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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 194 220
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 +26
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 23 42 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.25% 0.72% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.78% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17 29 57
10th Percentile £43,750 £36,200 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -15.18% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £72,500 £94,000
England median annual salary £76,000 £66,274 £62,500
% change year-on-year +14.68% +6.04% -10.71%

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 7,100 5,373 7,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 78.53% 92.27% 85.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,008 2,465 5,904
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,850 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,754 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,516
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.03% -5.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +1 15 £56,250 +7.14% 14
East Midlands -38 8 £80,000 +76.80% 10
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 1 (4.35%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Serverless
6 3 (13.04%) Firebase
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (13.04%) Stripe
6 3 (13.04%) TestFlight
7 2 (8.70%) SaaS
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.35%) GCP
8 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
8 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Crashlytics
2 3 (13.04%) XCTest
3 2 (8.70%) JUnit
3 2 (8.70%) Mockito
3 2 (8.70%) Storybook
3 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (4.35%) Babel
4 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.35%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Vite
4 1 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Law
3 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Junior
3 3 (13.04%) Junior Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Mobile Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Business Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Team Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) .NET
1 6 (26.09%) RESTful
2 4 (17.39%) CSS
2 4 (17.39%) HTML
2 4 (17.39%) React
3 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
3 3 (13.04%) HTML5
3 3 (13.04%) REST
3 3 (13.04%) SwiftUI
3 3 (13.04%) UIKit
3 3 (13.04%) Web Services
4 2 (8.70%) Jest
4 2 (8.70%) Sass
4 2 (8.70%) Spring
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) CSS3
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js
5 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.35%) Redux
5 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
4 6 (26.09%) Clean Code
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (26.09%) User Experience
5 5 (21.74%) AI
5 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 4 (17.39%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (17.39%) Customer Service
6 4 (17.39%) Microservices
6 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.04%) Community of Practice
7 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (13.04%) Design Patterns
7 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (13.04%) Product Vision
7 3 (13.04%) Server-Driven UI
7 3 (13.04%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) JavaScript
2 6 (26.09%) C#
2 6 (26.09%) TypeScript
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) Python
5 3 (13.04%) Kotlin
5 3 (13.04%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Amplitude
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Foundry
2 1 (4.35%) Palantir