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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 154 227
Rank change year-on-year -73 +73 -14
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 47 180 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.50% 1.58% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.92% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 39 112 27
10th Percentile £33,750 £62,500 £35,050
25th Percentile £39,375 £72,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 - £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -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 7,943 9,386 7,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.52% 82.17% 93.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4,817 4,939 4,991
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,775 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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
Hampshire +23 17 £82,500 +3.13% 10
Thames Valley -27 12 £77,500 -6.06% 30
Middlesex -11 8 £37,500 - 1
Kent +7 6 £37,500 -41.86% 1
Berkshire -41 6 £82,500 - 7
Buckinghamshire +24 4 £75,000 +15.38% 11
East Sussex - 4 £80,000 -
Oxfordshire +16 2 £53,750 -34.85% 12
Surrey -40 2 £42,500 -46.88% 5
West Sussex - 1 £85,000 - 5
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 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) Azure
2 17 (36.17%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (17.02%) AWS
4 5 (10.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (10.64%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (10.64%) SonarCloud
5 4 (8.51%) ChatGPT
5 4 (8.51%) GitHub
5 4 (8.51%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (8.51%) SaaS
5 4 (8.51%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.26%) Fivetran
6 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.13%) Cloudflare
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.64%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.38%) MySQL
4 2 (4.26%) Looker
4 2 (4.26%) Power BI
4 2 (4.26%) Redis
4 2 (4.26%) Tableau
5 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.77%) Visual Studio
3 5 (10.64%) GitLab
3 5 (10.64%) MSBuild
3 5 (10.64%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (10.64%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (6.38%) JIRA
4 3 (6.38%) Selenium
5 2 (4.26%) Robot Framework
5 2 (4.26%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.26%) TestRail
6 1 (2.13%) NUnit
6 1 (2.13%) Postman
General
1 21 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Retail
4 2 (4.26%) Advertising
4 2 (4.26%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.26%) French Language
4 2 (4.26%) Law
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Developer
2 11 (23.40%) Analyst
3 9 (19.15%) Test Analyst
4 8 (17.02%) Senior
5 6 (12.77%) Software Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Architect
6 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Technical Architect
7 4 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Engineering Manager
7 4 (8.51%) Lead
8 3 (6.38%) Development Manager
8 3 (6.38%) Software Development Manager
8 3 (6.38%) Software Engineering Manager
9 2 (4.26%) Manual Tester
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Technical Leader
9 2 (4.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) .NET
2 9 (19.15%) REST
3 8 (17.02%) CSS
3 8 (17.02%) HTML
3 8 (17.02%) React
4 7 (14.89%) ASP.NET
5 6 (12.77%) JSON
5 6 (12.77%) XML
6 5 (10.64%) Bootstrap
6 5 (10.64%) gRPC
7 4 (8.51%) Next.js
8 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.38%) Node.js
8 3 (6.38%) Vue
9 2 (4.26%) .NET Core
9 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (4.26%) Laravel
9 2 (4.26%) RESTful
10 1 (2.13%) CSS3
10 1 (2.13%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.53%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.13%) Clustering
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) Agile
2 24 (51.06%) DevOps
3 23 (48.94%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (46.81%) CI/CD
5 17 (36.17%) Mentoring
6 15 (31.91%) Scrum
7 11 (23.40%) Clean Code
7 11 (23.40%) Software Testing
8 10 (21.28%) Software Engineering
9 9 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (19.15%) Logistics
10 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (14.89%) Design Patterns
11 7 (14.89%) Microservices
12 6 (12.77%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (12.77%) Event-Driven
12 6 (12.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 6 (12.77%) MVC
12 6 (12.77%) Task Automation
13 5 (10.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) SQL
2 14 (29.79%) JavaScript
3 12 (25.53%) C#
4 7 (14.89%) Python
4 7 (14.89%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.38%) Java
5 3 (6.38%) PHP
6 2 (4.26%) Bash
6 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.13%) Go
7 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) ISTQB
2 9 (19.15%) ISEB
3 5 (10.64%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.66%) QA
2 9 (19.15%) Software Quality Assurance
3 5 (10.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
2 2 (4.26%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (4.26%) Grafana
2 2 (4.26%) Nessus
2 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.26%) Rundeck
2 2 (4.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.26%) VMware