Code Quality Contracts in the Midlands

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 89 73 161
Rank change year-on-year -16 +88 +41
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 22 60 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.15% 2.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 2.65% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 5
10th Percentile £101 £275 £383
25th Percentile £164 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £359 £575
Median % change year-on-year +35.70% -37.52% +47.44%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £638
90th Percentile £700 £631 £668
England median daily rate £517 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -3.84% -8.28% +2.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the Midlands

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the Midlands

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the Midlands

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the Midlands

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands 0 15 £550 -8.33% 35
East Midlands -14 7 £475 +33.43% 29
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (13.64%) Moodle
2 2 (9.09%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
1 8 (36.36%) Postman
2 4 (18.18%) JIRA
3 3 (13.64%) PHPUnit
4 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (9.09%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (9.09%) Eclipse
4 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.09%) NetBeans
4 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (13.64%) Games
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Moodle Developer
4 3 (13.64%) SAP Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) SAP Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Android Developer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Customer Service Representative
6 1 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) QA Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Scala Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) RESTful
2 5 (22.73%) CSS
2 5 (22.73%) CSS3
2 5 (22.73%) HTML
2 5 (22.73%) HTML5
2 5 (22.73%) jQuery
2 5 (22.73%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (22.73%) SAPUI5
3 3 (13.64%) Behat
3 3 (13.64%) JSON
3 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
3 3 (13.64%) XML
4 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (9.09%) Node.js
4 2 (9.09%) POSIX
4 2 (9.09%) React
4 2 (9.09%) Spring
5 1 (4.55%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.55%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) e-Learning
1 3 (13.64%) Online Games
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
1 3 (13.64%) VLE
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Android
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps
2 7 (31.82%) User Experience
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) Validation
4 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
4 5 (22.73%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (22.73%) MVC
4 5 (22.73%) Workflow
5 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (13.64%) API Development
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (13.64%) Data Management
6 3 (13.64%) Microservices
6 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) ABAP
3 5 (22.73%) COBOL
4 4 (18.18%) Python
5 3 (13.64%) PHP
6 2 (9.09%) C
6 2 (9.09%) C++
6 2 (9.09%) Go
6 2 (9.09%) Perl
6 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.55%) C#
7 1 (4.55%) Java
7 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
7 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
1 5 (22.73%) Software Quality Assurance
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) MISRA
2 2 (9.09%) MISRA C
3 1 (4.55%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Kibana
3 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) SAP
2 2 (9.09%) AppDynamics
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) QNX
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk