Clean Code Job Trends in Birmingham

Clean Code
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Clean Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 110 103
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 +25
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 12 20 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.69% 1.11% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.19% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £61,125 £35,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,438 £42,500 £50,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £60,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 £71,763
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,815 £73,125
West Midlands median annual salary £70,651 £60,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +17.75% +11.63% -2.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Clean Code falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,381 1,683 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.37% 93.29% 88.05%
Number of salaries quoted 979 784 1,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,875 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Clean Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Clean Code job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Clean Code
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in Birmingham

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) SaaS
3 7 (58.33%) Azure
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (33.33%) GCP
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (16.67%) dbt
5 2 (16.67%) GitHub
5 2 (16.67%) Pulumi
5 2 (16.67%) Serverless
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (8.33%) PaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (16.67%) Redis
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JUnit
1 2 (16.67%) Maven
1 2 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Python Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) React
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Django
2 2 (16.67%) gRPC
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (8.33%) Blazor
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) JSP
3 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Marketing Technology
1 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) AI
4 3 (25.00%) Data Science
4 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) SOA
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) Go
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) Bicep
5 1 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft