Clean Code Job Trends in the City of London

Clean Code
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London 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 113 131 50
Rank change year-on-year +18 -81 +60
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 21 34 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.91% 1.28% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.34% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 20 13 130
10th Percentile £46,250 - £64,750
25th Percentile £71,875 £52,500 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £75,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £110,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -21.05% +5.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,992 2,540 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.35% 95.67% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,457 1,620 2,368
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in the City of London

Clean Code
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram in the City of London

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

Salary histogram for Clean Code in the City of London

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (9.52%) CMS
1 2 (9.52%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) GitHub
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (14.29%) Serverless
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Figma
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.76%) dbt
6 1 (4.76%) Vercel
6 1 (4.76%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Airbyte
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Hudi
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Metabase
2 1 (4.76%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Deequ
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Senior
3 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Python Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Python Developer - Fintech
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Applications Developer
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Blockchain Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Data Science Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Rust Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Umbraco Developer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Node.js
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
3 2 (9.52%) HTML
3 2 (9.52%) LangChain
3 2 (9.52%) PyTorch
3 2 (9.52%) React
3 2 (9.52%) TensorFlow
3 2 (9.52%) Universal Windows Platform
3 2 (9.52%) web3js
3 2 (9.52%) WinUI
3 2 (9.52%) WPF
4 1 (4.76%) Blazor
4 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.76%) Great Expectations
4 1 (4.76%) Next.js
4 1 (4.76%) Quarkus
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) AI Agents
2 2 (9.52%) Blockchain
2 2 (9.52%) Low-Code
2 2 (9.52%) Web3
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (23.81%) Analytics
4 5 (23.81%) Fintech
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) Data Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (19.05%) Open Source
6 3 (14.29%) AI
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (14.29%) DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) ETL
6 3 (14.29%) LLM
6 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (9.52%) Code Quality
7 2 (9.52%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) C#
4 2 (9.52%) Rust
5 1 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Databricks
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.52%) OpenAI
1 2 (9.52%) Syncfusion
1 2 (9.52%) Telerik
2 1 (4.76%) Foundry
2 1 (4.76%) Google