Code Quality Contracts in Sheffield

Code Quality (Software Quality)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 58 48
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 +13
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 14 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.65% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 0.26% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £494 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +29.94% -38.46% +49.43%
75th Percentile £532 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £400 £650
% change year-on-year +29.94% -38.46% +46.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 499 379 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.51% 89.18% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 205 262
10th Percentile £285 £379 £376
25th Percentile £375 £425 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% -14.58% +15.38%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £684
90th Percentile £626 £645 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £507 £575
% change year-on-year -8.68% -11.83% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £20.20 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.50 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +7.69% +16.42%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £20.69
90th Percentile - - £21.93
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £19.50
% change year-on-year +43.08% -34.21% +19.08%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Sheffield

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Sheffield

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Sheffield

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) GitHub
2 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) CloudBees
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Relational Database
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
3 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata
4 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Git
2 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
3 3 (21.43%) GitLab
3 3 (21.43%) Gradle
3 3 (21.43%) HP UFT
3 3 (21.43%) IntelliJ
3 3 (21.43%) JIRA
3 3 (21.43%) JUnit
3 3 (21.43%) Maven
3 3 (21.43%) Selenium
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Test Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Angular Developer
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) CSS
1 7 (50.00%) HTML
2 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET Web API
2 4 (28.57%) jQuery
3 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
3 3 (21.43%) CSS3
3 3 (21.43%) HTML5
3 3 (21.43%) Node.js
3 3 (21.43%) RESTful
4 2 (14.29%) Compass CSS Framework
4 2 (14.29%) Express.js
4 2 (14.29%) MEAN Stack
4 2 (14.29%) NestJS
4 2 (14.29%) NgRx
4 2 (14.29%) REST
4 2 (14.29%) Sass
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 1 (7.14%) Hugging Face
5 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 7 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (35.71%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) TDD
5 4 (28.57%) Business Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) MVC
5 4 (28.57%) OO
5 4 (28.57%) OOP
5 4 (28.57%) Use Case
6 3 (21.43%) BDD
6 3 (21.43%) Document Management
6 3 (21.43%) Matrix Management
6 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
1 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) Bicep
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) GoldenSource
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace