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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 230 267
Rank change year-on-year -94 +37 +134
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 278 369 725
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 1.30% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.41% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 185 309 496
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,219 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +20.02% +0.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,000 £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 47,578 26,213 58,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.94% 92.04% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 30,872 12,903 41,502
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -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 25 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 25 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 -56 78 £67,374 +3.65% 55
South East -40 56 £62,500 -23.08% 45
Midlands -16 48 £65,000 +13.04% 26
North West -33 48 £67,500 +14.89% 36
South West -38 45 £55,000 -8.33% 24
Scotland +11 25 £72,500 -14.71% 8
East Midlands -5 25 £55,000 +41.94% 12
West Midlands -30 23 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Yorkshire -43 22 £62,500 -13.19% 11
East of England -97 16 £67,500 +1.90% 13
Wales -28 10 £72,000 +4.35% 3
North East -34 8 £70,000 -7.28% 9
Northern Ireland -42 2 £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 12 (4.32%) Confluence
2 11 (3.96%) CMS
3 6 (2.16%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (1.80%) Apache
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.08%) FactoryTalk
5 3 (1.08%) WinCC
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.72%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.72%) WordPress
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.36%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Trello
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.80%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.36%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 111 (39.93%) AWS
2 96 (34.53%) Azure
3 45 (16.19%) GitHub
4 37 (13.31%) Serverless
5 36 (12.95%) GCP
6 24 (8.63%) SaaS
7 23 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (4.68%) Firebase
10 13 (4.68%) Stripe
10 13 (4.68%) TestFlight
11 12 (4.32%) Amazon S3
12 10 (3.60%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.88%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.52%) Figma
16 5 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 5 (1.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.80%) Modbus
2 3 (1.08%) Broadband
2 3 (1.08%) Profibus
2 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.08%) Wireshark
3 2 (0.72%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.72%) HTTP
4 1 (0.36%) AMQP
4 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.36%) LTE
4 1 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.68%) MySQL
3 12 (4.32%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.60%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.16%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.80%) Big Data
9 2 (0.72%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.72%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.72%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.72%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.72%) Power BI
9 2 (0.72%) Redis
9 2 (0.72%) Tableau
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.36%) Looker
10 1 (0.36%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 38 (13.67%) Git
2 34 (12.23%) JIRA
3 17 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.40%) GitLab
5 14 (5.04%) JUnit
6 13 (4.68%) Crashlytics
6 13 (4.68%) XCTest
7 12 (4.32%) Maven
8 11 (3.96%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.60%) Cypress.io
10 8 (2.88%) Claude Code
10 8 (2.88%) Mockito
10 8 (2.88%) Selenium
11 5 (1.80%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.80%) Yeoman
12 4 (1.44%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.44%) JMeter
12 4 (1.44%) Spock
12 4 (1.44%) Storybook
12 4 (1.44%) TestRail
General
1 89 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.55%) Finance
3 19 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.60%) Retail
5 9 (3.24%) Banking
5 9 (3.24%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.52%) Legal
7 6 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.80%) Electronics
8 5 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.44%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.44%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Advertising
10 3 (1.08%) Aviation
10 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.08%) Law
11 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 71 (25.54%) Software Engineer
2 67 (24.10%) Lead
3 66 (23.74%) Developer
4 61 (21.94%) Senior
5 22 (7.91%) Senior Developer
6 18 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
7 17 (6.12%) Software Developer
8 15 (5.40%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (4.68%) Mobile Engineer
10 12 (4.32%) Technical Leader
11 11 (3.96%) Java Developer
11 11 (3.96%) Team Leader
11 11 (3.96%) Test Engineer
12 10 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (3.60%) Python Engineer
12 10 (3.60%) Python Software Engineer
13 9 (3.24%) Architect
13 9 (3.24%) Engineering Manager
14 8 (2.88%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (2.88%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (22.30%) React
2 48 (17.27%) .NET
3 34 (12.23%) REST
4 32 (11.51%) Spring
5 28 (10.07%) AngularJS
5 28 (10.07%) Node.js
6 25 (8.99%) RESTful
7 24 (8.63%) CSS
8 23 (8.27%) HTML
9 22 (7.91%) Spring Boot
10 16 (5.76%) SwiftUI
11 15 (5.40%) UIKit
12 13 (4.68%) Web Services
13 11 (3.96%) AWS CDK
13 11 (3.96%) Playwright
14 10 (3.60%) Django
14 10 (3.60%) Vue
15 9 (3.24%) WebSockets
16 8 (2.88%) .NET Framework
16 8 (2.88%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.03%) Cloud Native
2 37 (13.31%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.63%) Product Ownership
4 21 (7.55%) Mobile App
4 21 (7.55%) Onboarding
5 20 (7.19%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (5.04%) Client/Server
7 11 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.88%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.88%) NHS
8 8 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.16%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) IoT
12 3 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.59%) Linux
2 19 (6.83%) Apple iOS
3 12 (4.32%) Windows
4 3 (1.08%) Android
4 3 (1.08%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.36%) Debian
5 1 (0.36%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (52.88%) CI/CD
2 118 (42.45%) Agile
3 116 (41.73%) Software Engineering
4 104 (37.41%) DevOps
5 98 (35.25%) Test Automation
6 80 (28.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (24.82%) Mentoring
9 62 (22.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 59 (21.22%) AI
11 57 (20.50%) Microservices
12 51 (18.35%) Technical Leadership
13 50 (17.99%) User Experience
14 44 (15.83%) Containerisation
14 44 (15.83%) Scrum
14 44 (15.83%) Software Testing
15 40 (14.39%) Observability
16 34 (12.23%) Coaching
16 34 (12.23%) Decision-Making
17 33 (11.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 82 (29.50%) JavaScript
2 81 (29.14%) Python
3 59 (21.22%) TypeScript
4 50 (17.99%) Java
5 39 (14.03%) C#
6 38 (13.67%) SQL
7 30 (10.79%) C++
8 25 (8.99%) C
9 16 (5.76%) PHP
9 16 (5.76%) Swift
10 14 (5.04%) Rust
11 13 (4.68%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.88%) Bash
12 8 (2.88%) Groovy
13 5 (1.80%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.08%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.08%) Scala
15 2 (0.72%) Julia
15 2 (0.72%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (14.39%) Degree
2 24 (8.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (6.83%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.68%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.16%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.72%) PhD
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CISM
9 1 (0.36%) CISSP
9 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.36%) GSEC
9 1 (0.36%) HNC
9 1 (0.36%) HND
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (22.30%) QA
2 16 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 15 (5.40%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.08%) IEC 61131
5 3 (1.08%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.08%) WCAG
6 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.72%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.72%) MISRA
6 2 (0.72%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) NIST
7 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (20.50%) Docker
2 14 (5.04%) Hyper-V
2 14 (5.04%) KVM
2 14 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.52%) Firmware
4 5 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.44%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.76%) Terraform
3 11 (3.96%) Grafana
4 8 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.44%) Ansible
5 4 (1.44%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.08%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.08%) Kibana
7 2 (0.72%) Control-M
7 2 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.72%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.72%) Packer
7 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (5.76%) VMware
2 14 (5.04%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.68%) Amplitude
3 13 (4.68%) Braze
3 13 (4.68%) Oracle
4 7 (2.52%) Google
5 6 (2.16%) AppDynamics
5 6 (2.16%) Sitecore
5 6 (2.16%) Splunk
6 4 (1.44%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.08%) Databricks
7 3 (1.08%) Foundry
7 3 (1.08%) HP
7 3 (1.08%) Rockwell
7 3 (1.08%) Siemens
8 2 (0.72%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.72%) IBM
8 2 (0.72%) SAP
9 1 (0.36%) Adobe
9 1 (0.36%) Sage