Code Quality Contracts in Hampshire

Code Quality (Software Quality)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 12 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.30% - 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% - 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £461 - £531
25th Percentile £504 - £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.76%
75th Percentile £529 - £641
90th Percentile £556 - £654
South East median daily rate £514 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.10% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.63
25th Percentile - - £52.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £53.75
75th Percentile - - £54.69
90th Percentile - - £54.88
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -14.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 786 1,362 1,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.43% 81.65% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 802 676
10th Percentile £325 £363 £254
25th Percentile £463 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £583 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +10.95% +1.94%
75th Percentile £613 £670 £613
90th Percentile £660 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £515
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.68% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 146 109
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £27.56 £21.05
Median hourly rate £41.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +4.27% +69.23%
75th Percentile £59.38 £71.04 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.13 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £22.29 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.39% +9.75% +102.35%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Hampshire

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Hampshire

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Hampshire over the 6 months to 23 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Hampshire

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in Hampshire

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 23 July 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
Portsmouth - 7 £514 - 2
Southampton - 2 £500 - 2
Fleet - 2 £470 -
Code Quality
South East

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (8.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
1 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Git
2 7 (58.33%) JIRA
3 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 4 (33.33%) Postman
3 4 (33.33%) Selenium
3 4 (33.33%) WebDriver
4 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (16.67%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (8.33%) Maven
6 1 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Test Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft Developer
4 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Ruby Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) REST
2 4 (33.33%) React
3 3 (25.00%) CSS
3 3 (25.00%) Next.js
4 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (8.33%) Kafka
5 1 (8.33%) Laravel
5 1 (8.33%) MUnit
5 1 (8.33%) Phalcon
5 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (8.33%) RAML
5 1 (8.33%) RESTful
5 1 (8.33%) SOAP
5 1 (8.33%) Symfony
5 1 (8.33%) Vue
5 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 7 (58.33%) Sprint Planning
4 6 (50.00%) SDLC
5 5 (41.67%) Scrum
5 5 (41.67%) Software Testing
6 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Front End Development
6 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Microservices
6 4 (33.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 3 (25.00%) API Development
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (25.00%) Web Development
8 2 (16.67%) Build Automation
8 2 (16.67%) DevOps
8 2 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) PHP
4 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Kibana
2 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) CloudHub
3 1 (8.33%) Rsyslog
3 1 (8.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) AppDynamics
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) Zend