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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 224 266
Rank change year-on-year -100 +42 +139
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 313 391 767
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.32% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.45% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 220 317 503
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,215 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +20.01% +2.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £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 46,411 27,001 62,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.63% 91.19% 80.25%
Number of salaries quoted 32,394 13,652 43,629
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,819 £32,988 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 13 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 13 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 -55 87 £67,500 +3.85% 33
South East -23 68 £62,500 -21.88% 50
Midlands +5 56 £65,000 +13.04% 13
North West -24 56 £69,305 +13.15% 20
South West -33 49 £55,000 -12.00% 29
East Midlands +1 30 £55,000 +37.50% 5
West Midlands -21 26 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Scotland +17 22 £72,500 -7.94% 9
Yorkshire -36 21 £62,500 -13.19% 7
East of England -87 19 £62,500 -5.64% 24
Wales -41 11 £72,500 +20.83% 4
North East -31 10 £70,000 +31.76% 6
Northern Ireland -33 3 £65,000 +18.18% 4
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 15 (4.79%) Confluence
2 12 (3.83%) CMS
3 7 (2.24%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (1.60%) Apache
5 3 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.96%) FactoryTalk
5 3 (0.96%) nginx
5 3 (0.96%) WinCC
6 2 (0.64%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.64%) WordPress
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.32%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.64%) Trello
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.60%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.32%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 130 (41.53%) AWS
2 108 (34.50%) Azure
3 45 (14.38%) GitHub
4 44 (14.06%) GCP
5 38 (12.14%) Serverless
6 27 (8.63%) SaaS
7 21 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.47%) Firebase
10 14 (4.47%) Stripe
10 14 (4.47%) TestFlight
11 10 (3.19%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.19%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (2.24%) Figma
13 6 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.60%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.60%) Modbus
2 4 (1.28%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.28%) Wireshark
3 3 (0.96%) Broadband
3 3 (0.96%) Profibus
4 2 (0.64%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (0.64%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.64%) SMS
4 2 (0.64%) VoIP
5 1 (0.32%) AMQP
5 1 (0.32%) ATM
5 1 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.32%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.39%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.79%) MySQL
2 15 (4.79%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.15%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.60%) Big Data
8 3 (0.96%) Power BI
8 3 (0.96%) Redis
9 2 (0.64%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.64%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.64%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.64%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.64%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.64%) Tableau
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 44 (14.06%) Git
2 35 (11.18%) JIRA
3 15 (4.79%) JUnit
4 14 (4.47%) Crashlytics
4 14 (4.47%) XCTest
5 13 (4.15%) Jenkins
6 12 (3.83%) GitLab
7 10 (3.19%) Selenium
8 9 (2.88%) Claude Code
8 9 (2.88%) Maven
8 9 (2.88%) Mockito
9 8 (2.56%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.24%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.24%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.60%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.60%) Yeoman
12 4 (1.28%) Spock
12 4 (1.28%) Storybook
13 3 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.96%) TestRail
General
1 98 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 46 (14.70%) Finance
3 22 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.47%) Retail
5 13 (4.15%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.19%) Banking
7 7 (2.24%) Legal
7 7 (2.24%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.24%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.92%) Electronics
8 6 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.92%) Marketing
9 4 (1.28%) Advertising
9 4 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.28%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.28%) Law
10 3 (0.96%) Aviation
10 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 82 (26.20%) Software Engineer
2 80 (25.56%) Lead
3 79 (25.24%) Developer
4 67 (21.41%) Senior
5 24 (7.67%) Senior Developer
5 24 (7.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 18 (5.75%) Software Developer
7 15 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (4.47%) Mobile Engineer
8 14 (4.47%) Technical Leader
9 13 (4.15%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.15%) Lead Developer
10 12 (3.83%) Team Leader
11 11 (3.51%) Engineering Manager
11 11 (3.51%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.51%) Python Software Engineer
12 10 (3.19%) Analyst
12 10 (3.19%) Architect
12 10 (3.19%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (3.19%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (24.28%) React
2 53 (16.93%) .NET
3 40 (12.78%) REST
4 36 (11.50%) Node.js
5 29 (9.27%) AngularJS
5 29 (9.27%) CSS
6 28 (8.95%) Spring
7 26 (8.31%) HTML
7 26 (8.31%) RESTful
8 17 (5.43%) SwiftUI
9 16 (5.11%) Spring Boot
9 16 (5.11%) UIKit
10 15 (4.79%) Vue
11 13 (4.15%) Web Services
12 11 (3.51%) AWS CDK
12 11 (3.51%) Django
12 11 (3.51%) Laravel
13 10 (3.19%) ASP.NET
13 10 (3.19%) Playwright
13 10 (3.19%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 37 (11.82%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.31%) Mobile App
4 24 (7.67%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (7.35%) Product Ownership
6 21 (6.71%) Onboarding
7 15 (4.79%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (4.47%) Client/Server
9 9 (2.88%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.56%) NHS
11 6 (1.92%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (1.28%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
13 4 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 44 (14.06%) Linux
2 20 (6.39%) Apple iOS
3 19 (6.07%) Windows
4 3 (0.96%) Android
4 3 (0.96%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.64%) Debian
6 1 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.32%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (50.16%) CI/CD
2 134 (42.81%) Agile
2 134 (42.81%) Software Engineering
3 114 (36.42%) DevOps
4 113 (36.10%) Test Automation
5 89 (28.43%) Mentoring
6 83 (26.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (23.32%) AI
9 67 (21.41%) Full-Stack Development
10 62 (19.81%) Microservices
11 61 (19.49%) Technical Leadership
11 61 (19.49%) User Experience
12 50 (15.97%) Software Testing
13 44 (14.06%) Observability
13 44 (14.06%) Scrum
14 42 (13.42%) Containerisation
15 39 (12.46%) Clean Code
16 38 (12.14%) Decision-Making
17 37 (11.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 94 (30.03%) Python
2 89 (28.43%) JavaScript
3 66 (21.09%) TypeScript
4 59 (18.85%) Java
5 52 (16.61%) C#
6 51 (16.29%) SQL
7 38 (12.14%) C++
8 32 (10.22%) C
9 20 (6.39%) PHP
10 17 (5.43%) Swift
11 14 (4.47%) Kotlin
11 14 (4.47%) Rust
12 6 (1.92%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.60%) Bash
13 5 (1.60%) Groovy
14 4 (1.28%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.96%) Go
15 3 (0.96%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.96%) Scala
16 2 (0.64%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 43 (13.74%) Degree
2 28 (8.95%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.24%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.64%) PhD
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.32%) CISM
9 1 (0.32%) CISSP
9 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.32%) GSEC
9 1 (0.32%) HNC
9 1 (0.32%) HND
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (19.49%) QA
2 22 (7.03%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.75%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.28%) WCAG
6 3 (0.96%) IEC 61131
6 3 (0.96%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.64%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.64%) MISRA
7 2 (0.64%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.32%) Automotive SPICE
8 1 (0.32%) GDPR
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
8 1 (0.32%) NIST
8 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 63 (20.13%) Docker
2 14 (4.47%) Hyper-V
2 14 (4.47%) KVM
2 14 (4.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.24%) Firmware
4 5 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.96%) vSphere
7 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (11.50%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.43%) Terraform
3 9 (2.88%) Grafana
4 6 (1.92%) Ansible
5 4 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.96%) Control-M
6 3 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.96%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.96%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.96%) Kibana
7 2 (0.64%) Packer
7 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.43%) VMware
3 15 (4.79%) Oracle
4 14 (4.47%) Amplitude
4 14 (4.47%) Braze
5 8 (2.56%) Google
6 7 (2.24%) Sitecore
7 6 (1.92%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.92%) Splunk
8 5 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.96%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.96%) Databricks
9 3 (0.96%) Foundry
9 3 (0.96%) HP
9 3 (0.96%) Rockwell
9 3 (0.96%) Siemens
10 2 (0.64%) IBM
10 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.64%) SAP
11 1 (0.32%) Sage