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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 233 256
Rank change year-on-year -94 +23 +150
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 300 387 742
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 1.33% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.44% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 206 319 500
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +20.01% +0.31%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% +10.37% -14.29%

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 47,183 26,791 60,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.52% 91.82% 81.14%
Number of salaries quoted 31,404 13,266 42,519
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £34,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -58 83 £67,500 +3.85% 59
South East -38 63 £62,500 -21.88% 59
Midlands -18 54 £65,000 +13.04% 31
North West -30 53 £67,500 +12.50% 39
South West -30 49 £55,000 -12.00% 32
East Midlands -3 29 £55,000 +37.50% 10
West Midlands -34 25 £65,000 +8.33% 21
Scotland +15 23 £72,500 -14.71% 10
Yorkshire -40 22 £62,500 -13.19% 14
East of England -103 17 £67,500 +1.91% 21
Wales -34 10 £72,000 +20.00% 3
North East -29 8 £70,000 -7.28% 6
Northern Ireland -41 3 £65,000 +18.18% 14
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 13 (4.33%) Confluence
2 11 (3.67%) CMS
3 6 (2.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (1.67%) Apache
5 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.00%) FactoryTalk
5 3 (1.00%) WinCC
6 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.67%) nginx
6 2 (0.67%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.67%) WordPress
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.33%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Trello
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.33%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 122 (40.67%) AWS
2 101 (33.67%) Azure
3 47 (15.67%) GitHub
4 38 (12.67%) GCP
4 38 (12.67%) Serverless
5 26 (8.67%) SaaS
6 23 (7.67%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.67%) Firebase
9 14 (4.67%) Stripe
9 14 (4.67%) TestFlight
10 11 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.67%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.33%) Figma
12 6 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
12 6 (2.00%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.67%) Modbus
2 4 (1.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.33%) Wireshark
3 3 (1.00%) Broadband
3 3 (1.00%) Profibus
4 2 (0.67%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (0.67%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.67%) SMS
4 2 (0.67%) VoIP
5 1 (0.33%) AMQP
5 1 (0.33%) ATM
5 1 (0.33%) HTTP
5 1 (0.33%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.67%) MySQL
2 14 (4.67%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.33%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.67%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.67%) Big Data
8 3 (1.00%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.67%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.67%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.67%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.67%) Power BI
9 2 (0.67%) Redis
9 2 (0.67%) Tableau
10 1 (0.33%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.33%) Looker
10 1 (0.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 41 (13.67%) Git
2 33 (11.00%) JIRA
3 15 (5.00%) JUnit
4 14 (4.67%) Crashlytics
4 14 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.67%) XCTest
5 13 (4.33%) GitLab
6 10 (3.33%) Claude Code
6 10 (3.33%) Maven
7 9 (3.00%) Mockito
7 9 (3.00%) Selenium
8 8 (2.67%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.67%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.00%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.67%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.67%) Yeoman
11 4 (1.33%) Spock
11 4 (1.33%) Storybook
12 3 (1.00%) TestRail
12 3 (1.00%) Zephyr
General
1 95 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.33%) Finance
3 21 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.33%) Retail
5 10 (3.33%) Banking
5 10 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.33%) Legal
6 7 (2.33%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.00%) Marketing
8 5 (1.67%) Electronics
8 5 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.33%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.33%) Law
10 3 (1.00%) Advertising
10 3 (1.00%) Aviation
10 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (26.00%) Software Engineer
2 77 (25.67%) Developer
2 77 (25.67%) Lead
3 64 (21.33%) Senior
4 24 (8.00%) Senior Developer
5 20 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 18 (6.00%) Software Developer
7 15 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (4.67%) Mobile Engineer
9 13 (4.33%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.00%) Lead Developer
10 12 (4.00%) Team Leader
10 12 (4.00%) Technical Leader
11 11 (3.67%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.67%) Python Software Engineer
12 10 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
12 10 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (3.33%) Test Engineer
13 9 (3.00%) Analyst
13 9 (3.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (24.33%) React
2 51 (17.00%) .NET
3 37 (12.33%) REST
4 33 (11.00%) Node.js
5 29 (9.67%) AngularJS
5 29 (9.67%) Spring
6 28 (9.33%) CSS
7 25 (8.33%) HTML
7 25 (8.33%) RESTful
8 17 (5.67%) Spring Boot
8 17 (5.67%) SwiftUI
9 16 (5.33%) UIKit
10 13 (4.33%) Vue
10 13 (4.33%) Web Services
11 11 (3.67%) AWS CDK
11 11 (3.67%) Django
12 10 (3.33%) Laravel
12 10 (3.33%) Playwright
12 10 (3.33%) WebSockets
13 9 (3.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 38 (12.67%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.00%) Mobile App
4 23 (7.67%) Product Ownership
5 21 (7.00%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (7.00%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.67%) Client/Server
7 11 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.67%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.67%) NHS
8 8 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.00%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.33%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 41 (13.67%) Linux
2 20 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 16 (5.33%) Windows
4 3 (1.00%) Android
4 3 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.67%) Debian
6 1 (0.33%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (51.67%) CI/CD
2 128 (42.67%) Agile
3 125 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 110 (36.67%) DevOps
5 103 (34.33%) Test Automation
6 82 (27.33%) Mentoring
7 80 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (24.67%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (23.00%) AI
10 65 (21.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 62 (20.67%) Microservices
12 58 (19.33%) Technical Leadership
13 57 (19.00%) User Experience
14 47 (15.67%) Software Testing
15 44 (14.67%) Scrum
16 43 (14.33%) Containerisation
16 43 (14.33%) Observability
17 38 (12.67%) Decision-Making
18 37 (12.33%) Clean Code
19 36 (12.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 91 (30.33%) Python
2 88 (29.33%) JavaScript
3 65 (21.67%) TypeScript
4 53 (17.67%) Java
5 46 (15.33%) SQL
6 45 (15.00%) C#
7 34 (11.33%) C++
8 28 (9.33%) C
9 19 (6.33%) PHP
10 17 (5.67%) Swift
11 14 (4.67%) Kotlin
11 14 (4.67%) Rust
12 6 (2.00%) Bash
12 6 (2.00%) Groovy
12 6 (2.00%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.00%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.00%) Scala
14 2 (0.67%) Go
14 2 (0.67%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (13.33%) Degree
2 25 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.67%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.67%) PhD
9 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.33%) CISM
9 1 (0.33%) CISSP
9 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.33%) GSEC
9 1 (0.33%) HNC
9 1 (0.33%) HND
9 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (20.00%) QA
2 18 (6.00%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.67%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.00%) IEC 61131
5 3 (1.00%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.00%) WCAG
6 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.67%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.67%) MISRA
6 2 (0.67%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.33%) GDPR
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.33%) NIST
7 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (20.33%) Docker
2 14 (4.67%) Hyper-V
2 14 (4.67%) KVM
2 14 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.33%) Firmware
4 5 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.33%) Terraform
3 10 (3.33%) Grafana
4 6 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.67%) Ansible
6 3 (1.00%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.00%) Kibana
7 2 (0.67%) Control-M
7 2 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.67%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.67%) Packer
7 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (5.33%) VMware
2 14 (4.67%) Amplitude
2 14 (4.67%) Braze
2 14 (4.67%) Oracle
3 13 (4.33%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.33%) Google
5 6 (2.00%) AppDynamics
5 6 (2.00%) Sitecore
5 6 (2.00%) Splunk
6 5 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.00%) Databricks
7 3 (1.00%) Foundry
7 3 (1.00%) HP
7 3 (1.00%) Rockwell
7 3 (1.00%) Siemens
8 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.67%) IBM
8 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.67%) SAP
9 1 (0.33%) Sage