Code Quality Contracts in Cheshire

Code Quality (Software Quality)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 59 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 15 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.85% 0.18% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 0
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £343 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.62% - -
75th Percentile £393 £338 -
90th Percentile £419 - -
North West median daily rate £393 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -21.40% -13.04% +6.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 501 463 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 95.07% 83.57% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 311 290
10th Percentile £313 £310 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £588
90th Percentile £667 £638 £651
North West median daily rate £456 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -7.88% -1.00% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £16.75
25th Percentile £17.46 £17.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £36.50 £29.26
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +24.74% +34.34%
75th Percentile £73.81 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £30.27
% change year-on-year +6.67% -0.89% +27.72%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Cheshire

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Cheshire

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Cheshire over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Cheshire

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Knutsford - 15 £379 - 6
Code Quality
North West

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (40.00%) JBoss
2 3 (20.00%) CICS
2 3 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (6.67%) Apache
3 1 (6.67%) Mule
3 1 (6.67%) nginx
3 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) npm
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Relational Database
2 6 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (40.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (20.00%) DB2
4 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
5 1 (6.67%) MySQL
5 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Git
2 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
3 9 (60.00%) SonarQube
4 8 (53.33%) JIRA
5 7 (46.67%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (40.00%) CA Release Automation
6 6 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (40.00%) TeamCity
7 3 (20.00%) Selenium
8 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
8 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
8 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
8 2 (13.33%) IntelliJ
8 2 (13.33%) Maven
8 2 (13.33%) REST Assured
9 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
9 1 (6.67%) Gerrit
9 1 (6.67%) Grunt
9 1 (6.67%) gulp
9 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Tester
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) UI Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.67%) Designer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (6.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
2 6 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (20.00%) CSS3
3 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 3 (20.00%) HTML5
3 3 (20.00%) React
4 2 (13.33%) Node.js
4 2 (13.33%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) LESS
5 1 (6.67%) lodash
5 1 (6.67%) RAML
5 1 (6.67%) React Native
5 1 (6.67%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) Sass
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Batch
5 1 (6.67%) Swagger
5 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (20.00%) VSAM
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Unix
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (53.33%) Microservices
3 7 (46.67%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (40.00%) Build Automation
4 6 (40.00%) Migration
5 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Analytics
6 4 (26.67%) Change Management
6 4 (26.67%) Observability
6 4 (26.67%) Runbook
6 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Secure Coding
7 3 (20.00%) User Experience
8 2 (13.33%) API Development
8 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 6 (40.00%) Perl
4 3 (20.00%) COBOL
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (20.00%) JCL
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) REXX
5 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (46.67%) Progress Chef
3 6 (40.00%) Kibana
4 1 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) AppDynamics
1 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (40.00%) Splunk
2 4 (26.67%) Cloudera
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.67%) Checkmarx
5 1 (6.67%) Perforce