Clean Code Contracts in England

Clean Code
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Clean Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clean Code over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 301 311
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 271 433 638
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.85% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.95% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 312 495
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +2.68% +12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £663
90th Percentile £725 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile - £62.00 £74.40
25th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £75.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £77.59
Median % change year-on-year - -9.78% +13.50%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £80.13
90th Percentile £80.50 £86.00 £80.35
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £77.59
% change year-on-year - -9.78% +13.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Clean Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in England

Clean Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in England

Clean Code
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in England

Clean Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 25 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +9 192 £610 +1.67% 100
South East +27 33 £625 +25.00% 60
North of England +25 14 £488 +14.71% 70
South West -11 10 £450 -18.18% 26
Midlands +32 9 £393 -1.88% 35
North West +13 9 £475 +11.76% 42
West Midlands +33 7 £335 -16.25% 20
East of England +15 7 £500 -23.11% 39
Yorkshire +21 4 £600 +33.33% 23
East Midlands +19 2 £675 +35.00% 15
North East - 1 £375 - 5
Clean Code
UK

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (5.90%) CMS
2 5 (1.85%) Apache
3 3 (1.11%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.74%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) Camunda
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) Tornado
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 84 (31.00%) Azure
2 72 (26.57%) AWS
3 52 (19.19%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (12.92%) Azure Service Bus
5 33 (12.18%) GCP
6 31 (11.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 30 (11.07%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (5.54%) Serverless
9 12 (4.43%) Azure Pipelines
10 8 (2.95%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.58%) GitHub
12 6 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.21%) Azure App Service
13 5 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.85%) Azure Event Grid
13 5 (1.85%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (1.11%) Datadog
15 3 (1.11%) IaaS
15 3 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.23%) HTTP
2 9 (3.32%) FTP
3 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.11%) DHCP
4 3 (1.11%) DNS
5 2 (0.74%) SAN
6 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.37%) NFC
6 1 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.37%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (20.66%) SQL Server
2 32 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (8.12%) Apache Cassandra
4 21 (7.75%) MongoDB
5 18 (6.64%) Oracle Database
6 17 (6.27%) Oracle Database 11g
7 16 (5.90%) NoSQL
7 16 (5.90%) Relational Database
8 12 (4.43%) MySQL
9 5 (1.85%) GIS
9 5 (1.85%) Spatial Data
10 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.11%) Big Data
10 3 (1.11%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.74%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.37%) KDB
12 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (29.15%) Git
2 16 (5.90%) Cypress.io
3 13 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.69%) JIRA
5 5 (1.85%) webpack
6 4 (1.48%) Babel
6 4 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.11%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.11%) GitLab
8 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.74%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.74%) JUnit
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.74%) Selenium
9 1 (0.37%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.37%) git-flow
9 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.37%) TestRail
9 1 (0.37%) VersionOne
9 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.28%) Finance
3 34 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 26 (9.59%) Back Office
6 21 (7.75%) Banking
7 14 (5.17%) Marketing
8 11 (4.06%) Front Office
9 10 (3.69%) Advertising
10 9 (3.32%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.95%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.21%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.85%) Electronics
13 5 (1.85%) Law
14 4 (1.48%) Tech for Good
15 3 (1.11%) Local Government
16 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 169 (62.36%) Developer
2 64 (23.62%) Senior
3 37 (13.65%) Senior Developer
4 26 (9.59%) Lead
5 25 (9.23%) Software Engineer
6 22 (8.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 22 (8.12%) React Developer
7 21 (7.75%) Scala Developer
8 19 (7.01%) C# Developer
9 18 (6.64%) Python Developer
10 16 (5.90%) Azure Developer
11 15 (5.54%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 15 (5.54%) Software Developer
12 13 (4.80%) .NET Developer
12 13 (4.80%) Full Stack Developer
12 13 (4.80%) JavaScript Engineer
13 12 (4.43%) Java Developer
14 11 (4.06%) Technical Leader
15 10 (3.69%) Backend Developer
15 10 (3.69%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (25.83%) .NET
2 62 (22.88%) React
3 49 (18.08%) .NET Core
4 48 (17.71%) CSS
5 47 (17.34%) HTML
6 39 (14.39%) RESTful
7 37 (13.65%) Node.js
8 32 (11.81%) Kafka
9 21 (7.75%) Akka
9 21 (7.75%) Redux
10 18 (6.64%) Express.js
11 17 (6.27%) ASP.NET
11 17 (6.27%) REST
12 16 (5.90%) jQuery
13 14 (5.17%) ASP.NET MVC
14 13 (4.80%) Spring
15 12 (4.43%) GraphQL
15 12 (4.43%) Jest
16 10 (3.69%) YAML
17 9 (3.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 8 (2.95%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.21%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.85%) Fixed Income
5 5 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.48%) Derivative
6 4 (1.48%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.11%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.11%) Contactless
7 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.11%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.74%) Web 2.0
9 1 (0.37%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.43%) Linux
2 7 (2.58%) Android
3 5 (1.85%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.85%) Windows
4 4 (1.48%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.74%) Debian
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (52.77%) Agile
2 112 (41.33%) TDD
3 109 (40.22%) DevOps
4 65 (23.99%) Software Engineering
5 60 (22.14%) OO
6 54 (19.93%) OOD
7 50 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (16.97%) Microservices
9 45 (16.61%) Front End Development
10 40 (14.76%) Unit Testing
11 38 (14.02%) Pair Programming
11 38 (14.02%) Secure Coding
12 36 (13.28%) CI/CD
13 35 (12.92%) API Management
14 29 (10.70%) Design Patterns
15 26 (9.59%) Full Stack Development
16 24 (8.86%) Code Quality
16 24 (8.86%) Scrum
17 23 (8.49%) Computer Science
17 23 (8.49%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 85 (31.37%) JavaScript
2 83 (30.63%) C#
3 61 (22.51%) TypeScript
4 53 (19.56%) SQL
5 40 (14.76%) Bicep
6 36 (13.28%) Java
7 33 (12.18%) Python
8 23 (8.49%) Scala
9 22 (8.12%) Go
10 19 (7.01%) PL/SQL
11 14 (5.17%) C++
12 9 (3.32%) PHP
13 8 (2.95%) Bash
14 6 (2.21%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.85%) Objective-C
15 5 (1.85%) Swift
16 4 (1.48%) Perl
17 2 (0.74%) Rust
18 1 (0.37%) C
18 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.59%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.38%) Degree
4 18 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.37%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.27%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.43%) WCAG
3 5 (1.85%) QA
4 4 (1.48%) MiFID
5 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (12.55%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.27%) Docker
3 4 (1.48%) zsh
4 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.58%) Terraform
3 1 (0.37%) Grafana
3 1 (0.37%) Podman
3 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.96%) Oracle
3 18 (6.64%) Typelevel
4 8 (2.95%) Google
5 6 (2.21%) SAP
6 5 (1.85%) ESRI
7 4 (1.48%) Apple
8 3 (1.11%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.11%) Virgin Media
8 3 (1.11%) VMware
9 2 (0.74%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.37%) Brio
10 1 (0.37%) Confluent
10 1 (0.37%) Databricks
10 1 (0.37%) Remedy
10 1 (0.37%) Solace
10 1 (0.37%) Splunk