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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 279 263
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 +76
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 445 315 572
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.92% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.05% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 300 233 336
10th Percentile £41,925 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £49,844 £51,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,253 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +1.93% -

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 53,472 30,130 47,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.47% 87.60% 78.53%
Number of salaries quoted 37,635 16,450 30,039
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -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% - -8.71%

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 6 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 6 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 -25 123 £69,305 +15.51% 87
South East -4 109 £62,500 -19.35% 81
North West -9 75 £69,986 +9.78% 51
Midlands -2 67 £55,000 -8.33% 31
South West -20 66 £57,500 -8.00% 37
West Midlands -15 38 £65,000 +8.33% 15
Scotland +38 32 £75,000 -25.00% 42
East Midlands +6 29 £55,000 +37.50% 16
East of England -39 29 £60,000 -9.40% 30
Yorkshire -20 27 £62,500 +13.64% 22
North East -36 21 £70,000 +7.69% 14
Wales -41 19 £67,500 +12.50% 8
Northern Ireland -77 2 £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 15 (3.37%) Confluence
2 14 (3.15%) Apache
3 12 (2.70%) CMS
4 9 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.57%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.67%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.67%) IIS
7 3 (0.67%) WinCC
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.45%) nginx
8 2 (0.45%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.45%) WordPress
9 1 (0.22%) Documentum
9 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.67%) Simulink
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.45%) Trello
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.67%) Shopify
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.22%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 184 (41.35%) AWS
2 153 (34.38%) Azure
3 63 (14.16%) GCP
4 61 (13.71%) GitHub
5 47 (10.56%) Serverless
6 46 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (6.97%) SaaS
8 27 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (4.94%) GitHub Copilot
10 18 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (3.60%) TestFlight
12 15 (3.37%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.15%) Anthropic Claude
13 14 (3.15%) Firebase
13 14 (3.15%) Stripe
14 9 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (2.02%) dbt
15 8 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.25%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.35%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.12%) HTTP
3 5 (1.12%) Modbus
4 3 (0.67%) Broadband
4 3 (0.67%) Profibus
5 2 (0.45%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.45%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.45%) SMS
5 2 (0.45%) 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 43 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 34 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (6.29%) MySQL
4 27 (6.07%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.60%) Redis
6 15 (3.37%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.92%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.57%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.12%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.90%) Power BI
13 3 (0.67%) Big Data
13 3 (0.67%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.67%) GIS
13 3 (0.67%) SQLite
13 3 (0.67%) ZAP BI
14 2 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 84 (18.88%) Git
2 41 (9.21%) JIRA
3 26 (5.84%) GitLab
4 22 (4.94%) Jenkins
5 15 (3.37%) JUnit
6 14 (3.15%) Crashlytics
6 14 (3.15%) Selenium
6 14 (3.15%) XCTest
7 12 (2.70%) Claude Code
7 12 (2.70%) Maven
8 11 (2.47%) Cypress.io
9 9 (2.02%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.80%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.57%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.57%) Mockito
11 7 (1.57%) Storybook
12 6 (1.35%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.12%) Eclipse
13 5 (1.12%) NUnit
13 5 (1.12%) Yeoman
General
1 163 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 72 (16.18%) Finance
3 55 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 16 (3.60%) Electronics
7 15 (3.37%) Law
8 14 (3.15%) Retail
9 11 (2.47%) Banking
10 9 (2.02%) Marketing
11 8 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.57%) Advertising
12 7 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.12%) Aviation
13 5 (1.12%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.12%) Legal
13 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.12%) Publishing
14 4 (0.90%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 129 (28.99%) Developer
2 116 (26.07%) Lead
3 114 (25.62%) Software Engineer
4 108 (24.27%) Senior
5 44 (9.89%) Senior Software Engineer
6 40 (8.99%) Senior Developer
7 31 (6.97%) Software Developer
8 24 (5.39%) Technical Leader
9 22 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (4.94%) Test Engineer
10 20 (4.49%) Python Engineer
10 20 (4.49%) Team Leader
11 19 (4.27%) Lead Developer
12 16 (3.60%) Java Developer
12 16 (3.60%) Lead Software Engineer
12 16 (3.60%) Python Software Engineer
13 15 (3.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 15 (3.37%) Software Manager
14 14 (3.15%) Mobile Engineer
15 13 (2.92%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (27.87%) React
2 87 (19.55%) .NET
3 63 (14.16%) REST
4 62 (13.93%) Node.js
5 51 (11.46%) AngularJS
6 47 (10.56%) CSS
7 45 (10.11%) HTML
8 32 (7.19%) RESTful
9 27 (6.07%) Spring
10 22 (4.94%) .NET Framework
11 21 (4.72%) ASP.NET
11 21 (4.72%) Playwright
12 20 (4.49%) Next.js
13 19 (4.27%) Vue
14 17 (3.82%) GraphQL
15 16 (3.60%) .NET Core
15 16 (3.60%) SwiftUI
15 16 (3.60%) UIKit
16 15 (3.37%) Django
16 15 (3.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 77 (17.30%) Cloud Native
2 41 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (8.99%) Product Ownership
4 32 (7.19%) Mobile App
5 27 (6.07%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (4.49%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.92%) Client/Server
8 11 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.02%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.57%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.35%) SCADA
13 5 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.12%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (14.16%) Linux
2 29 (6.52%) Windows
3 26 (5.84%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.70%) Android
5 6 (1.35%) Debian
6 4 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (51.46%) CI/CD
2 217 (48.76%) Software Engineering
3 216 (48.54%) Agile
4 176 (39.55%) Test Automation
5 169 (37.98%) DevOps
6 152 (34.16%) Mentoring
7 135 (30.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 127 (28.54%) AI
9 113 (25.39%) Problem-Solving
10 87 (19.55%) Microservices
11 83 (18.65%) Technical Leadership
12 81 (18.20%) SDLC
13 79 (17.75%) Software Testing
14 78 (17.53%) Full-Stack Development
15 72 (16.18%) Scrum
16 62 (13.93%) Decision-Making
16 62 (13.93%) User Experience
17 59 (13.26%) Infrastructure as Code
18 57 (12.81%) Clean Code
19 49 (11.01%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 144 (32.36%) JavaScript
2 138 (31.01%) Python
3 95 (21.35%) Java
3 95 (21.35%) TypeScript
4 92 (20.67%) C#
5 82 (18.43%) SQL
6 52 (11.69%) C++
7 40 (8.99%) C
8 20 (4.49%) PHP
9 16 (3.60%) Swift
10 15 (3.37%) Kotlin
11 14 (3.15%) Rust
12 13 (2.92%) Go
13 9 (2.02%) Ruby
14 6 (1.35%) Bash
14 6 (1.35%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.12%) Groovy
15 5 (1.12%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.12%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.67%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 79 (17.75%) Degree
2 59 (13.26%) Security Cleared
3 36 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.49%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.82%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.25%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.67%) OCP
8 3 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.45%) PhD
10 1 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (23.60%) QA
2 37 (8.31%) Accessibility
3 23 (5.17%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.25%) WCAG
5 7 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.35%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.90%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.90%) NIST
8 3 (0.67%) IEC 61131
8 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.45%) Automotive SPICE
9 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.45%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.45%) MISRA
9 2 (0.45%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.45%) NCSC
10 1 (0.22%) GDPR
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (19.55%) Docker
2 14 (3.15%) Firmware
3 11 (2.47%) KVM
3 11 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (2.25%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.67%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (13.26%) Kubernetes
2 40 (8.99%) Terraform
3 11 (2.47%) Grafana
4 10 (2.25%) Ansible
5 5 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.90%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.90%) Kibana
6 4 (0.90%) Puppet
7 3 (0.67%) Control-M
7 3 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.67%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.45%) Podman
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 39 (8.76%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.62%) Google
3 15 (3.37%) Oracle
4 14 (3.15%) Amplitude
4 14 (3.15%) Braze
4 14 (3.15%) VMware
5 9 (2.02%) Databricks
6 7 (1.57%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.57%) Sitecore
7 5 (1.12%) Intel
7 5 (1.12%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.90%) Adobe
8 4 (0.90%) Splunk
9 3 (0.67%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.67%) Foundry
9 3 (0.67%) HP
9 3 (0.67%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.67%) Sage
9 3 (0.67%) Siemens