Code Quality Job Trends in London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 213 322
Rank change year-on-year -32 +109 -47
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 167 180 183
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.81% 1.47% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.53% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 128 142 143
10th Percentile £50,250 £47,500 £55,202
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,938 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £121,625 £119,875 £110,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,225 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.70% +10.38% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,875 11,788 21,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.41% 96.06% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,349 7,191 15,883
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,411 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in London

Code Quality
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in London

Code Quality
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Central London -29 35 £85,000 -19.05% 22
West London - 8 £30,000 - 4
East London - 2 £30,000 - 4
North London - 1 £45,000 -
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.99%) CMS
2 3 (1.80%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (39.52%) AWS
2 57 (34.13%) Azure
3 35 (20.96%) GCP
4 19 (11.38%) Serverless
5 18 (10.78%) GitHub
6 12 (7.19%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.39%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.99%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.99%) SaaS
12 4 (2.40%) ChatGPT
12 4 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.40%) Stripe
13 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.80%) Pulumi
13 3 (1.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.38%) BigQuery
2 12 (7.19%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (4.19%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.59%) MySQL
4 6 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.99%) Redis
6 4 (2.40%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.40%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.60%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 24 (14.37%) Git
2 7 (4.19%) Gradle
3 6 (3.59%) JIRA
4 4 (2.40%) Claude Code
4 4 (2.40%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.80%) GitLab
5 3 (1.80%) Storybook
5 3 (1.80%) XCUITest
6 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.60%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.60%) Vite
7 1 (0.60%) webpack
7 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.15%) Finance
3 21 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.59%) Front Office
5 10 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.79%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.19%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.19%) Health Technology
7 7 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.19%) Tech for Good
8 6 (3.59%) Law
8 6 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.59%) Publishing
9 5 (2.99%) Banking
10 3 (1.80%) Marketing
10 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.20%) Back Office
11 2 (1.20%) Retail
12 1 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 70 (41.92%) Senior
2 55 (32.93%) Developer
3 27 (16.17%) Software Engineer
4 22 (13.17%) Senior Software Engineer
5 20 (11.98%) Senior Developer
6 19 (11.38%) Lead
7 12 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (7.19%) Tester
8 11 (6.59%) Software Tester
9 10 (5.99%) Lead Developer
10 9 (5.39%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.79%) Java Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.19%) AWS Developer
12 7 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) React Developer
13 6 (3.59%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.59%) Lead Python Developer
14 5 (2.99%) Python Engineer
14 5 (2.99%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.95%) RESTful
2 32 (19.16%) .NET
2 32 (19.16%) React
3 19 (11.38%) Spring
4 17 (10.18%) Django
5 16 (9.58%) Node.js
6 14 (8.38%) CSS
6 14 (8.38%) Spring Boot
7 13 (7.78%) HTML
8 11 (6.59%) REST
9 10 (5.99%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.39%) Vue
11 8 (4.79%) CSS3
11 8 (4.79%) HTML5
11 8 (4.79%) Kafka
12 7 (4.19%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (4.19%) React Native
12 7 (4.19%) WebSockets
13 6 (3.59%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.37%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.18%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (9.58%) Algorithms
4 15 (8.98%) Data Structures
5 14 (8.38%) Mobile App
6 12 (7.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (7.19%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.40%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.40%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.80%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.20%) Equities
10 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.60%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.59%) Android
2 5 (2.99%) Linux
3 3 (1.80%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (37.13%) CI/CD
2 57 (34.13%) Agile
3 56 (33.53%) Software Engineering
4 54 (32.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (28.14%) Microservices
6 45 (26.95%) Mentoring
7 41 (24.55%) Computer Science
8 40 (23.95%) DevOps
9 39 (23.35%) AI
10 31 (18.56%) Test Automation
11 30 (17.96%) Full-Stack Development
12 28 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (16.77%) SDLC
13 24 (14.37%) Containerisation
14 22 (13.17%) User Experience
15 21 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (12.57%) TDD
16 20 (11.98%) Decision-Making
17 19 (11.38%) Low Latency
17 19 (11.38%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.93%) Python
2 39 (23.35%) Java
3 30 (17.96%) SQL
4 27 (16.17%) JavaScript
5 24 (14.37%) C#
6 21 (12.57%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.19%) C++
8 11 (6.59%) Go
9 6 (3.59%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.99%) PHP
10 5 (2.99%) Rust
11 4 (2.40%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.80%) Julia
12 3 (1.80%) MATLAB
12 3 (1.80%) R
12 3 (1.80%) Swift
13 2 (1.20%) Bicep
13 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.60%) Bash
14 1 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 45 (26.95%) Degree
2 34 (20.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.38%) Security Cleared
4 11 (6.59%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.39%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (23.95%) QA
2 19 (11.38%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (1.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (15.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (18.56%) Kubernetes
2 23 (13.77%) Terraform
3 6 (3.59%) Grafana
4 5 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.20%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.38%) Google
3 9 (5.39%) Solace
4 2 (1.20%) Foundry
4 2 (1.20%) JDA
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle
4 2 (1.20%) PayPal
4 2 (1.20%) SendGrid
4 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.60%) Aderant
5 1 (0.60%) Apple
5 1 (0.60%) iManage
5 1 (0.60%) Intapp
5 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.60%) Palantir
5 1 (0.60%) Salesforce