Code Quality Jobs in the UK excluding London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 258 316
Rank change year-on-year -7 +58 -27
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 418 787 534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 1.01% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.25% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 335 505 217
10th Percentile £43,750 £33,250 £36,713
25th Percentile £57,500 £43,750 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,200 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.13% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,250
UK median annual salary £66,215 £60,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +10.36% -8.40% -2.96%

All Process and 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 38,069 62,729 50,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.10% 80.56% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 19,285 42,227 28,346
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,100 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,150 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 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
East of England +85 116 £66,225 +26.14% 105
North of England -38 107 £65,000 +18.18% 259
South East +2 100 £62,500 -3.85% 215
North West -64 89 £65,000 +30.00% 170
Midlands -27 32 £57,500 +4.22% 131
South West +14 26 £62,500 +6.38% 98
West Midlands +28 25 £60,000 +20.00% 76
Scotland +61 22 £78,750 +50.00% 78
Yorkshire +27 16 £70,000 +16.67% 69
Wales +23 11 £60,000 -4.00% 32
East Midlands -38 7 £38,750 -43.64% 54
Northern Ireland +38 6 £55,000 +22.22% 32
North East +38 2 £53,125 -3.71% 20
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
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 19 (4.55%) Confluence
2 10 (2.39%) nginx
3 7 (1.67%) CMS
4 6 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.20%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.96%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.48%) Strapi
8 1 (0.24%) Apache
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 104 (24.88%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.20%) Trello
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 113 (27.03%) Azure
2 76 (18.18%) AWS
3 49 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (10.05%) GCP
5 34 (8.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 33 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
7 28 (6.70%) SonarCloud
8 19 (4.55%) Serverless
9 16 (3.83%) GitHub
10 11 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.15%) npm
11 9 (2.15%) SaaS
12 7 (1.67%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.67%) Yarn
13 6 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.20%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (1.20%) Azure Functions
14 5 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.96%) HTTP
1 4 (0.96%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (0.48%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.48%) Broadband
2 2 (0.48%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.48%) Internet
2 2 (0.48%) Modbus
2 2 (0.48%) MQTT
3 1 (0.24%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.37%) Elasticsearch
2 31 (7.42%) MongoDB
2 31 (7.42%) MySQL
3 26 (6.22%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (5.50%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.39%) Big Data
7 10 (2.39%) Redis
8 9 (2.15%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.44%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.48%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.24%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.24%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 96 (22.97%) Git
2 39 (9.33%) JIRA
3 30 (7.18%) Visual Studio
4 29 (6.94%) Octopus Deploy
5 28 (6.70%) MSBuild
5 28 (6.70%) Team Foundation Server
6 21 (5.02%) Selenium
7 20 (4.78%) GitLab
8 18 (4.31%) Jenkins
9 15 (3.59%) Cucumber
10 14 (3.35%) SonarQube
11 13 (3.11%) Postman
12 12 (2.87%) Cypress.io
12 12 (2.87%) webpack
13 11 (2.63%) JMeter
13 11 (2.63%) JUnit
14 8 (1.91%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.91%) Vite
15 7 (1.67%) LoadRunner
15 7 (1.67%) TestNG
General
1 114 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 89 (21.29%) Finance
3 33 (7.89%) Banking
4 28 (6.70%) Retail
5 26 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (4.31%) Law
7 16 (3.83%) Marketing
8 12 (2.87%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.44%) Games
11 5 (1.20%) Electronics
11 5 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.96%) Cantonese Language
12 4 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.48%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.48%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (31.10%) Developer
2 108 (25.84%) Software Engineer
3 101 (24.16%) Trainer
4 88 (21.05%) Senior
5 37 (8.85%) Architect
6 35 (8.37%) Lead
7 34 (8.13%) Senior Developer
8 31 (7.42%) Test Engineer
9 29 (6.94%) Senior Test Engineer
9 29 (6.94%) Technical Architect
10 28 (6.70%) Software Test Engineer
11 27 (6.46%) Senior Software Test Engineer
12 26 (6.22%) Java Engineer
13 21 (5.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 19 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
15 15 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
16 14 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
17 12 (2.87%) .NET Developer
18 11 (2.63%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (41.63%) HTML
2 82 (19.62%) .NET
3 79 (18.90%) CSS
4 56 (13.40%) React
5 53 (12.68%) REST
6 47 (11.24%) Spring
7 42 (10.05%) gRPC
7 42 (10.05%) RESTful
8 38 (9.09%) Kafka
9 36 (8.61%) ASP.NET
9 36 (8.61%) JSON
9 36 (8.61%) Spring Boot
10 33 (7.89%) Bootstrap
11 30 (7.18%) XML
12 28 (6.70%) AngularJS
12 28 (6.70%) Node.js
12 28 (6.70%) Vue
13 19 (4.55%) .NET Framework
14 16 (3.83%) Laravel
15 13 (3.11%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 16 (3.83%) Public Cloud
3 14 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.39%) Reference Data
6 10 (2.39%) Replication
7 9 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.44%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.44%) Wiki
9 5 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.20%) IoT
9 5 (1.20%) Life Science
10 4 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.72%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.02%) Linux
2 8 (1.91%) Windows
3 5 (1.20%) Android
4 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (40.43%) Agile
2 142 (33.97%) Software Engineering
3 126 (30.14%) Artificial Intelligence
4 112 (26.79%) DevOps
5 107 (25.60%) Test Automation
6 106 (25.36%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (25.12%) Microservices
8 104 (24.88%) Conversational UI
9 99 (23.68%) CI/CD
10 69 (16.51%) Mentoring
11 58 (13.88%) TDD
12 55 (13.16%) Design Patterns
13 52 (12.44%) Computer Science
14 50 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
15 43 (10.29%) Event-Driven
15 43 (10.29%) Software Testing
16 39 (9.33%) MVC
17 38 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
18 37 (8.85%) Validation
19 36 (8.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 228 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 189 (45.22%) C#
3 183 (43.78%) SQL
4 141 (33.73%) Python
5 104 (24.88%) C++
6 93 (22.25%) Java
7 48 (11.48%) TypeScript
8 23 (5.50%) PHP
9 8 (1.91%) C
10 6 (1.44%) Bicep
11 5 (1.20%) Go
12 4 (0.96%) Bash
13 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.72%) Groovy
14 2 (0.48%) Dart
14 2 (0.48%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.48%) SOQL
14 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.48%) VC++
Qualifications
1 159 (38.04%) Degree
2 27 (6.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 24 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (4.07%) Security Cleared
5 12 (2.87%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.39%) ISTQB
7 8 (1.91%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.72%) ISEB
9 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.24%) MCSD
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.42%) QA
2 29 (6.94%) GDPR
3 27 (6.46%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 6 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.44%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.48%) JTAG
6 1 (0.24%) AQAP
6 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 87 (20.81%) Docker
2 3 (0.72%) Firmware
3 2 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.48%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 58 (13.88%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.46%) Terraform
3 9 (2.15%) Ansible
4 6 (1.44%) Kustomize
5 5 (1.20%) Packer
6 4 (0.96%) HAProxy
7 3 (0.72%) Grafana
7 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.48%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 105 (25.12%) PayPal
2 25 (5.98%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.83%) Google
4 7 (1.67%) Oracle
5 6 (1.44%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 4 (0.96%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.72%) IBM
8 3 (0.72%) Twitter
9 2 (0.48%) Adobe
9 2 (0.48%) Databricks
9 2 (0.48%) NVIDIA
9 2 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.48%) SAP
9 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.48%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.48%) VMware
10 1 (0.24%) Lauterbach
10 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.24%) Sawtooth Software