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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 181 248
Rank change year-on-year -53 +67 +22
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 62 167 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.69% 1.29% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.59% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 48 117 29
10th Percentile £33,750 £48,750 £35,900
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +52.38% -25.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,375 - £74,200
England median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% +7.69% -7.14%

All Process and 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 7,848 10,494 8,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 87.90% 81.05% 93.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,206 5,841 5,799
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 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
Thames Valley -34 23 £82,500 +8.20% 18
Berkshire -26 18 £82,500 +6.45% 13
Hampshire +33 13 £82,500 +3.13% 9
Middlesex - 13 £37,500 -
Kent +10 6 £37,500 -6.25% 5
Surrey -12 5 £72,500 -9.38% 5
East Sussex +9 4 £80,000 +52.38%
Buckinghamshire +1 3 £75,000 +15.38%
Oxfordshire +13 2 £65,000 -13.33% 5
West Sussex - 1 £50,000 - 3
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (16.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (61.29%) Azure
2 30 (48.39%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (25.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 16 (25.81%) Azure Service Bus
4 15 (24.19%) SonarCloud
5 8 (12.90%) AWS
6 5 (8.06%) GitHub
7 4 (6.45%) ChatGPT
7 4 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
7 4 (6.45%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.23%) Fivetran
8 2 (3.23%) SaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.61%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.61%) PaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.19%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (17.74%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.84%) MySQL
4 2 (3.23%) Looker
4 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.23%) Power BI
4 2 (3.23%) Redis
4 2 (3.23%) Tableau
5 1 (1.61%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (32.26%) Git
2 16 (25.81%) Octopus Deploy
3 15 (24.19%) MSBuild
3 15 (24.19%) Team Foundation Server
3 15 (24.19%) Visual Studio
4 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.45%) JIRA
6 3 (4.84%) GitLab
7 2 (3.23%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.61%) Spock
8 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.19%) Finance
3 14 (22.58%) Retail
4 2 (3.23%) Advertising
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Banking
4 2 (3.23%) French Language
4 2 (3.23%) Law
4 2 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (29.03%) Architect
2 16 (25.81%) Technical Architect
3 14 (22.58%) Developer
4 13 (20.97%) Analyst
5 12 (19.35%) Senior
6 11 (17.74%) Test Analyst
7 7 (11.29%) Senior Developer
7 7 (11.29%) Software Manager
8 5 (8.06%) Engineering Manager
9 4 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (6.45%) Software Engineering Manager
10 3 (4.84%) Development Manager
10 3 (4.84%) Software Development Manager
10 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) C# Software Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 2 (3.23%) Lead
11 2 (3.23%) Salesforce Architect
11 2 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (3.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.94%) .NET
2 20 (32.26%) REST
3 19 (30.65%) CSS
3 19 (30.65%) HTML
4 17 (27.42%) ASP.NET
5 16 (25.81%) JSON
5 16 (25.81%) XML
6 15 (24.19%) Bootstrap
6 15 (24.19%) gRPC
7 7 (11.29%) React
8 4 (6.45%) .NET Framework
9 3 (4.84%) Node.js
9 3 (4.84%) RESTful
9 3 (4.84%) Vue
10 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
10 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
10 2 (3.23%) Laravel
10 2 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
11 1 (1.61%) CSS3
11 1 (1.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Clustering
3 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.61%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.35%) Windows
2 2 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (59.68%) DevOps
2 35 (56.45%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (48.39%) Agile
4 23 (37.10%) CI/CD
5 21 (33.87%) Mentoring
6 18 (29.03%) Design Patterns
6 18 (29.03%) Microservices
7 17 (27.42%) Scrum
8 15 (24.19%) API Integration
8 15 (24.19%) Data Encryption
8 15 (24.19%) Event-Driven
8 15 (24.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 15 (24.19%) MVC
8 15 (24.19%) Performance Optimisation
8 15 (24.19%) Performance Testing
9 14 (22.58%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (19.35%) Software Engineering
11 11 (17.74%) Software Testing
12 10 (16.13%) Clean Code
12 10 (16.13%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 31 (50.00%) SQL
2 25 (40.32%) C#
2 25 (40.32%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.06%) Python
3 5 (8.06%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.84%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) Apex Code
5 2 (3.23%) PHP
5 2 (3.23%) SOQL
6 1 (1.61%) Bicep
6 1 (1.61%) Groovy
6 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (17.74%) ISTQB
2 10 (16.13%) ISEB
3 6 (9.68%) Degree
4 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (24.19%) GDPR
2 14 (22.58%) QA
3 11 (17.74%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.61%) AQAP
4 1 (1.61%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (30.65%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.23%) Ansible
2 2 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (3.23%) Rundeck
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.23%) Databricks
3 2 (3.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (3.23%) VMware
4 1 (1.61%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle