Clean Code Contracts in the North of England

Clean Code
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 152 172 197
Rank change year-on-year +20 +25 -54
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 14 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.42% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.32% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 14
10th Percentile £400 £363 £381
25th Percentile £413 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -12.82%
75th Percentile £545 £581 £520
90th Percentile - £650 £539
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Clean Code in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +20 11 £502 +5.58% 97
Yorkshire +7 3 £463 -22.92% 25
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (35.71%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 5 (35.71%) Gradle
2 5 (35.71%) JUnit
2 5 (35.71%) Liquibase
2 5 (35.71%) Mockito
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 5 (35.71%) Electronics
2 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing
2 5 (35.71%) Marketing
2 5 (35.71%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Java Developer
2 5 (35.71%) React Developer
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Android Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Backend Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) OpenAPI
1 6 (42.86%) React
1 6 (42.86%) Spring
1 6 (42.86%) Swagger
2 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
3 3 (21.43%) .NET
4 2 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (7.14%) CSS
5 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
5 1 (7.14%) HTML
5 1 (7.14%) JPA
5 1 (7.14%) PySpark
5 1 (7.14%) REST
5 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
1 10 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 8 (57.14%) TDD
4 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) Microservices
5 5 (35.71%) Build Automation
5 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven
5 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (35.71%) Migration
5 5 (35.71%) Programme Management
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Android Development
7 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
7 2 (14.29%) Multivariate Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 3 (21.43%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) PHP
5 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft