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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 228 263
Rank change year-on-year -110 +35 +123
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 257 395 724
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 1.37% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.49% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 169 336 494
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £43,750
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 £74,721
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £71,500 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% +10.37% -13.60%

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 46,644 26,450 57,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.94% 92.04% 83.41%
Number of salaries quoted 29,912 13,669 40,959
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £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 £67,500 £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 15 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 15 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 -53 73 £67,500 +12.50% 54
South East -56 50 £61,250 -24.62% 55
North West -26 47 £67,500 +17.39% 29
South West -34 46 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Midlands -31 42 £65,000 +13.04% 41
Scotland -1 24 £81,250 -4.69% 7
East Midlands -9 23 £67,500 +58.82% 23
West Midlands -39 19 £65,000 +13.04% 18
Yorkshire -51 18 £62,500 -10.71% 18
East of England -94 14 £62,500 -5.65% 12
Wales -27 8 £69,500 +0.72% 6
North East -30 8 £70,000 -7.28% 8
Northern Ireland -38 2 £65,000 +18.18% 2
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 (4.67%) Confluence
2 9 (3.50%) CMS
3 4 (1.56%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.78%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.78%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.78%) WinCC
5 2 (0.78%) WordPress
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.39%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 103 (40.08%) AWS
2 88 (34.24%) Azure
3 44 (17.12%) GitHub
4 33 (12.84%) GCP
4 33 (12.84%) Serverless
5 24 (9.34%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (8.95%) SaaS
7 17 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.06%) Firebase
9 13 (5.06%) Stripe
9 13 (5.06%) TestFlight
10 10 (3.89%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.89%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.72%) Figma
13 6 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (2.33%) Datadog
14 5 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.56%) Modbus
2 3 (1.17%) Broadband
2 3 (1.17%) HTTP
3 2 (0.78%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.78%) Profibus
4 1 (0.39%) AMQP
4 1 (0.39%) LTE
4 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.84%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.06%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.28%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.28%) MySQL
4 9 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.17%) Big Data
9 2 (0.78%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.78%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.78%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.78%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.78%) Power BI
9 2 (0.78%) Tableau
10 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.39%) Looker
10 1 (0.39%) Redis
10 1 (0.39%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (15.56%) Git
2 34 (13.23%) JIRA
3 17 (6.61%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.84%) GitLab
5 14 (5.45%) JUnit
6 13 (5.06%) Crashlytics
6 13 (5.06%) XCTest
7 11 (4.28%) Maven
8 10 (3.89%) SonarQube
9 9 (3.50%) Cypress.io
10 8 (3.11%) Selenium
11 7 (2.72%) Mockito
12 5 (1.95%) Claude Code
13 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
13 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
13 4 (1.56%) JMeter
13 4 (1.56%) Spock
13 4 (1.56%) Storybook
13 4 (1.56%) TestRail
13 4 (1.56%) Yeoman
General
1 85 (33.07%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.12%) Finance
3 19 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (3.50%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.11%) Banking
5 8 (3.11%) Retail
6 7 (2.72%) Legal
7 5 (1.95%) Electronics
7 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.56%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.56%) Marketing
9 3 (1.17%) Advertising
9 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.17%) Law
10 2 (0.78%) Aviation
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (23.35%) Developer
1 60 (23.35%) Software Engineer
2 57 (22.18%) Lead
3 55 (21.40%) Senior
4 21 (8.17%) Senior Developer
5 15 (5.84%) Software Developer
6 14 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (5.06%) Mobile Engineer
8 11 (4.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 11 (4.28%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.28%) Technical Leader
8 11 (4.28%) Test Engineer
9 10 (3.89%) Team Leader
10 9 (3.50%) Engineering Manager
11 8 (3.11%) Architect
11 8 (3.11%) Python Engineer
11 8 (3.11%) Python Software Engineer
11 8 (3.11%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.11%) Software Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (20.62%) React
2 40 (15.56%) .NET
3 33 (12.84%) REST
4 32 (12.45%) Spring
5 25 (9.73%) AngularJS
6 24 (9.34%) RESTful
6 24 (9.34%) Spring Boot
7 23 (8.95%) Node.js
8 22 (8.56%) CSS
9 21 (8.17%) HTML
10 16 (6.23%) SwiftUI
11 15 (5.84%) UIKit
12 13 (5.06%) Web Services
13 10 (3.89%) Playwright
13 10 (3.89%) Vue
14 9 (3.50%) AWS CDK
15 8 (3.11%) ADO
15 8 (3.11%) Django
15 8 (3.11%) Laravel
16 7 (2.72%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.01%) Cloud Native
2 34 (13.23%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (9.73%) Product Ownership
4 21 (8.17%) Mobile App
5 20 (7.78%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (7.39%) Onboarding
7 13 (5.06%) Client/Server
8 11 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (3.11%) NHS
9 8 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.33%) Management Information System
11 6 (2.33%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
14 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (1.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.06%) Linux
2 19 (7.39%) Apple iOS
3 10 (3.89%) Windows
4 3 (1.17%) Android
4 3 (1.17%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.39%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (52.53%) CI/CD
2 110 (42.80%) Agile
3 102 (39.69%) Software Engineering
4 98 (38.13%) DevOps
5 94 (36.58%) Test Automation
6 75 (29.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 69 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (24.51%) Mentoring
9 56 (21.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 55 (21.40%) AI
11 51 (19.84%) Microservices
12 50 (19.46%) User Experience
13 44 (17.12%) Technical Leadership
14 43 (16.73%) Containerisation
14 43 (16.73%) Scrum
15 41 (15.95%) Software Testing
16 37 (14.40%) Observability
17 34 (13.23%) Coaching
18 31 (12.06%) Clean Code
18 31 (12.06%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 75 (29.18%) JavaScript
2 74 (28.79%) Python
3 57 (22.18%) TypeScript
4 51 (19.84%) Java
5 33 (12.84%) C#
5 33 (12.84%) SQL
6 27 (10.51%) C++
7 24 (9.34%) C
8 16 (6.23%) Swift
9 15 (5.84%) PHP
10 13 (5.06%) Kotlin
10 13 (5.06%) Rust
11 8 (3.11%) Groovy
12 7 (2.72%) Bash
13 4 (1.56%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.17%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.17%) Scala
15 2 (0.78%) Julia
15 2 (0.78%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.39%) Dart
Qualifications
1 35 (13.62%) Degree
2 22 (8.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (6.61%) Security Cleared
4 11 (4.28%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.33%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.78%) PhD
9 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CISM
9 1 (0.39%) CISSP
9 1 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.39%) GSEC
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (24.12%) QA
2 15 (5.84%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.84%) Software Quality Assurance
3 6 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.17%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.17%) WCAG
5 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.78%) IEC 61131
5 2 (0.78%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.78%) MISRA
5 2 (0.78%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.39%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (21.40%) Docker
2 13 (5.06%) Hyper-V
2 13 (5.06%) KVM
2 13 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.72%) Firmware
4 5 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (11.28%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.23%) Terraform
3 12 (4.67%) Grafana
4 9 (3.50%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.56%) Ansible
5 4 (1.56%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.17%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.17%) Kibana
7 2 (0.78%) Control-M
7 2 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.78%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.78%) Packer
7 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.84%) VMware
2 13 (5.06%) Amplitude
2 13 (5.06%) Braze
3 11 (4.28%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.28%) Oracle
4 7 (2.72%) Google
5 6 (2.33%) AppDynamics
5 6 (2.33%) Splunk
6 4 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.56%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.17%) Databricks
7 3 (1.17%) Foundry
7 3 (1.17%) HP
8 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.78%) IBM
8 2 (0.78%) Rockwell
8 2 (0.78%) SAP
8 2 (0.78%) Siemens
9 1 (0.39%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.39%) Sage