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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 276 262
Rank change year-on-year -15 -14 +78
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 406 326 605
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.95% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.09% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 284 245 373
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,063 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,253 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.66% +6.00% -3.85%

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 51,740 30,044 50,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.51% 87.92% 79.07%
Number of salaries quoted 36,386 16,319 33,237
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,000 £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% - -8.33%

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 July 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 July 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 -21 112 £69,305 +6.62% 75
South East -1 95 £62,500 -21.88% 66
North West -21 70 £69,986 +7.67% 44
Midlands +4 67 £65,000 +8.33% 24
South West -28 58 £56,250 -10.00% 32
West Midlands -15 35 £65,000 +8.33% 17
East Midlands -2 32 £55,000 +37.50% 7
East of England -43 28 £60,000 -9.40% 23
Scotland +20 27 £75,000 -25.00% 18
Yorkshire -27 26 £62,500 +8.70% 17
Wales -43 19 £67,500 +12.50% 4
North East -39 16 £70,000 +7.69% 14
Northern Ireland -70 2 £65,000 +18.18% 5
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 15 (3.69%) Confluence
2 14 (3.45%) CMS
3 10 (2.46%) Apache
4 7 (1.72%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.74%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.74%) IIS
7 3 (0.74%) nginx
7 3 (0.74%) WinCC
8 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.49%) WordPress
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.25%) Documentum
9 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.74%) Simulink
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.74%) Shopify
3 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 168 (41.38%) AWS
2 139 (34.24%) Azure
3 55 (13.55%) GitHub
4 54 (13.30%) GCP
5 45 (11.08%) Serverless
6 38 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (7.39%) SaaS
8 25 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.19%) GitHub Copilot
11 15 (3.69%) TestFlight
12 14 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.45%) Firebase
12 14 (3.45%) Stripe
13 13 (3.20%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (1.72%) Figma
16 7 (1.72%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.46%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.48%) Wireshark
3 5 (1.23%) Modbus
4 4 (0.99%) HTTP
5 3 (0.74%) Broadband
5 3 (0.74%) Profibus
6 2 (0.49%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.49%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.49%) SMS
6 2 (0.49%) VoIP
7 1 (0.25%) AMQP
7 1 (0.25%) ATM
7 1 (0.25%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) LTE
7 1 (0.25%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (6.40%) MySQL
4 23 (5.67%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.69%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.20%) Redis
8 8 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.99%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.99%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.74%) Big Data
11 3 (0.74%) Power BI
12 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.49%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.49%) GIS
12 2 (0.49%) SQLite
12 2 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (18.47%) Git
2 38 (9.36%) JIRA
3 22 (5.42%) GitLab
4 19 (4.68%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.45%) Crashlytics
5 14 (3.45%) XCTest
6 13 (3.20%) JUnit
7 12 (2.96%) Maven
8 11 (2.71%) Claude Code
8 11 (2.71%) Selenium
9 8 (1.97%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.97%) Storybook
10 7 (1.72%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.72%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.72%) Mockito
10 7 (1.72%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.48%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.23%) Eclipse
12 5 (1.23%) Yeoman
13 4 (0.99%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 141 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.53%) Finance
3 46 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (3.69%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.45%) Retail
7 13 (3.20%) Electronics
8 10 (2.46%) Banking
9 8 (1.97%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.97%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.48%) Advertising
11 6 (1.48%) Law
11 6 (1.48%) Marketing
12 5 (1.23%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.23%) Publishing
13 4 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.99%) Aviation
13 4 (0.99%) Legal
Job Titles
1 118 (29.06%) Developer
2 106 (26.11%) Lead
3 103 (25.37%) Software Engineer
4 96 (23.65%) Senior
5 40 (9.85%) Senior Software Engineer
6 36 (8.87%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.90%) Software Developer
8 23 (5.67%) Technical Leader
9 21 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (4.93%) Test Engineer
11 18 (4.43%) Lead Developer
11 18 (4.43%) Python Engineer
11 18 (4.43%) Team Leader
12 16 (3.94%) Java Developer
12 16 (3.94%) Python Software Engineer
13 14 (3.45%) Mobile Engineer
14 13 (3.20%) Lead Software Engineer
15 12 (2.96%) Analyst
15 12 (2.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 11 (2.71%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (27.34%) React
2 74 (18.23%) .NET
3 56 (13.79%) Node.js
4 54 (13.30%) REST
5 46 (11.33%) AngularJS
6 44 (10.84%) CSS
7 41 (10.10%) HTML
8 33 (8.13%) RESTful
9 29 (7.14%) Spring
10 19 (4.68%) ASP.NET
11 18 (4.43%) Vue
12 17 (4.19%) Next.js
12 17 (4.19%) Spring Boot
13 16 (3.94%) .NET Framework
13 16 (3.94%) GraphQL
13 16 (3.94%) Playwright
13 16 (3.94%) SwiftUI
13 16 (3.94%) UIKit
14 14 (3.45%) Django
15 13 (3.20%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 68 (16.75%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.36%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (8.87%) Product Ownership
4 30 (7.39%) Mobile App
5 26 (6.40%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (4.68%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.20%) Client/Server
8 11 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.46%) Embedded Systems
10 9 (2.22%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.97%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.97%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (1.48%) SCADA
13 5 (1.23%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.23%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.99%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 62 (15.27%) Linux
2 28 (6.90%) Windows
3 23 (5.67%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.22%) Android
5 5 (1.23%) Debian
6 4 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.74%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (51.48%) CI/CD
2 191 (47.04%) Software Engineering
3 189 (46.55%) Agile
4 159 (39.16%) Test Automation
5 156 (38.42%) DevOps
6 139 (34.24%) Mentoring
7 120 (29.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 108 (26.60%) AI
9 99 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
10 83 (20.44%) Microservices
11 79 (19.46%) Technical Leadership
12 73 (17.98%) Full-Stack Development
12 73 (17.98%) Software Testing
13 67 (16.50%) Scrum
13 67 (16.50%) SDLC
14 63 (15.52%) User Experience
15 57 (14.04%) Clean Code
16 54 (13.30%) Decision-Making
17 53 (13.05%) Infrastructure as Code
18 48 (11.82%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 126 (31.03%) JavaScript
2 123 (30.30%) Python
3 88 (21.67%) TypeScript
4 86 (21.18%) Java
5 80 (19.70%) C#
6 71 (17.49%) SQL
7 50 (12.32%) C++
8 39 (9.61%) C
9 21 (5.17%) PHP
10 16 (3.94%) Swift
11 15 (3.69%) Kotlin
12 12 (2.96%) Rust
13 9 (2.22%) Go
13 9 (2.22%) Ruby
14 6 (1.48%) Bash
14 6 (1.48%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.23%) Groovy
15 5 (1.23%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.23%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.74%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 64 (15.76%) Degree
2 48 (11.82%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.65%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.68%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.71%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.46%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.49%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.25%) HNC
9 1 (0.25%) HND
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (22.17%) QA
2 34 (8.37%) Accessibility
3 22 (5.42%) Software Quality Assurance
4 10 (2.46%) WCAG
5 6 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.74%) IEC 61131
6 3 (0.74%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.49%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.49%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.49%) MISRA
7 2 (0.49%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.49%) NCSC
7 2 (0.49%) NIST
7 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.25%) GDPR
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (19.95%) Docker
2 12 (2.96%) Firmware
3 11 (2.71%) KVM
3 11 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.46%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.97%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.74%) vSphere
8 2 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (12.32%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.13%) Terraform
3 9 (2.22%) Ansible
3 9 (2.22%) Grafana
4 4 (0.99%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.99%) Kibana
5 3 (0.74%) Control-M
5 3 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.74%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.49%) Packer
6 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.49%) Puppet
7 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.25%) logstash
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.25%) Podman
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.93%) Google
3 15 (3.69%) Oracle
4 14 (3.45%) Amplitude
4 14 (3.45%) Braze
4 14 (3.45%) VMware
5 7 (1.72%) Sitecore
6 6 (1.48%) AppDynamics
6 6 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.23%) Databricks
7 5 (1.23%) Intel
8 4 (0.99%) Adobe
8 4 (0.99%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.99%) Splunk
9 3 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.74%) Foundry
9 3 (0.74%) HP
9 3 (0.74%) Rockwell
9 3 (0.74%) Siemens
10 2 (0.49%) Sage