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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 152 182
Rank change year-on-year +13 +30 +32
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 40 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.01% 0.43% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.52% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 15
10th Percentile £379 £330 £383
25th Percentile £422 £391 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £501
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.59% +9.70%
75th Percentile £549 £500 £578
90th Percentile £625 £644 £613
England median daily rate £525 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -0.87%

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 3,518 3,479 4,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.88% 84.05% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,234 2,116 3,185
10th Percentile £268 £300 £295
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -0.20% +0.20%
75th Percentile £555 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 249 210
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.00 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.30 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -13.65% +46.50%
75th Percentile £43.91 £48.75 £45.67
90th Percentile £73.13 £70.00 £56.51
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

Clean Code
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 3 August 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 3 August 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
Yorkshire +10 25 £500 - 63
North West +7 15 £530 +14.59% 113
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England

Clean Code
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP MRS
1 1 (2.50%) SAP PM
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) AWS
2 14 (35.00%) Azure
3 7 (17.50%) Serverless
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.50%) npm
7 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.00%) Big Data
5 2 (5.00%) MySQL
5 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Git
2 9 (22.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (20.00%) GitLab
4 7 (17.50%) JUnit
5 5 (12.50%) Gradle
5 5 (12.50%) Liquibase
5 5 (12.50%) Mockito
6 2 (5.00%) JIRA
6 2 (5.00%) Selenium
6 2 (5.00%) TestNG
7 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.50%) Grunt
7 1 (2.50%) gulp
7 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (25.00%) Finance
1 10 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Electronics
3 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 5 (12.50%) Marketing
3 5 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Developer
2 5 (12.50%) Android Developer
2 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 5 (12.50%) React Developer
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 4 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Senior
4 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Software Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Angular Developer
5 2 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Lead
5 2 (5.00%) Senior .NET Software Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) React
2 8 (20.00%) .NET
2 8 (20.00%) Kafka
3 7 (17.50%) CSS
3 7 (17.50%) HTML
3 7 (17.50%) Spring
4 6 (15.00%) RESTful
5 5 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (12.50%) Node.js
5 5 (12.50%) OpenAPI
5 5 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 5 (12.50%) Swagger
6 4 (10.00%) WebSockets
7 3 (7.50%) Celery
7 3 (7.50%) Django
7 3 (7.50%) Flask
7 3 (7.50%) GraphQL
7 3 (7.50%) gRPC
7 3 (7.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (7.50%) NHS
4 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) Agile
1 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 17 (42.50%) DevOps
3 14 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 13 (32.50%) Microservices
5 9 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (22.50%) TDD
6 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven
8 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (15.00%) Migration
8 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
9 5 (12.50%) Android Development
9 5 (12.50%) Build Automation
9 5 (12.50%) Code Quality
9 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) TypeScript
2 11 (27.50%) SQL
3 10 (25.00%) Java
3 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (22.50%) Python
5 8 (20.00%) C#
6 5 (12.50%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.50%) ABAP
7 1 (2.50%) PHP
7 1 (2.50%) Ruby
7 1 (2.50%) VB
7 1 (2.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.00%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) SAP
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Brio
4 1 (2.50%) Perforce