Clean Code Job Trends in the Midlands

Clean Code
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Clean Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 144 212
Rank change year-on-year -57 +68 +59
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 56 89 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.42% 1.78% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.99% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 27 24 94
10th Percentile - £37,900 £34,000
25th Percentile £24,000 £51,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £97,000 £66,875 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,595 4,476 10,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.41% 89.52% 79.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,863 2,450 7,458
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,964 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £49,652 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% +4.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,374
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,100 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.27% +5.64% -12.00%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Clean Code
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in the Midlands

Clean Code
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
East Midlands -37 37 £70,000 +27.27% 15
West Midlands -52 19 £25,000 -58.33% 7
Clean Code
England

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 33 (58.93%) AWS
2 26 (46.43%) Serverless
3 13 (23.21%) Firebase
3 13 (23.21%) GitHub
3 13 (23.21%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (23.21%) Stripe
3 13 (23.21%) TestFlight
4 12 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (16.07%) Azure
6 6 (10.71%) SaaS
7 2 (3.57%) Dagster
7 2 (3.57%) dbt
7 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.57%) Prefect
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.79%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.79%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.57%) Data Vault
3 2 (3.57%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (23.21%) Crashlytics
1 13 (23.21%) XCTest
2 6 (10.71%) Git
3 3 (5.36%) Storybook
General
1 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Marketing
3 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 4 (7.14%) Retail
4 3 (5.36%) Finance
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Developer
1 13 (23.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 13 (23.21%) Mobile Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Digital Executive
2 8 (14.29%) Digital Marketing Executive
2 8 (14.29%) Marketing Executive
2 8 (14.29%) Trainee
3 7 (12.50%) Senior
4 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) RPG Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.36%) C# Developer
6 3 (5.36%) C# Software Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Graduate
6 3 (5.36%) Graduate C# Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Graduate Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Graduate Software Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 3 (5.36%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.57%) React
2 13 (23.21%) Next.js
2 13 (23.21%) SwiftUI
2 13 (23.21%) UIKit
3 12 (21.43%) AWS CDK
4 11 (19.64%) CSS
5 8 (14.29%) HTML
6 6 (10.71%) RESTful
7 5 (8.93%) .NET
8 4 (7.14%) EDI
9 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
9 3 (5.36%) HTML5
9 3 (5.36%) jQuery
9 3 (5.36%) REST
9 3 (5.36%) Sass
10 2 (3.57%) Flask
10 2 (3.57%) MobX
10 2 (3.57%) React Native
10 2 (3.57%) Redux
11 1 (1.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 25 (44.64%) Greenfield Project
2 15 (26.79%) Mobile App
3 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.14%) AS400
4 4 (7.14%) iSeries
4 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.57%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.21%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) Test Automation
2 25 (44.64%) Agile
2 25 (44.64%) Re-Platforming
3 22 (39.29%) CI/CD
4 20 (35.71%) Mentoring
5 19 (33.93%) Code Quality
6 16 (28.57%) User Experience
7 15 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (26.79%) Deployment Automation
7 15 (26.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (25.00%) Analytics
8 14 (25.00%) Decision-Making
9 13 (23.21%) Community of Practice
9 13 (23.21%) Cross-Platform Development
9 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (23.21%) iOS Development
9 13 (23.21%) Observability
9 13 (23.21%) Process Improvement
9 13 (23.21%) Product Vision
9 13 (23.21%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) TypeScript
2 14 (25.00%) SQL
3 13 (23.21%) Kotlin
3 13 (23.21%) Swift
4 10 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 8 (14.29%) C#
5 8 (14.29%) Python
6 5 (8.93%) PHP
7 4 (7.14%) Java
7 4 (7.14%) RPG
7 4 (7.14%) RPG IV
7 4 (7.14%) RPG/400
8 3 (5.36%) C++
9 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Amplitude
1 13 (23.21%) Braze
2 4 (7.14%) IBM
3 3 (5.36%) Databricks
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.79%) Informatica
4 1 (1.79%) OpenAI