Clean Code
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Clean Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Clean Code over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 234 180
Rank change year-on-year -70 -54 +48
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 919 1,653 3,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 1.58% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.65% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 718 858 1,071
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £58,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.16% +16.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Clean Code 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the UK

Clean Code
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Clean Code in the UK

Clean Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in the UK

Clean Code
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -45 797 £60,000 -14.29% 331
UK excluding London -66 559 £50,000 -14.16% 250
Work from Home -5 481 £62,500 -10.71% 127
London -52 305 £85,000 +3.03% 93
North of England +30 179 £50,000 -9.09% 69
North West +65 134 £50,000 -23.08% 42
Midlands +86 119 £50,000 -11.11% 37
South East -126 79 £57,500 -8.00% 62
West Midlands +81 77 £50,000 -23.08% 22
South West +31 72 £52,500 -14.29% 30
East Midlands +12 42 £50,000 -2.44% 15
Wales +5 38 £45,000 -25.00% 7
Yorkshire +18 37 £45,000 -11.74% 21
East of England -65 33 £45,000 +5.88% 39
Scotland -130 31 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Northern Ireland +15 8 £65,000 +85.71% 2
North East -4 8 £62,500 +19.05% 6

Clean Code
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 23 (2.50%) WordPress
2 14 (1.52%) Confluence
3 13 (1.41%) CMS
4 11 (1.20%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.54%) nginx
6 4 (0.44%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.33%) Apache
7 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.33%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) Drupal
8 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) Moodle
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.22%) Sketch
4 1 (0.11%) UXPin
4 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 23 (2.50%) Shopify
2 13 (1.41%) Magento
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 245 (26.66%) AWS
2 224 (24.37%) Azure
3 111 (12.08%) Serverless
4 92 (10.01%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (8.71%) SaaS
6 72 (7.83%) GitHub
7 41 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (4.46%) GCP
8 34 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (1.52%) npm
13 12 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.31%) Google Analytics
14 11 (1.20%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (1.09%) Azure Functions
15 10 (1.09%) Google Play
15 10 (1.09%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.09%) HTTP
2 4 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.33%) Intranet
3 3 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.22%) Broadband
4 2 (0.22%) DNS
4 2 (0.22%) RS-232
4 2 (0.22%) RS-485
4 2 (0.22%) SSL
5 1 (0.11%) FTP
5 1 (0.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (14.15%) SQL Server
2 86 (9.36%) MySQL
3 70 (7.62%) Relational Database
4 57 (6.20%) NoSQL
5 46 (5.01%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (4.24%) Oracle Database
7 37 (4.03%) MongoDB
8 36 (3.92%) RDBMS
9 24 (2.61%) DynamoDB
10 19 (2.07%) Redis
10 19 (2.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 14 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.76%) Big Data
14 7 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
16 4 (0.44%) GIS
16 4 (0.44%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 226 (24.59%) Git
2 106 (11.53%) Jenkins
3 72 (7.83%) Cucumber
4 68 (7.40%) Postman
5 56 (6.09%) Selenium
6 43 (4.68%) Bitbucket
7 42 (4.57%) JIRA
8 40 (4.35%) Visual Studio
9 36 (3.92%) JDeveloper
10 23 (2.50%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.74%) Appium
11 16 (1.74%) JUnit
12 15 (1.63%) PHPUnit
12 15 (1.63%) TeamCity
13 13 (1.41%) GitLab
13 13 (1.41%) webpack
14 8 (0.87%) IntelliJ
14 8 (0.87%) SoapUI
15 7 (0.76%) CMake
15 7 (0.76%) gulp
General
1 246 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 103 (11.21%) Finance
3 60 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (5.33%) Retail
6 38 (4.13%) Banking
6 38 (4.13%) Law
7 36 (3.92%) Marketing
8 29 (3.16%) Manufacturing
9 28 (3.05%) Public Sector
10 21 (2.29%) Games
11 18 (1.96%) Tech for Good
12 17 (1.85%) Back Office
13 16 (1.74%) Local Government
14 12 (1.31%) Advertising
14 12 (1.31%) Legal
14 12 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.98%) Aviation
17 7 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 603 (65.61%) Developer
2 240 (26.12%) Senior
3 175 (19.04%) Senior Developer
4 139 (15.13%) Software Engineer
5 116 (12.62%) .NET Developer
5 116 (12.62%) Software Developer
6 115 (12.51%) Lead
7 87 (9.47%) Full Stack Developer
8 61 (6.64%) PHP Developer
9 51 (5.55%) C# Developer
10 46 (5.01%) Java Engineer
11 37 (4.03%) React Developer
12 36 (3.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 36 (3.92%) Ruby Engineer
12 36 (3.92%) Senior .NET Developer
13 35 (3.81%) Backend Developer
13 35 (3.81%) Java Software Engineer
14 30 (3.26%) Junior
14 30 (3.26%) Senior Software Developer
15 28 (3.05%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (31.77%) React
2 283 (30.79%) .NET
3 219 (23.83%) CSS
4 200 (21.76%) HTML
5 164 (17.85%) Node.js
6 159 (17.30%) REST
7 123 (13.38%) RESTful
8 119 (12.95%) AngularJS
9 115 (12.51%) .NET Core
10 95 (10.34%) .NET Framework
11 88 (9.58%) Vue
12 83 (9.03%) ASP.NET
13 74 (8.05%) Laravel
14 67 (7.29%) GraphQL
15 60 (6.53%) Entity Framework
16 52 (5.66%) jQuery
17 48 (5.22%) HTML5
18 46 (5.01%) Kafka
19 39 (4.24%) Web Services
20 37 (4.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.20%) Greenfield Project
2 55 (5.98%) Mobile App
3 37 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 35 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 31 (3.37%) Algorithms
6 27 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 20 (2.18%) Blog
9 19 (2.07%) Client/Server
9 19 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.63%) Video\Live Streaming
12 12 (1.31%) NHS
13 11 (1.20%) AS400
13 11 (1.20%) iSeries
14 8 (0.87%) Management Information System
15 7 (0.76%) IoT
15 7 (0.76%) Oculus
15 7 (0.76%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.03%) Android
2 30 (3.26%) Apple iOS
3 24 (2.61%) Linux
4 18 (1.96%) Windows
5 7 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.65%) Unix
7 2 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (36.13%) Agile
2 261 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
3 255 (27.75%) Software Engineering
4 229 (24.92%) CI/CD
5 218 (23.72%) DevOps
6 186 (20.24%) Full Stack Development
7 185 (20.13%) Design Patterns
7 185 (20.13%) Microservices
8 176 (19.15%) Unit Testing
9 142 (15.45%) Computer Science
10 124 (13.49%) TDD
11 121 (13.17%) Code Quality
12 111 (12.08%) Mentoring
13 103 (11.21%) Test Automation
14 97 (10.55%) Scrum
15 96 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 94 (10.23%) Fintech
17 91 (9.90%) Continuous Integration
18 87 (9.47%) MVC
19 85 (9.25%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 416 (45.27%) JavaScript
2 339 (36.89%) C#
3 252 (27.42%) Java
4 170 (18.50%) SQL
5 168 (18.28%) TypeScript
6 142 (15.45%) Python
7 107 (11.64%) PHP
8 64 (6.96%) Ruby
9 45 (4.90%) Go
10 37 (4.03%) Bash
11 36 (3.92%) Perl
12 30 (3.26%) Kotlin
13 29 (3.16%) VB.NET
14 21 (2.29%) Bicep
14 21 (2.29%) C
15 17 (1.85%) Swift
16 13 (1.41%) C++
17 12 (1.31%) T-SQL
18 11 (1.20%) RPG
18 11 (1.20%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 149 (16.21%) Degree
2 99 (10.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (2.29%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.18%) Master's Degree
4 20 (2.18%) SC Cleared
5 7 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (0.44%) PhD
7 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (16.87%) QA
2 38 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.20%) GDPR
4 7 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.65%) WCAG
6 4 (0.44%) WAI
7 2 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 124 (13.49%) Docker
2 19 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 94 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.48%) Terraform
3 11 (1.20%) Grafana
4 6 (0.65%) Ansible
5 3 (0.33%) Kibana
6 2 (0.22%) Consul
6 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 99 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.53%) Oracle
3 48 (5.22%) Google
4 11 (1.20%) IBM
5 10 (1.09%) Atlassian
6 7 (0.76%) Adobe
7 6 (0.65%) Actuate
7 6 (0.65%) Confluent
7 6 (0.65%) F5
7 6 (0.65%) WooCommerce
7 6 (0.65%) Xamarin
8 5 (0.54%) New Relic
8 5 (0.54%) Northgate
8 5 (0.54%) PayPal
8 5 (0.54%) WorldPay
9 4 (0.44%) Databricks
9 4 (0.44%) ESRI
9 4 (0.44%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.33%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.33%) HP