Code Quality Jobs in the UK excluding London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Code Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Code Quality over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 374 306
Rank change year-on-year +117 -68 +22
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 781 482 822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.11% 0.78% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.82% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 489 229 360
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,750 £36,075
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,173 £55,000 £64,300
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% -14.46% +16.91%
75th Percentile £73,886 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Code Quality is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,303 58,729 66,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 95.63% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,097 30,137 41,486
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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 +106 212 £55,087 -2.07% 50
North West +110 169 £50,000 -4.76% 32
South East +25 160 £59,500 +13.33% 36
Midlands +94 140 £55,173 +2.65% 32
South West +72 122 £60,000 +14.29% 17
East Midlands +41 85 £68,750 +37.50% 11
Scotland -34 57 £52,500 -27.31% 8
West Midlands +60 55 £50,000 -23.37% 21
East of England +2 55 £52,500 -4.55% 9
Yorkshire +58 36 £60,000 - 11
Wales +24 28 £52,686 +8.63% 5
Northern Ireland +29 8 £45,000 - 4
North East -1 7 £55,173 -31.03% 7
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (2.56%) Apache
1 20 (2.56%) SAS
2 16 (2.05%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.51%) CMS
3 4 (0.51%) WordPress
4 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.38%) Confluence
4 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.26%) WinCC
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.13%) Drupal
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) TYPO3
6 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 14 (1.79%) Simulink
2 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 262 (33.55%) Azure
2 164 (21.00%) AWS
3 104 (13.32%) IBM Cloud
4 70 (8.96%) Serverless
5 69 (8.83%) SaaS
6 42 (5.38%) GCP
7 33 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.97%) GitHub
9 21 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (2.30%) Amazon S3
11 16 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (2.05%) Power Platform
12 10 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.28%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.15%) BlazeMeter
13 9 (1.15%) WhatsApp
14 7 (0.90%) PaaS
15 5 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (0.64%) AWS Fargate
15 5 (0.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.77%) Internet
2 5 (0.64%) RS-485
2 5 (0.64%) Wireless
3 4 (0.51%) RS-232
3 4 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.51%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.38%) HTTP
5 2 (0.26%) 5G
5 2 (0.26%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.26%) Modbus
5 2 (0.26%) Profibus
6 1 (0.13%) 4G
6 1 (0.13%) Broadband
6 1 (0.13%) DHCP
6 1 (0.13%) DNS
6 1 (0.13%) MQTT
6 1 (0.13%) VLAN
6 1 (0.13%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (19.08%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (15.62%) NoSQL
3 120 (15.36%) MongoDB
4 104 (13.32%) DB2
5 91 (11.65%) Relational Database
6 84 (10.76%) MySQL
7 58 (7.43%) SQL Server
8 34 (4.35%) RDBMS
9 31 (3.97%) Oracle Database
10 19 (2.43%) DynamoDB
10 19 (2.43%) GIS
11 13 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.66%) Power BI
12 12 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (1.28%) Redis
15 4 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 3 (0.38%) Big Data
16 3 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 160 (20.49%) Git
2 74 (9.48%) GitLab
3 30 (3.84%) JDeveloper
4 29 (3.71%) JIRA
5 27 (3.46%) Cucumber
6 23 (2.94%) Jenkins
7 19 (2.43%) Selenium
8 16 (2.05%) Cypress.io
8 16 (2.05%) JMeter
8 16 (2.05%) Visual Studio
9 14 (1.79%) JUnit
10 12 (1.54%) TestNG
11 11 (1.41%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.41%) WebDriver
12 10 (1.28%) Maven
13 9 (1.15%) Gradle
13 9 (1.15%) Xcode
14 6 (0.77%) MSTest
14 6 (0.77%) Rational Rhapsody
15 4 (0.51%) Android Studio
General
1 197 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 129 (16.52%) Public Sector
3 120 (15.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (9.86%) Finance
5 44 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (5.25%) Retail
7 36 (4.61%) Electronics
8 31 (3.97%) Legal
9 30 (3.84%) Games
10 25 (3.20%) Marketing
11 20 (2.56%) Law
12 16 (2.05%) Automotive
12 16 (2.05%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.79%) Aviation
14 13 (1.66%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.54%) Tech for Good
16 8 (1.02%) Welsh Language
17 6 (0.77%) Banking
18 5 (0.64%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.64%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 298 (38.16%) Developer
2 188 (24.07%) Software Engineer
3 126 (16.13%) Lead
4 107 (13.70%) Full Stack Engineer
5 103 (13.19%) Azure Engineer
6 98 (12.55%) Senior
7 84 (10.76%) Software Developer
8 53 (6.79%) Technical Leader
9 50 (6.40%) Lead Developer
10 40 (5.12%) .NET Developer
10 40 (5.12%) Java Engineer
10 40 (5.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 38 (4.87%) Full Stack Developer
12 35 (4.48%) Java Software Engineer
13 33 (4.23%) PHP Developer
14 32 (4.10%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.84%) Ruby Engineer
16 28 (3.59%) QA Engineer
17 27 (3.46%) Tester
18 23 (2.94%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (32.27%) React
2 250 (32.01%) .NET
3 216 (27.66%) HTML
4 213 (27.27%) CSS
5 163 (20.87%) AngularJS
6 159 (20.36%) Web Services
7 152 (19.46%) REST
8 132 (16.90%) ASP.NET
9 131 (16.77%) Vue
10 126 (16.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 119 (15.24%) jQuery
12 114 (14.60%) ASP.NET Core
13 104 (13.32%) Backbone.js
13 104 (13.32%) Ember.js
14 76 (9.73%) Node.js
15 74 (9.48%) RESTful
16 43 (5.51%) JSON
16 43 (5.51%) Spring
17 42 (5.38%) .NET Core
18 41 (5.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (16.01%) Algorithms
2 123 (15.75%) Data Structures
3 106 (13.57%) e-Learning
4 104 (13.32%) Blockchain
4 104 (13.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 56 (7.17%) Private Cloud
6 37 (4.74%) Mobile App
7 33 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 33 (4.23%) Product Ownership
8 32 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (3.20%) Embedded Systems
10 21 (2.69%) Satnav
11 20 (2.56%) CMDB
12 18 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (2.18%) IoT
14 14 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (1.66%) Hackathon
16 12 (1.54%) Robotics
17 9 (1.15%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 148 (18.95%) Linux
2 135 (17.29%) Windows
3 129 (16.52%) Apple iOS
4 123 (15.75%) Android
5 12 (1.54%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (49.04%) Agile
2 268 (34.31%) Software Engineering
3 267 (34.19%) Problem-Solving
4 241 (30.86%) Full Stack Development
5 228 (29.19%) Mentoring
6 223 (28.55%) Design Patterns
7 168 (21.51%) MVC
8 165 (21.13%) User Experience
9 161 (20.61%) Coaching
10 157 (20.10%) Web Development
11 154 (19.72%) DevOps
12 149 (19.08%) OO
13 147 (18.82%) Continuous Integration
14 144 (18.44%) SOLID
15 133 (17.03%) Microservices
15 133 (17.03%) OOP
16 131 (16.77%) Test Automation
17 121 (15.49%) MVVM
18 120 (15.36%) Artificial Intelligence
19 110 (14.08%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 345 (44.17%) JavaScript
2 263 (33.67%) C#
3 206 (26.38%) Java
4 201 (25.74%) SQL
5 153 (19.59%) Python
6 91 (11.65%) TypeScript
7 69 (8.83%) C++
8 68 (8.71%) C
9 67 (8.58%) PHP
10 52 (6.66%) Go
11 50 (6.40%) Ruby
12 34 (4.35%) Bash
13 31 (3.97%) Perl
14 24 (3.07%) Swift
15 19 (2.43%) Kotlin
16 18 (2.30%) VB.NET
17 10 (1.28%) Embedded C
18 9 (1.15%) Apex Code
19 7 (0.90%) PowerShell
19 7 (0.90%) Rust
Qualifications
1 129 (16.52%) Degree
2 98 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 78 (9.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (5.25%) SC Cleared
5 24 (3.07%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.38%) CITP
10 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.26%) PhD
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (21.77%) QA
2 28 (3.59%) Software Quality Assurance
3 12 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.02%) GDPR
5 5 (0.64%) Automotive SPICE
5 5 (0.64%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
6 4 (0.51%) IEC 61508
6 4 (0.51%) MISRA
6 4 (0.51%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.38%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 92 (11.78%) Docker
2 17 (2.18%) Firmware
3 4 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (8.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.64%) Grafana
2 5 (0.64%) Kibana
2 5 (0.64%) Terraform
3 2 (0.26%) Ansible
4 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 107 (13.70%) IBM
2 104 (13.32%) Red Hat
3 62 (7.94%) Microsoft
4 56 (7.17%) Oracle
5 24 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.30%) Google
7 10 (1.28%) Xilinx
8 9 (1.15%) Apple
8 9 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.15%) TOWER Software
8 9 (1.15%) Xamarin
9 7 (0.90%) ESRI
10 2 (0.26%) BT
10 2 (0.26%) F5
10 2 (0.26%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.26%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.26%) Siemens
11 1 (0.13%) Databricks
11 1 (0.13%) Netlify
11 1 (0.13%) Veracode