Clean Code Contracts in the Thames Valley

Clean Code
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 92 125 140
Rank change year-on-year +33 +15 +20
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 10 20 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 0.74% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.85% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 9
10th Percentile £250 £511 £430
25th Percentile £438 £588 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £675 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +20.54% -4.68%
75th Percentile £666 £688 £588
90th Percentile £679 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -13.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Clean Code in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +24 10 £644 -4.63% 48
Clean Code
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Veeva
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle Database
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CRUD
2 6 (60.00%) Data Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (60.00%) Prototyping
2 6 (60.00%) Secure Coding
2 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (20.00%) User Experience
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Data Management
6 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft