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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 321 249
Rank change year-on-year +37 -72 +48
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 494 223 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.65% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.74% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 308 147 257
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,844 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +18.07%
75th Percentile £79,063 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

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 60,592 29,959 42,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.43% 86.74% 79.17%
Number of salaries quoted 42,760 16,149 22,358
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £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 £88,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%

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 26 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 26 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 +7 148 £67,500 +14.89% 186
South East +22 122 £62,500 -19.35% 162
North West +4 88 £66,124 +15.00% 109
South West -21 73 £62,500 +4.17% 149
Midlands -21 56 £55,000 -8.33% 98
Scotland +26 38 £72,500 -27.50% 153
West Midlands -22 36 £67,500 +12.50% 69
East of England -3 34 £52,500 -12.50% 51
Yorkshire -29 32 £65,000 +6.12% 40
North East -40 28 £77,500 +19.23% 38
Wales -44 24 £66,000 +14.78% 13
East Midlands -18 20 £55,000 -4.35% 29
Northern Ireland -89 2 £65,000 +18.18% 26
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 19 (3.85%) Apache
2 12 (2.43%) CMS
3 11 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.23%) Confluence
4 7 (1.42%) IIS
4 7 (1.42%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.61%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.61%) WinCC
8 2 (0.40%) nginx
8 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.40%) WordPress
9 1 (0.20%) Documentum
9 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Kentico
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.61%) Simulink
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.40%) Trello
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.61%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 188 (38.06%) AWS
2 150 (30.36%) Azure
3 59 (11.94%) GitHub
4 55 (11.13%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (10.12%) GCP
6 39 (7.89%) Serverless
7 36 (7.29%) SaaS
8 29 (5.87%) GitHub Copilot
9 24 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (4.05%) Anthropic Claude
11 18 (3.64%) Amazon S3
12 16 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.43%) dbt
14 11 (2.23%) Snowflake
15 10 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (2.02%) Power Platform
16 9 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (1.62%) Azure Functions
17 8 (1.62%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.04%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.42%) Wireshark
3 6 (1.21%) HTTP
4 5 (1.01%) Modbus
5 3 (0.61%) Profibus
6 2 (0.40%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.40%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.40%) RFID
6 2 (0.40%) SMS
6 2 (0.40%) VoIP
7 1 (0.20%) ATM
7 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.20%) Internet
7 1 (0.20%) MQTT
7 1 (0.20%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.11%) SQL Server
2 39 (7.89%) Relational Database
3 38 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (6.48%) MySQL
5 19 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 19 (3.85%) Redis
6 12 (2.43%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.23%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.01%) Power BI
11 4 (0.81%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.81%) GIS
11 4 (0.81%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.61%) Big Data
12 3 (0.61%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.61%) SQLite
12 3 (0.61%) ZAP BI
13 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 98 (19.84%) Git
2 40 (8.10%) JIRA
3 37 (7.49%) GitLab
4 29 (5.87%) Jenkins
5 18 (3.64%) Claude Code
6 16 (3.24%) Selenium
7 15 (3.04%) Cypress.io
8 12 (2.43%) JUnit
8 12 (2.43%) Maven
9 10 (2.02%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.02%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.42%) Postman
10 7 (1.42%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.21%) Storybook
12 5 (1.01%) Crashlytics
12 5 (1.01%) NUnit
12 5 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (1.01%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.01%) XCTest
General
1 177 (35.83%) Social Skills
2 89 (18.02%) Finance
3 69 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (4.86%) Electronics
5 24 (4.86%) Law
6 22 (4.45%) Public Sector
7 21 (4.25%) Retail
8 17 (3.44%) Publishing
9 13 (2.63%) Banking
9 13 (2.63%) Marketing
10 10 (2.02%) Aviation
10 10 (2.02%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.42%) Games
12 7 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.21%) Advertising
14 5 (1.01%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 147 (29.76%) Developer
2 136 (27.53%) Software Engineer
3 133 (26.92%) Senior
4 130 (26.32%) Lead
5 56 (11.34%) Senior Software Engineer
6 53 (10.73%) Senior Developer
7 37 (7.49%) Software Developer
8 25 (5.06%) Team Leader
8 25 (5.06%) Technical Leader
9 24 (4.86%) Lead Software Engineer
10 23 (4.66%) Test Engineer
11 21 (4.25%) C# Developer
12 20 (4.05%) Lead Developer
12 20 (4.05%) Software Manager
13 19 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.64%) .NET Developer
15 16 (3.24%) Software Team Leader
16 15 (3.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 15 (3.04%) Python Engineer
17 14 (2.83%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (32.19%) React
2 113 (22.87%) .NET
3 67 (13.56%) Node.js
4 65 (13.16%) REST
5 57 (11.54%) AngularJS
6 50 (10.12%) CSS
7 48 (9.72%) HTML
8 47 (9.51%) Terraform
9 39 (7.89%) Spring
10 36 (7.29%) RESTful
11 28 (5.67%) Spring Boot
12 27 (5.47%) Playwright
13 26 (5.26%) .NET Framework
14 25 (5.06%) ASP.NET
14 25 (5.06%) Kafka
15 21 (4.25%) .NET Core
16 20 (4.05%) Next.js
17 19 (3.85%) Vue
18 18 (3.64%) Entity Framework
19 15 (3.04%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 82 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.31%) Product Ownership
3 44 (8.91%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (4.66%) Mobile App
5 20 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (3.85%) AI Agents
7 17 (3.44%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.43%) Media Streaming
9 12 (2.43%) Podcast
10 11 (2.23%) Algorithms
11 10 (2.02%) Embedded Systems
11 10 (2.02%) SCADA
12 9 (1.82%) Client/Server
12 9 (1.82%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.62%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.62%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 57 (11.54%) Linux
2 30 (6.07%) Windows
3 16 (3.24%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.63%) Android
5 9 (1.82%) Debian
6 4 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.20%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (55.06%) Software Engineering
2 269 (54.45%) CI/CD
3 257 (52.02%) Agile
4 189 (38.26%) Mentoring
5 187 (37.85%) Test Automation
6 183 (37.04%) DevOps
7 161 (32.59%) AI
8 154 (31.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 142 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
10 98 (19.84%) Software Testing
11 96 (19.43%) Microservices
12 94 (19.03%) Technical Leadership
13 92 (18.62%) Scrum
14 90 (18.22%) SDLC
15 83 (16.80%) Full-Stack Development
16 71 (14.37%) Decision-Making
17 68 (13.77%) Software Architecture
18 65 (13.16%) Observability
19 63 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
20 60 (12.15%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 156 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 134 (27.13%) Python
3 130 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 122 (24.70%) C#
5 114 (23.08%) Java
6 105 (21.26%) SQL
7 43 (8.70%) C++
8 27 (5.47%) C
9 18 (3.64%) PHP
10 14 (2.83%) Go
11 13 (2.63%) Ruby
12 9 (1.82%) Bash
13 7 (1.42%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.42%) Rust
14 6 (1.21%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.01%) Apex Code
15 5 (1.01%) Groovy
15 5 (1.01%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.01%) Swift
15 5 (1.01%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 95 (19.23%) Degree
2 70 (14.17%) Security Cleared
3 45 (9.11%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (5.06%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.44%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.23%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.61%) OCP
9 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.40%) PhD
10 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CISSP
11 1 (0.20%) ISEB
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (23.48%) QA
2 41 (8.30%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.45%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.02%) WCAG
5 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.81%) NIST
6 4 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.61%) IEC 61131
8 2 (0.40%) Automotive SPICE
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.40%) GDPR
8 2 (0.40%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.40%) MISRA
8 2 (0.40%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.40%) NCSC
8 2 (0.40%) PMO
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 101 (20.45%) Docker
2 15 (3.04%) Firmware
3 14 (2.83%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.61%) vSphere
5 2 (0.40%) KVM
5 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 75 (15.18%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.23%) Ansible
2 11 (2.23%) Grafana
3 5 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.81%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.81%) Packer
4 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
4 4 (0.81%) Puppet
5 3 (0.61%) Control-M
5 3 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.61%) Kibana
5 3 (0.61%) Podman
6 2 (0.40%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.20%) logstash
7 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (9.31%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.86%) Google
3 21 (4.25%) Oracle
4 12 (2.43%) Databricks
5 10 (2.02%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.62%) Sage
6 8 (1.62%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.62%) Sitecore
7 7 (1.42%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.01%) Amplitude
8 5 (1.01%) Braze
8 5 (1.01%) Intel
8 5 (1.01%) Splunk
8 5 (1.01%) VMware
9 4 (0.81%) Adobe
9 4 (0.81%) SAP
10 3 (0.61%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.61%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.61%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.61%) Siemens