Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Code Quality (Software Quality)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 8.79% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £514 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 - -
75th Percentile £549 - -
90th Percentile £556 - -
South London median daily rate £533 £750 -
% change year-on-year -29.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 105 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.21% 92.92% 85.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 65 97
10th Percentile £412 £380 £231
25th Percentile £492 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £595
90th Percentile £638 £623 £673
South London median daily rate £511 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -4.97% +7.60% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £58.94 £19.50 £46.86
% change year-on-year +202.23% -58.39% +6.23%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Code Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Croydon

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Code Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
1 7 (87.50%) GCP
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 8 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 8 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
2 7 (87.50%) CQRS
2 7 (87.50%) Domain-Driven Design
2 7 (87.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes