Code Quality Jobs in Scotland

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 127 228 188
Rank change year-on-year +101 -40 +16
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 23 57 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 0.85% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.91% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6 32 7
10th Percentile £66,489 £46,250 £58,708
25th Percentile £76,727 £51,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £52,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +62.39% -24.40% +26.27%
75th Percentile £93,778 £71,563 £77,715
90th Percentile £96,889 £82,500 £79,129
UK median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -14.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,642 6,252 4,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.25% 92.81% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 2,422 2,244
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,321
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £83,074 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Scotland

Code Quality
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Code Quality in Scotland

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Code Quality in Scotland

Code Quality
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +10 15 £85,253 +62.39% 13
Glasgow +160 6 - - 11
Aberdeen - 2 - - 1
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) GCP
3 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.70%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Firebase
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) Big Data
2 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) Android Studio
3 2 (8.70%) Xcode
4 1 (4.35%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) Gradle
4 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.35%) Jasmine
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (4.35%) XCTest
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (13.04%) React Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Android Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) iOS Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Junior
5 1 (4.35%) Junior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) React
1 6 (26.09%) RESTful
1 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
2 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
3 4 (17.39%) GraphQL
3 4 (17.39%) JWT
3 4 (17.39%) Kafka
4 3 (13.04%) Compass CSS Framework
4 3 (13.04%) Express.js
4 3 (13.04%) Node.js
4 3 (13.04%) OAuth
4 3 (13.04%) OAuth2
4 3 (13.04%) React Native
4 3 (13.04%) Spring
5 2 (8.70%) gRPC
5 2 (8.70%) Redux
6 1 (4.35%) Apollo GraphQL
6 1 (4.35%) Core Data
6 1 (4.35%) Jest
6 1 (4.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Mobile App
1 5 (21.74%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Reference Data
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Animation
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Android
1 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
3 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Unit Testing
4 7 (30.43%) DevOps
4 7 (30.43%) Microservices
4 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (26.09%) TDD
5 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
6 5 (21.74%) Scrum
6 5 (21.74%) User Experience
7 4 (17.39%) Clean Code
7 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (17.39%) Software Delivery
7 4 (17.39%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (17.39%) UX Design
8 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
8 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.04%) C#
3 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.04%) Scala
4 2 (8.70%) C
4 2 (8.70%) C++
4 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
4 2 (8.70%) Objective-C
4 2 (8.70%) Swift
5 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Ping Identity
2 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow