Code Quality Jobs

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 249 284
Rank change year-on-year -36 +35 +4
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 690 724 1,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.37% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.45% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 398 386 619
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,086
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.36% +7.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,487 49,863 117,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.65% 94.11% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 28,400 36,022 72,003
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £34,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £99,680 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,714 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.22% -1.87% +7.00%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 -25 623 £75,000 +15.38% 287
UK excluding London -72 422 £65,000 +8.33% 145
Work from Home -11 384 £72,500 +11.54% 269
London +31 245 £76,000 -5.00% 163
South East +50 179 £80,000 +19.85% 24
North of England -105 76 £55,000 -8.33% 35
South West -28 57 £57,500 -4.17% 16
Midlands -51 48 £60,000 +9.09% 37
North West -76 48 £50,000 -4.76% 18
Scotland -21 34 £85,126 +79.00% 17
West Midlands -32 26 £65,000 +23.81% 23
East Midlands -42 22 £58,750 +6.82% 14
Yorkshire -44 20 £57,500 -4.17% 10
East of England -60 12 £70,000 -6.67% 6
Northern Ireland +8 9 £65,000 - 8
North East -33 8 £65,000 +52.94% 7
Wales +2 7 £44,344 -26.09% 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 38 (5.51%) Confluence
2 10 (1.45%) Apache
3 8 (1.16%) CMS
4 6 (0.87%) Apache Solr
4 6 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.87%) OpenEdge
5 4 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.43%) Appian
6 3 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.43%) Drupal
6 3 (0.43%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.43%) nginx
6 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.43%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.29%) IIS
7 2 (0.29%) Tornado
7 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Strapi
Applications
1 30 (4.35%) Simulink
2 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.43%) Trello
3 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.29%) Magento
4 2 (0.29%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 259 (37.54%) Azure
2 218 (31.59%) AWS
3 96 (13.91%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (7.97%) GCP
5 54 (7.83%) Azure Service Bus
5 54 (7.83%) Serverless
6 50 (7.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 45 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
9 43 (6.23%) SonarCloud
10 41 (5.94%) SaaS
11 33 (4.78%) GitHub
12 32 (4.64%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.90%) Cloud Functions
14 19 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (2.32%) dbt
16 15 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (1.88%) Power Platform
18 11 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.77%) Broadband
2 7 (1.01%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.72%) DNS
3 5 (0.72%) Firewall
4 4 (0.58%) HTTP
4 4 (0.58%) Internet
4 4 (0.58%) IPv6
4 4 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.29%) Multicast
5 2 (0.29%) RS-232
5 2 (0.29%) RS-485
5 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.29%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.14%) Network Security
6 1 (0.14%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 57 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (7.54%) MySQL
4 48 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
4 48 (6.96%) MongoDB
5 44 (6.38%) NoSQL
6 41 (5.94%) Relational Database
7 25 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (2.90%) BigQuery
11 16 (2.32%) DB2
12 9 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.16%) Big Data
13 8 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.72%) Apache Hive
14 5 (0.72%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.72%) Impala
15 4 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 122 (17.68%) Git
2 51 (7.39%) JIRA
3 50 (7.25%) GitLab
4 49 (7.10%) Visual Studio
5 46 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 45 (6.52%) Team Foundation Server
7 44 (6.38%) MSBuild
8 39 (5.65%) Jenkins
9 30 (4.35%) Selenium
10 19 (2.75%) JUnit
11 18 (2.61%) SonarQube
12 15 (2.17%) TestNG
13 13 (1.88%) Postman
13 13 (1.88%) TeamCity
14 12 (1.74%) Cypress.io
15 11 (1.59%) Babel
15 11 (1.59%) Cucumber
15 11 (1.59%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.59%) webpack
16 10 (1.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 251 (36.38%) Social Skills
2 137 (19.86%) Finance
3 71 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (6.96%) Retail
5 40 (5.80%) Games
6 37 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (5.22%) Public Sector
8 34 (4.93%) Banking
9 33 (4.78%) Marketing
10 31 (4.49%) Law
11 27 (3.91%) Tech for Good
12 26 (3.77%) Health Technology
13 23 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (3.33%) Publishing
14 22 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (2.90%) Manufacturing
16 17 (2.46%) Electronics
17 13 (1.88%) Telecoms
18 11 (1.59%) Automotive
18 11 (1.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 319 (46.23%) Developer
2 169 (24.49%) Senior
3 149 (21.59%) Software Engineer
4 98 (14.20%) Lead
5 71 (10.29%) Senior Developer
6 70 (10.14%) Software Developer
7 49 (7.10%) Architect
7 49 (7.10%) Java Developer
8 47 (6.81%) .NET Developer
8 47 (6.81%) Technical Architect
9 46 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 45 (6.52%) Lead Developer
11 37 (5.36%) C# Developer
12 33 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
13 30 (4.35%) Embedded Developer
13 30 (4.35%) Embedded Software Developer
14 29 (4.20%) QA Engineer
15 26 (3.77%) Python Developer
15 26 (3.77%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.19%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (27.54%) .NET
2 151 (21.88%) React
3 147 (21.30%) HTML
4 141 (20.43%) CSS
5 127 (18.41%) RESTful
6 101 (14.64%) REST
7 86 (12.46%) ASP.NET
8 74 (10.72%) AngularJS
9 73 (10.58%) Node.js
10 66 (9.57%) XML
11 58 (8.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 54 (7.83%) JSON
13 53 (7.68%) Kafka
14 47 (6.81%) Spring
15 46 (6.67%) gRPC
16 45 (6.52%) Spring Boot
17 44 (6.38%) .NET Core
18 41 (5.94%) .NET Framework
19 38 (5.51%) Web Services
20 34 (4.93%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.22%) Product Ownership
2 23 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.19%) Mobile App
3 22 (3.19%) Virtual Team
4 20 (2.90%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (2.61%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.32%) Blockchain
6 16 (2.32%) Private Cloud
7 15 (2.17%) Hedge funds
8 14 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
9 12 (1.74%) Augmented Reality
9 12 (1.74%) Virtual Reality
10 11 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.59%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.30%) e-Learning
11 9 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.16%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.96%) Linux
2 30 (4.35%) Embedded Linux
3 25 (3.62%) Apple iOS
4 24 (3.48%) Android
5 14 (2.03%) Windows
6 6 (0.87%) Unix
7 1 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.14%) MVS
7 1 (0.14%) tvOS
7 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (45.22%) Agile
2 285 (41.30%) Problem-Solving
3 274 (39.71%) Software Engineering
4 198 (28.70%) DevOps
5 191 (27.68%) Test Automation
6 179 (25.94%) Microservices
7 168 (24.35%) CI/CD
8 143 (20.72%) Continuous Integration
9 141 (20.43%) Mentoring
10 129 (18.70%) TDD
11 125 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 124 (17.97%) Computer Science
13 106 (15.36%) Scrum
14 98 (14.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 97 (14.06%) Artificial Intelligence
15 97 (14.06%) Design Patterns
16 91 (13.19%) User Experience
17 83 (12.03%) Performance Optimisation
18 81 (11.74%) Software Testing
19 80 (11.59%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 220 (31.88%) JavaScript
2 207 (30.00%) Python
3 203 (29.42%) C#
4 201 (29.13%) SQL
5 182 (26.38%) Java
6 86 (12.46%) TypeScript
7 69 (10.00%) C++
8 43 (6.23%) C
9 29 (4.20%) Go
10 20 (2.90%) T-SQL
11 19 (2.75%) Kotlin
12 18 (2.61%) PHP
13 12 (1.74%) Swift
14 9 (1.30%) Bash
14 9 (1.30%) Scala
15 7 (1.01%) Bicep
15 7 (1.01%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.87%) Groovy
16 6 (0.87%) OpenEdge ABL
16 6 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 160 (23.19%) Degree
2 108 (15.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 92 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 47 (6.81%) SC Cleared
5 43 (6.23%) Master's Degree
6 36 (5.22%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.58%) ISEB
9 4 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.58%) PhD
10 3 (0.43%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (16.38%) QA
2 45 (6.52%) GDPR
3 36 (5.22%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.32%) Software Quality Assurance
5 14 (2.03%) MiFID
6 6 (0.87%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.43%) SLA
7 3 (0.43%) WCAG
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.14%) Automotive SPICE
9 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 128 (18.55%) Docker
2 4 (0.58%) Firmware
3 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.35%) Terraform
3 6 (0.87%) Kustomize
4 3 (0.43%) Istio
5 2 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.29%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.14%) Ansible
6 1 (0.14%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.14%) Netcool
6 1 (0.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 53 (7.68%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.35%) Xilinx
3 19 (2.75%) Google
4 17 (2.46%) Databricks
5 11 (1.59%) SAP
6 10 (1.45%) IBM
6 10 (1.45%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.16%) BT
8 7 (1.01%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.87%) Murex
9 6 (0.87%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.87%) Trayport
9 6 (0.87%) Veracode
10 5 (0.72%) Apple
10 5 (0.72%) Sawtooth Software
11 4 (0.58%) DevExpress
12 3 (0.43%) Adobe
12 3 (0.43%) Oracle
12 3 (0.43%) Pardot
12 3 (0.43%) Progress