Code Quality Jobs

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 360 207
Rank change year-on-year +74 -153 +99
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 1,039 872 3,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 0.94% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.98% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 698 428 779
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,975
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,455 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,173 £53,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.65% -10.42% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the UK

Code Quality
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
England +65 899 £60,000 -14.29% 267
UK excluding London +85 780 £55,173 +2.65% 171
Work from Home +89 529 £62,500 -10.71% 155
North of England +88 217 £55,000 - 43
London -48 198 £77,500 +3.33% 103
North West +91 176 £50,000 -6.98% 22
South East +26 164 £60,000 +16.85% 35
Midlands +67 151 £55,000 +4.76% 40
South West +53 114 £60,000 +14.29% 27
East Midlands +23 89 £68,750 +37.50% 12
West Midlands +35 62 £50,000 -28.57% 28
East of England -15 54 £52,500 -4.55% 11
Scotland -56 49 £52,500 -30.00% 11
Yorkshire +24 33 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Wales +21 25 £52,686 -5.92% 4
North East -11 8 £55,173 -22.66% 9
Northern Ireland +11 6 £45,000 - 5

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.60%) Apache
2 22 (2.12%) SAS
3 15 (1.44%) ArcGIS
4 9 (0.87%) CMS
5 6 (0.58%) Confluence
6 5 (0.48%) WordPress
7 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.19%) Drupal
8 2 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.19%) IIS
8 2 (0.19%) WinCC
9 1 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.096%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.096%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.096%) nginx
9 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.096%) Tornado
9 1 (0.096%) TYPO3
9 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (2.31%) Simulink
2 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.29%) Trello
3 2 (0.19%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.19%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.19%) Fusion 360
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.19%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.19%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.096%) Endur
3 1 (0.096%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 392 (37.73%) Azure
2 256 (24.64%) AWS
3 113 (10.88%) IBM Cloud
4 90 (8.66%) SaaS
5 89 (8.57%) GCP
6 53 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (3.46%) GitHub
8 27 (2.60%) Serverless
9 26 (2.50%) Amazon S3
10 21 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (1.64%) Power Platform
12 15 (1.44%) Azure AKS
13 14 (1.35%) PaaS
14 11 (1.06%) Azure Pipelines
14 11 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (1.06%) IaaS
14 11 (1.06%) PowerApps
15 9 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (0.87%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.64%) Firewall
2 12 (1.15%) Internet
2 12 (1.15%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.96%) DNS
4 8 (0.77%) SNMP
4 8 (0.77%) tcpdump
5 6 (0.58%) HTTP
6 5 (0.48%) RS-485
6 5 (0.48%) Wireless
7 4 (0.38%) RS-232
7 4 (0.38%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.19%) Modbus
8 2 (0.19%) Profibus
9 1 (0.096%) 5G
9 1 (0.096%) Broadband
9 1 (0.096%) DHCP
9 1 (0.096%) MQTT
9 1 (0.096%) Value-Added Service
9 1 (0.096%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (16.75%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (14.24%) MongoDB
3 143 (13.76%) NoSQL
4 113 (10.88%) DB2
5 107 (10.30%) MySQL
6 98 (9.43%) Relational Database
7 89 (8.57%) SQL Server
8 20 (1.92%) DynamoDB
9 18 (1.73%) GIS
10 13 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.25%) Power BI
11 12 (1.15%) Redis
12 11 (1.06%) Geospatial Data
13 10 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (0.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 165 (15.88%) Git
2 79 (7.60%) GitLab
3 42 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 38 (3.66%) JIRA
5 33 (3.18%) Cucumber
5 33 (3.18%) Selenium
6 27 (2.60%) JUnit
7 20 (1.92%) JMeter
8 19 (1.83%) TestNG
9 18 (1.73%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.64%) Cypress.io
10 17 (1.64%) REST Assured
10 17 (1.64%) WebDriver
11 13 (1.25%) Maven
12 11 (1.06%) Gradle
12 11 (1.06%) MSTest
13 10 (0.96%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.87%) Xcode
15 8 (0.77%) NUnit
16 6 (0.58%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 332 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 164 (15.78%) Public Sector
3 148 (14.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 114 (10.97%) Finance
5 87 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (6.06%) Retail
7 43 (4.14%) Marketing
8 40 (3.85%) Legal
9 37 (3.56%) Electronics
10 33 (3.18%) Games
11 27 (2.60%) Law
12 23 (2.21%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.92%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.73%) Tech for Good
15 17 (1.64%) Automotive
16 16 (1.54%) Banking
17 14 (1.35%) Aviation
18 13 (1.25%) French Language
