Code Quality Contracts in Scotland

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Code Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Code Quality over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 97 145
Rank change year-on-year +29 +48 -24
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 63 70 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.84% 2.45% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 2.64% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 56 24
10th Percentile £434 £416 £359
25th Percentile £456 £450 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £506 £502 £466
90th Percentile £545 £518 £619
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -7.64% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Code Quality is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,963 2,651 3,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.54% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 1,908 2,313
10th Percentile £229 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Scotland

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Scotland

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Scotland

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in Scotland

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
Glasgow +22 30 £485 +8.63% 3
Edinburgh +19 21 £483 +0.78% 2
West Lothian - 3 £588 - 1
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (6.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) GeoServer
Applications
1 23 (36.51%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.75%) AWS
2 14 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 14 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
2 14 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (22.22%) Serverless
3 12 (19.05%) Azure
3 12 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (19.05%) OpenShift
4 5 (7.94%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (6.35%) Rekognition
5 4 (6.35%) Textract
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.59%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.98%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (23.81%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (7.94%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.35%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.17%) GIS
5 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.35%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) IntelliJ
2 4 (6.35%) JIRA
2 4 (6.35%) Postman
3 2 (3.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.59%) GitLab
General
1 24 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 5 (7.94%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.59%) Banking
4 1 (1.59%) Finance
4 1 (1.59%) Legal
4 1 (1.59%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (87.30%) Developer
2 28 (44.44%) Software Developer
3 13 (20.63%) Senior
4 11 (17.46%) .NET Developer
4 11 (17.46%) React Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 8 (12.70%) Senior .NET Developer
6 8 (12.70%) Senior React Developer
7 7 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (7.94%) Java Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Lead
10 3 (4.76%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 2 (3.17%) Lead .NET Developer
11 2 (3.17%) Lead Developer
12 1 (1.59%) Administrator
12 1 (1.59%) Architect
12 1 (1.59%) AWS Developer
12 1 (1.59%) Java Software Developer
12 1 (1.59%) QA Leader
12 1 (1.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (44.44%) React
2 25 (39.68%) HTML
3 17 (26.98%) AWS CDK
4 14 (22.22%) CSS
5 12 (19.05%) .NET
6 10 (15.87%) Node.js
7 8 (12.70%) REST
7 8 (12.70%) Spring
7 8 (12.70%) Spring Boot
8 6 (9.52%) OAuth
8 6 (9.52%) OAuth2
8 6 (9.52%) Spring Security
9 4 (6.35%) GraphQL
9 4 (6.35%) Jest
9 4 (6.35%) Playwright
9 4 (6.35%) Spring MVC
9 4 (6.35%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (6.35%) Thymeleaf
10 3 (4.76%) PostGIS
10 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Legacy Applications
1 12 (19.05%) Product Ownership
1 12 (19.05%) Wiki
2 9 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.03%) Artificial Intelligence
2 27 (42.86%) User Experience
3 23 (36.51%) Agile
3 23 (36.51%) Conversational UI
3 23 (36.51%) DevOps
4 19 (30.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (25.40%) Community of Practice
5 16 (25.40%) Human-Centred Design
5 16 (25.40%) Inclusive Design
5 16 (25.40%) Unit Testing
6 14 (22.22%) Analytics
6 14 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 14 (22.22%) Code Coverage
6 14 (22.22%) Microservices
7 13 (20.63%) TDD
8 12 (19.05%) Knowledge Transfer
8 12 (19.05%) Pair Programming
8 12 (19.05%) Requirements Analysis
8 12 (19.05%) Test Automation
9 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (49.21%) JavaScript
2 24 (38.10%) Python
3 18 (28.57%) Java
4 17 (26.98%) SQL
5 16 (25.40%) TypeScript
6 11 (17.46%) C#
7 4 (6.35%) Bash
8 3 (4.76%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.59%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (38.10%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) QA
4 1 (1.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (25.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (25.40%) Grafana
2 7 (11.11%) Kibana
3 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (36.51%) PayPal
2 4 (6.35%) Oracle
3 1 (1.59%) Fiserv