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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 177 191
Rank change year-on-year -27 +14 +105
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 39 37 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.37% 0.77% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.85% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 19 21 96
10th Percentile £25,000 £37,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £34,375 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,145 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £74,144 £71,250
England median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% - -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 8,085 4,362 8,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 76.17% 90.74% 83.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,675 2,575 6,801
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,040 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.27% +9.09% -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 28 March 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 March 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 -24 26 £65,000 +8.33% 9
West Midlands -27 14 £60,000 - 16
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 (5.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) Serverless
3 11 (28.21%) SaaS
4 10 (25.64%) Azure
5 9 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (23.08%) Firebase
5 9 (23.08%) GitHub
5 9 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (23.08%) Stripe
5 9 (23.08%) TestFlight
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.13%) dbt
6 2 (5.13%) GCP
6 2 (5.13%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) PaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) HTTP
1 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.13%) MariaDB
4 2 (5.13%) MySQL
4 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Redis
4 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.56%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Crashlytics
1 9 (23.08%) XCTest
2 5 (12.82%) Git
3 3 (7.69%) Storybook
4 2 (5.13%) JUnit
4 2 (5.13%) Maven
4 2 (5.13%) Mockito
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Marketing
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Games
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Mobile Engineer
1 9 (23.08%) Senior
2 8 (20.51%) Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Data Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.13%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Graduate
7 2 (5.13%) Graduate C# Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Graduate Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Graduate Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 2 (5.13%) PHP Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.77%) React
2 9 (23.08%) CSS
2 9 (23.08%) SwiftUI
2 9 (23.08%) UIKit
3 7 (17.95%) AWS CDK
3 7 (17.95%) HTML
3 7 (17.95%) Next.js
4 4 (10.26%) REST
5 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.69%) Django
5 3 (7.69%) HTML5
5 3 (7.69%) RESTful
5 3 (7.69%) Sass
6 2 (5.13%) jQuery
6 2 (5.13%) Laravel
6 2 (5.13%) Node.js
6 2 (5.13%) Spring
6 2 (5.13%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (5.13%) Vue
6 2 (5.13%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 16 (41.03%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (23.08%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.13%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.08%) Apple iOS
2 5 (12.82%) Linux
3 2 (5.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Test Automation
2 18 (46.15%) Agile
3 16 (41.03%) Mentoring
3 16 (41.03%) Re-Platforming
4 15 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 14 (35.90%) Code Quality
6 12 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (30.77%) User Experience
7 11 (28.21%) Analytics
7 11 (28.21%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (25.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (23.08%) Community of Practice
9 9 (23.08%) Cross-Platform Development
9 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (23.08%) iOS Development
9 9 (23.08%) Observability
9 9 (23.08%) Process Improvement
9 9 (23.08%) Product Vision
9 9 (23.08%) Push Notifications
9 9 (23.08%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) TypeScript
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 9 (23.08%) Kotlin
4 9 (23.08%) Swift
5 7 (17.95%) PHP
5 7 (17.95%) Python
6 5 (12.82%) Java
7 2 (5.13%) Bash
7 2 (5.13%) C#
7 2 (5.13%) C++
7 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
1 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Amplitude
2 7 (17.95%) Databricks
3 2 (5.13%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Informatica