Code Quality Contracts in the UK excluding London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 187 318 382
Rank change year-on-year +131 +64 -99
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 222 126 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.09% 0.54% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.61% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 88 97
10th Percentile £356 £400 £356
25th Percentile £409 £435 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £464
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +5.23% +4.27%
75th Percentile £506 £580 £538
90th Percentile £575 £638 £642
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 3
10th Percentile £57.25 £50.50 £42.10
25th Percentile £58.75 £51.25 £43.26
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +16.15% +0.44%
75th Percentile £73.00 £70.00 £50.10
90th Percentile £85.00 - £53.04
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,089 20,700 27,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.28% 89.44% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,222 14,252 18,988
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,065 1,263 1,349
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -5.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.69 £61.53
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +99 87 £525 -8.70% 59
Scotland +21 44 £475 - 13
Midlands +58 41 £356 -40.67% 40
North West +42 41 £550 -4.35% 33
Yorkshire +42 29 £500 +17.65% 18
South West +25 26 £475 -13.64% 18
East Midlands +39 22 £356 -16.24% 10
West Midlands +38 19 £450 -28.00% 30
North East - 17 - - 9
East of England +16 16 £508 -10.41% 15
South East +15 6 £500 -13.79% 57
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.25%) JBoss
2 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.45%) Confluence
3 1 (0.45%) GeoServer
Applications
1 135 (60.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.41%) AWS
2 20 (9.01%) Serverless
3 19 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (8.56%) OpenShift
4 18 (8.11%) Amazon S3
4 18 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (5.41%) Azure
6 10 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.15%) Textract
8 6 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (1.80%) Rekognition
10 3 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.35%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (1.35%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.90%) SaaS
12 1 (0.45%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.45%) Boomi
12 1 (0.45%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.25%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.21%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.15%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.25%) MySQL
6 5 (2.25%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.25%) SQLite
7 4 (1.80%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.35%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.90%) Big Data
9 2 (0.90%) GIS
9 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (10.81%) Git
2 15 (6.76%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.31%) SonarQube
4 10 (4.50%) Rational Rhapsody
5 8 (3.60%) JIRA
6 5 (2.25%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (2.25%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (2.25%) Checkstyle
6 5 (2.25%) GitLab
6 5 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.25%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.80%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.90%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.90%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.45%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.45%) Gradle
9 1 (0.45%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.45%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.45%) Postman
9 1 (0.45%) VersionOne
General
1 21 (9.46%) Public Sector
2 15 (6.76%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.95%) Electronics
4 7 (3.15%) Finance
5 5 (2.25%) Multimedia
6 4 (1.80%) Aerospace
6 4 (1.80%) Banking
6 4 (1.80%) Retail
7 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Automotive
8 2 (0.90%) Aviation
8 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.45%) Law
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.45%) Retail Finance
9 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 171 (77.03%) Developer
2 141 (63.51%) Software Developer
3 22 (9.91%) Software Engineer
4 12 (5.41%) Senior
5 10 (4.50%) Ada Engineer
5 10 (4.50%) Ada Software Engineer
6 8 (3.60%) Embedded Engineer
6 8 (3.60%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 8 (3.60%) Senior Developer
7 7 (3.15%) .NET Developer
8 6 (2.70%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (2.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (2.25%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.25%) React Developer
9 5 (2.25%) Senior React Developer
9 5 (2.25%) Support Engineer
10 4 (1.80%) Automation Developer
10 4 (1.80%) Data Engineer
10 4 (1.80%) Site Engineer
10 4 (1.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (53.60%) HTML
2 25 (11.26%) React
3 20 (9.01%) AWS CDK
4 15 (6.76%) .NET
5 14 (6.31%) Spring Boot
6 11 (4.95%) CSS
6 11 (4.95%) Node.js
7 10 (4.50%) REST
8 9 (4.05%) Spring
9 8 (3.60%) .NET Core
9 8 (3.60%) JSON
10 7 (3.15%) RESTful
10 7 (3.15%) XML
11 6 (2.70%) .NET Framework
11 6 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (1.80%) NumPy
12 4 (1.80%) OAuth
12 4 (1.80%) SciPy
12 4 (1.80%) Spring Security
12 4 (1.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.95%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.15%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (3.15%) Wiki
4 5 (2.25%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.80%) Social Media
6 2 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.90%) SCADA
7 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.45%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.45%) Digital TV
7 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.45%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.50%) Windows
2 7 (3.15%) Linux
3 5 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.35%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (67.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 138 (62.16%) Software Engineering
3 135 (60.81%) Conversational UI
4 38 (17.12%) Agile
5 34 (15.32%) DevOps
6 27 (12.16%) User Experience
7 26 (11.71%) Test Automation
8 25 (11.26%) CI/CD
9 23 (10.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (8.56%) Microservices
11 16 (7.21%) Mentoring
12 15 (6.76%) Machine Learning
12 15 (6.76%) Scrum
13 14 (6.31%) Code Coverage
13 14 (6.31%) Kanban
14 13 (5.86%) Community of Practice
15 12 (5.41%) Requirements Analysis
15 12 (5.41%) TDD
15 12 (5.41%) Unit Testing
15 12 (5.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 139 (62.61%) Python
2 131 (59.01%) JavaScript
3 120 (54.05%) C#
3 120 (54.05%) SQL
4 21 (9.46%) Java
5 18 (8.11%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.95%) C
7 10 (4.50%) Ada
8 7 (3.15%) Bash
9 5 (2.25%) Perl
10 4 (1.80%) C++
10 4 (1.80%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.35%) Go
11 3 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 149 (67.12%) Degree
2 10 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.05%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.90%) HND
5 2 (0.90%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.45%) APMP
6 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.66%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.31%) QA
3 6 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.35%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.35%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.90%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) HL7
System Software
1 25 (11.26%) Docker
2 5 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Firmware
3 1 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (8.56%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.66%) Grafana
3 9 (4.05%) Kibana
4 5 (2.25%) Progress Chef
4 5 (2.25%) Terraform
5 3 (1.35%) Ansible
5 3 (1.35%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.45%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 135 (60.81%) PayPal
2 10 (4.50%) IBM
3 8 (3.60%) Splunk
4 5 (2.25%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.25%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.25%) Oracle
4 5 (2.25%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.90%) Adobe
6 2 (0.90%) Confluent
6 2 (0.90%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.45%) Dell
7 1 (0.45%) Sage
7 1 (0.45%) Twitter