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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 328 241
Rank change year-on-year +44 -87 +71
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 476 230 539
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.67% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.77% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 301 153 268
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £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 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 -
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 58,301 29,869 43,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.01% 86.65% 78.29%
Number of salaries quoted 41,307 16,135 23,985
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 £90,000 £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 14 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 14 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 -2 141 £69,305 +26.01% 145
South East +15 119 £62,500 -21.88% 121
North West +8 83 £68,403 +24.37% 87
South West -28 68 £61,250 +2.08% 114
Midlands -16 60 £55,000 -8.33% 68
West Midlands -18 38 £57,500 -4.17% 43
Scotland +21 36 £72,500 -27.50% 159
East of England -2 31 £56,250 -6.25% 44
Yorkshire -18 31 £65,000 +18.18% 37
North East -38 27 £72,500 +51.44% 24
East Midlands -18 22 £55,000 +12.82% 25
Wales -55 21 £66,000 +14.78% 9
Northern Ireland -85 2 £65,000 +18.18% 21
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 (3.57%) Apache
2 13 (2.73%) Confluence
3 12 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.10%) CMS
5 7 (1.47%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.05%) IIS
7 4 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.63%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.63%) WinCC
9 2 (0.42%) nginx
9 2 (0.42%) WordPress
10 1 (0.21%) Documentum
10 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.26%) 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
1 183 (38.45%) AWS
2 149 (31.30%) Azure
3 63 (13.24%) GitHub
4 56 (11.76%) GCP
5 51 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (7.56%) Serverless
7 35 (7.35%) SaaS
8 29 (6.09%) GitHub Copilot
9 25 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (3.78%) Anthropic Claude
11 16 (3.36%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.73%) dbt
14 12 (2.52%) Snowflake
15 9 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.89%) Power Platform
15 9 (1.89%) TestFlight
16 8 (1.68%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.26%) HTTP
2 6 (1.26%) 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 43 (9.03%) SQL Server
2 36 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (7.35%) Relational Database
4 31 (6.51%) MySQL
5 19 (3.99%) Redis
6 17 (3.57%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.31%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.31%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
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%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 95 (19.96%) Git
2 44 (9.24%) JIRA
3 33 (6.93%) GitLab
4 26 (5.46%) Jenkins
5 16 (3.36%) Cypress.io
6 15 (3.15%) Selenium
7 14 (2.94%) Claude Code
8 12 (2.52%) JUnit
8 12 (2.52%) Maven
9 11 (2.31%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.10%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.47%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.47%) Crashlytics
11 7 (1.47%) JMeter
11 7 (1.47%) Postman
11 7 (1.47%) XCTest
12 6 (1.26%) Storybook
12 6 (1.26%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.05%) Eclipse
13 5 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 168 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 82 (17.23%) Finance
3 69 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (5.04%) Law
6 22 (4.62%) Electronics
7 21 (4.41%) Public Sector
8 18 (3.78%) Retail
9 13 (2.73%) Banking
9 13 (2.73%) Marketing
10 11 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.10%) Publishing
12 8 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.47%) Advertising
13 7 (1.47%) Aviation
13 7 (1.47%) Games
13 7 (1.47%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 136 (28.57%) Developer
2 125 (26.26%) Lead
2 125 (26.26%) Software Engineer
3 120 (25.21%) Senior
4 52 (10.92%) Senior Software Engineer
5 45 (9.45%) Senior Developer
6 34 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 26 (5.46%) Test Engineer
8 25 (5.25%) Technical Leader
9 21 (4.41%) Team Leader
10 20 (4.20%) Lead Developer
11 19 (3.99%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (3.78%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (3.57%) C# Developer
13 17 (3.57%) Python Engineer
13 17 (3.57%) Software Manager
14 16 (3.36%) Java Developer
15 15 (3.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 14 (2.94%) .NET Developer
16 14 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (29.41%) React
2 103 (21.64%) .NET
3 65 (13.66%) REST
4 64 (13.45%) Node.js
5 54 (11.34%) AngularJS
6 48 (10.08%) CSS
7 46 (9.66%) HTML
8 44 (9.24%) Terraform
9 33 (6.93%) RESTful
10 31 (6.51%) Spring
11 27 (5.67%) Playwright
12 25 (5.25%) .NET Framework
13 22 (4.62%) ASP.NET
14 20 (4.20%) Next.js
14 20 (4.20%) Spring Boot
15 18 (3.78%) .NET Core
15 18 (3.78%) Entity Framework
15 18 (3.78%) Kafka
16 16 (3.36%) Vue
17 15 (3.15%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 81 (17.02%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.66%) Product Ownership
3 41 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (5.25%) Mobile App
5 22 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.57%) AI Agents
6 17 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.31%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.31%) Client/Server
9 10 (2.10%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (2.10%) SCADA
10 9 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
10 9 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.68%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.26%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.05%) Media Streaming
13 5 (1.05%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 59 (12.39%) Linux
2 32 (6.72%) Windows
3 18 (3.78%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.73%) Android
5 9 (1.89%) Debian
6 4 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.84%) 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
1 252 (52.94%) Software Engineering
2 249 (52.31%) CI/CD
3 244 (51.26%) Agile
4 184 (38.66%) Test Automation
5 172 (36.13%) DevOps
6 170 (35.71%) Mentoring
7 156 (32.77%) AI
8 146 (30.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 131 (27.52%) Problem-Solving
10 96 (20.17%) Software Testing
11 92 (19.33%) Technical Leadership
12 89 (18.70%) Microservices
13 86 (18.07%) Scrum
13 86 (18.07%) SDLC
14 80 (16.81%) Full-Stack Development
15 72 (15.13%) Decision-Making
16 63 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
17 60 (12.61%) Observability
18 57 (11.97%) Software Architecture
19 54 (11.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 150 (31.51%) JavaScript
2 143 (30.04%) Python
3 114 (23.95%) TypeScript
4 110 (23.11%) C#
4 110 (23.11%) Java
5 101 (21.22%) SQL
6 45 (9.45%) C++
7 33 (6.93%) C
8 18 (3.78%) PHP
9 14 (2.94%) Go
10 11 (2.31%) Ruby
11 9 (1.89%) Bash
11 9 (1.89%) Rust
12 8 (1.68%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.47%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.47%) Swift
14 5 (1.05%) Apex Code
14 5 (1.05%) Groovy
14 5 (1.05%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 92 (19.33%) Degree
2 69 (14.50%) Security Cleared
3 44 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (5.25%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.20%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.52%) 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
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
1 113 (23.74%) QA
2 39 (8.19%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.83%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.10%) WCAG
5 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.84%) NIST
5 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.63%) IEC 61131
7 2 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.42%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.42%) MISRA
7 2 (0.42%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.42%) NCSC
8 1 (0.21%) GDPR
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 88 (18.49%) Docker
2 13 (2.73%) Firmware
3 12 (2.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.84%) KVM
4 4 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.63%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.63%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 63 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.31%) Ansible
2 11 (2.31%) Grafana
3 4 (0.84%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.84%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.84%) Puppet
4 3 (0.63%) Control-M
4 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.63%) Kibana
4 3 (0.63%) Podman
5 2 (0.42%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.42%) Packer
5 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
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 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.67%) Google
3 19 (3.99%) Oracle
4 12 (2.52%) Databricks
5 9 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.68%) Sage
6 8 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.47%) Amplitude
7 7 (1.47%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.47%) Braze
7 7 (1.47%) Sitecore
7 7 (1.47%) VMware
8 5 (1.05%) Intel
8 5 (1.05%) Splunk
9 4 (0.84%) Adobe
10 3 (0.63%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.63%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.63%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.63%) SAP
10 3 (0.63%) Siemens