Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford 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 39 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 15 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 5.86% 1.32% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.05% 1.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 0
10th Percentile £313 £308 -
25th Percentile £328 £316 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £331 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% - -
75th Percentile £389 £344 -
90th Percentile £418 £351 -
Cheshire median daily rate £358 £331 -
% change year-on-year +8.32% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 248 144 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.88% 94.74% 96.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 117 63
10th Percentile £310 £323 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £415 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -20.95% +12.18%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £582
90th Percentile £579 £615 £588
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -9.90% -0.77% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £23.61
% change year-on-year -4.16% +2.41% +54.82%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) GitHub
1 5 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
1 5 (33.33%) npm
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data
5 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.67%) DataStage
5 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Git
2 6 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 6 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (33.33%) GitLab
4 3 (20.00%) ESLint
4 3 (20.00%) Grunt
4 3 (20.00%) gulp
4 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
4 3 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (13.33%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
3 3 (20.00%) React Developer
3 3 (20.00%) UI Developer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) Spring Boot
2 6 (40.00%) Jest
2 6 (40.00%) React
2 6 (40.00%) Redux
2 6 (40.00%) RESTful
3 5 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 5 (33.33%) Spring
4 4 (26.67%) Spring MVC
4 4 (26.67%) Spring Security
5 3 (20.00%) Ajax
5 3 (20.00%) CSS3
5 3 (20.00%) Enzyme
5 3 (20.00%) Flutter
5 3 (20.00%) HTML5
5 3 (20.00%) JSON
5 3 (20.00%) LESS
5 3 (20.00%) Node.js
5 3 (20.00%) REST
5 3 (20.00%) Sass
5 3 (20.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (13.33%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Android
1 3 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) Microservices
3 7 (46.67%) Test Automation
4 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (33.33%) API Design
5 5 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 5 (33.33%) MVC
5 5 (33.33%) TDD
6 4 (26.67%) AI
6 4 (26.67%) API Integration
6 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
6 4 (26.67%) Front End Development
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Change Management
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (20.00%) Open Source
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (20.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) Perl
3 3 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (26.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Kibana
2 3 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (20.00%) Cloudera
2 3 (20.00%) Perforce
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) Xamarin
3 1 (6.67%) Ab Initio
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft