Code Quality Contracts in the City of London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 86 113 163
Rank change year-on-year +27 +50 +9
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 33 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.88% 0.64% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 0.70% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 8
10th Percentile £443 - £470
25th Percentile £513 £675 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £702 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.09% +24.80% -4.26%
75th Percentile £606 £731 £638
90th Percentile £686 £743 £743
Central London median daily rate £550 £700 £563
% change year-on-year -21.43% +24.44% -4.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the City of London

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the City of London

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (18.18%) Apache
1 6 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) GitHub
4 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.06%) Serverless
5 2 (6.06%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (6.06%) WhatsApp
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) HTTP
1 2 (6.06%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Big Data
1 6 (18.18%) Hadoop
2 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (6.06%) Redis
5 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.03%) Impala
5 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.03%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.03%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (30.30%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket
4 3 (9.09%) Selenium
4 3 (9.09%) TeamCity
5 2 (6.06%) JIRA
5 2 (6.06%) JMeter
5 2 (6.06%) LoadRunner
5 2 (6.06%) Postman
5 2 (6.06%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.03%) Appium
6 1 (3.03%) ESLint
6 1 (3.03%) Maven
6 1 (3.03%) Mocha
6 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Banking
5 5 (15.15%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.06%) Publishing
7 1 (3.03%) Advertising
7 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (60.61%) Developer
2 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Apache Spark Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Java Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Angular Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Architect
5 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) QA Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Android Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.03%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Android Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) React
2 7 (21.21%) HTML
3 6 (18.18%) .NET
4 5 (15.15%) CSS
4 5 (15.15%) Spark Streaming
5 4 (12.12%) REST
5 4 (12.12%) RESTful
6 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 3 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 3 (9.09%) HTML5
6 3 (9.09%) Node.js
6 3 (9.09%) RxJS
6 3 (9.09%) Web Services
7 2 (6.06%) YAML
8 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
8 1 (3.03%) Express.js
8 1 (3.03%) JSON
8 1 (3.03%) Kafka
8 1 (3.03%) OAuth
8 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (15.15%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (15.15%) Market Risk
3 4 (12.12%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (9.09%) Credit Risk
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.03%) Educational Technology
6 1 (3.03%) Hedge funds
6 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Android
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) CI/CD
2 16 (48.48%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (45.45%) Agile
4 13 (39.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (24.24%) Clean Code
5 8 (24.24%) DevOps
6 7 (21.21%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
7 6 (18.18%) Analytics
7 6 (18.18%) API Integration
7 6 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (15.15%) Batch Processing
8 5 (15.15%) Greeks
8 5 (15.15%) Low Latency
8 5 (15.15%) Memory Management
8 5 (15.15%) Regulatory Compliance
8 5 (15.15%) Risk Analytics
8 5 (15.15%) Scrum
8 5 (15.15%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) Java
3 8 (24.24%) C#
3 8 (24.24%) JavaScript
4 7 (21.21%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) SQL
6 1 (3.03%) C++
6 1 (3.03%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
3 3 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.03%) Salesforce