Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow 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 74 62 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 6 15 20
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.79% 1.99% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 2.22% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile £545 £346 £400
25th Percentile £548 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £445
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -21.39% -1.06%
75th Percentile £569 £448 £484
90th Percentile £603 £481 £594
Scotland median daily rate £543 £450 £466
% change year-on-year +20.67% -3.33% -0.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 656 677 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.89% 89.67% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 441 538
10th Percentile £299 £306 £348
25th Percentile £381 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 17
10th Percentile £15.16 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.18 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +10.55% -40.38%
75th Percentile £47.45 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub
4 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 4 (66.67%) IntelliJ
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
1 4 (66.67%) PyCharm
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) boto
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 1 (16.67%) JWT
1 1 (16.67%) NumPy
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OpenCV
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Issue Tracking
3 4 (66.67%) SDLC
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) Build Automation
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Software Distribution
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
6 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
6 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk