Code Quality Contracts with Work from Home Options

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 104 329 412
Rank change year-on-year +225 +83 -82
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 343 142 228
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.23% 0.55% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 0.61% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 105 181
10th Percentile £301 £418 £385
25th Percentile £363 £455 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% -4.76% +11.11%
75th Percentile £519 £588 £650
90th Percentile £686 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -7.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile - £51.25 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £55.94 £19.35
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £19.70
Median % change year-on-year - +255.33% -56.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £20.05
90th Percentile £79.50 £88.75 -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Code Quality
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Code Quality trend for jobs with a WFH option

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Code Quality.

Code Quality daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Code Quality over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Code Quality daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Code Quality.

Code Quality hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (0.87%) CMS
1 3 (0.87%) Headless CMS
1 3 (0.87%) JBoss
2 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.58%) Confluence
3 1 (0.29%) Apache
3 1 (0.29%) Appian
Applications
1 241 (70.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 32 (9.33%) AWS
2 16 (4.66%) Azure
3 14 (4.08%) Amazon S3
3 14 (4.08%) OpenShift
4 13 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (3.79%) Serverless
5 12 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.46%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (1.46%) GCP
7 5 (1.46%) OCI
8 4 (1.17%) Rekognition
8 4 (1.17%) Textract
9 3 (0.87%) GitHub
10 2 (0.58%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.58%) Bitrise
10 2 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.58%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.58%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.58%) HTTP
2 1 (0.29%) DHCP
2 1 (0.29%) DNS
2 1 (0.29%) FTP
2 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (4.96%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (3.50%) MySQL
5 9 (2.62%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.62%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.33%) Oracle Database
7 7 (2.04%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.58%) Big Data
9 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.29%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.29%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.29%) HBase
10 1 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (5.25%) Git
2 15 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.75%) JIRA
4 5 (1.46%) Selenium
5 4 (1.17%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.17%) SpecFlow
5 4 (1.17%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.87%) Babel
6 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.87%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (0.87%) JUnit
6 3 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.87%) TestNG
6 3 (0.87%) Travis CI
6 3 (0.87%) WebDriver
6 3 (0.87%) webpack
7 2 (0.58%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.58%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (9.04%) Social Skills
2 17 (4.96%) Finance
3 15 (4.37%) Public Sector
4 12 (3.50%) Banking
5 11 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.75%) Tech for Good
7 4 (1.17%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.87%) Back Office
8 3 (0.87%) Retail
9 2 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.58%) Publishing
9 2 (0.58%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.29%) Front Office
10 1 (0.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 308 (89.80%) Developer
2 249 (72.59%) Software Developer
3 19 (5.54%) .NET Developer
4 18 (5.25%) Senior
5 13 (3.79%) Senior Developer
6 10 (2.92%) React Developer
7 6 (1.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (1.75%) Full Stack Developer
7 6 (1.75%) Lead
7 6 (1.75%) Senior React Developer
7 6 (1.75%) Software Engineer
8 5 (1.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (1.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.46%) Java Developer
9 4 (1.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 3 (0.87%) Android Developer
10 3 (0.87%) C# Developer
10 3 (0.87%) Java Engineer
10 3 (0.87%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (0.87%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (42.86%) HTML
2 35 (10.20%) React
3 26 (7.58%) .NET
4 24 (7.00%) CSS
5 18 (5.25%) AngularJS
6 14 (4.08%) REST
7 13 (3.79%) AWS CDK
7 13 (3.79%) RESTful
8 10 (2.92%) Kafka
8 10 (2.92%) Spring Boot
9 9 (2.62%) Vue
10 8 (2.33%) .NET Framework
10 8 (2.33%) Node.js
10 8 (2.33%) Spring
11 4 (1.17%) OAuth
11 4 (1.17%) Spring MVC
11 4 (1.17%) Spring Security
11 4 (1.17%) Spring Web Flow
11 4 (1.17%) Web Services
11 4 (1.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (1.75%) Mobile App
3 5 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (1.46%) Wiki
4 3 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.58%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (0.58%) Tandem
6 1 (0.29%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.29%) CBDC
6 1 (0.29%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.29%) Derivative
6 1 (0.29%) Digital Currency
6 1 (0.29%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.29%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.29%) MPEG
6 1 (0.29%) PKI
6 1 (0.29%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.04%) Linux
2 5 (1.46%) Android
3 4 (1.17%) Windows
4 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (72.01%) Artificial Intelligence
2 241 (70.26%) Conversational UI
3 133 (38.78%) Software Engineering
4 45 (13.12%) Agile
5 38 (11.08%) CI/CD
6 37 (10.79%) User Experience
7 35 (10.20%) DevOps
8 27 (7.87%) Microservices
9 25 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (7.00%) Test Automation
11 21 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (5.25%) UX Design
13 17 (4.96%) Mentoring
14 16 (4.66%) Design Patterns
14 16 (4.66%) Full Stack Development
15 15 (4.37%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (4.37%) SDLC
15 15 (4.37%) TDD
16 14 (4.08%) Scrum
17 13 (3.79%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 158 (46.06%) JavaScript
2 150 (43.73%) Python
3 143 (41.69%) SQL
4 137 (39.94%) C#
5 27 (7.87%) Java
6 22 (6.41%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.75%) Go
8 5 (1.46%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.17%) PHP
10 3 (0.87%) Bash
10 3 (0.87%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.87%) Perl
11 2 (0.58%) Bicep
11 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.58%) Swift
12 1 (0.29%) C
12 1 (0.29%) C++
12 1 (0.29%) JSX
12 1 (0.29%) Jython
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 255 (74.34%) Degree
2 12 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.17%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.87%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.58%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.29%) Accessibility
2 17 (4.96%) QA
3 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.29%) MiFID
3 1 (0.29%) NIST
3 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (5.54%) Docker
2 5 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (5.25%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.79%) Terraform
3 12 (3.50%) Grafana
4 6 (1.75%) Kibana
5 4 (1.17%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.29%) Ansible
6 1 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.29%) logstash
6 1 (0.29%) Oozie
6 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.29%) Puppet
6 1 (0.29%) SCOM
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 241 (70.26%) PayPal
2 12 (3.50%) Oracle
3 7 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.17%) Splunk
5 3 (0.87%) AppDynamics
5 3 (0.87%) Google
5 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.58%) Apple
6 2 (0.58%) Confluent
6 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.29%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.29%) Sage