Clean Code Contracts in Scotland

Clean Code
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 110 144
Rank change year-on-year -1 +34 +20
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 15 10 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.86% 0.48% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.55% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 10
10th Percentile £311 £419 £496
25th Percentile £420 £425 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £465 £528
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -11.85% +0.48%
75th Percentile £473 £523 £536
90th Percentile £523 £563 £559
UK median daily rate £500 £543 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% -5.65% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,616 1,804 2,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.24% 87.11% 92.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,115 1,779
10th Percentile £255 £214 £247
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 80 66
10th Percentile £16.60 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.91 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.91 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +50.28% -59.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £49.31 £60.75 £61.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.05%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in Scotland

Clean Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in Scotland

Clean Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in Scotland

Clean Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Clean Code in Scotland

Clean Code
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 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
Glasgow -19 8 £454 -2.42% 12
Edinburgh - 6 £463 - 11
Dundee - 1 £438 - 2
Clean Code
UK

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
2 5 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (33.33%) GitHub
2 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (20.00%) Firebase
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (13.33%) CloudFront
6 1 (6.67%) Azure
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
1 1 (6.67%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (13.33%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
4 1 (6.67%) NewSQL
4 1 (6.67%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 5 (33.33%) Storybook
2 5 (33.33%) webpack
3 2 (13.33%) Git
4 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.67%) git-flow
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (26.67%) React Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
5 1 (6.67%) C Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Database Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) J2EE Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) CSS
1 10 (66.67%) React
2 9 (60.00%) RESTful
3 5 (33.33%) CSS3
3 5 (33.33%) HTML
3 5 (33.33%) HTML5
3 5 (33.33%) Jest
3 5 (33.33%) Node.js
3 5 (33.33%) Redux
3 5 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (26.67%) AWS CDK
5 3 (20.00%) AWS Amplify
5 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
5 3 (20.00%) Spring
6 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (13.33%) Playwright
6 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
7 1 (6.67%) Kafka
7 1 (6.67%) REST
7 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.67%) EMV
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Microservices
3 7 (46.67%) User Experience
4 6 (40.00%) Front End Development
5 5 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (33.33%) OWASP
5 5 (33.33%) Secure Coding
5 5 (33.33%) Service Management
5 5 (33.33%) SOLID
6 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps
6 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (20.00%) Service Design
7 3 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.67%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (6.67%) Bash
6 1 (6.67%) C
6 1 (6.67%) C++
6 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle