Clean Code Job Trends in Cardiff

Clean Code
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Clean Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 40 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +14
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 4 9 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 1.03% 2.31% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.88% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile £56,519 £40,741 £46,000
25th Percentile £64,422 £41,594 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £44,672 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.21% -18.78% +19.57%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £73,801 £44,344 £55,000
% change year-on-year +66.43% -19.37% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 313 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 73.64% 80.26% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 196 204 287
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,338 £32,689
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,217 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £73,450
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -3.92% +2.22%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Clean Code
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Clean Code

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Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in Cardiff over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in Cardiff

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) dbt
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Sentry
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Laravel
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
1 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google