Code Quality Contracts

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 423 482
Rank change year-on-year +225 +59 -113
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 513 312 416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.58% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 206 305
10th Percentile £325 £400 £406
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -7.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £716 £722 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £465
% change year-on-year -2.56% +4.84% +4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 10
10th Percentile £58.13 £45.00 £39.12
25th Percentile £62.50 £50.00 £47.65
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -32.26% +72.22%
75th Percentile £83.44 £70.00 £83.31
90th Percentile £84.38 £80.50 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £45.20
% change year-on-year +23.81% +16.15% +0.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Code Quality over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +234 416 £538 -8.28% 235
Work from Home +229 339 £470 -5.95% 145
UK excluding London +176 313 £475 -2.56% 146
London +132 161 £550 -11.11% 100
North of England +128 130 £550 -4.35% 44
Scotland +29 63 £475 - 8
Midlands +78 58 £363 -36.96% 31
North West +65 57 £550 -4.35% 28
Yorkshire +64 46 - - 11
South West +36 35 £475 -13.64% 13
East Midlands +47 30 £356 -16.24% 11
West Midlands +55 28 £600 - 20
North East - 27 £550 - 5
East of England +13 19 £483 -21.93% 9
South East +13 6 £500 -13.79% 35
Isle of Man - 2 - -

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (1.95%) CMS
2 8 (1.56%) Confluence
3 5 (0.97%) JBoss
4 4 (0.78%) Drupal
4 4 (0.78%) WordPress
5 3 (0.58%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) Appian
7 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 241 (46.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Endur
1 4 (0.78%) Magento
1 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.39%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 83 (16.18%) AWS
2 51 (9.94%) Azure
3 28 (5.46%) Serverless
4 27 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 25 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (3.70%) GCP
7 19 (3.70%) OpenShift
8 16 (3.12%) GitHub
9 14 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.17%) OCI
12 5 (0.97%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (0.97%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.78%) Rekognition
13 4 (0.78%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.56%) HTTP
2 3 (0.58%) 5G
2 3 (0.58%) DNS
3 1 (0.19%) DHCP
3 1 (0.19%) DVB
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) FTP
3 1 (0.19%) Network Security
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.19%) VLAN
3 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (4.87%) SQL Server
3 24 (4.68%) MongoDB
3 24 (4.68%) NoSQL
4 18 (3.51%) MySQL
5 15 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.75%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (0.97%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.97%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.97%) SQLite
10 3 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.58%) Big Data
10 3 (0.58%) Couchbase
10 3 (0.58%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.39%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 68 (13.26%) Git
2 33 (6.43%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.09%) SonarQube
4 15 (2.92%) JIRA
5 10 (1.95%) Mercurial
5 10 (1.95%) Rational Rhapsody
6 7 (1.36%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.17%) GitLab
7 6 (1.17%) Selenium
8 5 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.97%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (0.97%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (0.97%) Checkstyle
8 5 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.78%) Android Studio
9 4 (0.78%) JUnit
9 4 (0.78%) Postman
9 4 (0.78%) Pylint
9 4 (0.78%) SpecFlow
General
1 95 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.99%) Finance
3 30 (5.85%) Public Sector
4 27 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.09%) Banking
6 11 (2.14%) Electronics
7 10 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.56%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.56%) Multimedia
8 8 (1.56%) Retail
9 7 (1.36%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.17%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.58%) Back Office
12 2 (0.39%) Automotive
12 2 (0.39%) Aviation
12 2 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.39%) Legal
12 2 (0.39%) Marketing
12 2 (0.39%) Publishing
12 2 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 391 (76.22%) Developer
2 250 (48.73%) Software Developer
3 51 (9.94%) Senior
4 35 (6.82%) Senior Developer
5 31 (6.04%) Software Engineer
6 26 (5.07%) .NET Developer
7 23 (4.48%) React Developer
