Clean Code Contracts in London

Clean Code
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 206 208 222
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +20
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 149 191 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.19% 1.07% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.21% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 138 226
10th Percentile £363 £425 £466
25th Percentile £463 £511 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £670 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £62.00
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £86.00
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in London

Clean Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in London

Clean Code
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in London

Clean Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Clean Code in London

Clean Code
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +32 39 £585 -13.33% 42
West London +6 3 £431 +22.35% 19
East London +14 1 £538 -2.27% 9
Clean Code
England

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (1.34%) CMS
1 2 (1.34%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.67%) Apache
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.67%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle TCA
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 71 (47.65%) AWS
2 35 (23.49%) Azure
3 16 (10.74%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (10.74%) Serverless
4 14 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (8.05%) GitHub
6 10 (6.71%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.37%) GCP
8 7 (4.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (4.70%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (4.03%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.36%) Sentry
11 3 (2.01%) Azure Event Grid
12 2 (1.34%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (1.34%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) Broadband
2 1 (0.67%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (28.86%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (13.42%) NoSQL
3 19 (12.75%) MongoDB
4 14 (9.40%) DynamoDB
5 10 (6.71%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.68%) Redis
8 3 (2.01%) MySQL
8 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.34%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.34%) Power BI
10 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.67%) KDB
10 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (25.50%) Git
2 18 (12.08%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.05%) Bitbucket
4 11 (7.38%) TeamCity
5 9 (6.04%) GitLab
5 9 (6.04%) JUnit
5 9 (6.04%) Mockito
6 6 (4.03%) Gradle
6 6 (4.03%) Liquibase
7 5 (3.36%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.68%) Maven
9 3 (2.01%) git-flow
9 3 (2.01%) JIRA
10 2 (1.34%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.34%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.34%) webpack
10 2 (1.34%) Xcode
11 1 (0.67%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.67%) JIRA Agile
11 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 35 (23.49%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.48%) Finance
3 31 (20.81%) Banking
4 27 (18.12%) Public Sector
5 23 (15.44%) Investment Banking
6 15 (10.07%) Back Office
6 15 (10.07%) Front Office
7 14 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (5.37%) Marketing
8 8 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.03%) Electronics
9 6 (4.03%) Manufacturing
9 6 (4.03%) Retail
9 6 (4.03%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.01%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (2.01%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.67%) Games
13 1 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 98 (65.77%) Developer
2 35 (23.49%) Java Developer
3 23 (15.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 20 (13.42%) Senior
5 16 (10.74%) React Developer
6 15 (10.07%) Python Developer
7 14 (9.40%) Lead
8 13 (8.72%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (8.05%) Technical Leader
10 11 (7.38%) AWS Developer
10 11 (7.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 10 (6.71%) Senior Developer
12 9 (6.04%) Software Engineer
13 7 (4.70%) JavaScript Developer
14 6 (4.03%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
14 6 (4.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 6 (4.03%) Python Engineer
15 5 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
16 4 (2.68%) Angular Developer
16 4 (2.68%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (56.38%) React
2 32 (21.48%) Kafka
3 31 (20.81%) Spring Boot
4 29 (19.46%) .NET
4 29 (19.46%) Spring
5 26 (17.45%) RESTful
6 25 (16.78%) Node.js
7 24 (16.11%) CSS
7 24 (16.11%) HTML
8 20 (13.42%) AngularJS
9 15 (10.07%) GraphQL
10 13 (8.72%) FastAPI
10 13 (8.72%) Flask
11 12 (8.05%) HTML5
11 12 (8.05%) Web Services
12 11 (7.38%) ASP.NET
13 10 (6.71%) LESS
13 10 (6.71%) REST
13 10 (6.71%) Sass
13 10 (6.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (5.37%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.70%) Hedge funds
4 6 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.03%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.36%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.68%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.01%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.01%) Derivative
7 3 (2.01%) Equities
7 3 (2.01%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (2.01%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.67%) Blog
9 1 (0.67%) FMCG
9 1 (0.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.37%) Linux
1 8 (5.37%) Windows
2 5 (3.36%) Android
3 3 (2.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (53.02%) Agile
2 63 (42.28%) DevOps
3 54 (36.24%) CI/CD
4 42 (28.19%) Microservices
5 37 (24.83%) TDD
6 32 (21.48%) Software Engineering
7 30 (20.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (20.13%) OO
7 30 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (18.12%) SOLID
9 24 (16.11%) Design Patterns
10 20 (13.42%) API Development
11 19 (12.75%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (11.41%) Mentoring
13 15 (10.07%) OOP
14 14 (9.40%) Containerisation
14 14 (9.40%) OOD
14 14 (9.40%) Scrum
14 14 (9.40%) User Experience
15 13 (8.72%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 74 (49.66%) JavaScript
2 72 (48.32%) Java
3 62 (41.61%) SQL
4 44 (29.53%) TypeScript
5 34 (22.82%) C#
5 34 (22.82%) Python
6 16 (10.74%) C++
7 14 (9.40%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.70%) Rust
9 6 (4.03%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.68%) Ruby
11 3 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.01%) PHP
11 3 (2.01%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.34%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.34%) Scala
12 2 (1.34%) Swift
13 1 (0.67%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.67%) Groovy
13 1 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 39 (26.17%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.74%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (4.03%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.34%) Degree
6 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.67%) OCP
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.67%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.37%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.01%) MiFID
4 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) EMIR
4 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 25 (16.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (23.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.68%) Ansible
2 4 (2.68%) Grafana
3 3 (2.01%) Terraform
4 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.67%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.67%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 15 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.03%) Oracle
2 6 (4.03%) SAP
3 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.34%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.34%) Google
5 1 (0.67%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.67%) CQG
5 1 (0.67%) Databricks
5 1 (0.67%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.67%) IBM
5 1 (0.67%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.67%) Okta
5 1 (0.67%) Reuters
5 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.67%) Tradeweb