Code Quality Job Trends in Yorkshire

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Code Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 142 119
Rank change year-on-year +10 -23 +117
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 29 19 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.84% 0.57% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.63% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 21 7 57
10th Percentile £26,000 £45,250 £51,200
25th Percentile £36,250 £53,750 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £89,261 £83,000
England median annual salary £75,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.67% +15.38% -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,791 2,993 2,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 81.16% 89.50% 91.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,612 1,178 2,200
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,140 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -4.34%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Code Quality
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Code Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Code Quality

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in Yorkshire

Code Quality
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
West Yorkshire +8 21 £57,500 -28.13% 45
South Yorkshire -1 7 £37,500 -34.78% 17
North Yorkshire - 1 £70,000 - 11
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (6.90%) CMS
1 2 (6.90%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Serverless
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
3 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) GitHub
3 5 (17.24%) SaaS
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (13.79%) Apigee
4 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (13.79%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (6.90%) Figma
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) npm
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) AMQP
1 1 (3.45%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) DynamoDB
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) ClickHouse
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
1 5 (17.24%) SonarQube
2 4 (13.79%) Cypress.io
2 4 (13.79%) GitLab
2 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.79%) Maven
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Law
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Retail
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Games
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (62.07%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Lead
3 8 (27.59%) Senior
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Developer
5 6 (20.69%) Software Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Lead Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Graduate
7 3 (10.34%) Graduate Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Graduate Software Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Graduate Software Test Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Graduate Test Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Python Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Software Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Software Test Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Test Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (44.83%) React
2 10 (34.48%) Spring
3 9 (31.03%) Spring Boot
4 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
4 5 (17.24%) CSS
4 5 (17.24%) HTML
4 5 (17.24%) Next.js
4 5 (17.24%) Node.js
4 5 (17.24%) Redux
5 4 (13.79%) FastAPI
5 4 (13.79%) Gherkin
5 4 (13.79%) Jest
5 4 (13.79%) Vue
6 3 (10.34%) Django
6 3 (10.34%) Flask
6 3 (10.34%) GraphQL
7 2 (6.90%) .NET
7 2 (6.90%) Grails
7 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
7 2 (6.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (20.69%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Agile
1 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
2 15 (51.72%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (44.83%) DevOps
4 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (31.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
6 8 (27.59%) Mentoring
7 7 (24.14%) Microservices
8 6 (20.69%) Clean Code
8 6 (20.69%) Secure Coding
9 5 (17.24%) Scrum
9 5 (17.24%) Software Delivery
9 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
10 4 (13.79%) Software Testing
10 4 (13.79%) TDD
10 4 (13.79%) User Experience
11 3 (10.34%) Pair Programming
11 3 (10.34%) Regression Testing
11 3 (10.34%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) TypeScript
2 12 (41.38%) JavaScript
3 11 (37.93%) SQL
4 10 (34.48%) Java
5 9 (31.03%) Python
6 4 (13.79%) Bash
6 4 (13.79%) C#
6 4 (13.79%) Groovy
7 3 (10.34%) Scala
8 2 (6.90%) Kotlin
8 2 (6.90%) R
9 1 (3.45%) C++
9 1 (3.45%) Go
9 1 (3.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) QA
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.79%) HP Fortify
2 4 (13.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) HubSpot
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.45%) Sage
2 1 (3.45%) Salesforce