Clean Code Job Trends in South Wales

Clean Code
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Clean Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 54 59
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 4 13 12
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.51% 2.07% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 2.48% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 11
10th Percentile £56,519 - £47,500
25th Percentile £64,422 £41,594 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -18.18% -35.29%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - - £78,750
Wales median annual salary £73,801 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +64.00% -18.18% -6.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 587 525 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 75.06% 83.47% 90.38%
Number of salaries quoted 407 267 426
10th Percentile £25,032 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £39,460
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,825 £79,600 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in South Wales

Clean Code
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in South Wales over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in South Wales

Clean Code
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cardiff +9 4 £73,801 +64.00% 14
Clean Code
Wales

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) dbt
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Sentry
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Laravel
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
1 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google