Code Quality Contracts in Yorkshire

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 78 54 122
Rank change year-on-year -24 +68 +16
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 14 46 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.38% 2.72% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 3.15% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile £400 - £380
25th Percentile £480 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 - £550
90th Percentile £573 - £610
England median daily rate £517 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -3.84% -8.28% +2.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Yorkshire

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Yorkshire

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Yorkshire

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire -7 8 £535 - 4
West Yorkshire -3 5 £400 - 16
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) CloudBees
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 4 (28.57%) Gradle
2 4 (28.57%) HP UFT
2 4 (28.57%) IntelliJ
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 4 (28.57%) JUnit
2 4 (28.57%) Maven
2 4 (28.57%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Scala Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Test Manager
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) React Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Scala Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Akka
2 3 (21.43%) Play Framework
2 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 2 (14.29%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) CSS3
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) HTML5
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) React
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) TDD
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) BDD
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (42.86%) Microservices
5 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Code Coverage
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (28.57%) Data Privacy
6 4 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (28.57%) Document Management
6 4 (28.57%) QA Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
6 4 (28.57%) Visualisation
6 4 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Scala
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kibana
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace