Code Quality Jobs in the South West

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 167 250
Rank change year-on-year +18 +83 -15
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 31 123 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.89% 1.33% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.59% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 26 108 11
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,721 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +14.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £76,563 £78,438 £61,531
90th Percentile £91,889 £82,500 £97,500
England median annual salary £66,215 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.36% -14.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,226 7,759 6,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 92.57% 84.14% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,918 5,562 3,654
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,833 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.16% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,100 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the South West

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Code Quality in the South West

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the South West

Code Quality
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +22 18 £61,250 -7.55% 20
Dorset +22 7 £47,500 -9.52% 6
Gloucestershire +51 2 £100,000 +33.33% 18
Wiltshire +47 1 £70,000 +33.33% 2
Devon +15 1 £62,500 +13.28% 3
Somerset - 1 £52,500 - 4
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (9.68%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) AWS
2 13 (41.94%) Azure
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (3.23%) Boomi
5 1 (3.23%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) MySQL
1 7 (22.58%) Relational Database
2 4 (12.90%) BigQuery
3 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.45%) Big Data
4 2 (6.45%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.23%) DB2
5 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) GitLab
2 8 (25.81%) JIRA
3 6 (19.35%) Git
4 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Banking
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Software Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Java Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
3 4 (12.90%) Voice Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) .NET Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Principal .NET Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Principal Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.23%) Lead
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) React
2 9 (29.03%) Kafka
3 8 (25.81%) Spring Boot
4 7 (22.58%) .NET
5 5 (16.13%) .NET Core
5 5 (16.13%) Node.js
6 4 (12.90%) RESTful
6 4 (12.90%) Spring
7 3 (9.68%) AngularJS
7 3 (9.68%) REST
7 3 (9.68%) Vue
8 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
8 2 (6.45%) CSS
8 2 (6.45%) gRPC
8 2 (6.45%) HTML
8 2 (6.45%) OAuth
8 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
8 2 (6.45%) OpenID
9 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (3.23%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Public Cloud
1 4 (12.90%) Robotics
2 3 (9.68%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (9.68%) Legacy Code
2 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.68%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.45%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.45%) Replication
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.23%) ARM Cortex
4 1 (3.23%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.23%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.45%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) Agile
2 23 (74.19%) Software Engineering
3 15 (48.39%) Test Automation
4 14 (45.16%) Microservices
5 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
5 12 (38.71%) Scrum
6 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (19.35%) Design Patterns
7 6 (19.35%) DevOps
7 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (16.13%) Requirements Analysis
8 5 (16.13%) SDLC
8 5 (16.13%) Software Testing
9 4 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (12.90%) Analytics
9 4 (12.90%) Machine Learning
9 4 (12.90%) Open Source
9 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Java
2 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
2 8 (25.81%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) C#
5 3 (9.68%) VB.NET
6 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.23%) C
7 1 (3.23%) C++
7 1 (3.23%) Dart
7 1 (3.23%) Embedded C
7 1 (3.23%) Embedded C++
7 1 (3.23%) Ruby
7 1 (3.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Google
2 2 (6.45%) IBM
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Adobe
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.23%) SnapLogic