Code Quality Job Trends in Central London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 126 143
Rank change year-on-year +24 +17 +23
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 43 58 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.68% 1.80% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.88% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41 43 27
10th Percentile - £58,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +38.46% -28.77%
75th Percentile £106,250 £107,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £117,500 £86,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £76,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,233 3,083 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 87.26% 95.89% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 1,839 2,542
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Central London

Code Quality
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Central London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in Central London

Code Quality
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
City of London +12 39 £80,000 -11.11% 21
Code Quality
London

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.65%) CMS
2 2 (4.65%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.33%) Luigi
3 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) Azure
2 13 (30.23%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) GCP
4 5 (11.63%) SaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.33%) dbt
5 1 (2.33%) PaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
1 3 (6.98%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) BigQuery
2 5 (11.63%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Ant
3 1 (2.33%) Gradle
3 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.33%) webpack
General
1 20 (46.51%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Billing
3 8 (18.60%) Law
3 8 (18.60%) Legal
4 6 (13.95%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 23 (53.49%) Developer
2 10 (23.26%) Senior
3 8 (18.60%) Software Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Software Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Umbraco Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Architect
9 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (2.33%) Java Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Lead Software Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Principal Software Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (46.51%) .NET
1 20 (46.51%) RESTful
2 11 (25.58%) React
3 6 (13.95%) CSS
3 6 (13.95%) HTML
4 5 (11.63%) .NET Framework
4 5 (11.63%) Django
4 5 (11.63%) HTML5
5 4 (9.30%) .NET Core
5 4 (9.30%) CSS3
5 4 (9.30%) Entity Framework
5 4 (9.30%) Vue
6 3 (6.98%) Next.js
7 2 (4.65%) Pandas
7 2 (4.65%) Spring
8 1 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (2.33%) Node.js
8 1 (2.33%) NumPy
8 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Onboarding
2 6 (13.95%) Algorithms
2 6 (13.95%) Data Structures
3 5 (11.63%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.98%) Private Cloud
5 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.98%) Virtual Team
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) Agile
2 27 (62.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (55.81%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (39.53%) Microservices
5 15 (34.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (27.91%) User Experience
7 11 (25.58%) Collaborative Working
7 11 (25.58%) Migration
8 10 (23.26%) Software Engineering
9 9 (20.93%) Data Science
10 8 (18.60%) AI
10 8 (18.60%) Mentoring
11 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
11 6 (13.95%) Computer Science
11 6 (13.95%) Software Testing
12 5 (11.63%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
12 5 (11.63%) Customer-Centricity
12 5 (11.63%) SDLC
12 5 (11.63%) UX Design
13 4 (9.30%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (41.86%) C#
2 14 (32.56%) Java
3 10 (23.26%) Python
3 10 (23.26%) TypeScript
4 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.63%) SQL
6 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 6 (13.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Accessibility
2 4 (9.30%) QA
2 4 (9.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Guidewire
2 5 (11.63%) Google
3 3 (6.98%) Cisco
3 3 (6.98%) EMC
3 3 (6.98%) F5
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) Palo Alto
3 3 (6.98%) VMware
4 1 (2.33%) Solace