Code Quality Jobs in the West Midlands

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 194 251
Rank change year-on-year +24 +57 -52
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 28 55 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.63% 0.76% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.91% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 25 43 18
10th Percentile £42,250 £36,250 £48,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -26.20% -3.21%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,147 £95,313
90th Percentile £76,500 £90,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £66,215 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.36% -14.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,056 6,038 6,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.13% 83.16% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,685 4,544 3,277
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the West Midlands

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Code Quality in the West Midlands

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the West Midlands

Code Quality
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham +27 14 £57,500 +4.55% 13
Shropshire +29 8 £60,000 -20.00% 4
Warwickshire -30 3 £36,000 -18.18% 4
Solihull - 2 £47,500 - 2
Wolverhampton +15 1 £60,000 +29.73% 1
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (7.14%) CMS
1 2 (7.14%) Headless CMS
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) GCP
4 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Contentful
5 2 (7.14%) Figma
5 2 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Big Data
4 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
1 2 (7.14%) NUnit
1 2 (7.14%) Postman
1 2 (7.14%) Selenium
1 2 (7.14%) SpecFlow
1 2 (7.14%) Storybook
1 2 (7.14%) WebDriver
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) JMeter
2 1 (3.57%) LoadRunner
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Automotive
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Java Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Backend Developer
4 3 (10.71%) QA Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Programmer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Development Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Selenium Test Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Software Engineering Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) .NET
1 5 (17.86%) Node.js
1 5 (17.86%) Spring
2 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 4 (14.29%) Entity Framework
3 3 (10.71%) Vue
4 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (7.14%) Blazor
4 2 (7.14%) CSS
4 2 (7.14%) GraphQL
4 2 (7.14%) gRPC
4 2 (7.14%) HTML
4 2 (7.14%) Material-UI
4 2 (7.14%) MEAN Stack
4 2 (7.14%) MERN Stack
4 2 (7.14%) NestJS
4 2 (7.14%) Playwright
4 2 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
1 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
1 2 (7.14%) Reference Data
1 2 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (46.43%) DevOps
3 12 (42.86%) Microservices
3 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 9 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (32.14%) Software Delivery
4 9 (32.14%) TDD
5 8 (28.57%) Agile
5 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 7 (25.00%) CQRS
6 7 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
7 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
8 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (17.86%) Design Patterns
8 5 (17.86%) Software Architecture
9 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) C#
2 7 (25.00%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.57%) Go
5 1 (3.57%) PHP
5 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Pega