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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 188 194
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +74
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 27 40 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.33% 0.65% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.71% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 22 17 65
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,313 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,280 £74,144 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,487 £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -7.14%

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 6,529 5,641 6,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.08% 91.07% 85.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,635 2,504 5,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -8.00%

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 28 January 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 28 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
West Midlands +14 16 £67,500 +12.50% 13
East Midlands -5 14 £43,000 -25.22% 30
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 2 (7.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) SaaS
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) Azure
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
4 4 (14.81%) GitHub
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) dbt
5 2 (7.41%) Pulumi
5 2 (7.41%) Serverless
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (3.70%) Datadog
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) PaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Sentry
6 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) HTTP
1 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Data Lake
1 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.41%) MariaDB
4 2 (7.41%) MySQL
4 2 (7.41%) Redis
4 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI
5 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) GitLab
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
1 2 (7.41%) JUnit
1 2 (7.41%) Maven
1 2 (7.41%) Mockito
General
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Marketing
2 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Games
3 2 (7.41%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Senior
2 10 (37.04%) Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Data Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Software Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Development Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 3 (11.11%) PHP Software Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Software Development Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (7.41%) Python Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Lead
9 1 (3.70%) Lead Python Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Python Data Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior C# Software Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) React
2 6 (22.22%) REST
3 5 (18.52%) CSS
3 5 (18.52%) HTML
4 4 (14.81%) Django
5 3 (11.11%) .NET
5 3 (11.11%) Node.js
5 3 (11.11%) Spring
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
6 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
6 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (7.41%) CSS3
6 2 (7.41%) Deno
6 2 (7.41%) gRPC
6 2 (7.41%) HTML5
6 2 (7.41%) Laravel
6 2 (7.41%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (7.41%) Vue
6 2 (7.41%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.70%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Agile
2 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 8 (29.63%) Data Engineering
3 8 (29.63%) Data Modelling
3 8 (29.63%) Data Science
3 8 (29.63%) ETL
3 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
4 7 (25.93%) Coaching
4 7 (25.93%) Data Integration
4 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (25.93%) Logical Data Model
4 7 (25.93%) Physical Data Model
4 7 (25.93%) SDLC
5 6 (22.22%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
7 4 (14.81%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) TypeScript
4 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
5 5 (18.52%) PHP
6 3 (11.11%) C#
6 3 (11.11%) Java
6 3 (11.11%) VBA
7 2 (7.41%) Bash
7 2 (7.41%) Go
7 2 (7.41%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.70%) Bicep
8 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Databricks
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft