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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 309 371
Rank change year-on-year +110 +62 -81
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 202 126 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.55% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.62% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 85 111
10th Percentile £356 £400 £385
25th Percentile £422 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £499 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% +4.95% +6.74%
75th Percentile £522 £580 £560
90th Percentile £585 £645 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -7.45% -1.77% +10.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 4
10th Percentile £57.25 £50.75 £40.40
25th Percentile £58.75 £51.25 £40.99
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £43.89
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +19.63% -4.60%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £47.65
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £52.06
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £50.10
% change year-on-year +33.33% +4.79% +10.11%

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 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +80 75 £475 -14.61% 42
Scotland +22 41 £475 - 11
North West +36 37 £500 -13.04% 22
Midlands +49 36 £359 -40.13% 41
South West +25 25 £560 -4.68% 27
Yorkshire +30 24 £469 +1.30% 12
East Midlands +30 19 £356 -16.24% 12
West Midlands +22 17 £600 -4.00% 29
East of England +7 17 £508 -13.40% 11
North East - 14 - - 9
South East +6 6 £500 -11.27% 37
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 (2.48%) JBoss
2 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) GeoServer
Applications
1 108 (53.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 32 (15.84%) AWS
2 20 (9.90%) Serverless
3 19 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (9.41%) OpenShift
4 18 (8.91%) Amazon S3
4 18 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (6.93%) Azure
6 12 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.48%) Textract
9 4 (1.98%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.49%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (1.49%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.99%) Boomi
11 2 (0.99%) Rekognition
11 2 (0.99%) SaaS
12 1 (0.50%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.50%) Firebase
12 1 (0.50%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.48%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.47%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.47%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.97%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.48%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.48%) SQLite
7 4 (1.98%) MySQL
7 4 (1.98%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.49%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.99%) Big Data
9 2 (0.99%) GIS
9 2 (0.99%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (11.88%) Git
2 16 (7.92%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.93%) SonarQube
4 10 (4.95%) Rational Rhapsody
5 8 (3.96%) GitLab
6 7 (3.47%) JIRA
7 5 (2.48%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (2.48%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (2.48%) Checkstyle
7 5 (2.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.48%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.98%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.99%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.99%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.50%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.50%) Gradle
10 1 (0.50%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.50%) VersionOne
General
1 24 (11.88%) Public Sector
2 16 (7.92%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.45%) Electronics
4 8 (3.96%) Finance
5 6 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.48%) Multimedia
7 4 (1.98%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.98%) Banking
7 4 (1.98%) Retail
8 3 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Automotive
9 2 (0.99%) Aviation
9 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.99%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.50%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 148 (73.27%) Developer
2 113 (55.94%) Software Developer
3 22 (10.89%) Software Engineer
4 11 (5.45%) Senior
5 10 (4.95%) Ada Engineer
5 10 (4.95%) Ada Software Engineer
6 9 (4.46%) .NET Developer
7 8 (3.96%) Embedded Engineer
7 8 (3.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 8 (3.96%) Senior Developer
8 6 (2.97%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (2.97%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (2.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (2.48%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.48%) React Developer
9 5 (2.48%) Senior React Developer
9 5 (2.48%) Support Engineer
9 5 (2.48%) Tester
10 4 (1.98%) Automation Developer
10 4 (1.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (58.91%) HTML
2 27 (13.37%) React
3 20 (9.90%) AWS CDK
4 17 (8.42%) .NET
5 16 (7.92%) Spring Boot
6 12 (5.94%) REST
7 11 (5.45%) CSS
7 11 (5.45%) Spring
8 10 (4.95%) Node.js
9 8 (3.96%) .NET Core
9 8 (3.96%) JSON
9 8 (3.96%) RESTful
10 7 (3.47%) XML
11 6 (2.97%) .NET Framework
11 6 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (2.48%) OAuth
12 5 (2.48%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.48%) Spring Security
13 4 (1.98%) NumPy
13 4 (1.98%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.44%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.46%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (4.46%) Wiki
3 5 (2.48%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.98%) Social Media
5 2 (0.99%) Device Driver
5 2 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.99%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (0.99%) Operational Technology
5 2 (0.99%) SCADA
6 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.50%) Digital TV
6 1 (0.50%) Life Science
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.95%) Windows
2 8 (3.96%) Linux
3 5 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.98%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (68.32%) Software Engineering
2 119 (58.91%) Artificial Intelligence
3 108 (53.47%) Conversational UI
4 40 (19.80%) Agile
5 38 (18.81%) DevOps
6 32 (15.84%) Test Automation
7 30 (14.85%) CI/CD
8 29 (14.36%) User Experience
9 26 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (10.40%) Microservices
11 16 (7.92%) Scrum
12 14 (6.93%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (6.93%) Mentoring
12 14 (6.93%) TDD
13 13 (6.44%) Code Coverage
13 13 (6.44%) Human-Centred Design
13 13 (6.44%) Inclusive Design
13 13 (6.44%) Pair Programming
13 13 (6.44%) Unit Testing
14 12 (5.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 137 (67.82%) Python
2 131 (64.85%) JavaScript
3 123 (60.89%) C#
4 120 (59.41%) SQL
5 25 (12.38%) Java
6 18 (8.91%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.94%) C
8 10 (4.95%) Ada
9 7 (3.47%) Bash
10 5 (2.48%) Perl
11 4 (1.98%) C++
11 4 (1.98%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.49%) Go
12 3 (1.49%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.50%) Dart
13 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 121 (59.90%) Degree
2 13 (6.44%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.48%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.99%) HND
7 1 (0.50%) APMP
7 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.42%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.43%) QA
3 6 (2.97%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.49%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.99%) GDPR
5 2 (0.99%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.50%) HL7
System Software
1 24 (11.88%) Docker
2 5 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (8.42%) Grafana
1 17 (8.42%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.96%) Kibana
2 8 (3.96%) Terraform
3 6 (2.97%) Ansible
4 5 (2.48%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.49%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.50%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 108 (53.47%) PayPal
2 10 (4.95%) IBM
3 8 (3.96%) Splunk
4 5 (2.48%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.48%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.48%) Oracle
4 5 (2.48%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.48%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.99%) Adobe
5 2 (0.99%) Confluent
5 2 (0.99%) Dell
5 2 (0.99%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.50%) Sage
6 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.50%) Twitter
6 1 (0.50%) VMware