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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 229 261
Rank change year-on-year -93 +32 +124
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 323 390 767
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.29% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.42% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 229 315 503
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,215 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +20.01% +2.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% +10.37% -11.11%

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 47,744 27,543 63,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.98% 90.77% 79.70%
Number of salaries quoted 33,496 14,077 44,073
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -50 86 £67,500 +3.85% 38
South East -30 71 £62,500 -21.88% 53
Midlands -12 57 £65,000 +13.04% 17
North West -20 55 £69,639 +7.14% 19
South West -34 51 £55,000 -12.00% 23
East Midlands 0 30 £55,000 +41.94% 5
West Midlands -20 27 £65,000 +8.33% 12
Scotland +16 23 £73,750 -6.35% 4
East of England -88 23 £62,500 -5.64% 19
Yorkshire -29 21 £62,500 -13.19% 11
Wales -39 11 £72,500 +20.83% 2
North East -43 10 £70,000 +31.76% 8
Northern Ireland -39 3 £65,000 +18.18% 8
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 17 (5.26%) Confluence
2 13 (4.02%) CMS
3 7 (2.17%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (1.86%) Apache
5 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.93%) FactoryTalk
5 3 (0.93%) nginx
5 3 (0.93%) WinCC
6 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.62%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.62%) WordPress
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.62%) Simulink
1 2 (0.62%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.55%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.31%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 132 (40.87%) AWS
2 111 (34.37%) Azure
3 44 (13.62%) GCP
4 43 (13.31%) GitHub
5 39 (12.07%) Serverless
6 27 (8.36%) SaaS
7 23 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.33%) Firebase
10 14 (4.33%) Stripe
10 14 (4.33%) TestFlight
11 11 (3.41%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.17%) Figma
14 6 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.86%) Anthropic Claude
14 6 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.55%) Modbus
2 4 (1.24%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.24%) Wireshark
3 3 (0.93%) Broadband
3 3 (0.93%) Profibus
4 2 (0.62%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (0.62%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.62%) SMS
4 2 (0.62%) VoIP
5 1 (0.31%) AMQP
5 1 (0.31%) ATM
5 1 (0.31%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.31%) LTE
5 1 (0.31%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.50%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.64%) MySQL
3 13 (4.02%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.72%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.24%) Big Data
8 4 (1.24%) Redis
9 3 (0.93%) Power BI
10 2 (0.62%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.62%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.62%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.62%) Tableau
11 1 (0.31%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 48 (14.86%) Git
2 36 (11.15%) JIRA
3 14 (4.33%) Crashlytics
3 14 (4.33%) GitLab
3 14 (4.33%) XCTest
4 13 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.02%) JUnit
5 9 (2.79%) Selenium
6 8 (2.48%) Claude Code
6 8 (2.48%) Maven
6 8 (2.48%) Mockito
6 8 (2.48%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.17%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.86%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.86%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.55%) Yeoman
10 4 (1.24%) Spock
10 4 (1.24%) Storybook
11 3 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.93%) TestRail
General
1 102 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.55%) Finance
3 22 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.02%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.02%) Retail
5 10 (3.10%) Banking
6 8 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.17%) Electronics
7 7 (2.17%) Legal
7 7 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.86%) Marketing
9 5 (1.55%) Advertising
9 5 (1.55%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.24%) Law
11 3 (0.93%) Aviation
11 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (26.32%) Developer
1 85 (26.32%) Software Engineer
2 84 (26.01%) Lead
3 69 (21.36%) Senior
4 29 (8.98%) Senior Software Engineer
5 23 (7.12%) Senior Developer
6 18 (5.57%) Software Developer
7 16 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (4.95%) Lead Developer
7 16 (4.95%) Technical Leader
8 15 (4.64%) Java Developer
9 14 (4.33%) Mobile Engineer
10 13 (4.02%) Python Engineer
10 13 (4.02%) Python Software Engineer
11 12 (3.72%) Analyst
11 12 (3.72%) Engineering Manager
11 12 (3.72%) Team Leader
12 11 (3.41%) Architect
12 11 (3.41%) Test Engineer
13 10 (3.10%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (23.84%) React
2 53 (16.41%) .NET
3 39 (12.07%) REST
4 37 (11.46%) Node.js
5 30 (9.29%) CSS
6 28 (8.67%) AngularJS
6 28 (8.67%) RESTful
7 27 (8.36%) HTML
8 25 (7.74%) Spring
9 17 (5.26%) SwiftUI
10 16 (4.95%) UIKit
11 15 (4.64%) Vue
12 14 (4.33%) Spring Boot
13 13 (4.02%) Web Services
14 12 (3.72%) Django
15 11 (3.41%) ASP.NET
15 11 (3.41%) AWS CDK
15 11 (3.41%) Laravel
16 10 (3.10%) Playwright
16 10 (3.10%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 36 (11.15%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (8.98%) Mobile App
4 24 (7.43%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (6.81%) Product Ownership
6 21 (6.50%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (4.33%) Client/Server
9 10 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.79%) Management Information System
11 8 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (2.48%) NHS
12 6 (1.86%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.55%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
14 4 (1.24%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (0.93%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.55%) Linux
2 22 (6.81%) Windows
3 20 (6.19%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.55%) Android
5 3 (0.93%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.62%) Debian
6 2 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.31%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (48.92%) CI/CD
2 140 (43.34%) Agile
3 138 (42.72%) Software Engineering
4 120 (37.15%) Test Automation
5 118 (36.53%) DevOps
6 94 (29.10%) Mentoring
7 89 (27.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (22.60%) AI
10 66 (20.43%) User Experience
11 65 (20.12%) Full-Stack Development
11 65 (20.12%) Technical Leadership
12 62 (19.20%) Microservices
13 53 (16.41%) Software Testing
14 49 (15.17%) Scrum
15 43 (13.31%) Observability
16 41 (12.69%) Clean Code
17 40 (12.38%) Containerisation
18 39 (12.07%) SDLC
19 38 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 94 (29.10%) Python
2 89 (27.55%) JavaScript
3 63 (19.50%) TypeScript
4 61 (18.89%) Java
5 56 (17.34%) C#
6 52 (16.10%) SQL
7 42 (13.00%) C++
8 36 (11.15%) C
9 20 (6.19%) PHP
10 17 (5.26%) Swift
11 15 (4.64%) Kotlin
12 14 (4.33%) Rust
13 6 (1.86%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.55%) Bash
14 5 (1.55%) Groovy
15 4 (1.24%) Go
15 4 (1.24%) MATLAB
15 4 (1.24%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.93%) Embedded C
17 2 (0.62%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 44 (13.62%) Degree
2 32 (9.91%) Security Cleared
3 26 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.02%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.48%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.62%) PhD
9 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.31%) CISM
9 1 (0.31%) CISSP
9 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.31%) GSEC
9 1 (0.31%) HNC
9 1 (0.31%) HND
9 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (20.43%) QA
2 23 (7.12%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.19%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.55%) WCAG
6 3 (0.93%) IEC 61131
6 3 (0.93%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.62%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.62%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.62%) MISRA
7 2 (0.62%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.62%) NCSC
8 1 (0.31%) GDPR
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
8 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (18.89%) Docker
2 14 (4.33%) Hyper-V
2 14 (4.33%) KVM
2 14 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.17%) Firmware
4 5 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.93%) vSphere
7 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.88%) Terraform
3 8 (2.48%) Grafana
4 7 (2.17%) Ansible
5 4 (1.24%) Functional Safety
5 4 (1.24%) Kibana
6 3 (0.93%) Control-M
6 3 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.93%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.62%) Packer
7 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.31%) logstash
8 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (6.19%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.26%) VMware
3 14 (4.33%) Amplitude
3 14 (4.33%) Braze
3 14 (4.33%) Oracle
4 9 (2.79%) Google
5 7 (2.17%) Sitecore
6 6 (1.86%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.55%) Splunk
8 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.93%) Databricks
8 3 (0.93%) Foundry
8 3 (0.93%) HP
8 3 (0.93%) Rockwell
8 3 (0.93%) Siemens
9 2 (0.62%) IBM
9 2 (0.62%) Intel
9 2 (0.62%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.62%) SAP