Code Quality Contracts in the Midlands

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 151 194
Rank change year-on-year +58 +43 -52
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 41 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.53% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 7
10th Percentile £275 £388 £310
25th Percentile - £450 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £600 £363
Median % change year-on-year -40.67% +65.52% +5.07%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £398
90th Percentile £625 £688 £416
England median daily rate £531 £586 £563
% change year-on-year -9.34% +4.18% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,204 2,905 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.09% 88.08% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,037 3,239
10th Percentile £234 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.15 £10.57
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.88 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.97 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +25.51% +14.94%
75th Percentile £33.25 £36.37 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.75 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the Midlands

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the Midlands

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the Midlands

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the Midlands

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
East Midlands +39 22 £356 -16.24% 10
West Midlands +38 19 £450 -28.00% 30
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (12.20%) JBoss
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 30 (73.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (2.44%) Boomi
3 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (12.20%) RDBMS
1 5 (12.20%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.88%) Big Data
2 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.20%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (12.20%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (12.20%) Git
2 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 5 (12.20%) SonarQube
2 5 (12.20%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (12.20%) TeamCity
3 2 (4.88%) GitLab
3 2 (4.88%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Banking
3 1 (2.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (75.61%) Developer
2 30 (73.17%) Software Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Support Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Hadoop Developer
5 1 (2.44%) Senior
5 1 (2.44%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (63.41%) HTML
2 5 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.88%) CSS
3 2 (4.88%) JSON
3 2 (4.88%) Kafka
3 2 (4.88%) Web Services
3 2 (4.88%) XML
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Linux
1 5 (12.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (12.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (75.61%) Artificial Intelligence
2 30 (73.17%) Conversational UI
3 24 (58.54%) Software Engineering
4 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
5 7 (17.07%) DevOps
5 7 (17.07%) Microservices
6 5 (12.20%) Build Automation
6 5 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (12.20%) Migration
7 3 (7.32%) Agile
7 3 (7.32%) Computer Science
8 2 (4.88%) Business Transformation
8 2 (4.88%) Containerisation
8 2 (4.88%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (4.88%) Defect Tracking
8 2 (4.88%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (4.88%) Scrum
8 2 (4.88%) SQL Optimisation
8 2 (4.88%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 33 (80.49%) Python
2 28 (68.29%) JavaScript
3 27 (65.85%) SQL
4 24 (58.54%) C#
5 5 (12.20%) Perl
6 3 (7.32%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (80.49%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) Docker
2 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.20%) Kibana
2 5 (12.20%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.44%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 30 (73.17%) PayPal
2 5 (12.20%) AppDynamics
2 5 (12.20%) Red Hat
2 5 (12.20%) Splunk
3 2 (4.88%) Confluent
4 1 (2.44%) Dell
4 1 (2.44%) Sage
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce