Code Quality Contract Job Trends in South London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.99% - 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £514 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - £363
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.12%
75th Percentile £549 - £369
90th Percentile £550 - -
London median daily rate £525 £525 £610
% change year-on-year - -13.93% +3.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 148 178 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.62% 88.12% 83.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 114 193
10th Percentile £241 £225 £236
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% -7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £582 £594
90th Percentile £722 £755 £675
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 14
10th Percentile - - £17.42
25th Percentile - £17.25 £32.70
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £53.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -63.62% +21.50%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.59
90th Percentile - £75.79 £66.78
London median hourly rate £30.50 £37.79 £39.92
% change year-on-year -19.28% -5.34% +6.44%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in South London

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Croydon - 4 £531 -
Bromley - 1 - - 3
Code Quality
London

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) CQRS
2 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (80.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes