Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Code Quality (Software Quality)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.03% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £437 - -
25th Percentile £482 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 - -
75th Percentile £654 - -
90th Percentile £701 - -
South West median daily rate £538 £543 £531
% change year-on-year -0.92% +2.12% -4.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 144 135 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 74.23% 79.88% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 88 96
10th Percentile £162 £204 £143
25th Percentile £259 £380 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £498 £458
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +8.74% -17.49%
75th Percentile £523 £638 £588
90th Percentile £600 £755 £681
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 25
10th Percentile £43.50 - £35.00
25th Percentile £58.75 £12.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £14.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +331.03% -72.06% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £24.25 £62.92
90th Percentile £64.50 £38.20 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Somerset

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Somerset over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Somerset

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Code Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 4 December 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
Bath - 1 £413 - 1
Taunton - 1 £721 -
Code Quality
South West

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA