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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 328 331
Rank change year-on-year +57 +3 +50
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 64 69 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.33% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.40% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 51 77
10th Percentile £313 £363 £412
25th Percentile £358 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £549
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -8.93% +9.80%
75th Percentile £514 £669 £604
90th Percentile £541 £688 £612
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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
North of England +19 22 £500 +6.67% 722
North West +11 14 £502 +8.43% 368
Scotland +13 12 £468 +0.54% 138
Midlands +15 10 £358 -8.79% 611
Northern Ireland - 9 £325 - 67
South East +26 8 £500 -25.93% 871
Yorkshire +15 8 £500 -16.67% 272
East Midlands +11 6 £313 -53.63% 239
West Midlands +14 4 £438 +30.60% 337
South West +37 3 £420 -20.10% 365
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 3 (4.69%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.56%) Apache
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.56%) CMS
2 1 (1.56%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.56%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.00%) AWS
2 13 (20.31%) Azure
3 10 (15.63%) Serverless
4 9 (14.06%) GitHub
5 8 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (10.94%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.81%) Amazon Cognito
7 5 (7.81%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (6.25%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.69%) Firebase
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.13%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.13%) CloudFront
10 2 (3.13%) SaaS
11 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.56%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) HTTP
1 3 (4.69%) HTTPS
1 3 (4.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) Relational Database
2 8 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (10.94%) MySQL
4 5 (7.81%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.13%) Big Data
6 2 (3.13%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 21 (32.81%) Git
3 9 (14.06%) GitLab
4 7 (10.94%) Gradle
5 5 (7.81%) Bitbucket
5 5 (7.81%) Cypress.io
5 5 (7.81%) JIRA
5 5 (7.81%) JUnit
5 5 (7.81%) Liquibase
5 5 (7.81%) Mockito
5 5 (7.81%) Storybook
5 5 (7.81%) webpack
6 4 (6.25%) GoogleTest
6 4 (6.25%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (6.25%) TestRail
7 2 (3.13%) Android Studio
7 2 (3.13%) Xcode
8 1 (1.56%) Maven
8 1 (1.56%) Postman
8 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (26.56%) Finance
1 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Electronics
4 5 (7.81%) Manufacturing
4 5 (7.81%) Marketing
4 5 (7.81%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.25%) Banking
5 4 (6.25%) Front Office
6 2 (3.13%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.13%) Retail
6 2 (3.13%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 50 (78.13%) Developer
2 17 (26.56%) Java Developer
3 13 (20.31%) Software Engineer
4 12 (18.75%) React Developer
5 8 (12.50%) Senior
6 6 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Java Software Developer
6 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Software Developer
7 5 (7.81%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 5 (7.81%) Java Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (51.56%) React
2 21 (32.81%) RESTful
3 19 (29.69%) CSS
4 15 (23.44%) AngularJS
4 15 (23.44%) Spring Boot
5 14 (21.88%) HTML
5 14 (21.88%) Spring
6 11 (17.19%) Web Services
7 10 (15.63%) Node.js
8 9 (14.06%) .NET
8 9 (14.06%) REST
9 8 (12.50%) Jest
10 7 (10.94%) JSON
10 7 (10.94%) Redux
10 7 (10.94%) XML
11 6 (9.38%) Apache Avro
11 6 (9.38%) HTML5
11 6 (9.38%) Kafka
12 5 (7.81%) CSS3
12 5 (7.81%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Derivative
1 9 (14.06%) Equities
1 9 (14.06%) Equity Derivative
2 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.69%) State Machine
5 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.13%) NHS
5 2 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Android
1 4 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (57.81%) CI/CD
2 33 (51.56%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (48.44%) Agile
4 23 (35.94%) DevOps
4 23 (35.94%) Software Engineering
5 18 (28.13%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (28.13%) Microservices
6 17 (26.56%) Code Quality
6 17 (26.56%) User Experience
7 16 (25.00%) Design Patterns
8 12 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
8 12 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (15.63%) SOLID
9 10 (15.63%) TDD
10 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
11 8 (12.50%) Computer Science
11 8 (12.50%) Containerisation
12 6 (9.38%) Build Automation
12 6 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.06%) TypeScript
2 23 (35.94%) Java
3 22 (34.38%) SQL
4 21 (32.81%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.50%) C#
6 5 (7.81%) C++
6 5 (7.81%) Python
7 4 (6.25%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.69%) Bash
8 3 (4.69%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.69%) Scala
9 2 (3.13%) JSX
9 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.13%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Degree
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) OCP
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.56%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.69%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.13%) WCAG
4 1 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.38%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Oracle
2 5 (7.81%) SAP
3 4 (6.25%) Google
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.13%) Brio
5 1 (1.56%) TIBCO