Code Quality Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 195 320
Rank change year-on-year +62 +125 -91
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 347 559 413
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.32% 1.65% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 1.80% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 312 410 220
10th Percentile £43,875 £36,250 £44,971
25th Percentile £58,688 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,253 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,250 £91,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £66,200 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.33% -14.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Code Quality
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Code Quality trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Code Quality
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Code Quality.

Code Quality salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Code Quality
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Code Quality over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Code Quality salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (5.48%) Confluence
2 4 (1.15%) OpenEdge
3 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.58%) CMS
4 2 (0.58%) nginx
5 1 (0.29%) Drupal
5 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Strapi
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 99 (28.53%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.86%) Trello
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.29%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 93 (26.80%) Azure
2 81 (23.34%) AWS
3 40 (11.53%) GCP
4 35 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (8.93%) SaaS
6 25 (7.20%) Azure Service Bus
7 24 (6.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 24 (6.92%) SonarCloud
8 18 (5.19%) Amazon S3
9 14 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.03%) Serverless
10 12 (3.46%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (2.88%) GitHub
12 8 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.73%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (1.73%) Slack
13 6 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.92%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (6.05%) MySQL
3 12 (3.46%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.44%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.15%) Redis
9 2 (0.58%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.58%) KDB
9 2 (0.58%) Kdb+
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.29%) Parquet
10 1 (0.29%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.29%) Power BI
10 1 (0.29%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 88 (25.36%) Git
2 27 (7.78%) JIRA
3 25 (7.20%) Visual Studio
4 24 (6.92%) MSBuild
4 24 (6.92%) Octopus Deploy
4 24 (6.92%) Team Foundation Server
5 12 (3.46%) SonarQube
6 11 (3.17%) GitLab
7 7 (2.02%) Jenkins
8 6 (1.73%) Postman
9 5 (1.44%) JUnit
9 5 (1.44%) Selenium
10 4 (1.15%) Babel
10 4 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.15%) webpack
11 3 (0.86%) Mocha
11 3 (0.86%) Protractor
11 3 (0.86%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.86%) Xcode
11 3 (0.86%) XCTest
General
1 76 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 63 (18.16%) Finance
3 30 (8.65%) Banking
4 28 (8.07%) Retail
5 20 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.75%) Games
7 11 (3.17%) Health Technology
7 11 (3.17%) Tech for Good
8 10 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.31%) Law
10 8 (2.31%) Publishing
11 7 (2.02%) iGaming
12 6 (1.73%) Electronics
12 6 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.86%) Agriculture
13 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.86%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 139 (40.06%) Developer
2 95 (27.38%) Trainer
3 81 (23.34%) Senior
4 80 (23.05%) Software Engineer
5 37 (10.66%) Senior Developer
6 33 (9.51%) Lead
7 31 (8.93%) Architect
8 24 (6.92%) Technical Architect
9 19 (5.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 19 (5.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 19 (5.48%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
12 15 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (4.32%) Software Developer
13 13 (3.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 12 (3.46%) Java Engineer
14 12 (3.46%) Java Software Engineer
15 11 (3.17%) Python Developer
16 10 (2.88%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (44.09%) HTML
2 71 (20.46%) .NET
3 66 (19.02%) React
4 54 (15.56%) CSS
5 38 (10.95%) Spring
6 37 (10.66%) REST
7 36 (10.37%) Bootstrap
8 35 (10.09%) JSON
8 35 (10.09%) Node.js
9 33 (9.51%) RESTful
10 28 (8.07%) XML
11 27 (7.78%) AngularJS
11 27 (7.78%) ASP.NET
12 24 (6.92%) gRPC
13 23 (6.63%) Spring Boot
14 22 (6.34%) HTML5
15 21 (6.05%) Next.js
16 19 (5.48%) Vue
17 14 (4.03%) Blazor
18 13 (3.75%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (2.31%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.02%) Mobile Games
4 6 (1.73%) Algorithms
4 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.73%) Molecular Biology
4 6 (1.73%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.44%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.58%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.58%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.58%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.58%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.29%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.29%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.29%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.02%) Linux
2 4 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.86%) Android
3 3 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (0.86%) Windows
4 2 (0.58%) Unix
4 2 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (39.19%) Artificial Intelligence
2 117 (33.72%) Software Engineering
3 107 (30.84%) Agile
4 99 (28.53%) Conversational UI
5 90 (25.94%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (21.90%) DevOps
6 76 (21.90%) Microservices
7 57 (16.43%) CI/CD
8 56 (16.14%) Test Automation
9 53 (15.27%) Mentoring
10 50 (14.41%) TDD
11 49 (14.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 46 (13.26%) Design Patterns
13 43 (12.39%) User Experience
14 41 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (11.53%) Technical Leadership
16 37 (10.66%) Scrum
17 36 (10.37%) MVC
18 33 (9.51%) Performance Optimisation
19 32 (9.22%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 190 (54.76%) JavaScript
2 177 (51.01%) SQL
3 157 (45.24%) C#
4 136 (39.19%) Python
5 94 (27.09%) C++
6 57 (16.43%) TypeScript
7 55 (15.85%) Java
8 15 (4.32%) PHP
9 5 (1.44%) C
9 5 (1.44%) Go
9 5 (1.44%) Ruby
9 5 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.15%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.15%) OpenEdge ABL
10 4 (1.15%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.86%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.86%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.86%) Progress 4GL
11 3 (0.86%) Swift
12 2 (0.58%) Bash
Qualifications
1 135 (38.90%) Degree
2 24 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (4.03%) DBS Check
4 11 (3.17%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.17%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.73%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.58%) ISEB
7 2 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.29%) CISSP
8 1 (0.29%) MCSD
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.20%) GDPR
1 25 (7.20%) QA
2 6 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.29%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 66 (19.02%) Docker
2 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.31%) Terraform
3 6 (1.73%) Kustomize
4 2 (0.58%) HAProxy
4 2 (0.58%) Packer
5 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 98 (28.24%) PayPal
2 13 (3.75%) Google
3 11 (3.17%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.73%) Sawtooth Software
5 3 (0.86%) Progress
5 3 (0.86%) Twitter
6 2 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.58%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.58%) Mercator
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle
6 2 (0.58%) Splunk
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe
7 1 (0.29%) Databricks
7 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.29%) SAP
7 1 (0.29%) Sun
7 1 (0.29%) Trayport
7 1 (0.29%) Zend