Clean Code Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Clean Code
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 228 243 257
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 +61
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 76 102 236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 0.66% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.76% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 73 194
10th Percentile £346 £414 £413
25th Percentile £400 £450 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £626 £688 £700
90th Percentile £669 £745 £725
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Clean Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Clean Code trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Clean Code.

Clean Code daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Clean Code over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Clean Code daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Clean Code.

Clean Code hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.95%) CMS
2 1 (1.32%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.32%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.32%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 30 (39.47%) AWS
2 16 (21.05%) Serverless
3 14 (18.42%) Azure
4 12 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (13.16%) GitHub
6 6 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (5.26%) Firebase
8 4 (5.26%) GCP
8 4 (5.26%) Sentry
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.63%) Veeva
11 1 (1.32%) Google Play
11 1 (1.32%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (15.79%) DynamoDB
3 8 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.58%) Oracle Database
4 5 (6.58%) Oracle Database 11g
4 5 (6.58%) Redis
5 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.95%) MySQL
5 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.63%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.32%) Looker
7 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.32%) Power BI
7 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (38.16%) Git
2 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.58%) git-flow
4 4 (5.26%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.26%) JIRA
5 3 (3.95%) JUnit
6 2 (2.63%) webpack
7 1 (1.32%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.32%) GitLab
7 1 (1.32%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (1.32%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.32%) Mockito
7 1 (1.32%) Postman
7 1 (1.32%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (1.32%) Selenium
7 1 (1.32%) TestNG
7 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.32%) Xcode
7 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Banking
3 9 (11.84%) Finance
4 8 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.21%) Back Office
6 4 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.26%) Retail
7 3 (3.95%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (3.95%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.63%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Aviation
9 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Front Office
9 1 (1.32%) Games
9 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 52 (68.42%) Developer
2 9 (11.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 9 (11.84%) Java Developer
2 9 (11.84%) Software Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Lead
4 6 (7.89%) Backend Developer
4 6 (7.89%) Node.js Developer
5 5 (6.58%) Python Developer
5 5 (6.58%) Scala Developer
5 5 (6.58%) Senior
5 5 (6.58%) Software Developer
5 5 (6.58%) Technical Leader
6 4 (5.26%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.26%) AWS Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Android Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Applications Developer
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) iOS Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (42.11%) RESTful
2 25 (32.89%) React
3 17 (22.37%) CSS
4 16 (21.05%) Node.js
5 15 (19.74%) HTML
6 11 (14.47%) .NET
7 10 (13.16%) JSON
7 10 (13.16%) Spring
8 9 (11.84%) Web Services
9 8 (10.53%) Redux
10 7 (9.21%) AngularJS
10 7 (9.21%) Jest
10 7 (9.21%) REST
11 6 (7.89%) AWS CDK
11 6 (7.89%) GraphQL
11 6 (7.89%) LESS
11 6 (7.89%) Sass
12 5 (6.58%) Akka
12 5 (6.58%) Play Framework
12 5 (6.58%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.89%) Derivative
2 6 (7.89%) Equities
3 5 (6.58%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.95%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.63%) Animation
6 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Android
2 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (47.37%) Agile
2 27 (35.53%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (34.21%) CI/CD
4 22 (28.95%) DevOps
5 20 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (22.37%) User Experience
7 16 (21.05%) Software Engineering
8 14 (18.42%) Microservices
9 12 (15.79%) Design Patterns
10 11 (14.47%) Mentoring
10 11 (14.47%) TDD
10 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
11 9 (11.84%) Front End Development
11 9 (11.84%) OO
11 9 (11.84%) Unit Testing
12 8 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 7 (9.21%) Architectural Patterns
13 7 (9.21%) Code Quality
13 7 (9.21%) Continuous Deployment
13 7 (9.21%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 30 (39.47%) JavaScript
2 29 (38.16%) SQL
3 25 (32.89%) Java
4 18 (23.68%) TypeScript
5 13 (17.11%) Python
6 11 (14.47%) C#
7 9 (11.84%) PowerShell
8 7 (9.21%) T-SQL
9 6 (7.89%) Kotlin
9 6 (7.89%) Scala
10 5 (6.58%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.95%) Objective-C
11 3 (3.95%) Swift
12 2 (2.63%) Bash
12 2 (2.63%) Groovy
12 2 (2.63%) Ruby
13 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) Degree
4 4 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.63%) QA
4 1 (1.32%) EMIR
4 1 (1.32%) GDPR
4 1 (1.32%) MiFID
4 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (18.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.26%) Grafana
3 2 (2.63%) Terraform
4 1 (1.32%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.89%) Oracle
3 3 (3.95%) Google
4 2 (2.63%) Apple
5 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.32%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco
5 1 (1.32%) CQG
5 1 (1.32%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.32%) Okta
5 1 (1.32%) Reuters
5 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.32%) SAP
5 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.32%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.32%) Typelevel