Code Quality Contracts in London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Code Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Code Quality over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 359 406
Rank change year-on-year +122 +47 -71
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 161 136 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.91% 0.50% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 81 156
10th Percentile £359 £413 £425
25th Percentile £453 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £694 £700 £728
90th Percentile £800 £850 £800
England median daily rate £538 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -8.28% +1.91% +16.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile - - £74.25
25th Percentile £81.25 £45.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £82.50 £62.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -21.88% -
75th Percentile £83.75 £81.88 £84.81
90th Percentile - £94.25 £85.00
England median hourly rate £67.75 £52.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +29.05% -32.26% +72.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Code Quality is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in London

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in London

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in London

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in London

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London +40 16 £700 +24.44% 9
West London +24 7 £500 - 1
South London +16 4 - -
East London - 1 £540 - 4
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (3.73%) CMS
2 3 (1.86%) Confluence
2 3 (1.86%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.62%) Appian
3 1 (0.62%) nginx
Applications
1 25 (15.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Endur
2 2 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.62%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.47%) AWS
2 34 (21.12%) Azure
3 13 (8.07%) GCP
4 12 (7.45%) GitHub
5 11 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.59%) Serverless
7 8 (4.97%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.86%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.24%) Bitrise
11 2 (1.24%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.24%) npm
11 2 (1.24%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) DNS
1 3 (1.86%) HTTP
2 1 (0.62%) 5G
2 1 (0.62%) DHCP
2 1 (0.62%) Firewall
2 1 (0.62%) FTP
2 1 (0.62%) Network Security
2 1 (0.62%) SSL
2 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.62%) VLAN
2 1 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.18%) NoSQL
2 17 (10.56%) MongoDB
2 17 (10.56%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.11%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.86%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.86%) MySQL
7 2 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.24%) CouchDB
7 2 (1.24%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.62%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.62%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.62%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.62%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (19.88%) Git
2 14 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.73%) Selenium
3 6 (3.73%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.48%) JUnit
5 4 (2.48%) Pylint
6 3 (1.86%) JIRA
6 3 (1.86%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.86%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.86%) TestNG
6 3 (1.86%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.24%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.24%) Appium
7 2 (1.24%) Babel
7 2 (1.24%) git-flow
7 2 (1.24%) GitLab
7 2 (1.24%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (1.24%) webpack
General
1 55 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.88%) Finance
3 21 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.70%) Banking
5 8 (4.97%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.35%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.11%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.48%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.86%) Back Office
9 3 (1.86%) Retail
10 2 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.24%) Publishing
10 2 (1.24%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Front Office
11 1 (0.62%) Legal
11 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 105 (65.22%) Developer
2 31 (19.25%) Senior
3 27 (16.77%) Software Developer
4 20 (12.42%) Senior Developer
5 13 (8.07%) Full Stack Developer
6 12 (7.45%) Java Developer
6 12 (7.45%) React Developer
7 11 (6.83%) Lead
8 8 (4.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (4.35%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 7 (4.35%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) C# Developer
10 6 (3.73%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.11%) .NET Developer
11 5 (3.11%) Architect
11 5 (3.11%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) C++ Developer
11 5 (3.11%) Ruby Developer
12 4 (2.48%) C# .NET Developer
12 4 (2.48%) DevOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (27.33%) HTML
2 27 (16.77%) React
3 21 (13.04%) CSS
4 17 (10.56%) Kafka
5 16 (9.94%) Node.js
6 14 (8.70%) .NET
6 14 (8.70%) AngularJS
7 11 (6.83%) RESTful
7 11 (6.83%) Spring
8 10 (6.21%) REST
9 8 (4.97%) HTML5
10 7 (4.35%) Hibernate
10 7 (4.35%) Spring Boot
10 7 (4.35%) WebSockets
11 5 (3.11%) pytest
11 5 (3.11%) Redux
11 5 (3.11%) Web Services
12 4 (2.48%) CSS3
12 4 (2.48%) Django
12 4 (2.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.73%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.11%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.11%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (3.11%) Solar Panel
3 5 (3.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (2.48%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.48%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.48%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.48%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.86%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.86%) Tandem
6 2 (1.24%) Derivative
6 2 (1.24%) Equities
6 2 (1.24%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.24%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.97%) Linux
2 4 (2.48%) Android
2 4 (2.48%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.24%) Unix
4 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.02%) Agile
2 47 (29.19%) Software Engineering
3 43 (26.71%) CI/CD
4 40 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (22.98%) DevOps
6 31 (19.25%) Computer Science
7 26 (16.15%) Artificial Intelligence
8 25 (15.53%) Conversational UI
9 24 (14.91%) Front End Development
10 23 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 23 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 22 (13.66%) Microservices
12 20 (12.42%) Clean Code
13 19 (11.80%) SDLC
13 19 (11.80%) TDD
14 16 (9.94%) Full Stack Development
15 15 (9.32%) Scrum
15 15 (9.32%) Unit Testing
16 13 (8.07%) User Experience
17 12 (7.45%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (34.78%) JavaScript
2 50 (31.06%) SQL
3 39 (24.22%) Python
4 37 (22.98%) Java
5 31 (19.25%) C#
6 17 (10.56%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.21%) Go
8 7 (4.35%) C++
9 6 (3.73%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.73%) Ruby
10 4 (2.48%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.86%) ABAP
11 3 (1.86%) Bicep
11 3 (1.86%) Scala
12 2 (1.24%) Bash
12 2 (1.24%) C
12 2 (1.24%) Rust
12 2 (1.24%) Swift
13 1 (0.62%) Groovy
13 1 (0.62%) JSX
Qualifications
1 59 (36.65%) Degree
2 27 (16.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.45%) Master's Degree
5 10 (6.21%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.48%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.66%) QA
2 8 (4.97%) Software Quality Assurance
3 6 (3.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.86%) MiFID
4 3 (1.86%) WCAG
5 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (9.32%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.62%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.59%) Terraform
3 5 (3.11%) Grafana
4 2 (1.24%) Ansible
4 2 (1.24%) Kibana
4 2 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.62%) Argo
5 1 (0.62%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.62%) Istio
5 1 (0.62%) logstash
5 1 (0.62%) Oozie
5 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.62%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (15.53%) PayPal
2 15 (9.32%) Oracle
3 7 (4.35%) Virgin Media
4 6 (3.73%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.73%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.48%) SAP
6 3 (1.86%) Black Duck
7 2 (1.24%) Apple
7 2 (1.24%) Google
7 2 (1.24%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.62%) Databricks
8 1 (0.62%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.62%) Splunk
8 1 (0.62%) TIBCO