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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 337 211
Rank change year-on-year +50 -126 +93
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 1,020 978 3,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.01% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.05% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 698 466 756
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,954 £102,500 £105,000
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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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% +9.38%

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 29 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 29 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 +48 878 £60,000 -14.29% 269
UK excluding London +97 771 £55,173 +0.31% 169
Work from Home +86 525 £62,500 -7.41% 148
North of England +85 213 £55,173 +0.31% 48
London -59 189 £78,500 +4.67% 108
North West +99 171 £50,000 -4.76% 28
South East +19 160 £60,000 +16.85% 33
Midlands +78 149 £55,173 +5.09% 37
South West +62 114 £60,000 +14.29% 21
East Midlands +34 90 £68,750 +37.50% 10
West Midlands +37 59 £50,000 -28.57% 27
East of England -9 53 £52,500 -4.55% 13
Scotland -60 50 £52,500 -27.31% 15
Yorkshire +37 34 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Wales +16 26 £52,686 -5.92% 2
North East +2 8 £55,173 -22.66% 8
Northern Ireland +19 6 £45,000 - 4

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 (2.65%) Apache
2 22 (2.16%) SAS
3 16 (1.57%) ArcGIS
4 7 (0.69%) CMS
5 6 (0.59%) 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 22 (2.16%) 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
1 380 (37.25%) Azure
2 258 (25.29%) AWS
3 113 (11.08%) IBM Cloud
4 91 (8.92%) GCP
5 79 (7.75%) SaaS
6 52 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (3.82%) Serverless
8 35 (3.43%) GitHub
9 27 (2.65%) Amazon S3
10 21 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (1.67%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.37%) PaaS
13 13 (1.27%) Azure AKS
14 12 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (1.08%) Azure Pipelines
15 11 (1.08%) IaaS
15 11 (1.08%) PowerApps
16 9 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (0.88%) BlazeMeter
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%) Network Security
9 1 (0.098%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (16.76%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (14.61%) MongoDB
3 142 (13.92%) NoSQL
4 113 (11.08%) DB2
5 105 (10.29%) MySQL
5 105 (10.29%) Relational Database
6 79 (7.75%) SQL Server
7 19 (1.86%) DynamoDB
7 19 (1.86%) GIS
8 16 (1.57%) RDBMS
9 14 (1.37%) Oracle Database
9 14 (1.37%) Redis
10 13 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.27%) Power BI
11 11 (1.08%) Geospatial Data
12 10 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 174 (17.06%) Git
2 81 (7.94%) GitLab
3 42 (4.12%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.92%) JIRA
5 33 (3.24%) Cucumber
6 32 (3.14%) Selenium
7 26 (2.55%) JUnit
8 20 (1.96%) JMeter
9 18 (1.76%) TestNG
10 17 (1.67%) Cypress.io
10 17 (1.67%) REST Assured
10 17 (1.67%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.67%) WebDriver
11 12 (1.18%) JDeveloper
12 11 (1.08%) Maven
12 11 (1.08%) MSTest
13 10 (0.98%) Gradle
13 10 (0.98%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.88%) Xcode
15 8 (0.78%) NUnit
General
1 315 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 161 (15.78%) Public Sector
3 146 (14.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 114 (11.18%) Finance
5 84 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (5.10%) Retail
7 40 (3.92%) Marketing
8 39 (3.82%) Legal
9 37 (3.63%) Electronics
10 33 (3.24%) Games
11 27 (2.65%) Law
12 24 (2.35%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.67%) Automotive
13 17 (1.67%) Tech for Good
14 16 (1.57%) Banking
14 16 (1.57%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.37%) Aviation
16 13 (1.27%) French Language
17 9 (0.88%) Welsh Language
18 7 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 438 (42.94%) Developer
2 184 (18.04%) Senior
3 182 (17.84%) Lead
4 171 (16.76%) Software Engineer
5 120 (11.76%) Full Stack Engineer
6 111 (10.88%) Azure Engineer
7 110 (10.78%) Software Developer
8 86 (8.43%) Full Stack Developer
9 79 (7.75%) Senior Developer
10 77 (7.55%) Lead Developer
11 73 (7.16%) .NET Developer
12 58 (5.69%) Technical Leader
13 49 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
14 34 (3.33%) PHP Developer
15 33 (3.24%) Tester
16 30 (2.94%) Java Developer
17 28 (2.75%) QA Engineer
18 27 (2.65%) C# Developer
18 27 (2.65%) Java Engineer
19 26 (2.55%) Full Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (32.45%) .NET
2 285 (27.94%) React
3 270 (26.47%) HTML
4 267 (26.18%) CSS
5 203 (19.90%) Web Services
6 201 (19.71%) AngularJS
7 176 (17.25%) REST
8 162 (15.88%) ASP.NET
9 160 (15.69%) Vue
10 140 (13.73%) ASP.NET Core
11 139 (13.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 132 (12.94%) jQuery
13 127 (12.45%) RESTful
14 113 (11.08%) Backbone.js
14 113 (11.08%) Ember.js
15 107 (10.49%) Node.js
16 51 (5.00%) .NET Core
17 50 (4.90%) JSON
18 45 (4.41%) XML
19 42 (4.12%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 144 (14.12%) Data Structures
2 142 (13.92%) Algorithms
3 115 (11.27%) e-Learning
4 113 (11.08%) Blockchain
4 113 (11.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 60 (5.88%) Private Cloud
6 50 (4.90%) Product Ownership
7 43 (4.22%) Mobile App
8 37 (3.63%) Management Information System
9 34 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
11 25 (2.45%) Embedded Systems
11 25 (2.45%) Onboarding
12 22 (2.16%) CMDB
13 19 (1.86%) IoT
13 19 (1.86%) Satnav
14 18 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (1.67%) Cloud Native
15 17 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 189 (18.53%) Linux
2 153 (15.00%) Windows
3 145 (14.22%) Apple iOS
4 134 (13.14%) Android
5 21 (2.06%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.098%) Unix
8 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (49.90%) Agile
2 362 (35.49%) Problem-Solving
3 341 (33.43%) Full Stack Development
4 326 (31.96%) Software Engineering
5 292 (28.63%) Mentoring
6 227 (22.25%) DevOps
7 224 (21.96%) Design Patterns
8 199 (19.51%) Test Automation
9 195 (19.12%) MVC
10 190 (18.63%) User Experience
11 188 (18.43%) CI/CD
12 177 (17.35%) OO
13 176 (17.25%) Web Development
14 174 (17.06%) Coaching
15 164 (16.08%) SOLID
16 162 (15.88%) Continuous Integration
17 156 (15.29%) Computer Science
18 154 (15.10%) OOP
19 144 (14.12%) Artificial Intelligence
20 139 (13.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 422 (41.37%) JavaScript
2 341 (33.43%) C#
3 266 (26.08%) SQL
4 261 (25.59%) Java
5 196 (19.22%) Python
6 132 (12.94%) TypeScript
7 79 (7.75%) C++
8 78 (7.65%) C
9 69 (6.76%) PHP
10 55 (5.39%) Go
11 29 (2.84%) Swift
12 24 (2.35%) Bash
13 22 (2.16%) Kotlin
14 21 (2.06%) Perl
15 18 (1.76%) VB.NET
16 16 (1.57%) Ruby
17 14 (1.37%) PowerShell
18 11 (1.08%) Embedded C
19 10 (0.98%) Apex Code
20 8 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 204 (20.00%) Degree
2 145 (14.22%) Security Cleared
3 134 (13.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 74 (7.25%) SC Cleared
5 36 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (3.43%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.69%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.29%) CITP
12 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.20%) ISEB
13 2 (0.20%) PhD
13 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (18.53%) QA
2 38 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.24%) Software Quality Assurance
4 8 (0.78%) GDPR
5 6 (0.59%) SLA
6 5 (0.49%) Automotive SPICE
6 5 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.49%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.39%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.39%) IEC 61508
7 4 (0.39%) MISRA
7 4 (0.39%) MISRA C
8 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.29%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.098%) MiFID
9 1 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 134 (13.14%) Docker
2 17 (1.67%) 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
1 109 (10.69%) 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 6 (0.59%) Istio
8 5 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 120 (11.76%) IBM
2 113 (11.08%) Red Hat
3 76 (7.45%) Microsoft
4 45 (4.41%) Oracle
5 37 (3.63%) Google
6 33 (3.24%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.76%) 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 (0.69%) 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