Code Quality Contracts in the East of England

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 71 93 108
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 +32
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 11 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.17% 1.00% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.16% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £337 £442 £511
25th Percentile £361 £446 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £483 £618
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% -21.93% +5.19%
75th Percentile £419 £545 £688
90th Percentile £430 £563 £713
England median daily rate £517 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -3.84% -8.28% +2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 2
10th Percentile - £57.88 -
25th Percentile - £58.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% +16.15%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.20% +29.05% -32.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the East of England

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the East of England

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the East of England

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Suffolk -2 6 - - 2
Essex - 5 £400 - 14
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) dbt
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) Tableau
2 1 (9.09%) Looker
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Software Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Trainer
3 1 (9.09%) C Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) POSIX
3 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 2 (18.18%) PySpark
3 2 (18.18%) React
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) NumPy
4 1 (9.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Device Driver
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (54.55%) Conversational UI
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (18.18%) Data Security
4 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Data Science
5 1 (9.09%) DataOps
5 1 (9.09%) Open Source
5 1 (9.09%) Use Case
5 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) C#
2 6 (54.55%) C++
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) C
4 2 (18.18%) Go
4 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) PayPal
2 1 (9.09%) Checkmarx
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace