Code Quality Contracts in the West Midlands

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 133 169
Rank change year-on-year +49 +36 -51
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 29 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.50% 0.21% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 0.24% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile - £443 £413
25th Percentile £275 £563 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +31.58% +65.22%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £531
90th Percentile £663 - £558
England median daily rate £531 £586 £569
% change year-on-year -9.34% +3.08% +13.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,624 2,088 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.93% 88.62% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 1,431 2,357
10th Percentile £276 £263 £272
25th Percentile £364 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +15.32%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £699 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 69
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £40.38 £24.94 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £50.00 £22.05
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the West Midlands

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the West Midlands

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the West Midlands

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Birmingham +34 26 £600 -4.00% 8
Coventry - 2 £300 - 2
Warwickshire - 1 £675 - 3
Code Quality
England

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

Applications
1 24 (82.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) Boomi
1 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.90%) Travis CI
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (86.21%) Developer
2 24 (82.76%) Software Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Lead
4 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (48.28%) HTML
2 2 (6.90%) CSS
2 2 (6.90%) JSON
2 2 (6.90%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) Web Services
2 2 (6.90%) XML
3 1 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (82.76%) Artificial Intelligence
1 24 (82.76%) Conversational UI
2 12 (41.38%) Software Engineering
3 3 (10.34%) Agile
3 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
3 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.34%) Scrum
4 2 (6.90%) Business Transformation
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science
4 2 (6.90%) Containerisation
4 2 (6.90%) Defect Tracking
4 2 (6.90%) DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) Event-Driven
4 2 (6.90%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (6.90%) Microservices
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (6.90%) Test Strategy
5 1 (3.45%) Mentoring
5 1 (3.45%) Roadmaps
5 1 (3.45%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) JavaScript
2 14 (48.28%) Python
2 14 (48.28%) SQL
3 12 (41.38%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 26 (89.66%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (82.76%) PayPal
2 2 (6.90%) Confluent
2 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) Dell