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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 203 188
Rank change year-on-year +4 -15 +75
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 62 30 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.46% 0.53% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.62% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 30 25 46
10th Percentile £41,125 £39,000 £35,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,494
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.36% +9.51%
75th Percentile £76,871 £62,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,100 £66,250 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,254 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.65% +6.01% -4.58%

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 9,385 4,847 9,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.70% 85.58% 79.01%
Number of salaries quoted 6,679 2,895 6,494
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -9 32 £65,000 +8.33% 14
East Midlands +3 30 £55,000 +37.50% 8
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 (4.84%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Documentum
2 1 (1.61%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (1.61%) WinCC
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 31 (50.00%) AWS
2 18 (29.03%) Azure
3 17 (27.42%) Serverless
4 14 (22.58%) Firebase
4 14 (22.58%) GitHub
4 14 (22.58%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (22.58%) Stripe
4 14 (22.58%) TestFlight
5 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.45%) SaaS
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.84%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (4.84%) Siteimprove
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.61%) GCP
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Modbus
1 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.23%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.61%) LTE
3 1 (1.61%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.23%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.23%) MySQL
3 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (22.58%) Crashlytics
1 14 (22.58%) XCTest
2 5 (8.06%) Git
3 4 (6.45%) JUnit
3 4 (6.45%) Maven
3 4 (6.45%) Mockito
4 3 (4.84%) JIRA
4 3 (4.84%) Selenium
4 3 (4.84%) Storybook
4 3 (4.84%) TestRail
4 3 (4.84%) Toad
4 3 (4.84%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.61%) JMeter
5 1 (1.61%) LoadRunner
General
1 16 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.52%) Finance
3 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Electronics
5 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.61%) Advertising
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (38.71%) Lead
2 14 (22.58%) Mobile Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Senior
3 13 (20.97%) Developer
4 10 (16.13%) Test Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Lead Test Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Automation Test Lead
7 5 (8.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 5 (8.06%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Team Leader
7 5 (8.06%) Test Leader
8 4 (6.45%) Java Team Leader
8 4 (6.45%) Lead Developer
8 4 (6.45%) React Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Senior React Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.84%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) SwiftUI
1 14 (22.58%) UIKit
2 10 (16.13%) React
2 10 (16.13%) REST
3 5 (8.06%) CSS
3 5 (8.06%) HTML
3 5 (8.06%) Playwright
4 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.45%) Spring
5 3 (4.84%) .NET
5 3 (4.84%) HTML5
5 3 (4.84%) RESTful
5 3 (4.84%) Sass
5 3 (4.84%) XML
6 2 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.61%) Material-UI
7 1 (1.61%) Next.js
7 1 (1.61%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (1.61%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.19%) Greenfield Project
1 15 (24.19%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.45%) SCADA
3 3 (4.84%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.23%) ARM Cortex
4 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.61%) Robotics
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.58%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.23%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (54.84%) Test Automation
2 31 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 20 (32.26%) Clean Code
3 20 (32.26%) User Experience
4 17 (27.42%) Process Improvement
4 17 (27.42%) Software Testing
5 15 (24.19%) Agile
5 15 (24.19%) Deployment Automation
6 14 (22.58%) Analytics
6 14 (22.58%) Community of Practice
6 14 (22.58%) Cross-Platform Development
6 14 (22.58%) iOS Development
6 14 (22.58%) Mentoring
6 14 (22.58%) Product Vision
6 14 (22.58%) Push Notifications
6 14 (22.58%) Re-Platforming
6 14 (22.58%) Server-Driven UI
6 14 (22.58%) Storyboarding
7 11 (17.74%) Scrum
7 11 (17.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) JavaScript
1 14 (22.58%) Kotlin
1 14 (22.58%) Swift
2 10 (16.13%) Java
2 10 (16.13%) TypeScript
3 5 (8.06%) Python
3 5 (8.06%) SQL
4 4 (6.45%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.84%) C#
6 2 (3.23%) C
6 2 (3.23%) C++
6 2 (3.23%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.23%) PHP
7 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) Degree
1 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) Accessibility
2 9 (14.52%) QA
3 5 (8.06%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (3.23%) IEC 61508
4 2 (3.23%) MISRA
4 2 (3.23%) MISRA C
5 1 (1.61%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.84%) HP ALM
3 2 (3.23%) Functional Safety
3 2 (3.23%) Terraform
4 1 (1.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) Amplitude
1 14 (22.58%) Braze
2 8 (12.90%) Oracle
3 3 (4.84%) HP
4 1 (1.61%) DevExpress
4 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.61%) OpenText
4 1 (1.61%) Rockwell
4 1 (1.61%) Sage
4 1 (1.61%) Siemens