Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Code Quality (Software Quality)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.80% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 - -
75th Percentile £434 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -3.41% -5.96% +17.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 320 102 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 85.56% 89.47% 62.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 67 26
10th Percentile £400 £270 £278
25th Percentile £453 £365 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £477 £405
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% +17.78% -24.72%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £500
90th Percentile £552 £567 £536
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £14.87
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% -18.09% -13.10%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.25
% change year-on-year -6.21% -23.58% +66.81%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Telford - 3 £423 - 15
Code Quality
West Midlands

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (33.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Material-UI
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Progressive Enhancement
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk