Clean Code Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Clean Code
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Clean Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 68 56
Rank change year-on-year -24 -12 -
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.48% 0.71% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.74% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £476 £317 -
25th Percentile £479 £317 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £319 £400
Median % change year-on-year +53.56% -20.35% -
75th Percentile £506 £419 -
90th Percentile £512 £479 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £319 £550
% change year-on-year +53.56% -42.07% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 882 537 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.81% 94.71% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 358 196
10th Percentile £366 £295 £395
25th Percentile £431 £374 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £469 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -9.81% -13.33%
75th Percentile £576 £545 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £468 £515
% change year-on-year +6.95% -9.22% -14.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £15.00 £15.88
25th Percentile - £17.33 £20.13
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.36 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.43% -12.58% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £18.87 £21.88
90th Percentile - - £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £18.36 £12.83
% change year-on-year +12.22% +43.08% -35.85%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Clean Code
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Clean Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (40.00%) Flyway
2 2 (40.00%) git-flow
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Liquibase
2 2 (40.00%) Mockito
3 1 (20.00%) Gatling
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Gradle
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) Newman
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (20.00%) TestNG
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Law
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) Kafka
3 2 (40.00%) Drools
3 2 (40.00%) HATEOAS
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) Jasypt
3 2 (40.00%) JPA
3 2 (40.00%) JWT
3 2 (40.00%) Loki
3 2 (40.00%) OAuth
3 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (40.00%) Spring MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Security
3 2 (40.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
1 1 (20.00%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) API Development
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Secure Coding
3 3 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) Validation
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (40.00%) Batch Processing
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Epics
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (40.00%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Consul
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Solace
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk