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 citing Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 319 267
Rank change year-on-year +32 -52 +27
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 533 201 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.55% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.66% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 310 132 223
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £41,319
25th Percentile £50,752 £46,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,938 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.14% +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 citing process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
15 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills 64,888 30,554 38,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.13% 83.63% 80.51%
Number of salaries quoted 43,972 18,282 18,678
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £54,714
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.18% +4.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 15 November 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 15 November 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South East +24 156 £67,500 -10.00% 171
North of England -25 143 £65,000 +12.07% 149
South West -11 80 £72,750 +16.40% 69
North West -36 80 £65,000 +6.12% 83
Midlands -39 61 £65,000 +13.04% 84
West Midlands -37 40 £51,538 -10.37% 46
Scotland +13 35 £75,000 - 123
Yorkshire -34 35 £60,000 +11.63% 44
East of England -37 34 £50,000 -16.67% 57
North East -50 28 £77,500 +25.51% 22
Wales -60 22 £63,000 +9.57% 13
East Midlands -36 21 £67,500 +17.39% 38
Northern Ireland -74 3 £50,000 -39.39% 43
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Software Engineering57.6%307
2CI/CD53.7%286
3Agile48.2%257
4Test Automation37.3%199
5AI35.3%188
6Mentoring34.3%183
7Continuous Improvement33.4%178
8DevOps32.5%173
9Problem-Solving31.3%167
10Software Testing18.9%101
11SDLC18.8%100
12Microservices18.4%98
13Technical Leadership16.9%90
14Scrum15.9%85
15Full-Stack Development15.2%81
16Software Architecture13.1%70
17Computer Science12.2%65
18Coaching11.6%62
18Software Delivery11.6%62
18Test Strategy11.6%62
695 Code Quality jobs in the UK excluding London