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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 325 243
Rank change year-on-year +43 -82 +60
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 475 234 540
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.68% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.79% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 303 157 262
10th Percentile £42,100 £36,250 £36,300
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,250 £83,750 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £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 58,718 29,796 43,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.21% 86.74% 78.53%
Number of salaries quoted 41,569 16,132 23,550
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -13 142 £69,305 +26.01% 203
South East -3 118 £62,500 -21.88% 174
North West +4 83 £67,500 +22.73% 126
South West -19 71 £62,500 +4.17% 140
Midlands -2 58 £55,000 -8.33% 108
West Midlands -24 36 £66,250 +10.42% 69
Scotland +19 34 £72,500 -27.50% 192
East of England -8 31 £56,250 -6.25% 60
Yorkshire -22 31 £65,000 +13.04% 47
North East -41 28 £75,000 +15.38% 33
East Midlands -18 22 £55,000 +12.82% 39
Wales -59 21 £66,000 +14.78% 12
Northern Ireland -78 2 £65,000 +18.18% 33
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 (3.58%) Apache
2 12 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.53%) Confluence
3 11 (2.32%) CMS
4 7 (1.47%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.05%) IIS
6 4 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.63%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.63%) WinCC
8 2 (0.42%) nginx
8 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.42%) WordPress
9 1 (0.21%) Documentum
9 1 (0.21%) Kentico
9 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.26%) 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
1 182 (38.32%) AWS
2 146 (30.74%) Azure
3 61 (12.84%) GitHub
4 54 (11.37%) GCP
5 52 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (7.37%) SaaS
6 35 (7.37%) Serverless
7 29 (6.11%) GitHub Copilot
8 24 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (3.79%) Anthropic Claude
10 16 (3.37%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.74%) dbt
13 12 (2.53%) Snowflake
14 10 (2.11%) Power Platform
15 9 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (1.68%) npm
16 8 (1.68%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.95%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.26%) HTTP
2 6 (1.26%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.05%) Modbus
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 43 (9.05%) SQL Server
2 37 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (7.16%) Relational Database
4 29 (6.11%) MySQL
5 19 (4.00%) Redis
6 18 (3.79%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.32%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.32%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.26%) Power BI
11 4 (0.84%) Big Data
11 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.84%) GIS
12 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.63%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.63%) SQLite
12 3 (0.63%) ZAP BI
13 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 95 (20.00%) Git
2 43 (9.05%) JIRA
3 35 (7.37%) GitLab
4 28 (5.89%) Jenkins
5 16 (3.37%) Cypress.io
6 15 (3.16%) Selenium
7 14 (2.95%) Claude Code
8 12 (2.53%) JUnit
8 12 (2.53%) Maven
9 11 (2.32%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.11%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.47%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.47%) JMeter
11 7 (1.47%) Postman
12 6 (1.26%) Crashlytics
12 6 (1.26%) Storybook
12 6 (1.26%) Visual Studio
12 6 (1.26%) XCTest
13 5 (1.05%) Eclipse
13 5 (1.05%) NUnit
General
1 167 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 83 (17.47%) Finance
3 68 (14.32%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (5.05%) Law
6 23 (4.84%) Electronics
7 21 (4.42%) Public Sector
8 18 (3.79%) Retail
9 13 (2.74%) Banking
9 13 (2.74%) Marketing
10 11 (2.32%) Publishing
10 11 (2.32%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.47%) Advertising
12 7 (1.47%) Aviation
12 7 (1.47%) Games
12 7 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 136 (28.63%) Developer
2 126 (26.53%) Lead
2 126 (26.53%) Software Engineer
3 123 (25.89%) Senior
4 53 (11.16%) Senior Software Engineer
5 47 (9.89%) Senior Developer
6 35 (7.37%) Software Developer
7 26 (5.47%) Test Engineer
8 25 (5.26%) Technical Leader
9 23 (4.84%) Team Leader
10 20 (4.21%) Lead Developer
11 19 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (3.79%) Software Manager
13 17 (3.58%) C# Developer
13 17 (3.58%) Python Engineer
14 15 (3.16%) .NET Developer
14 15 (3.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 15 (3.16%) Java Developer
15 14 (2.95%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (30.32%) React
2 104 (21.89%) .NET
3 63 (13.26%) Node.js
3 63 (13.26%) REST
4 54 (11.37%) AngularJS
5 47 (9.89%) CSS
6 45 (9.47%) HTML
7 44 (9.26%) Terraform
8 34 (7.16%) RESTful
9 32 (6.74%) Spring
10 27 (5.68%) Playwright
11 25 (5.26%) .NET Framework
12 22 (4.63%) ASP.NET
13 21 (4.42%) Spring Boot
14 20 (4.21%) Next.js
15 19 (4.00%) .NET Core
15 19 (4.00%) Kafka
16 18 (3.79%) Entity Framework
17 16 (3.37%) Vue
18 15 (3.16%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.63%) Cloud Native
2 45 (9.47%) Product Ownership
3 41 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.05%) Mobile App
5 21 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.58%) AI Agents
6 17 (3.58%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.32%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.11%) Client/Server
9 10 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (2.11%) SCADA
10 9 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.68%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.26%) Media Streaming
12 6 (1.26%) Podcast
12 6 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (12.42%) Linux
2 32 (6.74%) Windows
3 17 (3.58%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.74%) Android
5 9 (1.89%) Debian
6 4 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.63%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.21%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (53.26%) Software Engineering
2 252 (53.05%) CI/CD
3 242 (50.95%) Agile
4 185 (38.95%) Test Automation
5 176 (37.05%) DevOps
6 173 (36.42%) Mentoring
7 156 (32.84%) AI
8 141 (29.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 131 (27.58%) Problem-Solving
10 96 (20.21%) Software Testing
11 90 (18.95%) Technical Leadership
12 88 (18.53%) Microservices
13 86 (18.11%) Scrum
14 85 (17.89%) SDLC
15 81 (17.05%) Full-Stack Development
16 70 (14.74%) Decision-Making
17 63 (13.26%) Infrastructure as Code
18 60 (12.63%) Software Architecture
19 58 (12.21%) Observability
20 52 (10.95%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 150 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 139 (29.26%) Python
3 115 (24.21%) TypeScript
4 114 (24.00%) C#
5 107 (22.53%) Java
6 102 (21.47%) SQL
7 45 (9.47%) C++
8 32 (6.74%) C
9 17 (3.58%) PHP
10 14 (2.95%) Go
11 11 (2.32%) Ruby
12 9 (1.89%) Bash
13 8 (1.68%) Rust
14 7 (1.47%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.47%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.26%) Swift
16 5 (1.05%) Apex Code
16 5 (1.05%) Groovy
16 5 (1.05%) MATLAB
16 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 93 (19.58%) Degree
2 70 (14.74%) Security Cleared
3 45 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (5.26%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.53%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.63%) OCP
9 3 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.63%) PhD
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (23.79%) QA
2 39 (8.21%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.84%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.11%) WCAG
5 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.84%) NIST
5 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.63%) IEC 61131
7 2 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.42%) GDPR
7 2 (0.42%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.42%) MISRA
7 2 (0.42%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.42%) NCSC
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (19.16%) Docker
2 14 (2.95%) Firmware
3 13 (2.74%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.63%) KVM
4 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.63%) vSphere
5 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 65 (13.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.53%) Grafana
3 11 (2.32%) Ansible
4 5 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.84%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.84%) Puppet
6 3 (0.63%) Control-M
6 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.63%) Kibana
6 3 (0.63%) Podman
7 2 (0.42%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.42%) Packer
7 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.21%) Argo
8 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.21%) logstash
8 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.05%) Google
3 19 (4.00%) Oracle
4 12 (2.53%) Databricks
5 9 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.68%) Sage
6 8 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.47%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.47%) Sitecore
8 6 (1.26%) Amplitude
8 6 (1.26%) Braze
8 6 (1.26%) VMware
9 5 (1.05%) Intel
9 5 (1.05%) Splunk
10 4 (0.84%) Adobe
10 4 (0.84%) SAP
11 3 (0.63%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.63%) DevExpress
11 3 (0.63%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.63%) Siemens