Code Quality Contracts in Edinburgh

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 60 68
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +34
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 14 16 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.21% 1.94% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.24% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 29
10th Percentile £413 £448 £444
25th Percentile £433 £453 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £484 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% -0.82% +5.06%
75th Percentile £488 £494 £508
90th Percentile £494 £495 £525
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £479
% change year-on-year -5.26% -0.84% +3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 607 713 1,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.74% 86.32% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 424 793
10th Percentile £244 £219 £233
25th Percentile £406 £368 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -
75th Percentile £538 £563 £538
90th Percentile £600 £661 £613
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 31 6
10th Percentile - £13.25 £11.83
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.13 £14.30
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -1.64% -40.94%
75th Percentile £27.45 £60.75 £21.57
90th Percentile £50.06 - £37.71
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +2.41% +34.48% -61.26%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Edinburgh

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Edinburgh

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (35.71%) Serverless
4 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
5 2 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (7.14%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.14%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.14%) webpack
General
1 10 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) .NET Developer
3 4 (28.57%) React Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior React Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) GCP Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Lead
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) React
2 6 (42.86%) .NET
3 5 (35.71%) AWS CDK
3 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
4 3 (21.43%) PostGIS
4 3 (21.43%) RESTful
4 3 (21.43%) Spring
5 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 2 (14.29%) REST
5 2 (14.29%) SOAP
6 1 (7.14%) CSS
6 1 (7.14%) HTML
6 1 (7.14%) Jest
6 1 (7.14%) Next.js
6 1 (7.14%) Node.js
6 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Legacy Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Product Ownership
1 6 (42.86%) Wiki
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) User Experience
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Code Coverage
5 4 (28.57%) Community of Practice
5 4 (28.57%) Human-Centred Design
5 4 (28.57%) Inclusive Design
5 4 (28.57%) Kanban
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) TDD
5 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Accessibility
2 3 (21.43%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce