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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 179 203
Rank change year-on-year -37 +24 +68
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 39 34 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.33% 0.70% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.78% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 26 31 60
10th Percentile £39,250 £36,250 £37,375
25th Percentile £43,125 £40,125 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £57,494
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -17.38% +6.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £72,500 £91,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,225 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.70% +5.96% -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 8,707 4,353 9,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 74.38% 89.77% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,119 2,584 6,996
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,349 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +8.10% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -13 22 £58,750 +2.17% 11
East Midlands -42 17 £90,000 +111.76% 9
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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Azure
3 11 (28.21%) Serverless
4 10 (25.64%) Firebase
4 10 (25.64%) GitHub
4 10 (25.64%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (25.64%) Stripe
4 10 (25.64%) TestFlight
5 8 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (17.95%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (7.69%) SaaS
7 3 (7.69%) Siteimprove
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Ethernet
1 2 (5.13%) Modbus
2 1 (2.56%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.13%) MariaDB
3 2 (5.13%) MySQL
3 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Crashlytics
1 10 (25.64%) XCTest
2 7 (17.95%) Git
3 3 (7.69%) JIRA
3 3 (7.69%) Selenium
3 3 (7.69%) Storybook
3 3 (7.69%) TestRail
3 3 (7.69%) Toad
3 3 (7.69%) Zephyr
4 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.56%) GitLab
5 1 (2.56%) JMeter
5 1 (2.56%) LoadRunner
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Law
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Electronics
4 2 (5.13%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Mobile Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Developer
3 8 (20.51%) Lead
4 6 (15.38%) Test Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Lead Test Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior
6 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Junior
7 3 (7.69%) Junior Developer
7 3 (7.69%) QA Analyst
8 2 (5.13%) Business Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Embedded Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior QA Analyst
8 2 (5.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) SwiftUI
1 10 (25.64%) UIKit
2 6 (15.38%) .NET
3 5 (12.82%) CSS
3 5 (12.82%) HTML
4 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
4 4 (10.26%) RESTful
5 3 (7.69%) HTML5
5 3 (7.69%) Sass
6 2 (5.13%) React
6 2 (5.13%) REST
6 2 (5.13%) Web Services
7 1 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Mobile App
2 10 (25.64%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (10.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (5.13%) ARM Cortex
5 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.13%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.13%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Test Automation
2 15 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 15 (38.46%) Clean Code
2 15 (38.46%) User Experience
3 10 (25.64%) Analytics
3 10 (25.64%) Community of Practice
3 10 (25.64%) Cross-Platform Development
3 10 (25.64%) Deployment Automation
3 10 (25.64%) iOS Development
3 10 (25.64%) Process Improvement
3 10 (25.64%) Product Vision
3 10 (25.64%) Push Notifications
3 10 (25.64%) Re-Platforming
3 10 (25.64%) Server-Driven UI
3 10 (25.64%) Storyboarding
4 9 (23.08%) Agile
4 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 8 (20.51%) DevOps
5 8 (20.51%) Software Testing
6 6 (15.38%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 10 (25.64%) Kotlin
2 10 (25.64%) Swift
3 6 (15.38%) C#
4 5 (12.82%) SQL
4 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.26%) Java
5 4 (10.26%) Python
6 2 (5.13%) C
6 2 (5.13%) C++
6 2 (5.13%) MATLAB
6 2 (5.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 5 (12.82%) QA
2 5 (12.82%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (5.13%) IEC 61508
3 2 (5.13%) MISRA
3 2 (5.13%) MISRA C
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (5.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) HP ALM
2 2 (5.13%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Amplitude
1 10 (25.64%) Braze
2 3 (7.69%) HP
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) Foundry
3 1 (2.56%) Palantir