Clean Code Job Trends in the North of England

Clean Code
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Clean Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 169 188
Rank change year-on-year +29 +19 +63
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 125 120 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.17% 1.32% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.46% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 111 99 78
10th Percentile £40,000 - £36,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,875 £60,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,582 8,228 7,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.13% 90.69% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,592 3,663 5,959
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,102
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,650 £82,500
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 North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Clean Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Clean Code job vacancy trend in the North of England

Clean Code
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in the North of England

Clean Code
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West +13 78 £60,000 +66.67% 51
Yorkshire +22 40 £60,000 - 33
North East -6 7 £67,500 +22.73% 12
Clean Code
England

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (2.40%) WordPress
2 2 (1.60%) nginx
3 1 (0.80%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.60%) Sketch
3 1 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.80%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 53 (42.40%) AWS
2 37 (29.60%) Azure
3 32 (25.60%) SaaS
4 20 (16.00%) GCP
5 10 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (7.20%) Amazon ECR
6 9 (7.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (5.60%) Azure AKS
7 7 (5.60%) Serverless
8 6 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.00%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.00%) dbt
9 5 (4.00%) Pulumi
9 5 (4.00%) Sentry
10 4 (3.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (3.20%) Apigee
10 4 (3.20%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.40%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (2.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.60%) AMQP
3 1 (0.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.40%) Data Lake
1 13 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
1 13 (10.40%) MongoDB
1 13 (10.40%) NoSQL
2 12 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.00%) MySQL
3 10 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.60%) Redis
5 5 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.60%) PostHog
8 1 (0.80%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.80%) Big Data
8 1 (0.80%) Impala
8 1 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Git
2 6 (4.80%) Cypress.io
3 4 (3.20%) GitLab
3 4 (3.20%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.20%) Maven
3 4 (3.20%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.80%) Babel
4 1 (0.80%) NUnit
4 1 (0.80%) webpack
General
1 20 (16.00%) Finance
2 16 (12.80%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.60%) Marketing
4 7 (5.60%) Financial Institution
4 7 (5.60%) Retail
5 6 (4.80%) Law
6 4 (3.20%) Games
7 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.40%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.60%) Legal
8 2 (1.60%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (59.20%) Developer
2 42 (33.60%) Senior
3 17 (13.60%) Java Developer
3 17 (13.60%) Software Engineer
4 16 (12.80%) Lead
5 15 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 15 (12.00%) Software Developer
6 13 (10.40%) Python Developer
7 12 (9.60%) .NET Developer
7 12 (9.60%) Data Engineer
8 10 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) Junior
9 9 (7.20%) Junior Developer
9 9 (7.20%) Lead Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Lead Python Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Lead Software Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (28.80%) React
2 31 (24.80%) .NET
3 17 (13.60%) RESTful
4 15 (12.00%) CSS
4 15 (12.00%) Spring Boot
5 14 (11.20%) .NET Core
6 13 (10.40%) HTML
7 12 (9.60%) .NET Framework
7 12 (9.60%) Spring
8 10 (8.00%) AngularJS
9 8 (6.40%) Django
9 8 (6.40%) Flask
10 7 (5.60%) Hibernate
10 7 (5.60%) Jest
10 7 (5.60%) Micronaut
10 7 (5.60%) Next.js
10 7 (5.60%) Node.js
11 6 (4.80%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (4.00%) Akka
12 5 (4.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.20%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.20%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.80%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.20%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.40%) IoT
6 3 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.60%) Animation
7 2 (1.60%) NHS
8 1 (0.80%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.80%) Cybercrime
8 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.80%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.80%) Robotics
8 1 (0.80%) Social Media
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.00%) Linux
1 5 (4.00%) Unix
2 4 (3.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.80%) Android
3 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (44.80%) Agile
1 56 (44.80%) CI/CD
2 46 (36.80%) DevOps
3 41 (32.80%) Mentoring
4 40 (32.00%) Microservices
5 36 (28.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (28.00%) Software Engineering
7 32 (25.60%) Containerisation
8 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (16.00%) Front End Development
9 20 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (14.40%) SDLC
11 17 (13.60%) Roadmaps
11 17 (13.60%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (12.80%) Coaching
13 15 (12.00%) Product Roadmap
13 15 (12.00%) User Experience
14 14 (11.20%) Data Modelling
14 14 (11.20%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.80%) SQL
2 30 (24.00%) TypeScript
3 28 (22.40%) C#
4 23 (18.40%) Java
5 22 (17.60%) Python
6 19 (15.20%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.60%) PHP
7 7 (5.60%) Ruby
8 6 (4.80%) Go
9 4 (3.20%) Bash
9 4 (3.20%) Groovy
10 3 (2.40%) Elixir
10 3 (2.40%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 8 (6.40%) SC Cleared
1 8 (6.40%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.80%) Degree
3 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 5 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 36 (28.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (17.60%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.40%) Terraform
3 4 (3.20%) HP Fortify
4 3 (2.40%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (2.40%) cPanel
4 3 (2.40%) Grafana
4 3 (2.40%) Plesk
5 1 (0.80%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (10.40%) Databricks
2 6 (4.80%) Google
3 1 (0.80%) Adobe
3 1 (0.80%) Cloudera
3 1 (0.80%) Cognos
3 1 (0.80%) HubSpot
3 1 (0.80%) Informatica
3 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow