Code Quality Job Trends in the East of England

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 149 173 133
Rank change year-on-year +24 -40 +57
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 10 11 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.24% 0.31% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.36% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 9
10th Percentile £53,625 - £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £75,313 - £87,500
90th Percentile £79,625 - £92,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,101 3,079 2,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.17% 87.30% 86.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,821 1,190 1,578
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in the East of England

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the East of England

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

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the East of England

Code Quality
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Essex -2 5 £60,000 - 23
Cambridgeshire +19 2 £60,000 - 24
Bedfordshire +36 1 £85,000 - 23
Hertfordshire +7 1 £77,500 +10.71% 26
Suffolk -13 1 £77,500 - 26
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) Figma
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) Postman
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) gulp
3 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (10.00%) Aviation
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) .NET Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 4 (40.00%) React Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
1 6 (60.00%) React
1 6 (60.00%) REST
2 5 (50.00%) CSS
3 4 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (20.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) Playwright
5 1 (10.00%) Sass
5 1 (10.00%) Three.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) MVC
3 4 (40.00%) OWASP
3 4 (40.00%) User Experience
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (20.00%) API Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) SDET
5 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform