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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 252 304
Rank change year-on-year -71 +52 +14
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 233 537 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.97% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.23% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 156 263 205
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,900 £40,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,813 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 - £87,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%

All Process and 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 29,832 43,545 32,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.68% 78.57% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 16,142 23,631 23,348
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £29,013
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £39,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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

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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 -19 86 £56,250 -2.17% 53
South East -41 64 £80,000 - 75
North West -26 62 £55,000 +12.82% 33
Midlands -28 29 £60,000 +20.00% 17
Scotland +37 22 £100,000 +53.85% 16
West Midlands +29 20 £60,000 +27.66% 9
Yorkshire +21 20 £57,500 -11.54% 14
South West +32 19 £60,000 - 30
East Midlands -31 9 £48,750 -17.02% 8
East of England -23 7 £60,000 +9.09% 19
North East +18 6 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Northern Ireland +11 6 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Wales +17 4 £57,500 -11.54% 2
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 6 (2.58%) CMS
1 6 (2.58%) Confluence
1 6 (2.58%) nginx
2 5 (2.15%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.72%) Camunda
4 3 (1.29%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Strapi
5 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 90 (38.63%) Azure
2 73 (31.33%) AWS
3 41 (17.60%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (10.30%) GitHub
5 21 (9.01%) Azure Service Bus
5 21 (9.01%) GCP
5 21 (9.01%) Serverless
6 19 (8.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 16 (6.87%) SonarCloud
8 10 (4.29%) npm
9 9 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.86%) SaaS
10 8 (3.43%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.00%) Yarn
12 6 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (2.15%) Azure Functions
13 5 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.15%) HTTP
2 3 (1.29%) MQTT
3 2 (0.86%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.86%) Broadband
3 2 (0.86%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.86%) Internet
3 2 (0.86%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (0.86%) Modbus
4 1 (0.43%) AMQP
4 1 (0.43%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.59%) NoSQL
2 25 (10.73%) MongoDB
3 24 (10.30%) SQL Server
4 21 (9.01%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (9.01%) MySQL
5 20 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.86%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (3.00%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.72%) Redis
10 3 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.43%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.43%) Looker
11 1 (0.43%) Power BI
11 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (21.46%) Git
2 23 (9.87%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.44%) JIRA
3 22 (9.44%) Selenium
4 19 (8.15%) GitLab
5 18 (7.73%) Visual Studio
6 17 (7.30%) Octopus Deploy
7 16 (6.87%) MSBuild
7 16 (6.87%) Team Foundation Server
8 14 (6.01%) Cucumber
8 14 (6.01%) JUnit
9 13 (5.58%) Postman
9 13 (5.58%) SonarQube
10 10 (4.29%) Bitbucket
10 10 (4.29%) JMeter
11 9 (3.86%) webpack
12 8 (3.43%) Cypress.io
12 8 (3.43%) TestNG
13 7 (3.00%) Appium
13 7 (3.00%) Maven
General
1 83 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 64 (27.47%) Finance
3 21 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.15%) Law
5 17 (7.30%) Retail
6 16 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (6.01%) Marketing
7 14 (6.01%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.86%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.00%) Banking
10 6 (2.58%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.72%) Cantonese Language
11 4 (1.72%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.86%) Electronics
12 2 (0.86%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 73 (31.33%) Developer
2 58 (24.89%) Software Engineer
3 47 (20.17%) Senior
4 27 (11.59%) Java Engineer
5 24 (10.30%) Lead
6 22 (9.44%) Senior Developer
7 19 (8.15%) Architect
7 19 (8.15%) Java Software Engineer
7 19 (8.15%) Software Developer
8 17 (7.30%) Technical Architect
9 13 (5.58%) Analyst
10 12 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.72%) Test Analyst
12 10 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (3.86%) .NET Developer
13 9 (3.86%) Backend Developer
14 8 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
15 7 (3.00%) Engineering Manager
15 7 (3.00%) JavaScript Developer
15 7 (3.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (27.04%) .NET
2 53 (22.75%) HTML
3 52 (22.32%) CSS
3 52 (22.32%) REST
4 45 (19.31%) React
5 36 (15.45%) Spring
6 35 (15.02%) RESTful
7 31 (13.30%) Spring Boot
8 29 (12.45%) ASP.NET
9 28 (12.02%) Kafka
10 23 (9.87%) AngularJS
10 23 (9.87%) JSON
11 21 (9.01%) gRPC
11 21 (9.01%) Node.js
11 21 (9.01%) Vue
12 20 (8.58%) Bootstrap
13 18 (7.73%) XML
14 14 (6.01%) .NET Core
14 14 (6.01%) .NET Framework
15 10 (4.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 21 (9.01%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.01%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.72%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.58%) IoT
6 6 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.58%) Wiki
7 5 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.15%) Life Science
7 5 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.29%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.86%) ARM Cortex
10 2 (0.86%) Clustering
10 2 (0.86%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.30%) Windows
2 13 (5.58%) Linux
3 2 (0.86%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (51.93%) Agile
2 105 (45.06%) CI/CD
3 98 (42.06%) DevOps
4 86 (36.91%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (35.19%) Software Engineering
6 74 (31.76%) Microservices
7 51 (21.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 51 (21.89%) Mentoring
8 49 (21.03%) Test Automation
9 44 (18.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 37 (15.88%) Design Patterns
11 35 (15.02%) Clean Code
11 35 (15.02%) TDD
12 33 (14.16%) Scrum
13 31 (13.30%) Containerisation
13 31 (13.30%) Technical Leadership
14 29 (12.45%) Event-Driven
15 28 (12.02%) Unit Testing
16 27 (11.59%) SDLC
17 25 (10.73%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 91 (39.06%) JavaScript
2 75 (32.19%) SQL
3 70 (30.04%) Java
4 60 (25.75%) C#
5 44 (18.88%) TypeScript
6 27 (11.59%) Python
7 12 (5.15%) PHP
8 9 (3.86%) C++
9 5 (2.15%) Go
9 5 (2.15%) Groovy
10 4 (1.72%) Bicep
10 4 (1.72%) C
10 4 (1.72%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.29%) Elixir
11 3 (1.29%) Ruby
12 2 (0.86%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.86%) Bash
12 2 (0.86%) Scala
12 2 (0.86%) SOQL
12 2 (0.86%) VC++
Qualifications
1 18 (7.73%) Degree
1 18 (7.73%) ISTQB
2 15 (6.44%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.72%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.29%) ISEB
6 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.86%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (18.45%) QA
2 17 (7.30%) GDPR
3 13 (5.58%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.86%) JTAG
5 1 (0.43%) AQAP
5 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.43%) GRC
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 63 (27.04%) Docker
2 3 (1.29%) Firmware
3 2 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.86%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 40 (17.17%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.44%) Terraform
3 7 (3.00%) Ansible
4 5 (2.15%) Grafana
4 5 (2.15%) Kustomize
4 5 (2.15%) Packer
4 5 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.86%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 29 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.43%) Google
3 6 (2.58%) Oracle
3 6 (2.58%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.15%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.72%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.86%) Databricks
6 2 (0.86%) NVIDIA
6 2 (0.86%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (0.86%) SAP
6 2 (0.86%) VMware
7 1 (0.43%) IBM
7 1 (0.43%) PayPal
7 1 (0.43%) Sage
7 1 (0.43%) SnapLogic