Clean Code Contracts in Manchester

Clean Code
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 94 106
Rank change year-on-year +25 +12 +18
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 12 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.22% 0.22% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.25% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £400 £350 £383
25th Percentile £413 £378 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +9.09% -14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £556 £467
90th Percentile - £605 £521
North West median daily rate £500 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +8.11% +8.82% -8.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 860 1,184 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.76% 86.61% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 771 1,197
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 72 59
10th Percentile £15.35 £13.08 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.45 £15.98 £16.15
Median hourly rate £24.62 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.61% +42.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £78.25 £72.50 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £27.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +6.48% -7.85% +19.20%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in Manchester

Clean Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in Manchester

Clean Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Clean Code in Manchester

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
2 1 (8.33%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) GitLab
2 5 (41.67%) Gradle
2 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (41.67%) JUnit
2 5 (41.67%) Liquibase
2 5 (41.67%) Mockito
3 2 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Electronics
2 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
2 5 (41.67%) Marketing
2 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
2 5 (41.67%) React Developer
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Android Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Angular Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior JavaScript Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) React
2 5 (41.67%) Kafka
2 5 (41.67%) OpenAPI
2 5 (41.67%) Spring
2 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 5 (41.67%) Swagger
3 3 (25.00%) CSS
3 3 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (16.67%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (8.33%) .NET
5 1 (8.33%) Express.js
5 1 (8.33%) HTML5
5 1 (8.33%) Jest
5 1 (8.33%) Next.js
5 1 (8.33%) Node.js
5 1 (8.33%) Playwright
5 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) TDD
4 6 (50.00%) DevOps
5 5 (41.67%) Build Automation
5 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
5 5 (41.67%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
5 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (41.67%) Microservices
5 5 (41.67%) Migration
5 5 (41.67%) Programme Management
6 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (16.67%) Multivariate Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (16.67%) User Stories
7 2 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 6 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (41.67%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (16.67%) Kotlin
6 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft