Code Quality Contracts in the South West

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 153 164
Rank change year-on-year +33 +11 -28
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 35 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.09% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.43% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 9
10th Percentile £294 £345 £420
25th Percentile £372 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -2.22% +50.00%
75th Percentile £603 £688 £648
90th Percentile £644 £777 £656
England median daily rate £538 £586 £574
% change year-on-year -8.28% +2.18% +14.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £54.00 £42.69
25th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £44.74
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £48.79
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +43.49% -
75th Percentile £85.00 - £52.21
90th Percentile - - £53.88
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
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the South West

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the South West

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the South West

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the South West

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bristol +36 30 £450 -16.28% 4
Gloucestershire - 5 £475 - 2
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 24 (68.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.86%) AWS
1 1 (2.86%) Azure
1 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (14.29%) SQLite
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) Checkstyle
2 5 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.86%) Android Studio
General
1 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (2.86%) Banking
1 1 (2.86%) Finance
1 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
1 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (74.29%) Developer
2 24 (68.57%) Software Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) QA Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) QA Tester
4 2 (5.71%) Tester
5 1 (2.86%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Android Developer
5 1 (2.86%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) PHP Developer
5 1 (2.86%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior
5 1 (2.86%) Site Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Technical Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) HTML
2 5 (14.29%) .NET
2 5 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 5 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 5 (14.29%) JSON
2 5 (14.29%) REST
2 5 (14.29%) XML
3 2 (5.71%) RESTful
4 1 (2.86%) Android SDK
4 1 (2.86%) CSS
4 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.86%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.86%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Android
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) Artificial Intelligence
1 24 (68.57%) Conversational UI
2 17 (48.57%) Software Engineering
3 8 (22.86%) Agile
4 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 5 (14.29%) DevOps
5 5 (14.29%) OO
6 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.57%) Scrum
7 2 (5.71%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (5.71%) Black-Box Testing
7 2 (5.71%) Conflict Resolution
7 2 (5.71%) Open Source
7 2 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (5.71%) Regression Testing
7 2 (5.71%) Situational Awareness
7 2 (5.71%) Test Scripting
7 2 (5.71%) White-Box Testing
8 1 (2.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) C#
2 15 (42.86%) SQL
3 13 (37.14%) JavaScript
4 12 (34.29%) Python
5 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (77.14%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) HND
5 1 (2.86%) APMP
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Grafana
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (68.57%) PayPal
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle