Clean Code Contract Job Trends in the South East

Clean Code
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Clean Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 111 153
Rank change year-on-year -65 +42 +44
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 14 62 54
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.32% 1.65% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.88% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 47 48
10th Percentile £368 - £493
25th Percentile £413 £475 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £635 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.23% +5.83% -1.96%
75th Percentile £596 £663 £663
90th Percentile £660 £671 £706
England median daily rate £500 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -14.53% -2.50% -

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 3,725 3,304 4,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.55% 87.83% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,434 2,050 2,922
10th Percentile £223 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 129 234
10th Percentile £14.67 £19.19 £16.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
Median % change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.73 £65.96
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in the South East

Clean Code
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Clean Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in the South East over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in the South East

Clean Code
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Clean Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Clean Code

Clean Code
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 16 December 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 -42 7 £425 -34.62% 17
Buckinghamshire - 5 £425 - 6
Hampshire - 3 £640 - 16
West Sussex -6 2 £488 - 5
Surrey -14 2 £640 +28.00% 5
Berkshire -52 1 £550 -15.38% 7
Oxfordshire - 1 £275 - 4
Clean Code
England

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (21.43%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Serverless
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (28.57%) ChatGPT
4 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) npm
5 1 (7.14%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (21.43%) Big Data
2 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) PHPUnit
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Law
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Data Scientist
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
1 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) C++ Applications Developer
3 1 (7.14%) C++ Developer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (7.14%) PHP Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Principal Developer
3 1 (7.14%) React Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior React Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Vue
2 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 4 (28.57%) Hugging Face
2 4 (28.57%) NumPy
2 4 (28.57%) Pandas
2 4 (28.57%) PyTorch
2 4 (28.57%) React
2 4 (28.57%) scikit-learn
3 3 (21.43%) Prophet
3 3 (21.43%) REST
4 2 (14.29%) CSS
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (7.14%) .NET
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
5 1 (7.14%) CSS3
5 1 (7.14%) HTML5
5 1 (7.14%) Laravel
5 1 (7.14%) Node.js
5 1 (7.14%) RESTful
5 1 (7.14%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Android
3 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) LLM
2 5 (35.71%) Machine Learning
2 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (28.57%) Data Science
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
3 4 (28.57%) Time Series Forecasting
4 3 (21.43%) A/B Testing
4 3 (21.43%) ARIMA
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Data Privacy
4 3 (21.43%) Decision Tree
4 3 (21.43%) Logistic Regression
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (21.43%) Random Forest
4 3 (21.43%) Statistical Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Use Case
4 3 (21.43%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) C#
4 4 (28.57%) Bash
5 3 (21.43%) Java
5 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
6 1 (7.14%) C++
6 1 (7.14%) Perl
6 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Rundeck
2 1 (7.14%) vRealize
2 1 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Sage
2 1 (7.14%) VMware