Code Quality Contracts in the North West

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Code Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Code Quality over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 145 163
Rank change year-on-year +65 +18 -39
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 57 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.06% 0.47% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 0.52% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 11
10th Percentile £399 £200 £425
25th Percentile £425 £519 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% +9.07%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £579
90th Percentile - £667 £675
England median daily rate £538 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -8.28% +1.91% +16.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £68.50 - -
25th Percentile £70.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £80.00 - -
90th Percentile £81.50 - -
England median hourly rate £67.75 £52.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +29.05% -32.26% +72.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Code Quality is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Manchester +31 31 £550 -4.35% 23
Merseyside - 26 £388 - 1
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 49 (85.96%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (7.02%) Serverless
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.75%) Azure
4 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.75%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) MySQL
2 3 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Git
1 4 (7.02%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.75%) Crashlytics
2 1 (1.75%) GitLab
2 1 (1.75%) Gradle
General
1 4 (7.02%) Retail
2 3 (5.26%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.75%) Finance
3 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.75%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 53 (92.98%) Developer
2 49 (85.96%) Software Developer
3 3 (5.26%) Site Engineer
3 3 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (1.75%) Android Developer
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (1.75%) Java Developer
4 1 (1.75%) Java Engineer
4 1 (1.75%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (1.75%) Lead
4 1 (1.75%) Lead Developer
4 1 (1.75%) Python Developer
4 1 (1.75%) Senior
4 1 (1.75%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (1.75%) Senior Developer
4 1 (1.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (43.86%) HTML
2 1 (1.75%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.75%) AWS SAM
2 1 (1.75%) Dagger
2 1 (1.75%) Jest
2 1 (1.75%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (1.75%) JSON
2 1 (1.75%) Kafka
2 1 (1.75%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (1.75%) Node.js
2 1 (1.75%) React
2 1 (1.75%) RESTful
2 1 (1.75%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (1.75%) Spring
2 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.75%) Device Driver
1 1 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (85.96%) Artificial Intelligence
1 49 (85.96%) Conversational UI
2 28 (49.12%) Software Engineering
3 5 (8.77%) Containerisation
4 4 (7.02%) DevOps
4 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (5.26%) CI/CD
5 3 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (5.26%) Design Patterns
5 3 (5.26%) E-Commerce
5 3 (5.26%) SDLC
5 3 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (5.26%) Test Automation
6 2 (3.51%) Agile
6 2 (3.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (3.51%) Front End Development
6 2 (3.51%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (3.51%) Microservices
6 2 (3.51%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.88%) Python
2 28 (49.12%) SQL
3 26 (45.61%) JavaScript
4 25 (43.86%) C#
5 3 (5.26%) Bash
5 3 (5.26%) Go
5 3 (5.26%) Java
6 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.75%) PHP
6 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (85.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) ISO 22301
1 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Terraform
2 3 (5.26%) Ansible
2 3 (5.26%) HP Fortify
2 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (85.96%) PayPal
2 3 (5.26%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.26%) Splunk