Code Quality Job Trends in the South East

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 151 238
Rank change year-on-year -95 +87 -19
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 38 117 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.31% 1.63% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 1.81% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 19 77 84
10th Percentile £46,250 £58,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +34.45% +8.18%
75th Percentile £80,625 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,250 £85,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £66,254 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.20% +6.01% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,281 6,468 12,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 76.22% 90.13% 85.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,866 3,258 9,019
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,364
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Code Quality relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Code Quality job vacancy trend in the South East

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the South East over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the South East

Code Quality
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 March 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
Thames Valley -31 20 £62,500 -24.24% 10
Berkshire -33 15 £66,250 -19.70% 5
Hampshire -7 9 £57,500 -25.81% 7
Surrey -47 4 £82,500 +26.92% 5
Buckinghamshire - 4 £65,000 - 1
Kent -19 3 - -
Middlesex 0 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire -6 1 £42,500 -48.48% 4
West Sussex - 1 £85,000 - 1
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (57.89%) Azure
2 21 (55.26%) AWS
3 17 (44.74%) GCP
4 5 (13.16%) GitHub
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) Figma
5 3 (7.89%) SaaS
6 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.63%) Fivetran
7 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
1 3 (7.89%) MySQL
1 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) Looker
3 1 (2.63%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) JUnit
2 3 (7.89%) Mockito
2 3 (7.89%) Selenium
3 2 (5.26%) Claude Code
3 2 (5.26%) GitLab
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) Robot Framework
3 2 (5.26%) TestRail
4 1 (2.63%) NUnit
4 1 (2.63%) Postman
4 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.63%) Yeoman
General
1 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Aerospace
3 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Health Technology
4 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.63%) Advertising
5 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.63%) French Language
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Marketing
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Software Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Lead
3 5 (13.16%) Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Python Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Manual Tester
6 2 (5.26%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Software Engineering Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Software Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Software Quality Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) React
2 6 (15.79%) Web Services
3 5 (13.16%) REST
4 4 (10.53%) .NET
4 4 (10.53%) RESTful
5 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.89%) Django
5 3 (7.89%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.89%) JPA
5 3 (7.89%) Next.js
5 3 (7.89%) Node.js
5 3 (7.89%) Spring
5 3 (7.89%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.89%) Twisted
5 3 (7.89%) WebSockets
5 3 (7.89%) WireMock
6 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.26%) CSS3
6 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (5.26%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (28.95%) Client/Server
3 8 (21.05%) Product Ownership
4 4 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (7.89%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.63%) Hedge funds
7 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (36.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) Software Engineering
2 21 (55.26%) Test Automation
3 15 (39.47%) Agile
4 14 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (34.21%) CI/CD
5 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (28.95%) Computer Science
7 11 (28.95%) System Testing
8 8 (21.05%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (21.05%) DevOps
8 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
9 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
10 6 (15.79%) Event-Driven
11 5 (13.16%) End-to-End Testing
11 5 (13.16%) Microservices
11 5 (13.16%) Software Testing
12 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
13 3 (7.89%) Acceptance Criteria
13 3 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Python
2 12 (31.58%) C++
3 11 (28.95%) C
3 11 (28.95%) Rust
4 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
5 8 (21.05%) TypeScript
6 6 (15.79%) Java
7 4 (10.53%) C#
7 4 (10.53%) SQL
8 2 (5.26%) Bash
9 1 (2.63%) Go
9 1 (2.63%) Julia
9 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.63%) PHP
9 1 (2.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Degree
2 12 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (39.47%) QA
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Hyper-V
1 11 (28.95%) KVM
1 11 (28.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (21.05%) Docker
3 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Grafana
3 2 (5.26%) Nessus
3 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) VMware
2 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft