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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 251 248
Rank change year-on-year -73 -3 +124
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 354 382 759
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.14% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.29% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 251 304 500
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £57,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,219 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +15.16% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +10.42% -8.40%

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 50,003 29,702 59,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.70% 88.63% 80.26%
Number of salaries quoted 35,156 15,836 41,039
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,875 £32,951 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,772 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.54% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,268 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -45 94 £69,305 +6.62% 58
South East -33 86 £60,000 -25.00% 64
Midlands +1 60 £65,000 +8.33% 26
North West -27 60 £69,639 +7.14% 34
South West -32 50 £55,000 -12.00% 23
East Midlands +2 30 £55,000 +37.50% 8
West Midlands -7 30 £65,000 +8.33% 18
Scotland +20 26 £75,000 -4.76% 7
East of England -81 25 £60,000 -9.40% 8
Yorkshire -27 20 £63,750 -8.93% 16
North East -34 14 £70,000 +31.76% 8
Wales -42 12 £72,000 +20.00% 6
Northern Ireland -64 3 £65,000 +18.18% 10
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 16 (4.52%) Confluence
2 13 (3.67%) CMS
3 7 (1.98%) Apache
3 7 (1.98%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.85%) FactoryTalk
4 3 (0.85%) nginx
4 3 (0.85%) WinCC
5 2 (0.56%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.56%) WordPress
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) Documentum
6 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.85%) Simulink
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.41%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 140 (39.55%) AWS
2 118 (33.33%) Azure
3 48 (13.56%) GitHub
4 46 (12.99%) GCP
5 43 (12.15%) Serverless
6 28 (7.91%) SaaS
7 27 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.95%) Firebase
10 14 (3.95%) Stripe
10 14 (3.95%) TestFlight
11 13 (3.67%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.67%) GitHub Copilot
12 12 (3.39%) Anthropic Claude
13 7 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.98%) Figma
14 6 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.98%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.41%) Modbus
2 5 (1.41%) Wireshark
3 3 (0.85%) Broadband
3 3 (0.85%) Profibus
4 2 (0.56%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (0.56%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.56%) SMS
4 2 (0.56%) VoIP
5 1 (0.28%) AMQP
5 1 (0.28%) ATM
5 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) LTE
5 1 (0.28%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.06%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.52%) MySQL
3 14 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.95%) Relational Database
4 13 (3.67%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.67%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.41%) Redis
7 4 (1.13%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.85%) Big Data
8 3 (0.85%) Power BI
9 2 (0.56%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.56%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.56%) Tableau
10 1 (0.28%) GIS
10 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (15.82%) Git
2 36 (10.17%) JIRA
3 17 (4.80%) GitLab
4 14 (3.95%) Crashlytics
4 14 (3.95%) XCTest
5 12 (3.39%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.39%) JUnit
6 11 (3.11%) Claude Code
7 10 (2.82%) Selenium
8 7 (1.98%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.98%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.98%) Maven
8 7 (1.98%) Mockito
8 7 (1.98%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.41%) Yeoman
11 4 (1.13%) Eclipse
11 4 (1.13%) Spock
11 4 (1.13%) Storybook
11 4 (1.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 116 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.97%) Finance
3 28 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.67%) Retail
5 12 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.82%) Banking
7 10 (2.82%) Electronics
8 7 (1.98%) Legal
8 7 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.41%) Advertising
10 5 (1.41%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.13%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.13%) Marketing
11 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Aviation
12 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 94 (26.55%) Developer
1 94 (26.55%) Lead
2 92 (25.99%) Software Engineer
3 78 (22.03%) Senior
4 32 (9.04%) Senior Software Engineer
5 26 (7.34%) Senior Developer
6 19 (5.37%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (5.37%) Technical Leader
7 18 (5.08%) Software Developer
8 17 (4.80%) Lead Developer
9 16 (4.52%) Java Developer
10 15 (4.24%) Python Engineer
10 15 (4.24%) Team Leader
10 15 (4.24%) Test Engineer
11 14 (3.95%) Engineering Manager
11 14 (3.95%) Mobile Engineer
11 14 (3.95%) Python Software Engineer
12 12 (3.39%) Analyst
13 11 (3.11%) Architect
13 11 (3.11%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (24.29%) React
2 57 (16.10%) .NET
3 44 (12.43%) REST
4 43 (12.15%) Node.js
5 33 (9.32%) AngularJS
5 33 (9.32%) CSS
6 30 (8.47%) HTML
7 29 (8.19%) RESTful
8 26 (7.34%) Spring
9 17 (4.80%) SwiftUI
10 16 (4.52%) UIKit
11 15 (4.24%) Spring Boot
11 15 (4.24%) Vue
12 13 (3.67%) ASP.NET
12 13 (3.67%) Django
12 13 (3.67%) Next.js
12 13 (3.67%) Web Services
13 12 (3.39%) Playwright
14 11 (3.11%) AWS CDK
14 11 (3.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 53 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 36 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (8.19%) Mobile App
4 28 (7.91%) Product Ownership
5 26 (7.34%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (5.93%) Onboarding
7 17 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.24%) Client/Server
9 10 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.54%) Management Information System
11 8 (2.26%) Embedded Systems
11 8 (2.26%) NHS
12 7 (1.98%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.41%) SCADA
14 5 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 4 (1.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 53 (14.97%) Linux
2 24 (6.78%) Windows
3 20 (5.65%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.41%) Android
5 4 (1.13%) Debian
5 4 (1.13%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.28%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (48.59%) CI/CD
2 159 (44.92%) Agile
2 159 (44.92%) Software Engineering
3 137 (38.70%) Test Automation
4 129 (36.44%) DevOps
5 109 (30.79%) Mentoring
6 99 (27.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 87 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (24.01%) AI
9 72 (20.34%) Technical Leadership
10 69 (19.49%) Microservices
11 68 (19.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 64 (18.08%) Software Testing
12 64 (18.08%) User Experience
13 53 (14.97%) Scrum
14 47 (13.28%) Clean Code
15 46 (12.99%) Observability
16 45 (12.71%) Decision-Making
16 45 (12.71%) Infrastructure as Code
16 45 (12.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 104 (29.38%) Python
2 99 (27.97%) JavaScript
3 71 (20.06%) Java
3 71 (20.06%) TypeScript
4 63 (17.80%) C#
5 57 (16.10%) SQL
6 46 (12.99%) C++
7 38 (10.73%) C
8 22 (6.21%) PHP
9 17 (4.80%) Swift
10 15 (4.24%) Kotlin
11 13 (3.67%) Rust
12 6 (1.69%) Go
12 6 (1.69%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.41%) Bash
13 5 (1.41%) Groovy
13 5 (1.41%) MATLAB
13 5 (1.41%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.13%) Ruby
15 3 (0.85%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 50 (14.12%) Degree
2 38 (10.73%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.80%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.54%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.56%) PhD
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CISM
9 1 (0.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.28%) GSEC
9 1 (0.28%) HNC
9 1 (0.28%) HND
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (21.47%) QA
2 25 (7.06%) Accessibility
3 21 (5.93%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.69%) WCAG
5 3 (0.85%) IEC 61131
5 3 (0.85%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.56%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.56%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.56%) MISRA
6 2 (0.56%) MISRA C
6 2 (0.56%) NCSC
6 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 65 (18.36%) Docker
2 13 (3.67%) Hyper-V
2 13 (3.67%) KVM
2 13 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.11%) Firmware
4 7 (1.98%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.85%) vSphere
7 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (11.30%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.91%) Terraform
3 9 (2.54%) Ansible
4 8 (2.26%) Grafana
5 4 (1.13%) Functional Safety
5 4 (1.13%) Kibana
6 3 (0.85%) Control-M
6 3 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.85%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.56%) Packer
7 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.56%) Puppet
8 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.28%) logstash
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (6.78%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.52%) VMware
3 14 (3.95%) Amplitude
3 14 (3.95%) Braze
3 14 (3.95%) Google
3 14 (3.95%) Oracle
4 7 (1.98%) Sitecore
5 6 (1.69%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.41%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.13%) Splunk
8 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.85%) Databricks
8 3 (0.85%) Foundry
8 3 (0.85%) HP
8 3 (0.85%) Intel
8 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.85%) Rockwell
8 3 (0.85%) Siemens
9 2 (0.56%) IBM
9 2 (0.56%) Veracode