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 citing Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 334 267
Rank change year-on-year +55 -67 +35
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 528 205 428
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.59% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.69% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 317 133 226
10th Percentile £42,300 £33,750 £41,422
25th Percentile £50,752 £50,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £85,000
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 citing process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
2 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills 64,429 29,792 38,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.17% 85.32% 79.93%
Number of salaries quoted 44,371 17,110 18,819
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,863 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -13.89% +2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.26% -10.00% -

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 2 November 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 2 November 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England -9 154 £65,000 +11.11% 83
South East +7 144 £70,000 -6.67% 88
North West -11 86 £65,000 +1.96% 49
South West -17 75 £71,250 +9.62% 48
Midlands -36 57 £55,000 -8.33% 46
West Midlands -39 41 £51,538 -14.10% 23
Yorkshire -24 39 £62,500 +13.64% 13
Scotland +4 36 £75,000 - 38
East of England -31 34 £50,000 -16.67% 41
North East -50 29 £70,000 +13.36% 22
Wales -51 27 £66,000 +14.78% 7
East Midlands -41 16 £55,000 -4.35% 23
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 20
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Software Engineering56.3%297
2CI/CD54.5%288
3Agile50.2%265
4Test Automation36.6%193
5Mentoring36.2%191
6DevOps34.8%184
7AI34.5%182
8Continuous Improvement32.4%171
9Problem-Solving29.7%157
10Microservices19.7%104
11SDLC18.0%95
11Software Testing18.0%95
13Technical Leadership17.6%93
14Full-Stack Development17.2%91
15Scrum17.0%90
16Software Architecture13.4%71
17Computer Science11.9%63
17Containerisation11.9%63
19Infrastructure as Code11.4%60
19User Experience11.4%60
368 Code Quality jobs in the UK excluding London