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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 190 200
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 +84
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 25 43 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.28% 0.73% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.79% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 16 17 78
10th Percentile £34,375 £39,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £79,092 £62,500 £69,350
90th Percentile £95,625 £77,487 £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +21.74% -6.12% -12.50%

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 7,073 5,426 7,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 78.57% 92.17% 85.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,001 2,466 5,853
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,754 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.53% -5.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,354 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -9 16 £65,000 +13.04% 17
West Midlands -9 11 £65,000 +8.33% 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 2 (8.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) SaaS
3 8 (32.00%) Azure
4 6 (24.00%) Serverless
5 5 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (12.00%) GCP
6 3 (12.00%) GitHub
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (8.00%) dbt
7 2 (8.00%) Firebase
7 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.00%) Pulumi
7 2 (8.00%) Stripe
7 2 (8.00%) TestFlight
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) HTTP
1 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Data Lake
1 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.00%) Redis
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Crashlytics
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) JUnit
1 2 (8.00%) Maven
1 2 (8.00%) Mockito
1 2 (8.00%) Storybook
1 2 (8.00%) XCTest
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Games
3 2 (8.00%) Marketing
3 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Senior
2 7 (28.00%) Data Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Python Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Development Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Mobile Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) PHP Software Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Software Development Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Python Data Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) React
2 4 (16.00%) CSS
2 4 (16.00%) Django
2 4 (16.00%) HTML
2 4 (16.00%) REST
3 3 (12.00%) AWS CDK
3 3 (12.00%) Next.js
4 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.00%) Deno
4 2 (8.00%) HTML5
4 2 (8.00%) Laravel
4 2 (8.00%) Node.js
4 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) Sass
4 2 (8.00%) Spring
4 2 (8.00%) SwiftUI
4 2 (8.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (8.00%) UIKit
4 2 (8.00%) Vue
4 2 (8.00%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (36.00%) Mentoring
4 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (28.00%) Data Engineering
5 7 (28.00%) Data Modelling
5 7 (28.00%) ETL
6 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (24.00%) Coaching
6 6 (24.00%) Data Integration
6 6 (24.00%) Data Science
6 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (24.00%) Logical Data Model
6 6 (24.00%) Physical Data Model
6 6 (24.00%) SDLC
7 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (20.00%) Observability
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) PHP
5 2 (8.00%) Bash
5 2 (8.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.00%) Swift
5 2 (8.00%) VBA
6 1 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Amplitude
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle