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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 153 225
Rank change year-on-year -66 +72 -13
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 52 174 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.60% 1.54% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.90% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 40 109 26
10th Percentile £33,750 £62,250 £34,625
25th Percentile £40,313 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 - £101,250
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 7,516 9,162 7,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 86.02% 81.35% 93.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,583 4,795 5,075
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 8 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 8 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 +14 16 £78,750 -1.56% 14
Thames Valley -32 15 £82,500 - 101
Middlesex -11 10 £37,500 - 1
Berkshire -35 10 £82,500 - 83
Kent +16 6 £37,500 -
East Sussex - 4 £80,000 - 1
Buckinghamshire +10 3 £75,000 +15.38% 8
Surrey -33 3 £57,500 -28.13% 10
Oxfordshire +16 2 £53,750 -35.82% 10
West Sussex - 1 £85,000 - 3
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 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (48.08%) Azure
2 21 (40.38%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (15.38%) AWS
4 7 (13.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (13.46%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (13.46%) SonarCloud
5 5 (9.62%) GitHub
6 4 (7.69%) ChatGPT
6 4 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (7.69%) Snowflake
7 3 (5.77%) SaaS
8 2 (3.85%) Fivetran
8 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.92%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.46%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.77%) MySQL
4 2 (3.85%) Looker
4 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.85%) Power BI
4 2 (3.85%) Redis
4 2 (3.85%) Tableau
5 1 (1.92%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Git
2 8 (15.38%) Octopus Deploy
2 8 (15.38%) Visual Studio
3 7 (13.46%) MSBuild
3 7 (13.46%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (11.54%) Jenkins
5 4 (7.69%) GitLab
5 4 (7.69%) JIRA
6 2 (3.85%) Selenium
6 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.92%) NUnit
7 1 (1.92%) Postman
7 1 (1.92%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.92%) Spock
7 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.92%) TestRail
General
1 24 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Retail
4 2 (3.85%) Advertising
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.85%) French Language
4 2 (3.85%) Law
4 2 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Analyst
1 12 (23.08%) Developer
2 10 (19.23%) Test Analyst
3 9 (17.31%) Architect
3 9 (17.31%) Senior
4 7 (13.46%) Technical Architect
5 6 (11.54%) Software Manager
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Development Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Lead
8 3 (5.77%) Software Development Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Software Engineering Manager
9 2 (3.85%) C# Software Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (3.85%) Salesforce Architect
9 2 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) .NET
2 12 (23.08%) REST
3 10 (19.23%) CSS
3 10 (19.23%) HTML
4 9 (17.31%) ASP.NET
5 8 (15.38%) JSON
5 8 (15.38%) React
5 8 (15.38%) XML
6 7 (13.46%) Bootstrap
6 7 (13.46%) gRPC
7 4 (7.69%) Next.js
7 4 (7.69%) Node.js
8 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
8 3 (5.77%) Vue
9 2 (3.85%) .NET Core
9 2 (3.85%) Laravel
9 2 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (3.85%) RESTful
10 1 (1.92%) FastAPI
10 1 (1.92%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.92%) Clustering
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.92%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (55.77%) Agile
2 27 (51.92%) DevOps
3 26 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (44.23%) CI/CD
5 19 (36.54%) Mentoring
6 17 (32.69%) Scrum
7 11 (21.15%) Clean Code
7 11 (21.15%) Software Engineering
7 11 (21.15%) Software Testing
8 10 (19.23%) Design Patterns
8 10 (19.23%) Logistics
8 10 (19.23%) Microservices
9 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (15.38%) Event-Driven
9 8 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (15.38%) MVC
10 7 (13.46%) Data Encryption
10 7 (13.46%) Performance Testing
10 7 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (40.38%) SQL
2 17 (32.69%) JavaScript
3 15 (28.85%) C#
4 7 (13.46%) TypeScript
5 6 (11.54%) Python
6 3 (5.77%) Java
6 3 (5.77%) PHP
7 2 (3.85%) Apex Code
7 2 (3.85%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.85%) SOQL
8 1 (1.92%) Bash
8 1 (1.92%) Go
8 1 (1.92%) Groovy
8 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) ISTQB
2 10 (19.23%) ISEB
3 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.85%) QA
2 11 (21.15%) Software Quality Assurance
3 7 (13.46%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) AQAP
4 1 (1.92%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) Ansible
2 2 (3.85%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (3.85%) Grafana
2 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.85%) Rundeck
3 1 (1.92%) Nessus
3 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.85%) VMware
4 1 (1.92%) Databricks
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud