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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 318 256
Rank change year-on-year +35 -62 +57
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 474 258 546
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.74% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.86% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 303 181 296
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

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 56,582 30,032 45,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.25% 86.56% 78.24%
Number of salaries quoted 40,165 16,462 26,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,883
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -7.50% -5.93%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -4 136 £69,305 +23.21% 128
South East +11 119 £62,500 -16.67% 118
North West -5 81 £69,305 +20.53% 79
South West -29 68 £60,000 -2.04% 127
Midlands -10 66 £55,000 -8.33% 62
West Midlands -15 39 £65,000 +8.33% 40
Scotland +25 34 £72,500 -27.50% 128
East of England -12 31 £56,250 -6.25% 60
Yorkshire -46 28 £65,000 +13.04% 29
East Midlands -4 27 £55,000 +29.41% 22
North East -34 27 £70,000 +46.21% 21
Wales -47 20 £66,750 +16.09% 7
Northern Ireland -92 2 £65,000 +18.18% 27
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 17 (3.59%) Apache
2 14 (2.95%) Confluence
3 12 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.53%) CMS
4 7 (1.48%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.05%) IIS
6 4 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.63%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.63%) WinCC
8 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.42%) nginx
8 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.42%) WordPress
9 1 (0.21%) Documentum
9 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.63%) Simulink
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.42%) Trello
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.63%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.21%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 187 (39.45%) AWS
2 156 (32.91%) Azure
3 64 (13.50%) GitHub
4 61 (12.87%) GCP
5 51 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (7.81%) Serverless
7 36 (7.59%) SaaS
8 28 (5.91%) GitHub Copilot
9 25 (5.27%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (3.59%) Anthropic Claude
11 14 (2.95%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.74%) dbt
12 13 (2.74%) TestFlight
13 12 (2.53%) Snowflake
14 11 (2.32%) Firebase
14 11 (2.32%) Stripe
15 9 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.74%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.27%) HTTP
2 6 (1.27%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.05%) Modbus
4 3 (0.63%) Broadband
4 3 (0.63%) Profibus
5 2 (0.42%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.42%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.42%) SMS
5 2 (0.42%) VoIP
6 1 (0.21%) ATM
6 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.21%) Internet
6 1 (0.21%) MQTT
6 1 (0.21%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.49%) SQL Server
2 38 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (7.38%) Relational Database
4 31 (6.54%) MySQL
5 19 (4.01%) Redis
6 17 (3.59%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.74%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.32%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.05%) MariaDB
10 5 (1.05%) Power BI
11 4 (0.84%) Big Data
11 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.63%) GIS
12 3 (0.63%) SQLite
12 3 (0.63%) ZAP BI
13 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 94 (19.83%) Git
2 41 (8.65%) JIRA
3 28 (5.91%) GitLab
4 22 (4.64%) Jenkins
5 16 (3.38%) Selenium
6 14 (2.95%) Claude Code
6 14 (2.95%) JUnit
7 13 (2.74%) Cypress.io
8 12 (2.53%) Maven
9 11 (2.32%) Crashlytics
9 11 (2.32%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.32%) XCTest
10 10 (2.11%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.48%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.48%) Storybook
12 6 (1.27%) Mockito
12 6 (1.27%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.05%) Eclipse
13 5 (1.05%) NUnit
13 5 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 172 (36.29%) Social Skills
2 81 (17.09%) Finance
3 68 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (5.06%) Law
6 21 (4.43%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.22%) Electronics
8 18 (3.80%) Retail
9 13 (2.74%) Banking
9 13 (2.74%) Marketing
10 10 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.48%) Advertising
12 7 (1.48%) Games
12 7 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.48%) Publishing
13 5 (1.05%) Aviation
13 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 135 (28.48%) Developer
2 129 (27.22%) Lead
3 123 (25.95%) Software Engineer
4 113 (23.84%) Senior
5 48 (10.13%) Senior Software Engineer
6 43 (9.07%) Senior Developer
7 34 (7.17%) Software Developer
8 25 (5.27%) Technical Leader
9 23 (4.85%) Test Engineer
10 22 (4.64%) Team Leader
11 21 (4.43%) Lead Developer
12 19 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (4.01%) Lead Software Engineer
13 17 (3.59%) C# Developer
13 17 (3.59%) Python Engineer
14 16 (3.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 16 (3.38%) Java Developer
14 16 (3.38%) Software Manager
15 15 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 14 (2.95%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (28.27%) React
2 105 (22.15%) .NET
3 64 (13.50%) Node.js
3 64 (13.50%) REST
4 54 (11.39%) AngularJS
5 50 (10.55%) CSS
6 48 (10.13%) HTML
7 41 (8.65%) Terraform
8 33 (6.96%) RESTful
9 28 (5.91%) Spring
10 26 (5.49%) .NET Framework
11 24 (5.06%) Playwright
12 23 (4.85%) ASP.NET
13 20 (4.22%) Next.js
14 18 (3.80%) .NET Core
14 18 (3.80%) Entity Framework
15 17 (3.59%) Spring Boot
15 17 (3.59%) Vue
16 16 (3.38%) GraphQL
17 15 (3.16%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 83 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.70%) Product Ownership
3 44 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.12%) Mobile App
5 26 (5.49%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (3.80%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.38%) AI Agents
7 16 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.53%) Client/Server
9 11 (2.32%) Embedded Systems
9 11 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
10 9 (1.90%) SCADA
11 8 (1.69%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.69%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (12.66%) Linux
2 32 (6.75%) Windows
3 23 (4.85%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.74%) Android
5 8 (1.69%) Debian
6 4 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.42%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.21%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (51.48%) CI/CD
2 242 (51.05%) Agile
2 242 (51.05%) Software Engineering
3 191 (40.30%) Test Automation
4 172 (36.29%) DevOps
5 168 (35.44%) Mentoring
6 147 (31.01%) AI
7 144 (30.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 129 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
9 95 (20.04%) Technical Leadership
10 91 (19.20%) Microservices
11 90 (18.99%) Software Testing
12 83 (17.51%) Full-Stack Development
13 82 (17.30%) SDLC
14 81 (17.09%) Scrum
15 72 (15.19%) Decision-Making
16 61 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
17 60 (12.66%) User Experience
18 59 (12.45%) Clean Code
19 58 (12.24%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 150 (31.65%) JavaScript
2 142 (29.96%) Python
3 110 (23.21%) C#
4 106 (22.36%) TypeScript
5 103 (21.73%) Java
6 93 (19.62%) SQL
7 47 (9.92%) C++
8 35 (7.38%) C
9 19 (4.01%) PHP
10 14 (2.95%) Go
11 12 (2.53%) Kotlin
11 12 (2.53%) Swift
12 11 (2.32%) Ruby
13 10 (2.11%) Rust
14 8 (1.69%) Bash
15 7 (1.48%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.05%) Groovy
16 5 (1.05%) MATLAB
16 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.63%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 89 (18.78%) Degree
2 66 (13.92%) Security Cleared
3 41 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.64%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.53%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.63%) OCP
9 3 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.21%) HNC
11 1 (0.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (23.84%) QA
2 43 (9.07%) Accessibility
3 24 (5.06%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.11%) WCAG
5 8 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.84%) NIST
7 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.63%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
9 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.42%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.42%) MISRA
9 2 (0.42%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.42%) NCSC
10 1 (0.21%) GRC
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (17.72%) Docker
2 13 (2.74%) Firmware
3 11 (2.32%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.27%) KVM
4 6 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.05%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.63%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (12.66%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.32%) Grafana
3 10 (2.11%) Ansible
4 4 (0.84%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.84%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.84%) Puppet
5 3 (0.63%) Control-M
5 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.63%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.63%) Kibana
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.42%) Podman
7 1 (0.21%) Argo
7 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.21%) logstash
7 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (9.07%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.70%) Google
3 20 (4.22%) Oracle
4 12 (2.53%) Databricks
5 11 (2.32%) Amplitude
5 11 (2.32%) Braze
6 9 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.90%) VMware
7 8 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.48%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.48%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.27%) Sage
10 5 (1.05%) Intel
10 5 (1.05%) Splunk
11 4 (0.84%) Adobe
12 3 (0.63%) Foundry
12 3 (0.63%) HP
12 3 (0.63%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.63%) SAP
12 3 (0.63%) Siemens