Code Quality Contracts in England

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Code Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Code Quality over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 438 493
Rank change year-on-year +233 +55 -127
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 418 214 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.12% 0.42% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.47% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 132 218
10th Percentile £352 £364 £404
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £586 £574
Median % change year-on-year -8.28% +2.18% +14.70%
75th Percentile £656 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £783 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -7.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 10
10th Percentile £57.88 £45.00 £39.12
25th Percentile £61.56 £50.00 £47.65
Median hourly rate £67.75 £52.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% -32.26% +72.22%
75th Percentile £83.75 £70.00 £83.31
90th Percentile £84.63 £80.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -32.26% +72.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Code Quality is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Code Quality in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
London +131 161 £550 -11.11% 114
North of England +129 130 £550 -4.35% 50
Midlands +82 60 £359 -37.52% 32
North West +66 57 £550 -4.35% 32
Yorkshire +64 46 - - 11
South West +33 35 £475 -13.64% 17
East Midlands +51 31 £356 -16.24% 11
West Midlands +53 29 £600 - 21
North East - 27 £550 - 7
East of England +17 19 £483 -21.93% 9
South East +11 6 £500 -13.79% 36
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (1.44%) CMS
2 5 (1.20%) JBoss
3 4 (0.96%) Confluence
4 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.72%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Appian
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 218 (52.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Endur
1 4 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 57 (13.64%) AWS
2 38 (9.09%) Azure
3 15 (3.59%) Serverless
4 14 (3.35%) GCP
5 13 (3.11%) Amazon S3
6 12 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.87%) GitHub
7 8 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.67%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (0.72%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (0.72%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.48%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.91%) HTTP
2 3 (0.72%) DNS
3 1 (0.24%) 5G
3 1 (0.24%) DHCP
3 1 (0.24%) DVB
3 1 (0.24%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) FTP
3 1 (0.24%) Network Security
3 1 (0.24%) SSL
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.24%) VLAN
3 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.50%) NoSQL
2 21 (5.02%) MongoDB
3 17 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.39%) MySQL
5 10 (2.39%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.20%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.20%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.20%) SQLite
8 4 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.96%) Big Data
9 3 (0.72%) Couchbase
9 3 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.72%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.48%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.24%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 61 (14.59%) Git
2 21 (5.02%) Jenkins
2 21 (5.02%) SonarQube
3 11 (2.63%) JIRA
4 10 (2.39%) Rational Rhapsody
5 9 (2.15%) Mercurial
6 7 (1.67%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.44%) GitLab
7 6 (1.44%) Selenium
8 5 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.20%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (1.20%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (1.20%) Checkstyle
8 5 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.96%) Android Studio
9 4 (0.96%) JUnit
9 4 (0.96%) Pylint
10 3 (0.72%) Babel
10 3 (0.72%) TestNG
General
1 70 (16.75%) Social Skills
2 37 (8.85%) Finance
3 24 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.78%) Banking
5 11 (2.63%) Electronics
5 11 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (1.91%) Aerospace
6 8 (1.91%) Multimedia
6 8 (1.91%) Retail
7 7 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.20%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.20%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.72%) Back Office
10 2 (0.48%) Automotive
10 2 (0.48%) Aviation
10 2 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.48%) Marketing
10 2 (0.48%) Publishing
10 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 312 (74.64%) Developer
2 221 (52.87%) Software Developer
