Code Quality Contracts in England

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 427 476
Rank change year-on-year +185 +49 -127
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 343 222 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 0.46% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.51% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 141 226
10th Percentile £354 £363 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £586 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +4.18% +12.50%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 6
10th Percentile £57.88 £44.88 £43.26
25th Percentile £61.56 £46.25 £47.65
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.45% +46.67%
75th Percentile £83.75 £70.00 £80.25
90th Percentile £84.63 £77.75 £82.38
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -20.45% +46.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in England.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Code Quality in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +106 159 £550 -11.11% 142
North of England +99 87 £525 -8.70% 65
Midlands +53 41 £356 -40.67% 42
North West +44 41 £550 -4.35% 34
Yorkshire +43 29 £500 +17.65% 18
South West +23 26 £475 -19.15% 17
East Midlands +38 22 £356 -16.24% 11
West Midlands +35 19 £450 -28.00% 31
North East - 17 - - 14
East of England +14 16 £508 -10.41% 16
South East +14 6 £500 -13.79% 57
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (3.21%) CMS
2 7 (2.04%) Headless CMS
3 6 (1.75%) Confluence
4 5 (1.46%) JBoss
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) Appian
6 1 (0.29%) Drupal
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 137 (39.94%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Endur
2 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.29%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.29%) Magento
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 65 (18.95%) AWS
2 42 (12.24%) Azure
3 16 (4.66%) GCP
4 15 (4.37%) Serverless
5 13 (3.79%) GitHub
6 12 (3.50%) Amazon S3
7 11 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (2.04%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (0.87%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (0.87%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.62%) HTTP
2 3 (0.87%) DNS
3 1 (0.29%) 5G
3 1 (0.29%) DHCP
3 1 (0.29%) DVB
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.29%) FTP
3 1 (0.29%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) SSL
3 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) VLAN
3 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.29%) NoSQL
2 21 (6.12%) MongoDB
3 20 (5.83%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.92%) MySQL
7 6 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.46%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.46%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.46%) SQLite
9 4 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.87%) Big Data
10 3 (0.87%) Couchbase
10 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.58%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.58%) Redis
12 1 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 59 (17.20%) Git
2 21 (6.12%) SonarQube
3 19 (5.54%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.08%) JIRA
5 10 (2.92%) Rational Rhapsody
6 7 (2.04%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.75%) GitLab
7 6 (1.75%) Mercurial
8 5 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.46%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (1.46%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (1.46%) Checkstyle
8 5 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.17%) Pylint
9 4 (1.17%) Selenium
10 3 (0.87%) Android Studio
10 3 (0.87%) Babel
10 3 (0.87%) Travis CI
10 3 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 79 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 42 (12.24%) Finance
3 24 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.54%) Banking
5 11 (3.21%) Electronics
5 11 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.62%) Retail
7 8 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.75%) Multimedia
10 5 (1.46%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.46%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.87%) Back Office
11 3 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.87%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.58%) Automotive
12 2 (0.58%) Aviation
12 2 (0.58%) Front Office
12 2 (0.58%) Marketing
12 2 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 239 (69.68%) Developer
2 139 (40.52%) Software Developer
3 38 (11.08%) Senior
4 29 (8.45%) Software Engineer
5 24 (7.00%) Senior Developer
6 19 (5.54%) Full Stack Developer
6 19 (5.54%) Java Developer
7 15 (4.37%) React Developer
8 12 (3.50%) Lead
9 11 (3.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (2.92%) Ada Engineer
10 10 (2.92%) Ada Software Engineer
10 10 (2.92%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 9 (2.62%) Python Developer
12 8 (2.33%) Embedded Engineer
12 8 (2.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 7 (2.04%) .NET Developer
13 7 (2.04%) Architect
13 7 (2.04%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (1.75%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (45.48%) HTML
2 48 (13.99%) React
3 36 (10.50%) CSS
4 22 (6.41%) .NET
4 22 (6.41%) RESTful
5 21 (6.12%) AngularJS
5 21 (6.12%) Node.js
6 20 (5.83%) Kafka
7 19 (5.54%) Spring
8 18 (5.25%) REST
9 17 (4.96%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.21%) .NET Core
10 11 (3.21%) HTML5
11 10 (2.92%) XML
12 9 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (2.62%) Hibernate
12 9 (2.62%) Next.js
12 9 (2.62%) Web Services
13 8 (2.33%) .NET Framework
13 8 (2.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (2.62%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 6 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 6 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (1.75%) Mobile App
4 6 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.46%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.46%) Solar Panel
6 4 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.17%) Social Media
7 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.87%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.87%) Tandem
8 2 (0.58%) CBDC
8 2 (0.58%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.58%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.96%) Linux
2 10 (2.92%) Windows
3 6 (1.75%) Android
4 5 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.87%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (51.90%) Software Engineering
2 143 (41.69%) Artificial Intelligence
3 137 (39.94%) Conversational UI
4 85 (24.78%) Agile
5 62 (18.08%) CI/CD
6 60 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (16.03%) DevOps
8 50 (14.58%) Computer Science
9 41 (11.95%) Test Automation
10 35 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
11 34 (9.91%) Front End Development
12 33 (9.62%) Microservices
13 26 (7.58%) Design Patterns
13 26 (7.58%) Full Stack Development
13 26 (7.58%) TDD
14 25 (7.29%) Scrum
15 23 (6.71%) Clean Code
16 22 (6.41%) SDLC
16 22 (6.41%) User Experience
17 17 (4.96%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 173 (50.44%) JavaScript
2 160 (46.65%) SQL
3 155 (45.19%) Python
4 139 (40.52%) C#
5 48 (13.99%) Java
6 26 (7.58%) TypeScript
7 15 (4.37%) Go
8 13 (3.79%) C
9 12 (3.50%) C++
10 10 (2.92%) Ada
11 8 (2.33%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.75%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.46%) Bash
13 5 (1.46%) Bicep
13 5 (1.46%) Perl
14 4 (1.17%) Ruby
15 3 (0.87%) ABAP
15 3 (0.87%) PHP
15 3 (0.87%) Rust
15 3 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 193 (56.27%) Degree
2 44 (12.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (7.29%) Security Cleared
4 16 (4.66%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.08%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.58%) HND
8 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.29%) APMP
9 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.20%) QA
2 10 (2.92%) Software Quality Assurance
3 8 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.87%) ISO 22301
4 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.87%) MiFID
4 3 (0.87%) WCAG
5 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.29%) HL7
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (7.87%) Docker
2 9 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (10.50%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.66%) Terraform
3 7 (2.04%) Grafana
3 7 (2.04%) Kibana
4 6 (1.75%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.46%) Ansible
6 4 (1.17%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.87%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.29%) Argo
8 1 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.29%) Istio
8 1 (0.29%) logstash
8 1 (0.29%) Puppet
8 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 137 (39.94%) PayPal
2 18 (5.25%) Oracle
3 13 (3.79%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.21%) IBM
4 11 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.62%) Splunk
6 6 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.46%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.46%) Virgin Media
8 4 (1.17%) Google
8 4 (1.17%) SAP
9 3 (0.87%) Black Duck
10 2 (0.58%) Apple
10 2 (0.58%) Confluent
10 2 (0.58%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.58%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.58%) Typelevel
11 1 (0.29%) Brio
11 1 (0.29%) Dell
11 1 (0.29%) Sage