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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 342 225
Rank change year-on-year +70 -117 +92
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 1,040 1,055 2,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.01% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.05% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 691 505 738
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £102,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,173 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.31% -15.38% +18.18%

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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +77 887 £60,000 -14.29% 244
UK excluding London +100 783 £55,173 +0.31% 156
Work from Home +114 561 £62,500 -7.41% 157
North of England +116 212 £55,087 +0.16% 48
London -34 196 £80,000 +3.23% 102
North West +108 169 £50,000 -4.76% 29
South East +31 161 £59,750 +13.81% 35
Midlands +85 140 £55,587 +3.42% 32
South West +62 123 £60,000 +14.29% 14
East Midlands +36 85 £68,750 +37.50% 11
Scotland -48 57 £52,500 -27.31% 11
West Midlands +56 55 £51,250 -21.46% 21
East of England +8 55 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Yorkshire +65 36 £60,000 +4.35% 13
Wales +19 28 £52,686 +8.63% 5
Northern Ireland +25 8 £45,000 - 3
North East +3 7 £55,173 -31.03% 6

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 27 (2.60%) Apache
2 22 (2.12%) SAS
3 16 (1.54%) ArcGIS
4 8 (0.77%) Confluence
5 5 (0.48%) CMS
6 4 (0.38%) WordPress
7 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.19%) IIS
8 2 (0.19%) WinCC
9 1 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.096%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.096%) Drupal
9 1 (0.096%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.096%) Tornado
9 1 (0.096%) TYPO3
9 1 (0.096%) WildFly
Applications
1 14 (1.35%) Simulink
2 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.29%) Trello
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (0.29%) SAP CX
1 3 (0.29%) SAP ERP
1 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.096%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 365 (35.10%) Azure
2 273 (26.25%) AWS
3 104 (10.00%) IBM Cloud
4 94 (9.04%) GCP
5 87 (8.37%) Serverless
6 84 (8.08%) SaaS
7 54 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (3.75%) GitHub
9 34 (3.27%) Amazon S3
10 27 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (1.54%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.25%) PaaS
13 10 (0.96%) Azure Pipelines
13 10 (0.96%) IaaS
13 10 (0.96%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (0.87%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.83%) Firewall
2 16 (1.54%) Internet
3 14 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.25%) DNS
5 10 (0.96%) SNMP
5 10 (0.96%) tcpdump
6 5 (0.48%) HTTP
6 5 (0.48%) RS-485
6 5 (0.48%) Wireless
7 4 (0.38%) RS-232
7 4 (0.38%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.19%) 5G
8 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.19%) Modbus
8 2 (0.19%) Profibus
9 1 (0.096%) Broadband
9 1 (0.096%) DHCP
9 1 (0.096%) MQTT
9 1 (0.096%) VPN
9 1 (0.096%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
2 141 (13.56%) MongoDB
3 133 (12.79%) NoSQL
4 126 (12.12%) Relational Database
5 106 (10.19%) MySQL
6 104 (10.00%) DB2
7 74 (7.12%) SQL Server
8 40 (3.85%) RDBMS
9 37 (3.56%) Oracle Database
10 19 (1.83%) DynamoDB
10 19 (1.83%) GIS
11 15 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.44%) Redis
12 14 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (1.25%) Power BI
14 11 (1.06%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.58%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 220 (21.15%) Git
2 81 (7.79%) GitLab
3 47 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 43 (4.13%) JIRA
5 36 (3.46%) Cucumber
5 36 (3.46%) JDeveloper
6 33 (3.17%) Selenium
7 26 (2.50%) JUnit
8 23 (2.21%) JMeter
9 19 (1.83%) REST Assured
9 19 (1.83%) TestNG
10 17 (1.63%) WebDriver
11 16 (1.54%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.54%) Visual Studio
12 12 (1.15%) Maven
12 12 (1.15%) MSTest
13 9 (0.87%) Gradle
13 9 (0.87%) Xcode
14 8 (0.77%) NUnit
14 8 (0.77%) SonarQube
General
1 307 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 154 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 133 (12.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 115 (11.06%) Finance
5 84 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (4.81%) Retail
7 38 (3.65%) Legal
8 37 (3.56%) Electronics
9 35 (3.37%) Marketing
10 32 (3.08%) Games
11 27 (2.60%) Law
11 27 (2.60%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.73%) Automotive
13 17 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.54%) Banking
15 15 (1.44%) French Language
15 15 (1.44%) Tech for Good
16 14 (1.35%) Aviation
17 9 (0.87%) Welsh Language
18 7 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 425 (40.87%) Developer
2 208 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 184 (17.69%) Senior
4 176 (16.92%) Lead
5 112 (10.77%) Full Stack Engineer
6 106 (10.19%) Software Developer
7 104 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
8 79 (7.60%) Full Stack Developer
9 77 (7.40%) Senior Developer
10 76 (7.31%) Lead Developer
11 63 (6.06%) .NET Developer
12 59 (5.67%) Technical Leader
13 46 (4.42%) Java Engineer
14 45 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
15 38 (3.65%) Java Software Engineer
16 36 (3.46%) Java Developer
16 36 (3.46%) Ruby Engineer
17 35 (3.37%) PHP Developer
17 35 (3.37%) Tester
18 28 (2.69%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (30.10%) React
2 302 (29.04%) .NET
3 253 (24.33%) HTML
4 250 (24.04%) CSS
5 193 (18.56%) Web Services
6 186 (17.88%) AngularJS
7 166 (15.96%) REST
8 147 (14.13%) Vue
9 144 (13.85%) ASP.NET
10 130 (12.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 123 (11.83%) ASP.NET Core
11 123 (11.83%) Node.js
12 122 (11.73%) jQuery
13 121 (11.63%) RESTful
14 104 (10.00%) Backbone.js
14 104 (10.00%) Ember.js
15 56 (5.38%) Spring
16 49 (4.71%) .NET Core
16 49 (4.71%) JSON
17 44 (4.23%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 136 (13.08%) Data Structures
2 134 (12.88%) Algorithms
3 108 (10.38%) Blockchain
4 106 (10.19%) e-Learning
5 104 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 63 (6.06%) Private Cloud
7 48 (4.62%) Product Ownership
8 43 (4.13%) Mobile App
9 36 (3.46%) Management Information System
10 34 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
11 33 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
12 25 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
13 22 (2.12%) CMDB
14 21 (2.02%) Onboarding
14 21 (2.02%) Satnav
15 19 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (1.63%) IoT
18 16 (1.54%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 173 (16.63%) Linux
2 146 (14.04%) Windows
3 136 (13.08%) Apple iOS
4 125 (12.02%) Android
5 12 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.096%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (48.46%) Agile
2 399 (38.37%) Problem-Solving
3 357 (34.33%) Software Engineering
4 326 (31.35%) Full Stack Development
5 306 (29.42%) Mentoring
6 257 (24.71%) Design Patterns
7 236 (22.69%) DevOps
8 197 (18.94%) Test Automation
9 196 (18.85%) Microservices
10 189 (18.17%) Continuous Integration
11 183 (17.60%) Coaching
12 182 (17.50%) MVC
13 179 (17.21%) User Experience
14 176 (16.92%) CI/CD
15 166 (15.96%) Web Development
16 159 (15.29%) OO
17 151 (14.52%) SOLID
18 143 (13.75%) Computer Science
19 140 (13.46%) Containerisation
20 138 (13.27%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 433 (41.63%) JavaScript
2 341 (32.79%) C#
3 300 (28.85%) Java
4 249 (23.94%) SQL
5 237 (22.79%) Python
6 128 (12.31%) TypeScript
7 81 (7.79%) Go
8 74 (7.12%) C++
9 71 (6.83%) C
9 71 (6.83%) PHP
10 59 (5.67%) Ruby
11 54 (5.19%) Bash
12 48 (4.62%) Perl
13 29 (2.79%) Swift
14 25 (2.40%) Kotlin
15 20 (1.92%) PowerShell
16 18 (1.73%) VB.NET
17 10 (0.96%) Embedded C
18 9 (0.87%) Scala
19 8 (0.77%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 195 (18.75%) Degree
2 138 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 120 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 78 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 40 (3.85%) Master's Degree
6 32 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.25%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.67%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.29%) CITP
13 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.29%) SAP Certification
14 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.19%) PhD
14 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (20.48%) QA
2 36 (3.46%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.98%) Software Quality Assurance
4 8 (0.77%) GDPR
5 5 (0.48%) Automotive SPICE
5 5 (0.48%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.48%) SLA
6 4 (0.38%) Def Stans
6 4 (0.38%) IEC 61508
6 4 (0.38%) MISRA
6 4 (0.38%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.29%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.19%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.096%) WCAG
System Software
1 153 (14.71%) Docker
2 17 (1.63%) Firmware
3 10 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (0.77%) KVM
4 8 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.27%) Terraform
3 15 (1.44%) Grafana
4 14 (1.35%) Ansible
5 11 (1.06%) Puppet
6 10 (0.96%) Graphite
6 10 (0.96%) HAProxy
6 10 (0.96%) Nagios
6 10 (0.96%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.48%) Istio
7 5 (0.48%) Kibana
8 2 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 111 (10.67%) IBM
2 104 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 75 (7.21%) Microsoft
4 74 (7.12%) Oracle
5 37 (3.56%) Google
6 32 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 10 (0.96%) Xilinx
8 9 (0.87%) Apple
8 9 (0.87%) TOWER Software
8 9 (0.87%) Xamarin
9 8 (0.77%) Cisco
9 8 (0.77%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.77%) VMware
10 7 (0.67%) ESRI
11 4 (0.38%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.38%) Databricks
11 4 (0.38%) SAP
12 3 (0.29%) Mercator
13 2 (0.19%) BT
13 2 (0.19%) Siemens