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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 131 222
Rank change year-on-year -62 +91 +45
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 64 94 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.50% 1.80% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 2.06% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 32 30 92
10th Percentile £24,000 £39,700 £34,000
25th Percentile £24,750 £51,938 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +15.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £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 8,932 4,563 10,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.65% 87.48% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,300 2,665 7,446
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,250 £63,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 30 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 30 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 -32 44 £65,000 +18.18% 9
West Midlands -48 20 £33,750 -43.75% 8
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 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 38 (59.38%) AWS
2 29 (45.31%) Serverless
3 15 (23.44%) GitHub
4 14 (21.88%) Firebase
4 14 (21.88%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (21.88%) Stripe
4 14 (21.88%) TestFlight
5 13 (20.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (20.31%) Azure
6 7 (10.94%) SaaS
7 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.13%) Dagster
9 2 (3.13%) dbt
9 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.13%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) MySQL
1 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.13%) Data Vault
3 2 (3.13%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Power BI
4 1 (1.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (21.88%) Crashlytics
1 14 (21.88%) XCTest
2 7 (10.94%) Git
3 3 (4.69%) Storybook
General
1 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Marketing
3 5 (7.81%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.25%) Retail
5 3 (4.69%) Finance
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Developer
2 14 (21.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 14 (21.88%) Mobile Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Digital Executive
3 8 (12.50%) Digital Marketing Executive
3 8 (12.50%) Marketing Executive
3 8 (12.50%) Senior
3 8 (12.50%) Trainee
4 5 (7.81%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Software Developer
5 4 (6.25%) RPG Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) .NET Developer
6 3 (4.69%) C# Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Graduate
6 3 (4.69%) Graduate Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Graduate Software Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.13%) React
2 14 (21.88%) Next.js
2 14 (21.88%) SwiftUI
2 14 (21.88%) UIKit
3 13 (20.31%) AWS CDK
4 12 (18.75%) CSS
5 10 (15.63%) .NET
6 9 (14.06%) HTML
7 7 (10.94%) REST
7 7 (10.94%) RESTful
8 6 (9.38%) Blazor
9 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET
9 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (6.25%) EDI
11 3 (4.69%) .NET Framework
11 3 (4.69%) Entity Framework
11 3 (4.69%) HTML5
11 3 (4.69%) jQuery
11 3 (4.69%) Razor View Engine
11 3 (4.69%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 30 (46.88%) Greenfield Project
2 20 (31.25%) Mobile App
3 6 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.25%) AS400
4 4 (6.25%) iSeries
5 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.13%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.56%) IoT
7 1 (1.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 29 (45.31%) CI/CD
3 28 (43.75%) Agile
4 27 (42.19%) Re-Platforming
5 24 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 20 (31.25%) Code Quality
7 19 (29.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (29.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (26.56%) Decision-Making
8 17 (26.56%) User Experience
9 16 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (23.44%) Analytics
11 14 (21.88%) Community of Practice
11 14 (21.88%) Cross-Platform Development
11 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (21.88%) iOS Development
11 14 (21.88%) Observability
11 14 (21.88%) Process Improvement
11 14 (21.88%) Product Vision
11 14 (21.88%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.81%) TypeScript
2 15 (23.44%) SQL
3 14 (21.88%) Kotlin
3 14 (21.88%) Swift
4 13 (20.31%) C#
5 12 (18.75%) JavaScript
6 9 (14.06%) Python
7 5 (7.81%) PHP
8 4 (6.25%) Java
8 4 (6.25%) RPG
8 4 (6.25%) RPG IV
8 4 (6.25%) RPG/400
9 3 (4.69%) C++
10 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) Degree
2 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Amplitude
1 14 (21.88%) Braze
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.25%) IBM
4 3 (4.69%) Databricks
5 2 (3.13%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.56%) Informatica