Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 26 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.40% 0.61% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 0.68% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £442
25th Percentile £463 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £465
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £509
90th Percentile - - £525
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 - £465
% change year-on-year - - -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.38
90th Percentile - - £66.60
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 147 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 86.92% 90.18% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 91 107
10th Percentile £265 £296 £231
25th Percentile £400 £403 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £468
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +5.88% -1.58%
75th Percentile £591 £581 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £610
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £482 £475 £478
% change year-on-year +1.42% -0.63% +0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 25
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.85 £15.51
25th Percentile £16.03 £17.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £23.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -8.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £34.06 £57.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £44.25 £62.00 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Code Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) MSTest
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) HP ALM
1 2 (66.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Siemens