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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 228 271
Rank change year-on-year -86 +43 +129
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 305 391 757
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.33% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.45% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 213 317 501
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% +0.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £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% -14.29%

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 45,890 26,873 62,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.62% 91.25% 80.42%
Number of salaries quoted 31,846 13,591 43,459
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £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 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 10 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 10 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 -52 85 £67,500 +3.85% 46
South East -29 65 £62,500 -21.88% 52
North West -24 55 £68,736 +14.56% 28
Midlands +5 54 £65,000 +13.04% 18
South West -28 49 £55,000 -10.20% 28
East Midlands -2 29 £55,000 +37.50% 8
West Midlands -19 25 £65,000 +8.33% 10
Scotland +17 22 £72,500 -7.94% 8
Yorkshire -42 21 £62,500 -13.19% 12
East of England -90 18 £62,500 -5.64% 24
Wales -39 11 £72,500 +20.83% 3
North East -32 9 £70,000 -7.28% 6
Northern Ireland -35 3 £65,000 +18.18% 6
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 (4.92%) Confluence
2 12 (3.93%) CMS
3 7 (2.30%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (1.64%) Apache
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.98%) FactoryTalk
5 3 (0.98%) nginx
5 3 (0.98%) WinCC
6 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.66%) WordPress
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.33%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.66%) Trello
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.33%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 125 (40.98%) AWS
2 105 (34.43%) Azure
3 46 (15.08%) GitHub
4 40 (13.11%) GCP
5 38 (12.46%) Serverless
6 27 (8.85%) SaaS
7 22 (7.21%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.59%) Firebase
10 14 (4.59%) Stripe
10 14 (4.59%) TestFlight
11 10 (3.28%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.28%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (2.30%) Figma
13 6 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (1.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.64%) Modbus
2 4 (1.31%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.31%) Wireshark
3 3 (0.98%) Broadband
3 3 (0.98%) Profibus
4 2 (0.66%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (0.66%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.66%) SMS
4 2 (0.66%) VoIP
5 1 (0.33%) AMQP
5 1 (0.33%) ATM
5 1 (0.33%) HTTP
5 1 (0.33%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.92%) MySQL
2 15 (4.92%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.62%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.64%) Big Data
8 3 (0.98%) Power BI
8 3 (0.98%) Redis
9 2 (0.66%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.66%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.66%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.66%) Tableau
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (14.10%) Git
2 35 (11.48%) JIRA
3 15 (4.92%) JUnit
4 14 (4.59%) Crashlytics
4 14 (4.59%) XCTest
5 13 (4.26%) Jenkins
6 12 (3.93%) GitLab
7 10 (3.28%) Selenium
8 9 (2.95%) Claude Code
8 9 (2.95%) Maven
8 9 (2.95%) Mockito
9 8 (2.62%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.30%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.30%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.64%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.64%) Yeoman
12 4 (1.31%) Spock
12 4 (1.31%) Storybook
13 3 (0.98%) TestRail
13 3 (0.98%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (31.80%) Social Skills
2 47 (15.41%) Finance
3 21 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.59%) Retail
5 10 (3.28%) Banking
5 10 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.30%) Legal
6 7 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.97%) Electronics
7 6 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.97%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.97%) Marketing
8 4 (1.31%) Advertising
8 4 (1.31%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.31%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.31%) Law
9 3 (0.98%) Aviation
9 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (25.57%) Developer
1 78 (25.57%) Lead
2 76 (24.92%) Software Engineer
3 63 (20.66%) Senior
4 24 (7.87%) Senior Developer
5 19 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
6 18 (5.90%) Software Developer
7 15 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (4.59%) Mobile Engineer
9 13 (4.26%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.26%) Lead Developer
