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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 203 267
Rank change year-on-year -153 +64 +128
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 233 399 710
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 1.47% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.61% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 148 334 489
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,875 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,215 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% +20.01% +0.31%
75th Percentile £76,563 £77,500 £73,886
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £66,222 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.48% +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 46,868 24,770 56,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 72.07% 91.25% 83.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,736 13,852 40,821
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,475 £37,500 £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 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -84 64 £62,500 +6.38% 42
South West -34 47 £55,000 -4.25% 20
South East -87 46 £62,500 -24.24% 56
North West -61 40 £67,500 +20.00% 28
Midlands -38 36 £65,000 +13.04% 36
Scotland -16 24 £90,000 +5.57% 10
East Midlands -37 19 £90,000 +100.00% 26
West Midlands -29 17 £60,000 +4.35% 10
Yorkshire -60 17 £57,500 -17.86% 12
East of England -110 13 £57,500 -13.19% 15
North East -37 7 £47,500 -37.09% 2
Northern Ireland -40 3 £73,750 +34.09% 4
Wales -32 2 £54,500 -21.01% 7
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 (5.15%) Confluence
2 6 (2.58%) CMS
3 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.86%) NServiceBus
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%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.43%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.15%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 92 (39.48%) AWS
2 85 (36.48%) Azure
3 40 (17.17%) GitHub
4 34 (14.59%) Serverless
5 28 (12.02%) GCP
6 24 (10.30%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (8.15%) SaaS
8 16 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.15%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.15%) Firebase
10 11 (4.72%) Stripe
10 11 (4.72%) TestFlight
11 9 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.86%) Datadog
12 8 (3.43%) Figma
13 7 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.58%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (2.58%) 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 15 (6.44%) NoSQL
2 13 (5.58%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.15%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.72%) MySQL
5 9 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.43%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.43%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.29%) Big Data
9 2 (0.86%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.86%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.86%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.86%) Power BI
9 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.86%) Tableau
10 1 (0.43%) Looker
10 1 (0.43%) Redis
10 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 41 (17.60%) Git
2 32 (13.73%) JIRA
3 17 (7.30%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.01%) GitLab
5 11 (4.72%) Crashlytics
5 11 (4.72%) XCTest
6 9 (3.86%) Selenium
7 8 (3.43%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.43%) JUnit
7 8 (3.43%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.00%) Maven
9 5 (2.15%) Mockito
9 5 (2.15%) 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 88 (37.77%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.16%) Finance
3 19 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.43%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.58%) Banking
5 6 (2.58%) Law
5 6 (2.58%) Legal
6 5 (2.15%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.15%) Electronics
6 5 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.72%) Health Technology
7 4 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.72%) Marketing
8 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.86%) Advertising
9 2 (0.86%) Aviation
9 2 (0.86%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (21.46%) Developer
1 50 (21.46%) Software Engineer
2 46 (19.74%) Lead
3 45 (19.31%) Senior
4 12 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 12 (5.15%) Senior Developer
5 11 (4.72%) Mobile Engineer
5 11 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (4.29%) Engineering Manager
6 10 (4.29%) Software Developer
6 10 (4.29%) Software Quality Engineer
6 10 (4.29%) Test Engineer
7 9 (3.86%) Development Engineer
7 9 (3.86%) Process Engineer
7 9 (3.86%) Technical Leader
8 8 (3.43%) Analyst
8 8 (3.43%) Architect
8 8 (3.43%) Senior Development Engineer
8 8 (3.43%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.03%) .NET
2 40 (17.17%) React
3 27 (11.59%) REST
3 27 (11.59%) Spring
4 26 (11.16%) RESTful
5 25 (10.73%) Spring Boot
6 23 (9.87%) CSS
7 22 (9.44%) HTML
8 21 (9.01%) AngularJS
9 19 (8.15%) Node.js
10 14 (6.01%) SwiftUI
11 13 (5.58%) UIKit
11 13 (5.58%) Web Services
12 12 (5.15%) Vue
13 11 (4.72%) ADO
14 8 (3.43%) GraphQL
14 8 (3.43%) Laravel
15 7 (3.00%) ASP.NET
15 7 (3.00%) AWS CDK
16 6 (2.58%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.88%) Cloud Native
2 30 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (12.45%) Product Ownership
4 19 (8.15%) Mobile App
5 18 (7.73%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (7.30%) Onboarding
7 13 (5.58%) Client/Server
8 10 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (3.43%) NHS
10 6 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.72%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (1.29%) IoT
13 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.30%) Linux
2 18 (7.73%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.72%) Android
3 4 (1.72%) Windows
4 3 (1.29%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.43%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (51.07%) CI/CD
2 98 (42.06%) Agile
3 89 (38.20%) DevOps
4 88 (37.77%) Software Engineering
5 85 (36.48%) Test Automation
6 77 (33.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 69 (29.61%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (21.89%) Mentoring
9 47 (20.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 47 (20.17%) User Experience
10 45 (19.31%) Microservices
11 40 (17.17%) AI
12 39 (16.74%) Containerisation
13 37 (15.88%) Coaching
14 36 (15.45%) Observability
15 35 (15.02%) Technical Leadership
16 33 (14.16%) Software Testing
17 31 (13.30%) Roadmaps
17 31 (13.30%) Scrum
18 30 (12.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 68 (29.18%) Python
2 62 (26.61%) JavaScript
3 42 (18.03%) Java
3 42 (18.03%) TypeScript
4 30 (12.88%) C#
4 30 (12.88%) SQL
5 23 (9.87%) C++
6 21 (9.01%) C
7 16 (6.87%) PHP
8 15 (6.44%) Swift
9 13 (5.58%) Rust
10 12 (5.15%) Kotlin
11 8 (3.43%) Bash
12 4 (1.72%) Groovy
13 3 (1.29%) Scala
14 2 (0.86%) Julia
14 2 (0.86%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.43%) Dart
15 1 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 32 (13.73%) Degree
2 22 (9.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.58%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.58%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.15%) 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 64 (27.47%) QA
2 14 (6.01%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.58%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.29%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.29%) WCAG
6 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.86%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.86%) MISRA
6 2 (0.86%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.43%) GDPR
7 1 (0.43%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (21.03%) Docker
2 13 (5.58%) Hyper-V
2 13 (5.58%) KVM
2 13 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.00%) Firmware
4 5 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.72%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (11.16%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.15%) Terraform
3 14 (6.01%) Grafana
4 13 (5.58%) 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 (5.58%) VMware
2 11 (4.72%) Amplitude
2 11 (4.72%) Braze
3 9 (3.86%) Oracle
4 7 (3.00%) Google
4 7 (3.00%) 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%) Splunk
8 1 (0.43%) Adobe
8 1 (0.43%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.43%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.43%) Siemens
8 1 (0.43%) Sitecore