Code Quality Contracts with Work from Home Options

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 105 333 382
Rank change year-on-year +228 +49 -49
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 314 132 240
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.11% 0.53% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 0.59% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 100 192
10th Percentile £310 £400 £387
25th Percentile £363 £457 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £650
90th Percentile £690 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £550
% change year-on-year -1.77% -7.45% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile - £51.25 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £55.94 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 -
75th Percentile £74.50 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £79.30 £88.75 -
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,102 22,417 40,338
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.99% 89.73% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,786 15,844 29,294
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 517 543
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £14.30
25th Percentile £25.25 £28.62 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +38.98% +54.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.60
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Code Quality
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Code Quality trend for jobs with a WFH option

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Code Quality.

Code Quality daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Code Quality over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Code Quality daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Code Quality.

Code Quality hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (1.91%) CMS
2 5 (1.59%) Headless CMS
3 3 (0.96%) Confluence
3 3 (0.96%) JBoss
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) Appian
Applications
1 211 (67.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 30 (9.55%) AWS
2 18 (5.73%) Azure
3 12 (3.82%) Amazon S3
3 12 (3.82%) OpenShift
4 11 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (3.50%) Serverless
5 10 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (1.91%) GCP
7 5 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.59%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (1.59%) OCI
8 4 (1.27%) Rekognition
8 4 (1.27%) Textract
9 3 (0.96%) GitHub
10 2 (0.64%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.64%) Azure AKS
10 2 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.64%) npm
10 2 (0.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) DHCP
2 1 (0.32%) DNS
2 1 (0.32%) FTP
2 1 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.37%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.14%) MySQL
4 11 (3.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (3.18%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.87%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.55%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.23%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.96%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.64%) Big Data
10 2 (0.64%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.32%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.32%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.32%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.32%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (6.37%) Git
2 12 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.23%) JIRA
4 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.27%) SpecFlow
4 4 (1.27%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.96%) Babel
5 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (0.96%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (0.96%) Selenium
5 3 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.96%) Travis CI
5 3 (0.96%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.96%) webpack
6 2 (0.64%) git-flow
6 2 (0.64%) Mercurial
6 2 (0.64%) Pylint
6 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.64%) XCTest
6 2 (0.64%) XCUITest
General
1 37 (11.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (5.41%) Finance
3 13 (4.14%) Public Sector
4 12 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.82%) Banking
5 6 (1.91%) Tech for Good
6 4 (1.27%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.27%) Retail
7 3 (0.96%) Back Office
7 3 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (0.96%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.64%) Marketing
8 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.64%) Publishing
9 1 (0.32%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 278 (88.54%) Developer
2 218 (69.43%) Software Developer
3 20 (6.37%) .NET Developer
4 19 (6.05%) Senior
5 14 (4.46%) Senior Developer
6 13 (4.14%) React Developer
7 7 (2.23%) Lead
7 7 (2.23%) Software Engineer
8 6 (1.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (1.91%) Senior React Developer
9 5 (1.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (1.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.59%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (1.59%) Java Developer
10 4 (1.27%) C# Developer
10 4 (1.27%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (0.96%) Android Developer
11 3 (0.96%) Java Engineer
11 3 (0.96%) Senior .NET Developer
11 3 (0.96%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (46.82%) HTML
2 38 (12.10%) React
3 27 (8.60%) .NET
4 24 (7.64%) CSS
5 19 (6.05%) AngularJS
6 15 (4.78%) RESTful
7 12 (3.82%) AWS CDK
7 12 (3.82%) REST
8 10 (3.18%) .NET Framework
8 10 (3.18%) Kafka
8 10 (3.18%) Node.js
8 10 (3.18%) Vue
9 9 (2.87%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.23%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.23%) Spring
10 7 (2.23%) Web Services
11 5 (1.59%) HTML5
12 4 (1.27%) ASP.NET
12 4 (1.27%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.50%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.23%) Mobile App
3 5 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (1.27%) Wiki
5 3 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.64%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.64%) Tandem
7 1 (0.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.32%) Digital Currency
7 1 (0.32%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.32%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.32%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.32%) MPEG
7 1 (0.32%) PKI
7 1 (0.32%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.23%) Linux
2 5 (1.59%) Android
3 4 (1.27%) Windows
4 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (69.11%) Artificial Intelligence
2 211 (67.20%) Conversational UI
3 137 (43.63%) Software Engineering
4 50 (15.92%) Agile
5 38 (12.10%) CI/CD
6 37 (11.78%) User Experience
7 34 (10.83%) DevOps
8 27 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (7.96%) Microservices
10 22 (7.01%) Test Automation
10 22 (7.01%) UX Design
11 21 (6.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (5.73%) Design Patterns
13 17 (5.41%) Mentoring
14 16 (5.10%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (4.78%) Full Stack Development
15 15 (4.78%) Scrum
15 15 (4.78%) Unit Testing
16 14 (4.46%) Computer Science
16 14 (4.46%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 157 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 144 (45.86%) Python
3 141 (44.90%) SQL
4 136 (43.31%) C#
5 25 (7.96%) TypeScript
6 24 (7.64%) Java
7 7 (2.23%) Go
8 5 (1.59%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.27%) Bicep
9 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.27%) PHP
10 3 (0.96%) Bash
10 3 (0.96%) Perl
11 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.64%) Swift
12 1 (0.32%) C
12 1 (0.32%) C++
12 1 (0.32%) JSX
12 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 226 (71.97%) Degree
2 13 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.27%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.01%) Accessibility
2 20 (6.37%) QA
3 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.32%) MiFID
3 1 (0.32%) NIST
3 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (5.41%) Docker
2 5 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.78%) Terraform
3 10 (3.18%) Grafana
4 6 (1.91%) Kibana
5 4 (1.27%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.32%) Ansible
6 1 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.32%) logstash
6 1 (0.32%) Oozie
6 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.32%) Puppet
6 1 (0.32%) SCOM
6 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 211 (67.20%) PayPal
2 13 (4.14%) Oracle
3 7 (2.23%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.27%) Google
4 4 (1.27%) Splunk
5 3 (0.96%) AppDynamics
5 3 (0.96%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.64%) Adobe
6 2 (0.64%) Apple
6 2 (0.64%) Confluent
6 2 (0.64%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.64%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.32%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.32%) Sage
7 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow