Code Quality Jobs in the North of England

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Code Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Code Quality over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 197 310
Rank change year-on-year -28 +113 +2
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 96 212 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.87% 1.23% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.46% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 82 118 81
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £41,227
25th Percentile £51,250 £38,066 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,087 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% +0.16% +10.00%
75th Percentile £93,778 £69,688 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £66,215 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.36% -14.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,444 14,481 16,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.59% 83.76% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,832 11,125 8,066
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £63,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,740 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the North of England.

Salary trend for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
North West -53 77 £56,250 +12.50% 68
Yorkshire +54 16 £70,000 +16.67% 31
North East +45 3 £75,500 +36.84% 15
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 14 (14.58%) Confluence
2 4 (4.17%) nginx
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.42%) Azure
2 32 (33.33%) GCP
3 26 (27.08%) AWS
4 7 (7.29%) Serverless
5 6 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.21%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (5.21%) SaaS
7 4 (4.17%) GitHub
8 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.08%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.04%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.04%) Bitrise
10 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.04%) Firebase
10 1 (1.04%) mabl
10 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) HTTP
2 2 (2.08%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (1.04%) Broadband
3 1 (1.04%) Internet
3 1 (1.04%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.50%) MySQL
2 8 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.29%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.25%) Redis
5 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.08%) Big Data
6 2 (2.08%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (2.08%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (40.63%) Git
2 21 (21.88%) JIRA
3 10 (10.42%) SonarQube
4 7 (7.29%) Babel
4 7 (7.29%) webpack
5 6 (6.25%) JMeter
5 6 (6.25%) LoadRunner
5 6 (6.25%) Selenium
6 5 (5.21%) Postman
7 4 (4.17%) Appium
7 4 (4.17%) Fiddler
8 3 (3.13%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.13%) JUnit
9 2 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.08%) GitLab
9 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
9 2 (2.08%) NeoLoad
9 2 (2.08%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.08%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.04%) fastlane
General
1 44 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 41 (42.71%) Finance
3 25 (26.04%) Banking
4 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Games
6 5 (5.21%) Law
7 4 (4.17%) Cantonese Language
7 4 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.17%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (3.13%) Retail
9 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.08%) Marketing
9 2 (2.08%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (37.50%) Developer
2 29 (30.21%) Software Engineer
3 26 (27.08%) Senior
4 17 (17.71%) Lead
5 12 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 12 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) .NET Developer
7 10 (10.42%) Senior Developer
8 9 (9.38%) WinForms Developer
9 7 (7.29%) React Developer
10 6 (6.25%) PHP Developer
10 6 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 6 (6.25%) Senior PHP Developer
11 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) HTML CSS Developer
11 5 (5.21%) HTML Developer
11 5 (5.21%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (4.17%) Python Developer
12 4 (4.17%) QA Tester
12 4 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (30.21%) React
2 26 (27.08%) Spring
3 25 (26.04%) CSS
3 25 (26.04%) HTML
4 24 (25.00%) .NET
5 20 (20.83%) RESTful
6 19 (19.79%) AngularJS
6 19 (19.79%) Node.js
7 18 (18.75%) Spring Boot
8 16 (16.67%) Vue
9 13 (13.54%) REST
10 10 (10.42%) Kafka
11 9 (9.38%) WinForms
12 8 (8.33%) HTML5
13 7 (7.29%) Playwright
14 6 (6.25%) .NET Core
14 6 (6.25%) jQuery
14 6 (6.25%) LAMP
15 5 (5.21%) Middleware
15 5 (5.21%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Algorithms
1 5 (5.21%) Cloud Native
1 5 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.13%) IoT
4 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.08%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.08%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.08%) Replication
5 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.04%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.04%) NHS
5 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (58.33%) Agile
2 47 (48.96%) Software Engineering
3 38 (39.58%) Mentoring
4 33 (34.38%) CI/CD
5 31 (32.29%) DevOps
5 31 (32.29%) Test Automation
6 29 (30.21%) Microservices
6 29 (30.21%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (30.21%) TDD
7 20 (20.83%) OOP
8 16 (16.67%) E-Commerce
8 16 (16.67%) Scrum
8 16 (16.67%) User Experience
9 15 (15.63%) Computer Science
9 15 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (13.54%) SDLC
11 11 (11.46%) OO
11 11 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (11.46%) Unit Testing
12 10 (10.42%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (48.96%) JavaScript
2 38 (39.58%) Java
3 22 (22.92%) TypeScript
4 21 (21.88%) C#
5 18 (18.75%) SQL
6 17 (17.71%) Python
7 11 (11.46%) PHP
8 3 (3.13%) Go
9 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.04%) Bash
10 1 (1.04%) Bicep
10 1 (1.04%) C
10 1 (1.04%) C++
10 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.04%) Rust
10 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) Degree
2 14 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.04%) MCSD
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.54%) QA
2 4 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (27.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.46%) Terraform
3 4 (4.17%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.08%) Ansible
4 2 (2.08%) Grafana
4 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (12.50%) Google
2 8 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.21%) Oracle
4 3 (3.13%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.13%) Twitter
5 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow