Clean Code Contracts in the Midlands

Clean Code
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 108 125 164
Rank change year-on-year +17 +39 +35
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 3 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.29% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.35% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £238 -
25th Percentile £438 £296 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £393 £400
Median % change year-on-year +21.02% -1.88% -20.00%
75th Percentile £513 £528 £463
90th Percentile - £624 £485
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Clean Code in the Midlands

Clean Code
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +10 2 £475 +41.79% 111
East Midlands +9 1 - - 78
Clean Code
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Scala Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Scala Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Developer
3 1 (33.33%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Play Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Akka
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Camel
2 1 (33.33%) Quarkus
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Rancher