Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Code Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Code Quality over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 337 210
Rank change year-on-year +53 -127 +97
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 1,022 992 3,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.01% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.05% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 696 479 751
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +6.30%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £102,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,173 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.31% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Code Quality is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality.

Salary trend for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +64 877 £60,000 -14.29% 263
UK excluding London +112 771 £55,173 +0.31% 170
Work from Home +102 537 £62,500 -10.71% 151
North of England +103 211 £55,173 +0.31% 54
London -47 191 £80,000 +6.67% 109
North West +97 170 £50,000 -4.76% 29
South East +20 157 £60,000 +16.85% 36
Midlands +77 148 £55,173 +2.65% 34
South West +66 116 £60,000 +14.29% 16
East Midlands +55 91 £68,750 +37.50% 10
West Midlands +43 57 £50,000 -28.57% 24
East of England 0 54 £52,500 -4.55% 12
Scotland -53 52 £52,500 -27.31% 15
Yorkshire +42 34 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Wales +20 26 £52,686 -5.92% 3
Northern Ireland +23 7 £45,000 - 4
North East -3 7 £55,173 -22.66% 11

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (2.64%) Apache
2 22 (2.15%) SAS
3 16 (1.57%) ArcGIS
4 6 (0.59%) CMS
5 5 (0.49%) Confluence
6 4 (0.39%) WordPress
7 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.20%) Drupal
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 2 (0.20%) WinCC
9 1 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.098%) Tornado
9 1 (0.098%) TYPO3
9 1 (0.098%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.098%) WildFly
Applications
1 20 (1.96%) Simulink
2 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.29%) Trello
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.20%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.098%) Endur
3 1 (0.098%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 378 (36.99%) Azure
2 259 (25.34%) AWS
3 113 (11.06%) IBM Cloud
4 90 (8.81%) GCP
5 80 (7.83%) SaaS
6 52 (5.09%) Serverless
7 50 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (3.23%) GitHub
9 28 (2.74%) Amazon S3
10 22 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (1.66%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.27%) PaaS
13 12 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (1.08%) Azure AKS
14 11 (1.08%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.98%) Azure Pipelines
15 10 (0.98%) IaaS
16 9 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.76%) Firewall
2 13 (1.27%) Internet
2 13 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.08%) DNS
4 9 (0.88%) SNMP
4 9 (0.88%) tcpdump
5 6 (0.59%) HTTP
6 5 (0.49%) RS-485
6 5 (0.49%) Wireless
7 4 (0.39%) RS-232
7 4 (0.39%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.20%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.20%) Modbus
8 2 (0.20%) Profibus
9 1 (0.098%) 4G
9 1 (0.098%) Broadband
9 1 (0.098%) DHCP
9 1 (0.098%) MQTT
9 1 (0.098%) VoIP
9 1 (0.098%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (16.63%) PostgreSQL
2 147 (14.38%) MongoDB
3 142 (13.89%) NoSQL
4 117 (11.45%) Relational Database
5 113 (11.06%) DB2
6 103 (10.08%) MySQL
7 77 (7.53%) SQL Server
8 28 (2.74%) RDBMS
9 26 (2.54%) Oracle Database
10 19 (1.86%) DynamoDB
10 19 (1.86%) GIS
11 13 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.27%) Power BI
11 13 (1.27%) Redis
12 11 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.08%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 184 (18.00%) Git
2 80 (7.83%) GitLab
3 42 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 39 (3.82%) JIRA
5 33 (3.23%) Cucumber
6 32 (3.13%) Selenium
7 24 (2.35%) JDeveloper
7 24 (2.35%) JUnit
8 20 (1.96%) JMeter
9 18 (1.76%) TestNG
10 17 (1.66%) REST Assured
10 17 (1.66%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.66%) WebDriver
11 16 (1.57%) Cypress.io
12 12 (1.17%) MSTest
13 10 (0.98%) Maven
14 9 (0.88%) Gradle
14 9 (0.88%) NUnit
14 9 (0.88%) Xcode
15 8 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 309 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 161 (15.75%) Public Sector
3 145 (14.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (10.96%) Finance
5 83 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (5.09%) Retail
7 38 (3.72%) Legal
8 37 (3.62%) Marketing
9 36 (3.52%) Electronics
10 33 (3.23%) Games
11 26 (2.54%) Law
12 24 (2.35%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.76%) Automotive
14 16 (1.57%) Banking
14 16 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.57%) Tech for Good
15 14 (1.37%) Aviation
16 13 (1.27%) French Language
17 9 (0.88%) Welsh Language
18 7 (0.68%) Billing
Job Titles
1 433 (42.37%) Developer
2 183 (17.91%) Senior
3 181 (17.71%) Lead
4 180 (17.61%) Software Engineer
5 120 (11.74%) Full Stack Engineer
6 111 (10.86%) Azure Engineer
7 110 (10.76%) Software Developer
8 86 (8.41%) Full Stack Developer
9 79 (7.73%) Lead Developer
9 79 (7.73%) Senior Developer
10 72 (7.05%) .NET Developer
11 58 (5.68%) Technical Leader
12 48 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
13 34 (3.33%) PHP Developer
14 33 (3.23%) Tester
15 31 (3.03%) Java Developer
16 28 (2.74%) QA Engineer
17 26 (2.54%) C# Developer
17 26 (2.54%) Java Engineer
18 25 (2.45%) Full Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (32.09%) .NET
2 293 (28.67%) React
3 268 (26.22%) HTML
4 265 (25.93%) CSS
5 202 (19.77%) Web Services
6 198 (19.37%) AngularJS
7 176 (17.22%) REST
8 160 (15.66%) ASP.NET
8 160 (15.66%) Vue
9 139 (13.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 137 (13.41%) ASP.NET Core
11 132 (12.92%) jQuery
12 122 (11.94%) RESTful
13 116 (11.35%) Node.js
14 113 (11.06%) Backbone.js
14 113 (11.06%) Ember.js
15 51 (4.99%) .NET Core
16 49 (4.79%) JSON
17 44 (4.31%) XML
18 43 (4.21%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 144 (14.09%) Data Structures
2 141 (13.80%) Algorithms
3 115 (11.25%) e-Learning
4 114 (11.15%) Blockchain
5 113 (11.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 60 (5.87%) Private Cloud
7 48 (4.70%) Product Ownership
8 43 (4.21%) Mobile App
9 37 (3.62%) Management Information System
10 34 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
12 25 (2.45%) Embedded Systems
12 25 (2.45%) Onboarding
13 22 (2.15%) CMDB
14 20 (1.96%) Satnav
15 19 (1.86%) IoT
16 18 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (1.66%) Cloud Native
17 17 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 186 (18.20%) Linux
2 153 (14.97%) Windows
3 145 (14.19%) Apple iOS
4 134 (13.11%) Android
5 18 (1.76%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.098%) Unix
7 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (49.41%) Agile
2 371 (36.30%) Problem-Solving
3 340 (33.27%) Full Stack Development
4 332 (32.49%) Software Engineering
5 294 (28.77%) Mentoring
6 234 (22.90%) Design Patterns
6 234 (22.90%) DevOps
7 199 (19.47%) Test Automation
8 196 (19.18%) MVC
9 188 (18.40%) User Experience
10 185 (18.10%) CI/CD
11 175 (17.12%) Coaching
11 175 (17.12%) Web Development
12 173 (16.93%) OO
13 170 (16.63%) Continuous Integration
14 162 (15.85%) SOLID
15 152 (14.87%) Computer Science
16 150 (14.68%) Microservices
16 150 (14.68%) OOP
17 143 (13.99%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 430 (42.07%) JavaScript
2 341 (33.37%) C#
3 270 (26.42%) Java
4 262 (25.64%) SQL
5 203 (19.86%) Python
6 130 (12.72%) TypeScript
7 76 (7.44%) C
7 76 (7.44%) C++
8 69 (6.75%) PHP
9 67 (6.56%) Go
10 36 (3.52%) Bash
11 33 (3.23%) Perl
12 29 (2.84%) Swift
13 28 (2.74%) Ruby
14 22 (2.15%) Kotlin
15 18 (1.76%) VB.NET
16 14 (1.37%) PowerShell
17 11 (1.08%) Embedded C
18 10 (0.98%) Apex Code
19 8 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 202 (19.77%) Degree
2 142 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 130 (12.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 73 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 36 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.52%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
8 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.29%) CITP
11 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.20%) ISEB
12 2 (0.20%) PhD
12 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (19.77%) QA
2 38 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.33%) Software Quality Assurance
4 8 (0.78%) GDPR
5 5 (0.49%) Automotive SPICE
5 5 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.49%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.49%) SLA
6 4 (0.39%) Def Stans
6 4 (0.39%) IEC 61508
6 4 (0.39%) MISRA
6 4 (0.39%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.29%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.098%) MiFID
8 1 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 137 (13.41%) Docker
2 17 (1.66%) Firmware
3 9 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (0.78%) KVM
4 8 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 110 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.84%) Terraform
3 14 (1.37%) Grafana
4 11 (1.08%) Ansible
5 10 (0.98%) Puppet
6 9 (0.88%) Graphite
6 9 (0.88%) HAProxy
6 9 (0.88%) Nagios
6 9 (0.88%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.49%) Istio
7 5 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 120 (11.74%) IBM
2 113 (11.06%) Red Hat
3 75 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 58 (5.68%) Oracle
5 36 (3.52%) Google
6 32 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.57%) Xilinx
8 10 (0.98%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.88%) Apple
9 9 (0.88%) TOWER Software
9 9 (0.88%) Xamarin
10 8 (0.78%) Cisco
10 8 (0.78%) VMware
11 7 (0.68%) ESRI
12 5 (0.49%) BT
13 4 (0.39%) Databricks
14 3 (0.29%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.29%) Mercator
15 2 (0.20%) SAP
15 2 (0.20%) Siemens