Code Quality Jobs in Wales

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 90 114
Rank change year-on-year +22 +24 +1
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 10 28 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.97% 1.37% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.73% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8 22 4
10th Percentile £51,375 £41,250 -
25th Percentile - £52,101 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,686 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.88% +8.63% +13.45%
75th Percentile £62,750 £66,250 £60,625
90th Percentile £71,000 £82,500 £66,250
UK median annual salary £66,200 £60,000 £68,724
% change year-on-year +10.33% -12.69% -1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 882 1,616 1,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 85.63% 79.22% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 497 1,059 809
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,700 £26,391
25th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in Wales

Code Quality
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Code Quality in Wales

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Wales over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in Wales

Code Quality
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the Wales region over the 6 months to 8 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
South Wales +21 9 £60,000 +13.88% 10
North Wales - 1 £32,500 -
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Appium
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Senior
2 6 (60.00%) Senior Software Test Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 6 (60.00%) UML
3 6 (60.00%) Validation
3 6 (60.00%) Verification and Validation
3 6 (60.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Availability Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Digital Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Linear Algebra
5 2 (20.00%) MLOps
5 2 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 13485
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes