Code Quality Contracts in South Wales

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 26 45 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.95% 0.27% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 0.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £526 - -
90th Percentile £528 - -
Wales median daily rate £475 £375 -
% change year-on-year +26.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 287 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 88.93% 78.20% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 177 292
10th Percentile £190 £143 £186
25th Percentile £293 £210 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -12.50% -1.57%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £591
90th Percentile £625 £625 £650
Wales median daily rate £403 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -10.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 40 23
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.45 -
25th Percentile £14.23 £18.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.09 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -36.23% +28.73% -2.11%
75th Percentile £20.75 £48.19 £25.50
90th Percentile £23.39 £53.88 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £23.08 £19.49
% change year-on-year -11.18% +18.42% +8.28%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in South Wales

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in South Wales

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Cardiff +13 8 £475 +26.67% 9
Code Quality
Wales

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
1 3 (37.50%) Jest
1 3 (37.50%) Next.js
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) API Design
4 3 (37.50%) Case Management
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
4 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SOQL
3 1 (12.50%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (37.50%) WCAG
3 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
14 Code Quality jobs in Wales