Code Quality Contracts in the North East

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 34 13 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 4 27 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.25% 7.99% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 10.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £475 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 -
75th Percentile - £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £517 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -3.84% -8.28% +2.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the North East

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the North East

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the North East

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the North East

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear -25 4 £550 - 9
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (25.00%) OpenEdge
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) German Language
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (25.00%) OpenEdge Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Akka
2 2 (50.00%) Play Framework
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kibana