Code Quality Contracts in the UK excluding London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Code Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Code Quality over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 324 386
Rank change year-on-year +180 +62 -110
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 315 137 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.51% 0.57% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 0.64% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 97 94
10th Percentile £356 £400 £356
25th Percentile £431 £446 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £470
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +3.72% +5.62%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £538
90th Percentile £588 £638 £624
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -7.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 3
10th Percentile £57.25 £50.50 £42.10
25th Percentile £58.75 £51.25 £43.26
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +16.15% +0.44%
75th Percentile £70.63 £70.00 £50.10
90th Percentile £85.00 - £53.04
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -32.26% +72.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Code Quality is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
North of England +129 130 £550 -4.35% 47
Scotland +31 63 £475 - 8
Midlands +82 60 £359 -37.52% 32
North West +66 57 £550 -4.35% 29
Yorkshire +64 46 - - 11
South West +33 35 £475 -13.64% 17
East Midlands +51 31 £356 -16.24% 10
West Midlands +53 29 £600 - 22
North East - 27 £550 - 7
East of England +17 19 £483 -21.93% 9
South East +11 6 £500 -13.79% 36
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (1.59%) JBoss
2 4 (1.27%) Confluence
3 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) GeoServer
Applications
1 216 (68.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (10.48%) AWS
2 19 (6.03%) Serverless
3 18 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (5.71%) OpenShift
4 17 (5.40%) Amazon S3
4 17 (5.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (4.76%) Azure
6 13 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (1.90%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (1.27%) Rekognition
9 4 (1.27%) Textract
10 3 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.95%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (0.95%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.32%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.32%) Boomi
11 1 (0.32%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.59%) HTTP
2 2 (0.63%) 5G
3 1 (0.32%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.59%) MySQL
5 5 (1.59%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.59%) SQLite
6 4 (1.27%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.95%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.63%) Big Data
8 2 (0.63%) GIS
8 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (9.21%) Git
2 20 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.44%) SonarQube
4 11 (3.49%) JIRA
5 10 (3.17%) Rational Rhapsody
6 7 (2.22%) Mercurial
7 5 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (1.59%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (1.59%) Checkstyle
7 5 (1.59%) GitLab
7 5 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.59%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.27%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.27%) Postman
9 2 (0.63%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.63%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.32%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.32%) Gradle
10 1 (0.32%) LabVIEW
General
1 26 (8.25%) Public Sector
2 18 (5.71%) Social Skills
3 11 (3.49%) Electronics
4 8 (2.54%) Multimedia
5 7 (2.22%) Finance
6 6 (1.90%) Banking
7 4 (1.27%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.27%) Retail
8 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Automotive
9 2 (0.63%) Aviation
9 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.63%) Marketing
10 1 (0.32%) Law
10 1 (0.32%) Legal
10 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.32%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 260 (82.54%) Developer
2 222 (70.48%) Software Developer
3 21 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 17 (5.40%) Senior
5 11 (3.49%) .NET Developer
5 11 (3.49%) React Developer
5 11 (3.49%) Senior Developer
6 10 (3.17%) Ada Engineer
6 10 (3.17%) Ada Software Engineer
7 8 (2.54%) Embedded Engineer
7 8 (2.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 8 (2.54%) Senior .NET Developer
7 8 (2.54%) Senior React Developer
8 7 (2.22%) Full Stack Developer
8 7 (2.22%) Lead
9 6 (1.90%) Java Developer
10 5 (1.59%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (1.59%) Support Engineer
11 4 (1.27%) Architect
11 4 (1.27%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (40.00%) HTML
2 38 (12.06%) React
3 18 (5.71%) AWS CDK
3 18 (5.71%) CSS
4 17 (5.40%) .NET
5 15 (4.76%) REST
6 14 (4.44%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.81%) Node.js
8 9 (2.86%) Spring
9 8 (2.54%) JSON
10 7 (2.22%) NumPy
10 7 (2.22%) Pandas
10 7 (2.22%) SciPy
10 7 (2.22%) XML
11 6 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (1.90%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.90%) OAuth
11 6 (1.90%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.90%) Spring Security
12 5 (1.59%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.81%) Legacy Applications
2 12 (3.81%) Wiki
3 9 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.59%) Social Media
5 4 (1.27%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.63%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.63%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (0.63%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.63%) SCADA
7 1 (0.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.32%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.32%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.32%) Digital TV
7 1 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.32%) Life Science
7 1 (0.32%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.13%) Windows
2 7 (2.22%) Linux
3 5 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.95%) Android
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (73.02%) Artificial Intelligence
2 216 (68.57%) Conversational UI
3 136 (43.17%) Software Engineering
4 40 (12.70%) DevOps
5 39 (12.38%) Agile
6 31 (9.84%) Test Automation
6 31 (9.84%) User Experience
7 27 (8.57%) CI/CD
8 23 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (7.30%) Microservices
9 18 (5.71%) Mentoring
10 17 (5.40%) Unit Testing
11 16 (5.08%) Community of Practice
11 16 (5.08%) Human-Centred Design
11 16 (5.08%) Inclusive Design
11 16 (5.08%) TDD
12 15 (4.76%) Machine Learning
13 14 (4.44%) Analytics
13 14 (4.44%) Code Coverage
13 14 (4.44%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 143 (45.40%) JavaScript
2 142 (45.08%) Python
3 123 (39.05%) SQL
4 120 (38.10%) C#
5 24 (7.62%) Java
6 18 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.49%) C
8 10 (3.17%) Ada
9 7 (2.22%) Bash
10 5 (1.59%) Perl
11 4 (1.27%) C++
11 4 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.95%) Go
12 3 (0.95%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.63%) PHP
14 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 233 (73.97%) Degree
2 13 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.86%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.59%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.63%) HND
5 2 (0.63%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.32%) APMP
6 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.03%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.13%) QA
3 6 (1.90%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.95%) ISO 22301
4 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (8.57%) Docker
2 5 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Firmware
3 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (5.71%) Grafana
2 15 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.81%) Kibana
4 5 (1.59%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.59%) Terraform
5 3 (0.95%) Ansible
5 3 (0.95%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 216 (68.57%) PayPal
2 10 (3.17%) IBM
3 8 (2.54%) Splunk
4 5 (1.59%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.59%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.59%) Oracle
4 5 (1.59%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.59%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.63%) Confluent
5 2 (0.63%) Fiserv
6 1 (0.32%) Dell
6 1 (0.32%) Sage
6 1 (0.32%) Twitter