Code Quality Jobs in the UK excluding London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 373 298
Rank change year-on-year +123 -75 +39
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 777 478 835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 0.79% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.83% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 491 227 361
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,173 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £73,886 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £69,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +0.65% +6.15%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +120 209 £55,087 +0.16% 52
North West +118 168 £50,000 -4.76% 32
South East +14 158 £60,000 +14.29% 23
Midlands +80 146 £55,173 +0.31% 29
South West +65 120 £60,000 +14.29% 12
East Midlands +45 91 £68,750 +37.50% 10
East of England +12 56 £52,500 -4.55% 12
West Midlands +43 55 £50,000 -26.20% 19
Scotland -53 54 £52,500 -27.31% 8
Yorkshire +54 34 £60,000 +9.09% 14
Wales +16 27 £52,686 +8.63% 5
Northern Ireland +25 7 £45,000 - 3
North East -1 7 £55,173 -22.66% 6
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 20 (2.57%) Apache
1 20 (2.57%) SAS
2 16 (2.06%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.51%) CMS
3 4 (0.51%) WordPress
4 3 (0.39%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.39%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.26%) Confluence
5 2 (0.26%) WinCC
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.13%) Drupal
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) TYPO3
6 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 18 (2.32%) Simulink
2 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 270 (34.75%) Azure
2 162 (20.85%) AWS
3 113 (14.54%) IBM Cloud
4 69 (8.88%) SaaS
5 54 (6.95%) Serverless
6 42 (5.41%) GCP
7 32 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (3.86%) GitHub
9 21 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (2.32%) Amazon S3
11 16 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (2.06%) Power Platform
12 10 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.29%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.16%) BlazeMeter
14 8 (1.03%) WhatsApp
15 7 (0.90%) PaaS
16 5 (0.64%) AWS IoT
16 5 (0.64%) Azure Pipelines
16 5 (0.64%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.77%) Internet
2 5 (0.64%) RS-485
2 5 (0.64%) Wireless
3 4 (0.51%) RS-232
3 4 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.51%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.39%) HTTP
5 2 (0.26%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.26%) Modbus
5 2 (0.26%) Profibus
6 1 (0.13%) 4G
6 1 (0.13%) 5G
6 1 (0.13%) Broadband
6 1 (0.13%) DHCP
6 1 (0.13%) DNS
6 1 (0.13%) MQTT
6 1 (0.13%) VLAN
6 1 (0.13%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (20.33%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (16.86%) NoSQL
3 129 (16.60%) MongoDB
4 113 (14.54%) DB2
5 90 (11.58%) Relational Database
6 85 (10.94%) MySQL
7 57 (7.34%) SQL Server
8 34 (4.38%) RDBMS
9 31 (3.99%) Oracle Database
10 19 (2.45%) DynamoDB
10 19 (2.45%) GIS
11 13 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.67%) Power BI
12 12 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (1.29%) Redis
15 4 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.39%) Big Data
16 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 142 (18.28%) Git
2 74 (9.52%) GitLab
3 30 (3.86%) JDeveloper
4 28 (3.60%) JIRA
5 27 (3.47%) Cucumber
6 22 (2.83%) Jenkins
7 19 (2.45%) Selenium
8 16 (2.06%) Cypress.io
8 16 (2.06%) JMeter
8 16 (2.06%) Visual Studio
9 14 (1.80%) JUnit
10 12 (1.54%) TestNG
11 11 (1.42%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.42%) WebDriver
12 10 (1.29%) Maven
13 9 (1.16%) Gradle
13 9 (1.16%) Xcode
14 6 (0.77%) MSTest
14 6 (0.77%) Rational Rhapsody
15 4 (0.51%) Android Studio
General
1 200 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 138 (17.76%) Public Sector
3 129 (16.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 76 (9.78%) Finance
5 44 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (5.28%) Retail
7 36 (4.63%) Electronics
8 31 (3.99%) Legal
9 30 (3.86%) Games
10 27 (3.47%) Marketing
11 20 (2.57%) Law
12 16 (2.06%) Automotive
12 16 (2.06%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.80%) Aviation
14 12 (1.54%) Tech for Good
14 12 (1.54%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.03%) Welsh Language
16 6 (0.77%) Banking
17 5 (0.64%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.64%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 301 (38.74%) Developer
2 174 (22.39%) Software Engineer
3 127 (16.34%) Lead
4 116 (14.93%) Full Stack Engineer
5 110 (14.16%) Azure Engineer
6 97 (12.48%) Senior
7 89 (11.45%) Software Developer
8 53 (6.82%) Technical Leader
9 51 (6.56%) Lead Developer
10 41 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (5.15%) .NET Developer
12 38 (4.89%) Full Stack Developer
13 33 (4.25%) PHP Developer
14 31 (3.99%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.86%) Ruby Engineer
16 28 (3.60%) QA Engineer
17 27 (3.47%) Tester
18 24 (3.09%) Java Engineer
19 23 (2.96%) C++ Software Engineer
20 22 (2.83%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (33.46%) .NET
2 245 (31.53%) React
3 226 (29.09%) HTML
4 223 (28.70%) CSS
5 173 (22.27%) AngularJS
6 168 (21.62%) Web Services
7 162 (20.85%) REST
8 141 (18.15%) ASP.NET
9 140 (18.02%) Vue
10 135 (17.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 128 (16.47%) jQuery
12 123 (15.83%) ASP.NET Core
13 113 (14.54%) Backbone.js
13 113 (14.54%) Ember.js
14 76 (9.78%) Node.js
15 74 (9.52%) RESTful
16 43 (5.53%) JSON
17 41 (5.28%) .NET Core
18 40 (5.15%) Laravel
18 40 (5.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (17.25%) Algorithms
2 132 (16.99%) Data Structures
3 115 (14.80%) e-Learning
4 113 (14.54%) Blockchain
4 113 (14.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 56 (7.21%) Private Cloud
6 37 (4.76%) Mobile App
7 34 (4.38%) Product Ownership
8 33 (4.25%) Management Information System
9 32 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (3.22%) Embedded Systems
11 21 (2.70%) Satnav
12 20 (2.57%) CMDB
13 18 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (2.32%) IoT
14 14 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (1.67%) Hackathon
16 12 (1.54%) Robotics
17 9 (1.16%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 161 (20.72%) Linux
2 143 (18.40%) Windows
3 138 (17.76%) Apple iOS
4 132 (16.99%) Android
5 16 (2.06%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (50.06%) Agile
2 255 (32.82%) Software Engineering
3 254 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
4 251 (32.30%) Full Stack Development
5 221 (28.44%) Mentoring
6 215 (27.67%) Design Patterns
7 175 (22.52%) MVC
8 174 (22.39%) User Experience
9 166 (21.36%) Web Development
10 159 (20.46%) OO
11 156 (20.08%) DevOps
12 155 (19.95%) SOLID
13 154 (19.82%) Coaching
14 142 (18.28%) OOP
15 135 (17.37%) Continuous Integration
16 133 (17.12%) Artificial Intelligence
17 131 (16.86%) Test Automation
18 130 (16.73%) MVVM
19 119 (15.32%) Responsive Web Design
20 115 (14.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 354 (45.56%) JavaScript
2 257 (33.08%) C#
3 210 (27.03%) SQL
4 193 (24.84%) Java
5 140 (18.02%) Python
6 91 (11.71%) TypeScript
7 73 (9.40%) C
7 73 (9.40%) C++
8 66 (8.49%) PHP
9 52 (6.69%) Go
10 34 (4.38%) Ruby
11 33 (4.25%) Bash
12 30 (3.86%) Perl
13 24 (3.09%) Swift
14 19 (2.45%) Kotlin
15 18 (2.32%) VB.NET
16 11 (1.42%) Embedded C
17 10 (1.29%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.90%) Rust
19 6 (0.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 134 (17.25%) Degree
2 101 (13.00%) Security Cleared
3 84 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (5.28%) SC Cleared
5 24 (3.09%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.57%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.39%) CITP
10 3 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.26%) PhD
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (21.88%) QA
2 28 (3.60%) Software Quality Assurance
3 12 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.03%) GDPR
5 5 (0.64%) Automotive SPICE
5 5 (0.64%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
6 4 (0.51%) IEC 61508
6 4 (0.51%) MISRA
6 4 (0.51%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.39%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.39%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 91 (11.71%) Docker
2 17 (2.19%) Firmware
3 4 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 66 (8.49%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.64%) Grafana
2 5 (0.64%) Kibana
3 4 (0.51%) Terraform
4 2 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 116 (14.93%) IBM
2 113 (14.54%) Red Hat
3 62 (7.98%) Microsoft
4 56 (7.21%) Oracle
5 24 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.32%) Google
7 14 (1.80%) Xilinx
8 10 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.16%) Apple
9 9 (1.16%) TOWER Software
9 9 (1.16%) Xamarin
10 7 (0.90%) ESRI
11 2 (0.26%) BT
11 2 (0.26%) F5
11 2 (0.26%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.26%) Siemens
12 1 (0.13%) Databricks
12 1 (0.13%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.13%) Netlify
12 1 (0.13%) Veracode