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

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	278	349	247
Rank change year-on-year	+71	-102	+51
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality	516	198	466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London	0.59%	0.58%	0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.83%	0.67%	1.19%
Number of salaries quoted	310	128	236
10^th Percentile	£41,250	£35,500	£41,422
25^th Percentile	£50,752	£51,250	£53,594
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£60,000	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.33%	-7.69%	+13.04%
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£78,813	£85,000
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£83,750	-
UK median annual salary	£70,000	£75,000	£70,000
% change year-on-year	-6.67%	+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 requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	62,289	29,667	39,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	71.03%	86.85%	79.63%
Number of salaries quoted	43,543	16,272	19,541
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£26,750	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£40,000	£32,000	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£46,500	£53,928
Median % change year-on-year	+18.28%	-13.77%	+0.80%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£63,750	£68,750
90^th Percentile	£87,500	£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 Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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 18 October 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 18 October 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	-1	149	£65,000	+6.12%	159
South East	+23	134	£65,000	-13.33%	135
North West	-4	86	£65,000	+1.96%	83
South West	-3	79	£71,250	+5.56%	64
Midlands	-12	56	£55,000	-8.33%	66
Scotland	+22	36	£75,000	-25.00%	116
Yorkshire	-17	36	£62,500	+11.11%	48
West Midlands	-30	36	£61,190	+1.98%	46
East of England	-18	33	£50,000	-16.67%	68
Wales	-48	29	£66,000	+14.78%	15
North East	-50	27	£73,750	+13.46%	29
East Midlands	-17	20	£55,000	-4.35%	20
Northern Ireland	-78	1	-	-	29
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Code Quality Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, job vacancies citing Code Quality also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region with a requirement for Code Quality.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Software Engineering	54.8%	283
2	CI/CD	53.9%	278
3	Agile	51.0%	263
4	Test Automation	37.8%	195
5	AWS	37.0%	191
6	Mentoring	35.9%	185
7	DevOps	35.1%	181
8	AI	33.5%	173
9	Continuous Improvement	32.4%	167
10	React	30.8%	159
11	Azure	30.4%	157
12	JavaScript	30.2%	156
13	Problem-Solving	30.0%	155
14	Python	26.7%	138
15	TypeScript	26.6%	137
16	C#	25.4%	131
17	Java	24.0%	124
18	.NET	23.4%	121
19	SQL	22.5%	116
20	QA	21.7%	112
21	Docker	21.5%	111
22	Microservices	19.6%	101
23	Git	19.2%	99
24	Software Testing	19.0%	98
25	Degree	18.4%	95
25	Technical Leadership	18.4%	95
27	Full-Stack Development	17.2%	89
27	SDLC	17.2%	89
29	Security Cleared	16.9%	87
30	Scrum	16.7%	86

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

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Software Engineering	54.8%	283
2	CI/CD	53.9%	278
3	Agile	51.0%	263
4	Test Automation	37.8%	195
5	Mentoring	35.9%	185
6	DevOps	35.1%	181
7	AI	33.5%	173
8	Continuous Improvement	32.4%	167
9	Problem-Solving	30.0%	155
10	Microservices	19.6%	101
11	Software Testing	19.0%	98
12	Technical Leadership	18.4%	95
13	Full-Stack Development	17.2%	89
13	SDLC	17.2%	89
15	Scrum	16.7%	86
16	Software Architecture	13.2%	68
17	Decision-Making	12.6%	65
18	Infrastructure as Code	12.4%	64
19	Containerisation	12.0%	62
20	Observability	11.8%	61