Clean Code Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Clean Code
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Clean Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 147 220
Rank change year-on-year +3 +73 -91
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 28 42 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.49% 1.24% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.33% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 25 36 29
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £71,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,078 3,151 5,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.78% 92.98% 82.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,814 1,208 4,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,350 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Clean Code
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in the Thames Valley

Clean Code
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 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
Berkshire +9 15 £72,500 +11.54% 4
Buckinghamshire -14 8 £59,500 -16.20% 5
Oxfordshire -16 5 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Clean Code
South East

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (3.57%) JBoss
1 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) PaaS
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.14%) OLTP
4 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) Yeoman
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) JUnit
3 1 (3.57%) LabVIEW
3 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (17.86%) Digital Health
1 5 (17.86%) Finance
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Aeronautics
4 1 (3.57%) Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Games
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Developer
2 11 (39.29%) Senior
3 10 (35.71%) Senior Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Software Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) .NET Developer
5 5 (17.86%) .NET Software Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Azure Software Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) C# Software Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) iOS Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Senior iOS Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
7 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
8 2 (7.14%) Backend Developer
8 2 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (7.14%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
9 1 (3.57%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) .NET
2 7 (25.00%) React
3 5 (17.86%) SwiftUI
4 4 (14.29%) Node.js
4 4 (14.29%) REST
5 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
5 3 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (10.71%) RESTful
5 3 (10.71%) Spring
5 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
5 3 (10.71%) Web Services
6 2 (7.14%) HTML
6 2 (7.14%) Java EE
6 2 (7.14%) JMS
6 2 (7.14%) JPA
6 2 (7.14%) JSON
6 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.57%) Entity Framework
7 1 (3.57%) Kafka
7 1 (3.57%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.57%) Arduino
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Agile
2 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (28.57%) DevOps
3 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 6 (21.43%) Microservices
5 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (17.86%) iOS Development
6 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.29%) TDD
7 3 (10.71%) AI
7 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.71%) Kanban
7 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
7 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.71%) Scrum
8 2 (7.14%) Code Quality
8 2 (7.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (7.14%) Front End Development
8 2 (7.14%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) C#
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Java
3 5 (17.86%) Swift
4 4 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 4 (14.29%) Python
5 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.57%) C
7 1 (3.57%) C++
7 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 2 (7.14%) Kibana
3 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Salesforce
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
4 2 (7.14%) IBM
5 1 (3.57%) Databricks
5 1 (3.57%) Rollbar