Code Quality Contracts in the North West

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 100 133
Rank change year-on-year -2 +33 +32
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 25 37 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.25% 1.30% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.56% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 13
10th Percentile £340 £347 £264
25th Percentile £356 £392 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% -13.04% +6.98%
75th Percentile £401 £569 £635
90th Percentile £434 £575 £648
England median daily rate £500 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% +6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £72.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -28.57% +30.23% +18.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,793 2,372 2,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.52% 83.61% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 1,444 1,896
10th Percentile £306 £306 £313
25th Percentile £384 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -1.00% +2.67%
75th Percentile £561 £585 £588
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 271 141
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% +26.58%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.50
England median hourly rate £26.45 £38.12 £35.02
% change year-on-year -30.61% +8.87% +36.35%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the North West over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Cheshire +7 15 £379 +16.62% 45
Manchester +2 10 £400 -27.27% 117
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (24.00%) JBoss
2 3 (12.00%) CICS
2 3 (12.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Mule
3 1 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) OpenShift
3 6 (24.00%) Azure
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.00%) npm
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (24.00%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (24.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (12.00%) DB2
3 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.00%) Apache Accumulo
5 1 (4.00%) Big Data
5 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (4.00%) Metadata
5 1 (4.00%) MySQL
5 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) Git
2 11 (44.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (36.00%) SonarQube
4 8 (32.00%) JIRA
5 7 (28.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (24.00%) CA Release Automation
6 6 (24.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (24.00%) TeamCity
7 4 (16.00%) Babel
7 4 (16.00%) Selenium
7 4 (16.00%) webpack
8 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
8 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
8 2 (8.00%) Eclipse
8 2 (8.00%) IntelliJ
8 2 (8.00%) Maven
8 2 (8.00%) REST Assured
9 1 (4.00%) Gerrit
9 1 (4.00%) Grunt
9 1 (4.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) React Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (16.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Tester
5 2 (8.00%) Automation Tester
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.00%) UI Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.00%) Designer
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Mainframe Tester
6 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (28.00%) CSS
2 7 (28.00%) HTML
2 7 (28.00%) HTML5
2 7 (28.00%) React
3 6 (24.00%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (24.00%) REST
4 5 (20.00%) RESTful
5 4 (16.00%) .NET
6 3 (12.00%) CSS3
6 3 (12.00%) Node.js
7 2 (8.00%) Spring
8 1 (4.00%) Ajax
8 1 (4.00%) J2EE
8 1 (4.00%) JSON
8 1 (4.00%) Kafka
8 1 (4.00%) LESS
8 1 (4.00%) Sass
8 1 (4.00%) Spring Batch
8 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (12.00%) VSAM
2 1 (4.00%) CMDB
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
1 7 (28.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 7 (28.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (48.00%) DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) Agile
4 8 (32.00%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (32.00%) Microservices
5 7 (28.00%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (24.00%) API Development
6 6 (24.00%) Build Automation
6 6 (24.00%) Front End Development
6 6 (24.00%) Migration
7 5 (20.00%) Analytics
8 4 (16.00%) B2B
8 4 (16.00%) Change Management
8 4 (16.00%) Observability
8 4 (16.00%) Runbook
8 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (16.00%) Test Scripting
8 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Java
2 9 (36.00%) Python
3 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (24.00%) Perl
5 4 (16.00%) SQL
6 3 (12.00%) COBOL
6 3 (12.00%) JCL
7 1 (4.00%) Bash
7 1 (4.00%) REXX
7 1 (4.00%) Ruby
7 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) GRC
2 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Docker
2 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (28.00%) Progress Chef
3 6 (24.00%) Kibana
4 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (28.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (24.00%) AppDynamics
2 6 (24.00%) Splunk
3 4 (16.00%) Cloudera
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle
5 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.00%) Checkmarx
6 1 (4.00%) Databricks
6 1 (4.00%) Perforce