Clean Code Contracts in England

Clean Code
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 295 294 294
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +15
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 194 268 430
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.80% 0.72% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.83% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 199 308
10th Percentile £363 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +2.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £813 £725 £741
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £62.00
25th Percentile - £67.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile - £77.50 £80.00
90th Percentile - £80.50 £86.00
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.78%

All Process and 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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
London +2 149 £585 -2.50% 334
South East +33 20 £500 -20.00% 152
North of England +20 14 £500 +5.26% 129
North West +20 11 £502 +5.58% 97
Midlands +17 3 £475 +21.02% 67
Yorkshire +7 3 £463 -22.92% 25
South West +38 2 - - 46
West Midlands +10 2 £475 +41.79% 39
East Midlands +9 1 - - 23
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 4 (2.06%) CMS
2 2 (1.03%) Confluence
2 2 (1.03%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.52%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.52%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle TCA
1 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 85 (43.81%) AWS
2 45 (23.20%) Azure
3 19 (9.79%) Serverless
4 17 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (7.73%) GitHub
7 11 (5.67%) GCP
8 10 (5.15%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.61%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.58%) Sentry
14 3 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (1.55%) Azure Event Grid
15 2 (1.03%) Amazon Cognito
15 2 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.09%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) Broadband
2 1 (0.52%) Firewall
2 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (30.93%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (11.34%) MongoDB
3 21 (10.82%) NoSQL
4 17 (8.76%) Relational Database
5 16 (8.25%) DynamoDB
6 12 (6.19%) SQL Server
7 9 (4.64%) Oracle Database
7 9 (4.64%) Oracle Database 11g
8 7 (3.61%) MySQL
9 4 (2.06%) Redis
10 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.03%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.03%) Power BI
11 1 (0.52%) Big Data
11 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.52%) KDB
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 52 (26.80%) Git
2 32 (16.49%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.79%) Bitbucket
4 15 (7.73%) GitLab
4 15 (7.73%) JUnit
5 14 (7.22%) Mockito
6 11 (5.67%) Gradle
6 11 (5.67%) Liquibase
6 11 (5.67%) TeamCity
7 10 (5.15%) JIRA
8 7 (3.61%) GoogleTest
8 7 (3.61%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (3.61%) TestRail
9 5 (2.58%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.58%) git-flow
9 5 (2.58%) Maven
10 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.03%) webpack
10 2 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 39 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.59%) Finance
3 35 (18.04%) Public Sector
4 33 (17.01%) Banking
5 23 (11.86%) Investment Banking
6 15 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.73%) Back Office
6 15 (7.73%) Front Office
7 13 (6.70%) Marketing
8 12 (6.19%) Manufacturing
9 11 (5.67%) Electronics
9 11 (5.67%) Telecoms
10 8 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (3.09%) Retail
12 4 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.55%) Retail Banking
14 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 122 (62.89%) Developer
2 43 (22.16%) Java Developer
3 29 (14.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 29 (14.95%) Senior
4 26 (13.40%) Software Engineer
5 22 (11.34%) React Developer
6 16 (8.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (7.73%) Lead
7 15 (7.73%) Python Developer
8 14 (7.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 12 (6.19%) AWS Developer
9 12 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.19%) Technical Leader
10 10 (5.15%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.12%) C++ Software Engineer
12 7 (3.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 7 (3.61%) JavaScript Developer
12 7 (3.61%) Linux Engineer
12 7 (3.61%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 7 (3.61%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (49.48%) React
2 38 (19.59%) Spring Boot
3 37 (19.07%) Kafka
3 37 (19.07%) Spring
4 33 (17.01%) .NET
5 32 (16.49%) HTML
5 32 (16.49%) RESTful
6 31 (15.98%) CSS
7 28 (14.43%) Node.js
8 24 (12.37%) AngularJS
9 16 (8.25%) GraphQL
9 16 (8.25%) Web Services
10 13 (6.70%) ASP.NET
10 13 (6.70%) FastAPI
10 13 (6.70%) Flask
10 13 (6.70%) HTML5
11 12 (6.19%) LESS
11 12 (6.19%) OpenAPI
11 12 (6.19%) Sass
11 12 (6.19%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.61%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.61%) Hedge funds
4 6 (3.09%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.58%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
6 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.55%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.55%) Derivative
7 3 (1.55%) Equities
7 3 (1.55%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.03%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.25%) Linux
2 8 (4.12%) Windows
3 7 (3.61%) Android
3 7 (3.61%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (53.61%) Agile
2 81 (41.75%) DevOps
3 69 (35.57%) CI/CD
4 59 (30.41%) Software Engineering
5 50 (25.77%) Microservices
5 50 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (23.71%) TDD
7 38 (19.59%) OO
8 36 (18.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (18.04%) SOLID
10 32 (16.49%) Design Patterns
11 26 (13.40%) Continuous Integration
12 24 (12.37%) Scrum
13 22 (11.34%) Migration
13 22 (11.34%) OOD
14 21 (10.82%) Containerisation
15 20 (10.31%) API Development
15 20 (10.31%) Test Automation
16 19 (9.79%) Mentoring
17 17 (8.76%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 85 (43.81%) Java
1 85 (43.81%) JavaScript
2 80 (41.24%) SQL
3 53 (27.32%) TypeScript
4 41 (21.13%) Python
5 38 (19.59%) C#
6 24 (12.37%) C++
7 14 (7.22%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.64%) PL/SQL
9 8 (4.12%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.61%) Rust
11 5 (2.58%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.06%) PHP
12 4 (2.06%) Ruby
13 3 (1.55%) Scala
14 2 (1.03%) Groovy
14 2 (1.03%) Objective-C
14 2 (1.03%) Swift
15 1 (0.52%) Dart
15 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 55 (28.35%) Security Cleared
2 53 (27.32%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.25%) AWS Certified Developer
4 12 (6.19%) Degree
5 10 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.03%) OCP
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.03%) Sun Certification
8 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.12%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.55%) MiFID
4 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.52%) EMIR
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 34 (17.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (19.59%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.61%) Terraform
3 4 (2.06%) Ansible
3 4 (2.06%) Grafana
4 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.52%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.70%) Oracle
3 12 (6.19%) Google
4 11 (5.67%) SAP
5 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.03%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.03%) Databricks
7 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.52%) CQG
7 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.52%) IBM
7 1 (0.52%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.52%) Okta
7 1 (0.52%) Reuters
7 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.52%) Tradeweb