Code Quality Jobs in England

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Code Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Code Quality over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 342 208
Rank change year-on-year +64 -134 +97
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 877 866 2,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.00% 0.99% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.03% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 583 451 675
10th Percentile £36,146 £42,500 £45,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,400 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +6.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Code Quality is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,974 83,734 131,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.66% 95.60% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 54,131 49,663 73,196
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in England.

Salary trend for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in England

Code Quality
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
North of England +103 211 £55,173 +0.31% 54
London -47 191 £80,000 +6.67% 109
North West +97 170 £50,000 -4.76% 29
South East +20 157 £60,000 +16.85% 36
Midlands +77 148 £55,173 +2.65% 34
South West +66 116 £60,000 +14.29% 16
East Midlands +55 91 £68,750 +37.50% 10
West Midlands +43 57 £50,000 -28.57% 24
East of England 0 54 £52,500 -4.55% 12
Yorkshire +42 34 £60,000 +9.09% 15
North East -3 7 £55,173 -22.66% 11
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 27 (3.08%) Apache
2 16 (1.82%) ArcGIS
3 14 (1.60%) SAS
4 5 (0.57%) Confluence
5 4 (0.46%) CMS
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.34%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.23%) Drupal
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
7 2 (0.23%) WinCC
7 2 (0.23%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Tornado
8 1 (0.11%) TYPO3
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (2.17%) Simulink
2 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.23%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Endur
3 1 (0.11%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 333 (37.97%) Azure
2 224 (25.54%) AWS
3 113 (12.88%) IBM Cloud
4 76 (8.67%) SaaS
5 73 (8.32%) GCP
6 47 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (4.22%) Serverless
8 33 (3.76%) GitHub
9 28 (3.19%) Amazon S3
10 20 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (1.48%) Power Platform
12 10 (1.14%) Azure Pipelines
12 10 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.14%) IaaS
13 9 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.03%) PaaS
14 7 (0.80%) PowerApps
15 6 (0.68%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.05%) Firewall
2 13 (1.48%) Internet
2 13 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.25%) DNS
4 9 (1.03%) SNMP
4 9 (1.03%) tcpdump
5 6 (0.68%) HTTP
6 5 (0.57%) RS-485
6 5 (0.57%) Wireless
7 4 (0.46%) RS-232
7 4 (0.46%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.23%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.23%) Modbus
8 2 (0.23%) Profibus
9 1 (0.11%) 5G
9 1 (0.11%) MQTT
9 1 (0.11%) Network Security
9 1 (0.11%) RTP
9 1 (0.11%) VPN
9 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (18.47%) PostgreSQL
2 145 (16.53%) MongoDB
3 137 (15.62%) NoSQL
4 113 (12.88%) DB2
5 96 (10.95%) MySQL
6 77 (8.78%) Relational Database
7 71 (8.10%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.17%) DynamoDB
8 19 (2.17%) GIS
9 16 (1.82%) Oracle Database
10 14 (1.60%) RDBMS
11 13 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.48%) Redis
12 12 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.37%) Power BI
13 11 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 166 (18.93%) Git
2 75 (8.55%) GitLab
3 33 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 31 (3.53%) Selenium
5 30 (3.42%) JIRA
6 24 (2.74%) Cucumber
6 24 (2.74%) JUnit
7 18 (2.05%) TestNG
8 17 (1.94%) REST Assured
8 17 (1.94%) Visual Studio
9 16 (1.82%) WebDriver
10 14 (1.60%) JDeveloper
11 11 (1.25%) JMeter
12 9 (1.03%) MSTest
12 9 (1.03%) Xcode
13 8 (0.91%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.80%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.80%) NUnit
15 6 (0.68%) Rational Rhapsody
16 5 (0.57%) TestRail
General
1 242 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 143 (16.31%) Public Sector
3 134 (15.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (9.81%) Finance
5 50 (5.70%) Retail
6 48 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
7 38 (4.33%) Legal
8 32 (3.65%) Electronics
9 25 (2.85%) Marketing
10 21 (2.39%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.05%) Automotive
12 16 (1.82%) Law
13 15 (1.71%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.60%) Aviation
15 12 (1.37%) Games
15 12 (1.37%) Tech for Good
16 11 (1.25%) Banking
