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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 318 372
Rank change year-on-year +111 +54 -93
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 200 129 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.56% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.63% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 90 103
10th Percentile £356 £399 £385
25th Percentile £417 £427 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £496 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% +4.47% +6.74%
75th Percentile £506 £579 £560
90th Percentile £575 £639 £650
UK median daily rate £494 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -8.09% -2.27% +11.96%
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 £45.20
% change year-on-year +33.33% +16.15% -0.66%

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 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
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 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +83 75 £475 -14.61% 41
Scotland +22 42 £475 -0.84% 12
North West +39 37 £500 -13.04% 23
Midlands +53 36 £359 -40.13% 37
Yorkshire +39 24 £469 +1.30% 10
South West +19 22 £550 - 31
East Midlands +28 19 £356 -16.24% 11
West Midlands +25 17 £600 -4.00% 26
East of England +13 17 £508 -13.40% 15
North East - 14 - - 9
South East +1 6 £500 -11.27% 34
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 (2.50%) JBoss
2 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) GeoServer
Applications
1 108 (54.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.00%) AWS
2 20 (10.00%) Serverless
3 19 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (9.50%) OpenShift
4 18 (9.00%) Amazon S3
4 18 (9.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (7.00%) Azure
6 12 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.50%) Textract
9 4 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.50%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (1.50%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.00%) Boomi
11 2 (1.00%) Rekognition
11 2 (1.00%) SaaS
12 1 (0.50%) Firebase
12 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 1 (0.50%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.50%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.50%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.50%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.50%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.50%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.50%) SQLite
7 4 (2.00%) MySQL
7 4 (2.00%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.50%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.00%) Big Data
9 2 (1.00%) GIS
9 2 (1.00%) 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 25 (12.50%) Git
2 17 (8.50%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.00%) SonarQube
4 10 (5.00%) Rational Rhapsody
5 8 (4.00%) JIRA
6 5 (2.50%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (2.50%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (2.50%) Checkstyle
6 5 (2.50%) GitLab
6 5 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.50%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.00%) Mercurial
8 2 (1.00%) Android Studio
8 2 (1.00%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.50%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.50%) Gradle
9 1 (0.50%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.50%) VersionOne
General
1 24 (12.00%) Public Sector
2 14 (7.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.50%) Electronics
4 8 (4.00%) Finance
5 5 (2.50%) Multimedia
6 4 (2.00%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.00%) Banking
6 4 (2.00%) Retail
7 3 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Automotive
8 2 (1.00%) Aviation
8 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.00%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Law
9 1 (0.50%) Legal
9 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.50%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 148 (74.00%) Developer
2 113 (56.50%) Software Developer
3 22 (11.00%) Software Engineer
4 12 (6.00%) Senior
5 10 (5.00%) Ada Engineer
5 10 (5.00%) Ada Software Engineer
6 9 (4.50%) .NET Developer
7 8 (4.00%) Embedded Engineer
7 8 (4.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 8 (4.00%) Senior Developer
8 6 (3.00%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (3.00%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (2.50%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.50%) React Developer
9 5 (2.50%) Senior React Developer
9 5 (2.50%) Support Engineer
10 4 (2.00%) Automation Developer
10 4 (2.00%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (60.00%) HTML
2 28 (14.00%) React
3 20 (10.00%) AWS CDK
4 17 (8.50%) .NET
5 16 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 12 (6.00%) CSS
6 12 (6.00%) REST
7 11 (5.50%) Node.js
7 11 (5.50%) Spring
8 8 (4.00%) .NET Core
8 8 (4.00%) JSON
8 8 (4.00%) RESTful
9 7 (3.50%) XML
10 6 (3.00%) .NET Framework
10 6 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.50%) OAuth
11 5 (2.50%) OAuth2
11 5 (2.50%) Spring Security
12 4 (2.00%) Pandas
12 4 (2.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.50%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.50%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (4.50%) Wiki
3 5 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.00%) Social Media
5 2 (1.00%) Device Driver
5 2 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.00%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (1.00%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.00%) SCADA
6 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
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 (5.00%) Windows
2 8 (4.00%) Linux
3 5 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.00%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (69.00%) Software Engineering
2 119 (59.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 108 (54.00%) Conversational UI
4 38 (19.00%) Agile
4 38 (19.00%) DevOps
5 29 (14.50%) Test Automation
5 29 (14.50%) User Experience
6 27 (13.50%) CI/CD
7 23 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (10.50%) Microservices
9 14 (7.00%) Mentoring
9 14 (7.00%) TDD
9 14 (7.00%) Unit Testing
10 13 (6.50%) Code Coverage
10 13 (6.50%) Human-Centred Design
10 13 (6.50%) Inclusive Design
10 13 (6.50%) Pair Programming
10 13 (6.50%) Scrum
11 12 (6.00%) Community of Practice
11 12 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 137 (68.50%) Python
2 132 (66.00%) JavaScript
3 120 (60.00%) C#
3 120 (60.00%) SQL
4 22 (11.00%) Java
5 18 (9.00%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.00%) C
7 10 (5.00%) Ada
8 7 (3.50%) Bash
9 5 (2.50%) Perl
10 4 (2.00%) C++
10 4 (2.00%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.50%) Go
11 3 (1.50%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.50%) Dart
12 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 121 (60.50%) Degree
2 10 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.00%) HND
7 1 (0.50%) APMP
7 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.50%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.00%) QA
3 6 (3.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.50%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.00%) GDPR
5 2 (1.00%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.50%) HL7
System Software
1 25 (12.50%) Docker
2 5 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (8.50%) Grafana
1 17 (8.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.50%) Kibana
3 5 (2.50%) Progress Chef
3 5 (2.50%) Terraform
4 3 (1.50%) Ansible
4 3 (1.50%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.50%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 108 (54.00%) PayPal
2 10 (5.00%) IBM
3 8 (4.00%) Splunk
4 5 (2.50%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.50%) Oracle
4 5 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.00%) Adobe
5 2 (1.00%) Confluent
5 2 (1.00%) Dell
5 2 (1.00%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.50%) Sage
6 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.50%) Twitter