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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 259 256
Rank change year-on-year -36 -3 +93
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 401 344 613
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 1.01% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.15% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 281 263 379
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,253 £63,466
% change year-on-year +5.66% +4.39% -2.36%

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 51,636 29,972 50,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.56% 87.95% 79.26%
Number of salaries quoted 36,305 16,272 33,672
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -31 109 £69,305 +6.62% 70
South East -10 94 £62,500 -21.88% 70
North West -18 68 £69,973 +7.65% 44
Midlands 0 67 £65,000 +8.33% 27
South West -33 58 £56,250 -10.00% 30
West Midlands -10 35 £65,000 +8.33% 18
East Midlands -7 32 £55,000 +37.50% 9
Scotland +27 27 £75,000 -25.00% 16
East of England -62 27 £60,000 -9.40% 23
Yorkshire -31 26 £62,500 +8.70% 15
Wales -44 19 £67,500 +12.50% 4
North East -39 15 £70,000 +7.69% 11
Northern Ireland -70 2 £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 (3.74%) Confluence
2 14 (3.49%) CMS
3 8 (2.00%) Apache
4 7 (1.75%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.75%) IIS
6 3 (0.75%) nginx
6 3 (0.75%) WinCC
7 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.50%) WordPress
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.25%) Documentum
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.75%) Simulink
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.75%) Shopify
3 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 165 (41.15%) AWS
2 138 (34.41%) Azure
3 54 (13.47%) GCP
3 54 (13.47%) GitHub
4 45 (11.22%) Serverless
5 37 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (7.48%) SaaS
7 25 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (3.99%) GitHub Copilot
10 15 (3.74%) TestFlight
11 14 (3.49%) Firebase
11 14 (3.49%) Stripe
12 13 (3.24%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.24%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.75%) Figma
16 6 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (1.50%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.24%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.25%) Modbus
2 5 (1.25%) Wireshark
3 4 (1.00%) HTTP
4 3 (0.75%) Broadband
4 3 (0.75%) Profibus
5 2 (0.50%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.50%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.50%) SMS
5 2 (0.50%) VoIP
6 1 (0.25%) AMQP
6 1 (0.25%) ATM
6 1 (0.25%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.25%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.48%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.23%) MySQL
3 24 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.74%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.74%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.24%) Redis
8 7 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.00%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.75%) Big Data
11 3 (0.75%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.75%) Power BI
12 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.50%) Tableau
13 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.25%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 74 (18.45%) Git
2 38 (9.48%) JIRA
3 22 (5.49%) GitLab
4 19 (4.74%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.49%) Crashlytics
5 14 (3.49%) XCTest
6 13 (3.24%) JUnit
7 12 (2.99%) Maven
8 11 (2.74%) Claude Code
8 11 (2.74%) Selenium
9 8 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.00%) Storybook
10 7 (1.75%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.75%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.75%) Mockito
10 7 (1.75%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.50%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.25%) Eclipse
12 5 (1.25%) Yeoman
13 4 (1.00%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 140 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.71%) Finance
3 44 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (3.74%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.49%) Retail
7 13 (3.24%) Electronics
8 10 (2.49%) Banking
9 8 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.50%) Advertising
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.25%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.25%) Law
12 5 (1.25%) Publishing
13 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.00%) Aviation
13 4 (1.00%) Legal
13 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (28.93%) Developer
2 105 (26.18%) Lead
3 100 (24.94%) Software Engineer
4 95 (23.69%) Senior
5 39 (9.73%) Senior Software Engineer
6 36 (8.98%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.98%) Software Developer
8 23 (5.74%) Technical Leader
9 20 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (4.99%) Test Engineer
10 18 (4.49%) Lead Developer
10 18 (4.49%) Python Engineer
10 18 (4.49%) Team Leader
11 16 (3.99%) Java Developer
11 16 (3.99%) Python Software Engineer
12 14 (3.49%) Mobile Engineer
13 12 (2.99%) Analyst
13 12 (2.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 12 (2.99%) Lead Software Engineer
14 11 (2.74%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (27.18%) React
2 71 (17.71%) .NET
3 55 (13.72%) Node.js
4 54 (13.47%) REST
5 44 (10.97%) AngularJS
6 42 (10.47%) CSS
7 39 (9.73%) HTML
8 33 (8.23%) RESTful
9 29 (7.23%) Spring
10 18 (4.49%) ASP.NET
10 18 (4.49%) Vue
11 17 (4.24%) Next.js
11 17 (4.24%) Spring Boot
12 16 (3.99%) GraphQL
12 16 (3.99%) Playwright
12 16 (3.99%) SwiftUI
12 16 (3.99%) UIKit
13 15 (3.74%) .NET Framework
14 13 (3.24%) Django
14 13 (3.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.21%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (8.73%) Product Ownership
4 30 (7.48%) Mobile App
5 26 (6.48%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (4.74%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.24%) Client/Server
8 11 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.49%) Embedded Systems
10 9 (2.24%) Management Information System
11 8 (2.00%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (1.50%) SCADA
14 5 (1.25%) Algorithms
14 5 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
15 4 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 61 (15.21%) Linux
2 27 (6.73%) Windows
3 23 (5.74%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.24%) Android
5 5 (1.25%) Debian
6 4 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (51.62%) CI/CD
2 188 (46.88%) Agile
3 187 (46.63%) Software Engineering
4 159 (39.65%) Test Automation
5 154 (38.40%) DevOps
6 138 (34.41%) Mentoring
7 119 (29.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (26.68%) AI
9 98 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
10 81 (20.20%) Microservices
11 79 (19.70%) Technical Leadership
12 73 (18.20%) Software Testing
13 72 (17.96%) Full-Stack Development
14 67 (16.71%) Scrum
15 66 (16.46%) SDLC
16 62 (15.46%) User Experience
17 57 (14.21%) Clean Code
18 53 (13.22%) Decision-Making
18 53 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
19 47 (11.72%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 124 (30.92%) JavaScript
2 120 (29.93%) Python
3 88 (21.95%) TypeScript
4 86 (21.45%) Java
5 78 (19.45%) C#
6 69 (17.21%) SQL
7 49 (12.22%) C++
8 39 (9.73%) C
9 21 (5.24%) PHP
10 16 (3.99%) Swift
11 15 (3.74%) Kotlin
12 12 (2.99%) Rust
13 9 (2.24%) Go
13 9 (2.24%) Ruby
14 6 (1.50%) Bash
14 6 (1.50%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.25%) Groovy
15 5 (1.25%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.25%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.75%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 60 (14.96%) Degree
2 48 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.73%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.74%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.49%) ISTQB
6 10 (2.49%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.50%) PhD
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CISM
8 1 (0.25%) CISSP
8 1 (0.25%) GSEC
8 1 (0.25%) HNC
8 1 (0.25%) HND
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.25%) OCP
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (22.44%) QA
2 34 (8.48%) Accessibility
3 22 (5.49%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.49%) WCAG
5 6 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.75%) IEC 61131
6 3 (0.75%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.50%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.50%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.50%) MISRA
7 2 (0.50%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.50%) NCSC
7 2 (0.50%) NIST
7 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.25%) GDPR
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (19.45%) Docker
2 12 (2.99%) Firmware
3 11 (2.74%) KVM
3 11 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.00%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.75%) vSphere
8 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (11.97%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.23%) Terraform
3 9 (2.24%) Ansible
3 9 (2.24%) Grafana
4 4 (1.00%) Functional Safety
4 4 (1.00%) Kibana
5 3 (0.75%) Control-M
5 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.75%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.50%) Packer
6 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.50%) Puppet
7 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.25%) logstash
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.25%) Podman
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (7.73%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.99%) Google
3 15 (3.74%) Oracle
4 14 (3.49%) Amplitude
4 14 (3.49%) Braze
4 14 (3.49%) VMware
5 7 (1.75%) Sitecore
6 6 (1.50%) AppDynamics
6 6 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.25%) Intel
8 4 (1.00%) Adobe
8 4 (1.00%) Databricks
8 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.00%) Splunk
9 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.75%) Foundry
9 3 (0.75%) HP
9 3 (0.75%) Rockwell
9 3 (0.75%) Siemens
10 2 (0.50%) Sage