Code Quality Jobs in Essex

Code Quality (Software Quality)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 69 77
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 +17
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 3 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 0.64% 0.57% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.71% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 £26,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £39,250 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.24% - -
75th Percentile £66,250 £54,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £66,240 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.17% -4.55% -15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 407 707 789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 87.15% 81.08% 93.26%
Number of salaries quoted 184 577 359
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,759 £26,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -0.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,350 £73,750 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Essex

Code Quality
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Code Quality in Essex

Code Quality
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the Essex region over the 6 months to 13 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
Southend-on-Sea - 2 - -
Chelmsford - 1 £62,500 - 3
Code Quality
East of England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) gRPC
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Reference Data
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Business Agility
2 2 (66.67%) Concurrent Programming
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) C++
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform