Clean Code Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Clean Code
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Clean Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 67 85
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 +40
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.33% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.51% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £503
25th Percentile £456 £431 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -15.05% +4.57%
75th Percentile £469 £444 £523
90th Percentile - - £527
Scotland median daily rate £463 £459 £488
% change year-on-year +0.82% -5.90% +2.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 552 591 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.31% 89.68% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 307 528
10th Percentile £225 £205 £212
25th Percentile £411 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £16.59 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.47 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Clean Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Clean Code job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Clean Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Clean Code

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) git-flow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle