Clean Code Contract Job Trends in England

Clean Code
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Clean Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 212 268
Rank change year-on-year -106 +56 +52
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 362 351 284
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 1.28% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.41% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 224 194
10th Percentile £358 £325 £374
25th Percentile £420 £412 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -6.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £616 £663
90th Percentile £750 £788 £696
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £44.18 £52.73 £52.75
25th Percentile £46.98 £54.19 £55.00
Median hourly rate £54.66 £70.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +17.92% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.33 £87.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.93 - £67.25
UK median hourly rate £54.66 £70.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -22.75% +34.76% -34.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,157 24,863 28,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.87% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,010 15,784 17,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,478 1,320
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.29 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.74 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in England

Clean Code
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Clean Code
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in England

Clean Code
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Clean Code
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Clean Code in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Clean Code in England

Clean Code
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
London -81 229 £538 +2.38% 505
North of England -63 70 £474 -5.20% 120
North West -43 33 £545 +21.11% 69
South East -56 20 £413 -5.17% 77
Midlands -43 19 £463 +15.63% 49
North East - 19 £438 - 22
West Midlands -43 18 £463 -14.35% 33
Yorkshire -46 18 £500 - 30
South West -48 12 £675 +40.77% 42
East of England -26 6 £518 +38.00% 23
East Midlands -18 1 - - 16
Clean Code
UK

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (4.70%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.04%) Confluence
3 9 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.21%) Apache
4 8 (2.21%) Camunda
5 6 (1.66%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.83%) IIS
7 2 (0.55%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.28%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 130 (35.91%) AWS
2 82 (22.65%) Azure
3 74 (20.44%) GitHub
4 54 (14.92%) GitHub Actions
5 45 (12.43%) GCP
6 44 (12.15%) Serverless
7 36 (9.94%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (9.12%) Amazon S3
9 31 (8.56%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (8.01%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (7.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (3.31%) Power Platform
15 11 (3.04%) Cloud Run
15 11 (3.04%) Firebase
16 10 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (2.76%) OpenShift
17 9 (2.49%) Anthropic Claude
17 9 (2.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.87%) Internet
2 2 (0.55%) Network Security
2 2 (0.55%) NFC
2 2 (0.55%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.55%) WAN
2 2 (0.55%) Wireless
3 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.28%) DNS
3 1 (0.28%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) MQTT
3 1 (0.28%) RTP
3 1 (0.28%) VPN
3 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.81%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (9.39%) NoSQL
3 27 (7.46%) MongoDB
4 24 (6.63%) SQL Server
5 18 (4.97%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.59%) DynamoDB
6 13 (3.59%) MySQL
7 11 (3.04%) Flink
7 11 (3.04%) Redis
8 9 (2.49%) Big Data
8 9 (2.49%) Power BI
9 8 (2.21%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.93%) DocumentDB
10 7 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.93%) Power Query
11 6 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.38%) Couchbase
12 5 (1.38%) Tableau
13 4 (1.10%) Presto
Development Applications
1 92 (25.41%) Git
2 65 (17.96%) Jenkins
3 33 (9.12%) JUnit
4 31 (8.56%) GitLab
4 31 (8.56%) Gradle
4 31 (8.56%) JIRA
5 30 (8.29%) Maven
6 20 (5.52%) Mockito
6 20 (5.52%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.76%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.76%) fastlane
7 10 (2.76%) REST Assured
8 8 (2.21%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.21%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.66%) Android Studio
9 6 (1.66%) Selenium
9 6 (1.66%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.66%) Xcode
10 5 (1.38%) JMeter
General
1 76 (20.99%) Finance
2 65 (17.96%) Social Skills
3 49 (13.54%) Banking
3 49 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 43 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (5.52%) Investment Banking
7 17 (4.70%) Front Office
8 16 (4.42%) Retail
9 7 (1.93%) Games
9 7 (1.93%) Law
10 5 (1.38%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.83%) Back Office
12 3 (0.83%) Local Government
12 3 (0.83%) Marketing
12 3 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.83%) Police
13 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (42.82%) Developer
2 90 (24.86%) Senior
3 60 (16.57%) Software Engineer
4 44 (12.15%) Java Developer
5 41 (11.33%) Lead
6 34 (9.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 32 (8.84%) Senior Developer
8 29 (8.01%) Java Engineer
9 25 (6.91%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (5.52%) Python Developer
11 18 (4.97%) Java Software Engineer
11 18 (4.97%) Python Engineer
12 17 (4.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 15 (4.14%) Data Engineer
13 15 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 12 (3.31%) Software Developer
16 11 (3.04%) React Developer
16 11 (3.04%) Scrum Master
17 10 (2.76%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (23.48%) RESTful
2 80 (22.10%) REST
2 80 (22.10%) Spring
2 80 (22.10%) Spring Boot
3 62 (17.13%) Kafka
4 55 (15.19%) React
5 51 (14.09%) Terraform
6 39 (10.77%) HTML
7 37 (10.22%) CSS
8 33 (9.12%) .NET
9 25 (6.91%) Model Context Protocol
9 25 (6.91%) Node.js
10 24 (6.63%) pytest
11 23 (6.35%) AngularJS
12 19 (5.25%) Django
13 15 (4.14%) FastAPI
14 14 (3.87%) GraphQL
15 13 (3.59%) Hibernate
15 13 (3.59%) JPA
15 13 (3.59%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 62 (17.13%) Cloud Native
2 51 (14.09%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (12.98%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.97%) Mobile App
5 15 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.87%) AI Agents
7 13 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (3.04%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.38%) Blog
11 5 (1.38%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.10%) Derivative
12 4 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.10%) Equities
12 4 (1.10%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.80%) Linux
2 15 (4.14%) Android
2 15 (4.14%) Unix
3 12 (3.31%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.93%) Windows
5 2 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (58.56%) CI/CD
2 183 (50.55%) Agile
3 151 (41.71%) Software Engineering
4 134 (37.02%) DevOps
5 120 (33.15%) Microservices
6 104 (28.73%) AI
7 102 (28.18%) Test Automation
8 93 (25.69%) TDD
9 79 (21.82%) Scrum
10 72 (19.89%) Event-Driven
11 65 (17.96%) Full-Stack Development
12 60 (16.57%) Code Quality
12 60 (16.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 59 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (16.30%) Observability
14 56 (15.47%) Design Patterns
14 56 (15.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 53 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
16 52 (14.36%) Containerisation
17 49 (13.54%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 143 (39.50%) Java
2 134 (37.02%) Python
3 120 (33.15%) SQL
4 66 (18.23%) JavaScript
4 66 (18.23%) TypeScript
5 37 (10.22%) C#
6 33 (9.12%) Kotlin
7 20 (5.52%) Scala
8 8 (2.21%) Swift
9 7 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.66%) Bash
10 6 (1.66%) Ruby
11 5 (1.38%) C++
11 5 (1.38%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.83%) C
13 3 (0.83%) Groovy
13 3 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.55%) Go
14 2 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 54 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 45 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.73%) Degree
4 22 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.31%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (13.81%) QA
2 31 (8.56%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.87%) WCAG
4 5 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 120 (33.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 103 (28.45%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.87%) Grafana
3 7 (1.93%) Ansible
3 7 (1.93%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.38%) Kibana
5 2 (0.55%) Argo
5 2 (0.55%) Consul
5 2 (0.55%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
6 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (5.80%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.42%) Dynatrace
2 16 (4.42%) Google
3 13 (3.59%) Databricks
3 13 (3.59%) Splunk
4 11 (3.04%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.76%) IBM
5 10 (2.76%) Oracle
6 9 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.21%) Veracode
8 7 (1.93%) Confluent
9 5 (1.38%) Apple
10 4 (1.10%) New Relic
11 3 (0.83%) Sybase
12 2 (0.55%) Cisco
12 2 (0.55%) Foundry
12 2 (0.55%) Hitachi
12 2 (0.55%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.55%) Solace
12 2 (0.55%) TOWER Software