Code Quality Contracts in the UK excluding London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 326 379
Rank change year-on-year +174 +53 -93
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 281 129 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.38% 0.55% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 0.62% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 90 97
10th Percentile £356 £400 £356
25th Percentile £416 £439 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £465
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +4.84% +4.49%
75th Percentile £530 £579 £538
90th Percentile £592 £638 £642
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £550
% change year-on-year -1.77% -7.45% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 3
10th Percentile £57.25 £50.50 £42.10
25th Percentile £58.75 £51.25 £43.26
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +16.15% +0.44%
75th Percentile £73.00 £70.00 £50.10
90th Percentile £85.00 - £53.04
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -32.26% +72.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,155 20,842 27,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.38% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,227 14,395 19,059
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,276 1,366
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.93 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.16
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.46
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
North of England +117 117 £525 -8.70% 52
Midlands +72 54 £359 -40.13% 33
Scotland +27 54 £475 -0.42% 6
North West +68 53 £550 -4.35% 31
Yorkshire +57 41 £500 +17.65% 15
South West +29 32 £475 -13.64% 16
East Midlands +44 28 £356 -16.24% 10
West Midlands +43 26 £600 -4.00% 23
North East - 23 - - 7
East of England +17 16 £508 -10.41% 11
South East +14 6 £500 -13.79% 24
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (1.78%) JBoss
2 4 (1.42%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 189 (67.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (10.32%) AWS
2 17 (6.05%) Serverless
3 16 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (5.69%) Azure
3 16 (5.69%) OpenShift
4 15 (5.34%) Amazon S3
4 15 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (2.14%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (1.42%) Rekognition
8 4 (1.42%) Textract
9 3 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.07%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (1.07%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.71%) SaaS
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.36%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.36%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.78%) HTTP
2 2 (0.71%) 5G
3 1 (0.36%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.63%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.49%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.49%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.14%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.78%) MySQL
6 5 (1.78%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.78%) SQLite
7 4 (1.42%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.07%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.07%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.71%) Big Data
9 2 (0.71%) GIS
9 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (9.96%) Git
2 18 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.98%) SonarQube
4 11 (3.91%) JIRA
5 10 (3.56%) Rational Rhapsody
6 5 (1.78%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (1.78%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (1.78%) Checkstyle
6 5 (1.78%) GitLab
6 5 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.78%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.42%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.42%) Mercurial
7 4 (1.42%) Postman
8 2 (0.71%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.71%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.36%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.36%) Gradle
9 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.36%) VersionOne
General
1 23 (8.19%) Public Sector
2 19 (6.76%) Social Skills
3 11 (3.91%) Electronics
4 7 (2.49%) Finance
5 5 (1.78%) Multimedia
6 4 (1.42%) Aerospace
6 4 (1.42%) Banking
6 4 (1.42%) Retail
7 3 (1.07%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.71%) Automotive
8 2 (0.71%) Aviation
8 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.36%) Law
9 1 (0.36%) Legal
9 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.36%) Retail Finance
9 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 228 (81.14%) Developer
2 195 (69.40%) Software Developer
3 22 (7.83%) Software Engineer
4 16 (5.69%) Senior
5 11 (3.91%) .NET Developer
6 10 (3.56%) Ada Engineer
6 10 (3.56%) Ada Software Engineer
6 10 (3.56%) React Developer
6 10 (3.56%) Senior Developer
7 8 (2.85%) Embedded Engineer
7 8 (2.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 8 (2.85%) Senior .NET Developer
8 7 (2.49%) Senior React Developer
9 6 (2.14%) Lead
10 5 (1.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (1.78%) Java Developer
10 5 (1.78%) Support Engineer
11 4 (1.42%) Lead Developer
11 4 (1.42%) Site Engineer
11 4 (1.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (43.42%) HTML
2 32 (11.39%) React
3 19 (6.76%) .NET
4 17 (6.05%) AWS CDK
5 14 (4.98%) CSS
5 14 (4.98%) Node.js
5 14 (4.98%) Spring Boot
6 11 (3.91%) REST
7 9 (3.20%) Spring
8 8 (2.85%) .NET Core
8 8 (2.85%) JSON
9 7 (2.49%) RESTful
9 7 (2.49%) XML
10 6 (2.14%) .NET Framework
10 6 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (2.14%) GraphQL
11 5 (1.78%) Jest
12 4 (1.42%) Playwright
12 4 (1.42%) Spring Security
12 4 (1.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.34%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.91%) Legacy Applications
2 11 (3.91%) Wiki
3 9 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.78%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.42%) Social Media
6 2 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.71%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (0.71%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.71%) SCADA
7 1 (0.36%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.36%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.36%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.36%) Digital TV
7 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.36%) Life Science
7 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.56%) Windows
2 7 (2.49%) Linux
3 5 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.07%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (71.17%) Artificial Intelligence
2 189 (67.26%) Conversational UI
3 137 (48.75%) Software Engineering
4 39 (13.88%) Agile
5 38 (13.52%) DevOps
6 28 (9.96%) User Experience
7 26 (9.25%) CI/CD
7 26 (9.25%) Test Automation
8 20 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (6.76%) Microservices
10 16 (5.69%) Mentoring
11 15 (5.34%) Unit Testing
12 13 (4.63%) Community of Practice
12 13 (4.63%) Scrum
13 12 (4.27%) Knowledge Transfer
13 12 (4.27%) Machine Learning
13 12 (4.27%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (4.27%) TDD
13 12 (4.27%) Validation
14 11 (3.91%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 136 (48.40%) Python
2 134 (47.69%) JavaScript
3 120 (42.70%) C#
3 120 (42.70%) SQL
4 21 (7.47%) Java
5 15 (5.34%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.91%) C
7 10 (3.56%) Ada
8 7 (2.49%) Bash
9 5 (1.78%) Perl
10 4 (1.42%) C++
10 4 (1.42%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.07%) Go
11 3 (1.07%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.71%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 203 (72.24%) Degree
2 10 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.20%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.78%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.71%) HND
5 2 (0.71%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.36%) APMP
6 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.98%) Accessibility
1 14 (4.98%) QA
2 6 (2.14%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.07%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.07%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.71%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) HL7
System Software
1 25 (8.90%) Docker
2 5 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) Firmware
3 1 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.98%) Grafana
3 12 (4.27%) Kibana
4 5 (1.78%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.78%) Terraform
5 3 (1.07%) Ansible
5 3 (1.07%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 189 (67.26%) PayPal
2 10 (3.56%) IBM
3 8 (2.85%) Splunk
4 5 (1.78%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.78%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.78%) Oracle
4 5 (1.78%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.71%) Adobe
5 2 (0.71%) Confluent
5 2 (0.71%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.36%) Dell
6 1 (0.36%) Sage
6 1 (0.36%) Twitter