Code Quality Jobs in the North West

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 187 134 241
Rank change year-on-year -53 +107 +9
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 77 169 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.01% 1.74% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 2.09% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 68 92 23
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,938 £36,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.76% +12.92%
75th Percentile £93,778 £67,813 £68,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £77,000
England median annual salary £66,215 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.36% -14.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,281 8,082 7,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.36% 83.10% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,106 6,147 3,943
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the North West

Code Quality
Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +33 65 £65,000 +17.81% 50
Cheshire +31 9 £35,000 - 13
Merseyside +23 2 £55,000 +41.03% 4
Cumbria - 1 £22,500 - 1
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 12 (15.58%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.06%) GCP
2 25 (32.47%) AWS
2 25 (32.47%) Azure
3 7 (9.09%) Serverless
4 6 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.49%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.19%) SaaS
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.30%) Bitrise
8 1 (1.30%) Firebase
8 1 (1.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) HTTP
2 2 (2.60%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) MySQL
2 8 (10.39%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.79%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.60%) Big Data
5 2 (2.60%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (46.75%) Git
2 19 (24.68%) JIRA
3 10 (12.99%) SonarQube
4 7 (9.09%) Babel
4 7 (9.09%) webpack
5 6 (7.79%) JMeter
5 6 (7.79%) LoadRunner
5 6 (7.79%) Selenium
6 4 (5.19%) Appium
6 4 (5.19%) Fiddler
6 4 (5.19%) Postman
7 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.90%) JUnit
8 2 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.60%) GitLab
8 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
8 2 (2.60%) NeoLoad
8 2 (2.60%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.60%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.30%) fastlane
General
1 35 (45.45%) Finance
2 32 (41.56%) Social Skills
3 20 (25.97%) Banking
4 6 (7.79%) Games
5 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.49%) Law
6 4 (5.19%) Cantonese Language
6 4 (5.19%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.19%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.60%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (33.77%) Developer
2 24 (31.17%) Software Engineer
3 17 (22.08%) Senior
4 14 (18.18%) Lead
5 11 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (12.99%) .NET Developer
7 9 (11.69%) WinForms Developer
8 7 (9.09%) React Developer
8 7 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (7.79%) PHP Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Senior Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Senior PHP Developer
10 5 (6.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (6.49%) HTML CSS Developer
10 5 (6.49%) HTML Developer
10 5 (6.49%) JavaScript Developer
11 4 (5.19%) QA Tester
11 4 (5.19%) Technical Leader
11 4 (5.19%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (36.36%) React
2 22 (28.57%) CSS
2 22 (28.57%) HTML
3 21 (27.27%) .NET
4 19 (24.68%) Node.js
4 19 (24.68%) Spring
5 18 (23.38%) AngularJS
6 17 (22.08%) RESTful
7 15 (19.48%) Vue
8 11 (14.29%) REST
8 11 (14.29%) Spring Boot
9 10 (12.99%) Kafka
10 9 (11.69%) WinForms
11 7 (9.09%) HTML5
11 7 (9.09%) Playwright
12 6 (7.79%) jQuery
12 6 (7.79%) LAMP
13 5 (6.49%) gRPC
13 5 (6.49%) Laravel
14 3 (3.90%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Algorithms
1 5 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.90%) IoT
4 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.60%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.60%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.60%) Replication
5 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (57.14%) Agile
2 38 (49.35%) Software Engineering
3 31 (40.26%) Mentoring
4 23 (29.87%) TDD
4 23 (29.87%) Test Automation
5 22 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 21 (27.27%) DevOps
7 20 (25.97%) Microservices
8 18 (23.38%) OOP
9 16 (20.78%) E-Commerce
10 14 (18.18%) Computer Science
10 14 (18.18%) User Experience
11 11 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (12.99%) Artificial Intelligence
12 10 (12.99%) Design Patterns
12 10 (12.99%) SDLC
12 10 (12.99%) Unit Testing
13 9 (11.69%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 42 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 29 (37.66%) Java
3 22 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 16 (20.78%) C#
5 15 (19.48%) SQL
6 11 (14.29%) PHP
6 11 (14.29%) Python
7 3 (3.90%) Go
8 1 (1.30%) C
8 1 (1.30%) C++
8 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Degree
2 13 (16.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.19%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) QA
2 4 (5.19%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (23.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (24.68%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.69%) Terraform
3 1 (1.30%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Google
2 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.19%) Oracle
4 3 (3.90%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.90%) Twitter
5 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow