Code Quality Contracts in Surrey

Code Quality (Software Quality)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.98% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £514 £525 £375
% change year-on-year -2.10% +40.00% -20.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 282 503 643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 92.16% 84.97% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 366 514
10th Percentile £198 £203 £208
25th Percentile £280 £313 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £545 £575 £647
90th Percentile £588 £688 £757
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 53 29
10th Percentile £13.69 £11.71 £18.04
25th Percentile £24.17 £17.80 £36.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £71.90 £61.63
90th Percentile £69.39 £76.86 £62.79
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.09% +10.00% +104.75%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Surrey

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Surrey

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in Surrey

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 24 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
Staines - 2 £425 -
Guildford - 1 - -
Code Quality
South East

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) ADO
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Blazor
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Java EE
2 1 (33.33%) Java SE
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Struts
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) WebAssembly
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Korn
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) OCP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) SAP