Code Quality Contracts in the South West

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 122 153
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 +11
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 4 35 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% 1.09% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 1.32% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £550 £294 £345
25th Percentile £606 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -13.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile - £603 £688
90th Percentile - £644 £777
England median daily rate £517 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -3.84% -8.28% +2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £54.00
25th Percentile - £75.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +43.49%
75th Percentile - £85.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.20% +29.05% -32.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the South West

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the South West

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the South West

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the South West

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Gloucestershire +14 2 £700 +47.37% 18
Bristol -10 1 £525 +16.67% 20
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) NUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Laravel
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) API Design
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP