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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 96 99
Rank change year-on-year -48 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 28 17 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.81% 1.02% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.80% 7.76% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 8
10th Percentile £463 £398 -
25th Percentile £466 £466 £612
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £488 £660
Median % change year-on-year +5.08% -26.14% +37.50%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £685
90th Percentile £554 £509 -
England median daily rate £518 £469 £600
% change year-on-year +10.48% -21.83% -

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 583 219 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.77% 13.15% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 150 141
10th Percentile £350 £356 £338
25th Percentile £408 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £519 £515 £612
90th Percentile £580 £588 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 7
10th Percentile £25.00 - £37.20
25th Percentile £25.98 £54.75 £55.63
Median hourly rate £61.50 £56.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% +0.44% +68.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - £65.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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
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 2 August 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 -9 13 - - 1
Birmingham -21 10 £475 -
Shropshire -46 4 £520 - 2
Warwickshire - 2 £514 -
Worcestershire 0 1 £575 - 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%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) AWS
2 18 (64.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 18 (64.29%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (64.29%) Amazon S3
2 18 (64.29%) Route 53
3 17 (60.71%) Amazon SQS
3 17 (60.71%) AWS KMS
4 10 (35.71%) Azure
5 6 (21.43%) GitHub
6 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (10.71%) GCP
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
9 1 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (3.57%) npm
9 1 (3.57%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (67.86%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (64.29%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (60.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (60.71%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (89.29%) JUnit
2 24 (85.71%) Git
3 23 (82.14%) Jenkins
3 23 (82.14%) Maven
4 19 (67.86%) Mockito
5 13 (46.43%) DbUnit
5 13 (46.43%) jMock
6 11 (39.29%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (21.43%) GitLab
8 5 (17.86%) Selenium
9 4 (14.29%) Cucumber
9 4 (14.29%) Gatling
9 4 (14.29%) JIRA
10 2 (7.14%) Artifactory
10 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
10 2 (7.14%) Postman
10 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (3.57%) Eclipse
11 1 (3.57%) IntelliJ
11 1 (3.57%) TestNG
General
1 20 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 10 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Developer
1 19 (67.86%) Java Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Senior
3 8 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 8 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (78.57%) Spring
2 20 (71.43%) REST
2 20 (71.43%) SOAP
3 19 (67.86%) ActiveMQ
3 19 (67.86%) AngularJS
3 19 (67.86%) Hibernate
3 19 (67.86%) JPA
3 19 (67.86%) Spring Boot
4 18 (64.29%) Spring Cloud
4 18 (64.29%) Web Services
5 17 (60.71%) Spring Batch
5 17 (60.71%) Spring Integration
6 14 (50.00%) Node.js
7 13 (46.43%) PowerMock
8 12 (42.86%) RESTful
9 11 (39.29%) Bootstrap
10 5 (17.86%) Playwright
11 4 (14.29%) Gherkin
11 4 (14.29%) WireMock
12 3 (10.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (53.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) Agile
2 24 (85.71%) Microservices
2 24 (85.71%) Scrum
2 24 (85.71%) TDD
3 22 (78.57%) CI/CD
4 19 (67.86%) Containerisation
4 19 (67.86%) DevOps
5 17 (60.71%) Kanban
6 16 (57.14%) BDD
7 13 (46.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (42.86%) BPMN
8 12 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (39.29%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (39.29%) Open Source
10 9 (32.14%) Biometrics
10 9 (32.14%) Decision-Making
11 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
12 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
13 4 (14.29%) Digital Identity
13 4 (14.29%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) Java
2 16 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.14%) Groovy
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) AWS Certification
4 5 (17.86%) Azure Certification
5 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Accessibility
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (89.29%) Docker
2 11 (39.29%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (71.43%) Grafana
2 8 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (14.29%) Terraform
5 2 (7.14%) Ansible
5 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
5 2 (7.14%) Puppet
6 1 (3.57%) Argo
6 1 (3.57%) Istio
6 1 (3.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (46.43%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.14%) Sonatype
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk