Code Quality Contracts in Birmingham

Code Quality (Software Quality)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Code Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Code Quality over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 41 71
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 +22
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 4 26 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% 3.36% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 4.04% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £439 - £423
25th Percentile £441 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £499 £625 £650
90th Percentile £507 - £673
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Birmingham

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Birmingham

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) CSS3
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (50.00%) SAPUI5
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) ABAP
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP