Code Quality Contracts in the West Midlands

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 82 82 135
Rank change year-on-year 0 +53 +36
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 15 29 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.12% 1.49% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.77% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 4
10th Percentile £155 - £423
25th Percentile £315 £275 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +26.32%
75th Percentile £663 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £663 £673
England median daily rate £517 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -3.84% -8.28% +2.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the West Midlands

Code Quality
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 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
Birmingham -5 4 £465 -22.50% 14
Wolverhampton - 3 £850 - 1
Herefordshire - 2 £700 -
Worcestershire - 2 £700 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Postman
2 5 (33.33%) Git
3 3 (20.00%) PHPUnit
4 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Moodle Developer
4 3 (20.00%) SAP Architect
5 2 (13.33%) SAP Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Customer Service Representative
6 1 (6.67%) Integration Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) QA Leader
6 1 (6.67%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) RESTful
2 5 (33.33%) CSS
2 5 (33.33%) CSS3
2 5 (33.33%) HTML
2 5 (33.33%) HTML5
2 5 (33.33%) jQuery
2 5 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (33.33%) SAPUI5
3 3 (20.00%) Behat
3 3 (20.00%) JSON
3 3 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (13.33%) Node.js
4 2 (13.33%) React
5 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 1 (6.67%) Play Framework
5 1 (6.67%) SOAP
5 1 (6.67%) Spring
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (20.00%) Online Games
1 3 (20.00%) VLE
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 5 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (33.33%) MVC
2 5 (33.33%) User Experience
2 5 (33.33%) Validation
2 5 (33.33%) Workflow
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) API Development
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) Data Management
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (13.33%) API Design
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) ABAP
2 5 (33.33%) COBOL
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) PHP
4 2 (13.33%) Go
4 2 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
1 3 (20.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) SAP