Code Quality Contracts in the North of England

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 125 70 200
Rank change year-on-year -55 +130 +12
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 41 130 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.24% 2.73% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 3.18% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 6 12
10th Percentile £369 £403 £218
25th Percentile £398 £450 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +24.32%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £618
90th Percentile £573 - £649
England median daily rate £517 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -3.84% -8.28% +2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.20% +29.05% -32.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West -17 23 £400 -27.27% 81
Yorkshire -24 14 £520 - 30
North East -21 4 £550 - 15
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (14.63%) Confluence
2 5 (12.20%) JBoss
3 1 (2.44%) CICS
3 1 (2.44%) OpenEdge
3 1 (2.44%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) AWS
2 8 (19.51%) Azure
3 7 (17.07%) OpenShift
4 6 (14.63%) GitHub
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.44%) CloudBees
6 1 (2.44%) GCP
6 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) MongoDB
2 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
3 5 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (12.20%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.88%) MySQL
4 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Accumulo
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.44%) Big Data
5 1 (2.44%) DB2
5 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.44%) Metadata
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Git
2 13 (31.71%) Jenkins
3 10 (24.39%) JIRA
4 6 (14.63%) Selenium
4 6 (14.63%) SonarQube
5 5 (12.20%) Babel
5 5 (12.20%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (12.20%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (12.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (12.20%) TeamCity
5 5 (12.20%) webpack
6 4 (9.76%) Cucumber
6 4 (9.76%) Gradle
6 4 (9.76%) HP UFT
6 4 (9.76%) IntelliJ
6 4 (9.76%) JUnit
6 4 (9.76%) Maven
7 2 (4.88%) GitLab
8 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (12.20%) Finance
4 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Games
6 1 (2.44%) German Language
Job Titles
1 22 (53.66%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Scala Developer
3 6 (14.63%) React Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (12.20%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (9.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Test Manager
6 3 (7.32%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Tester
8 1 (2.44%) Applications Support
8 1 (2.44%) Designer
8 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 1 (2.44%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Progress Developer
8 1 (2.44%) QA Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) CSS
1 9 (21.95%) HTML
1 9 (21.95%) Spring Boot
2 8 (19.51%) HTML5
3 7 (17.07%) Akka
3 7 (17.07%) React
3 7 (17.07%) RESTful
4 6 (14.63%) .NET
4 6 (14.63%) REST
5 5 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (12.20%) Play Framework
6 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.32%) Node.js
6 3 (7.32%) Spring
7 2 (4.88%) CSS3
7 2 (4.88%) Vue
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.44%) GraphQL
8 1 (2.44%) jQuery
8 1 (2.44%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) CMDB
3 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.44%) NHS
3 1 (2.44%) Replication
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Linux
1 7 (17.07%) Windows
2 6 (14.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.88%) Unix
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Agile
2 20 (48.78%) CI/CD
3 15 (36.59%) DevOps
4 14 (34.15%) Microservices
5 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (29.27%) TDD
6 11 (26.83%) API Development
6 11 (26.83%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (24.39%) Test Automation
8 9 (21.95%) BDD
9 8 (19.51%) Analytics
10 7 (17.07%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (17.07%) Front End Development
10 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
10 7 (17.07%) Visualisation
11 6 (14.63%) API Integration
11 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
11 6 (14.63%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (14.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) Java
2 12 (29.27%) Python
3 11 (26.83%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.07%) Scala
5 5 (12.20%) Perl
6 4 (9.76%) SQL
7 2 (4.88%) Bash
7 2 (4.88%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.44%) C#
8 1 (2.44%) COBOL
8 1 (2.44%) JCL
8 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.44%) REXX
8 1 (2.44%) Ruby
8 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (29.27%) QA
2 3 (7.32%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) GRC
3 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (26.83%) Docker
2 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (29.27%) Kibana
2 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (14.63%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.88%) Terraform
5 1 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) Red Hat
3 5 (12.20%) AppDynamics
3 5 (12.20%) Splunk
4 3 (7.32%) Cloudera
5 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.44%) Databricks
6 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle
6 1 (2.44%) Virgin Media