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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 208 214
Rank change year-on-year -20 +6 +45
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 89 76 154
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.56% 0.88% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.00% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 55 57 116
10th Percentile £38,850 £36,150 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,254 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.65% +6.01% -3.85%

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 11,418 7,630 12,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.65% 88.48% 81.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,151 4,019 8,685
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +19 35 £67,500 -18.18% 23
Hampshire -19 24 £58,750 -28.79% 13
Berkshire +19 23 £62,500 -24.24% 8
Surrey -21 15 £71,250 +14.00% 5
West Sussex -14 8 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Oxfordshire -11 7 £115,000 +76.92% 8
Buckinghamshire -10 5 £82,500 +10.00% 7
Kent -19 4 £67,500 +80.00% 1
Middlesex +27 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £59,500 - 2
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 6 (6.74%) Apache
2 4 (4.49%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.12%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 44 (49.44%) Azure
2 42 (47.19%) AWS
3 28 (31.46%) GCP
4 15 (16.85%) GitHub
5 10 (11.24%) SaaS
6 9 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (7.87%) Figma
7 7 (7.87%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (5.62%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (5.62%) Serverless
9 3 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.25%) BrowserStack
10 2 (2.25%) ChatGPT
10 2 (2.25%) Cloudflare
10 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.25%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) TCP/IP
1 5 (5.62%) Wireshark
2 2 (2.25%) Asterisk PBX
2 2 (2.25%) VoIP
3 1 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (11.24%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.87%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.62%) MySQL
4 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.25%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.12%) GIS
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.12%) Redis
6 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (25.84%) Git
2 6 (6.74%) JIRA
2 6 (6.74%) Selenium
3 5 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.62%) Yeoman
4 4 (4.49%) Eclipse
4 4 (4.49%) Eclipse RCP
4 4 (4.49%) JUnit
5 3 (3.37%) Claude Code
5 3 (3.37%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.37%) GitLab
5 3 (3.37%) Mockito
6 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.25%) MSTest
6 2 (2.25%) PHPUnit
6 2 (2.25%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.12%) HP UFT
7 1 (1.12%) IntelliJ
General
1 35 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.24%) Finance
3 8 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.49%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.49%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.37%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.37%) Aviation
6 2 (2.25%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.12%) Front Office
7 1 (1.12%) Marketing
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (43.82%) Software Engineer
2 23 (25.84%) Developer
3 19 (21.35%) Lead
4 17 (19.10%) Senior
5 10 (11.24%) Lead Software Engineer
5 10 (11.24%) Python Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Python Software Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Analyst
7 7 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Test Analyst
8 6 (6.74%) Backend Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Automation Test Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Software Manager
10 3 (3.37%) Software Tester
10 3 (3.37%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.84%) React
2 20 (22.47%) REST
3 16 (17.98%) .NET
4 14 (15.73%) Node.js
5 11 (12.36%) Django
5 11 (12.36%) WebSockets
6 10 (11.24%) Spring
6 10 (11.24%) Web Services
7 9 (10.11%) RESTful
8 8 (8.99%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.99%) CSS
8 8 (8.99%) HTML
8 8 (8.99%) JPA
8 8 (8.99%) Spring Boot
9 6 (6.74%) Hibernate
9 6 (6.74%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (5.62%) JSON
10 5 (5.62%) Twisted
10 5 (5.62%) XML
11 4 (4.49%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.22%) Product Ownership
2 17 (19.10%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (11.24%) Client/Server
4 9 (10.11%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (7.87%) AI Agents
5 7 (7.87%) Cloud Native
6 6 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (5.62%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (4.49%) Life Science
8 4 (4.49%) Mobile App
8 4 (4.49%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (3.37%) Algorithms
10 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (1.12%) IoT
11 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
11 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.46%) Linux
2 8 (8.99%) Windows
3 5 (5.62%) Debian
4 1 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (55.06%) Software Engineering
2 44 (49.44%) Test Automation
3 35 (39.33%) CI/CD
4 31 (34.83%) Agile
5 30 (33.71%) DevOps
6 27 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (25.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (24.72%) AI
9 20 (22.47%) Containerisation
9 20 (22.47%) Mentoring
9 20 (22.47%) Software Testing
10 17 (19.10%) Computer Science
10 17 (19.10%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (16.85%) User Experience
12 13 (14.61%) Scrum
13 12 (13.48%) Acceptance Criteria
13 12 (13.48%) Decision-Making
14 11 (12.36%) Microservices
15 10 (11.24%) Regression Testing
15 10 (11.24%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.94%) Python
2 27 (30.34%) C++
3 24 (26.97%) JavaScript
4 20 (22.47%) C
4 20 (22.47%) C#
4 20 (22.47%) Java
4 20 (22.47%) SQL
5 11 (12.36%) Rust
5 11 (12.36%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.74%) PHP
7 3 (3.37%) Bash
8 2 (2.25%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.25%) Julia
8 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.12%) Groovy
9 1 (1.12%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.12%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 29 (32.58%) Degree
2 17 (19.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (15.73%) Security Cleared
4 8 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.74%) SC Cleared
6 5 (5.62%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.25%) PhD
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.12%) HNC
8 1 (1.12%) HND
8 1 (1.12%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (33.71%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (26.97%) Docker
2 11 (12.36%) KVM
2 11 (12.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.24%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.74%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.36%) Terraform
3 3 (3.37%) Ansible
4 2 (2.25%) Kibana
4 2 (2.25%) Puppet
5 1 (1.12%) Grafana
5 1 (1.12%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.12%) Podman
5 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (12.36%) VMware
2 9 (10.11%) Google
3 5 (5.62%) Oracle
3 5 (5.62%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.37%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.25%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.25%) IBM
6 1 (1.12%) Infor
6 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.12%) Okta
6 1 (1.12%) Sage
6 1 (1.12%) Veracode