Code Quality Job Trends in Leicestershire

Code Quality (Software Quality)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 56 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.35% 0.23% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.25% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £35,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £51,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.79% -6.59% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 459 401 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 81.24% 92.18% 87.52%
Number of salaries quoted 323 158 317
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,650
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -14.98% +5.24%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Code Quality
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Leicester - 2 £57,500 - 11
Code Quality
East Midlands

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Katalon Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA