Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Code Quality (Software Quality)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 26 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 4 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 2.50% 4.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 4.64% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £426 £225 -
25th Percentile £427 £237 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £323 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.47% - -
75th Percentile £489 £357 -
90th Percentile £492 £389 -
County Antrim median daily rate £456 £323 -
% change year-on-year +41.47% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Belfast

Code Quality falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 128 151 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 80.00% 90.96% 75.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 107 57
10th Percentile £257 £200 £162
25th Percentile £388 £311 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -17.07% +28.13%
75th Percentile £619 £569 £625
90th Percentile £688 £621 £675
County Antrim median daily rate £450 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +5.88% -17.07% +28.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 12
10th Percentile £15.82 - £12.25
25th Percentile £27.81 £14.78 £12.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +106.52% +1.95% +53.42%
75th Percentile £53.75 £37.00 £24.00
90th Percentile - £57.13 £24.18
County Antrim median hourly rate £22.11 £23.00 £22.56
% change year-on-year -3.87% +1.95% +53.42%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Code Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Belfast

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Code Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Heroku
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Impala
1 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Sqoop
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Release Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce