Code Quality Jobs in the UK excluding London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Code Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Code Quality over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 260 363
Rank change year-on-year +5 +103 -63
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 436 778 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.09% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.30% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 367 493 222
10th Percentile £43,750 £33,750 £36,825
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,200 £55,173 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% +0.31% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,125 £73,886 £75,563
90th Percentile £84,250 £85,000 £87,125
UK median annual salary £66,200 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.33% -14.29% +3.70%

All Process and 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 36,887 59,718 56,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.64% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,036 41,241 29,108
10th Percentile £26,902 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

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 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 2025. 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
East of England +91 114 £66,240 +26.17% 32
South East +41 114 £62,500 +5.04% 93
North of England -49 103 £60,000 +8.75% 112
North West -76 85 £57,500 +15.00% 66
Midlands -43 39 £57,500 +4.22% 62
West Midlands +31 30 £57,500 +15.00% 32
South West +24 29 £60,000 - 51
Scotland +86 21 £85,253 +62.39% 51
Yorkshire +43 16 £70,000 +16.67% 33
Wales +24 10 £60,000 +13.88% 13
East Midlands -57 9 £38,750 -43.64% 27
Northern Ireland +41 6 £55,000 +22.22% 15
North East +36 2 £75,500 +36.84% 13
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (5.73%) Confluence
2 9 (2.06%) nginx
3 6 (1.38%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.15%) CMS
4 5 (1.15%) Headless CMS
4 5 (1.15%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.69%) Strapi
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 104 (23.85%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.38%) Trello
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Magento
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 136 (31.19%) Azure
2 74 (16.97%) AWS
3 54 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (11.70%) GCP
5 39 (8.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 39 (8.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 33 (7.57%) SonarCloud
7 19 (4.36%) Serverless
8 11 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.06%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.06%) SaaS
11 8 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.61%) GitHub
12 7 (1.61%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.38%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.38%) Slack
13 6 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) HTTP
2 3 (0.69%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (0.46%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.46%) Broadband
3 2 (0.46%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.23%) Internet
4 1 (0.23%) Modbus
4 1 (0.23%) MQTT
4 1 (0.23%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.17%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (6.42%) MongoDB
3 27 (6.19%) MySQL
4 21 (4.82%) SQL Server
5 18 (4.13%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.29%) Big Data
9 8 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.61%) Redis
11 6 (1.38%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.92%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.46%) Cloud Spanner
15 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
15 1 (0.23%) Couchbase
15 1 (0.23%) Kdb+
15 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database 12c
15 1 (0.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 107 (24.54%) Git
2 48 (11.01%) JIRA
3 35 (8.03%) Octopus Deploy
4 34 (7.80%) MSBuild
5 33 (7.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 33 (7.57%) Visual Studio
6 21 (4.82%) GitLab
7 17 (3.90%) Selenium
8 16 (3.67%) Jenkins
9 15 (3.44%) SonarQube
10 13 (2.98%) Postman
11 11 (2.52%) Cucumber
11 11 (2.52%) JUnit
12 10 (2.29%) Babel
12 10 (2.29%) JMeter
12 10 (2.29%) webpack
13 8 (1.83%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.83%) LoadRunner
14 7 (1.61%) Appium
15 6 (1.38%) TestNG
General
1 116 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.95%) Finance
3 41 (9.40%) Banking
4 31 (7.11%) Retail
5 28 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.13%) Manufacturing
7 11 (2.52%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.06%) Electronics
8 9 (2.06%) Law
9 7 (1.61%) Games
10 6 (1.38%) Marketing
11 4 (0.92%) Cantonese Language
11 4 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.46%) Automotive
13 2 (0.46%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 142 (32.57%) Developer
2 109 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 103 (23.62%) Senior
4 101 (23.17%) Trainer
5 41 (9.40%) Architect
6 39 (8.94%) Test Engineer
7 37 (8.49%) Senior Developer
7 37 (8.49%) Senior Test Engineer
7 37 (8.49%) Software Test Engineer
8 36 (8.26%) Senior Software Test Engineer
9 35 (8.03%) Technical Architect
10 28 (6.42%) Lead
11 26 (5.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 21 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (4.59%) Java Engineer
14 19 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
15 15 (3.44%) .NET Developer
15 15 (3.44%) Java Software Engineer
16 13 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
17 12 (2.75%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (41.74%) HTML
2 100 (22.94%) .NET
3 82 (18.81%) CSS
4 66 (15.14%) React
5 58 (13.30%) REST
6 50 (11.47%) Spring
7 49 (11.24%) gRPC
8 48 (11.01%) RESTful
9 44 (10.09%) Bootstrap
10 41 (9.40%) ASP.NET
11 39 (8.94%) Spring Boot
12 36 (8.26%) JSON
12 36 (8.26%) Node.js
13 34 (7.80%) Kafka
14 33 (7.57%) AngularJS
14 33 (7.57%) XML
15 26 (5.96%) HTML5
16 23 (5.28%) Vue
17 18 (4.13%) .NET Framework
17 18 (4.13%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.13%) Public Cloud
2 16 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 10 (2.29%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.29%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.29%) Reference Data
4 10 (2.29%) Replication
5 9 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.38%) Molecular Biology
7 6 (1.38%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.15%) Life Science
9 4 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (0.92%) IoT
9 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.92%) Robotics
10 3 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.69%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.21%) Linux
2 6 (1.38%) Android
2 6 (1.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (39.22%) Agile
2 144 (33.03%) Software Engineering
3 132 (30.28%) Artificial Intelligence
4 117 (26.83%) Test Automation
5 116 (26.61%) DevOps
6 110 (25.23%) Microservices
6 110 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (23.85%) Conversational UI
8 91 (20.87%) CI/CD
9 64 (14.68%) Computer Science
10 58 (13.30%) Design Patterns
11 57 (13.07%) Mentoring
12 56 (12.84%) Software Testing
13 54 (12.39%) TDD
14 51 (11.70%) MVC
15 44 (10.09%) Validation
16 42 (9.63%) Event-Driven
17 41 (9.40%) Performance Optimisation
18 40 (9.17%) Full-Stack Development
18 40 (9.17%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 233 (53.44%) JavaScript
2 196 (44.95%) C#
3 188 (43.12%) SQL
4 146 (33.49%) Python
5 103 (23.62%) C++
6 90 (20.64%) Java
7 43 (9.86%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.67%) PHP
9 10 (2.29%) C
10 6 (1.38%) Bicep
11 4 (0.92%) Go
12 3 (0.69%) Bash
12 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.69%) Swift
12 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.46%) Groovy
13 2 (0.46%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.23%) Ruby
14 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 173 (39.68%) Degree
2 36 (8.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 25 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.90%) Security Cleared
5 13 (2.98%) DBS Check
6 12 (2.75%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.38%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.23%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 35 (8.03%) GDPR
3 31 (7.11%) QA
4 6 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.69%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.23%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.23%) JTAG
System Software
1 88 (20.18%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.50%) Terraform
3 11 (2.52%) Kustomize
4 7 (1.61%) Ansible
5 5 (1.15%) Packer
6 4 (0.92%) HAProxy
7 3 (0.69%) Grafana
7 3 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.23%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 104 (23.85%) PayPal
2 27 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.82%) Google
4 6 (1.38%) Oracle
4 6 (1.38%) Sawtooth Software
5 5 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 4 (0.92%) Bloomberg
6 4 (0.92%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.69%) Adobe
7 3 (0.69%) IBM
7 3 (0.69%) Twitter
8 2 (0.46%) Databricks
8 2 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.23%) Lauterbach
9 1 (0.23%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.23%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.23%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.23%) SAP
9 1 (0.23%) SnapLogic