Code Quality Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 186 98 336
Rank change year-on-year -88 +238 +76
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 118 343 142
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.19% 2.24% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 2.54% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 72 105
10th Percentile £313 £301 £418
25th Percentile £401 £363 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -6.95% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £588
90th Percentile £653 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.57% -7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile - £67.50 £55.94
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile - £75.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - £79.50 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -32.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Code Quality
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Code Quality trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Code Quality over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 5 (4.24%) CMS
1 5 (4.24%) Moodle
2 3 (2.54%) Headless CMS
2 3 (2.54%) JBoss
3 2 (1.69%) Apache
3 2 (1.69%) Camunda
4 1 (0.85%) CICS
4 1 (0.85%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.85%) Magnolia
4 1 (0.85%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.85%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.51%) AWS
2 29 (24.58%) Azure
3 13 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (9.32%) GitHub
4 11 (9.32%) Serverless
5 8 (6.78%) GCP
6 7 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.08%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.24%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.54%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.54%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.69%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.69%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.69%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.85%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) HTTP
2 2 (1.69%) Network Security
3 1 (0.85%) DNS
3 1 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.02%) MongoDB
3 9 (7.63%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.78%) Redis
5 5 (4.24%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.39%) MySQL
6 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.54%) GIS
7 3 (2.54%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.69%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.85%) DB2
Development Applications
1 31 (26.27%) Git
2 13 (11.02%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.02%) JIRA
3 12 (10.17%) Postman
4 8 (6.78%) GitLab
5 6 (5.08%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.24%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.24%) PHPUnit
7 4 (3.39%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.39%) JUnit
7 4 (3.39%) Mockito
7 4 (3.39%) QARun
7 4 (3.39%) REST Assured
7 4 (3.39%) WinRunner
8 3 (2.54%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (2.54%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.54%) Subversion
8 3 (2.54%) Visual Studio
8 3 (2.54%) Xcode
General
1 29 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.41%) Finance
3 16 (13.56%) Banking
3 16 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.63%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.39%) Games
6 4 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.54%) Retail
8 2 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.69%) Marketing
8 2 (1.69%) Publishing
8 2 (1.69%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.69%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Advertising
9 1 (0.85%) Electronics
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Military
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (61.02%) Developer
2 15 (12.71%) Senior
3 13 (11.02%) Senior Developer
4 10 (8.47%) Lead
4 10 (8.47%) Software Developer
5 9 (7.63%) Scala Developer
6 8 (6.78%) Java Developer
7 7 (5.93%) .NET Developer
7 7 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (5.93%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Tester
8 6 (5.08%) Trainer
9 5 (4.24%) Analyst
9 5 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Moodle Developer
9 5 (4.24%) React Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Test Analyst
10 4 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.34%) RESTful
2 17 (14.41%) HTML
2 17 (14.41%) React
3 16 (13.56%) AngularJS
4 14 (11.86%) .NET
5 13 (11.02%) REST
5 13 (11.02%) Spring
5 13 (11.02%) Spring Boot
6 11 (9.32%) CSS
6 11 (9.32%) XML
7 10 (8.47%) Kafka
8 9 (7.63%) Akka
8 9 (7.63%) GraphQL
8 9 (7.63%) Node.js
8 9 (7.63%) Play Framework
9 8 (6.78%) Web Services
10 7 (5.93%) JSON
11 5 (4.24%) Behat
11 5 (4.24%) OAuth
11 5 (4.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.93%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.08%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.24%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.24%) e-Learning
3 5 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.24%) VLE
4 4 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.39%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.54%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.54%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.54%) Online Games
6 2 (1.69%) Derivative
6 2 (1.69%) Equities
6 2 (1.69%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.69%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.69%) PKI
6 2 (1.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.63%) Windows
2 8 (6.78%) Linux
3 4 (3.39%) Android
4 3 (2.54%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (48.31%) Agile
2 42 (35.59%) CI/CD
3 38 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (31.36%) DevOps
5 35 (29.66%) Microservices
6 24 (20.34%) Test Automation
7 22 (18.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (16.95%) Scrum
9 18 (15.25%) User Experience
10 17 (14.41%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (14.41%) SDLC
11 16 (13.56%) Containerisation
12 15 (12.71%) API Integration
12 15 (12.71%) Software Engineering
13 14 (11.86%) Front End Development
13 14 (11.86%) Kanban
14 13 (11.02%) Performance Optimisation
14 13 (11.02%) TDD
15 12 (10.17%) Mentoring
16 11 (9.32%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 36 (30.51%) Python
2 33 (27.97%) JavaScript
3 31 (26.27%) Java
4 24 (20.34%) C#
5 23 (19.49%) SQL
6 21 (17.80%) TypeScript
7 10 (8.47%) Scala
8 8 (6.78%) Kotlin
9 7 (5.93%) C++
10 5 (4.24%) Go
10 5 (4.24%) PHP
10 5 (4.24%) Ruby
11 4 (3.39%) VB
12 3 (2.54%) COBOL
12 3 (2.54%) Groovy
12 3 (2.54%) Jython
12 3 (2.54%) Objective-C
12 3 (2.54%) Perl
12 3 (2.54%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.47%) Degree
4 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.10%) QA
2 12 (10.17%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.24%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.69%) WCAG
5 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.85%) GRC
System Software
1 27 (22.88%) Docker
2 3 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (19.49%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.32%) Terraform
3 7 (5.93%) Kibana
4 4 (3.39%) Ansible
5 3 (2.54%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.69%) Grafana
6 2 (1.69%) Istio
7 1 (0.85%) Argo
7 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (5.08%) PayPal
1 6 (5.08%) Splunk
2 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.54%) AppDynamics
3 3 (2.54%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.54%) Oracle
3 3 (2.54%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.54%) SAP
4 2 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.69%) Google
5 1 (0.85%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco
5 1 (0.85%) Databricks
5 1 (0.85%) VMware