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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 199 187
Rank change year-on-year -20 -12 +16
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 54 28 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.34% 0.50% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.57% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 22 24 22
10th Percentile £42,750 £41,775 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,188 £55,625 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.63% -0.19%
75th Percentile £71,063 £66,250 £64,063
90th Percentile £84,250 £74,500 £69,800
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +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 11,037 4,879 7,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.13% 86.85% 79.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,845 2,823 3,669
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -32 35 £58,750 -2.08% 70
East Midlands -23 19 £55,000 -4.35% 26
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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Documentum
2 1 (1.85%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (1.85%) WinCC
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.00%) AWS
2 23 (42.59%) Azure
3 11 (20.37%) Serverless
4 7 (12.96%) GitHub
5 6 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (9.26%) Amazon S3
6 5 (9.26%) Firebase
6 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (9.26%) Stripe
6 5 (9.26%) TestFlight
7 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (3.70%) Siteimprove
10 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.70%) Modbus
3 1 (1.85%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.85%) HTTP
3 1 (1.85%) Internet
3 1 (1.85%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Git
2 5 (9.26%) Crashlytics
2 5 (9.26%) XCTest
3 4 (7.41%) JUnit
3 4 (7.41%) Maven
3 4 (7.41%) Mockito
4 3 (5.56%) JIRA
4 3 (5.56%) Selenium
5 2 (3.70%) TestRail
5 2 (3.70%) Toad
5 2 (3.70%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.85%) JMeter
6 1 (1.85%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (24.07%) Finance
2 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Electronics
4 7 (12.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (12.96%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (1.85%) Advertising
6 1 (1.85%) Legal
6 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Lead
2 20 (37.04%) Developer
3 16 (29.63%) Senior
4 10 (18.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (16.67%) React Developer
5 9 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 9 (16.67%) Test Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 8 (14.81%) Senior React Developer
7 7 (12.96%) Lead Test Engineer
7 7 (12.96%) Software Engineer
8 6 (11.11%) Lead Developer
9 5 (9.26%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (9.26%) Mobile Engineer
9 5 (9.26%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (9.26%) Test Leader
10 4 (7.41%) .NET Developer
10 4 (7.41%) Java Team Leader
10 4 (7.41%) Software Developer
10 4 (7.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (31.48%) React
1 17 (31.48%) REST
2 9 (16.67%) Playwright
3 7 (12.96%) XML
4 6 (11.11%) .NET
5 5 (9.26%) SwiftUI
5 5 (9.26%) UIKit
6 4 (7.41%) Spring
7 3 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.56%) Terraform
8 2 (3.70%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.70%) EDI
8 2 (3.70%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.70%) MassTransit
8 2 (3.70%) Material-UI
8 2 (3.70%) Next.js
8 2 (3.70%) SOAP
9 1 (1.85%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) SCADA
2 7 (12.96%) Client/Server
3 6 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (9.26%) Mobile App
5 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
5 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.85%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.85%) Digital Signage
8 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.85%) IoT
8 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.85%) Robotics
8 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.70%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Test Automation
2 25 (46.30%) CI/CD
3 23 (42.59%) Agile
4 20 (37.04%) Mentoring
5 18 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 16 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (27.78%) Scrum
8 14 (25.93%) AI
9 13 (24.07%) Front End Development
9 13 (24.07%) SDLC
9 13 (24.07%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (22.22%) Microservices
10 12 (22.22%) Process Improvement
11 11 (20.37%) Sprint Planning
12 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (18.52%) Validation
13 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
13 9 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
13 9 (16.67%) Test Strategy
13 9 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.93%) JavaScript
1 14 (25.93%) TypeScript
2 8 (14.81%) Java
2 8 (14.81%) SQL
3 7 (12.96%) C#
3 7 (12.96%) Python
4 5 (9.26%) Kotlin
4 5 (9.26%) Swift
5 4 (7.41%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.85%) Bash
7 1 (1.85%) C
7 1 (1.85%) C++
7 1 (1.85%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 10 (18.52%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.85%) IEC 61131
4 1 (1.85%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.85%) MISRA
4 1 (1.85%) MISRA C
4 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.85%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) Functional Safety
3 1 (1.85%) Grafana
3 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Oracle
2 5 (9.26%) Amplitude
2 5 (9.26%) Braze
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (1.85%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.85%) NCR
5 1 (1.85%) OpenText
5 1 (1.85%) Rockwell
5 1 (1.85%) Sage
5 1 (1.85%) Siemens