Clean Code Job Trends in Durham

Clean Code
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham 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 27 37 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 -13 +14
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 4 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.99% 1.40% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 1.65% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £48,381 - £41,200
25th Percentile £61,516 £64,471 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +38.30%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
North East median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% -4.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 182 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 75.62% 84.65% 93.22%
Number of salaries quoted 54 57 132
10th Percentile £25,087 £33,081 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,438 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.47% +18.75%
75th Percentile £56,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,403 £79,600 £64,775
North East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in Durham

Clean Code
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram in Durham

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

Salary histogram for Clean Code in Durham

Clean Code
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the Durham region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Darlington +7 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Clean Code
North East

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) dbt
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Sentry
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
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
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Blazor
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
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