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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 327 251
Rank change year-on-year +37 -76 +66
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 480 239 545
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.69% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.80% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 303 162 273
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £50,000
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 £78,438 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 58,130 29,915 43,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.26% 86.53% 78.16%
Number of salaries quoted 41,309 16,248 24,257
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 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 10 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 -3 140 £69,305 +26.01% 119
South East +30 119 £62,500 -21.88% 95
North West +6 84 £69,639 +26.62% 75
South West -32 69 £61,250 - 110
Midlands -9 65 £55,000 -8.33% 54
West Midlands -10 39 £57,500 -4.17% 34
Scotland +20 35 £72,500 -27.50% 140
East of England -4 31 £56,250 -6.25% 46
North East -35 28 £71,250 +48.83% 18
Yorkshire -37 28 £65,000 +13.04% 29
East Midlands -7 26 £55,000 +12.82% 20
Wales -58 21 £66,000 +14.78% 6
Northern Ireland -81 2 £65,000 +18.18% 19
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 (3.54%) Apache
2 14 (2.92%) Confluence
3 12 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.50%) CMS
4 7 (1.46%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.04%) IIS
6 4 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.63%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.63%) WinCC
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 (1.25%) 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 (1.04%) 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
1 186 (38.75%) AWS
2 156 (32.50%) Azure
3 64 (13.33%) GitHub
4 59 (12.29%) GCP
5 52 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (7.50%) SaaS
6 36 (7.50%) Serverless
7 29 (6.04%) GitHub Copilot
8 25 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (3.54%) Anthropic Claude
10 14 (2.92%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (2.71%) dbt
12 12 (2.50%) Snowflake
12 12 (2.50%) TestFlight
13 10 (2.08%) Firebase
13 10 (2.08%) Stripe
14 9 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.92%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.25%) HTTP
2 6 (1.25%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.04%) 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 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 37 (7.71%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (7.29%) Relational Database
4 31 (6.46%) MySQL
5 19 (3.96%) Redis
6 18 (3.75%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.29%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.04%) MariaDB
10 5 (1.04%) Power BI
11 4 (0.83%) Big Data
11 4 (0.83%) 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 96 (20.00%) Git
2 42 (8.75%) JIRA
3 30 (6.25%) GitLab
4 23 (4.79%) Jenkins
5 16 (3.33%) Selenium
6 14 (2.92%) Claude Code
7 13 (2.71%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.71%) JUnit
8 12 (2.50%) Maven
9 11 (2.29%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.08%) Crashlytics
10 10 (2.08%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.08%) XCTest
11 7 (1.46%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.46%) Storybook
12 6 (1.25%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.04%) Eclipse
13 5 (1.04%) Mockito
13 5 (1.04%) NUnit
13 5 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 174 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 83 (17.29%) Finance
3 69 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (5.00%) Law
6 22 (4.58%) Electronics
7 21 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 18 (3.75%) Retail
9 13 (2.71%) Banking
9 13 (2.71%) Marketing
10 11 (2.29%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.88%) Publishing
12 8 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.46%) Advertising
13 7 (1.46%) Aviation
13 7 (1.46%) Games
13 7 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 138 (28.75%) Developer
2 129 (26.88%) Lead
3 124 (25.83%) Software Engineer
4 117 (24.38%) Senior
5 50 (10.42%) Senior Software Engineer
6 45 (9.38%) Senior Developer
7 35 (7.29%) Software Developer
8 25 (5.21%) Technical Leader
9 23 (4.79%) Team Leader
9 23 (4.79%) Test Engineer
10 21 (4.38%) Lead Developer
11 19 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (3.54%) C# Developer
12 17 (3.54%) Python Engineer
12 17 (3.54%) Software Manager
13 16 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 16 (3.33%) Java Developer
14 14 (2.92%) .NET Developer
14 14 (2.92%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (28.75%) React
2 104 (21.67%) .NET
3 67 (13.96%) Node.js
4 65 (13.54%) REST
5 55 (11.46%) AngularJS
6 50 (10.42%) CSS
7 48 (10.00%) HTML
8 42 (8.75%) Terraform
9 33 (6.88%) RESTful
10 29 (6.04%) Spring
11 26 (5.42%) .NET Framework
12 24 (5.00%) Playwright
13 23 (4.79%) ASP.NET
14 20 (4.17%) Next.js
15 18 (3.75%) .NET Core
15 18 (3.75%) Entity Framework
15 18 (3.75%) Spring Boot
16 17 (3.54%) Kafka
16 17 (3.54%) Vue
17 16 (3.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 82 (17.08%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.58%) Product Ownership
3 44 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (5.83%) Mobile App
5 25 (5.21%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (3.75%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.33%) AI Agents
7 16 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.50%) Client/Server
9 10 (2.08%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (2.08%) SCADA
9 10 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.88%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.88%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (1.67%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.04%) Robotics
14 4 (0.83%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 61 (12.71%) Linux
2 32 (6.67%) Windows
3 22 (4.58%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.71%) Android
5 9 (1.88%) Debian
6 4 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.63%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.21%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (52.08%) Software Engineering
2 247 (51.46%) CI/CD
3 243 (50.63%) Agile
4 188 (39.17%) Test Automation
5 174 (36.25%) DevOps
6 172 (35.83%) Mentoring
7 155 (32.29%) AI
8 147 (30.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 131 (27.29%) Problem-Solving
10 94 (19.58%) Technical Leadership
11 93 (19.38%) Software Testing
12 92 (19.17%) Microservices
13 85 (17.71%) SDLC
14 83 (17.29%) Scrum
15 82 (17.08%) Full-Stack Development
16 72 (15.00%) Decision-Making
17 62 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
18 61 (12.71%) Observability
19 58 (12.08%) Clean Code
19 58 (12.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 150 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 144 (30.00%) Python
3 110 (22.92%) C#
4 109 (22.71%) TypeScript
5 107 (22.29%) Java
6 97 (20.21%) SQL
7 46 (9.58%) C++
8 34 (7.08%) C
9 19 (3.96%) PHP
10 14 (2.92%) Go
11 11 (2.29%) Kotlin
11 11 (2.29%) Ruby
11 11 (2.29%) Swift
12 10 (2.08%) Rust
13 9 (1.88%) Bash
14 7 (1.46%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.04%) Groovy
15 5 (1.04%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.04%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.83%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 93 (19.38%) Degree
2 69 (14.38%) Security Cleared
3 44 (9.17%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (5.00%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.50%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.83%) 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
9 3 (0.63%) PhD
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%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (23.75%) QA
2 43 (8.96%) Accessibility
3 24 (5.00%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.08%) WCAG
5 5 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.83%) NIST
6 4 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.63%) IEC 61131
8 2 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
8 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.42%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.42%) MISRA
8 2 (0.42%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.42%) NCSC
9 1 (0.21%) GDPR
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (18.13%) Docker
2 14 (2.92%) Firmware
3 12 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.04%) KVM
4 5 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.63%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.63%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 62 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.29%) Ansible
2 11 (2.29%) Grafana
3 4 (0.83%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.83%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.83%) Puppet
4 3 (0.63%) Control-M
4 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.63%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.63%) Kibana
4 3 (0.63%) Podman
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) Argo
6 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.21%) logstash
6 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.63%) Google
3 20 (4.17%) Oracle
4 12 (2.50%) Databricks
5 10 (2.08%) Amplitude
5 10 (2.08%) Braze
6 9 (1.88%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.67%) VMware
8 7 (1.46%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.46%) Sage
8 7 (1.46%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.04%) Intel
9 5 (1.04%) Splunk
10 4 (0.83%) Adobe
11 3 (0.63%) Foundry
11 3 (0.63%) HP
11 3 (0.63%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.63%) SAP
11 3 (0.63%) Siemens