Code Quality Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 217 265
Rank change year-on-year -128 +48 +132
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 246 396 720
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 1.39% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.51% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 160 337 488
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,215 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +20.01% +0.31%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £73,886
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,688
UK median annual salary £71,500 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% +10.37% -12.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,954 26,140 57,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.63% 92.05% 83.65%
Number of salaries quoted 29,249 13,851 40,988
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Code Quality relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Code Quality job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
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 Quality within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North of England -75 68 £67,249 +14.47% 47
South East -68 50 £62,500 -24.24% 47
South West -33 47 £55,000 -6.34% 20
North West -47 45 £67,500 +20.00% 25
Midlands -27 38 £65,000 +13.04% 34
Scotland -4 24 £90,000 +5.57% 10
East Midlands -20 21 £80,000 +77.78% 21
West Midlands -35 17 £65,000 +13.04% 13
Yorkshire -50 16 £57,500 -17.86% 17
East of England -100 12 £62,500 -5.65% 16
North East -29 7 £70,000 -7.28% 5
Wales -28 6 £69,500 +0.72% 5
Northern Ireland -37 3 £73,750 +34.09% 1
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (4.88%) Confluence
2 8 (3.25%) CMS
3 3 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.22%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.81%) Apache
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.81%) FactoryTalk
4 2 (0.81%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.81%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.81%) WinCC
4 2 (0.81%) WordPress
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.03%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.41%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 95 (38.62%) AWS
2 85 (34.55%) Azure
3 42 (17.07%) GitHub
4 32 (13.01%) Serverless
5 31 (12.60%) GCP
6 24 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (8.94%) SaaS
8 17 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (4.88%) Firebase
10 12 (4.88%) Stripe
10 12 (4.88%) TestFlight
11 10 (4.07%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.85%) Datadog
13 7 (2.85%) Figma
14 6 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.63%) Modbus
2 3 (1.22%) Broadband
2 3 (1.22%) HTTP
3 2 (0.81%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.81%) Profibus
4 1 (0.41%) AMQP
4 1 (0.41%) LTE
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.28%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.47%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.47%) MySQL
4 9 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.44%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.22%) Big Data
9 2 (0.81%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.81%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.81%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.81%) Power BI
9 2 (0.81%) Tableau
10 1 (0.41%) Looker
10 1 (0.41%) Redis
10 1 (0.41%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (15.85%) Git
2 34 (13.82%) JIRA
3 18 (7.32%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.69%) GitLab
5 12 (4.88%) Crashlytics
5 12 (4.88%) XCTest
6 11 (4.47%) JUnit
7 9 (3.66%) Cypress.io
7 9 (3.66%) Maven
7 9 (3.66%) Selenium
7 9 (3.66%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.44%) Mockito
9 5 (2.03%) Claude Code
9 5 (2.03%) TestRail
10 4 (1.63%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.63%) JMeter
10 4 (1.63%) Storybook
11 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.22%) LoadRunner
11 3 (1.22%) Toad
General
1 84 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.45%) Finance
3 19 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.25%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.85%) Banking
5 7 (2.85%) Legal
6 5 (2.03%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.03%) Electronics
6 5 (2.03%) Law
6 5 (2.03%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.03%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.63%) Health Technology
7 4 (1.63%) Marketing
7 4 (1.63%) Retail
8 3 (1.22%) Advertising
8 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.81%) Aviation
10 1 (0.41%) Games
10 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (22.76%) Software Engineer
2 54 (21.95%) Developer
3 51 (20.73%) Lead
4 50 (20.33%) Senior
5 17 (6.91%) Senior Developer
6 13 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (5.28%) Software Developer
7 12 (4.88%) Mobile Engineer
7 12 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (4.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (4.07%) Engineering Manager
9 10 (4.07%) Technical Leader
9 10 (4.07%) Test Engineer
10 9 (3.66%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.66%) Software Quality Engineer
10 9 (3.66%) Team Leader
11 8 (3.25%) Analyst
11 8 (3.25%) Architect
11 8 (3.25%) Process Engineer
11 8 (3.25%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.29%) React
2 41 (16.67%) .NET
3 30 (12.20%) REST
4 29 (11.79%) Spring
5 24 (9.76%) AngularJS
5 24 (9.76%) RESTful
5 24 (9.76%) Spring Boot
6 23 (9.35%) CSS
6 23 (9.35%) Node.js
7 22 (8.94%) HTML
8 15 (6.10%) SwiftUI
9 14 (5.69%) UIKit
10 13 (5.28%) Web Services
11 10 (4.07%) Vue
12 9 (3.66%) ADO
13 8 (3.25%) AWS CDK
13 8 (3.25%) Laravel
13 8 (3.25%) Playwright
14 7 (2.85%) GraphQL
14 7 (2.85%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 33 (13.41%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (11.38%) Product Ownership
4 20 (8.13%) Mobile App
5 19 (7.72%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (7.32%) Onboarding
7 13 (5.28%) Client/Server
8 11 (4.47%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (3.25%) NHS
10 6 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.03%) Management Information System
11 5 (2.03%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.63%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (1.22%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.79%) Linux
2 18 (7.32%) Apple iOS
3 9 (3.66%) Windows
4 3 (1.22%) Android
4 3 (1.22%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.41%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (50.81%) CI/CD
2 104 (42.28%) Agile
3 96 (39.02%) Software Engineering
4 94 (38.21%) DevOps
5 90 (36.59%) Test Automation
6 75 (30.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (22.36%) Mentoring
9 51 (20.73%) Full-Stack Development
10 49 (19.92%) AI
11 48 (19.51%) Microservices
11 48 (19.51%) User Experience
12 41 (16.67%) Containerisation
12 41 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
13 40 (16.26%) Software Testing
14 37 (15.04%) Observability
14 37 (15.04%) Scrum
15 35 (14.23%) Coaching
16 30 (12.20%) Decision-Making
16 30 (12.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 72 (29.27%) Python
2 67 (27.24%) JavaScript
3 49 (19.92%) TypeScript
4 46 (18.70%) Java
5 33 (13.41%) C#
6 31 (12.60%) SQL
7 27 (10.98%) C++
8 24 (9.76%) C
9 15 (6.10%) PHP
9 15 (6.10%) Swift
10 13 (5.28%) Rust
11 12 (4.88%) Kotlin
12 8 (3.25%) Bash
13 6 (2.44%) Groovy
14 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.22%) Scala
15 2 (0.81%) Julia
15 2 (0.81%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (13.82%) Degree
2 22 (8.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (6.50%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.85%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.81%) PhD
9 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CISM
9 1 (0.41%) CISSP
9 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.41%) GSEC
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (25.20%) QA
2 14 (5.69%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.28%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.22%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.22%) WCAG
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.81%) IEC 61131
6 2 (0.81%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.81%) MISRA
6 2 (0.81%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.41%) GDPR
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (21.14%) Docker
2 13 (5.28%) Hyper-V
2 13 (5.28%) KVM
2 13 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.85%) Firmware
4 5 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (11.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.91%) Terraform
3 13 (5.28%) Grafana
4 11 (4.47%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.63%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.22%) Ansible
6 3 (1.22%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.22%) Kibana
7 2 (0.81%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.81%) Packer
7 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.41%) Control-M
8 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.41%) Nessus
8 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (5.69%) VMware
2 12 (4.88%) Amplitude
2 12 (4.88%) Braze
3 10 (4.07%) Oracle
4 8 (3.25%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.85%) Google
6 4 (1.63%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.63%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.63%) Splunk
7 3 (1.22%) Databricks
7 3 (1.22%) Foundry
7 3 (1.22%) HP
7 3 (1.22%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.81%) IBM
8 2 (0.81%) Rockwell
8 2 (0.81%) SAP
8 2 (0.81%) Siemens
9 1 (0.41%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.41%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.41%) Veracode