Clean Code Job Trends in the East Midlands

Clean Code
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Clean Code skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 156 117
Rank change year-on-year +69 -39 +14
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 58 17 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.50% 0.43% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 0.56% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 20 9 9
10th Percentile £39,625 £36,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,938 £38,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £61,563 £46,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £49,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,973 3,020 1,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.08% 76.34% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,088 1,489 1,063
10th Percentile £26,237 £28,742 £26,800
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £38,789
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,450
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.93% +4.08%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Clean Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the East Midlands

Clean Code
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in the East Midlands

Clean Code
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 September 2025. 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
Northamptonshire +39 32 £57,500 +91.67% 3
Nottinghamshire +18 10 £56,250 +32.35% 7
Leicestershire +44 9 £60,000 +9.09% 2
Derbyshire - 4 £40,000 - 4
Lincolnshire - 3 £45,000 - 3
Clean Code
England

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 34 (58.62%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) JBoss
2 2 (3.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (68.97%) AWS
2 39 (67.24%) Azure
3 36 (62.07%) GCP
4 6 (10.34%) SaaS
5 4 (6.90%) GitHub
6 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.72%) Datadog
7 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (65.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.90%) Data Lake
2 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.17%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) Big Data
4 2 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (3.45%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.72%) Power BI
5 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (65.52%) JIRA
2 36 (62.07%) GitLab
2 36 (62.07%) Maven
2 36 (62.07%) Sonatype Nexus
3 34 (58.62%) Bitbucket
3 34 (58.62%) Cucumber
3 34 (58.62%) Selenium
3 34 (58.62%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.17%) Git
5 2 (3.45%) Babel
5 2 (3.45%) Gradle
5 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.45%) JUnit
5 2 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 39 (67.24%) Finance
2 34 (58.62%) Banking
2 34 (58.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Law
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (62.07%) Software Engineer
2 15 (25.86%) Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 7 (12.07%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Lead
6 3 (5.17%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.45%) C# Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.45%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) React Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Software Developer
8 1 (1.72%) C# Software Developer
8 1 (1.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (1.72%) Python Software Engineer
8 1 (1.72%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (74.14%) CSS
1 43 (74.14%) HTML
2 41 (70.69%) React
3 38 (65.52%) Spring
3 38 (65.52%) Spring Boot
4 37 (63.79%) Redux
5 34 (58.62%) Hibernate
5 34 (58.62%) JPA
5 34 (58.62%) Kafka
6 8 (13.79%) .NET
7 6 (10.34%) REST
8 5 (8.62%) .NET Framework
9 4 (6.90%) AngularJS
9 4 (6.90%) CSS3
9 4 (6.90%) HTML5
10 3 (5.17%) .NET Core
10 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET
11 2 (3.45%) SOAP
11 2 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
11 2 (3.45%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (60.34%) Product Ownership
2 34 (58.62%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
1 2 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (77.59%) Agile
2 42 (72.41%) CI/CD
3 39 (67.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 39 (67.24%) SDLC
4 38 (65.52%) Containerisation
4 38 (65.52%) Microservices
5 37 (63.79%) Front End Development
5 37 (63.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (63.79%) Software Engineering
5 37 (63.79%) Test Automation
6 36 (62.07%) DevOps
7 35 (60.34%) TDD
8 34 (58.62%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (10.34%) Data Modelling
9 6 (10.34%) Data Science
9 6 (10.34%) Mentoring
10 5 (8.62%) Coaching
10 5 (8.62%) Computer Science
10 5 (8.62%) Data Integration
10 5 (8.62%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 49 (84.48%) SQL
2 44 (75.86%) JavaScript
3 38 (65.52%) Java
4 8 (13.79%) C#
5 7 (12.07%) Python
6 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.90%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.45%) R
8 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.72%) PHP
9 1 (1.72%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.45%) PhD
3 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (60.34%) QA
2 6 (10.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 36 (62.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (58.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (58.62%) Solace
2 5 (8.62%) Databricks
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft