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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 307 263
Rank change year-on-year +19 -44 +70
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 458 277 560
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.80% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.92% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 297 197 330
10th Percentile £41,700 £34,650 £33,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £50,000 £48,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,750 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,252 30,232 47,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.46% 87.40% 78.70%
Number of salaries quoted 38,156 16,505 29,639
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,028
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -26 133 £69,305 +20.53% 142
South East +1 108 £62,500 -16.67% 124
North West -20 79 £69,986 +16.64% 84
South West -17 69 £58,750 -6.00% 77
Midlands +15 67 £55,000 -8.33% 50
West Midlands -6 39 £65,000 +8.33% 30
Scotland +27 32 £75,000 -25.00% 106
East of England -12 30 £60,000 - 54
East Midlands 0 28 £55,000 +29.41% 20
Yorkshire -22 28 £62,500 +13.64% 35
North East -34 26 £70,000 +7.69% 24
Wales -43 19 £67,500 +12.50% 10
Northern Ireland -73 2 £65,000 +18.18% 19
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 (3.28%) Apache
1 15 (3.28%) Confluence
2 12 (2.62%) CMS
3 10 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.53%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.66%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.66%) IIS
6 3 (0.66%) WinCC
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 2 (0.44%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.44%) WordPress
8 1 (0.22%) Documentum
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.66%) Simulink
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Trello
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.09%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.66%) Shopify
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.22%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 187 (40.83%) AWS
2 152 (33.19%) Azure
3 63 (13.76%) GitHub
4 62 (13.54%) GCP
5 47 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (10.04%) Serverless
7 32 (6.99%) SaaS
8 27 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (5.24%) GitHub Copilot
10 18 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.28%) Amazon S3
11 15 (3.28%) Anthropic Claude
11 15 (3.28%) TestFlight
12 13 (2.84%) Firebase
12 13 (2.84%) Stripe
13 10 (2.18%) dbt
14 9 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (1.75%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.40%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.31%) HTTP
2 6 (1.31%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.09%) Modbus
4 3 (0.66%) Broadband
4 3 (0.66%) Profibus
5 2 (0.44%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.44%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.44%) SMS
5 2 (0.44%) VoIP
6 1 (0.22%) ATM
6 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.22%) Internet
6 1 (0.22%) MQTT
6 1 (0.22%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.83%) SQL Server
2 37 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (6.33%) MySQL
4 28 (6.11%) Relational Database
5 17 (3.71%) Redis
6 15 (3.28%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.84%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.75%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.09%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.87%) Power BI
13 3 (0.66%) Big Data
13 3 (0.66%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.66%) GIS
13 3 (0.66%) SQLite
13 3 (0.66%) ZAP BI
14 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (18.56%) Git
2 41 (8.95%) JIRA
3 27 (5.90%) GitLab
4 22 (4.80%) Jenkins
5 15 (3.28%) JUnit
6 14 (3.06%) Selenium
7 13 (2.84%) Crashlytics
7 13 (2.84%) XCTest
8 12 (2.62%) Claude Code
8 12 (2.62%) Maven
9 11 (2.40%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.97%) SonarQube
11 8 (1.75%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.53%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.53%) Mockito
12 7 (1.53%) Storybook
13 6 (1.31%) Visual Studio
14 5 (1.09%) Eclipse
14 5 (1.09%) NUnit
14 5 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 169 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 76 (16.59%) Finance
3 58 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (4.37%) Law
5 20 (4.37%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.71%) Electronics
7 15 (3.28%) Retail
8 12 (2.62%) Banking
9 10 (2.18%) Marketing
10 8 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.53%) Advertising
11 7 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.09%) Aviation
12 5 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.09%) Publishing
13 4 (0.87%) Games
13 4 (0.87%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (29.26%) Developer
2 124 (27.07%) Lead
3 118 (25.76%) Software Engineer
4 112 (24.45%) Senior
5 46 (10.04%) Senior Software Engineer
6 43 (9.39%) Senior Developer
7 33 (7.21%) Software Developer
8 24 (5.24%) Technical Leader
9 23 (5.02%) Test Engineer
10 22 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (4.59%) Lead Developer
12 20 (4.37%) Team Leader