3 35 (8.37%) Senior
4 29 (6.94%) Software Engineer
5 22 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 14 (3.35%) Lead
7 13 (3.11%) Full Stack Developer
7 13 (3.11%) Java Developer
8 12 (2.87%) React Developer
9 10 (2.39%) Ada Engineer
9 10 (2.39%) Ada Software Engineer
10 9 (2.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (1.91%) Architect
11 8 (1.91%) Embedded Engineer
11 8 (1.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 8 (1.91%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 7 (1.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (1.67%) Python Developer
13 6 (1.44%) QA Engineer
13 6 (1.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (35.17%) HTML
2 38 (9.09%) React
3 27 (6.46%) CSS
4 20 (4.78%) .NET
4 20 (4.78%) Kafka
5 18 (4.31%) Node.js
5 18 (4.31%) REST
6 17 (4.07%) RESTful
7 15 (3.59%) AngularJS
8 13 (3.11%) Spring Boot
9 12 (2.87%) Spring
10 9 (2.15%) .NET Core
10 9 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (2.15%) XML
11 8 (1.91%) HTML5
11 8 (1.91%) JSON
11 8 (1.91%) Redux
12 7 (1.67%) .NET Framework
12 7 (1.67%) Hibernate
12 7 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (1.67%) Mobile App
2 7 (1.67%) Product Ownership
3 6 (1.44%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.20%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.20%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (1.20%) Social Media
4 5 (1.20%) Solar Panel
4 5 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.72%) Hedge funds
6 3 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.72%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.72%) Tandem
7 2 (0.48%) Equities
7 2 (0.48%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.59%) Linux
2 13 (3.11%) Windows
3 7 (1.67%) Android
4 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.72%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (54.31%) Artificial Intelligence
2 218 (52.15%) Conversational UI
3 174 (41.63%) Software Engineering
4 76 (18.18%) Agile
5 57 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 55 (13.16%) DevOps
7 53 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (11.24%) Computer Science
9 40 (9.57%) Test Automation
10 36 (8.61%) Continuous Integration
11 31 (7.42%) Microservices
12 30 (7.18%) Front End Development
13 24 (5.74%) Scrum
14 23 (5.50%) Clean Code
14 23 (5.50%) Design Patterns
15 22 (5.26%) SDLC
15 22 (5.26%) TDD
16 20 (4.78%) Full Stack Development
17 19 (4.55%) User Experience
18 17 (4.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 170 (40.67%) JavaScript
2 159 (38.04%) Python
3 156 (37.32%) SQL
4 142 (33.97%) C#
5 44 (10.53%) Java
6 19 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.35%) Go
8 13 (3.11%) C
9 12 (2.87%) C++
10 10 (2.39%) Ada
11 7 (1.67%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.44%) Ruby
13 5 (1.20%) ABAP
13 5 (1.20%) Bash
13 5 (1.20%) Perl
14 3 (0.72%) Bicep
14 3 (0.72%) PHP
14 3 (0.72%) Rust
14 3 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 271 (64.83%) Degree
2 40 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (5.50%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.59%) Master's Degree
5 14 (3.35%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.48%) HND
10 1 (0.24%) APMP
10 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.24%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.66%) QA
2 10 (2.39%) Software Quality Assurance
3 8 (1.91%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.72%) ISO 22301
4 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.72%) MiFID
4 3 (0.72%) WCAG
5 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (6.22%) Docker
2 8 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) HDFS
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (8.37%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.59%) Terraform
3 7 (1.67%) Grafana
3 7 (1.67%) Kibana
4 6 (1.44%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.20%) Ansible
6 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.72%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.48%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.24%) Argo
9 1 (0.24%) Istio
9 1 (0.24%) logstash
9 1 (0.24%) Oozie
9 1 (0.24%) Puppet
9 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 218 (52.15%) PayPal
2 17 (4.07%) Oracle
3 11 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.39%) IBM
5 9 (2.15%) Splunk
6 7 (1.67%) Virgin Media
7 6 (1.44%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.44%) SAP
8 5 (1.20%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.72%) Black Duck
9 3 (0.72%) Google
10 2 (0.48%) Apple
10 2 (0.48%) Confluent
10 2 (0.48%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.48%) Typelevel
11 1 (0.24%) Brio
11 1 (0.24%) Databricks
11 1 (0.24%) Sage
11 1 (0.24%) TIBCO