Clean Code Contracts in the North West

Clean Code
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 118 148
Rank change year-on-year +4 +30 +22
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 14 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.65% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.42% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 5
10th Percentile £396 £325 £385
25th Percentile £402 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% +8.82% -8.11%
75th Percentile £545 £488 £538
90th Percentile - £518 £549
England median daily rate £525 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -0.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,906 2,137 2,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.87% 84.33% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 1,315 1,890
10th Percentile £272 £300 £304
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% +0.20%
75th Percentile £570 £585 £588
90th Percentile £670 £675 £673
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 213 159
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £30.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.39% +19.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £48.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £69.58 £55.96
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +65.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in the North West over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Clean Code in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
Manchester +17 11 £530 +17.78% 72
Cheshire -18 2 £388 -16.16% 17
Merseyside - 1 - - 10
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England

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) npm
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
2 1 (7.14%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (35.71%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) GitLab
2 5 (35.71%) Gradle
2 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) JUnit
2 5 (35.71%) Liquibase
2 5 (35.71%) Mockito
3 3 (21.43%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.14%) Grunt
4 1 (7.14%) gulp
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (35.71%) Electronics
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing
1 5 (35.71%) Marketing
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
1 5 (35.71%) Telecoms
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
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%) Angular Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior JavaScript Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) React
2 5 (35.71%) CSS
2 5 (35.71%) HTML
2 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 5 (35.71%) OpenAPI
2 5 (35.71%) Spring
2 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 5 (35.71%) Swagger
3 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
4 2 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (14.29%) HTML5
4 2 (14.29%) Jest
4 2 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 2 (14.29%) REST
5 1 (7.14%) Enzyme
5 1 (7.14%) Next.js
5 1 (7.14%) Playwright
5 1 (7.14%) PySpark
5 1 (7.14%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (50.00%) TDD
4 6 (42.86%) DevOps
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%) Microservices
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%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (14.29%) User Stories
7 2 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 6 (42.86%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Perforce