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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 228 263
Rank change year-on-year -91 +35 +129
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 300 378 731
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 1.32% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.44% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 205 315 498
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,215 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +20.01% +0.31%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,225 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.70% +10.38% -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 47,926 26,284 58,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.04% 91.99% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 31,240 12,956 41,854
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -67 83 £67,500 +3.85% 52
South East -43 65 £62,500 -23.08% 47
North West -34 53 £67,500 +12.50% 35
Midlands -9 52 £65,000 +13.04% 27
South West -34 49 £55,000 -12.00% 25
East Midlands -13 27 £60,000 +54.84% 11
West Midlands -34 25 £65,000 +8.33% 16
Scotland +8 23 £72,500 -14.71% 7
Yorkshire -51 22 £62,500 -13.19% 11
East of England -98 17 £67,500 +1.91% 15
Wales -31 10 £72,000 +11.63% 2
North East -29 8 £70,000 -7.28% 7
Northern Ireland -41 3 £65,000 +18.18% 9
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 13 (4.33%) Confluence
2 11 (3.67%) CMS
3 6 (2.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (1.67%) Apache
5 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.00%) FactoryTalk
5 3 (1.00%) WinCC
6 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.67%) nginx
6 2 (0.67%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.67%) WordPress
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.33%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Trello
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.33%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 119 (39.67%) AWS
2 103 (34.33%) Azure
3 45 (15.00%) GitHub
4 38 (12.67%) GCP
5 37 (12.33%) Serverless
6 26 (8.67%) SaaS
7 21 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (4.33%) Firebase
10 13 (4.33%) Stripe
10 13 (4.33%) TestFlight
11 11 (3.67%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.67%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (2.33%) Figma
13 6 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.67%) Modbus
2 4 (1.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.33%) Wireshark
3 3 (1.00%) Broadband
3 3 (1.00%) Profibus
4 2 (0.67%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (0.67%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.67%) HTTP
4 2 (0.67%) SMS
4 2 (0.67%) VoIP
5 1 (0.33%) AMQP
5 1 (0.33%) ATM
5 1 (0.33%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.00%) MySQL
2 15 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.33%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.67%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.67%) Big Data
8 4 (1.33%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.67%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.67%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.67%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.67%) Power BI
9 2 (0.67%) Redis
9 2 (0.67%) Tableau
10 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.33%) Looker
10 1 (0.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 43 (14.33%) Git
2 35 (11.67%) JIRA
3 16 (5.33%) JUnit
4 15 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 13 (4.33%) Crashlytics
5 13 (4.33%) GitLab
5 13 (4.33%) XCTest
6 11 (3.67%) Maven
7 10 (3.33%) Claude Code
8 9 (3.00%) Cypress.io
8 9 (3.00%) Mockito
8 9 (3.00%) Selenium
8 9 (3.00%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.00%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.67%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.67%) Yeoman
11 4 (1.33%) Spock
11 4 (1.33%) Storybook
11 4 (1.33%) TestRail
12 3 (1.00%) Zephyr
General
1 95 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 47 (15.67%) Finance
3 21 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.33%) Retail
5 10 (3.33%) Banking
6 9 (3.00%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.33%) Legal
7 7 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.00%) Marketing
9 5 (1.67%) Electronics
10 4 (1.33%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.33%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.33%) Law
11 3 (1.00%) Advertising
11 3 (1.00%) Aviation
11 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (26.00%) Software Engineer
2 77 (25.67%) Developer
2 77 (25.67%) Lead
3 64 (21.33%) Senior
4 24 (8.00%) Senior Developer
5 20 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 18 (6.00%) Software Developer
7 15 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (4.33%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.33%) Mobile Engineer
9 12 (4.00%) Lead Developer
9 12 (4.00%) Team Leader
9 12 (4.00%) Technical Leader
10 11 (3.67%) Python Engineer
10 11 (3.67%) Python Software Engineer
10 11 (3.67%) Test Engineer
11 10 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
12 9 (3.00%) Architect
12 9 (3.00%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (24.67%) React
2 52 (17.33%) .NET
3 37 (12.33%) REST
4 32 (10.67%) Node.js
5 31 (10.33%) AngularJS
5 31 (10.33%) Spring
6 30 (10.00%) CSS
7 27 (9.00%) HTML
7 27 (9.00%) RESTful
8 19 (6.33%) Spring Boot
9 16 (5.33%) SwiftUI
10 15 (5.00%) UIKit
11 14 (4.67%) Vue
12 13 (4.33%) Web Services
13 11 (3.67%) AWS CDK
13 11 (3.67%) Django
13 11 (3.67%) Playwright
14 10 (3.33%) ASP.NET
14 10 (3.33%) Laravel
14 10 (3.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 40 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (7.67%) Mobile App
2 23 (7.67%) Product Ownership
3 21 (7.00%) Onboarding
4 20 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (4.67%) Client/Server
6 11 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.67%) NHS
7 8 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.00%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 41 (13.67%) Linux
2 19 (6.33%) Apple iOS
3 16 (5.33%) Windows
4 3 (1.00%) Android
4 3 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.67%) Debian
6 1 (0.33%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (51.67%) CI/CD
2 130 (43.33%) Agile
3 124 (41.33%) Software Engineering
4 110 (36.67%) DevOps
5 100 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 81 (27.00%) Mentoring
7 79 (26.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 75 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (23.00%) AI
10 67 (22.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 63 (21.00%) Microservices
12 57 (19.00%) Technical Leadership
12 57 (19.00%) User Experience
13 47 (15.67%) Scrum
13 47 (15.67%) Software Testing
14 43 (14.33%) Containerisation
15 42 (14.00%) Observability
16 38 (12.67%) Decision-Making
17 36 (12.00%) Roadmaps
18 35 (11.67%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 89 (29.67%) JavaScript
1 89 (29.67%) Python
2 67 (22.33%) TypeScript
3 54 (18.00%) Java
4 46 (15.33%) SQL
5 45 (15.00%) C#
6 34 (11.33%) C++
7 28 (9.33%) C
8 19 (6.33%) PHP
9 16 (5.33%) Swift
10 14 (4.67%) Rust
11 13 (4.33%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.33%) Bash
12 7 (2.33%) Groovy
13 6 (2.00%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.00%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.00%) Scala
15 2 (0.67%) Julia
15 2 (0.67%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (13.33%) Degree
2 24 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.00%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.67%) PhD
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.33%) CISM
9 1 (0.33%) CISSP
9 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.33%) GSEC
9 1 (0.33%) HNC
9 1 (0.33%) HND
9 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (20.33%) QA
2 17 (5.67%) Accessibility
2 17 (5.67%) Software Quality Assurance
3 6 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.00%) IEC 61131
4 3 (1.00%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.00%) WCAG
5 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.67%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.67%) MISRA
5 2 (0.67%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.33%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (20.33%) Docker
2 14 (4.67%) Hyper-V
2 14 (4.67%) KVM
2 14 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.33%) Firmware
4 5 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (10.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.67%) Terraform
3 10 (3.33%) Grafana
4 6 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.67%) Ansible
6 3 (1.00%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.00%) Kibana
7 2 (0.67%) Control-M
7 2 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.67%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.67%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.67%) Packer
7 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (5.33%) VMware
2 15 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.67%) Oracle
4 13 (4.33%) Amplitude
4 13 (4.33%) Braze
5 7 (2.33%) Google
6 6 (2.00%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.00%) Sitecore
6 6 (2.00%) Splunk
7 5 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.00%) Databricks
8 3 (1.00%) Foundry
8 3 (1.00%) HP
8 3 (1.00%) Rockwell
8 3 (1.00%) Siemens
9 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.67%) IBM
9 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.67%) SAP
10 1 (0.33%) Sage