Code Quality Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Code Quality skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 154 183
Rank change year-on-year +19 +29 +49
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 57 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.44% 0.41% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 0.49% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 12 12
10th Percentile £339 £360 £383
25th Percentile £378 £414 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £628
90th Percentile £542 - £649
England median daily rate £500 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -9.09% -7.37% +7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £80.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +16.79% +23.59%

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 3,510 3,480 4,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.95% 84.14% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,265 2,059 2,986
10th Percentile £268 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 205 203
10th Percentile £12.88 £11.56 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.17 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.60 £31.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.25% +14.55% +37.50%
75th Percentile £36.56 £51.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.32 £69.35 £57.17
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.55% +46.02%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 3 September 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
Yorkshire +12 32 £501 +0.10% 7
North West +8 23 £393 -28.55% 26
North East -2 2 £400 - 8
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 7 (12.28%) JBoss
2 6 (10.53%) Confluence
3 4 (7.02%) CMS
4 3 (5.26%) CICS
5 1 (1.75%) Apache
5 1 (1.75%) Mule
5 1 (1.75%) nginx
5 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (40.35%) AWS
2 15 (26.32%) Azure
3 11 (19.30%) Serverless
4 8 (14.04%) OpenShift
5 7 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.53%) GitHub
7 5 (8.77%) GCP
8 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.02%) Figma
8 4 (7.02%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.51%) npm
10 2 (3.51%) SaaS
11 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.75%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.75%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.82%) Relational Database
2 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (12.28%) MongoDB
3 7 (12.28%) RDBMS
4 6 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
6 4 (7.02%) MySQL
6 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.26%) DB2
7 3 (5.26%) DocumentDB
7 3 (5.26%) Redis
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.51%) Big Data
8 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.75%) Metadata
9 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (61.40%) Git
2 21 (36.84%) Jenkins
3 14 (24.56%) SonarQube
4 11 (19.30%) JIRA
5 7 (12.28%) Bitbucket Server
5 7 (12.28%) Selenium
5 7 (12.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (12.28%) TeamCity
6 6 (10.53%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (8.77%) Cucumber
7 5 (8.77%) GitLab
7 5 (8.77%) IntelliJ
7 5 (8.77%) Maven
8 4 (7.02%) JUnit
8 4 (7.02%) Storybook
9 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
9 3 (5.26%) Cypress.io
9 3 (5.26%) Gradle
9 3 (5.26%) HP UFT
10 2 (3.51%) Grunt
General
1 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Finance
3 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Banking
5 4 (7.02%) Retail
6 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (40.35%) Developer
2 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (8.77%) Senior
4 4 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Lead
4 4 (7.02%) Software Developer
4 4 (7.02%) Technical Leader
4 4 (7.02%) Test Manager
5 3 (5.26%) .NET Developer
5 3 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (5.26%) C# Developer
5 3 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) DevOps Specialist
5 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Tester
5 3 (5.26%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.58%) CSS
1 18 (31.58%) HTML
2 17 (29.82%) Node.js
3 14 (24.56%) React
4 11 (19.30%) CSS3
4 11 (19.30%) HTML5
5 10 (17.54%) .NET
5 10 (17.54%) RESTful
5 10 (17.54%) Spring Boot
6 8 (14.04%) jQuery
7 7 (12.28%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (12.28%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (10.53%) Express.js
8 6 (10.53%) Redux
9 5 (8.77%) Compass CSS Framework
9 5 (8.77%) Next.js
9 5 (8.77%) REST
9 5 (8.77%) Spring
10 4 (7.02%) Bootstrap
10 4 (7.02%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.26%) Mainframe
2 3 (5.26%) VSAM
3 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.51%) NHS
3 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) CMDB
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) Replication
4 1 (1.75%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Windows
2 8 (14.04%) Linux
3 7 (12.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.75%) Unix
5 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.88%) DevOps
2 28 (49.12%) CI/CD
3 24 (42.11%) Agile
4 17 (29.82%) Test Automation
5 16 (28.07%) Microservices
6 15 (26.32%) Analytics
7 14 (24.56%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (15.79%) Front End Development
11 9 (15.79%) OOP
11 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (14.04%) Change Management
12 8 (14.04%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (14.04%) MVC
12 8 (14.04%) Observability
13 7 (12.28%) Clean Code
13 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (12.28%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.33%) Java
2 17 (29.82%) Python
3 13 (22.81%) JavaScript
4 9 (15.79%) C#
4 9 (15.79%) SQL
5 7 (12.28%) Perl
6 6 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.26%) Bash
7 3 (5.26%) COBOL
7 3 (5.26%) JCL
8 2 (3.51%) Bicep
8 2 (3.51%) Swift
9 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.75%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.75%) REXX
9 1 (1.75%) Ruby
9 1 (1.75%) Scala
9 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.02%) Degree
4 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.56%) QA
2 5 (8.77%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.26%) WCAG
4 2 (3.51%) GDPR
5 1 (1.75%) GRC
5 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (22.81%) Docker
2 7 (12.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.04%) Kibana
2 8 (14.04%) Progress Chef
3 7 (12.28%) Terraform
4 2 (3.51%) Ansible
5 1 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) AppDynamics
2 7 (12.28%) Cloudera
2 7 (12.28%) GoldenSource
2 7 (12.28%) Red Hat
2 7 (12.28%) Splunk
3 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (3.51%) Brio
5 2 (3.51%) Perforce
5 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.75%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.75%) Google