Code Quality Contracts in Northamptonshire

Code Quality (Software Quality)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 5 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.99% 2.79% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile £204 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% - -
75th Percentile £488 £369 -
90th Percentile £517 £448 -
East Midlands median daily rate £340 £356 £425
% change year-on-year -4.49% -16.24% +23.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 193 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.62% 89.77% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 145 170
10th Percentile £268 £307 £190
25th Percentile £346 £356 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £443 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +10.75% -12.09%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £500
90th Percentile £536 £620 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £440 £411 £455
% change year-on-year +7.06% -9.78% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 17
10th Percentile £16.04 £10.90 £16.44
25th Percentile £19.48 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +79.32%
75th Percentile £29.79 £50.71 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.92 £53.90 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £20.16
% change year-on-year +10.38% -15.67% +0.80%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Northamptonshire

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Northamptonshire

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Northamptonshire

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Northampton -2 5 £340 -4.49% 5
Code Quality
East Midlands

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (40.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (40.00%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (20.00%) Maven
4 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (20.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) RAML
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL
2 1 (20.00%) JCL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle