Clean Code Contracts in Central London

Clean Code
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Clean Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clean Code over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 122 145
Rank change year-on-year +32 +23 -9
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 39 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.95% 0.45% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 0.50% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 9 21
10th Percentile £455 £448 £463
25th Percentile £463 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £725 £775
90th Percentile £640 £755 £800
London median daily rate £585 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Clean Code falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in Central London

Clean Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in Central London

Clean Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in Central London

Clean Code
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +37 38 £585 -16.43% 22
Clean Code
London

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.56%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.13%) GCP
3 2 (5.13%) Serverless
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Run
4 1 (2.56%) Datadog
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) HTTP
1 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (43.59%) NoSQL
3 16 (41.03%) MongoDB
4 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.56%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) Bitbucket
2 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.69%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.13%) JIRA
5 1 (2.56%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (2.56%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.56%) Maven
5 1 (2.56%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.56%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (43.59%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.26%) Banking
2 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.13%) Back Office
3 2 (5.13%) Finance
3 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 35 (89.74%) Developer
2 22 (56.41%) Java Developer
3 16 (41.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 7 (17.95%) React Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
6 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Angular Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Architect
9 1 (2.56%) Analyst
9 1 (2.56%) Analyst Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Lead Architect
9 1 (2.56%) Lead Technical Architect
9 1 (2.56%) Python Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Software Analyst
9 1 (2.56%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Team Leader
9 1 (2.56%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.56%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.56%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (69.23%) React
2 17 (43.59%) Kafka
3 16 (41.03%) Spring
3 16 (41.03%) Spring Boot
4 7 (17.95%) HTML
5 6 (15.38%) .NET
6 5 (12.82%) CSS
6 5 (12.82%) GraphQL
6 5 (12.82%) RESTful
7 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
7 4 (10.26%) Web Services
8 3 (7.69%) HTML5
8 3 (7.69%) RxJS
9 2 (5.13%) JSON
9 2 (5.13%) REST
10 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (2.56%) Node.js
10 1 (2.56%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (2.56%) WebSockets
10 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Credit Risk
1 3 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.56%) Derivative
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Equities
3 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) Agile
2 23 (58.97%) DevOps
3 21 (53.85%) SOLID
4 19 (48.72%) Microservices
5 18 (46.15%) API Development
6 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
7 8 (20.51%) Code Quality
8 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (10.26%) Domain-Driven Design
11 4 (10.26%) OO
12 3 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
12 3 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
12 3 (7.69%) Functional Programming
12 3 (7.69%) High Availability
12 3 (7.69%) Low Latency
12 3 (7.69%) OOP
12 3 (7.69%) Rapid Prototyping
12 3 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) Java
2 21 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 20 (51.28%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 5 (12.82%) Python
6 2 (5.13%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) Ruby
7 1 (2.56%) Groovy
7 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (56.41%) SC Cleared
1 22 (56.41%) Security Cleared
2 16 (41.03%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.56%) EMIR
1 1 (2.56%) MiFID
1 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 16 (41.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (5.13%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) CloudHub
4 1 (2.56%) Opsgenie
4 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
1 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg
1 1 (2.56%) CQG
1 1 (2.56%) Databricks
1 1 (2.56%) Google
1 1 (2.56%) ION Trading
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
1 1 (2.56%) Okta
1 1 (2.56%) Reuters
1 1 (2.56%) Salesforce