Clean Code Contracts in the South East

Clean Code
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 139 172 204
Rank change year-on-year +33 +32 +42
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 20 33 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.59% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.70% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 16
10th Percentile £348 £450 £421
25th Percentile £475 £510 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -13.98%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £569
90th Percentile £668 - £588
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +2.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Clean Code in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +33 10 £644 -4.63% 117
Berkshire +24 10 £644 -4.63% 48
Surrey +22 9 £500 - 52
East Sussex -2 1 £625 +56.25% 30
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England

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.00%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Veeva
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Git
2 7 (35.00%) Bitbucket
2 7 (35.00%) GoogleTest
2 7 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (35.00%) JIRA
2 7 (35.00%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (35.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 7 (35.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) CSS
1 2 (10.00%) HTML
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
1 2 (10.00%) React
1 2 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) ADO
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.00%) Java EE
2 1 (5.00%) Java SE
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.00%) Struts
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Embedded Linux
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) DevOps
4 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (35.00%) Design Patterns
4 7 (35.00%) Kanban
4 7 (35.00%) Multithreaded Programming
4 7 (35.00%) Multithreading
4 7 (35.00%) OO
4 7 (35.00%) OOD
4 7 (35.00%) Scrum
4 7 (35.00%) SOLID
4 7 (35.00%) Storyboarding
4 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (30.00%) Data Migration
5 6 (30.00%) Migration
5 6 (30.00%) Prototyping
5 6 (30.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) C++
3 6 (30.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) Python
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (35.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) OCP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Sun Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Google
1 7 (35.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks