Code Quality Contracts in the South East

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 191 197
Rank change year-on-year +64 +6 +49
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 19 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.65% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.13% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 9
10th Percentile £411 £430 £363
25th Percentile £466 £456 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -13.79% +43.03%
75th Percentile £521 £519 £586
90th Percentile £558 £530 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £586
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.41% +4.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -20.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,666 4,608 4,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.43% 84.21% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 2,676 3,448
10th Percentile £250 £255 £248
25th Percentile £387 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £502
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -0.25% +0.30%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 443 217
10th Percentile £13.28 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.26 £22.16
Median hourly rate £25.82 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.65% -5.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £61.69 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the South East

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the South East

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the South East

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the South East

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Hampshire - 10 £514 - 70
Surrey - 5 £425 - 46
Thames Valley +37 4 £500 -4.76% 193
Berkshire +33 4 £500 -4.76% 126
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (10.53%) JBoss
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Serverless
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
2 4 (21.05%) MySQL
2 4 (21.05%) Redis
3 3 (15.79%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
4 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.26%) Big Data
5 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) JMeter
3 3 (15.79%) Selenium
3 3 (15.79%) Subversion
4 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (10.53%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
4 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.53%) Postman
4 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
4 2 (10.53%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.26%) JUnit
5 1 (5.26%) TestRail
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (10.53%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Python Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) React
2 5 (26.32%) RESTful
3 4 (21.05%) Web Services
4 3 (15.79%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.79%) CSS
4 3 (15.79%) Kafka
4 3 (15.79%) Laravel
4 3 (15.79%) Next.js
4 3 (15.79%) Phalcon
4 3 (15.79%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.79%) Symfony
4 3 (15.79%) Vue
5 2 (10.53%) .NET
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
5 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (10.53%) PySpark
5 2 (10.53%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
4 7 (36.84%) Front End Development
4 7 (36.84%) Microservices
5 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (31.58%) Scrum
5 6 (31.58%) SDLC
6 5 (26.32%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 5 (26.32%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (15.79%) API Development
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis
7 3 (15.79%) Manual Testing
7 3 (15.79%) OO PHP
7 3 (15.79%) OWASP
7 3 (15.79%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (15.79%) Test Strategy
7 3 (15.79%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
1 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
2 4 (21.05%) C#
2 4 (21.05%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) PHP
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.26%) OCP
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
1 3 (15.79%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Kibana
3 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) Zend
2 2 (10.53%) AppDynamics
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle