Clean Code Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Clean Code
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Clean Code skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 47 42
Rank change year-on-year -29 -5 +22
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 4 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.61% 1.17% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.36% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £342 £318 £466
25th Percentile £367 £361 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% -5.13% +14.71%
75th Percentile £432 £483 £494
90th Percentile £435 £488 -
North West median daily rate £450 £456 £475
% change year-on-year -1.37% -3.95% +2.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 599 441 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.17% 85.63% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 274 189
10th Percentile £305 £326 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £588
90th Percentile £685 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 30
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 £30.31 £22.13
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +46.19%
75th Percentile £35.38 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +57.30%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in Cheshire

Clean Code
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Clean Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Knutsford -18 3 £418 +26.90%
Clean Code
North West

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) npm
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (75.00%) Grunt
2 3 (75.00%) gulp
2 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) UI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
1 4 (100.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
2 3 (75.00%) Enzyme
2 3 (75.00%) Jest
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) LESS
2 3 (75.00%) Nightwatchjs
2 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 3 (75.00%) Redux
2 3 (75.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) Sass
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) API Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Perforce
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft