Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Code Quality (Software Quality)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.75% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £465
75th Percentile £488 - £483
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £585 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +17.00% -1.48% -27.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 296 295 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.30% 88.59% 82.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 129 120
10th Percentile £168 £210 £219
25th Percentile £363 £355 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £441
Median % change year-on-year - +7.71% -2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £550
90th Percentile £658 £688 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 66 161
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.99
Median hourly rate £15.28 £17.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -10.15% +4.74% +11.93%
75th Percentile £19.74 £25.15 £21.46
90th Percentile £44.37 £60.00 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 30 July 2026. 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
Cambridge - 6 £475 - 12
Code Quality
East of England

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (16.67%) MSTest
2 1 (16.67%) Ranorex
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
1 2 (33.33%) C# WPF Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum Master
1 2 (33.33%) WPF Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Silverlight
2 2 (33.33%) WCF
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) WPF
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Change Control
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Physics
3 2 (33.33%) Release Train
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) XAML
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (33.33%) PhD
3 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP ALM
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) HP
1 1 (16.67%) Siemens