13 18 (3.93%) Lead Software Engineer
14 17 (3.71%) Python Engineer
15 16 (3.49%) Java Developer
15 16 (3.49%) Software Manager
16 15 (3.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 14 (3.06%) C# Developer
18 13 (2.84%) .NET Developer
18 13 (2.84%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (28.17%) React
2 95 (20.74%) .NET
3 65 (14.19%) REST
4 64 (13.97%) Node.js
5 54 (11.79%) AngularJS
6 50 (10.92%) CSS
7 48 (10.48%) HTML
8 32 (6.99%) RESTful
9 28 (6.11%) Spring
10 23 (5.02%) .NET Framework
11 22 (4.80%) Playwright
12 21 (4.59%) ASP.NET
12 21 (4.59%) Next.js
13 19 (4.15%) Vue
14 17 (3.71%) .NET Core
14 17 (3.71%) GraphQL
15 16 (3.49%) Spring Boot
16 15 (3.28%) Django
16 15 (3.28%) Entity Framework
16 15 (3.28%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 81 (17.69%) Cloud Native
2 42 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
2 42 (9.17%) Product Ownership
3 31 (6.77%) Mobile App
4 26 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (4.15%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.62%) Client/Server
8 11 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (2.18%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.97%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.97%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.53%) SCADA
12 6 (1.31%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.09%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (13.32%) Linux
2 29 (6.33%) Windows
3 26 (5.68%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.84%) Android
5 6 (1.31%) Debian
6 4 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (51.09%) CI/CD
2 227 (49.56%) Agile
3 225 (49.13%) Software Engineering
4 180 (39.30%) Test Automation
5 173 (37.77%) DevOps
6 161 (35.15%) Mentoring
7 138 (30.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 132 (28.82%) AI
9 118 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
10 88 (19.21%) Microservices
10 88 (19.21%) Technical Leadership
11 83 (18.12%) SDLC
12 82 (17.90%) Full-Stack Development
13 81 (17.69%) Software Testing
14 76 (16.59%) Scrum
15 63 (13.76%) Decision-Making
16 61 (13.32%) Infrastructure as Code
16 61 (13.32%) User Experience
17 58 (12.66%) Clean Code
18 53 (11.57%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 150 (32.75%) JavaScript
2 140 (30.57%) Python
3 99 (21.62%) TypeScript
4 98 (21.40%) C#
4 98 (21.40%) Java
5 87 (19.00%) SQL
6 50 (10.92%) C++
7 38 (8.30%) C
8 20 (4.37%) PHP
9 15 (3.28%) Swift
10 14 (3.06%) Go
10 14 (3.06%) Kotlin
11 13 (2.84%) Rust
12 9 (1.97%) Ruby
13 6 (1.31%) Bash
13 6 (1.31%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.09%) Groovy
14 5 (1.09%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.09%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.66%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 81 (17.69%) Degree
2 63 (13.76%) Security Cleared
3 39 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 32 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.37%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.93%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.18%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.66%) OCP
8 3 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CISSP
10 1 (0.22%) HNC
10 1 (0.22%) HND
10 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (23.80%) QA
2 38 (8.30%) Accessibility
3 23 (5.02%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.18%) WCAG
5 7 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.87%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.87%) NIST
7 3 (0.66%) IEC 61131
7 3 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.44%) Automotive SPICE
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.44%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.44%) MISRA
8 2 (0.44%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.44%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) GDPR
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (19.00%) Docker
2 14 (3.06%) Firmware
3 10 (2.18%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (1.97%) KVM
4 9 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.66%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 41 (8.95%) Terraform
3 11 (2.40%) Grafana
4 10 (2.18%) Ansible
5 5 (1.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.87%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.87%) Kibana
6 4 (0.87%) Puppet
7 3 (0.66%) Control-M
7 3 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.66%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.44%) Podman
9 1 (0.22%) Argo
9 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.22%) logstash
9 1 (0.22%) Packer
9 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 40 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.46%) Google
3 16 (3.49%) Oracle
4 13 (2.84%) Amplitude
4 13 (2.84%) Braze
5 12 (2.62%) VMware
6 11 (2.40%) Databricks
7 8 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.53%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.53%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.31%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.09%) Intel
10 5 (1.09%) Sage
11 4 (0.87%) Adobe
11 4 (0.87%) Splunk
12 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.66%) Foundry
12 3 (0.66%) HP
12 3 (0.66%) Rockwell
12 3 (0.66%) Siemens