Code Quality Jobs in England

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Code Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Code Quality over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 267 345
Rank change year-on-year +25 +78 -133
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 576 887 889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.24% 1.04% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.21% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 505 581 475
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,215 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,517 £92,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -14.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,396 73,150 88,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.61% 85.81% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,950 53,950 52,213
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,000 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,237
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in England.

Salary trend for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
London +86 173 £75,000 -6.25% 276
South East +59 115 £62,500 +4.60% 114
East of England +88 114 £66,240 +26.17% 38
North of England -28 96 £58,750 +6.65% 116
North West -53 77 £56,250 +12.50% 69
Midlands -27 40 £57,500 +4.22% 71
South West +24 30 £58,721 -2.13% 49
West Midlands +24 28 £57,500 +15.00% 38
Yorkshire +54 16 £70,000 +16.67% 33
East Midlands -24 12 £45,000 -34.55% 29
North East +45 3 £75,500 +36.84% 15
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (5.38%) Confluence
2 9 (1.56%) CMS
3 8 (1.39%) Headless CMS
4 7 (1.22%) nginx
4 7 (1.22%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.04%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.87%) Liferay
7 4 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.52%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.52%) Mule
8 3 (0.52%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.52%) Strapi
9 2 (0.35%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.17%) Tornado
10 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 105 (18.23%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.56%) Trello
3 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.17%) Endur
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 184 (31.94%) Azure
2 133 (23.09%) AWS
3 67 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (10.24%) GCP
5 42 (7.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 42 (7.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 37 (6.42%) SaaS
6 37 (6.42%) Serverless
7 35 (6.08%) SonarCloud
8 23 (3.99%) Amazon S3
9 22 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (2.43%) GitHub
12 13 (2.26%) Power Platform
13 12 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.39%) Contentful
15 8 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (1.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.52%) HTTP
2 2 (0.35%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.17%) Broadband
3 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.17%) Internet
3 1 (0.17%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
2 39 (6.77%) MongoDB
3 35 (6.08%) NoSQL
4 33 (5.73%) MySQL
5 30 (5.21%) SQL Server
6 29 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.74%) Big Data
9 10 (1.74%) Redis
10 7 (1.22%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.69%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.69%) GIS
12 3 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.52%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.35%) Cloud Spanner
13 2 (0.35%) KDB
13 2 (0.35%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 133 (23.09%) Git
2 64 (11.11%) JIRA
3 37 (6.42%) Visual Studio
4 36 (6.25%) MSBuild
4 36 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
4 36 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
5 26 (4.51%) Jenkins
5 26 (4.51%) Selenium
6 24 (4.17%) Postman
7 19 (3.30%) GitLab
8 18 (3.13%) JMeter
9 17 (2.95%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.78%) JUnit
11 15 (2.60%) SonarQube
12 12 (2.08%) Babel
12 12 (2.08%) webpack
13 9 (1.56%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.56%) Jasmine
13 9 (1.56%) LoadRunner
13 9 (1.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 167 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 109 (18.92%) Finance
3 46 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.64%) Banking
5 33 (5.73%) Retail
6 17 (2.95%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.08%) Law
8 12 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.91%) Health Technology
9 11 (1.91%) Tech for Good
10 10 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.56%) Games
11 9 (1.56%) Marketing
11 9 (1.56%) Publishing
12 8 (1.39%) Electronics
13 7 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.87%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 231 (40.10%) Developer
2 146 (25.35%) Senior
3 108 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 101 (17.53%) Trainer
5 69 (11.98%) Lead
6 60 (10.42%) Senior Developer
7 46 (7.99%) Architect
8 40 (6.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 37 (6.42%) Technical Architect
10 33 (5.73%) Test Engineer
11 32 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (5.21%) Senior Software Test Engineer
12 30 (5.21%) Senior Test Engineer
12 30 (5.21%) Software Test Engineer
13 26 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (4.17%) Lead Developer
15 20 (3.47%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
17 18 (3.13%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (38.89%) HTML
2 125 (21.70%) .NET
3 124 (21.53%) CSS
4 122 (21.18%) React
5 78 (13.54%) REST
5 78 (13.54%) RESTful
6 59 (10.24%) Node.js
7 57 (9.90%) AngularJS
8 52 (9.03%) gRPC
9 50 (8.68%) Spring
10 47 (8.16%) Bootstrap
11 46 (7.99%) ASP.NET
12 44 (7.64%) HTML5
12 44 (7.64%) JSON
13 43 (7.47%) XML
14 31 (5.38%) Spring Boot
14 31 (5.38%) Vue
15 30 (5.21%) Kafka
16 28 (4.86%) CSS3
17 24 (4.17%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (3.65%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.60%) Public Cloud
5 14 (2.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 13 (2.26%) Mobile App
7 10 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.74%) Reference Data
7 10 (1.74%) Replication
8 9 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.56%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.22%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.04%) Molecular Biology
11 6 (1.04%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.87%) Blockchain
13 4 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.65%) Linux
2 6 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.87%) Android
4 4 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.35%) VMS
5 2 (0.35%) Windows
6 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (42.19%) Agile
2 180 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 170 (29.51%) Software Engineering
4 154 (26.74%) Artificial Intelligence
5 152 (26.39%) DevOps
6 148 (25.69%) Test Automation
7 135 (23.44%) Microservices
8 131 (22.74%) CI/CD
9 105 (18.23%) Conversational UI
10 99 (17.19%) Mentoring
11 83 (14.41%) Full-Stack Development
12 82 (14.24%) User Experience
13 79 (13.72%) Computer Science
13 79 (13.72%) Software Testing
14 73 (12.67%) TDD
15 64 (11.11%) Design Patterns
15 64 (11.11%) Scrum
16 63 (10.94%) Front End Development
17 58 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (9.72%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 295 (51.22%) JavaScript
2 243 (42.19%) SQL
3 234 (40.63%) C#
4 188 (32.64%) Python
5 106 (18.40%) C++
6 98 (17.01%) Java
7 97 (16.84%) TypeScript
8 20 (3.47%) PHP
9 10 (1.74%) Bicep
10 8 (1.39%) Go
11 7 (1.22%) C
11 7 (1.22%) Ruby
12 6 (1.04%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.87%) Rust
13 5 (0.87%) Scala
13 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.69%) Bash
14 4 (0.69%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.52%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 207 (35.94%) Degree
2 38 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (5.38%) Security Cleared
4 30 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (4.51%) SC Cleared
6 18 (3.13%) ISTQB
7 15 (2.60%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.43%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.35%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.35%) ISEB
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.17%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) MCSD
12 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.63%) QA
2 40 (6.94%) GDPR
3 30 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 14 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.91%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.17%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 107 (18.58%) Docker
2 7 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.35%) Firmware
3 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (12.15%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.21%) Terraform
3 9 (1.56%) Kustomize
4 5 (0.87%) Ansible
4 5 (0.87%) Packer
5 4 (0.69%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.35%) Grafana
6 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 104 (18.06%) PayPal
2 41 (7.12%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.65%) Google
4 12 (2.08%) Oracle
5 6 (1.04%) Sawtooth Software
6 5 (0.87%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.87%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.69%) IBM
8 3 (0.52%) Adobe
8 3 (0.52%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.52%) Progress
8 3 (0.52%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.52%) Solace
8 3 (0.52%) Twitter
9 2 (0.35%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.35%) Databricks
9 2 (0.35%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.35%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.35%) Pardot
9 2 (0.35%) Splunk