Code Quality Contracts in Manchester

Code Quality (Software Quality)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 65 103
Rank change year-on-year -1 +38 +28
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 13 31 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.40% 2.04% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 2.35% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 9
10th Percentile £360 £455 £200
25th Percentile - £500 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +1.32%
75th Percentile £409 £575 £611
90th Percentile £580 - £667
North West median daily rate £400 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Manchester

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Manchester

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Manchester

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in Manchester

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Stockport - 5 £400 - 2
Code Quality
North West

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Accumulo
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Babel
1 5 (38.46%) webpack
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Games
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript Developer
2 5 (38.46%) React Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
1 5 (38.46%) CSS
1 5 (38.46%) HTML
1 5 (38.46%) HTML5
1 5 (38.46%) React
1 5 (38.46%) REST
1 5 (38.46%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) API Development
2 5 (38.46%) B2B
2 5 (38.46%) Front End Development
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
4 2 (15.38%) User Stories
5 1 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (7.69%) API Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Coaching
5 1 (7.69%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Operational Stability
5 1 (7.69%) Prototyping
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
5 1 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (7.69%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) GRC
3 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Virgin Media