Code Quality Job Trends in the City of London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of 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 96 108 141
Rank change year-on-year +12 +33 +26
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 39 57 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.69% 2.15% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.24% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 37 42 25
10th Percentile - £60,375 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -26.32%
75th Percentile £106,250 £107,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £143,500 £117,500 £86,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +38.46% -28.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,992 2,540 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.35% 95.67% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,457 1,620 2,368
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,750
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 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in the City of London

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the City of London

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

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the City of London

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) CMS
2 2 (5.13%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.56%) Luigi
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) AWS
2 11 (28.21%) Azure
3 8 (20.51%) GCP
4 5 (12.82%) SaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.56%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.56%) dbt
5 1 (2.56%) PaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
5 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
1 3 (7.69%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) BigQuery
1 5 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) Ant
3 1 (2.56%) Gradle
3 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Billing
3 6 (15.38%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Law
4 4 (10.26%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Senior
3 7 (17.95%) Software Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Lead
5 4 (10.26%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Umbraco Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Lead Software Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (51.28%) RESTful
2 16 (41.03%) .NET
3 11 (28.21%) React
4 6 (15.38%) CSS
4 6 (15.38%) HTML
5 5 (12.82%) .NET Framework
5 5 (12.82%) Django
5 5 (12.82%) HTML5
6 4 (10.26%) .NET Core
6 4 (10.26%) CSS3
6 4 (10.26%) Entity Framework
7 3 (7.69%) Next.js
8 2 (5.13%) Pandas
8 2 (5.13%) Spring
9 1 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (2.56%) Node.js
9 1 (2.56%) NumPy
9 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
9 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Onboarding
2 6 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 6 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 5 (12.82%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.69%) Private Cloud
4 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.69%) Virtual Team
5 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) Agile
2 23 (58.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (51.28%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (43.59%) Microservices
5 11 (28.21%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (28.21%) Migration
6 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
7 9 (23.08%) Data Science
8 8 (20.51%) AI
8 8 (20.51%) Mentoring
8 8 (20.51%) User Experience
9 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
9 6 (15.38%) Software Testing
10 5 (12.82%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
10 5 (12.82%) Customer-Centricity
10 5 (12.82%) SDLC
10 5 (12.82%) UX Design
11 4 (10.26%) Database Optimisation
11 4 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) C#
1 14 (35.90%) Java
2 10 (25.64%) Python
2 10 (25.64%) TypeScript
3 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.82%) SQL
5 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.56%) Bicep
6 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Ansible
2 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Guidewire
2 5 (12.82%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco
3 3 (7.69%) EMC
3 3 (7.69%) F5
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 3 (7.69%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) Solace