Clean Code Jobs in the UK excluding London

Clean Code
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Clean Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clean Code over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 322 250
Rank change year-on-year -2 -72 +47
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 256 560 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.80% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.94% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 210 440 333
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,625 £72,500 £87,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,997 59,372 58,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.31% 84.44% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,723 41,125 30,120
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Clean Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the UK excluding London

Clean Code
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Clean Code in the UK excluding London

Clean Code
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in the UK excluding London

Clean Code
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 of England 0 86 £50,000 - 141
South East +87 57 £55,000 -4.35% 149
North West -44 57 £35,500 -29.00% 108
Midlands +1 36 £55,000 +10.00% 70
South West +67 32 £55,000 +4.76% 47
West Midlands +5 31 £56,750 +13.50% 40
Scotland +125 24 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Yorkshire +58 19 £78,750 +75.00% 26
East of England +42 18 £60,000 +33.33% 43
North East +51 10 £55,000 -12.00% 7
East Midlands +14 5 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Wales +11 3 £56,313 +25.14% 13
Clean Code
UK

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (9.38%) CMS
2 22 (8.59%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.78%) IIS
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.39%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.73%) Revit
2 1 (0.39%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.39%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.17%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 87 (33.98%) AWS
2 51 (19.92%) Azure
3 39 (15.23%) Serverless
4 36 (14.06%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (8.98%) GCP
5 23 (8.98%) GitHub
6 14 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (3.13%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (3.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 8 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.13%) AWS CodeBuild
8 8 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (3.13%) dbt
8 8 (3.13%) Pulumi
9 7 (2.73%) SaaS
10 6 (2.34%) Sentry
11 5 (1.95%) npm
12 4 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.20%) Intranet
2 8 (3.13%) HTTP
2 8 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.95%) Internet
3 5 (1.95%) Wireless
3 5 (1.95%) ZigBee
4 4 (1.56%) 3GPP
4 4 (1.56%) 5G
5 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.39%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (0.39%) MQTT
5 1 (0.39%) Multicast
5 1 (0.39%) RTP
5 1 (0.39%) RTSP
5 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (24.61%) SQL Server
2 34 (13.28%) DynamoDB
3 28 (10.94%) MySQL
4 24 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (8.98%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.30%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.13%) Redis
8 6 (2.34%) OLTP
9 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.56%) Biml
10 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.56%) Power BI
10 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.17%) Big Data
11 3 (1.17%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.78%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 52 (20.31%) Git
2 11 (4.30%) webpack
3 9 (3.52%) JIRA
4 8 (3.13%) Babel
5 6 (2.34%) GitLab
6 5 (1.95%) JUnit
6 5 (1.95%) NUnit
6 5 (1.95%) Subversion
6 5 (1.95%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.56%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.56%) Moq
8 3 (1.17%) Gradle
8 3 (1.17%) Maven
8 3 (1.17%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.17%) Vite
9 2 (0.78%) Ant
9 2 (0.78%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.78%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.78%) Mocha
9 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 93 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.58%) Finance
3 17 (6.64%) Banking
3 17 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (5.47%) Games
4 14 (5.47%) Telecoms
5 12 (4.69%) Retail
6 9 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.73%) Law
8 5 (1.95%) Automotive
8 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.95%) Wearables
9 4 (1.56%) Electronics
9 4 (1.56%) Marketing
10 3 (1.17%) Back Office
10 3 (1.17%) Front Office
10 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.78%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 167 (65.23%) Developer
2 105 (41.02%) Senior
3 61 (23.83%) Senior Developer
4 47 (18.36%) Software Engineer
5 41 (16.02%) Software Developer
6 30 (11.72%) Senior Software Engineer
7 23 (8.98%) .NET Developer
8 22 (8.59%) C# Developer
8 22 (8.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (8.20%) Senior Software Developer
9 21 (8.20%) Umbraco Developer
10 14 (5.47%) PHP Developer
11 12 (4.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.91%) PHP Software Engineer
13 9 (3.52%) .NET Software Engineer
13 9 (3.52%) Embedded Engineer
14 8 (3.13%) C# .NET Developer
14 8 (3.13%) Junior
15 7 (2.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 7 (2.73%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (28.91%) React
2 68 (26.56%) HTML
3 67 (26.17%) .NET
4 64 (25.00%) CSS
5 52 (20.31%) Node.js
6 40 (15.63%) RESTful
7 39 (15.23%) GraphQL
8 35 (13.67%) HTML5
9 31 (12.11%) .NET Core
10 28 (10.94%) .NET Framework
11 25 (9.77%) jQuery
12 19 (7.42%) ASP.NET
13 18 (7.03%) AngularJS
13 18 (7.03%) Entity Framework
13 18 (7.03%) Spring
14 15 (5.86%) Vue
15 14 (5.47%) Spring Boot
16 13 (5.08%) JWT
16 13 (5.08%) OAuth
17 12 (4.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.59%) NHS
2 18 (7.03%) Mobile App
3 16 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (5.08%) IoT
5 12 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (4.30%) Virtual Team
7 8 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.73%) Smartphone
9 6 (2.34%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.95%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.95%) Smart Energy
11 4 (1.56%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.56%) Hackathon
11 4 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
13 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.42%) Linux
2 15 (5.86%) Android
3 13 (5.08%) Apple iOS
4 9 (3.52%) Unix
5 3 (1.17%) Windows
6 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.77%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (31.64%) Agile
3 73 (28.52%) Microservices
4 71 (27.73%) CI/CD
5 62 (24.22%) Software Engineering
6 60 (23.44%) Unit Testing
7 49 (19.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 49 (19.14%) Test Automation
8 47 (18.36%) DevOps
9 40 (15.63%) TDD
10 36 (14.06%) Kanban
11 35 (13.67%) Event-Driven
12 34 (13.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 34 (13.28%) Functional Programming
12 34 (13.28%) Secure Coding
13 32 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
14 31 (12.11%) Scrum
14 31 (12.11%) User Experience
15 30 (11.72%) Computer Science
16 29 (11.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 95 (37.11%) C#
2 72 (28.13%) JavaScript
3 67 (26.17%) TypeScript
4 62 (24.22%) SQL
5 33 (12.89%) PHP
6 31 (12.11%) Java
7 22 (8.59%) Python
8 14 (5.47%) C
9 10 (3.91%) C++
9 10 (3.91%) VB.NET
10 8 (3.13%) Go
10 8 (3.13%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.73%) Rust
12 6 (2.34%) Dart
12 6 (2.34%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.95%) Assembly Language
14 3 (1.17%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.17%) Ruby
15 2 (0.78%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 60 (23.44%) Degree
2 23 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.08%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.08%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.55%) Accessibility
2 21 (8.20%) GDPR
2 21 (8.20%) WCAG
3 19 (7.42%) QA
4 4 (1.56%) NCSC
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (15.63%) Docker
2 7 (2.73%) Firmware
3 3 (1.17%) LXC
4 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.25%) Terraform
3 8 (3.13%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.95%) Grafana
5 3 (1.17%) Kibana
6 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (8.20%) HP
2 15 (5.86%) Google
3 11 (4.30%) Oracle
4 10 (3.91%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.52%) SAP
6 4 (1.56%) Okta
7 3 (1.17%) Sage
8 2 (0.78%) IBM
8 2 (0.78%) VMware
9 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.39%) EMC
9 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.39%) Sybase
9 1 (0.39%) Telerik