Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Code Quality (Software Quality)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 3 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.37% - 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £780 - -
25th Percentile £806 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £570 £425 £508
% change year-on-year +34.12% -16.26% -27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £57.25
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £69.38
90th Percentile - - £70.00
East of England median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 649 329 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 79.44% 92.16% 87.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 166 259
10th Percentile £197 £247 £225
25th Percentile £406 £428 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +33.33% -19.35%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £666 £700
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £439
% change year-on-year - +14.03% -11.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 81 320
10th Percentile £15.99 £16.95 £37.88
25th Percentile £20.09 £29.51 £39.89
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.53
East of England median hourly rate £33.07 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.50% -20.90% +90.48%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Code Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 29 June 2026. 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
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £850 - 1
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £775 -
Code Quality
East of England

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Python Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Celery
1 2 (66.67%) Django
1 2 (66.67%) JWT
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy