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 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	276	352	257
Rank change year-on-year	+76	-95	+39
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality	519	201	443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London	0.58%	0.58%	0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.82%	0.68%	1.14%
Number of salaries quoted	312	128	234
10^th Percentile	£42,050	£33,750	£41,353
25^th Percentile	£50,752	£51,250	£53,281
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£60,000	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.33%	-7.69%	+13.04%
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£79,250	£83,750
90^th Percentile	£91,125	£84,125	£85,000
UK median annual salary	£72,250	£75,000	£70,000
% change year-on-year	-3.67%	+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 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills	63,290	29,776	38,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	71.07%	86.45%	79.86%
Number of salaries quoted	44,031	16,454	19,269
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£26,750	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£40,000	£32,000	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£46,000	£54,000
Median % change year-on-year	+19.57%	-14.81%	+1.89%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£63,750	£68,750
90^th Percentile	£87,500	£80,000	£82,500
UK median annual salary	£60,000	£54,625	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+9.84%	-8.96%	-

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 Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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 24 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 24 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	150	£65,000	+11.11%	155
South East	+12	138	£67,500	-10.00%	124
North West	0	85	£65,000	+1.96%	82
South West	-16	77	£71,250	+5.56%	72
Midlands	-37	55	£55,000	-6.38%	71
West Midlands	-28	37	£61,190	+1.98%	43
Scotland	+20	36	£75,000	-25.00%	124
Yorkshire	-22	36	£62,500	+16.28%	48
East of England	-26	33	£50,000	-16.67%	70
Wales	-46	29	£66,000	+14.78%	15
North East	-51	29	£70,000	+7.69%	26
East Midlands	-34	18	£55,000	-4.35%	28
Northern Ireland	-	2	-	-	33
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Code Quality Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, job vacancies citing Code Quality also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region citing Code Quality.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Software Engineering	55.1%	286
2	CI/CD	54.5%	283
3	Agile	51.1%	265
4	AWS	37.2%	193
4	Test Automation	37.2%	193
6	Mentoring	35.8%	186
7	DevOps	35.1%	182
8	AI	33.7%	175
9	Continuous Improvement	32.4%	168
10	Azure	31.2%	162
10	React	31.2%	162
12	JavaScript	30.6%	159
13	Problem-Solving	30.1%	156
14	Python	27.2%	141
14	TypeScript	27.2%	141
16	C#	26.0%	135
17	Java	24.7%	128
18	.NET	23.5%	122
19	SQL	22.7%	118
20	Docker	22.4%	116
21	QA	22.0%	114
22	Git	19.5%	101
22	Microservices	19.5%	101
24	Degree	18.5%	96
24	Software Testing	18.5%	96
26	Technical Leadership	17.9%	93
27	Full-Stack Development	17.7%	92
28	SDLC	17.5%	91
28	Security Cleared	17.5%	91
30	Scrum	17.0%	88

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

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Software Engineering	55.1%	286
2	CI/CD	54.5%	283
3	Agile	51.1%	265
4	Test Automation	37.2%	193
5	Mentoring	35.8%	186
6	DevOps	35.1%	182
7	AI	33.7%	175
8	Continuous Improvement	32.4%	168
9	Problem-Solving	30.1%	156
10	Microservices	19.5%	101
11	Software Testing	18.5%	96
12	Technical Leadership	17.9%	93
13	Full-Stack Development	17.7%	92
14	SDLC	17.5%	91
15	Scrum	17.0%	88
16	Software Architecture	13.3%	69
17	Containerisation	11.9%	62
17	Infrastructure as Code	11.9%	62
19	Decision-Making	11.6%	60
20	Computer Science	11.4%	59