Clean Code Contracts in the West Midlands

Clean Code
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 95 105 137
Rank change year-on-year +10 +32 +27
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 2 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.31% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.37% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £226 -
25th Percentile £438 £264 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £335 £400
Median % change year-on-year +41.79% -16.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £513 £409 £425
90th Percentile - £449 -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the West Midlands

Clean Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in the West Midlands

Clean Code
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +15 1 £475 +46.15% 19
Shropshire - 1 - - 1
Clean Code
England

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (50.00%) Play Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Rancher