Code Optimisation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Code Optimisation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Code Optimisation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 650 572
Rank change year-on-year +102 -78 +267
Permanent jobs citing Code Optimisation 5 1 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.002% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.002% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile - - £50,108
25th Percentile - £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile - £52,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - - £68,350
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -28.57% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Code Optimisation 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,726 43,366 33,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.66% 78.46% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 16,010 23,501 23,769
10th Percentile £26,748 £30,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Code Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Code Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Code Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Code Optimisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Code Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Code Optimisation

Code Optimisation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Optimisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Scotland - 3 - - 1
South West - 2 £45,000 -
Code Optimisation
UK

Code Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Dagster
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 3 (60.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
1 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (60.00%) Law
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (40.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Community of Practice
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Information Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Operational Stability
2 3 (60.00%) Refactoring
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) C++