Code Quality Contracts in Scotland

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 90 68 97
Rank change year-on-year -22 +29 +48
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 26 63 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.60% 2.84% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 3.21% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 56
10th Percentile £350 £434 £416
25th Percentile £356 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £480 £506 £502
90th Percentile £495 £545 £518
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.57% -7.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Edinburgh -3 13 £460 -4.76% 14
Glasgow -14 13 £356 -26.52% 10
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 1 (3.85%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
3 5 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (19.23%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (15.38%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.85%) GIS
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 10 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Banking
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) Developer
2 8 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 6 (23.08%) .NET Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) React Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior React Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Automation Developer
6 2 (7.69%) GCP Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.85%) J2EE Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Spring
2 10 (38.46%) Spring Boot
3 8 (30.77%) React
4 6 (23.08%) .NET
5 5 (19.23%) AWS CDK
5 5 (19.23%) Kafka
6 4 (15.38%) REST
7 3 (11.54%) PostGIS
7 3 (11.54%) RESTful
8 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
8 2 (7.69%) JMS
8 2 (7.69%) SOAP
9 1 (3.85%) Ext JS
9 1 (3.85%) J2EE
9 1 (3.85%) Middleware
9 1 (3.85%) Next.js
9 1 (3.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Legacy Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Product Ownership
1 6 (23.08%) Wiki
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) DevOps
2 11 (42.31%) User Experience
3 10 (38.46%) Agile
3 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 6 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
4 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 6 (23.08%) Unit Testing
5 5 (19.23%) Code Coverage
5 5 (19.23%) Microservices
5 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Community of Practice
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (15.38%) Human-Centred Design
6 4 (15.38%) Inclusive Design
6 4 (15.38%) Kanban
6 4 (15.38%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (15.38%) Scrum
6 4 (15.38%) TDD
7 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
4 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 4 (15.38%) SQL
5 2 (7.69%) C#
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.54%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Google
1 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle