Code Quality Contracts in Scotland

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 103 130
Rank change year-on-year +20 +27 -9
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 42 59 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.96% 2.21% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 2.39% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 40
10th Percentile £432 £416 £416
25th Percentile £455 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £464
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +3.23% +9.18%
75th Percentile £489 £508 £499
90th Percentile £502 £525 £613
UK median daily rate £494 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -8.09% -2.27% +11.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,868 2,467 3,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.37% 92.36% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,726 2,238
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £564 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.09
25th Percentile £15.24 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Scotland

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in Scotland

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in Scotland

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in Scotland

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 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
Glasgow +26 18 £485 +0.68% 3
Edinburgh +6 15 £484 -0.82% 6
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) GeoServer
Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) AWS
2 15 (35.71%) Amazon S3
2 15 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
2 15 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (35.71%) Serverless
3 13 (30.95%) OpenShift
4 11 (26.19%) Azure
4 11 (26.19%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.90%) Textract
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (4.76%) Rekognition
7 2 (4.76%) SaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (38.10%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (11.90%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 4 (9.52%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.76%) GIS
5 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.38%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 22 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Finance
3 1 (2.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (90.48%) Developer
2 15 (35.71%) Software Developer
3 9 (21.43%) .NET Developer
4 8 (19.05%) Senior
5 6 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 5 (11.90%) React Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior React Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Automation Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 1 (2.38%) .NET Applications Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Administrator
9 1 (2.38%) Applications Developer
9 1 (2.38%) C# Application Developer
9 1 (2.38%) C# Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Java Software Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (47.62%) HTML
2 19 (45.24%) React
3 17 (40.48%) AWS CDK
4 11 (26.19%) .NET
5 9 (21.43%) CSS
6 7 (16.67%) Node.js
6 7 (16.67%) Spring
6 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
7 6 (14.29%) REST
8 5 (11.90%) OAuth
8 5 (11.90%) OAuth2
8 5 (11.90%) Spring Security
9 3 (7.14%) PostGIS
9 3 (7.14%) PyTorch
9 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (7.14%) SpaCy
9 3 (7.14%) Spring MVC
9 3 (7.14%) Spring Web Flow
9 3 (7.14%) Thymeleaf
10 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Legacy Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
1 9 (21.43%) Product Ownership
1 9 (21.43%) Wiki
2 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) User Experience
2 21 (50.00%) DevOps
3 20 (47.62%) Agile
4 17 (40.48%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
5 13 (30.95%) Code Coverage
5 13 (30.95%) Human-Centred Design
5 13 (30.95%) Inclusive Design
5 13 (30.95%) Software Engineering
5 13 (30.95%) Unit Testing
6 12 (28.57%) Analytics
6 12 (28.57%) Community of Practice
7 11 (26.19%) Conversational UI
7 11 (26.19%) Microservices
7 11 (26.19%) Requirements Analysis
7 11 (26.19%) TDD
8 10 (23.81%) Pair Programming
8 10 (23.81%) Test Automation
9 9 (21.43%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 22 (52.38%) Python
3 15 (35.71%) SQL
4 14 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 13 (30.95%) C#
5 13 (30.95%) Java
6 4 (9.52%) Bash
7 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.38%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (38.10%) Accessibility
2 6 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Grafana
2 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) PayPal
2 4 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (4.76%) Adobe
3 2 (4.76%) Xamarin