Code Quality Contract Job Trends in the North East

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 34 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +38
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.30% 1.41% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.54% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £594
% change year-on-year -4.76% -11.58% +3.26%

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 263 260 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 85.67% 91.87% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 98 157
10th Percentile £178 £325 £320
25th Percentile £372 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £452 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +0.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £691 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 11
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £32.93 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Code Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Code Quality job vacancy trend in the North East

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Code Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Code Quality

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 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the North East

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Code Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Code Quality

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 21 October 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 -5 3 £600 +9.09% 12
Durham +3 1 - - 1
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Mocha
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (50.00%) Jest
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Akka
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) iOS Development
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) MVVM
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Scala
1 1 (25.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana