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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 310 262
Rank change year-on-year +26 -48 +67
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 464 277 560
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.80% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.91% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 297 197 330
10th Percentile £41,700 £34,650 £33,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,750 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 54,349 30,379 47,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.43% 87.44% 78.64%
Number of salaries quoted 38,185 16,502 29,548
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,071
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £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% - -8.84%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -23 133 £69,305 +20.53% 141
South East +16 110 £62,500 -16.67% 119
North West -5 79 £70,000 +16.67% 84
South West -11 70 £60,000 -4.00% 79
Midlands -2 68 £55,000 -8.33% 48
West Midlands -11 40 £65,000 +8.33% 27
Scotland +31 34 £75,000 -25.00% 101
East of England -4 30 £60,000 - 54
East Midlands -8 28 £55,000 +29.41% 21
Yorkshire -19 28 £62,500 +13.64% 34
North East -35 26 £70,000 +7.69% 24
Wales -48 19 £67,500 +12.50% 10
Northern Ireland -75 2 £65,000 +18.18% 19
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 16 (3.45%) Apache
2 14 (3.02%) Confluence
3 12 (2.59%) CMS
4 11 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.51%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.65%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.65%) IIS
7 3 (0.65%) WinCC
8 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.43%) nginx
8 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.43%) WordPress
9 1 (0.22%) Documentum
9 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.65%) Simulink
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.43%) Trello
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.65%) Shopify
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.22%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 189 (40.73%) AWS
2 153 (32.97%) Azure
3 64 (13.79%) GitHub
4 63 (13.58%) GCP
5 47 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (9.48%) Serverless
7 32 (6.90%) SaaS
8 27 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (5.39%) GitHub Copilot
10 18 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 15 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
11 15 (3.23%) TestFlight
12 13 (2.80%) Firebase
12 13 (2.80%) Stripe
13 11 (2.37%) dbt
14 9 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (1.94%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.37%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.29%) HTTP
2 6 (1.29%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.08%) Modbus
4 3 (0.65%) Broadband
4 3 (0.65%) Profibus
5 2 (0.43%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.43%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.43%) SMS
5 2 (0.43%) VoIP
6 1 (0.22%) ATM
6 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.22%) Internet
6 1 (0.22%) MQTT
6 1 (0.22%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.91%) SQL Server
2 38 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (6.47%) MySQL
4 29 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 17 (3.66%) Redis
6 15 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.59%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.16%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.08%) MariaDB
10 4 (0.86%) Power BI
11 3 (0.65%) Big Data
11 3 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.65%) GIS
11 3 (0.65%) SQLite
11 3 (0.65%) ZAP BI
12 2 (0.43%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (18.53%) Git
2 40 (8.62%) JIRA
3 28 (6.03%) GitLab
4 23 (4.96%) Jenkins
5 15 (3.23%) JUnit
5 15 (3.23%) Selenium
6 13 (2.80%) Crashlytics
6 13 (2.80%) XCTest
7 12 (2.59%) Claude Code
8 11 (2.37%) Cypress.io
8 11 (2.37%) Maven
9 10 (2.16%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.94%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.51%) Mockito
11 7 (1.51%) Storybook
12 6 (1.29%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.29%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.08%) Eclipse
13 5 (1.08%) NUnit
13 5 (1.08%) TeamCity
General
1 174 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 78 (16.81%) Finance
3 60 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (4.96%) Law
6 21 (4.53%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.66%) Electronics
8 16 (3.45%) Retail
9 12 (2.59%) Banking
9 12 (2.59%) Marketing
10 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.51%) Advertising
11 7 (1.51%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.08%) Aviation
12 5 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.08%) Publishing
13 4 (0.86%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 134 (28.88%) Developer
2 127 (27.37%) Lead
3 119 (25.65%) Software Engineer
4 113 (24.35%) Senior
5 46 (9.91%) Senior Software Engineer
6 44 (9.48%) Senior Developer
7 33 (7.11%) Software Developer
8 25 (5.39%) Technical Leader
9 23 (4.96%) Test Engineer
10 21 (4.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (4.53%) Team Leader
11 20 (4.31%) Lead Developer
12 18 (3.88%) Lead Software Engineer
13 17 (3.66%) Python Engineer
14 16 (3.45%) Java Developer
14 16 (3.45%) Software Manager
15 15 (3.23%) C# Developer
15 15 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 13 (2.80%) .NET Developer
16 13 (2.80%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (27.59%) React
2 96 (20.69%) .NET
3 64 (13.79%) Node.js
3 64 (13.79%) REST
4 54 (11.64%) AngularJS
5 51 (10.99%) CSS
6 49 (10.56%) HTML
7 32 (6.90%) RESTful
8 26 (5.60%) Spring
9 24 (5.17%) .NET Framework
10 22 (4.74%) Playwright
11 21 (4.53%) ASP.NET
11 21 (4.53%) Next.js
12 19 (4.09%) Vue
13 18 (3.88%) .NET Core
14 16 (3.45%) Entity Framework
14 16 (3.45%) GraphQL
15 15 (3.23%) Django
15 15 (3.23%) Spring Boot
15 15 (3.23%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 80 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 43 (9.27%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (9.05%) Product Ownership
4 31 (6.68%) Mobile App
5 26 (5.60%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (4.09%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.59%) Client/Server
9 11 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
10 10 (2.16%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.94%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.94%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.51%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.51%) SCADA
13 6 (1.29%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.29%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (13.15%) Linux
2 29 (6.25%) Windows
3 26 (5.60%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.80%) Android
5 6 (1.29%) Debian
6 4 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (50.43%) CI/CD
2 228 (49.14%) Agile
3 227 (48.92%) Software Engineering
4 185 (39.87%) Test Automation
5 172 (37.07%) DevOps
6 163 (35.13%) Mentoring
7 138 (29.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 136 (29.31%) AI
9 122 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (19.18%) Technical Leadership
11 88 (18.97%) Microservices
12 85 (18.32%) SDLC
13 81 (17.46%) Full-Stack Development
13 81 (17.46%) Software Testing
14 76 (16.38%) Scrum
15 65 (14.01%) Decision-Making
16 60 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
17 59 (12.72%) Clean Code
17 59 (12.72%) User Experience
18 53 (11.42%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 151 (32.54%) JavaScript
2 143 (30.82%) Python
3 100 (21.55%) C#
4 97 (20.91%) Java
4 97 (20.91%) TypeScript
5 88 (18.97%) SQL
6 50 (10.78%) C++
7 38 (8.19%) C
8 20 (4.31%) PHP
9 15 (3.23%) Swift
10 14 (3.02%) Go
10 14 (3.02%) Kotlin
11 13 (2.80%) Rust
12 9 (1.94%) Ruby
13 6 (1.29%) Bash
13 6 (1.29%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.08%) Groovy
14 5 (1.08%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.08%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.65%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 84 (18.10%) Degree
2 64 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 40 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 33 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.31%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.31%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.16%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.65%) OCP
7 3 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CISM
9 1 (0.22%) CISSP
9 1 (0.22%) HNC
9 1 (0.22%) HND
9 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (23.71%) QA
2 38 (8.19%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.96%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.16%) WCAG
5 8 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.86%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.86%) NIST
7 4 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.65%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.43%) Automotive SPICE
9 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.43%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.43%) MISRA
9 2 (0.43%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.43%) NCSC
10 1 (0.22%) GDPR
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (18.32%) Docker
2 14 (3.02%) Firmware
3 10 (2.16%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (1.94%) KVM
4 9 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.65%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (12.72%) Kubernetes
2 41 (8.84%) Terraform
3 10 (2.16%) Ansible
3 10 (2.16%) Grafana
4 4 (0.86%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.86%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.86%) Puppet
5 3 (0.65%) Control-M
5 3 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.65%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.65%) Kibana
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.43%) Podman
7 1 (0.22%) Argo
7 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 40 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.60%) Google
3 16 (3.45%) Oracle
4 13 (2.80%) Amplitude
4 13 (2.80%) Braze
5 12 (2.59%) Databricks
5 12 (2.59%) VMware
6 8 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.51%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.51%) Sitecore
8 6 (1.29%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.08%) Intel
9 5 (1.08%) Sage
10 4 (0.86%) Adobe
10 4 (0.86%) Splunk
11 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.65%) Foundry
11 3 (0.65%) HP
11 3 (0.65%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.65%) Siemens