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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 204 260
Rank change year-on-year -141 +56 +146
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 232 395 712
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 1.45% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.59% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 148 335 489
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,215 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +20.01% +0.31%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,886
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.49% +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 46,916 24,887 57,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.90% 91.35% 83.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,853 13,847 40,960
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -91 62 £64,874 +10.42% 48
South West -37 47 £55,000 -6.34% 18
South East -66 46 £62,500 -24.24% 47
North West -58 40 £67,500 +20.00% 28
Midlands -40 37 £65,000 +13.04% 36
Scotland -25 23 £90,000 +5.57% 11
East Midlands -36 21 £80,000 +77.78% 25
West Midlands -40 16 £60,000 +4.35% 11
Yorkshire -59 16 £57,500 -17.86% 15
East of England -110 12 £62,500 -5.65% 22
North East -33 6 £60,000 -20.53% 5
Wales -29 4 £69,500 +0.72% 7
Northern Ireland -41 3 £73,750 +34.09% 2
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 12 (5.17%) Confluence
2 7 (3.02%) CMS
3 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.86%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.86%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.86%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.86%) WordPress
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.43%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.43%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 91 (39.22%) AWS
2 84 (36.21%) Azure
3 41 (17.67%) GitHub
4 33 (14.22%) Serverless
5 29 (12.50%) GCP
6 24 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (8.62%) SaaS
8 18 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.17%) Firebase
10 12 (5.17%) Stripe
10 12 (5.17%) TestFlight
11 11 (4.74%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (3.45%) Datadog
13 8 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.02%) Figma
15 6 (2.59%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.29%) Broadband
1 3 (1.29%) HTTP
1 3 (1.29%) Modbus
2 2 (0.86%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.43%) AMQP
3 1 (0.43%) LTE
3 1 (0.43%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.03%) NoSQL
1 14 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.74%) MongoDB
2 11 (4.74%) MySQL
3 9 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.02%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.29%) Big Data
8 2 (0.86%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.86%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.86%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.86%) Power BI
8 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.86%) Tableau
9 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.43%) Looker
9 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 39 (16.81%) Git
2 32 (13.79%) JIRA
3 17 (7.33%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.60%) GitLab
5 12 (5.17%) Crashlytics
5 12 (5.17%) XCTest
6 9 (3.88%) Selenium
7 8 (3.45%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.45%) JUnit
7 8 (3.45%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.02%) Maven
9 5 (2.16%) Mockito
9 5 (2.16%) TestRail
10 4 (1.72%) Claude Code
10 4 (1.72%) JMeter
10 4 (1.72%) Storybook
11 3 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.29%) LoadRunner
11 3 (1.29%) Toad
11 3 (1.29%) Zephyr
General
1 85 (36.64%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.79%) Finance
3 18 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.02%) Legal
6 6 (2.59%) Banking
6 6 (2.59%) Law
7 5 (2.16%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.16%) Electronics
7 5 (2.16%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.16%) Marketing
7 5 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.72%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.29%) Advertising
9 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.29%) Retail
10 2 (0.86%) Aviation
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (21.98%) Developer
2 48 (20.69%) Software Engineer
3 47 (20.26%) Senior
4 46 (19.83%) Lead
5 14 (6.03%) Senior Developer
6 13 (5.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (5.17%) Mobile Engineer
7 12 (5.17%) Software Developer
8 11 (4.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 11 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (4.31%) Engineering Manager
9 10 (4.31%) Software Quality Engineer
9 10 (4.31%) Test Engineer
10 9 (3.88%) Process Engineer
10 9 (3.88%) Technical Leader
11 8 (3.45%) Analyst
11 8 (3.45%) Architect
11 8 (3.45%) Development Engineer
11 8 (3.45%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.67%) .NET
2 40 (17.24%) React
3 27 (11.64%) REST
4 26 (11.21%) Spring
5 25 (10.78%) RESTful
6 24 (10.34%) Spring Boot
7 22 (9.48%) AngularJS
7 22 (9.48%) CSS
8 21 (9.05%) HTML
8 21 (9.05%) Node.js
9 15 (6.47%) SwiftUI
10 14 (6.03%) UIKit
11 13 (5.60%) Web Services
12 11 (4.74%) Vue
13 10 (4.31%) ADO
14 8 (3.45%) Laravel
15 7 (3.02%) ASP.NET
15 7 (3.02%) AWS CDK
15 7 (3.02%) GraphQL
15 7 (3.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 30 (12.93%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (12.07%) Product Ownership
4 20 (8.62%) Mobile App
5 19 (8.19%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (7.33%) Onboarding
7 13 (5.60%) Client/Server
8 11 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (3.45%) NHS
10 6 (2.59%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.16%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (1.29%) IoT
13 3 (1.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.34%) Linux
2 18 (7.76%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.72%) Windows
4 3 (1.29%) Android
4 3 (1.29%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.43%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (50.43%) CI/CD
2 95 (40.95%) Agile
3 88 (37.93%) DevOps
4 86 (37.07%) Software Engineering
5 85 (36.64%) Test Automation
6 74 (31.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 66 (28.45%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (21.12%) Mentoring
9 47 (20.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 47 (20.26%) User Experience
10 44 (18.97%) Microservices
11 42 (18.10%) AI
12 39 (16.81%) Containerisation
13 38 (16.38%) Technical Leadership
14 36 (15.52%) Coaching
14 36 (15.52%) Observability
15 33 (14.22%) Software Testing
16 31 (13.36%) Roadmaps
16 31 (13.36%) Scrum
17 30 (12.93%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 66 (28.45%) Python
2 61 (26.29%) JavaScript
3 44 (18.97%) TypeScript
4 40 (17.24%) Java
5 31 (13.36%) C#
6 29 (12.50%) SQL
7 23 (9.91%) C++
8 21 (9.05%) C
9 16 (6.90%) PHP
10 15 (6.47%) Swift
11 13 (5.60%) Rust
12 12 (5.17%) Kotlin
13 8 (3.45%) Bash
14 4 (1.72%) Groovy
15 3 (1.29%) Scala
16 2 (0.86%) Julia
16 2 (0.86%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.43%) Go
17 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (13.79%) Degree
2 22 (9.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.60%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.59%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.86%) PhD
9 1 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CISM
9 1 (0.43%) CISSP
9 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.43%) GSEC
9 1 (0.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (26.72%) QA
2 13 (5.60%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.60%) Software Quality Assurance
3 6 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.29%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.29%) WCAG
5 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.86%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.86%) MISRA
5 2 (0.86%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.43%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (20.26%) Docker
2 13 (5.60%) Hyper-V
2 13 (5.60%) KVM
2 13 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.02%) Firmware
4 5 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.72%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.33%) Terraform
3 13 (5.60%) Grafana
4 12 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.72%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.29%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.29%) Kibana
7 2 (0.86%) Ansible
7 2 (0.86%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.86%) Packer
7 2 (0.86%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.43%) Nessus
8 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (5.60%) VMware
2 12 (5.17%) Amplitude
2 12 (5.17%) Braze
3 9 (3.88%) Oracle
4 7 (3.02%) Google
4 7 (3.02%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.29%) Databricks
6 3 (1.29%) Foundry
6 3 (1.29%) HP
7 2 (0.86%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.86%) IBM
7 2 (0.86%) SAP
7 2 (0.86%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.86%) Splunk
8 1 (0.43%) Adobe
8 1 (0.43%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.43%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.43%) Sage
8 1 (0.43%) Siemens