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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 58 84
Rank change year-on-year -44 +26 +22
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 17 7 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.72% 1.00% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.19% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17 5 18
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £40,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £50,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £79,325
90th Percentile - - £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.68% +10.40% -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 1,522 587 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.27% 84.10% 69.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,119 421 1,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,700
25th Percentile £38,000 £33,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% +11.39% -
75th Percentile £65,750 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,224 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -30 11 £72,500 +12.40% 3
West Wales - 4 £45,000 -
North Wales -4 1 £37,500 +15.38%
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 (35.29%) CMS
1 6 (35.29%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
1 10 (58.82%) GCP
2 9 (52.94%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) GitHub
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (17.65%) SaaS
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) Redis
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) minitest
1 2 (11.76%) RSpec
2 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Storybook
General
1 6 (35.29%) Retail
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Lead
2 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) Software Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Software Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Development Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Ruby Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Test Development Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (82.35%) React
2 8 (47.06%) Node.js
3 6 (35.29%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) Gherkin
4 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.76%) NestJS
4 2 (11.76%) OAuth
4 2 (11.76%) OAuth2
4 2 (11.76%) OpenID
4 2 (11.76%) RESTful
4 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (11.76%) SAML
4 2 (11.76%) Sidekiq
4 2 (11.76%) Vue
5 1 (5.88%) .NET
5 1 (5.88%) CSS
5 1 (5.88%) Jest
5 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (5.88%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Management Information System
1 6 (35.29%) Onboarding
2 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 12 (70.59%) Software Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) AI
3 8 (47.06%) DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Agile
5 6 (35.29%) Collaborative Culture
5 6 (35.29%) Content Management
5 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (35.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (35.29%) Observability
5 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (35.29%) Web Development
6 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
7 3 (17.65%) B2B
7 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
7 3 (17.65%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) TypeScript
3 4 (23.53%) Ruby
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Dart
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Sitecore
2 2 (11.76%) Google