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 citing Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 353 267
Rank change year-on-year +73 -86 +31
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 519 203 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.59% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.69% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 313 131 227
10th Percentile £41,400 £33,750 £41,594
25th Percentile £50,752 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,750 -
UK median annual salary £72,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.14% +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 citing process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
27 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills 63,566 29,605 38,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.08% 86.06% 79.90%
Number of salaries quoted 44,066 16,597 18,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -15.74% +2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £53,725 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.68% -10.46% -

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 27 October 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 27 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England -3 149 £65,000 +9.70% 43
South East +19 139 £67,500 -10.00% 37
North West 0 84 £65,000 +1.96% 25
South West -20 75 £71,250 +5.56% 30
Midlands -45 55 £55,000 -6.38% 22
Scotland +24 37 £75,000 -25.00% 20
West Midlands -33 37 £61,190 +1.98% 10
Yorkshire -20 36 £62,500 +13.64% 11
East of England -23 34 £50,000 -16.67% 15
North East -42 29 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Wales -42 29 £66,000 +14.78% 3
East Midlands -32 18 £55,000 -4.35% 12
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Software Engineering55.7%289
2CI/CD54.3%282
3Agile50.7%263
4Test Automation37.0%192
5Mentoring35.6%185
6DevOps34.9%181
7AI33.9%176
8Continuous Improvement31.8%165
9Problem-Solving29.7%154
10Microservices19.3%100
11Software Testing18.5%96
12Technical Leadership17.7%92
13SDLC17.5%91
14Full-Stack Development17.3%90
15Scrum17.0%88
16Software Architecture13.3%69
17Containerisation12.1%63
18Computer Science11.6%60
18Infrastructure as Code11.6%60
20Clean Code11.2%58
171 Code Quality jobs in the UK excluding London