Clean Code Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Clean Code
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Clean Code skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 110 127
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 +50
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.40% 0.16% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.19% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £337 -
25th Percentile - £352 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £393 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% -25.24% +13.21%
75th Percentile £538 £442 £538
90th Percentile £620 £462 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%

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 1,560 1,542 1,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.34% 81.41% 85.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 1,013 1,235
10th Percentile £250 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £606
90th Percentile £650 £725 £729
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 51 49
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.18 £14.32
25th Percentile £14.91 £14.85 £20.49
Median hourly rate £24.34 £21.59 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% -21.49% +62.60%
75th Percentile £35.29 £36.25 £42.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Clean Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 30 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
Birmingham +5 2 £525 +16.67% 10
Coventry - 2 £400 - 1
Warwickshire - 2 - - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Android Studio
1 2 (28.57%) Gradle
1 2 (28.57%) Xcode
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) React
2 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) Jest
3 3 (42.86%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
4 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 2 (28.57%) Node.js
4 2 (28.57%) React Native
4 2 (28.57%) Redux
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
5 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Enzyme
5 1 (14.29%) Material-UI
5 1 (14.29%) Next.js
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth
5 1 (14.29%) Playwright
5 1 (14.29%) Spring
5 1 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
1 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) User Experience
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) UX Design
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (14.29%) Cross-Platform Development
4 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
1 6 (85.71%) TypeScript
2 3 (42.86%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) JSX
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) WCAG
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes