Code Quality Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Code Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Code Quality over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 157 175
Rank change year-on-year +46 +18 -31
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 14 15 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.64% 0.41% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.45% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 16
10th Percentile - £470 £481
25th Percentile £675 £524 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £702 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year +24.80% -4.26% +11.90%
75th Percentile £731 £638 £697
90th Percentile £743 £743 £788
Central London median daily rate £700 £563 £588
% change year-on-year +24.44% -4.26% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Code Quality is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,339 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.81% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,252 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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

Code Quality
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
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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) AWS IoT
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) npm
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DHCP
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (7.14%) CouchDB
5 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (7.14%) InfluxDB
5 1 (7.14%) MySQL
5 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.14%) Redis
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.14%) Ant
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.14%) Babel
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.14%) Darcs
2 1 (7.14%) Jaeger
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Mercurial
2 1 (7.14%) Pylint
2 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
2 1 (7.14%) Travis CI
2 1 (7.14%) webpack
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (14.29%) MongoDB Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) QA Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) React Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Software QA Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Software Quality Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
2 3 (21.43%) React
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) CSS3
4 1 (7.14%) HTML5
4 1 (7.14%) Material-UI
4 1 (7.14%) MobX
4 1 (7.14%) pytest
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) Semantic UI
4 1 (7.14%) Svelte
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
4 1 (7.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 2 (14.29%) Market Risk
2 1 (7.14%) CBDC
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Digital Currency
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Clean Code
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Front End Development
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Functional Programming
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) OO
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) User Experience
5 2 (14.29%) CQRS
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
5 2 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
5 2 (14.29%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) ABAP
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) Jython
4 1 (7.14%) Rust
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO 20022
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Kibana
3 1 (7.14%) logstash
3 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Puppet
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk