Code Quality Job Trends in Birmingham

Code Quality (Software Quality)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 122 88
Rank change year-on-year +26 -34 +41
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 9 11 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.52% 0.61% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.66% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 18
10th Percentile £54,250 - £37,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £56,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% +27.50% -31.03%
75th Percentile £65,625 £79,688 £56,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £88,125 £59,300
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year - +12.20% -26.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Code Quality falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,372 1,678 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.21% 93.27% 88.11%
Number of salaries quoted 971 782 1,015
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,125 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Code Quality relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Code Quality
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
3 4 (44.44%) Power Automate
3 4 (44.44%) Serverless
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Functions
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (22.22%) AWS
5 2 (22.22%) Azure API Management
5 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (22.22%) PowerApps
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MSTest
1 3 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Moq
2 1 (11.11%) NSubstitute
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Integration Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Scala Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Scala Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Scala Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Scala Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 3 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 3 (33.33%) RESTful
3 3 (33.33%) YAML
4 2 (22.22%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) Spring
4 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (11.11%) React
5 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) TDD
3 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 2 (22.22%) API Design
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) CRM
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Bicep
4 2 (22.22%) Kotlin
4 2 (22.22%) Scala
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft