Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 2.59% 1.77% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 1.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £281 - -
25th Percentile £300 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% - -
75th Percentile £402 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £357 £356 -
% change year-on-year +0.35% - -

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 219 110 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.40% 97.35% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 93 69
10th Percentile £313 £309 £294
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -18.20% +15.06%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £525
90th Percentile £537 £620 £541
Northamptonshire median daily rate £418 £403 £478
% change year-on-year +3.73% -15.71% +8.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +205.56%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
% change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Northampton

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Code Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Northampton over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Northampton

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (33.33%) Mule
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Aerospike
2 2 (33.33%) MariaDB
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) JMeter
4 1 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (16.67%) Postman
4 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Kafka
2 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 3 (50.00%) pytest
3 2 (33.33%) J2EE
3 2 (33.33%) PySpark
3 2 (33.33%) RAML
3 2 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Batch
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) Swagger
4 1 (16.67%) Jest
4 1 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Integration Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Backtesting
3 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Checkmarx
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft