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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 219 191
Rank change year-on-year +37 -28 +96
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 46 42 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.68% 0.52% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.61% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 37 17 32
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,750 £41,112
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £69,550
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £71,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -

All Process and 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 5,552 6,904 4,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.89% 86.13% 92.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,383 3,083 3,503
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,656 £38,750 £36,334
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 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
West Midlands +31 28 £65,000 +8.33% 25
East Midlands +28 21 £57,500 +4.55% 14
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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.35%) JBoss
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (4.35%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.17%) IIS
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.17%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (47.83%) SaaS
2 18 (39.13%) Azure
3 17 (36.96%) AWS
4 8 (17.39%) GitHub
5 6 (13.04%) GCP
6 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
8 3 (6.52%) Serverless
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.35%) dbt
9 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.35%) Pulumi
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (2.17%) Sentry
10 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) HTTP
1 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 8 (17.39%) Data Lake
2 8 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.52%) MySQL
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (4.35%) Big Data
6 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (4.35%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.35%) Redis
7 1 (2.17%) Data Hub
7 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.17%) Power BI
7 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.17%) SQL CLR
7 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Git
2 4 (8.70%) JIRA
2 4 (8.70%) JUnit
2 4 (8.70%) Maven
3 2 (4.35%) Babel
3 2 (4.35%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Gradle
3 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.35%) Mockito
3 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.35%) webpack
4 1 (2.17%) NUnit
General
1 11 (23.91%) Finance
2 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Law
3 4 (8.70%) Marketing
4 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Back Office
5 2 (4.35%) Games
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (54.35%) Developer
2 12 (26.09%) Senior
3 10 (21.74%) Java Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Data Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Software Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Python Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Blazor Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Development Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Lead Developer
7 3 (6.52%) PHP Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) SaaS Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) REST
2 10 (21.74%) Spring
3 9 (19.57%) .NET
4 8 (17.39%) React
5 7 (15.22%) CSS
5 7 (15.22%) HTML
5 7 (15.22%) RESTful
5 7 (15.22%) Spring Boot
6 6 (13.04%) .NET Framework
6 6 (13.04%) Entity Framework
7 5 (10.87%) .NET Core
8 4 (8.70%) Blazor
8 4 (8.70%) CSS3
8 4 (8.70%) Django
8 4 (8.70%) HTML5
9 3 (6.52%) Node.js
9 3 (6.52%) Redux
9 3 (6.52%) Spring MVC
10 2 (4.35%) gRPC
10 2 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.35%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.17%) NHS
6 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Android
3 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.17%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) Agile
2 17 (36.96%) CI/CD
3 15 (32.61%) Mentoring
4 14 (30.43%) DevOps
5 12 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (23.91%) Data Science
6 11 (23.91%) Microservices
6 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (21.74%) Data Modelling
7 10 (21.74%) Software Engineering
8 9 (19.57%) Data Engineering
8 9 (19.57%) Data Integration
8 9 (19.57%) ETL
9 8 (17.39%) Coaching
9 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
9 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (17.39%) Logical Data Model
9 8 (17.39%) Physical Data Model
9 8 (17.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) SQL
2 12 (26.09%) Python
3 11 (23.91%) C#
3 11 (23.91%) Java
4 9 (19.57%) JavaScript
5 7 (15.22%) TypeScript
6 5 (10.87%) PHP
7 4 (8.70%) Bicep
7 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 3 (6.52%) VBA
9 2 (4.35%) Bash
9 2 (4.35%) Go
9 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
9 2 (4.35%) R
9 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.35%) VB
10 1 (2.17%) C
10 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Degree
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Terraform
2 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Databricks
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.04%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) VMware