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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 353 251
Rank change year-on-year +118 -102 +23
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 502 520 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.27% 0.68% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.83% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 208 432 301
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,625 £72,500 £86,250
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 36,651 62,324 53,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.49% 81.78% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 17,533 42,680 28,677
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.69% +1.50%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +11 132 £55,000 +10.00% 118
North West -7 101 £50,000 - 77
South East +116 98 £57,500 - 102
Midlands +43 93 £55,000 +10.00% 87
Scotland +158 73 £55,000 -8.33% 32
East of England +79 67 £51,250 +13.89% 46
East Midlands +47 47 £55,000 +10.00% 27
West Midlands +34 46 £60,000 +20.00% 57
South West +84 36 £55,000 -4.35% 45
Yorkshire +52 19 £82,500 +83.33% 28
North East +55 12 £55,000 - 14
Wales +12 3 £67,626 +50.28% 17
Northern Ireland +40 1 £45,000 -18.18% 23
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
1 157 (31.27%) Confluence
2 21 (4.18%) CMS
3 19 (3.78%) Umbraco
4 5 (1.00%) IIS
5 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.20%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.20%) Strapi
7 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.39%) Revit
2 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.60%) SAP Business One
2 3 (0.60%) Shopify
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 327 (65.14%) AWS
2 279 (55.58%) Azure
3 247 (49.20%) GCP
4 114 (22.71%) Serverless
5 111 (22.11%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (4.38%) GitHub
7 18 (3.59%) Amazon S3
7 18 (3.59%) AWS Step Functions
8 15 (2.99%) SaaS
9 9 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (1.59%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (1.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 8 (1.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (1.59%) AWS CodeBuild
10 8 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.59%) dbt
10 8 (1.59%) Pulumi
11 6 (1.20%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 84 (16.73%) Broadband
2 17 (3.39%) Intranet
3 8 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.39%) HTTP
5 5 (1.00%) Wireless
5 5 (1.00%) ZigBee
6 4 (0.80%) 3GPP
6 4 (0.80%) 5G
6 4 (0.80%) Internet
7 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.20%) MQTT
7 1 (0.20%) Multicast
7 1 (0.20%) RTP
7 1 (0.20%) RTSP
7 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (44.02%) SQL Server
2 45 (8.96%) DynamoDB
3 30 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (4.98%) MySQL
6 22 (4.38%) MongoDB
7 18 (3.59%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.39%) Redis
9 9 (1.79%) OLTP
10 8 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.80%) Biml
12 4 (0.80%) Data Hub
12 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.80%) Power BI
12 4 (0.80%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.80%) SQL CLR
12 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.40%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 166 (33.07%) JIRA
2 162 (32.27%) GitLab
3 158 (31.47%) Maven
3 158 (31.47%) Selenium
4 156 (31.08%) Bitbucket
4 156 (31.08%) Cucumber
4 156 (31.08%) SonarQube
4 156 (31.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 57 (11.35%) Git
6 12 (2.39%) webpack
7 7 (1.39%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.39%) Vite
8 6 (1.20%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.00%) Babel
9 5 (1.00%) JUnit
9 5 (1.00%) NUnit
9 5 (1.00%) Subversion
10 3 (0.60%) Gradle
10 3 (0.60%) Moq
10 3 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 203 (40.44%) Finance
2 176 (35.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 169 (33.67%) Banking
4 95 (18.92%) Social Skills
5 79 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.39%) Games
7 13 (2.59%) Law
7 13 (2.59%) Marketing
7 13 (2.59%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.39%) Retail
9 7 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.00%) Wearables
11 4 (0.80%) Back Office
11 4 (0.80%) Electronics
11 4 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Automotive
12 3 (0.60%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 198 (39.44%) Developer
2 196 (39.04%) Software Engineer
3 176 (35.06%) Senior
4 83 (16.53%) Senior Developer
5 65 (12.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 36 (7.17%) Software Developer
7 30 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (4.38%) C# Developer
9 21 (4.18%) .NET Developer
10 19 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (3.59%) AWS Developer
12 17 (3.39%) Umbraco Developer
13 15 (2.99%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (2.59%) Junior
15 12 (2.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 12 (2.39%) Java Developer
16 11 (2.19%) PHP Developer
17 10 (1.99%) Lead
17 10 (1.99%) Oracle Developer
17 10 (1.99%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (50.40%) React
2 224 (44.62%) HTML
3 217 (43.23%) CSS
4 175 (34.86%) Spring
5 169 (33.67%) Spring Boot
6 166 (33.07%) Kafka
7 164 (32.67%) Redux
8 160 (31.87%) Hibernate
9 157 (31.27%) JPA
10 73 (14.54%) .NET
11 48 (9.56%) GraphQL
12 46 (9.16%) Node.js
13 41 (8.17%) RESTful
14 37 (7.37%) .NET Core
15 32 (6.37%) HTML5
16 29 (5.78%) .NET Framework
17 22 (4.38%) jQuery
17 22 (4.38%) Vue
18 20 (3.98%) AngularJS
19 18 (3.59%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 164 (32.67%) Enterprise Software
2 160 (31.87%) Product Ownership
3 84 (16.73%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.59%) NHS
5 17 (3.39%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.59%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.39%) Smartphone
10 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.00%) Hackathon
10 5 (1.00%) IoT
10 5 (1.00%) Smart Energy
11 4 (0.80%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.40%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.40%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.59%) Linux
2 14 (2.79%) Android
2 14 (2.79%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.79%) Unix
4 6 (1.20%) Windows
5 4 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (67.53%) Agile
2 326 (64.94%) CI/CD
3 222 (44.22%) Software Engineering
4 214 (42.63%) Microservices
5 206 (41.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 205 (40.84%) DevOps
7 202 (40.24%) Test Automation
8 200 (39.84%) TDD
9 183 (36.45%) Front End Development
10 181 (36.06%) SDLC
11 178 (35.46%) Containerisation
11 178 (35.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 163 (32.47%) Performance Optimisation
13 151 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
14 114 (22.71%) Mentoring
15 71 (14.14%) Machine Learning
16 66 (13.15%) Creative Thinking
16 66 (13.15%) Data Science
17 65 (12.95%) Performance Metrics
17 65 (12.95%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 268 (53.39%) JavaScript
2 236 (47.01%) SQL
3 202 (40.24%) Java
4 155 (30.88%) TypeScript
5 111 (22.11%) Python
6 99 (19.72%) C#
7 28 (5.58%) PHP
8 12 (2.39%) C
9 11 (2.19%) VB.NET
10 10 (1.99%) Go
10 10 (1.99%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.79%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.59%) C++
13 6 (1.20%) Dart
14 5 (1.00%) Assembly Language
14 5 (1.00%) Rust
15 2 (0.40%) Swift
16 1 (0.20%) Bash
16 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 115 (22.91%) Degree
2 65 (12.95%) PhD
3 20 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (3.59%) AWS Certification
5 15 (2.99%) Security Cleared
6 14 (2.79%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.20%) OCP
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (34.06%) QA
2 27 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.39%) GDPR
3 17 (3.39%) WCAG
4 4 (0.80%) NCSC
5 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 204 (40.64%) Docker
2 6 (1.20%) Firmware
3 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.60%) LXC
5 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 187 (37.25%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.58%) Terraform
3 8 (1.59%) AWS Copilot
3 8 (1.59%) Grafana
4 5 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.60%) Kibana
6 1 (0.20%) Ansible
Vendors
1 156 (31.08%) Solace
2 18 (3.59%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.39%) HP
3 17 (3.39%) Oracle
4 16 (3.19%) Google
5 9 (1.79%) SAP
6 5 (1.00%) DevExpress
7 4 (0.80%) Okta
7 4 (0.80%) VMware
8 3 (0.60%) Sage
9 2 (0.40%) IBM
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe
10 1 (0.20%) ATG
10 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.20%) Databricks
10 1 (0.20%) EMC
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.20%) Sybase
10 1 (0.20%) Telerik
10 1 (0.20%) WooCommerce