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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 110 135
Rank change year-on-year +14 +25 +36
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 30 17 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.60% 0.83% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 0.91% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 16
10th Percentile £416 £457 £350
25th Percentile £513 £577 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £700 £598
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% +17.15% +3.91%
75th Percentile £673 £738 £769
90th Percentile £738 £750 £831
Central London median daily rate £525 £700 £598
% change year-on-year -25.00% +17.15% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 - -

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 1,765 1,876 3,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.03% 91.25% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,277 2,050
10th Percentile £331 £372 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 16
10th Percentile £17.57 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.43 £15.00
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -13.60% -27.73%
75th Percentile £54.75 £82.19 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £61.25
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -17.65%

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
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 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 5 (16.67%) Apache
1 5 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) GitHub
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (13.33%) Serverless
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.67%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.33%) Fastly
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.33%) Heroku
7 1 (3.33%) iPaaS
7 1 (3.33%) npm
7 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) HTTP
1 1 (3.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Big Data
1 5 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Git
2 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.33%) JIRA
4 2 (6.67%) Gradle
4 2 (6.67%) JMeter
4 2 (6.67%) LoadRunner
4 2 (6.67%) Postman
4 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
4 2 (6.67%) Selenium
5 1 (3.33%) Babel
5 1 (3.33%) GitLab
5 1 (3.33%) webpack
General
1 13 (43.33%) Finance
2 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.67%) Advertising
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.67%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Games
6 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Publishing
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Apache Spark Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
4 4 (13.33%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) QA Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 1 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Chief Technology Officer
6 1 (3.33%) Development Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) REST
2 7 (23.33%) React
3 5 (16.67%) .NET
3 5 (16.67%) Spark Streaming
4 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 3 (10.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (10.00%) CSS
5 3 (10.00%) Entity Framework
5 3 (10.00%) Spring
6 2 (6.67%) HTML
6 2 (6.67%) jQuery
6 2 (6.67%) Node.js
6 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.67%) Vue
7 1 (3.33%) Bazel
7 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.33%) Jest
7 1 (3.33%) MACH
7 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
7 1 (3.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (16.67%) Market Risk
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (3.33%) Derivative
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (36.67%) Software Engineering
4 10 (33.33%) Agile
5 8 (26.67%) DevOps
5 8 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (23.33%) Analytics
6 7 (23.33%) Risk Management
6 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
7 6 (20.00%) Microservices
7 6 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (16.67%) Batch Processing
8 5 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (16.67%) Event-Driven
8 5 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (16.67%) Greeks
8 5 (16.67%) Memory Management
8 5 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
8 5 (16.67%) Risk Analytics
8 5 (16.67%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Python
2 12 (40.00%) Java
3 9 (30.00%) C#
4 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 4 (13.33%) C++
6 4 (13.33%) SQL
7 3 (10.00%) Go
8 1 (3.33%) Fortran
8 1 (3.33%) MATLAB
8 1 (3.33%) PHP
8 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.33%) Salesforce