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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 316 255
Rank change year-on-year +34 -61 +77
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 468 278 563
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.80% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.92% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 298 197 334
10th Percentile £41,775 £34,650 £34,125
25th Percentile £49,531 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,625 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £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 54,441 30,367 46,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.44% 87.40% 78.59%
Number of salaries quoted 38,235 16,502 29,487
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -19 134 £69,305 +20.53% 125
South East +3 110 £62,500 -16.67% 98
North West -6 79 £70,000 +16.67% 83
South West -15 71 £60,000 -4.00% 73
Midlands +10 68 £55,000 -8.33% 46
West Midlands -9 40 £65,000 +8.33% 27
Scotland +22 36 £75,000 -25.00% 101
East of England 0 30 £60,000 - 48
East Midlands -6 28 £55,000 +29.41% 19
Yorkshire -30 28 £62,500 +13.64% 29
North East -38 27 £70,000 +7.69% 13
Wales -49 19 £67,500 +12.50% 8
Northern Ireland -71 2 £65,000 +18.18% 7
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 (3.63%) Apache
2 14 (2.99%) Confluence
3 12 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.56%) CMS
4 7 (1.50%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.64%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.64%) IIS
6 3 (0.64%) WinCC
7 2 (0.43%) nginx
7 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.43%) WordPress
8 1 (0.21%) Documentum
8 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.64%) Simulink
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.43%) Trello
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.07%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.64%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.21%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 191 (40.81%) AWS
2 154 (32.91%) Azure
3 64 (13.68%) GCP
3 64 (13.68%) GitHub
4 47 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (9.40%) Serverless
6 33 (7.05%) SaaS
7 27 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (5.34%) GitHub Copilot
9 18 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.21%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.21%) Anthropic Claude
10 15 (3.21%) TestFlight
11 13 (2.78%) Firebase
11 13 (2.78%) Stripe
12 12 (2.56%) dbt
13 11 (2.35%) Snowflake
14 9 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.28%) HTTP
2 6 (1.28%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.07%) Modbus
4 3 (0.64%) Broadband
4 3 (0.64%) Profibus
5 2 (0.43%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.43%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.43%) SMS
5 2 (0.43%) 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 46 (9.83%) SQL Server
2 38 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (6.41%) MySQL
3 30 (6.41%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.85%) Redis
5 17 (3.63%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.35%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.07%) MariaDB
10 4 (0.85%) Big Data
10 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.85%) Power BI
11 3 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.64%) GIS
11 3 (0.64%) SQLite
11 3 (0.64%) ZAP BI
12 2 (0.43%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (18.59%) Git
2 41 (8.76%) JIRA
3 28 (5.98%) GitLab
4 23 (4.91%) Jenkins
5 15 (3.21%) JUnit
5 15 (3.21%) Selenium
6 13 (2.78%) Crashlytics
6 13 (2.78%) XCTest
7 12 (2.56%) Claude Code
7 12 (2.56%) Cypress.io
8 11 (2.35%) Maven
9 10 (2.14%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.92%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.50%) Mockito
11 7 (1.50%) Storybook
12 6 (1.28%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.28%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.07%) Eclipse
13 5 (1.07%) NUnit
13 5 (1.07%) TeamCity
General
1 176 (37.61%) Social Skills
2 82 (17.52%) Finance
3 61 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (5.34%) Law
6 21 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.85%) Electronics
8 16 (3.42%) Retail
9 13 (2.78%) Banking
9 13 (2.78%) Marketing
10 8 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.71%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.50%) Advertising
11 7 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.07%) Aviation
12 5 (1.07%) Games
12 5 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.07%) Publishing
13 4 (0.85%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (28.63%) Developer
2 128 (27.35%) Lead
3 119 (25.43%) Software Engineer
4 113 (24.15%) Senior
5 46 (9.83%) Senior Software Engineer
6 44 (9.40%) Senior Developer
7 33 (7.05%) Software Developer
8 25 (5.34%) Technical Leader
9 24 (5.13%) Test Engineer
10 22 (4.70%) Team Leader
11 21 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (4.27%) Lead Developer
13 18 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
14 17 (3.63%) Python Engineer
14 17 (3.63%) Software Manager
15 16 (3.42%) Java Developer
16 15 (3.21%) C# Developer
16 15 (3.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 13 (2.78%) .NET Developer
17 13 (2.78%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (27.56%) React
2 96 (20.51%) .NET
3 64 (13.68%) Node.js
3 64 (13.68%) REST
4 54 (11.54%) AngularJS
5 51 (10.90%) CSS
6 49 (10.47%) HTML
7 32 (6.84%) RESTful
8 26 (5.56%) Spring
9 24 (5.13%) .NET Framework
10 23 (4.91%) Playwright
11 21 (4.49%) ASP.NET
11 21 (4.49%) Next.js
12 19 (4.06%) Vue
13 18 (3.85%) .NET Core
14 16 (3.42%) Entity Framework
14 16 (3.42%) GraphQL
15 15 (3.21%) Django
15 15 (3.21%) Spring Boot
15 15 (3.21%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 82 (17.52%) Cloud Native
2 43 (9.19%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (8.97%) Product Ownership
4 31 (6.62%) Mobile App
5 26 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (4.06%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.56%) AI Agents
9 11 (2.35%) Client/Server
9 11 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
10 10 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.50%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.50%) SCADA
13 6 (1.28%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.28%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 60 (12.82%) Linux
2 29 (6.20%) Windows
3 26 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.78%) Android
5 6 (1.28%) Debian
6 4 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.21%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (50.43%) CI/CD
2 231 (49.36%) Agile
3 230 (49.15%) Software Engineering
4 186 (39.74%) Test Automation
5 173 (36.97%) DevOps
6 164 (35.04%) Mentoring
7 139 (29.70%) AI
7 139 (29.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 121 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (19.23%) Microservices
9 90 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
10 86 (18.38%) SDLC
11 82 (17.52%) Software Testing
12 81 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
13 76 (16.24%) Scrum
14 68 (14.53%) Decision-Making
15 60 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
16 59 (12.61%) Clean Code
16 59 (12.61%) User Experience
17 54 (11.54%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 152 (32.48%) JavaScript
2 145 (30.98%) Python
3 100 (21.37%) C#
4 99 (21.15%) Java
5 98 (20.94%) TypeScript
6 89 (19.02%) SQL
7 49 (10.47%) C++
8 37 (7.91%) C
9 20 (4.27%) PHP
10 15 (3.21%) Swift
11 14 (2.99%) Go
11 14 (2.99%) Kotlin
12 12 (2.56%) Rust
13 9 (1.92%) Ruby
14 6 (1.28%) Bash
14 6 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.07%) Groovy
15 5 (1.07%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.07%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.64%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 85 (18.16%) Degree
2 65 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 40 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 33 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.27%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.14%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.64%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.64%) OCP
8 3 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.21%) CISM
10 1 (0.21%) CISSP
10 1 (0.21%) HNC
10 1 (0.21%) HND
10 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (23.50%) QA
2 38 (8.12%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.91%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.14%) WCAG
5 8 (1.71%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.85%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.85%) NIST
7 4 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.64%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.43%) Automotive SPICE
9 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.43%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.43%) MISRA
9 2 (0.43%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.43%) NCSC
10 1 (0.21%) GDPR
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (18.16%) Docker
2 15 (3.21%) Firmware
3 11 (2.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (1.71%) KVM
4 8 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.64%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (12.61%) Kubernetes
2 41 (8.76%) Terraform
3 11 (2.35%) Grafana
4 10 (2.14%) Ansible
5 4 (0.85%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.85%) Puppet
6 3 (0.64%) Control-M
6 3 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.64%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.64%) Kibana
7 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.43%) Podman
8 1 (0.21%) Argo
8 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 40 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.56%) Google
3 17 (3.63%) Oracle
4 13 (2.78%) Amplitude
4 13 (2.78%) Braze
4 13 (2.78%) Databricks
5 11 (2.35%) VMware
6 8 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.50%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.50%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.50%) Sitecore
8 5 (1.07%) Intel
8 5 (1.07%) Sage
8 5 (1.07%) Splunk
9 4 (0.85%) Adobe
10 3 (0.64%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.64%) Foundry
10 3 (0.64%) HP
10 3 (0.64%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.64%) Siemens