Code Quality Contracts in the West Midlands

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 105 177
Rank change year-on-year +2 +72 -24
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 11 18 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.91% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.08% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £442 £506 £361
25th Percentile £463 £515 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £388
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +40.65% -32.61%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £484
90th Percentile £685 £654 £539
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +25.00% +22.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,572 1,667 3,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.13% 84.71% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 988 1,128 2,161
10th Percentile £244 £263 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £583
90th Percentile £716 £713 £655
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 53 48
10th Percentile £14.70 £16.02 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.75 £14.36
Median hourly rate £26.13 £27.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +55.28% +15.53%
75th Percentile £34.47 £50.00 £20.24
90th Percentile £51.00 £67.50 £32.58
England median hourly rate £37.25 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.29% +27.14% +67.36%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the West Midlands

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the West Midlands

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the West Midlands

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the West Midlands

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Staffordshire +13 5 - - 3
Birmingham +5 3 £593 - 11
Coventry - 2 £475 - 2
Herefordshire - 1 £550 - 1
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (9.09%) Boomi
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (45.45%) Aviation
1 5 (45.45%) Military
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) QA Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Quality Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Software QA Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Software Quality Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) OAT Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Qt
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) Django
3 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
3 1 (9.09%) Flask
3 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
3 1 (9.09%) pytest
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (9.09%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
1 5 (45.45%) Configuration Management
1 5 (45.45%) Customer Requirements
1 5 (45.45%) Programme Management
1 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
1 5 (45.45%) Quality Management
1 5 (45.45%) Risk Management
1 5 (45.45%) SDLC
1 5 (45.45%) Six Sigma
1 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Defect Management
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Test Management
4 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
4 1 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) C
1 5 (45.45%) C++
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 5 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
1 5 (45.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow