Code Quality Contracts in the Thames Valley

Code Quality (Software Quality)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 95 141 147
Rank change year-on-year +46 +6 +15
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 7 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.46% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.17% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £409 £513 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +40.00% -31.19%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £388
90th Percentile £600 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £580
% change year-on-year - -13.79% +43.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the Thames Valley

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the Thames Valley

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the Thames Valley

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the Thames Valley

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +35 7 £455 -13.33% 11
Code Quality
South East

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Serverless
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure AKS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (57.14%) Redis
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Backend Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) GraphQL
1 4 (57.14%) Prisma
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) PySpark
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) TanStack
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (57.14%) API Design
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Cost Management
2 4 (57.14%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
2 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Front End Development
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Product Management
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft