Code Quality Contracts in Northampton

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 22 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 3 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 2.44% 4.72% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 5.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £183 - -
25th Percentile £288 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% - -
75th Percentile £512 £369 -
90th Percentile £527 £448 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £475 £356 -
% change year-on-year +33.43% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 115 120 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.50% 94.49% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 91 89
10th Percentile £262 £325 £163
25th Percentile £356 £356 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £460 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +22.67% -18.48%
75th Percentile £475 £595 £500
90th Percentile £529 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £445 £375
% change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% +7.56%
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Northampton

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Northampton

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

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

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Northampton

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (66.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (66.67%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Product Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk