Clean Code
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Clean Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Clean Code over the 6 months to 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 244 259 214
Rank change year-on-year +15 -45 +41
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 745 1,786 2,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.44% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.50% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 456 858 1,024
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,117 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £66,786 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +6.86% +8.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Clean Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,261 118,879 121,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.08% 95.74% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36,398 72,456 81,203
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Clean Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the UK

Clean Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Clean Code.

Salary trend for Clean Code in the UK

Clean Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in the UK

Clean Code
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 December 2023. 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
England +15 601 £67,500 - 352
Work from Home +79 512 £70,000 +12.00% 210
UK excluding London +44 421 £55,000 -4.35% 222
London +13 284 £87,500 +9.38% 170
North of England +72 143 £60,000 +9.09% 65
North West +97 76 £55,000 -8.33% 38
South East -9 68 £52,500 -8.70% 77
Yorkshire +46 60 £60,000 +14.29% 19
South West +98 52 £55,000 -15.38% 21
Midlands +102 50 £55,000 +4.76% 28
Scotland +50 50 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Wales +23 31 £55,000 +4.76% 8
East Midlands +37 30 £55,000 +4.76% 8
Northern Ireland +46 25 £65,000 +44.44% 3
West Midlands +103 20 £53,750 -2.27% 20
North East +42 7 £62,500 -4.51% 10
East of England +45 5 £100,000 +73.91% 18

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (2.55%) Confluence
2 13 (1.74%) WordPress
3 10 (1.34%) CMS
4 7 (0.94%) NServiceBus
5 5 (0.67%) Drupal
6 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.27%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Trello
2 3 (0.40%) 3ds Max
2 3 (0.40%) Blender
2 3 (0.40%) Maya
3 2 (0.27%) InDesign
3 2 (0.27%) Sketch
3 2 (0.27%) UXPin
3 2 (0.27%) Zeplin
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (0.13%) Magento
1 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 276 (37.05%) Serverless
2 133 (17.85%) AWS
3 116 (15.57%) Azure
4 79 (10.60%) SaaS
5 38 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (4.70%) GCP
7 29 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (3.76%) GitHub
9 25 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
10 24 (3.22%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (3.22%) dbt
11 16 (2.15%) Pulumi
12 14 (1.88%) Amazon Cognito
13 12 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (1.61%) CloudFront
14 10 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (1.21%) PaaS
16 7 (0.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.62%) TCP/IP
2 7 (0.94%) PPP
3 5 (0.67%) Internet
4 2 (0.27%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) DNS
5 1 (0.13%) IPFS
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (14.63%) Relational Database
2 93 (12.48%) RDBMS
3 87 (11.68%) Oracle Database
4 54 (7.25%) SQL Server
5 42 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (4.30%) MongoDB
7 30 (4.03%) Redis
8 27 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (2.95%) MySQL
9 22 (2.95%) NoSQL
10 15 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (1.61%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.48%) Big Data
13 9 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.21%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.67%) Power BI
16 3 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
16 3 (0.40%) GIS
Development Applications
1 316 (42.42%) Git
2 125 (16.78%) Jenkins
3 94 (12.62%) Cucumber
4 81 (10.87%) Postman
5 69 (9.26%) Selenium
6 42 (5.64%) JIRA
7 39 (5.23%) Cypress.io
8 36 (4.83%) JDeveloper
9 14 (1.88%) SoapUI
10 13 (1.74%) Android Studio
10 13 (1.74%) Xcode
11 10 (1.34%) Gradle
12 9 (1.21%) JMeter
13 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (1.07%) Serenity BDD
14 7 (0.94%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.94%) PHPUnit
14 7 (0.94%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.94%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 159 (21.34%) Police
2 113 (15.17%) Social Skills
3 67 (8.99%) Finance
4 43 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (2.95%) Retail
7 15 (2.01%) Public Sector
8 14 (1.88%) Automotive
9 11 (1.48%) Banking
9 11 (1.48%) Tech for Good
10 10 (1.34%) Games
11 8 (1.07%) Legal
12 7 (0.94%) Marketing
13 6 (0.81%) Advertising
14 5 (0.67%) Law
14 5 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.67%) Military
15 4 (0.54%) Music Industry
16 3 (0.40%) Back Office
16 3 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 309 (41.48%) Developer
2 265 (35.57%) Software Engineer
3 163 (21.88%) Senior
4 155 (20.81%) Java Engineer
5 149 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 87 (11.68%) Ruby Engineer
7 79 (10.60%) Senior Developer
8 56 (7.52%) C# Developer
9 53 (7.11%) Software Developer
10 52 (6.98%) Lead
11 51 (6.85%) .NET Developer
12 44 (5.91%) Full Stack Developer
13 28 (3.76%) Python Developer
14 26 (3.49%) Java Developer
15 25 (3.36%) C# Software Developer
16 19 (2.55%) C# .NET Developer
16 19 (2.55%) Senior C# Developer
17 18 (2.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 17 (2.28%) .NET Software Developer
18 17 (2.28%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (43.89%) React
2 164 (22.01%) Spring
3 156 (20.94%) Ruby on Rails
4 146 (19.60%) J2EE
5 130 (17.45%) REST
6 122 (16.38%) .NET
7 121 (16.24%) Node.js
8 101 (13.56%) CSS
9 100 (13.42%) HTML
10 67 (8.99%) RESTful
11 59 (7.92%) AngularJS
12 39 (5.23%) .NET Core
12 39 (5.23%) Vue
13 37 (4.97%) ASP.NET
14 35 (4.70%) Web Services
15 34 (4.56%) .NET Framework
16 33 (4.43%) Kafka
17 32 (4.30%) JSON
18 28 (3.76%) Laravel
19 27 (3.62%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.43%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (2.82%) Mobile App
4 20 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.34%) Algorithms
6 10 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (0.81%) Data Structures
7 6 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
8 5 (0.67%) Online Banking
8 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.54%) Client/Server
9 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.54%) Legacy Code
9 4 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.40%) 3D Graphics
10 3 (0.40%) Animation
10 3 (0.40%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.17%) Linux
2 26 (3.49%) Unix
2 26 (3.49%) Windows
3 24 (3.22%) Apple iOS
4 18 (2.42%) Android
5 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (45.37%) Problem-Solving
1 338 (45.37%) Software Engineering
2 314 (42.15%) Design Patterns
3 309 (41.48%) Microservices
4 288 (38.66%) Code Quality
5 282 (37.85%) Continuous Integration
6 272 (36.51%) Unit Testing
7 247 (33.15%) Containerisation
8 246 (33.02%) Actionable Insight
9 192 (25.77%) Mentoring
10 187 (25.10%) DevOps
11 180 (24.16%) CI/CD
12 152 (20.40%) Coaching
13 150 (20.13%) Agile
14 113 (15.17%) Open Source
15 95 (12.75%) SDET
16 88 (11.81%) BDD
17 87 (11.68%) API Testing
18 82 (11.01%) Full Stack Development
19 66 (8.86%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 373 (50.07%) Java
2 321 (43.09%) Python
3 281 (37.72%) JavaScript
4 279 (37.45%) C#
5 243 (32.62%) Ruby
6 113 (15.17%) SQL
7 93 (12.48%) Bash
8 91 (12.21%) Go
9 87 (11.68%) Perl
10 62 (8.32%) PHP
11 47 (6.31%) TypeScript
12 34 (4.56%) C++
13 24 (3.22%) Kotlin
14 23 (3.09%) T-SQL
15 22 (2.95%) Swift
16 10 (1.34%) Objective-C
17 5 (0.67%) C
18 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.54%) Scala
18 4 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 196 (26.31%) SC Cleared
1 196 (26.31%) Security Cleared
2 72 (9.66%) Degree
3 48 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.34%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.27%) OCP
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.13%) MCP
8 1 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (27.11%) QA
2 10 (1.34%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.40%) WCAG
4 2 (0.27%) WAI
5 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (7.11%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (8.19%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.97%) Terraform
3 5 (0.67%) Argo
3 5 (0.67%) SELinux
4 4 (0.54%) Ansible
5 3 (0.40%) Istio
5 3 (0.40%) MIIS
6 2 (0.27%) Consul
7 1 (0.13%) Grafana
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 95 (12.75%) Oracle
2 30 (4.03%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.49%) Google
4 9 (1.21%) Confluent
5 5 (0.67%) Apple
5 5 (0.67%) IBM
6 4 (0.54%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.40%) Adobe
7 3 (0.40%) ESRI
7 3 (0.40%) Mapinfo
8 2 (0.27%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.27%) SAP
8 2 (0.27%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.27%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.27%) Zend
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.13%) Cadence
9 1 (0.13%) Cognos
9 1 (0.13%) New Relic
9 1 (0.13%) OutSystems