8 20 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
9 19 (3.70%) Java Developer
10 18 (3.51%) Lead
11 11 (2.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 11 (2.14%) Python Developer
11 11 (2.14%) Senior React Developer
12 10 (1.95%) Ada Engineer
12 10 (1.95%) Ada Software Engineer
13 9 (1.75%) Architect
13 9 (1.75%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 8 (1.56%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (1.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 8 (1.56%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (35.28%) HTML
2 79 (15.40%) React
3 50 (9.75%) CSS
4 44 (8.58%) .NET
5 28 (5.46%) Node.js
6 27 (5.26%) REST
7 25 (4.87%) AngularJS
8 22 (4.29%) RESTful
8 22 (4.29%) Spring Boot
9 21 (4.09%) Spring
10 20 (3.90%) Kafka
11 18 (3.51%) AWS CDK
12 11 (2.14%) .NET Framework
12 11 (2.14%) Vue
13 10 (1.95%) .NET Core
13 10 (1.95%) HTML5
13 10 (1.95%) Jest
13 10 (1.95%) XML
14 9 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (1.75%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.29%) Product Ownership
2 12 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
2 12 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (2.34%) Wiki
3 8 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (1.56%) Mobile App
4 6 (1.17%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (0.97%) Algorithms
5 5 (0.97%) Data Structures
5 5 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (0.97%) Social Media
5 5 (0.97%) Solar Panel
5 5 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (0.78%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.58%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.92%) Linux
2 14 (2.73%) Windows
3 7 (1.36%) Android
4 5 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.58%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (49.71%) Artificial Intelligence
2 241 (46.98%) Conversational UI
3 188 (36.65%) Software Engineering
4 108 (21.05%) Agile
5 83 (16.18%) DevOps
6 75 (14.62%) CI/CD
7 67 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (11.50%) Test Automation
9 55 (10.72%) User Experience
10 54 (10.53%) Computer Science
11 45 (8.77%) Microservices
12 38 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
12 38 (7.41%) Front End Development
13 35 (6.82%) TDD
14 33 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (6.24%) SDLC
15 32 (6.24%) Unit Testing
16 31 (6.04%) Full Stack Development
17 30 (5.85%) Mentoring
17 30 (5.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 210 (40.94%) JavaScript
2 187 (36.45%) Python
3 178 (34.70%) SQL
4 159 (30.99%) C#
5 64 (12.48%) Java
6 36 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.73%) C
7 14 (2.73%) Go
8 12 (2.34%) C++
9 10 (1.95%) Ada
10 9 (1.75%) Bash
11 7 (1.36%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.36%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.36%) Ruby
12 6 (1.17%) PHP
12 6 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.97%) ABAP
13 5 (0.97%) Perl
14 3 (0.58%) Rust
14 3 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 301 (58.67%) Degree
2 47 (9.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (5.85%) Security Cleared
4 18 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.12%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.78%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.39%) HND
10 1 (0.19%) APMP
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.55%) QA
2 32 (6.24%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.14%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (1.17%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.78%) WCAG
6 3 (0.58%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.58%) MiFID
7 2 (0.39%) GDPR
7 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (7.99%) Docker
2 8 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) HDFS
3 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.48%) Grafana
3 20 (3.90%) Terraform
4 14 (2.73%) Kibana
5 6 (1.17%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.97%) Ansible
7 4 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.58%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.39%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.19%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
10 1 (0.19%) logstash
10 1 (0.19%) Oozie
10 1 (0.19%) Puppet
10 1 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 241 (46.98%) PayPal
2 27 (5.26%) Oracle
3 18 (3.51%) Microsoft
4 17 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.95%) IBM
6 9 (1.75%) Splunk
7 8 (1.56%) Google
7 8 (1.56%) Virgin Media
8 7 (1.36%) SAP
9 6 (1.17%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.97%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.58%) Black Duck
12 2 (0.39%) Apple
12 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.39%) Fiserv
12 2 (0.39%) Typelevel
13 1 (0.19%) Confluent
13 1 (0.19%) Databricks
13 1 (0.19%) Dell
13 1 (0.19%) TIBCO