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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 351 245
Rank change year-on-year +67 -106 +59
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 495 204 495
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.59% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.68% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 298 133 242
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £39,788
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -3.85% +18.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 -
UK median annual salary £70,250 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.33% +7.14% +7.69%

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 61,098 29,971 40,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.75% 87.08% 79.67%
Number of salaries quoted 42,849 16,150 20,303
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £68,049
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +9 143 £66,124 +10.21% 148
South East +23 128 £65,000 -13.33% 142
North West +5 82 £65,000 +4.00% 85
South West -14 75 £70,000 +3.70% 70
Midlands -21 51 £55,000 -8.33% 73
East of England -11 37 £52,788 -12.02% 59
Scotland +20 36 £75,000 -25.00% 149
Yorkshire -27 34 £62,500 +11.11% 43
West Midlands -27 33 £69,305 +15.51% 49
North East -47 27 £73,750 +13.46% 21
Wales -46 25 £66,000 +14.78% 17
East Midlands -20 18 £55,000 -4.35% 24
Northern Ireland -74 1 - - 29
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 20 (4.04%) Apache
2 13 (2.63%) CMS
3 10 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.62%) Confluence
4 8 (1.62%) IIS
5 6 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.21%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.61%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.61%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.61%) WinCC
8 2 (0.40%) nginx
8 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.40%) WordPress
9 1 (0.20%) Documentum
9 1 (0.20%) Kentico
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.61%) Simulink
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.40%) Trello
4 1 (0.20%) Elementor
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) NetSuite
1 3 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.61%) Shopify
2 2 (0.40%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 185 (37.37%) AWS
2 146 (29.49%) Azure
3 59 (11.92%) GitHub
4 51 (10.30%) GCP
5 47 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (7.88%) Serverless
7 35 (7.07%) SaaS
8 28 (5.66%) GitHub Copilot
9 21 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (3.84%) Amazon S3
10 19 (3.84%) Anthropic Claude
11 15 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.22%) dbt
13 10 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (2.02%) Azure Functions
13 10 (2.02%) Snowflake
14 9 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.82%) Power Platform
15 8 (1.62%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.41%) HTTP
2 7 (1.41%) Wireshark
3 4 (0.81%) RFID
4 3 (0.61%) Modbus
4 3 (0.61%) Profibus
5 2 (0.40%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.40%) SMS
5 2 (0.40%) VoIP
6 1 (0.20%) ATM
6 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.20%) DNS
6 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.20%) Internet
6 1 (0.20%) MQTT
6 1 (0.20%) NFC
6 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.29%) SQL Server
2 39 (7.88%) Relational Database
3 38 (7.68%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (6.46%) MySQL
5 21 (4.24%) Redis
6 20 (4.04%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.42%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.22%) MongoDB
9 10 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.81%) Big Data
11 4 (0.81%) ClickHouse
11 4 (0.81%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.81%) GIS
11 4 (0.81%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.81%) Power BI
12 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.61%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.61%) SQLite
12 3 (0.61%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 93 (18.79%) Git
2 40 (8.08%) GitLab
3 31 (6.26%) JIRA
4 28 (5.66%) Jenkins
5 19 (3.84%) Claude Code
6 14 (2.83%) Cypress.io
7 12 (2.42%) JUnit
7 12 (2.42%) Maven
8 11 (2.22%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.22%) Selenium
8 11 (2.22%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.41%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.41%) Postman
9 7 (1.41%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.01%) Eclipse
11 5 (1.01%) NUnit
11 5 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.01%) Storybook
11 5 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 176 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 90 (18.18%) Finance
3 71 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (4.85%) Law
6 23 (4.65%) Retail
7 22 (4.44%) Electronics
8 20 (4.04%) Public Sector
9 17 (3.43%) Publishing
10 14 (2.83%) Marketing
11 10 (2.02%) Aviation
11 10 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.82%) Banking
12 9 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.62%) Games
14 7 (1.41%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.01%) Advertising
15 5 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 159 (32.12%) Developer
2 138 (27.88%) Software Engineer
3 136 (27.47%) Senior
4 120 (24.24%) Lead
5 58 (11.72%) Senior Developer
6 56 (11.31%) Senior Software Engineer
7 47 (9.49%) Software Developer
8 24 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
9 23 (4.65%) Technical Leader
9 23 (4.65%) Test Engineer
10 22 (4.44%) Team Leader
11 21 (4.24%) C# Developer
11 21 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (4.04%) Lead Developer
12 20 (4.04%) Software Manager
13 18 (3.64%) .NET Developer
13 18 (3.64%) Senior Software Developer
14 16 (3.23%) Software Team Leader
15 15 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 15 (3.03%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (31.92%) React
2 114 (23.03%) .NET
3 73 (14.75%) Node.js
4 68 (13.74%) REST
5 54 (10.91%) AngularJS
6 50 (10.10%) CSS
7 49 (9.90%) HTML
8 47 (9.49%) Terraform
9 38 (7.68%) RESTful
10 36 (7.27%) Spring
11 27 (5.45%) Kafka
12 25 (5.05%) Spring Boot
13 24 (4.85%) .NET Framework
13 24 (4.85%) ASP.NET
14 23 (4.65%) Playwright
14 23 (4.65%) Vue
15 22 (4.44%) .NET Core
16 21 (4.24%) Next.js
17 18 (3.64%) NestJS
18 17 (3.43%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 82 (16.57%) Cloud Native
2 44 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 42 (8.48%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.85%) Mobile App
5 21 (4.24%) AI Agents
6 17 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (3.23%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.42%) Media Streaming
8 12 (2.42%) Podcast
9 11 (2.22%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.02%) Embedded Systems
10 10 (2.02%) Robotics
10 10 (2.02%) SCADA
10 10 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.82%) Client/Server
11 9 (1.82%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (12.53%) Linux
2 29 (5.86%) Windows
3 16 (3.23%) Apple iOS
4 15 (3.03%) Android
5 9 (1.82%) Debian
6 5 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.20%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.20%) Unix
10 1 (0.20%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 263 (53.13%) CI/CD
3 249 (50.30%) Agile
4 180 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 180 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 170 (34.34%) DevOps
6 168 (33.94%) AI
7 156 (31.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 147 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
9 96 (19.39%) Microservices
9 96 (19.39%) Software Testing
10 93 (18.79%) Technical Leadership
11 87 (17.58%) SDLC
12 86 (17.37%) Full-Stack Development
13 83 (16.77%) Scrum
14 65 (13.13%) Decision-Making
14 65 (13.13%) Software Architecture
15 64 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
16 62 (12.53%) Containerisation
17 59 (11.92%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 156 (31.52%) JavaScript
2 137 (27.68%) Python
3 134 (27.07%) TypeScript
4 122 (24.65%) C#
5 116 (23.43%) Java
6 106 (21.41%) SQL
7 42 (8.48%) C++
8 25 (5.05%) C
9 17 (3.43%) PHP
10 15 (3.03%) Go
11 13 (2.63%) Ruby
12 10 (2.02%) Bash
13 9 (1.82%) Rust
14 8 (1.62%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.21%) Swift
15 6 (1.21%) VB.NET
16 5 (1.01%) Apex Code
16 5 (1.01%) Groovy
16 5 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.01%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 96 (19.39%) Degree
2 78 (15.76%) Security Cleared
3 50 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 37 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (5.66%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.04%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.62%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.01%) PhD
9 4 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.61%) OCP
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.20%) CISM
12 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (21.82%) QA
2 36 (7.27%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.03%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.02%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.62%) WCAG
6 4 (0.81%) NIST
6 4 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.81%) PMO
7 3 (0.61%) IEC 61131
7 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.40%) Automotive SPICE
8 2 (0.40%) GDPR
8 2 (0.40%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.20%) JTAG
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 106 (21.41%) Docker
2 13 (2.63%) Firmware
3 11 (2.22%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.61%) vSphere
5 2 (0.40%) KVM
5 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 78 (15.76%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.42%) Ansible
2 12 (2.42%) Grafana
3 5 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.81%) Packer
4 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
4 4 (0.81%) Puppet
5 3 (0.61%) Control-M
5 3 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.61%) Podman
6 2 (0.40%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.40%) Kibana
6 2 (0.40%) logstash
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.05%) Google
3 19 (3.84%) Oracle
4 11 (2.22%) Databricks
5 10 (2.02%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.62%) Sage
6 8 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.41%) Sitecore
8 5 (1.01%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.01%) Intel
8 5 (1.01%) Splunk
8 5 (1.01%) VMware
9 4 (0.81%) Adobe
9 4 (0.81%) Amplitude
9 4 (0.81%) Braze
9 4 (0.81%) SAP
10 3 (0.61%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.61%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.61%) Siemens