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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 172 218
Rank change year-on-year -31 +46 +1
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 29 113 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.52% 1.12% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.42% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 25 21 24
10th Percentile £43,200 £35,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £36,250 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £73,500 £69,800 £96,950
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.45% +6.15% -7.14%

All Process and 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 4,806 7,941 5,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.73% 78.68% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,881 4,021 3,852
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,250 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +30 21 £60,000 +27.66% 9
East Midlands -37 8 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) CMS
1 2 (6.90%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) Azure
2 14 (48.28%) AWS
3 12 (41.38%) GCP
4 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) Serverless
5 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Functions
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (10.34%) Figma
6 3 (10.34%) Power Automate
7 2 (6.90%) Azure API Management
7 2 (6.90%) Contentful
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Run
8 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
1 3 (10.34%) MSTest
1 3 (10.34%) NUnit
2 2 (6.90%) JUnit
2 2 (6.90%) Katalon Studio
2 2 (6.90%) Selenium
2 2 (6.90%) Storybook
3 1 (3.45%) Appium
3 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) JMeter
3 1 (3.45%) Mockito
3 1 (3.45%) Moq
3 1 (3.45%) NSubstitute
3 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.45%) TestNG
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Games
3 1 (3.45%) iGaming
3 1 (3.45%) Law
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Software Engineer
2 11 (37.93%) Developer
3 10 (34.48%) Java Engineer
4 9 (31.03%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Senior
6 3 (10.34%) .NET Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.90%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Junior
7 2 (6.90%) Junior Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Software Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) Spring
2 8 (27.59%) .NET
3 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET
3 6 (20.69%) REST
4 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
4 5 (17.24%) CSS
4 5 (17.24%) Entity Framework
4 5 (17.24%) HTML
4 5 (17.24%) Node.js
5 4 (13.79%) .NET Framework
5 4 (13.79%) React
6 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
6 3 (10.34%) ARM Templates
6 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (10.34%) HTML5
6 3 (10.34%) RESTful
6 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
6 3 (10.34%) YAML
7 2 (6.90%) Blazor
7 2 (6.90%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile Games
3 1 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
1 18 (62.07%) DevOps
2 15 (51.72%) Software Engineering
3 13 (44.83%) Microservices
4 12 (41.38%) TDD
5 11 (37.93%) Agile
6 10 (34.48%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (34.48%) Design Patterns
6 10 (34.48%) Software Architecture
6 10 (34.48%) Software Delivery
7 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
7 9 (31.03%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (31.03%) CQRS
7 9 (31.03%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (31.03%) Domain-Driven Design
8 7 (24.14%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (20.69%) API Development
9 6 (20.69%) Clean Code
10 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Java
2 10 (34.48%) C#
3 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
4 8 (27.59%) SQL
4 8 (27.59%) TypeScript
5 5 (17.24%) Python
6 2 (6.90%) Bicep
6 2 (6.90%) Groovy
6 2 (6.90%) Kotlin
6 2 (6.90%) Scala
7 1 (3.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle