Code Quality Job Trends in Wales

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 64 85
Rank change year-on-year -54 +21 0
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 23 4 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.72% 0.48% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.58% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23 2 3
10th Percentile £45,000 £53,250 £42,040
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,375 £48,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.78% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,500 £59,375 £69,800
90th Percentile £73,750 £59,750 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

All Process & 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 2,078 685 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.16% 82.63% 65.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,440 513 640
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £30,000 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,014
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +3.16% +3.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £73,299
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Code Quality relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Wales

Code Quality
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Wales over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

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 19 September 2026. 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 -37 14 £69,750 +21.30% 9
West Wales - 8 £45,000 - 2
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) CMS
1 6 (26.09%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
1 15 (65.22%) GCP
2 11 (47.83%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) GitHub
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (13.04%) SaaS
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) MySQL
1 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (17.39%) Redis
1 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Cucumber
1 4 (17.39%) Git
1 4 (17.39%) minitest
1 4 (17.39%) RSpec
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Storybook
General
1 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Retail
3 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Senior
2 9 (39.13%) Software Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Lead
3 7 (30.43%) Software Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Senior Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Senior Software Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Development Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Ruby Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Software Development Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Test Development Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (82.61%) React
2 11 (47.83%) Node.js
3 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
4 5 (21.74%) NestJS
4 5 (21.74%) OAuth
4 5 (21.74%) OAuth2
4 5 (21.74%) OpenID
4 5 (21.74%) SAML
4 5 (21.74%) Terraform
5 4 (17.39%) Gherkin
5 4 (17.39%) GraphQL
5 4 (17.39%) RESTful
5 4 (17.39%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (17.39%) Sidekiq
5 4 (17.39%) Vue
6 2 (8.70%) Kafka
6 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (4.35%) Jest
7 1 (4.35%) React Native
7 1 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Product Ownership
2 6 (26.09%) Management Information System
2 6 (26.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) CI/CD
2 19 (82.61%) Software Engineering
3 11 (47.83%) Agile
3 11 (47.83%) AI
4 10 (43.48%) DevOps
5 9 (39.13%) Software Testing
5 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
6 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
6 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (30.43%) SDLC
7 7 (30.43%) Secure Coding
8 6 (26.09%) Collaborative Culture
8 6 (26.09%) Content Management
8 6 (26.09%) Design Patterns
8 6 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (26.09%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (26.09%) Observability
8 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (26.09%) Web Development
9 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
2 9 (39.13%) TypeScript
3 8 (34.78%) Ruby
4 1 (4.35%) Dart
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) QA
2 4 (17.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Sitecore
2 4 (17.39%) Google