17 6 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.57%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 359 (40.94%) Developer
2 167 (19.04%) Lead
3 145 (16.53%) Software Engineer
4 137 (15.62%) Senior
5 120 (13.68%) Full Stack Engineer
6 111 (12.66%) Azure Engineer
7 101 (11.52%) Software Developer
8 72 (8.21%) Lead Developer
9 55 (6.27%) .NET Developer
9 55 (6.27%) Full Stack Developer
10 53 (6.04%) Technical Leader
11 45 (5.13%) Senior Developer
12 39 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 34 (3.88%) PHP Developer
14 29 (3.31%) Tester
15 27 (3.08%) Java Developer
16 26 (2.96%) C# Developer
17 22 (2.51%) C++ Software Engineer
18 20 (2.28%) Embedded Developer
18 20 (2.28%) Embedded Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (33.75%) .NET
2 254 (28.96%) React
3 230 (26.23%) HTML
4 227 (25.88%) CSS
5 180 (20.52%) AngularJS
6 174 (19.84%) REST
7 167 (19.04%) Web Services
8 149 (16.99%) Vue
9 147 (16.76%) ASP.NET
10 131 (14.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 130 (14.82%) jQuery
12 125 (14.25%) ASP.NET Core
13 113 (12.88%) Backbone.js
13 113 (12.88%) Ember.js
14 84 (9.58%) RESTful
15 70 (7.98%) Node.js
16 51 (5.82%) .NET Core
17 42 (4.79%) JSON
18 41 (4.68%) Laravel
19 39 (4.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (16.08%) Data Structures
2 140 (15.96%) Algorithms
3 115 (13.11%) e-Learning
4 114 (13.00%) Blockchain
5 113 (12.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 55 (6.27%) Private Cloud
7 37 (4.22%) Management Information System
8 36 (4.10%) Mobile App
8 36 (4.10%) Product Ownership
9 27 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (2.85%) Embedded Systems
12 20 (2.28%) Satnav
13 19 (2.17%) IoT
14 17 (1.94%) Cloud Native
14 17 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (1.60%) Client/Server
15 14 (1.60%) CMDB
16 13 (1.48%) Hackathon
17 12 (1.37%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 183 (20.87%) Linux
2 153 (17.45%) Windows
3 141 (16.08%) Apple iOS
4 130 (14.82%) Android
5 18 (2.05%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (51.88%) Agile
2 299 (34.09%) Full Stack Development
3 290 (33.07%) Problem-Solving
4 283 (32.27%) Mentoring
5 265 (30.22%) Software Engineering
6 210 (23.95%) Design Patterns
7 188 (21.44%) DevOps
8 181 (20.64%) MVC
9 178 (20.30%) User Experience
10 171 (19.50%) OO
11 169 (19.27%) Web Development
12 165 (18.81%) Coaching
13 162 (18.47%) Test Automation
14 161 (18.36%) SOLID
15 147 (16.76%) OOP
16 143 (16.31%) Artificial Intelligence
17 139 (15.85%) CI/CD
18 138 (15.74%) Computer Science
19 131 (14.94%) MVVM
20 119 (13.57%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 345 (39.34%) JavaScript
2 292 (33.30%) C#
3 226 (25.77%) SQL
4 207 (23.60%) Java
5 147 (16.76%) Python
6 118 (13.45%) TypeScript
7 76 (8.67%) C++
8 74 (8.44%) C
9 66 (7.53%) PHP
10 35 (3.99%) Go
11 25 (2.85%) Bash
11 25 (2.85%) Swift
12 23 (2.62%) Perl
13 18 (2.05%) Kotlin
13 18 (2.05%) VB.NET
14 16 (1.82%) Ruby
15 13 (1.48%) PowerShell
16 11 (1.25%) Embedded C
17 10 (1.14%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.91%) Rust
Qualifications
1 173 (19.73%) Degree
2 116 (13.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 109 (12.43%) Security Cleared
4 52 (5.93%) SC Cleared
5 31 (3.53%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.57%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.34%) CITP
12 3 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.23%) ISEB
13 2 (0.23%) PhD
13 2 (0.23%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (17.45%) QA
2 30 (3.42%) Software Quality Assurance
3 12 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 8 (0.91%) GDPR
5 5 (0.57%) Automotive SPICE
5 5 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.57%) SLA
6 4 (0.46%) Def Stans
6 4 (0.46%) IEC 61508
6 4 (0.46%) MISRA
6 4 (0.46%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.34%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 134 (15.28%) Docker
2 17 (1.94%) Firmware
3 9 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (0.91%) KVM
4 8 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (11.74%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.08%) Terraform
3 14 (1.60%) Grafana
4 11 (1.25%) Ansible
5 10 (1.14%) Puppet
6 9 (1.03%) Graphite
6 9 (1.03%) HAProxy
6 9 (1.03%) Nagios
6 9 (1.03%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.57%) Istio
7 5 (0.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 116 (13.23%) IBM
2 113 (12.88%) Red Hat
3 71 (8.10%) Microsoft
4 45 (5.13%) Oracle
5 36 (4.10%) Google
6 24 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.82%) Xilinx
8 10 (1.14%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.03%) Apple
9 9 (1.03%) Xamarin
10 8 (0.91%) Cisco
10 8 (0.91%) VMware
11 7 (0.80%) ESRI
12 5 (0.57%) BT
13 4 (0.46%) Databricks
14 3 (0.34%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.34%) Mercator
15 2 (0.23%) F5
15 2 (0.23%) SAP
15 2 (0.23%) Siemens