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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 185 185
Rank change year-on-year -37 0 +90
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 37 39 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 0.76% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.86% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 20 36 57
10th Percentile £40,125 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.22% +0.31%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,000 £73,750 £85,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,225 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.70% +10.38% -14.29%

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 9,415 4,552 9,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.67% 89.20% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,641 2,601 7,121
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66,500 £65,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 6 May 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 6 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
East Midlands -32 21 £80,000 +77.78% 23
West Midlands -32 16 £65,000 +13.04% 12
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 (8.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (2.70%) WinCC
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) AWS
2 12 (32.43%) Firebase
2 12 (32.43%) GitHub
2 12 (32.43%) GitHub Actions
2 12 (32.43%) Serverless
2 12 (32.43%) Stripe
2 12 (32.43%) TestFlight
3 9 (24.32%) Azure
4 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.11%) SaaS
5 3 (8.11%) Siteimprove
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Modbus
2 2 (5.41%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.70%) LTE
3 1 (2.70%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) MariaDB
2 2 (5.41%) MySQL
2 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Crashlytics
1 12 (32.43%) XCTest
2 4 (10.81%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) JIRA
3 3 (8.11%) Selenium
3 3 (8.11%) Storybook
3 3 (8.11%) TestRail
3 3 (8.11%) Toad
3 3 (8.11%) Zephyr
4 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.70%) JMeter
4 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Electronics
3 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Advertising
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Law
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Mobile Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Lead
2 7 (18.92%) Senior
2 7 (18.92%) Test Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) QA Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior QA Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Software Tester
5 2 (5.41%) Tester
6 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) SwiftUI
1 12 (32.43%) UIKit
2 5 (13.51%) CSS
2 5 (13.51%) HTML
3 3 (8.11%) .NET
3 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.11%) HTML5
3 3 (8.11%) RESTful
3 3 (8.11%) Sass
4 1 (2.70%) Playwright
4 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.70%) React
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Mobile App
2 12 (32.43%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.41%) ARM Cortex
4 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.70%) Robotics
5 1 (2.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.41%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Test Automation
2 18 (48.65%) User Experience
3 17 (45.95%) Clean Code
4 16 (43.24%) CI/CD
5 12 (32.43%) Analytics
5 12 (32.43%) Community of Practice
5 12 (32.43%) Cross-Platform Development
5 12 (32.43%) Deployment Automation
5 12 (32.43%) iOS Development
5 12 (32.43%) Process Improvement
5 12 (32.43%) Product Vision
5 12 (32.43%) Push Notifications
5 12 (32.43%) Re-Platforming
5 12 (32.43%) Server-Driven UI
5 12 (32.43%) Storyboarding
6 9 (24.32%) Software Testing
7 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
8 5 (13.51%) Agile
8 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) Kotlin
1 12 (32.43%) Swift
2 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.11%) C#
4 3 (8.11%) Python
5 2 (5.41%) C
5 2 (5.41%) C++
5 2 (5.41%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) MATLAB
5 2 (5.41%) PHP
5 2 (5.41%) SQL
6 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) Accessibility
2 6 (16.22%) QA
3 5 (13.51%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (5.41%) IEC 61508
4 2 (5.41%) MISRA
4 2 (5.41%) MISRA C
5 1 (2.70%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (5.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) HP ALM
2 2 (5.41%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Amplitude
1 12 (32.43%) Braze
2 3 (8.11%) HP
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) DevExpress
3 1 (2.70%) Rockwell
3 1 (2.70%) Sage
3 1 (2.70%) Siemens