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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 238 252
Rank change year-on-year -80 +14 +112
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 352 387 763
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.16% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.31% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 248 309 504
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,215 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +15.16% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,233 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.69% +10.39% -8.40%

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 49,875 29,577 59,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.70% 88.77% 80.32%
Number of salaries quoted 35,066 15,786 41,368
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,959 £32,951 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,274 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -44 92 £67,500 +3.85% 87
South East -31 86 £61,250 -23.44% 74
Midlands 0 60 £65,000 +13.04% 28
North West -29 60 £69,639 +7.14% 51
South West -34 50 £55,000 -12.00% 99
East Midlands -5 30 £55,000 +41.94% 6
West Midlands -17 30 £65,000 +8.33% 22
Scotland +13 26 £75,000 -4.76% 15
East of England -85 25 £60,000 -9.40% 11
Yorkshire -31 19 £62,500 -10.71% 22
North East -33 13 £70,000 +31.76% 14
Wales -44 12 £72,000 +20.00% 7
Northern Ireland -64 3 £65,000 +18.18% 12
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 16 (4.55%) Confluence
2 13 (3.69%) CMS
3 7 (1.99%) Apache
3 7 (1.99%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.85%) FactoryTalk
4 3 (0.85%) nginx
4 3 (0.85%) WinCC
5 2 (0.57%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.57%) WordPress
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) Documentum
6 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.85%) Simulink
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 140 (39.77%) AWS
2 118 (33.52%) Azure
3 47 (13.35%) GitHub
4 46 (13.07%) GCP
5 42 (11.93%) Serverless
6 28 (7.95%) SaaS
7 27 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.98%) Firebase
10 14 (3.98%) Stripe
10 14 (3.98%) TestFlight
11 13 (3.69%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
13 11 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
14 7 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.99%) Figma
15 6 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.99%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.42%) Modbus
2 5 (1.42%) Wireshark
3 3 (0.85%) Broadband
3 3 (0.85%) Profibus
4 2 (0.57%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (0.57%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.57%) SMS
4 2 (0.57%) VoIP
5 1 (0.28%) AMQP
5 1 (0.28%) ATM
5 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) LTE
5 1 (0.28%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.10%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.55%) MySQL
3 14 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.69%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.69%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.41%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.42%) Redis
8 4 (1.14%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.85%) Big Data
9 3 (0.85%) Power BI
10 2 (0.57%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.57%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.57%) Tableau
11 1 (0.28%) GIS
11 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (15.91%) Git
2 36 (10.23%) JIRA
3 17 (4.83%) GitLab
4 14 (3.98%) Crashlytics
4 14 (3.98%) XCTest
5 12 (3.41%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.41%) JUnit
6 10 (2.84%) Claude Code
6 10 (2.84%) Selenium
7 7 (1.99%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.99%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.99%) Maven
7 7 (1.99%) Mockito
7 7 (1.99%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.70%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.42%) Yeoman
10 4 (1.14%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.14%) Spock
10 4 (1.14%) Storybook
10 4 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 114 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.77%) Finance
3 28 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.69%) Retail
5 12 (3.41%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.84%) Banking
8 9 (2.56%) Electronics
9 7 (1.99%) Legal
9 7 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.42%) Advertising
11 5 (1.42%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.14%) Marketing
12 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Aviation
13 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 93 (26.42%) Developer
1 93 (26.42%) Lead
1 93 (26.42%) Software Engineer
2 78 (22.16%) Senior
3 32 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 26 (7.39%) Senior Developer
5 19 (5.40%) Technical Leader
6 18 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (5.11%) Software Developer
7 17 (4.83%) Lead Developer
8 16 (4.55%) Java Developer
9 15 (4.26%) Python Engineer
9 15 (4.26%) Test Engineer
10 14 (3.98%) Mobile Engineer
10 14 (3.98%) Python Software Engineer
10 14 (3.98%) Team Leader
11 13 (3.69%) Engineering Manager
12 12 (3.41%) Analyst
13 11 (3.13%) Architect
13 11 (3.13%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (24.15%) React
2 57 (16.19%) .NET
3 43 (12.22%) REST
4 42 (11.93%) Node.js
5 33 (9.38%) AngularJS
5 33 (9.38%) CSS
6 30 (8.52%) HTML
7 29 (8.24%) RESTful
8 26 (7.39%) Spring
9 17 (4.83%) SwiftUI
10 16 (4.55%) UIKit
11 15 (4.26%) Spring Boot
11 15 (4.26%) Vue
12 13 (3.69%) ASP.NET
12 13 (3.69%) Django
12 13 (3.69%) Web Services
13 12 (3.41%) Next.js
13 12 (3.41%) Playwright
14 11 (3.13%) AWS CDK
14 11 (3.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.06%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (8.24%) Mobile App
4 27 (7.67%) Product Ownership
5 25 (7.10%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (5.97%) Onboarding
7 17 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (4.55%) Client/Server
9 10 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.56%) Management Information System
11 8 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
11 8 (2.27%) NHS
12 6 (1.70%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.70%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.42%) SCADA
13 5 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.42%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.14%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.34%) Linux
2 24 (6.82%) Windows
3 20 (5.68%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.42%) Android
5 4 (1.14%) Debian
5 4 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.28%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (48.58%) CI/CD
2 158 (44.89%) Agile
3 157 (44.60%) Software Engineering
4 138 (39.20%) Test Automation
5 129 (36.65%) DevOps
6 107 (30.40%) Mentoring
7 99 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (23.86%) AI
10 70 (19.89%) Technical Leadership
11 69 (19.60%) Microservices
12 67 (19.03%) Full-Stack Development
13 64 (18.18%) Software Testing
13 64 (18.18%) User Experience
14 53 (15.06%) Scrum
15 47 (13.35%) Clean Code
16 46 (13.07%) Observability
17 45 (12.78%) SDLC
18 44 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
19 43 (12.22%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 104 (29.55%) Python
2 98 (27.84%) JavaScript
3 71 (20.17%) Java
4 70 (19.89%) TypeScript
5 63 (17.90%) C#
6 57 (16.19%) SQL
7 47 (13.35%) C++
8 39 (11.08%) C
9 22 (6.25%) PHP
10 17 (4.83%) Swift
11 15 (4.26%) Kotlin
12 14 (3.98%) Rust
13 6 (1.70%) Go
13 6 (1.70%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.42%) Bash
14 5 (1.42%) Groovy
14 5 (1.42%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.42%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.85%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (14.49%) Degree
2 38 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (5.68%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.83%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.56%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.57%) PhD
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CISM
9 1 (0.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.28%) GSEC
9 1 (0.28%) HNC
9 1 (0.28%) HND
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (21.88%) QA
2 25 (7.10%) Accessibility
3 21 (5.97%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.70%) WCAG
5 3 (0.85%) IEC 61131
5 3 (0.85%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.57%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.57%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.57%) MISRA
6 2 (0.57%) MISRA C
6 2 (0.57%) NCSC
6 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (18.18%) Docker
2 14 (3.98%) Hyper-V
2 14 (3.98%) KVM
2 14 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.84%) Firmware
4 6 (1.70%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.85%) vSphere
7 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (11.08%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.67%) Terraform
3 9 (2.56%) Ansible
4 8 (2.27%) Grafana
5 4 (1.14%) Functional Safety
5 4 (1.14%) Kibana
6 3 (0.85%) Control-M
6 3 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.85%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.57%) Packer
7 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.57%) Puppet
8 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.28%) logstash
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.83%) VMware
3 14 (3.98%) Amplitude
3 14 (3.98%) Braze
3 14 (3.98%) Oracle
4 13 (3.69%) Google
5 7 (1.99%) Sitecore
6 6 (1.70%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.14%) Splunk
9 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.85%) Databricks
9 3 (0.85%) Foundry
9 3 (0.85%) HP
9 3 (0.85%) Intel
9 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.85%) Rockwell
9 3 (0.85%) Siemens
10 2 (0.57%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.57%) Veracode