Clean Code Job Trends in London

Clean Code
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Clean Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 276 235
Rank change year-on-year +122 -41 -44
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 308 125 296
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.63% 0.97% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 1.01% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 169 83 250
10th Percentile £64,500 £48,750 £46,125
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £69,384 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.51% -18.37% +3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £104,375
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,806 12,388 20,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.89% 96.14% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,333 7,542 16,048
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,469
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in London

Clean Code
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in London over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in London

Clean Code
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the London region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Central London +18 41 £120,000 +41.18% 31
West London - 14 - - 3
South London +29 4 - -
East London - 3 - - 6
Clean Code
England

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 12 (3.90%) Appian
2 4 (1.30%) Apache
2 4 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.97%) Confluence
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Camunda
5 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.32%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 170 (55.19%) AWS
2 138 (44.81%) GCP
3 80 (25.97%) Azure
4 55 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
5 52 (16.88%) GitHub
6 42 (13.64%) SaaS
7 19 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (5.84%) Azure AI
8 18 (5.84%) Azure Machine Learning
9 17 (5.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 17 (5.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 14 (4.55%) Anthropic Claude
11 13 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (3.90%) Power Automate
12 12 (3.90%) Power Platform
13 10 (3.25%) Serverless
14 9 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (1.95%) Amazon S3
17 5 (1.62%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 41 (13.31%) Broadband
2 4 (1.30%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.65%) Network Security
4 1 (0.32%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.17%) SQL Server
3 12 (3.90%) Pinecone
3 12 (3.90%) Power BI
4 10 (3.25%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.27%) Redis
6 6 (1.95%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.30%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (1.30%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.30%) Tableau
9 3 (0.97%) DB2
10 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.65%) Big Data
10 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 59 (19.16%) TeamCity
2 36 (11.69%) Git
3 22 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 19 (6.17%) MLflow
5 7 (2.27%) webpack
6 5 (1.62%) JIRA
6 5 (1.62%) Selenium
6 5 (1.62%) Vite
7 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.97%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.65%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.65%) GitLab
8 2 (0.65%) JUnit
8 2 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.32%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.32%) Deequ
9 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.32%) Xcode
General
1 100 (32.47%) Finance
2 81 (26.30%) Social Skills
3 66 (21.43%) Retail
4 65 (21.10%) Banking
5 62 (20.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 61 (19.81%) Law
7 40 (12.99%) Financial Institution
8 39 (12.66%) Back Office
9 25 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (5.52%) Marketing
11 5 (1.62%) Front Office
12 4 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.97%) Legal
13 3 (0.97%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.65%) Games
14 2 (0.65%) iGaming
14 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.32%) Advertising
15 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 119 (38.64%) Developer
2 98 (31.82%) Senior
3 69 (22.40%) Software Engineer
4 56 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 38 (12.34%) Lead
6 34 (11.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 29 (9.42%) Backend Developer
8 24 (7.79%) Software Developer
9 23 (7.47%) Scala Engineer
10 22 (7.14%) Java Engineer
11 21 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
12 20 (6.49%) Cloud Developer
12 20 (6.49%) Python Developer
12 20 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 18 (5.84%) Data Engineer
15 17 (5.52%) Salesforce Developer
15 17 (5.52%) Senior Salesforce Developer
16 15 (4.87%) Automation Engineer
17 13 (4.22%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (18.51%) React
2 46 (14.94%) Django
3 45 (14.61%) RESTful
4 40 (12.99%) FastAPI
5 39 (12.66%) REST
6 38 (12.34%) Flask
7 36 (11.69%) gRPC
7 36 (11.69%) Node.js
8 28 (9.09%) CSS
9 27 (8.77%) .NET
10 26 (8.44%) HTML
11 19 (6.17%) PyTorch
11 19 (6.17%) TensorFlow
12 17 (5.52%) Lightning Web Components
12 17 (5.52%) SOAP
13 16 (5.19%) pytest
14 14 (4.55%) JWT
14 14 (4.55%) Pandas
15 13 (4.22%) Hugging Face
15 13 (4.22%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 91 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 60 (19.48%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (11.69%) Over-the-Top Content
3 36 (11.69%) Product Ownership
3 36 (11.69%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (7.14%) Algorithms
5 19 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (5.84%) Blog
7 17 (5.52%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (4.87%) Data Structures
9 13 (4.22%) Low-Code
10 11 (3.57%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.30%) Derivative
12 4 (1.30%) Equities
12 4 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.30%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.97%) FMCG
13 3 (0.97%) PKI
14 2 (0.65%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.27%) Linux
2 6 (1.95%) Android
3 5 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (70.13%) CI/CD
2 136 (44.16%) Problem-Solving
3 128 (41.56%) Software Engineering
4 104 (33.77%) Test Automation
5 96 (31.17%) Microservices
6 94 (30.52%) Agile
7 78 (25.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (23.05%) Machine Learning
9 66 (21.43%) AI
9 66 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 66 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
10 59 (19.16%) Data Science
11 56 (18.18%) Coaching
11 56 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 55 (17.86%) Continuous Deployment
13 47 (15.26%) Computer Science
14 46 (14.94%) Fintech
15 45 (14.61%) DevOps
16 42 (13.64%) Mentoring
17 38 (12.34%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 136 (44.16%) Python
2 93 (30.19%) Java
3 58 (18.83%) JavaScript
4 53 (17.21%) TypeScript
5 49 (15.91%) SQL
6 44 (14.29%) Go
7 36 (11.69%) Scala
8 17 (5.52%) Apex Code
8 17 (5.52%) SOQL
9 11 (3.57%) C#
10 5 (1.62%) C++
11 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.30%) Rust
12 3 (0.97%) RPG
13 2 (0.65%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) R
13 2 (0.65%) Ruby
13 2 (0.65%) Swift
13 2 (0.65%) X++
14 1 (0.32%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 53 (17.21%) Degree
2 28 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.27%) Master's Degree
3 7 (2.27%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.95%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.95%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.44%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.60%) QA
4 2 (0.65%) GDPR
4 2 (0.65%) GRC
4 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (24.03%) Docker
2 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (29.55%) Kubernetes
2 70 (22.73%) Terraform
3 58 (18.83%) Grafana
4 4 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (0.65%) Cilium
Vendors
1 36 (11.69%) Typelevel
2 20 (6.49%) OpenAI
3 17 (5.52%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.90%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (3.90%) UiPath
5 11 (3.57%) Databricks
6 7 (2.27%) Google
6 7 (2.27%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.97%) Foundry
7 3 (0.97%) IBM
8 1 (0.32%) Citrix
8 1 (0.32%) Misys
8 1 (0.32%) Temenos