Code Quality Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Code Quality (Software Quality)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 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 89 96 70
Rank change year-on-year +7 -26 +37
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 1 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.059% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.36% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £59,250
25th Percentile £76,250 - £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% - +27.27%
75th Percentile £78,750 - £74,375
90th Percentile - - £74,750
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +36.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,154 1,101 702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 68.16% 91.60% 86.45%
Number of salaries quoted 653 441 542
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% +2.73%
75th Percentile £67,250 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Code Quality
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the Hertfordshire 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
St Albans - 1 £77,500 -
Code Quality
East of England

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#