
4 4 (21.05%) Artifactory
4 4 (21.05%) Bitbucket
4 4 (21.05%) CircleCI
4 4 (21.05%) Cypress.io
4 4 (21.05%) GitLab
4 4 (21.05%) Gradle
4 4 (21.05%) Postman
4 4 (21.05%) Selenium
4 4 (21.05%) Snyk
4 4 (21.05%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (21.05%) webpack
5 3 (15.79%) JIRA
6 2 (10.53%) DbUnit
6 2 (10.53%) jMock
6 2 (10.53%) Mockito
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (84.21%) YAML
2 6 (31.58%) JSON
2 6 (31.58%) REST
3 4 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (15.79%) Node.js
5 2 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
5 2 (10.53%) JPA
5 2 (10.53%) PowerMock
5 2 (10.53%) SLSA
5 2 (10.53%) SOAP
5 2 (10.53%) Spring
5 2 (10.53%) Spring Batch
5 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
5 2 (10.53%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (10.53%) Spring Integration
5 2 (10.53%) Web Services
6 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.26%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Private Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (94.74%) CI/CD
3 17 (89.47%) Containerisation
4 16 (84.21%) DevSecOps
5 14 (73.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (73.68%) Test Automation
6 10 (52.63%) Regulatory Compliance
7 9 (47.37%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (26.32%) SDLC
10 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
10 4 (21.05%) Continuous Delivery
10 4 (21.05%) Software Delivery
10 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
10 4 (21.05%) Task Automation
11 3 (15.79%) Agile
11 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
11 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (15.79%) Static Application Security Testing
12 2 (10.53%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Java
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Groovy
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (89.47%) Security Cleared
2 13 (68.42%) DV Cleared
2 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (52.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (89.47%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) Terraform
2 15 (78.95%) Kubernetes
3 7 (36.84%) Grafana
4 5 (26.32%) Ansible
4 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
5 4 (21.05%) Podman
5 4 (21.05%) Progress Chef
5 4 (21.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.53%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (10.53%) Sonatype
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft