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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 180 269
Rank change year-on-year -173 +89 +95
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 198 407 626
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 1.57% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.71% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 119 333 478
10th Percentile £38,900 £41,250 £35,784
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,215 £55,587
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% +19.12% +1.07%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,688
UK median annual salary £75,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.20% +10.42% -11.11%

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 41,386 23,826 52,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 74.48% 91.89% 85.13%
Number of salaries quoted 24,810 13,495 38,783
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,945 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.42%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 March 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 March 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 56 £60,000 -7.69% 60
South East -89 40 £65,000 -18.75% 53
Midlands -38 35 £60,000 +32.96% 20
South West -26 34 £52,500 -8.60% 29
North West -69 30 £67,500 +17.39% 37
West Midlands -4 20 £58,750 +9.81% 11
Scotland -32 20 £90,000 +5.57% 14
Yorkshire -43 19 £41,250 -47.62% 12
East Midlands -43 15 £100,000 +150.00% 9
East of England -112 10 £60,000 -9.42% 14
North East -21 7 £53,000 -29.80% 11
Northern Ireland - 2 £82,500 - 2
Wales -27 1 £37,500 -15.43% 5
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 8 (4.04%) Confluence
2 7 (3.54%) CMS
3 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.52%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.01%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) nginx
5 1 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (37.88%) AWS
2 74 (37.37%) Azure
3 38 (19.19%) GitHub
4 30 (15.15%) GCP
4 30 (15.15%) Serverless
5 21 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (9.60%) SaaS
7 15 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.05%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.05%) Datadog
8 10 (5.05%) Firebase
9 9 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.55%) Stripe
9 9 (4.55%) TestFlight
10 8 (4.04%) Figma
11 7 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) Broadband
1 3 (1.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) AMQP
2 1 (0.51%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.07%) NoSQL
2 12 (6.06%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.05%) MySQL
3 10 (5.05%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.03%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.52%) Big Data
9 2 (1.01%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.01%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.01%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.51%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.51%) Power BI
10 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (16.67%) Git
2 21 (10.61%) JIRA
3 15 (7.58%) GitLab
3 15 (7.58%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.55%) Crashlytics
4 9 (4.55%) JUnit
4 9 (4.55%) XCTest
5 8 (4.04%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.54%) Maven
6 7 (3.54%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.03%) Mockito
7 6 (3.03%) Selenium
8 4 (2.02%) JMeter
8 4 (2.02%) TestRail
9 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.52%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.52%) Storybook
10 2 (1.01%) Checkstyle
10 2 (1.01%) ESLint
10 2 (1.01%) TestNG
General
1 82 (41.41%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.16%) Finance
3 15 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.55%) Law
5 6 (3.03%) Legal
5 6 (3.03%) Marketing
5 6 (3.03%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.53%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.02%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.52%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.52%) Games
8 3 (1.52%) Retail
9 2 (1.01%) Electronics
9 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Advertising
10 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (28.28%) Developer
2 39 (19.70%) Software Engineer
3 37 (18.69%) Senior
4 30 (15.15%) Lead
5 15 (7.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (7.07%) Senior Developer
7 13 (6.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Development Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Engineering Manager
8 10 (5.05%) Process Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Software Quality Engineer
9 9 (4.55%) Mobile Engineer
9 9 (4.55%) Test Engineer
10 8 (4.04%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.04%) Senior Development Engineer
10 8 (4.04%) Senior Manager
10 8 (4.04%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.54%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 6 (3.03%) Analyst
12 6 (3.03%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.70%) React
2 38 (19.19%) .NET
3 28 (14.14%) CSS
4 25 (12.63%) HTML
4 25 (12.63%) REST
4 25 (12.63%) Spring
5 24 (12.12%) RESTful
6 23 (11.62%) Spring Boot
7 18 (9.09%) AngularJS
8 15 (7.58%) Node.js
8 15 (7.58%) Vue
9 12 (6.06%) SwiftUI
10 11 (5.56%) UIKit
10 11 (5.56%) Web Services
11 10 (5.05%) ADO
12 8 (4.04%) Django
13 7 (3.54%) ASP.NET
14 6 (3.03%) .NET Framework
14 6 (3.03%) Hibernate
14 6 (3.03%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.65%) Product Ownership
2 27 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 25 (12.63%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (8.59%) Onboarding
5 13 (6.57%) Client/Server
5 13 (6.57%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (6.57%) Mobile App
6 10 (5.05%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (4.04%) NHS
8 7 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (2.02%) Data Structures
11 4 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (2.02%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.52%) IoT
12 3 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.62%) Linux
2 13 (6.57%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.51%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (46.46%) CI/CD
2 81 (40.91%) Agile
3 71 (35.86%) Software Engineering
4 66 (33.33%) DevOps
5 65 (32.83%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (32.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 60 (30.30%) Test Automation
8 46 (23.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 46 (23.23%) User Experience
9 36 (18.18%) Containerisation
10 32 (16.16%) Microservices
11 31 (15.66%) Mentoring
12 30 (15.15%) AI
13 29 (14.65%) Coaching
14 28 (14.14%) Roadmaps
15 26 (13.13%) Computer Science
16 24 (12.12%) Clean Code
17 23 (11.62%) Observability
18 21 (10.61%) Software Testing
19 19 (9.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 70 (35.35%) Python
2 67 (33.84%) JavaScript
3 42 (21.21%) Java
4 40 (20.20%) TypeScript
5 27 (13.64%) SQL
6 24 (12.12%) C#
7 19 (9.60%) C++
8 17 (8.59%) C
9 13 (6.57%) Rust
9 13 (6.57%) Swift
10 10 (5.05%) Kotlin
11 9 (4.55%) PHP
12 8 (4.04%) Bash
13 4 (2.02%) Groovy
14 3 (1.52%) Scala
15 2 (1.01%) Julia
15 2 (1.01%) R
16 1 (0.51%) Go
16 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (16.16%) Degree
2 25 (12.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.02%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.02%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.01%) PhD
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (28.28%) QA
2 10 (5.05%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.53%) Software Quality Assurance
4 3 (1.52%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.01%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (25.76%) Docker
2 13 (6.57%) Hyper-V
2 13 (6.57%) KVM
2 13 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.52%) Firmware
5 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.10%) Terraform
3 16 (8.08%) Grafana
4 15 (7.58%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.02%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.01%) Nessus
6 2 (1.01%) Packer
6 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.51%) Kibana
7 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (6.57%) VMware
2 9 (4.55%) Amplitude
2 9 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.53%) Google
3 5 (2.53%) Oracle
4 4 (2.02%) Foundry
5 3 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.01%) Databricks
6 2 (1.01%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.01%) SAP
6 2 (1.01%) Splunk
7 1 (0.51%) Adobe
7 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.51%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.51%) HP
7 1 (0.51%) Palantir
7 1 (0.51%) Veracode