19 9 (0.87%) Welsh Language
20 7 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 454 (43.70%) Developer
2 195 (18.77%) Senior
3 182 (17.52%) Lead
4 166 (15.98%) Software Engineer
5 120 (11.55%) Full Stack Engineer
6 113 (10.88%) Software Developer
7 111 (10.68%) Azure Engineer
8 93 (8.95%) Full Stack Developer
9 86 (8.28%) Senior Developer
10 80 (7.70%) .NET Developer
11 77 (7.41%) Lead Developer
12 56 (5.39%) Technical Leader
13 53 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
14 34 (3.27%) PHP Developer
15 33 (3.18%) Tester
16 31 (2.98%) C# Developer
17 28 (2.69%) Full Stack .NET Developer
17 28 (2.69%) Java Engineer
17 28 (2.69%) QA Engineer
17 28 (2.69%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (33.30%) .NET
2 278 (26.76%) React
3 277 (26.66%) HTML
4 274 (26.37%) CSS
5 206 (19.83%) AngularJS
6 201 (19.35%) Web Services
7 179 (17.23%) REST
8 168 (16.17%) ASP.NET
9 160 (15.40%) Vue
10 144 (13.86%) ASP.NET Core
11 139 (13.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 135 (12.99%) RESTful
13 133 (12.80%) jQuery
14 113 (10.88%) Backbone.js
14 113 (10.88%) Ember.js
15 93 (8.95%) Node.js
16 60 (5.77%) .NET Core
17 50 (4.81%) JSON
18 46 (4.43%) XML
19 43 (4.14%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 144 (13.86%) Algorithms
1 144 (13.86%) Data Structures
2 115 (11.07%) e-Learning
3 114 (10.97%) Blockchain
4 113 (10.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 58 (5.58%) Private Cloud
6 53 (5.10%) Product Ownership
7 45 (4.33%) Mobile App
8 37 (3.56%) Management Information System
9 34 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
11 27 (2.60%) Onboarding
12 25 (2.41%) Embedded Systems
13 22 (2.12%) CMDB
14 19 (1.83%) IoT
15 18 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
16 17 (1.64%) Cloud Native
16 17 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
16 17 (1.64%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 191 (18.38%) Linux
2 153 (14.73%) Windows
3 147 (14.15%) Apple iOS
4 136 (13.09%) Android
5 23 (2.21%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.096%) Unix
8 1 (0.096%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (50.82%) Agile
2 365 (35.13%) Problem-Solving
3 352 (33.88%) Full Stack Development
4 328 (31.57%) Software Engineering
5 291 (28.01%) Mentoring
6 223 (21.46%) DevOps
7 213 (20.50%) Design Patterns
8 207 (19.92%) Test Automation
9 198 (19.06%) User Experience
10 196 (18.86%) MVC
11 192 (18.48%) CI/CD
12 186 (17.90%) OO
13 182 (17.52%) Web Development
14 174 (16.75%) Coaching
15 165 (15.88%) SOLID
16 164 (15.78%) Computer Science
17 162 (15.59%) OOP
18 160 (15.40%) Continuous Integration
19 148 (14.24%) Artificial Intelligence
20 143 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 422 (40.62%) JavaScript
2 355 (34.17%) C#
3 282 (27.14%) SQL
4 249 (23.97%) Java
5 190 (18.29%) Python
6 137 (13.19%) TypeScript
7 80 (7.70%) C++
8 79 (7.60%) C
9 72 (6.93%) PHP
10 42 (4.04%) Go
11 29 (2.79%) Swift
12 22 (2.12%) Kotlin
13 20 (1.92%) VB.NET
14 13 (1.25%) PowerShell
14 13 (1.25%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.15%) Bicep
16 11 (1.06%) Bash
16 11 (1.06%) Embedded C
17 10 (0.96%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.77%) Perl
Qualifications
1 214 (20.60%) Degree
2 146 (14.05%) Security Cleared
3 141 (13.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 72 (6.93%) SC Cleared
5 42 (4.04%) Master's Degree
6 37 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.29%) CITP
12 3 (0.29%) PhD
12 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.19%) ISEB
13 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (17.61%) QA
2 39 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.08%) Software Quality Assurance
4 8 (0.77%) GDPR
5 6 (0.58%) SLA
6 5 (0.48%) Automotive SPICE
6 5 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.48%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.38%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.38%) IEC 61508
7 4 (0.38%) MISRA
7 4 (0.38%) MISRA C
8 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.29%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.19%) MiFID
10 1 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.096%) WCAG
System Software
1 134 (12.90%) Docker
2 17 (1.64%) Firmware
3 8 (0.77%) KVM
3 8 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 109 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.89%) Terraform
3 13 (1.25%) Grafana
4 11 (1.06%) Ansible
5 9 (0.87%) Puppet
6 8 (0.77%) Graphite
6 8 (0.77%) HAProxy
6 8 (0.77%) Nagios
6 8 (0.77%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.58%) Istio
8 5 (0.48%) Kibana
9 1 (0.096%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.096%) Packer
Vendors
1 120 (11.55%) IBM
2 114 (10.97%) Red Hat
3 81 (7.80%) Microsoft
4 38 (3.66%) Google
5 33 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 30 (2.89%) Oracle
7 20 (1.92%) Xilinx
8 16 (1.54%) BT
9 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.87%) Apple
10 9 (0.87%) TOWER Software
10 9 (0.87%) Xamarin
11 8 (0.77%) Cisco
11 8 (0.77%) VMware
12 7 (0.67%) ESRI
13 4 (0.38%) Databricks
14 3 (0.29%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.29%) F5
14 3 (0.29%) Mercator
15 2 (0.19%) Autodesk