Code Quality Contracts in the North West

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Code Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Code Quality over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 136 162
Rank change year-on-year +38 +26 -28
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 37 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.33% 0.46% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 0.52% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 13
10th Percentile £347 £200 £425
25th Percentile £392 £519 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +21.81%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £675
90th Percentile - £652 £685
England median daily rate £532 £576 £563
% change year-on-year -7.77% +2.44% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £67.90 - -
25th Percentile £68.50 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.50 - -
90th Percentile £80.90 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £45.20
% change year-on-year +33.33% +16.15% -1.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Code Quality falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +18 22 £550 -4.35% 20
Merseyside - 14 £388 - 3
Cheshire - 1 £325 -
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 25 (67.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (10.81%) Serverless
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.70%) Azure
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.70%) Firebase
4 1 (2.70%) SAP Fieldglass
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) MySQL
2 3 (8.11%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
2 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
1 4 (10.81%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.70%) Crashlytics
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Gradle
General
1 4 (10.81%) Retail
1 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.70%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 30 (81.08%) Developer
2 25 (67.57%) Software Developer
3 3 (8.11%) Site Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) Android Developer
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) Java Developer
4 1 (2.70%) Java Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) Lead
4 1 (2.70%) Lead Developer
4 1 (2.70%) Python Developer
4 1 (2.70%) Senior
4 1 (2.70%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (2.70%) Senior Developer
4 1 (2.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (67.57%) HTML
2 4 (10.81%) Spring
2 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
3 3 (8.11%) AWS CDK
3 3 (8.11%) Node.js
3 3 (8.11%) React
4 2 (5.41%) RESTful
5 1 (2.70%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.70%) AWS SAM
5 1 (2.70%) Dagger
5 1 (2.70%) Java EE
5 1 (2.70%) Jest
5 1 (2.70%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (2.70%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.70%) Device Driver
1 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (81.08%) Software Engineering
2 25 (67.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 25 (67.57%) Conversational UI
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
4 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
5 4 (10.81%) Agile
5 4 (10.81%) Design Patterns
5 4 (10.81%) DevOps
5 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.81%) SDLC
6 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (8.11%) E-Commerce
6 3 (8.11%) Microservices
6 3 (8.11%) Pair Programming
6 3 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (5.41%) Customer Service
7 2 (5.41%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 29 (78.38%) Python
2 28 (75.68%) SQL
3 26 (70.27%) JavaScript
4 25 (67.57%) C#
5 6 (16.22%) Java
6 3 (8.11%) Bash
6 3 (8.11%) Go
6 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (70.27%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) ISO 22301
1 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Ansible
3 3 (8.11%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (67.57%) PayPal
2 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.11%) Splunk