Code Optimisation Contracts

Code Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Code Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Code Optimisation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 693 782
Rank change year-on-year +118 +89 -133
Contract jobs citing Code Optimisation 11 29 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.048% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.054% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 26 38
10th Percentile £400 £587 £495
25th Percentile £431 £763 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -26.56% +18.52% +17.39%
75th Percentile £713 £1,034 £750
90th Percentile £738 £1,074 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £563 £275
% change year-on-year -28.95% +104.73% -43.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - -
Median hourly rate £60.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Code Optimisation 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Code Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Code Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Code Optimisation in the UK

Code Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Optimisation.

Daily rate trend for Code Optimisation in the UK

Code Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Optimisation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Optimisation in the UK

Code Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Optimisation.

Hourly rate trend for Code Optimisation in the UK

Code Optimisation
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Code Optimisation within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +100 7 £588 -26.56% 5
UK excluding London +73 7 £400 -28.95%
London +87 4 £725 -12.12% 5
Scotland - 4 - -
South East - 3 £400 -
Work from Home +114 1 £550 -31.25% 4

Code Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 4 (36.36%) Electronics
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) React Developer
4 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Junior
5 1 (9.09%) Junior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) React
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) CSS3
3 1 (9.09%) Dask
3 1 (9.09%) Flask
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) HTML5
3 1 (9.09%) Matplotlib
3 1 (9.09%) NumPy
3 1 (9.09%) Pandas
3 1 (9.09%) PySpark
3 1 (9.09%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Device Driver
1 4 (36.36%) IoT
1 4 (36.36%) PCIe
1 4 (36.36%) Verilog
1 4 (36.36%) VHDL
2 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (36.36%) VxWorks
3 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (36.36%) Defect Tracking
2 4 (36.36%) Device Driver Development
2 4 (36.36%) Memory Management
2 4 (36.36%) Requirements Management
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Database Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C
2 4 (36.36%) Embedded C
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) ProC
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) MISRA
1 4 (36.36%) MISRA C
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Atlassian
1 4 (36.36%) Intel
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle