Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Code Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Code Quality over the 6 months to 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 253 287 296
Rank change year-on-year +34 +9 +36
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 722 1,573 1,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 1.27% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.32% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 383 617 741
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,086 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.36% +7.98% +3.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Code Quality is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,261 118,879 121,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.08% 95.74% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36,398 72,456 81,203
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality.

Salary trend for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 December 2023. 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
England +39 581 £65,000 -7.14% 301
UK excluding London +72 490 £60,000 -3.36% 214
Work from Home +115 429 £65,000 -5.45% 196
London -25 182 £80,000 - 144
North of England +199 172 £60,000 -7.69% 54
South West +110 91 £60,000 +20.00% 25
North West +163 83 £52,500 -8.70% 34
Yorkshire +137 80 £60,000 - 18
South East -10 74 £65,000 - 59
Midlands +74 49 £55,000 -7.56% 26
Scotland +36 48 £47,557 -23.91% 17
East Midlands +46 32 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Wales +29 29 £60,000 -7.69% 13
Northern Ireland +42 21 - - 5
West Midlands +66 17 £52,500 -4.55% 19
East of England +17 10 £75,000 +36.36% 18
North East +40 8 £42,500 -39.29% 2

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (2.35%) Confluence
2 6 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.69%) CMS
4 3 (0.42%) Apache
4 3 (0.42%) WordPress
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.28%) Campfire
4 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) osCommerce
2 1 (0.14%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 269 (37.26%) Serverless
2 161 (22.30%) AWS
3 139 (19.25%) Azure
4 58 (8.03%) GCP
5 45 (6.23%) SaaS
6 39 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (3.88%) GitHub
8 17 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (1.94%) Amazon S3
10 14 (1.94%) OpenShift
11 13 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (0.97%) dbt
15 6 (0.83%) Azure AKS
15 6 (0.83%) Azure Functions
16 5 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.52%) DNS
2 9 (1.25%) Internet
3 8 (1.11%) HTTP
3 8 (1.11%) IPv4
3 8 (1.11%) OSPF
3 8 (1.11%) VLAN
3 8 (1.11%) VPN
4 5 (0.69%) Firewall
4 5 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.42%) SNMP
5 3 (0.42%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.28%) AMQP
6 2 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.14%) 5G
7 1 (0.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (15.51%) Relational Database
2 93 (12.88%) RDBMS
3 88 (12.19%) Oracle Database
4 61 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
5 46 (6.37%) MySQL
6 39 (5.40%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.63%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.94%) MongoDB
9 13 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.25%) Redis
12 4 (0.55%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.55%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.55%) Power BI
13 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.42%) SQLite
14 2 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.28%) Big Data
15 1 (0.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 353 (48.89%) Git
2 57 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 40 (5.54%) JIRA
4 36 (4.99%) JDeveloper
5 31 (4.29%) GitLab
6 27 (3.74%) Selenium
7 19 (2.63%) Bitbucket
8 15 (2.08%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.66%) SoapUI
9 12 (1.66%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.39%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.39%) JUnit
10 10 (1.39%) Serenity BDD
11 9 (1.25%) JMeter
12 8 (1.11%) Bitbucket Server
13 7 (0.97%) Maven
13 7 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.97%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.69%) NUnit
14 5 (0.69%) TestNG
General
1 173 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 159 (22.02%) Police
3 71 (9.83%) Finance
4 68 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (3.74%) Tech for Good
7 24 (3.32%) Public Sector
8 23 (3.19%) Retail
9 16 (2.22%) Banking
10 13 (1.80%) Law
11 12 (1.66%) Automotive
12 8 (1.11%) Electronics
12 8 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.97%) Aviation
13 7 (0.97%) Marketing
14 6 (0.83%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.83%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.83%) French Language
15 5 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 319 (44.18%) Software Engineer
2 208 (28.81%) Developer
3 165 (22.85%) Java Engineer
4 156 (21.61%) Java Software Engineer
5 114 (15.79%) Senior
6 87 (12.05%) Ruby Engineer
7 78 (10.80%) Lead
8 58 (8.03%) Senior Developer
9 36 (4.99%) Full Stack Developer
10 32 (4.43%) .NET Developer
10 32 (4.43%) Java Developer
11 28 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (3.32%) Software Developer
13 17 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (2.22%) Lead Developer
14 16 (2.22%) Tester
15 15 (2.08%) C# Developer
15 15 (2.08%) React Developer
16 14 (1.94%) Angular Developer
16 14 (1.94%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (45.84%) React
2 185 (25.62%) Spring
3 147 (20.36%) J2EE
4 146 (20.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 135 (18.70%) Node.js
6 98 (13.57%) .NET
7 95 (13.16%) RESTful
8 82 (11.36%) CSS
8 82 (11.36%) HTML
9 61 (8.45%) AngularJS
10 40 (5.54%) ASP.NET
11 37 (5.12%) .NET Framework
11 37 (5.12%) Web Services
12 35 (4.85%) Spring Boot
13 32 (4.43%) HTML5
14 31 (4.29%) Kafka
15 28 (3.88%) Vue
16 26 (3.60%) .NET Core
17 24 (3.32%) Laravel
18 21 (2.91%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 24 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
1 24 (3.32%) Product Ownership
2 20 (2.77%) Cloud Native
3 17 (2.35%) Private Cloud
4 14 (1.94%) Mobile App
5 12 (1.66%) Blog
5 12 (1.66%) Virtual Team
6 11 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.39%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.39%) Satnav
8 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.83%) Legacy Code
9 6 (0.83%) PKI
10 5 (0.69%) Client/Server
10 5 (0.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 58 (8.03%) Linux
2 21 (2.91%) Windows
3 18 (2.49%) Unix
4 13 (1.80%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.66%) Android
6 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (59.28%) Problem-Solving
1 428 (59.28%) Software Engineering
2 342 (47.37%) Microservices
3 305 (42.24%) Continuous Integration
4 298 (41.27%) Containerisation
5 288 (39.89%) Clean Code
6 277 (38.37%) Unit Testing
7 275 (38.09%) Design Patterns
8 256 (35.46%) Actionable Insight
9 252 (34.90%) Agile
10 251 (34.76%) Mentoring
11 212 (29.36%) DevOps
12 169 (23.41%) Coaching
13 119 (16.48%) Test Automation
14 114 (15.79%) CI/CD
15 107 (14.82%) Open Source
16 92 (12.74%) Computer Science
17 85 (11.77%) Full Stack Development
18 83 (11.50%) Scrum
19 79 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 369 (51.11%) Java
2 356 (49.31%) Python
3 256 (35.46%) C#
4 237 (32.83%) Ruby
5 235 (32.55%) JavaScript
6 112 (15.51%) Go
7 110 (15.24%) Bash
8 94 (13.02%) Perl
9 77 (10.66%) SQL
10 66 (9.14%) TypeScript
11 51 (7.06%) C++
12 42 (5.82%) PHP
13 21 (2.91%) PowerShell
14 16 (2.22%) C
15 12 (1.66%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.25%) Groovy
17 7 (0.97%) Scala
18 3 (0.42%) Bicep
18 3 (0.42%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 235 (32.55%) Security Cleared
2 213 (29.50%) SC Cleared
3 120 (16.62%) Degree
4 87 (12.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.39%) ISTQB
7 9 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.11%) GIAC
8 8 (1.11%) RHCE
9 7 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.83%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.28%) CCNA
13 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.28%) OCP
13 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (26.87%) QA
2 40 (5.54%) Software Quality Assurance
3 12 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.69%) IEC 61508
4 5 (0.69%) WCAG
5 4 (0.55%) Automotive SPICE
5 4 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.55%) ISO 26262
6 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.42%) SLA
7 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.28%) MISRA
7 2 (0.28%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 117 (16.20%) Docker
2 4 (0.55%) Firmware
2 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.42%) IAG
3 3 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 104 (14.40%) Kubernetes
2 37 (5.12%) Terraform
3 20 (2.77%) Ansible
4 12 (1.66%) Puppet
5 4 (0.55%) Grafana
6 3 (0.42%) Istio
6 3 (0.42%) Nagios
6 3 (0.42%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.28%) Consul
7 2 (0.28%) Graphite
7 2 (0.28%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.28%) Packer
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.14%) cPanel
8 1 (0.14%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 105 (14.54%) Oracle
2 38 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.02%) Google
4 8 (1.11%) Red Hat
5 5 (0.69%) Salesforce
5 5 (0.69%) SAP
6 4 (0.55%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.42%) IBM
7 3 (0.42%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.42%) Splunk
7 3 (0.42%) Twitter
7 3 (0.42%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.28%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.28%) Brio
8 2 (0.28%) New Relic
8 2 (0.28%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.28%) VMware
8 2 (0.28%) Zend
9 1 (0.14%) Atlassian