Clean Code Contract Job Trends in the North East

Clean Code
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Clean Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 40 35
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.60% 0.62% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.75% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £461 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 - £375
75th Percentile £494 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £490 £585 £620
% change year-on-year -16.28% -5.65% +7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year - -5.08% +5.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 416 268 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.03% 82.97% 81.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 180 130
10th Percentile £183 £299 £187
25th Percentile £366 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £457 £476
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -3.99% -13.45%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £595 £650 £639
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 49
10th Percentile £17.09 - £11.50
25th Percentile £49.56 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £60.58 £14.07 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +330.56% -19.60% -57.06%
75th Percentile £72.50 £25.23 £46.18
90th Percentile - £46.95 £50.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -13.33%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Clean Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Clean Code job vacancy trend in the North East

Clean Code
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Clean Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. 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
Durham - 2 - -
Tyne and Wear -18 1 £478 - 7
Clean Code
England

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) WinCC
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) JSF
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Struts
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Robotics
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Motion Control
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) HNC
1 2 (66.67%) HND
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Rockwell
1 2 (66.67%) Siemens