Code Quality Contracts in Leeds

Code Quality (Software Quality)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 54 87
Rank change year-on-year +2 +33 +17
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 7 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.50% 1.52% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.76% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £509 - £450
90th Percentile £526 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £413
% change year-on-year - +21.21% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 432 681 1,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.51% 86.20% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 418 823
10th Percentile £273 £300 £378
25th Percentile £375 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £631
90th Percentile £600 £643 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 15
10th Percentile £31.53 £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.15 £16.13
Median hourly rate £33.11 £12.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +169.19% -45.33% -
75th Percentile £66.51 £12.53 £66.88
90th Percentile £85.74 £15.24 £70.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £21.25
% change year-on-year +76.70% -41.04% +13.64%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Leeds

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Leeds

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Health Technology
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Scala Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Scala Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Akka
2 3 (42.86%) Play Framework
3 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) PySpark
3 2 (28.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (28.57%) NHS
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
4 3 (42.86%) API Development
4 3 (42.86%) API Integration
4 3 (42.86%) BDD
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) Functional Programming
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Scala
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kibana
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Brio