Code Quality Job Trends in Cambridge

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 59 57
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +31
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 2 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.39% 0.21% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.24% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £65,500
25th Percentile £57,500 - £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +88.89%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £92,500
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £60,000 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +77.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 418 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 81.98% 86.72% 92.77%
Number of salaries quoted 280 212 247
10th Percentile £29,700 £38,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £47,500 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,875 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Code Quality
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDET
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes