Code Quality Contracts in the East Midlands

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 49 35 83
Rank change year-on-year -14 +48 +12
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 7 31 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.31% 4.01% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 5.14% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £71 - -
25th Percentile £94 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £356 £425
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -16.24% +23.55%
75th Percentile £515 £369 £438
90th Percentile £533 £448 -
England median daily rate £517 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -3.84% -8.28% +2.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the East Midlands

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the East Midlands

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the East Midlands

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Nottinghamshire -11 4 £288 - 9
Northamptonshire -4 3 £475 +33.43% 4
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (28.57%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (28.57%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) NetBeans
2 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Android Developer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Android Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (28.57%) POSIX
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Android Development
4 1 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) MISRA
1 2 (28.57%) MISRA C
1 2 (28.57%) QA
1 2 (28.57%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (14.29%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kibana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) AppDynamics
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) QNX
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk