Code Quality Jobs in the UK excluding London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Code Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Code Quality over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 288 290
Rank change year-on-year +26 +2 +18
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 628 556 945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 1.15% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.21% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 373 212 392
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,800 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,625 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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 51,975 45,995 74,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.63% 95.53% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 33,355 26,900 43,045
10th Percentile £28,371 £30,500 £30,076
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,050 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

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 2024.

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 2024. 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 +14 180 £55,000 - 15
South East +34 149 £70,000 +55.56% 19
North West +45 145 £52,500 -2.33% 7
Midlands +46 124 £50,000 -4.76% 26
East Midlands +21 84 £75,000 +50.00% 8
South West +11 72 £60,000 +9.09% 14
Scotland -52 43 £52,500 -25.00% 2
West Midlands +21 40 £47,500 -13.64% 18
East of England -22 33 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Yorkshire +10 28 £65,000 +14.54% 6
Wales +14 16 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Northern Ireland +11 11 £55,000 - 15
North East -13 7 £65,000 +36.35% 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 21 (3.34%) Apache
2 20 (3.18%) SAS
3 10 (1.59%) ArcGIS
3 10 (1.59%) CMS
4 5 (0.80%) WordPress
5 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.48%) Confluence
5 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.16%) Drupal
6 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 35 (5.57%) Simulink
2 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.48%) Trello
3 2 (0.32%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.32%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.32%) Fusion 360
3 2 (0.32%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 272 (43.31%) Azure
2 136 (21.66%) AWS
3 116 (18.47%) IBM Cloud
4 65 (10.35%) SaaS
5 38 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (4.14%) GCP
7 23 (3.66%) GitHub
8 17 (2.71%) Power Platform
9 14 (2.23%) Serverless
10 13 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.91%) dbt
12 11 (1.75%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.59%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (1.43%) BlazeMeter
15 8 (1.27%) PaaS
16 7 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 7 (1.11%) SonarCloud
17 5 (0.80%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.80%) HTTP
1 5 (0.80%) RS-485
1 5 (0.80%) Wireless
2 4 (0.64%) RS-232
2 4 (0.64%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.64%) Wireshark
3 3 (0.48%) Internet
4 2 (0.32%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) 4G
5 1 (0.16%) 5G
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) MQTT
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) RTP
5 1 (0.16%) Value-Added Service
5 1 (0.16%) VLAN
5 1 (0.16%) VoIP
5 1 (0.16%) VPN
5 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (21.82%) PostgreSQL
2 132 (21.02%) NoSQL
3 124 (19.75%) MongoDB
4 116 (18.47%) DB2
5 47 (7.48%) SQL Server
6 43 (6.85%) MySQL
7 38 (6.05%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.23%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.07%) GIS
9 13 (2.07%) Power BI
10 9 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.11%) Redis
13 6 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.48%) Big Data
14 3 (0.48%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 79 (12.58%) Git
2 59 (9.39%) GitLab
3 24 (3.82%) JIRA
4 23 (3.66%) Cucumber
5 20 (3.18%) Selenium
6 16 (2.55%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.39%) JMeter
7 15 (2.39%) JUnit
8 14 (2.23%) Visual Studio
9 13 (2.07%) Jenkins
10 12 (1.91%) REST Assured
10 12 (1.91%) TestNG
10 12 (1.91%) WebDriver
11 10 (1.59%) Maven
12 9 (1.43%) Gradle
12 9 (1.43%) Xcode
13 8 (1.27%) SonarQube
14 7 (1.11%) MSBuild
14 7 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 183 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 142 (22.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 128 (20.38%) Public Sector
4 44 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.85%) Retail
6 40 (6.37%) Finance
7 34 (5.41%) Marketing
8 30 (4.78%) Electronics
9 29 (4.62%) Games
10 18 (2.87%) Law
11 17 (2.71%) Legal
12 15 (2.39%) Tech for Good
13 14 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.75%) Automotive
14 11 (1.75%) Aviation
14 11 (1.75%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.80%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.80%) Mandarin Language
16 4 (0.64%) Billing
16 4 (0.64%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 255 (40.61%) Developer
2 119 (18.95%) Full Stack Engineer
3 111 (17.68%) Azure Engineer
4 102 (16.24%) Software Engineer
5 98 (15.61%) Lead
6 87 (13.85%) Software Developer
7 79 (12.58%) Senior
8 39 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 39 (6.21%) Technical Leader
9 38 (6.05%) Lead Developer
10 35 (5.57%) Embedded Developer
10 35 (5.57%) Embedded Software Developer
11 34 (5.41%) .NET Developer
12 31 (4.94%) Full Stack Developer
13 24 (3.82%) QA Engineer
13 24 (3.82%) Tester
14 23 (3.66%) Senior Developer
15 22 (3.50%) PHP Developer
16 20 (3.18%) ServiceNow Developer
17 18 (2.87%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (35.51%) .NET
2 208 (33.12%) HTML
3 207 (32.96%) React
4 205 (32.64%) CSS
5 171 (27.23%) AngularJS
6 154 (24.52%) ASP.NET
7 150 (23.89%) Vue
8 149 (23.73%) REST
9 146 (23.25%) Web Services
10 144 (22.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 130 (20.70%) jQuery
12 128 (20.38%) ASP.NET Core
13 116 (18.47%) Backbone.js
13 116 (18.47%) Ember.js
14 57 (9.08%) RESTful
15 46 (7.32%) Node.js
16 45 (7.17%) JSON
17 37 (5.89%) XML
18 35 (5.57%) .NET Core
19 29 (4.62%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 128 (20.38%) Algorithms
2 123 (19.59%) Data Structures
3 117 (18.63%) e-Learning
4 116 (18.47%) Blockchain
4 116 (18.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 44 (7.01%) Private Cloud
6 29 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (4.30%) Product Ownership
8 25 (3.98%) Mobile App
9 20 (3.18%) CMDB
10 18 (2.87%) Embedded Systems
11 12 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.75%) IoT
12 11 (1.75%) Robotics
12 11 (1.75%) Satnav
12 11 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.59%) Hackathon
14 9 (1.43%) Market Risk
15 8 (1.27%) Analogue Electronics
15 8 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 172 (27.39%) Linux
2 146 (23.25%) Windows
3 136 (21.66%) Apple iOS
4 130 (20.70%) Android
5 35 (5.57%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.16%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (52.23%) Agile
2 214 (34.08%) Full Stack Development
3 189 (30.10%) Software Engineering
4 187 (29.78%) Problem-Solving
5 183 (29.14%) Mentoring
6 174 (27.71%) Design Patterns
7 161 (25.64%) Web Development
8 158 (25.16%) User Experience
9 157 (25.00%) OO
10 156 (24.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 155 (24.68%) MVC
12 153 (24.36%) Coaching
13 143 (22.77%) OOP
14 133 (21.18%) DevOps
15 132 (21.02%) Continuous Integration
16 128 (20.38%) SOLID
17 127 (20.22%) MVVM
17 127 (20.22%) Responsive Web Design
18 116 (18.47%) Co-Creation
18 116 (18.47%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 291 (46.34%) JavaScript
2 231 (36.78%) SQL
3 228 (36.31%) C#
4 134 (21.34%) Java
5 115 (18.31%) Python
6 83 (13.22%) C++
7 75 (11.94%) TypeScript
8 70 (11.15%) C
9 46 (7.32%) PHP
10 19 (3.03%) Swift
11 15 (2.39%) Go
12 14 (2.23%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.59%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.27%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.96%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.96%) Bicep
16 5 (0.80%) PowerShell
17 4 (0.64%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.64%) JSX
17 4 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 117 (18.63%) Degree
2 112 (17.83%) Security Cleared
3 90 (14.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (7.17%) SC Cleared
5 35 (5.57%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.18%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.32%) PhD
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.16%) CITP
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (17.36%) QA
2 18 (2.87%) Software Quality Assurance
3 15 (2.39%) GDPR
4 11 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.80%) Automotive SPICE
6 4 (0.64%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.48%) ISO 26262
7 3 (0.48%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.16%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.16%) MISRA
8 1 (0.16%) MISRA C
System Software
1 64 (10.19%) Docker
2 12 (1.91%) Firmware
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (5.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.96%) Terraform
3 5 (0.80%) Grafana
3 5 (0.80%) Kibana
4 1 (0.16%) Ansible
4 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 117 (18.63%) IBM
2 116 (18.47%) Red Hat
3 35 (5.57%) Microsoft
4 32 (5.10%) Xilinx
5 20 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 19 (3.03%) BT
7 13 (2.07%) Google
8 10 (1.59%) Apple
9 9 (1.43%) Oracle
9 9 (1.43%) TOWER Software
10 7 (1.11%) ESRI
10 7 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.48%) F5
11 3 (0.48%) Veracode
12 2 (0.32%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.32%) Autodesk
12 2 (0.32%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.16%) Cadence
13 1 (0.16%) Databricks
13 1 (0.16%) SAP