Code Quality Contracts in Central London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 93 117 157
Rank change year-on-year +24 +40 +22
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 36 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.80% 0.65% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.72% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 8
10th Percentile £398 £608 £470
25th Percentile £431 £675 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £563
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +24.44% -4.26%
75th Percentile £596 £725 £638
90th Percentile £671 £740 £743
London median daily rate £525 £550 £619
% change year-on-year -4.55% -11.11% +3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Central London

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Central London

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Central London

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in Central London

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +27 33 £575 -18.09% 20
City of Westminster +1 1 £425 -32.00%
West End of London -2 1 £425 - 2
Code Quality
London

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 6 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.56%) Serverless
5 2 (5.56%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (5.56%) WhatsApp
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.78%) Datadog
6 1 (2.78%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.78%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) HTTP
1 2 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Big Data
1 6 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.11%) Redis
2 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.33%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.78%) Impala
5 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.78%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Jenkins
2 12 (33.33%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 4 (11.11%) JIRA
3 4 (11.11%) Postman
3 4 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 3 (8.33%) Maven
4 3 (8.33%) Selenium
4 3 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 3 (8.33%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (5.56%) JMeter
5 2 (5.56%) JUnit
5 2 (5.56%) LoadRunner
5 2 (5.56%) Mockito
5 2 (5.56%) SoapUI
5 2 (5.56%) Subversion
5 2 (5.56%) Xcode
5 2 (5.56%) XCTest
6 1 (2.78%) Mocha
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Banking
4 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.56%) Publishing
7 1 (2.78%) Advertising
7 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Developer
2 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Apache Spark Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Angular Developer
4 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) QA Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Mainframe Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Project Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) HTML
2 8 (22.22%) React
3 7 (19.44%) CSS
4 6 (16.67%) .NET
4 6 (16.67%) REST
5 5 (13.89%) AngularJS
5 5 (13.89%) HTML5
5 5 (13.89%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (13.89%) Web Services
6 4 (11.11%) RESTful
7 3 (8.33%) GraphQL
7 3 (8.33%) Kafka
7 3 (8.33%) Node.js
7 3 (8.33%) RxJS
7 3 (8.33%) Swagger
8 2 (5.56%) Bootstrap
8 2 (5.56%) CSS3
8 2 (5.56%) Material-UI
8 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
8 2 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (13.89%) Market Risk
3 4 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (8.33%) Credit Risk
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.78%) Educational Technology
6 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.78%) Android
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 19 (52.78%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (50.00%) Agile
4 13 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (25.00%) DevOps
6 8 (22.22%) Clean Code
7 7 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (19.44%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
8 6 (16.67%) Analytics
8 6 (16.67%) API Integration
8 6 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.89%) Greeks
9 5 (13.89%) Low Latency
9 5 (13.89%) Mathematics
9 5 (13.89%) Microservices
9 5 (13.89%) Regulatory Compliance
9 5 (13.89%) Risk Analytics
9 5 (13.89%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) Java
3 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 8 (22.22%) C#
5 7 (19.44%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.11%) SQL
7 2 (5.56%) Groovy
7 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.78%) Bash
8 1 (2.78%) C++
8 1 (2.78%) COBOL
8 1 (2.78%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) JCL
8 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.89%) Terraform
3 3 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle
1 2 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (2.78%) Google
2 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.78%) New Relic
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce