Code Quality Job Trends in the Midlands

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 199 177
Rank change year-on-year -30 -22 +29
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 56 29 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.36% 0.52% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.61% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 24 25 20
10th Percentile £41,625 £43,200 £34,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £70,688 £66,250 £65,625
90th Percentile £82,750 £73,500 £70,570
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,952 4,762 7,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.90% 85.65% 78.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,762 2,850 3,812
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -6.94%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the Midlands

Code Quality
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
West Midlands -25 36 £67,500 +12.50% 64
East Midlands -21 20 £55,000 -4.35% 25
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (5.36%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Documentum
2 1 (1.79%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (1.79%) WinCC
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) AWS
2 23 (41.07%) Azure
3 11 (19.64%) Serverless
4 7 (12.50%) GitHub
5 6 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.93%) Amazon S3
6 5 (8.93%) Firebase
6 5 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.93%) Stripe
6 5 (8.93%) TestFlight
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.36%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (5.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (3.57%) Siteimprove
10 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.36%) Modbus
3 2 (3.57%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.79%) HTTP
4 1 (1.79%) Internet
4 1 (1.79%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) Crashlytics
2 5 (8.93%) XCTest
3 4 (7.14%) JUnit
3 4 (7.14%) Maven
3 4 (7.14%) Mockito
4 3 (5.36%) JIRA
4 3 (5.36%) Selenium
5 2 (3.57%) TestRail
5 2 (3.57%) Toad
5 2 (3.57%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.79%) JMeter
6 1 (1.79%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (23.21%) Finance
2 10 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Electronics
4 8 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (12.50%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.36%) Retail
7 1 (1.79%) Advertising
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (42.86%) Lead
2 20 (35.71%) Developer
3 17 (30.36%) Senior
4 10 (17.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (16.07%) React Developer
5 9 (16.07%) Senior Developer
5 9 (16.07%) Test Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 8 (14.29%) Senior React Developer
6 8 (14.29%) Software Engineer
7 7 (12.50%) Lead Test Engineer
8 6 (10.71%) Lead Developer
8 6 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (8.93%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (8.93%) Mobile Engineer
9 5 (8.93%) Test Leader
10 4 (7.14%) .NET Developer
10 4 (7.14%) Java Team Leader
10 4 (7.14%) Software Developer
10 4 (7.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.36%) React
1 17 (30.36%) REST
2 9 (16.07%) Playwright
3 7 (12.50%) XML
4 6 (10.71%) .NET
5 5 (8.93%) SwiftUI
5 5 (8.93%) UIKit
6 4 (7.14%) Spring
7 3 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.36%) Terraform
8 2 (3.57%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.57%) EDI
8 2 (3.57%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.57%) MassTransit
8 2 (3.57%) Material-UI
8 2 (3.57%) Next.js
8 2 (3.57%) SOAP
9 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) SCADA
2 7 (12.50%) Client/Server
3 6 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (8.93%) Mobile App
5 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 4 (7.14%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (3.57%) ARM Cortex
7 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.79%) Digital Signage
8 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.79%) IoT
8 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.79%) Robotics
8 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.57%) FreeRTOS
2 2 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) Test Automation
2 25 (44.64%) CI/CD
3 23 (41.07%) Agile
4 20 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 20 (35.71%) Software Testing
5 17 (30.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (26.79%) Scrum
7 14 (25.00%) AI
8 13 (23.21%) Front End Development
8 13 (23.21%) SDLC
8 13 (23.21%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (21.43%) Microservices
9 12 (21.43%) Process Improvement
10 11 (19.64%) Sprint Planning
10 11 (19.64%) Validation
11 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (17.86%) Software Engineering
12 9 (16.07%) Customer Requirements
12 9 (16.07%) Progressive Enhancement
12 9 (16.07%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 14 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 8 (14.29%) Java
2 8 (14.29%) Python
2 8 (14.29%) SQL
3 7 (12.50%) C#
4 5 (8.93%) Kotlin
4 5 (8.93%) Swift
5 4 (7.14%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.57%) C
6 2 (3.57%) C++
6 2 (3.57%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.79%) Bash
7 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.79%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) Degree
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 11 (19.64%) QA
3 3 (5.36%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (3.57%) IEC 61508
4 2 (3.57%) MISRA
4 2 (3.57%) MISRA C
5 1 (1.79%) IEC 61131
5 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) Functional Safety
2 2 (3.57%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) Grafana
3 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) Oracle
2 5 (8.93%) Amplitude
2 5 (8.93%) Braze
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.57%) HP
5 1 (1.79%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.79%) NCR
5 1 (1.79%) OpenText
5 1 (1.79%) Rockwell
5 1 (1.79%) Sage
5 1 (1.79%) Siemens