Clean Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

Clean Code
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 279 322 359
Rank change year-on-year +43 +37 -5
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 57 77 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.37% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.44% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 59 76
10th Percentile £278 £360 £411
25th Percentile £402 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -4.83% +9.80%
75th Percentile £535 £663 £591
90th Percentile £653 £688 £612
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Clean Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the UK excluding London

Clean Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in the UK excluding London

Clean Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in the UK excluding London

Clean Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Clean Code in the UK excluding London

Clean Code
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +33 20 £500 -20.00% 154
North of England +20 14 £500 +5.26% 128
Northern Ireland - 12 £325 - 11
North West +20 11 £502 +5.58% 96
Scotland +13 6 £500 +4.17% 21
Midlands +17 3 £475 +21.02% 67
Yorkshire +7 3 £463 -22.92% 25
South West +38 2 - - 46
West Midlands +10 2 £475 +41.79% 39
East Midlands +9 1 - - 23
Clean Code
UK

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (3.51%) CMS
1 2 (3.51%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.75%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.05%) AWS
2 8 (14.04%) Azure
3 7 (12.28%) OpenShift
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (5.26%) GitHub
4 3 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.26%) Serverless
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.51%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.51%) Veeva
6 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.75%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.75%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.75%) Firebase
6 1 (1.75%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.81%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle Database
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle Database 11g
4 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (5.26%) Flink
5 3 (5.26%) MySQL
5 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.75%) Big Data
6 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 17 (29.82%) Git
3 8 (14.04%) Bitbucket
4 7 (12.28%) GoogleTest
4 7 (12.28%) JIRA
4 7 (12.28%) Rational DOORS
4 7 (12.28%) TestRail
5 6 (10.53%) GitLab
6 5 (8.77%) Gradle
6 5 (8.77%) JUnit
6 5 (8.77%) Liquibase
6 5 (8.77%) Mockito
7 3 (5.26%) webpack
8 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.51%) Storybook
9 1 (1.75%) Maven
9 1 (1.75%) Postman
General
1 18 (31.58%) Finance
2 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.53%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.77%) Electronics
5 5 (8.77%) Marketing
5 5 (8.77%) Telecoms
6 4 (7.02%) Front Office
7 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.26%) Law
8 2 (3.51%) Banking
8 2 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.51%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.75%) Advertising
9 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (63.16%) Developer
2 19 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 16 (28.07%) Java Developer
4 8 (14.04%) C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Embedded Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) React Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Senior
5 7 (12.28%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.33%) React
2 14 (24.56%) RESTful
3 12 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 11 (19.30%) Spring
5 9 (15.79%) CSS
5 9 (15.79%) Kafka
6 8 (14.04%) AngularJS
6 8 (14.04%) Web Services
7 7 (12.28%) HTML
7 7 (12.28%) JSON
7 7 (12.28%) XML
8 6 (10.53%) Apache Avro
8 6 (10.53%) OpenAPI
8 6 (10.53%) Swagger
9 4 (7.02%) .NET
10 3 (5.26%) CSS3
10 3 (5.26%) HTML5
10 3 (5.26%) Node.js
10 3 (5.26%) PySpark
10 3 (5.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Equities
2 9 (15.79%) Derivative
2 9 (15.79%) Equity Derivative
3 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.26%) Credit Risk
4 3 (5.26%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.51%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Embedded Linux
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) Agile
2 28 (49.12%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (49.12%) Software Engineering
3 24 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 24 (42.11%) DevOps
4 19 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (26.32%) Microservices
5 15 (26.32%) User Experience
6 11 (19.30%) Computer Science
6 11 (19.30%) Migration
6 11 (19.30%) SOLID
6 11 (19.30%) Test Automation
7 10 (17.54%) Code Quality
7 10 (17.54%) Continuous Delivery
7 10 (17.54%) Design Patterns
8 8 (14.04%) Scrum
8 8 (14.04%) TDD
8 8 (14.04%) Unit Testing
9 7 (12.28%) Kanban
9 7 (12.28%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) SQL
2 21 (36.84%) Java
3 11 (19.30%) TypeScript
4 10 (17.54%) JavaScript
5 8 (14.04%) C++
6 6 (10.53%) PL/SQL
6 6 (10.53%) Python
7 4 (7.02%) C#
7 4 (7.02%) Kotlin
8 3 (5.26%) Scala
9 2 (3.51%) Bash
9 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.75%) PHP
10 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (19.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (19.30%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) OCP
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (19.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) Google
3 5 (8.77%) SAP
4 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.75%) Databricks
5 1 (1.75%) TIBCO