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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 113 126
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 +34
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 8 15 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.64% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.76% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 20
10th Percentile £383 £500 £337
25th Percentile £413 £547 £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +15.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £438 £663 £596
90th Percentile £498 £670 £630
South East median daily rate £425 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -22.73% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1,530 1,983 2,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.06% 84.53% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,121 1,746
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -1.94% +3.00%
75th Percentile £590 £619 £623
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 112 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.23
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £21.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £55.44 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.63% +10.88% +150.00%
75th Percentile £52.25 £66.38 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £74.98
South East median hourly rate £21.58 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.38% +14.70% +113.77%

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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 5 August 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 5 August 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
Buckinghamshire +11 6 £425 +21.43% 7
Berkshire +7 2 - - 10
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South East

Clean Code
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 4 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 4 (50.00%) ChatGPT
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (37.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) React Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (50.00%) NumPy
1 4 (50.00%) Pandas
1 4 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (37.50%) Prophet
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) Blazor
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) PyQt
4 1 (12.50%) Qt
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Debian
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (50.00%) Data Science
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) LLM
2 4 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
3 3 (37.50%) A/B Testing
3 3 (37.50%) ARIMA
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Data Privacy
3 3 (37.50%) Decision Tree
3 3 (37.50%) Linear Regression
3 3 (37.50%) Logistic Regression
3 3 (37.50%) OCR
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (37.50%) Random Forest
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Statistical Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Sage
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Remedy
2 1 (12.50%) VMware