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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 310 257
Rank change year-on-year +26 -53 +74
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 474 273 551
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.79% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.90% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 302 192 325
10th Percentile £42,050 £33,900 £35,000
25th Percentile £49,531 £50,000 £48,750
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 £89,750 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +1.92% -

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 55,038 30,334 46,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.39% 87.27% 78.38%
Number of salaries quoted 38,742 16,516 29,114
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £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 18 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 18 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 -8 135 £69,305 +20.53% 116
South East +14 117 £62,500 -16.67% 87
North West +1 80 £70,000 +16.67% 63
South West -19 71 £60,000 -4.00% 60
Midlands +1 67 £55,000 -8.33% 41
West Midlands -9 39 £65,000 +8.33% 25
Scotland +15 35 £73,750 -26.25% 62
East of England -8 30 £60,000 - 37
East Midlands -4 28 £55,000 +37.50% 16
Yorkshire -25 28 £62,500 +13.64% 29
North East -37 27 £70,000 +46.21% 25
Wales -50 19 £67,500 +12.50% 5
Northern Ireland -83 2 £65,000 +18.18% 14
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 (3.59%) Apache
2 14 (2.95%) Confluence
3 12 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.53%) CMS
4 7 (1.48%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.63%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.63%) IIS
6 3 (0.63%) WinCC
7 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.42%) nginx
7 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.42%) WordPress
8 1 (0.21%) Documentum
8 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.63%) Simulink
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.42%) Trello
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.63%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.21%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 194 (40.93%) AWS
2 157 (33.12%) Azure
3 67 (14.14%) GitHub
4 65 (13.71%) GCP
5 48 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (9.07%) Serverless
7 37 (7.81%) SaaS
8 28 (5.91%) GitHub Copilot
9 27 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (3.59%) Anthropic Claude
12 15 (3.16%) Amazon S3
13 14 (2.95%) TestFlight
14 13 (2.74%) dbt
15 12 (2.53%) Firebase
15 12 (2.53%) Snowflake
15 12 (2.53%) Stripe
16 9 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.32%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.27%) HTTP
2 6 (1.27%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.05%) Modbus
4 3 (0.63%) Broadband
4 3 (0.63%) Profibus
5 2 (0.42%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.42%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.42%) SMS
5 2 (0.42%) VoIP
6 1 (0.21%) ATM
6 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.21%) Internet
6 1 (0.21%) MQTT
6 1 (0.21%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.70%) SQL Server
2 39 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.54%) MySQL
3 31 (6.54%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.80%) NoSQL
4 18 (3.80%) Redis
5 14 (2.95%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.32%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.05%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.84%) Big Data
9 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.84%) Power BI
10 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.63%) GIS
10 3 (0.63%) SQLite
10 3 (0.63%) ZAP BI
11 2 (0.42%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (18.78%) Git
2 41 (8.65%) JIRA
3 29 (6.12%) GitLab
4 23 (4.85%) Jenkins
5 15 (3.16%) JUnit
5 15 (3.16%) Selenium
6 12 (2.53%) Claude Code
6 12 (2.53%) Crashlytics
6 12 (2.53%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.53%) XCTest
7 11 (2.32%) Maven
8 10 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.48%) Mockito
10 7 (1.48%) Storybook
11 6 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.27%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.05%) Eclipse
12 5 (1.05%) NUnit
12 5 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 177 (37.34%) Social Skills
2 82 (17.30%) Finance
3 62 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (5.06%) Law
6 22 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.80%) Electronics
7 18 (3.80%) Retail
8 13 (2.74%) Banking
8 13 (2.74%) Marketing
9 8 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.48%) Advertising
10 7 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.27%) Games
12 5 (1.05%) Aviation
12 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.05%) Publishing
13 4 (0.84%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (28.90%) Developer
2 128 (27.00%) Lead
3 121 (25.53%) Software Engineer
4 114 (24.05%) Senior
5 47 (9.92%) Senior Software Engineer
6 45 (9.49%) Senior Developer
7 33 (6.96%) Software Developer
8 25 (5.27%) Technical Leader
9 23 (4.85%) Test Engineer
10 22 (4.64%) Team Leader
11 21 (4.43%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (4.43%) Lead Developer
12 18 (3.80%) Lead Software Engineer
13 17 (3.59%) Python Engineer
13 17 (3.59%) Software Manager
14 16 (3.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 16 (3.38%) Java Developer
15 15 (3.16%) C# Developer
16 14 (2.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 13 (2.74%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (27.85%) React
2 99 (20.89%) .NET
3 68 (14.35%) Node.js
4 66 (13.92%) REST
5 55 (11.60%) AngularJS
6 51 (10.76%) CSS
7 49 (10.34%) HTML
8 33 (6.96%) RESTful
9 27 (5.70%) Spring
10 24 (5.06%) .NET Framework
11 23 (4.85%) Playwright
12 22 (4.64%) Next.js
13 21 (4.43%) ASP.NET
14 19 (4.01%) Vue
15 18 (3.80%) .NET Core
16 16 (3.38%) Entity Framework
16 16 (3.38%) GraphQL
16 16 (3.38%) Spring Boot
17 15 (3.16%) Django
18 14 (2.95%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 83 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.70%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (9.28%) Product Ownership
4 30 (6.33%) Mobile App
5 25 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (3.80%) Onboarding
8 15 (3.16%) AI Agents
9 11 (2.32%) Client/Server
9 11 (2.32%) Embedded Systems
10 10 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.90%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.48%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.48%) SCADA
13 6 (1.27%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (12.87%) Linux
2 29 (6.12%) Windows
3 25 (5.27%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.74%) Android
5 7 (1.48%) Debian
6 4 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.21%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (50.84%) CI/CD
2 236 (49.79%) Software Engineering
3 235 (49.58%) Agile
4 189 (39.87%) Test Automation
5 175 (36.92%) DevOps
6 166 (35.02%) Mentoring
7 144 (30.38%) AI
8 143 (30.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 124 (26.16%) Problem-Solving
10 95 (20.04%) Technical Leadership
11 91 (19.20%) Microservices
12 86 (18.14%) SDLC
13 85 (17.93%) Full-Stack Development
14 84 (17.72%) Software Testing
15 76 (16.03%) Scrum
16 71 (14.98%) Decision-Making
17 60 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
18 59 (12.45%) Clean Code
19 57 (12.03%) User Experience
20 53 (11.18%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 153 (32.28%) JavaScript
2 147 (31.01%) Python
3 103 (21.73%) C#
4 102 (21.52%) Java
5 101 (21.31%) TypeScript
6 92 (19.41%) SQL
7 49 (10.34%) C++
8 37 (7.81%) C
9 20 (4.22%) PHP
10 14 (2.95%) Go
10 14 (2.95%) Swift
11 13 (2.74%) Kotlin
12 12 (2.53%) Rust
13 9 (1.90%) Ruby
14 7 (1.48%) Bash
15 6 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.05%) Groovy
16 5 (1.05%) MATLAB
16 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.63%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 87 (18.35%) Degree
2 66 (13.92%) Security Cleared
3 41 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.43%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.11%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.63%) OCP
9 3 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (23.42%) QA
2 39 (8.23%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.85%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.11%) WCAG
5 8 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.84%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.84%) NIST
7 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.63%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
9 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.42%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.42%) MISRA
9 2 (0.42%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.42%) NCSC
10 1 (0.21%) GDPR
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 88 (18.57%) Docker
2 15 (3.16%) Firmware
3 11 (2.32%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (1.69%) KVM
4 8 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.48%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.63%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (12.66%) Kubernetes
2 41 (8.65%) Terraform
3 11 (2.32%) Grafana
4 10 (2.11%) Ansible
5 4 (0.84%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.84%) Puppet
6 3 (0.63%) Control-M
6 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.63%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.63%) Kibana
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.42%) Podman
8 1 (0.21%) Argo
8 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 41 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.70%) Google
3 17 (3.59%) Oracle
4 12 (2.53%) Amplitude
4 12 (2.53%) Braze
4 12 (2.53%) Databricks
5 11 (2.32%) VMware
6 9 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.48%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.48%) Sitecore
8 6 (1.27%) Sage
9 5 (1.05%) Intel
9 5 (1.05%) Splunk
10 4 (0.84%) Adobe
11 3 (0.63%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.63%) Foundry
11 3 (0.63%) HP
11 3 (0.63%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.63%) Siemens