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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 257 257
Rank change year-on-year -43 0 +94
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 388 362 638
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 1.07% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.21% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 274 281 403
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,215 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.36% +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,688 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,225 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.70% +5.96% -3.85%

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 51,340 29,846 52,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.49% 88.08% 79.41%
Number of salaries quoted 36,092 16,172 34,928
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £28,000
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 £66,225 £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% - -8.71%

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 24 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 24 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 -35 106 £69,305 +6.62% 86
South East 0 91 £62,500 -21.88% 83
Midlands -2 65 £65,000 +8.33% 36
North West -25 65 £69,973 +7.65% 55
South West -30 55 £55,000 -12.00% 39
West Midlands -25 34 £65,000 +8.33% 20
East Midlands -2 31 £55,000 +37.50% 16
East of England -72 27 £60,000 -9.40% 22
Yorkshire -25 26 £62,500 +2.04% 18
Scotland +20 25 £73,750 -26.25% 36
Wales -43 19 £67,500 +12.50% 4
North East -36 15 £70,000 +7.69% 13
Northern Ireland -70 2 £65,000 +18.18% 11
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 (3.87%) Confluence
2 14 (3.61%) CMS
3 7 (1.80%) Apache
3 7 (1.80%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.77%) FactoryTalk
5 3 (0.77%) IIS
5 3 (0.77%) nginx
5 3 (0.77%) WinCC
6 2 (0.52%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.52%) WordPress
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.26%) Documentum
7 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Simulink
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.29%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.77%) Shopify
3 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.26%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 157 (40.46%) AWS
2 132 (34.02%) Azure
3 53 (13.66%) GCP
4 52 (13.40%) GitHub
5 44 (11.34%) Serverless
6 34 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (7.73%) SaaS
8 24 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.87%) GitHub Copilot
11 14 (3.61%) Firebase
11 14 (3.61%) Stripe
11 14 (3.61%) TestFlight
12 13 (3.35%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.35%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.80%) Figma
16 6 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 6 (1.55%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.32%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.29%) Modbus
2 5 (1.29%) Wireshark
3 3 (0.77%) Broadband
3 3 (0.77%) HTTP
3 3 (0.77%) Profibus
4 2 (0.52%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (0.52%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.52%) SMS
4 2 (0.52%) VoIP
5 1 (0.26%) AMQP
5 1 (0.26%) ATM
5 1 (0.26%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.26%) Internet
5 1 (0.26%) LTE
5 1 (0.26%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.99%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.93%) MySQL
3 21 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 14 (3.61%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.35%) Redis
6 7 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.03%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.77%) Big Data
8 3 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.77%) Power BI
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.52%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.52%) Tableau
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 73 (18.81%) Git
2 38 (9.79%) JIRA
3 21 (5.41%) GitLab
4 17 (4.38%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.61%) Crashlytics
5 14 (3.61%) XCTest
6 12 (3.09%) JUnit
6 12 (3.09%) Maven
7 11 (2.84%) Claude Code
8 10 (2.58%) Selenium
9 8 (2.06%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.06%) Storybook
10 7 (1.80%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.80%) Mockito
11 6 (1.55%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.55%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.55%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.29%) Eclipse
12 5 (1.29%) Yeoman
13 4 (1.03%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 133 (34.28%) Social Skills
2 57 (14.69%) Finance
3 43 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (3.61%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.61%) Retail
6 12 (3.09%) Electronics
7 10 (2.58%) Banking
8 8 (2.06%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.55%) Advertising
10 6 (1.55%) Marketing
11 5 (1.29%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.29%) Publishing
12 4 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.03%) Legal
12 4 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.77%) Law
Job Titles
1 112 (28.87%) Developer
2 101 (26.03%) Lead
3 98 (25.26%) Software Engineer
4 91 (23.45%) Senior
5 39 (10.05%) Senior Software Engineer
6 34 (8.76%) Senior Developer
7 26 (6.70%) Software Developer
8 22 (5.67%) Technical Leader
9 20 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (5.15%) Test Engineer
10 18 (4.64%) Python Engineer
11 17 (4.38%) Lead Developer
11 17 (4.38%) Team Leader
12 16 (4.12%) Java Developer
12 16 (4.12%) Python Software Engineer
13 14 (3.61%) Mobile Engineer
14 12 (3.09%) Analyst
15 11 (2.84%) Architect
15 11 (2.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 11 (2.84%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (26.55%) React
2 65 (16.75%) .NET
3 54 (13.92%) Node.js
4 52 (13.40%) REST
5 41 (10.57%) AngularJS
5 41 (10.57%) CSS
6 38 (9.79%) HTML
7 32 (8.25%) RESTful
8 29 (7.47%) Spring
9 18 (4.64%) Vue
10 17 (4.38%) Spring Boot
11 16 (4.12%) ASP.NET
11 16 (4.12%) GraphQL
11 16 (4.12%) Next.js
11 16 (4.12%) SwiftUI
11 16 (4.12%) UIKit
12 14 (3.61%) Playwright
13 13 (3.35%) Django
13 13 (3.35%) Web Services
14 12 (3.09%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 60 (15.46%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.76%) Product Ownership
4 29 (7.47%) Mobile App
5 26 (6.70%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (4.64%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.35%) Client/Server
8 11 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.32%) Embedded Systems
10 9 (2.32%) Management Information System
11 8 (2.06%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (1.55%) SCADA
14 5 (1.29%) Algorithms
14 5 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (1.29%) Virtual Team
15 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 60 (15.46%) Linux
2 26 (6.70%) Windows
3 21 (5.41%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.80%) Android
5 5 (1.29%) Debian
6 4 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.26%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (51.80%) CI/CD
2 178 (45.88%) Agile
3 177 (45.62%) Software Engineering
4 155 (39.95%) Test Automation
5 148 (38.14%) DevOps
6 131 (33.76%) Mentoring
7 112 (28.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 104 (26.80%) AI
9 96 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
10 79 (20.36%) Microservices
11 76 (19.59%) Technical Leadership
12 72 (18.56%) Software Testing
13 71 (18.30%) Full-Stack Development
14 64 (16.49%) Scrum
15 63 (16.24%) SDLC
16 62 (15.98%) User Experience
17 56 (14.43%) Clean Code
18 52 (13.40%) Decision-Making
19 49 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
20 46 (11.86%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 118 (30.41%) JavaScript
2 116 (29.90%) Python
3 84 (21.65%) TypeScript
4 82 (21.13%) Java
5 73 (18.81%) C#
6 67 (17.27%) SQL
7 47 (12.11%) C++
8 38 (9.79%) C
9 21 (5.41%) PHP
10 16 (4.12%) Swift
11 15 (3.87%) Kotlin
12 11 (2.84%) Rust
13 9 (2.32%) Ruby
14 7 (1.80%) Go
15 6 (1.55%) Bash
15 6 (1.55%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.29%) Groovy
16 5 (1.29%) MATLAB
16 5 (1.29%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.77%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 56 (14.43%) Degree
2 44 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 30 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.64%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.58%) ISTQB
7 8 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.52%) PhD
9 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.26%) CISM
9 1 (0.26%) CISSP
9 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.26%) GSEC
9 1 (0.26%) HNC
9 1 (0.26%) HND
9 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (21.91%) QA
2 33 (8.51%) Accessibility
3 22 (5.67%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.58%) WCAG
5 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.77%) IEC 61131
6 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.52%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.52%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.52%) MISRA
7 2 (0.52%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.52%) NCSC
7 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) GDPR
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (19.59%) Docker
2 12 (3.09%) Firmware
3 11 (2.84%) KVM
3 11 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.58%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.06%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.77%) vSphere
8 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (12.11%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.25%) Terraform
3 9 (2.32%) Ansible
4 8 (2.06%) Grafana
5 4 (1.03%) Functional Safety
5 4 (1.03%) Kibana
6 3 (0.77%) Control-M
6 3 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.77%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.52%) Packer
7 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.52%) Puppet
8 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.26%) logstash
8 1 (0.26%) Podman
8 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (7.22%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.15%) Google
3 15 (3.87%) Oracle
4 14 (3.61%) Amplitude
4 14 (3.61%) Braze
4 14 (3.61%) VMware
5 7 (1.80%) Sitecore
6 6 (1.55%) AppDynamics
6 6 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.29%) Intel
8 4 (1.03%) Adobe
8 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.03%) Splunk
9 3 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.77%) Databricks
9 3 (0.77%) Foundry
9 3 (0.77%) HP
9 3 (0.77%) Rockwell
9 3 (0.77%) Siemens
10 2 (0.52%) Sage