Code Quality Jobs in the UK excluding London

Code Quality (Software Quality)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 355 296
Rank change year-on-year +98 -59 +35
Permanent jobs citing Code Quality 782 495 873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.09% 0.84% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.88% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 497 218 376
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,750 £39,057
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,173 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,875 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Code Quality in the UK excluding London

Code Quality
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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 +103 215 £55,173 +0.31% 65
North West +99 173 £50,000 -4.76% 34
South East +20 158 £60,000 +14.29% 57
Midlands +80 147 £55,173 +2.65% 42
South West +58 118 £60,000 +14.29% 17
East Midlands +42 91 £68,750 +37.50% 11
West Midlands +47 56 £50,000 -28.57% 31
East of England -1 56 £52,500 -4.55% 16
Scotland -59 53 £52,500 -27.31% 13
Yorkshire +46 35 £60,000 +9.09% 18
Wales +21 27 £52,686 -5.92% 3
Northern Ireland +28 8 £45,000 - 7
North East +2 7 £55,173 -22.66% 14
Code Quality
UK

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (2.56%) Apache
1 20 (2.56%) SAS
2 16 (2.05%) ArcGIS
3 5 (0.64%) CMS
4 4 (0.51%) WordPress
5 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.26%) Drupal
6 2 (0.26%) WinCC
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.13%) Confluence
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) TYPO3
7 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 20 (2.56%) Simulink
2 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 272 (34.78%) Azure
2 160 (20.46%) AWS
3 113 (14.45%) IBM Cloud
4 72 (9.21%) SaaS
5 53 (6.78%) Serverless
6 42 (5.37%) GCP
7 31 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (3.71%) GitHub
9 20 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (2.30%) Amazon S3
11 16 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (2.05%) Power Platform
12 10 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.28%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.15%) BlazeMeter
14 8 (1.02%) WhatsApp
15 7 (0.90%) PaaS
16 5 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (0.64%) AWS Fargate
16 5 (0.64%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.77%) Internet
2 5 (0.64%) RS-485
2 5 (0.64%) Wireless
3 4 (0.51%) HTTP
3 4 (0.51%) RS-232
3 4 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.51%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.26%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.26%) Modbus
4 2 (0.26%) Profibus
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) Broadband
5 1 (0.13%) DHCP
5 1 (0.13%) DNS
5 1 (0.13%) MQTT
5 1 (0.13%) VLAN
5 1 (0.13%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (20.20%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (17.14%) NoSQL
3 129 (16.50%) MongoDB
4 113 (14.45%) DB2
5 88 (11.25%) Relational Database
6 84 (10.74%) MySQL
7 57 (7.29%) SQL Server
8 34 (4.35%) RDBMS
9 31 (3.96%) Oracle Database
10 19 (2.43%) DynamoDB
10 19 (2.43%) GIS
11 13 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.66%) Power BI
12 12 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (1.28%) Redis
15 3 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.38%) Big Data
15 3 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 141 (18.03%) Git
2 74 (9.46%) GitLab
3 30 (3.84%) JDeveloper
4 27 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 27 (3.45%) JIRA
5 21 (2.69%) Jenkins
6 19 (2.43%) Selenium
7 16 (2.05%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.05%) JMeter
7 16 (2.05%) Visual Studio
8 14 (1.79%) JUnit
9 12 (1.53%) TestNG
10 11 (1.41%) REST Assured
10 11 (1.41%) WebDriver
11 10 (1.28%) Maven
12 9 (1.15%) Gradle
12 9 (1.15%) Xcode
13 6 (0.77%) MSTest
13 6 (0.77%) Rational Rhapsody
14 4 (0.51%) Android Studio
General
1 205 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 136 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 129 (16.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 76 (9.72%) Finance
5 43 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (5.50%) Retail
6 36 (4.60%) Electronics
7 31 (3.96%) Legal
8 30 (3.84%) Games
9 26 (3.32%) Marketing
10 20 (2.56%) Law
11 16 (2.05%) Automotive
11 16 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.79%) Aviation
13 13 (1.66%) Tech for Good
14 12 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.02%) Welsh Language
16 6 (0.77%) Banking
17 5 (0.64%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.64%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 306 (39.13%) Developer
2 174 (22.25%) Software Engineer
3 127 (16.24%) Lead
4 116 (14.83%) Full Stack Engineer
5 110 (14.07%) Azure Engineer
6 98 (12.53%) Senior
7 91 (11.64%) Software Developer
8 53 (6.78%) Technical Leader
9 51 (6.52%) Lead Developer
10 42 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
11 41 (5.24%) .NET Developer
12 40 (5.12%) Full Stack Developer
13 33 (4.22%) PHP Developer
14 32 (4.09%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.84%) Ruby Engineer
16 28 (3.58%) QA Engineer
17 26 (3.32%) Tester
18 23 (2.94%) C++ Software Engineer
19 22 (2.81%) C# Developer
19 22 (2.81%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (33.50%) .NET
2 247 (31.59%) React
3 226 (28.90%) HTML
4 223 (28.52%) CSS
5 173 (22.12%) AngularJS
6 169 (21.61%) Web Services
7 162 (20.72%) REST
8 142 (18.16%) Vue
9 141 (18.03%) ASP.NET
10 135 (17.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 129 (16.50%) jQuery
12 123 (15.73%) ASP.NET Core
13 113 (14.45%) Backbone.js
13 113 (14.45%) Ember.js
14 77 (9.85%) Node.js
15 74 (9.46%) RESTful
16 43 (5.50%) JSON
17 42 (5.37%) Laravel
18 41 (5.24%) .NET Core
19 40 (5.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (17.14%) Algorithms
2 131 (16.75%) Data Structures
3 115 (14.71%) e-Learning
4 113 (14.45%) Blockchain
4 113 (14.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 56 (7.16%) Private Cloud
6 37 (4.73%) Mobile App
7 35 (4.48%) Product Ownership
8 33 (4.22%) Management Information System
9 32 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (3.20%) Embedded Systems
11 21 (2.69%) Satnav
12 20 (2.56%) CMDB
13 18 (2.30%) IoT
14 17 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (1.66%) Hackathon
17 12 (1.53%) Robotics
18 9 (1.15%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 163 (20.84%) Linux
2 143 (18.29%) Windows
3 138 (17.65%) Apple iOS
4 132 (16.88%) Android
5 18 (2.30%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (50.00%) Agile
2 257 (32.86%) Software Engineering
3 256 (32.74%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (32.61%) Full Stack Development
5 223 (28.52%) Mentoring
6 217 (27.75%) Design Patterns
7 175 (22.38%) MVC
7 175 (22.38%) User Experience
8 166 (21.23%) Web Development
9 162 (20.72%) DevOps
10 161 (20.59%) OO
11 156 (19.95%) SOLID
12 154 (19.69%) Coaching
13 143 (18.29%) OOP
14 141 (18.03%) Continuous Integration
15 135 (17.26%) Artificial Intelligence
15 135 (17.26%) Test Automation
16 130 (16.62%) MVVM
17 119 (15.22%) Responsive Web Design
18 113 (14.45%) Co-Creation
Programming Languages
1 354 (45.27%) JavaScript
2 259 (33.12%) C#
3 212 (27.11%) SQL
4 193 (24.68%) Java
5 140 (17.90%) Python
6 91 (11.64%) TypeScript
7 75 (9.59%) C
7 75 (9.59%) C++
8 68 (8.70%) PHP
9 52 (6.65%) Go
10 34 (4.35%) Ruby
11 32 (4.09%) Bash
12 30 (3.84%) Perl
13 24 (3.07%) Swift
14 19 (2.43%) Kotlin
15 18 (2.30%) VB.NET
16 11 (1.41%) Embedded C
17 10 (1.28%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.90%) Rust
19 5 (0.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 137 (17.52%) Degree
2 103 (13.17%) Security Cleared
3 87 (11.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 24 (3.07%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.38%) CITP
10 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.26%) PhD
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (21.99%) QA
2 28 (3.58%) Software Quality Assurance
3 12 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.02%) GDPR
5 5 (0.64%) Automotive SPICE
5 5 (0.64%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
6 4 (0.51%) IEC 61508
6 4 (0.51%) MISRA
6 4 (0.51%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.38%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 89 (11.38%) Docker
2 17 (2.17%) Firmware
3 4 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 65 (8.31%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.64%) Grafana
2 5 (0.64%) Kibana
3 3 (0.38%) Terraform
4 2 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 116 (14.83%) IBM
2 113 (14.45%) Red Hat
3 62 (7.93%) Microsoft
4 56 (7.16%) Oracle
5 24 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.30%) Google
7 16 (2.05%) Xilinx
8 10 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.15%) Apple
9 9 (1.15%) TOWER Software
9 9 (1.15%) Xamarin
10 7 (0.90%) ESRI
11 5 (0.64%) BT
12 2 (0.26%) F5
12 2 (0.26%) Rockwell
12 2 (0.26%) Siemens
13 1 (0.13%) Databricks
13 1 (0.13%) Netlify
13 1 (0.13%) Twitter
13 1 (0.13%) Veracode