Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 4 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.98% 3.74% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 4.07% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £426 £225 -
25th Percentile £427 £237 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £323 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.47% - -
75th Percentile £489 £357 -
90th Percentile £492 £389 -
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 172 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 81.19% 91.98% 77.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 108 62
10th Percentile £231 £187 £167
25th Percentile £380 £306 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +27.27%
75th Percentile £594 £566 £625
90th Percentile £675 £621 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 27
10th Percentile - £14.35 -
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.78 £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £23.00 £21.10
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% +9.00% +43.49%
75th Percentile £53.75 £25.15 £24.06
90th Percentile - £39.96 £31.88
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% -23.32% +1.39%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
County Antrim +7 4 £456 +41.47% 11
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Heroku
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Impala
1 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Sqoop
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Release Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce