Code Quality Jobs in Northern Ireland

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 68 93
Rank change year-on-year +37 +25 -
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 6 7 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.29% 1.01% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 1.12% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +10.34% -13.60% +0.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 236 623 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.08% 89.77% 97.19%
Number of salaries quoted 63 294 443
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,681 £33,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £69,500 £66,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Northern Ireland

Code Quality
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Code Quality in Northern Ireland

Code Quality
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 9 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
County Antrim +43 6 £55,000 - 11
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 5 (83.33%) nginx
1 5 (83.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (83.33%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Bitbucket
1 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (83.33%) JUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Maven
1 5 (83.33%) Mockito
1 5 (83.33%) Postman
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
1 5 (83.33%) SonarQube
1 5 (83.33%) TestNG
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
2 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (83.33%) Gherkin
1 5 (83.33%) Guice
1 5 (83.33%) JAX-RS
1 5 (83.33%) Kafka
1 5 (83.33%) Mustache
1 5 (83.33%) OpenAPI
1 5 (83.33%) REST
1 5 (83.33%) RESTful
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
1 5 (83.33%) Swagger
1 5 (83.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Auto-Scaling
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (83.33%) Innovative Thinking
2 5 (83.33%) Multithreading
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) OO
2 5 (83.33%) OOP
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Kustomize
1 5 (83.33%) Packer
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat