Code Quality Jobs in the South East

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 237 278
Rank change year-on-year +54 +41 +2
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 114 160 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.27% 0.96% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.13% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 95 105 69
10th Percentile £59,250 £33,900 £36,713
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% +13.33% -22.22%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £66,214 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.36% -14.29% -

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 8,201 14,143 14,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.18% 84.72% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,181 9,926 8,162
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the South East.

Salary trend for Code Quality in the South East

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the South East over the 6 months to 6 May 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 6 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
Thames Valley +25 37 £82,500 +38.66% 18
Isle of Wight - 30 £60,000 -
Berkshire +21 27 £82,500 +32.00% 9
Surrey +45 25 £62,500 -21.88% 7
Middlesex - 12 - - 1
Oxfordshire +17 10 £82,500 +38.66% 4
Hampshire +43 5 £72,500 -9.38% 15
Kent +25 3 £30,500 -51.20% 5
East Sussex +23 1 £38,500 -26.67% 1
West Sussex - 1 £50,000 - 1
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 7 (6.14%) Confluence
2 5 (4.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (56.14%) Azure
2 43 (37.72%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (35.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 41 (35.96%) Azure Service Bus
4 35 (30.70%) SonarCloud
5 8 (7.02%) AWS
6 6 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.26%) Slack
6 6 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (4.39%) Azure App Service
7 5 (4.39%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.39%) PaaS
7 5 (4.39%) Serverless
8 2 (1.75%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (30.70%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (7.89%) MongoDB
2 9 (7.89%) MySQL
3 8 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Power BI
5 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (42.11%) Git
2 36 (31.58%) MSBuild
2 36 (31.58%) Octopus Deploy
3 35 (30.70%) Team Foundation Server
3 35 (30.70%) Visual Studio
4 13 (11.40%) JIRA
5 6 (5.26%) GitLab
6 4 (3.51%) Babel
6 4 (3.51%) webpack
7 2 (1.75%) Ant
7 2 (1.75%) Appium
7 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.75%) Selenium
7 2 (1.75%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.75%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.75%) Vite
8 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.88%) Gradle
8 1 (0.88%) JMeter
General
1 27 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.81%) Finance
3 24 (21.05%) Retail
4 6 (5.26%) Electronics
4 6 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.75%) Agriculture
5 2 (1.75%) Banking
5 2 (1.75%) Front Office
5 2 (1.75%) Law
5 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Automotive
6 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (48.25%) Senior
2 37 (32.46%) Architect
2 37 (32.46%) Technical Architect
3 30 (26.32%) Developer
3 30 (26.32%) Senior Software Test Engineer
3 30 (26.32%) Senior Test Engineer
3 30 (26.32%) Software Test Engineer
3 30 (26.32%) Test Engineer
4 20 (17.54%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.14%) Software Engineer
6 5 (4.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (2.63%) Junior
7 3 (2.63%) Junior Developer
7 3 (2.63%) PHP Developer
8 2 (1.75%) Automation Tester
8 2 (1.75%) Junior PHP Developer
8 2 (1.75%) QA Tester
8 2 (1.75%) Software QA Tester
8 2 (1.75%) UI Engineer
8 2 (1.75%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (57.89%) .NET
2 57 (50.00%) HTML
3 50 (43.86%) CSS
4 44 (38.60%) Bootstrap
5 37 (32.46%) gRPC
6 36 (31.58%) ASP.NET
7 35 (30.70%) JSON
7 35 (30.70%) REST
7 35 (30.70%) XML
8 16 (14.04%) React
9 15 (13.16%) Blazor
10 13 (11.40%) HTML5
11 11 (9.65%) .NET Framework
12 7 (6.14%) RESTful
13 6 (5.26%) Django
13 6 (5.26%) Flask
13 6 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
14 5 (4.39%) CSS3
15 4 (3.51%) Redux
15 4 (3.51%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.26%) Molecular Biology
3 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.88%) Clustering
5 1 (0.88%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.88%) Thin Client
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (44.74%) Agile
2 49 (42.98%) DevOps
3 45 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (37.72%) MVC
5 41 (35.96%) Microservices
6 38 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 38 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 37 (32.46%) Event-Driven
7 37 (32.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 36 (31.58%) API Integration
8 36 (31.58%) Computer Science
8 36 (31.58%) Design Patterns
8 36 (31.58%) Performance Testing
9 35 (30.70%) Data Encryption
10 34 (29.82%) Software Testing
11 30 (26.32%) Configuration Management
11 30 (26.32%) UML
11 30 (26.32%) Validation
11 30 (26.32%) Verification and Validation
11 30 (26.32%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 56 (49.12%) JavaScript
2 52 (45.61%) C#
2 52 (45.61%) SQL
3 10 (8.77%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.26%) Python
5 5 (4.39%) Bicep
6 3 (2.63%) PHP
7 1 (0.88%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.88%) Delphi
7 1 (0.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 40 (35.09%) Degree
2 30 (26.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (11.40%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.75%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.75%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (31.58%) GDPR
2 30 (26.32%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 5 (4.39%) QA
4 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 37 (32.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.26%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.88%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 9 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.26%) Sawtooth Software
3 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.88%) Databricks
4 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud