Clean Code
UK

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 221 355
Rank change year-on-year -49 +134 -69
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 820 697 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.41% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.58% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 553 381 312
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,500 £88,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,526 44,119 60,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.04% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 59,327 24,381 32,429
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in the UK

Clean Code
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in the UK

Clean Code
Top 18 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 6 October 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
England -51 691 £65,000 - 772
UK excluding London -107 451 £60,000 - 393
Work from Home -43 398 £65,000 +8.33% 391
London +2 278 £75,000 - 448
North of England -68 133 £57,500 -4.17% 145
South East -2 117 £62,500 -7.41% 76
North West -58 66 £62,500 +4.17% 95
South West -42 58 £60,000 +4.35% 35
Midlands -99 49 £55,000 -6.78% 44
East of England -27 43 £65,000 +62.50% 23
North East -36 38 £57,500 +27.78% 18
Wales -39 30 £55,000 +34.97% 11
Yorkshire -44 29 £45,000 -33.33% 36
East Midlands -61 28 £59,500 +5.78% 19
West Midlands -53 21 £55,000 -12.00% 25
Scotland -62 16 £71,991 +15.19% 32
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -
Northern Ireland -88 2 £71,991 +69.39% 27

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 8 (0.98%) Apache
3 7 (0.85%) Confluence
3 7 (0.85%) WordPress
4 6 (0.73%) SAS
5 5 (0.61%) CMS
5 5 (0.61%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.49%) IIS
7 3 (0.37%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.37%) Camunda
7 3 (0.37%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) ColdFusion
8 2 (0.24%) Drupal
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.37%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 426 (51.95%) AWS
2 237 (28.90%) Azure
3 155 (18.90%) GCP
4 134 (16.34%) SaaS
5 131 (15.98%) GitHub
6 95 (11.59%) Serverless
7 80 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
8 73 (8.90%) GitHub Actions
9 63 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (6.22%) Amazon S3
12 32 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (3.29%) Azure Service Bus
15 23 (2.80%) dbt
16 20 (2.44%) Power Platform
16 20 (2.44%) Snowflake
17 19 (2.32%) Firebase
17 19 (2.32%) GitHub Copilot
18 16 (1.95%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.93%) TCP/IP
2 21 (2.56%) MQTT
3 13 (1.59%) SMS
4 12 (1.46%) AMQP
5 8 (0.98%) Network Security
6 7 (0.85%) 5G
6 7 (0.85%) Broadband
7 4 (0.49%) BGP
7 4 (0.49%) Firewall
7 4 (0.49%) HTTP
7 4 (0.49%) VLAN
7 4 (0.49%) VPN
8 3 (0.37%) LTE
9 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.12%) DMARC
9 1 (0.12%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (14.27%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (11.22%) SQL Server
3 74 (9.02%) MySQL
4 69 (8.41%) Redis
5 64 (7.80%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.88%) NoSQL
7 35 (4.27%) MongoDB
8 30 (3.66%) DynamoDB
9 18 (2.20%) Power BI
10 16 (1.95%) MariaDB
11 13 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
13 10 (1.22%) Metadata
14 9 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (1.10%) Star Schema
15 7 (0.85%) Big Data
16 6 (0.73%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 180 (21.95%) Git
2 81 (9.88%) TeamCity
3 63 (7.68%) Jenkins
4 34 (4.15%) GitLab
5 25 (3.05%) Claude Code
6 18 (2.20%) JUnit
7 17 (2.07%) Cypress.io
8 16 (1.95%) Maven
9 14 (1.71%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.71%) JIRA
10 11 (1.34%) fastlane
10 11 (1.34%) Gradle
11 10 (1.22%) Crashlytics
12 8 (0.98%) Selenium
12 8 (0.98%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.98%) Xcode
13 7 (0.85%) Mockito
14 6 (0.73%) Appium
15 5 (0.61%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.61%) XCTest
General
1 204 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 194 (23.66%) Finance
3 157 (19.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 128 (15.61%) Law
5 121 (14.76%) Banking
6 115 (14.02%) Retail
7 76 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
8 72 (8.78%) Back Office
9 64 (7.80%) Financial Institution
10 60 (7.32%) Public Sector
11 51 (6.22%) Marketing
12 15 (1.83%) Games
12 15 (1.83%) Health Technology
12 15 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (1.46%) Tech for Good
14 11 (1.34%) Publishing
15 10 (1.22%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.85%) Automotive
17 5 (0.61%) Digital Health
17 5 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 377 (45.98%) Developer
2 241 (29.39%) Senior
3 201 (24.51%) Software Engineer
4 133 (16.22%) Senior Developer
5 112 (13.66%) Lead
6 107 (13.05%) Software Developer
7 73 (8.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 59 (7.20%) Python Engineer
9 50 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
10 47 (5.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 41 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
12 40 (4.88%) .NET Developer
12 40 (4.88%) Java Developer
13 34 (4.15%) Java Engineer
14 31 (3.78%) C# Developer
15 29 (3.54%) React Developer
16 28 (3.41%) Lead Developer
16 28 (3.41%) Senior Software Developer
17 25 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (3.05%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (21.83%) React
2 176 (21.46%) Terraform
3 146 (17.80%) .NET
4 121 (14.76%) REST
5 115 (14.02%) RESTful
6 103 (12.56%) Node.js
7 89 (10.85%) CSS
8 84 (10.24%) HTML
9 76 (9.27%) AngularJS
10 71 (8.66%) Spring
11 65 (7.93%) Spring Boot
12 63 (7.68%) Kafka
13 60 (7.32%) Vue
14 48 (5.85%) .NET Core
15 39 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
16 38 (4.63%) Next.js
17 36 (4.39%) FastAPI
18 35 (4.27%) ASP.NET
18 35 (4.27%) JSON
19 31 (3.78%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 195 (23.78%) Cloud Native
2 133 (16.22%) Product Ownership
3 94 (11.46%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (5.49%) Mobile App
5 37 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (4.27%) Blog
7 30 (3.66%) AI Agents
8 28 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (2.68%) Algorithms
10 22 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (2.07%) Mobile Banking
12 13 (1.59%) PKI
13 11 (1.34%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.34%) IoT
13 11 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (0.85%) Onboarding
17 6 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.59%) Linux
2 37 (4.51%) Apple iOS
3 36 (4.39%) Android
4 17 (2.07%) Unix
5 14 (1.71%) Windows
6 3 (0.37%) AIX
6 3 (0.37%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (53.05%) CI/CD
2 360 (43.90%) Software Engineering
3 328 (40.00%) Agile
4 245 (29.88%) DevOps
5 235 (28.66%) Test Automation
6 229 (27.93%) Microservices
7 222 (27.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 221 (26.95%) Mentoring
9 200 (24.39%) AI
10 198 (24.15%) Full-Stack Development
11 175 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
12 123 (15.00%) Containerisation
13 107 (13.05%) Deployment Automation
14 105 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 100 (12.20%) Scrum
16 98 (11.95%) Code Quality
17 97 (11.83%) Continuous Deployment
18 94 (11.46%) SDLC
19 91 (11.10%) Fintech
20 89 (10.85%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 250 (30.49%) Python
2 223 (27.20%) Java
3 198 (24.15%) JavaScript
4 191 (23.29%) TypeScript
5 177 (21.59%) C#
6 170 (20.73%) SQL
7 43 (5.24%) Kotlin
7 43 (5.24%) PHP
8 36 (4.39%) Go
9 32 (3.90%) Ruby
10 26 (3.17%) Swift
11 24 (2.93%) C++
12 21 (2.56%) Apex Code
13 17 (2.07%) Bash
14 16 (1.95%) T-SQL
15 13 (1.59%) SOQL
16 11 (1.34%) Groovy
17 10 (1.22%) Scala
18 5 (0.61%) C
18 5 (0.61%) RPG
Qualifications
1 119 (14.51%) Degree
2 109 (13.29%) Security Cleared
3 83 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 59 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.37%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (12.20%) QA
2 69 (8.41%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.80%) WCAG
4 20 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 18 (2.20%) GDPR
6 16 (1.95%) SOC 2
7 13 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.98%) GRC
10 7 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.24%) MISRA
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) WAI
12 1 (0.12%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 187 (22.80%) Docker
2 2 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 191 (23.29%) Kubernetes
2 78 (9.51%) Grafana
3 16 (1.95%) Ansible
4 11 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.98%) Cilium
5 8 (0.98%) Puppet
6 6 (0.73%) HP Fortify
7 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.37%) Argo
8 3 (0.37%) Istio
8 3 (0.37%) linkerd
8 3 (0.37%) logstash
8 3 (0.37%) Packer
8 3 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 58 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.73%) Google
3 31 (3.78%) Salesforce
4 19 (2.32%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.07%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.71%) Oracle
7 13 (1.59%) Informatica
8 10 (1.22%) Splunk
9 9 (1.10%) Talend
10 8 (0.98%) Apple
11 7 (0.85%) Databricks
12 6 (0.73%) Adobe
12 6 (0.73%) Confluent
12 6 (0.73%) New Relic
12 6 (0.73%) OneLogin
13 5 (0.61%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.61%) Braze
13 5 (0.61%) IBM
14 4 (0.49%) Atlassian
15 3 (0.37%) Meraki