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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 99 117
Rank change year-on-year +2 +18 +62
Contract jobs citing SonarQube 24 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.31% 0.63% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.66% 6.15% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 1
10th Percentile £460 £575 -
25th Percentile £500 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £612 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -9.33% -
75th Percentile £700 £685 £738
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £480 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 277 195 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.08% 10.21% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 145 120
10th Percentile £370 £355 £318
25th Percentile £425 £425 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £663 £710 £689
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £37.88 £55.25 -
25th Percentile £40.69 £55.63 -
Median hourly rate £46.25 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% - -
75th Percentile £52.69 £66.88 -
90th Percentile £56.03 £71.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

SonarQube
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SonarQube as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SonarQube 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 - 9 £700 - 1
Birmingham +4 8 £475 -
Herefordshire +2 6 £700 +14.38% 1
Solihull - 4 £500 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
SonarQube
England

SonarQube
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) OpenStack
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
1 13 (54.17%) GitHub
2 11 (45.83%) Amazon S3
2 11 (45.83%) Azure
3 9 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (29.17%) AWS KMS
4 7 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (29.17%) Route 53
5 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (20.83%) GCP
6 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (16.67%) OpenShift
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (12.50%) Azure AKS
7 3 (12.50%) Datadog
7 3 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (12.50%) npm
7 3 (12.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) SSH
1 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (37.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (29.17%) DynamoDB
4 2 (8.33%) Big Data
4 2 (8.33%) Delta Lake
4 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
4 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.33%) Parquet
5 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) Redis
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (66.67%) Git
1 16 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 12 (50.00%) JUnit
2 12 (50.00%) Maven
3 7 (29.17%) Mockito
3 7 (29.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (20.83%) DbUnit
5 5 (20.83%) jMock
6 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket
7 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
7 3 (12.50%) CircleCI
7 3 (12.50%) Cypress.io
7 3 (12.50%) GitLab
7 3 (12.50%) Gradle
7 3 (12.50%) Postman
7 3 (12.50%) Selenium
7 3 (12.50%) Snyk
7 3 (12.50%) webpack
8 2 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 6 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Lead
4 4 (16.67%) Lead Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
4 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) REST
2 10 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 10 (41.67%) YAML
3 9 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (37.50%) JPA
3 9 (37.50%) SOAP
3 9 (37.50%) Spring
4 8 (33.33%) RESTful
5 7 (29.17%) AngularJS
5 7 (29.17%) Bootstrap
5 7 (29.17%) Hibernate
5 7 (29.17%) Spring Batch
5 7 (29.17%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (29.17%) Spring Integration
5 7 (29.17%) Web Services
6 6 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (20.83%) PowerMock
8 4 (16.67%) Flask
9 3 (12.50%) NumPy
9 3 (12.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) DevOps
2 20 (83.33%) Containerisation
3 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 11 (45.83%) Agile
5 10 (41.67%) DevSecOps
5 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (41.67%) Microservices
5 10 (41.67%) Scrum
5 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
6 9 (37.50%) TDD
7 8 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (29.17%) Regulatory Compliance
9 6 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (20.83%) BDD
10 5 (20.83%) Kanban
10 5 (20.83%) Open Source
11 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
11 4 (16.67%) SDLC
11 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) Java
3 6 (25.00%) Python
4 4 (16.67%) Bash
5 3 (12.50%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) Go
6 1 (4.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 14 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (95.83%) Docker
2 5 (20.83%) Postfix
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (45.83%) Grafana
2 11 (45.83%) Prometheus
3 10 (41.67%) Terraform
4 4 (16.67%) Ansible
4 4 (16.67%) Progress Chef
5 3 (12.50%) Podman
5 3 (12.50%) Puppet
6 2 (8.33%) Argo
6 2 (8.33%) Istio
7 1 (4.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Atlassian
1 5 (20.83%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (16.67%) Splunk
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.33%) Cloudera
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics