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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 267 344
Rank change year-on-year +6 +77 -128
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 576 890 872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.20% 1.04% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.22% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 502 578 465
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,214 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £66,200 £60,000 £68,724
% change year-on-year +10.33% -12.69% -1.82%

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 45,051 73,216 87,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.07% 85.60% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,853 53,906 51,671
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
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 £76,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 8 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 8 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 +91 175 £75,000 -6.25% 358
East of England +90 114 £66,240 +26.17% 37
South East +62 114 £62,500 +5.04% 145
North of England -32 95 £58,750 +6.48% 113
North West -73 77 £56,250 +12.50% 68
Midlands -48 41 £57,500 +4.22% 65
South West +34 30 £58,721 -2.13% 52
West Midlands +20 29 £57,500 +15.00% 35
Yorkshire +41 16 £70,000 +16.67% 33
East Midlands -37 12 £45,000 -34.55% 28
North East +45 2 £75,500 +36.84% 13
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%) CICS
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.17%) Tornado
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%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 190 (32.99%) Azure
2 135 (23.44%) AWS
3 66 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (10.59%) GCP
5 41 (7.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 41 (7.12%) Azure Service Bus
6 37 (6.42%) Serverless
7 36 (6.25%) SaaS
8 34 (5.90%) SonarCloud
9 22 (3.82%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (2.60%) GitHub
13 13 (2.26%) Power Platform
14 12 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.39%) Contentful
16 8 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
17 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 44 (7.64%) MongoDB
2 41 (7.12%) NoSQL
3 39 (6.77%) Elasticsearch
4 36 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (5.73%) MySQL
6 31 (5.38%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.78%) 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 6 (1.04%) DB2
12 4 (0.69%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.69%) GIS
13 3 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.52%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.52%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.35%) Kdb+
14 2 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 131 (22.74%) Git
2 64 (11.11%) JIRA
3 36 (6.25%) Visual Studio
4 35 (6.08%) MSBuild
4 35 (6.08%) Octopus Deploy
4 35 (6.08%) 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%) LoadRunner
13 9 (1.56%) SpecFlow
14 8 (1.39%) Jasmine
General
1 165 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 109 (18.92%) Finance
3 46 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.64%) Banking
5 33 (5.73%) Retail
6 21 (3.65%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.08%) Law
10 10 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.56%) Games
11 9 (1.56%) Health Technology
11 9 (1.56%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.39%) Electronics
12 8 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.39%) Marketing
13 7 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.22%) Publishing
14 5 (0.87%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 227 (39.41%) Developer
2 145 (25.17%) Senior
3 108 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 101 (17.53%) Trainer
5 67 (11.63%) Lead
6 57 (9.90%) Senior Developer
7 45 (7.81%) Architect
8 39 (6.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 36 (6.25%) Technical Architect
10 33 (5.73%) Test Engineer
11 32 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 31 (5.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 30 (5.21%) Senior Software Test Engineer
13 30 (5.21%) Senior Test Engineer
13 30 (5.21%) Software Test Engineer
14 23 (3.99%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.82%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
17 18 (3.13%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (38.19%) HTML
2 126 (21.88%) React
3 124 (21.53%) .NET
4 120 (20.83%) CSS
5 76 (13.19%) REST
5 76 (13.19%) RESTful
6 61 (10.59%) AngularJS
7 58 (10.07%) Node.js
8 51 (8.85%) Bootstrap
8 51 (8.85%) gRPC
9 50 (8.68%) Spring
10 45 (7.81%) ASP.NET
11 43 (7.47%) HTML5
11 43 (7.47%) JSON
12 42 (7.29%) XML
13 31 (5.38%) Kafka
13 31 (5.38%) Vue
14 30 (5.21%) Spring Boot
15 27 (4.69%) CSS3
16 25 (4.34%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (3.65%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 15 (2.60%) Public Cloud
5 14 (2.43%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 12 (2.08%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.74%) Reference Data
8 10 (1.74%) Replication
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
12 5 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.51%) Linux
2 11 (1.91%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.74%) Android
4 7 (1.22%) Windows
5 4 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Unix
6 2 (0.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (42.53%) Agile
2 178 (30.90%) Problem-Solving
3 169 (29.34%) Software Engineering
4 160 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
5 154 (26.74%) DevOps
6 149 (25.87%) Test Automation
7 135 (23.44%) Microservices
8 133 (23.09%) CI/CD
9 105 (18.23%) Conversational UI
10 99 (17.19%) Mentoring
11 88 (15.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 88 (15.28%) User Experience
12 79 (13.72%) Computer Science
13 78 (13.54%) Software Testing
14 73 (12.67%) TDD
15 64 (11.11%) Design Patterns
16 63 (10.94%) Front End Development
17 61 (10.59%) Scrum
18 55 (9.55%) MVC
19 53 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 289 (50.17%) JavaScript
2 249 (43.23%) SQL
3 232 (40.28%) C#
4 186 (32.29%) Python
5 106 (18.40%) C++
6 97 (16.84%) Java
7 96 (16.67%) TypeScript
8 20 (3.47%) PHP
9 10 (1.74%) Bicep
10 8 (1.39%) Go
11 7 (1.22%) C
12 6 (1.04%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.87%) Ruby
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%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 207 (35.94%) Degree
2 38 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 30 (5.21%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.34%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.13%) ISTQB
6 14 (2.43%) DBS Check
6 14 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.35%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.35%) ISEB
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.17%) CISSP
10 1 (0.17%) MCSD
10 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.28%) QA
2 39 (6.77%) 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
1 109 (18.92%) Docker
2 7 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.35%) Firmware
3 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 71 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.38%) 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 42 (7.29%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.65%) Google
4 12 (2.08%) Oracle
5 9 (1.56%) IBM
6 8 (1.39%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.04%) Sawtooth Software
8 5 (0.87%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.69%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.52%) Adobe
10 3 (0.52%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.52%) Progress
10 3 (0.52%) Solace
10 3 (0.52%) Twitter
11 2 (0.35%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.35%) Databricks
11 2 (0.35%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.35%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.35%) Splunk
11 2 (0.35%) Trayport