9 13 (4.26%) Technical Leader
10 12 (3.93%) Team Leader
11 11 (3.61%) Engineering Manager
11 11 (3.61%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.61%) Python Software Engineer
12 10 (3.28%) Analyst
12 10 (3.28%) Architect
12 10 (3.28%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (3.28%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (24.59%) React
2 52 (17.05%) .NET
3 39 (12.79%) REST
4 36 (11.80%) Node.js
5 29 (9.51%) AngularJS
5 29 (9.51%) CSS
6 28 (9.18%) Spring
7 26 (8.52%) HTML
7 26 (8.52%) RESTful
8 17 (5.57%) SwiftUI
9 16 (5.25%) Spring Boot
9 16 (5.25%) UIKit
10 15 (4.92%) Vue
11 13 (4.26%) Web Services
12 11 (3.61%) AWS CDK
12 11 (3.61%) Django
12 11 (3.61%) Laravel
13 10 (3.28%) Playwright
13 10 (3.28%) WebSockets
14 9 (2.95%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.44%) Cloud Native
2 37 (12.13%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.52%) Mobile App
4 23 (7.54%) Product Ownership
5 22 (7.21%) Onboarding
6 21 (6.89%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (4.59%) Client/Server
8 11 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.95%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.62%) NHS
10 8 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.97%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
14 3 (0.98%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.10%) Linux
2 20 (6.56%) Apple iOS
3 19 (6.23%) Windows
4 3 (0.98%) Android
4 3 (0.98%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.66%) Debian
6 1 (0.33%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (51.15%) CI/CD
2 130 (42.62%) Agile
3 127 (41.64%) Software Engineering
4 114 (37.38%) DevOps
5 108 (35.41%) Test Automation
6 84 (27.54%) Mentoring
7 83 (27.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (23.61%) AI
10 67 (21.97%) Full-Stack Development
11 62 (20.33%) Microservices
12 61 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
13 60 (19.67%) User Experience
14 49 (16.07%) Software Testing
15 45 (14.75%) Observability
16 44 (14.43%) Scrum
17 43 (14.10%) Containerisation
18 38 (12.46%) Clean Code
18 38 (12.46%) Decision-Making
19 37 (12.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 94 (30.82%) Python
2 89 (29.18%) JavaScript
3 65 (21.31%) TypeScript
4 55 (18.03%) Java
5 50 (16.39%) C#
5 50 (16.39%) SQL
6 35 (11.48%) C++
7 29 (9.51%) C
8 20 (6.56%) PHP
9 17 (5.57%) Swift
10 14 (4.59%) Kotlin
10 14 (4.59%) Rust
11 6 (1.97%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.64%) Bash
12 5 (1.64%) Groovy
13 4 (1.31%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.98%) Go
14 3 (0.98%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.98%) Scala
15 2 (0.66%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 42 (13.77%) Degree
2 27 (8.85%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (5.90%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.30%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.66%) PhD
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.33%) CISM
9 1 (0.33%) CISSP
9 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.33%) GSEC
9 1 (0.33%) HNC
9 1 (0.33%) HND
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (19.67%) QA
2 19 (6.23%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.90%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.31%) WCAG
6 3 (0.98%) IEC 61131
6 3 (0.98%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.66%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.66%) MISRA
7 2 (0.66%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.33%) Automotive SPICE
8 1 (0.33%) GDPR
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.33%) NCSC
8 1 (0.33%) NIST
8 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (20.00%) Docker
2 14 (4.59%) Hyper-V
2 14 (4.59%) KVM
2 14 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.30%) Firmware
4 5 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.31%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.98%) vSphere
7 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (11.15%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.90%) Terraform
3 10 (3.28%) Grafana
4 6 (1.97%) Ansible
5 5 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.98%) Control-M
6 3 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.98%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.98%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.98%) Kibana
7 2 (0.66%) Packer
7 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (5.90%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.57%) VMware
3 15 (4.92%) Oracle
4 14 (4.59%) Amplitude
4 14 (4.59%) Braze
5 7 (2.30%) Google
5 7 (2.30%) Sitecore
6 6 (1.97%) AppDynamics
6 6 (1.97%) Splunk
7 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.98%) Databricks
8 3 (0.98%) Foundry
8 3 (0.98%) HP
8 3 (0.98%) Rockwell
8 3 (0.98%) Siemens
9 2 (0.66%) IBM
9 2 (0.66%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.66%) SAP
10 1 (0.33%) Sage