Code Quality Job Trends in the East Midlands

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 95 130
Rank change year-on-year -43 +35 +12
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 17 13 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.42% 0.89% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.00% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 15
10th Percentile £30,000 - £55,447
25th Percentile £41,875 £36,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £42,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +111.76% -39.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £107,500 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £72,250 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,225 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.70% +5.96% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,999 1,305 3,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 73.40% 89.20% 80.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,785 885 2,450
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the East Midlands

Code Quality
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 April 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
Leicestershire -5 12 £30,000 -25.00% 3
Nottinghamshire -11 4 £105,000 +50.00% 5
Northamptonshire -12 1 - - 4
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) Firebase
2 10 (58.82%) GitHub
2 10 (58.82%) GitHub Actions
2 10 (58.82%) Serverless
2 10 (58.82%) Stripe
2 10 (58.82%) TestFlight
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) LTE
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Crashlytics
1 10 (58.82%) XCTest
2 3 (17.65%) Storybook
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) JMeter
3 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Mobile Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Software Tester
2 2 (11.76%) Tester
3 1 (5.88%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Software Development Team Leader
3 1 (5.88%) Software Team Leader
3 1 (5.88%) Team Leader
3 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) SwiftUI
1 10 (58.82%) UIKit
2 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
2 3 (17.65%) CSS
2 3 (17.65%) HTML
2 3 (17.65%) HTML5
2 3 (17.65%) RESTful
2 3 (17.65%) Sass
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Mobile App
2 10 (58.82%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Test Automation
1 14 (82.35%) User Experience
2 13 (76.47%) Clean Code
3 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
4 10 (58.82%) Analytics
4 10 (58.82%) Community of Practice
4 10 (58.82%) Cross-Platform Development
4 10 (58.82%) Deployment Automation
4 10 (58.82%) iOS Development
4 10 (58.82%) Process Improvement
4 10 (58.82%) Product Vision
4 10 (58.82%) Push Notifications
4 10 (58.82%) Re-Platforming
4 10 (58.82%) Server-Driven UI
4 10 (58.82%) Storyboarding
5 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
6 3 (17.65%) Responsive Web Design
6 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
6 3 (17.65%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Kotlin
1 10 (58.82%) Swift
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Amplitude
1 10 (58.82%) Braze