Clean Code Jobs

Clean Code
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 335 228
Rank change year-on-year +116 -107 -59
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 823 855 1,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 0.84% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 0.99% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 284 681 818
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £46,100
25th Percentile £49,938 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £72,813 £73,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +15.00%

All Process and 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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
England +101 737 £60,000 - 724
Work from Home +140 647 £60,000 -4.00% 665
UK excluding London +117 480 £55,000 +10.00% 463
London +68 217 £70,000 -12.50% 325
North of England +1 125 £55,000 +10.00% 135
North West -36 97 £50,000 - 90
South East +108 96 £57,500 - 88
Midlands +35 87 £60,000 +20.00% 84
Scotland +166 70 £55,000 -8.33% 23
East of England +72 65 £52,500 +16.67% 52
West Midlands +33 45 £60,000 +20.00% 55
East Midlands +45 42 £55,000 +10.00% 29
South West +83 34 £55,000 -4.35% 39
Yorkshire +47 17 £85,253 +89.45% 32
North East +51 11 £56,250 +2.27% 13
Wales +14 3 £67,626 +50.28% 18
Northern Ireland +38 1 £45,000 -18.18% 23

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
1 159 (19.32%) Confluence
2 22 (2.67%) CMS
3 19 (2.31%) Umbraco
4 10 (1.22%) IIS
5 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.24%) Apache
6 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.24%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.12%) Drupal
7 1 (0.12%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Revit
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.24%) Trello
3 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.36%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 586 (71.20%) AWS
2 466 (56.62%) Azure
3 409 (49.70%) GCP
4 331 (40.22%) Serverless
5 328 (39.85%) AWS Lambda
6 76 (9.23%) Amazon S3
7 73 (8.87%) AWS Step Functions
8 43 (5.22%) GitHub
9 25 (3.04%) SaaS
10 22 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (1.46%) dbt
13 11 (1.34%) Amazon ECR
13 11 (1.34%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 11 (1.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 11 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (1.34%) AWS CodeBuild
13 11 (1.34%) Pulumi
14 10 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 288 (34.99%) Broadband
2 18 (2.19%) Intranet
3 15 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.34%) HTTP
5 5 (0.61%) Wireless
5 5 (0.61%) ZigBee
6 4 (0.49%) 3GPP
6 4 (0.49%) 5G
6 4 (0.49%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.49%) Internet
7 2 (0.24%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.12%) MQTT
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
8 1 (0.12%) RTP
8 1 (0.12%) RTSP
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (28.80%) SQL Server
2 110 (13.37%) DynamoDB
3 86 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
4 48 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (4.50%) MySQL
6 28 (3.40%) NoSQL
7 26 (3.16%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (1.70%) Redis
10 9 (1.09%) Data Hub
10 9 (1.09%) SQL CLR
11 8 (0.97%) OLTP
12 5 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.49%) Biml
13 4 (0.49%) Power BI
13 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 179 (21.75%) JIRA
2 168 (20.41%) GitLab
3 165 (20.05%) Maven
4 161 (19.56%) Selenium
5 157 (19.08%) Bitbucket
5 157 (19.08%) Cucumber
5 157 (19.08%) SonarQube
5 157 (19.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 79 (9.60%) Git
7 15 (1.82%) Visual Studio
8 12 (1.46%) webpack
9 11 (1.34%) JUnit
10 9 (1.09%) Gradle
10 9 (1.09%) NUnit
11 8 (0.97%) Moq
12 7 (0.85%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.85%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.85%) Vite
13 6 (0.73%) Babel
14 5 (0.61%) Jenkins
General
1 236 (28.68%) Analytical Skills
2 232 (28.19%) Finance
3 198 (24.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 175 (21.26%) Banking
5 141 (17.13%) Social Skills
6 24 (2.92%) Games
7 14 (1.70%) Law
7 14 (1.70%) Marketing
7 14 (1.70%) Retail
7 14 (1.70%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.58%) Public Sector
9 10 (1.22%) Back Office
10 7 (0.85%) Front Office
11 6 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.61%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.61%) Wearables
13 4 (0.49%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.49%) iGaming
13 4 (0.49%) Local Government
13 4 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 430 (52.25%) Senior
2 308 (37.42%) Developer
3 216 (26.25%) Software Engineer
4 215 (26.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 165 (20.05%) Senior Developer
6 76 (9.23%) AWS Developer
7 47 (5.71%) Software Developer
8 38 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 35 (4.25%) C# Developer
10 29 (3.52%) .NET Developer
10 29 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 23 (2.79%) Senior Software Developer
12 21 (2.55%) Java Developer
13 18 (2.19%) Umbraco Developer
14 17 (2.07%) Lead
15 16 (1.94%) React Developer
15 16 (1.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (1.82%) C# .NET Developer
17 14 (1.70%) Junior
17 14 (1.70%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (41.92%) React
2 233 (28.31%) HTML
3 231 (28.07%) CSS
4 193 (23.45%) Spring
5 181 (21.99%) Kafka
5 181 (21.99%) Spring Boot
6 169 (20.53%) Redux
7 165 (20.05%) Hibernate
8 159 (19.32%) JPA
9 117 (14.22%) GraphQL
10 95 (11.54%) .NET
11 73 (8.87%) RESTful
12 72 (8.75%) Serverless Framework
13 64 (7.78%) Node.js
14 50 (6.08%) .NET Core
15 49 (5.95%) .NET Framework
16 38 (4.62%) HTML5
17 34 (4.13%) AngularJS
18 31 (3.77%) Entity Framework
19 28 (3.40%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 235 (28.55%) Self-Motivation
2 166 (20.17%) Enterprise Software
3 161 (19.56%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.77%) Mobile App
5 27 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.31%) NHS
7 13 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 9 (1.09%) Private Cloud
10 8 (0.97%) e-Learning
10 8 (0.97%) Mobile Games
11 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.85%) Smartphone
12 6 (0.73%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.73%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.61%) Hackathon
13 5 (0.61%) IoT
13 5 (0.61%) Smart Energy
14 4 (0.49%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.67%) Linux
2 21 (2.55%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.82%) Windows
4 14 (1.70%) Android
5 13 (1.58%) Unix
6 9 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (73.63%) Agile
2 569 (69.14%) CI/CD
3 348 (42.28%) Problem-Solving
4 336 (40.83%) Mentoring
5 282 (34.26%) Software Engineering
6 258 (31.35%) Microservices
7 239 (29.04%) DevOps
8 237 (28.80%) Test Automation
9 233 (28.31%) Full-Stack Development
10 229 (27.83%) Machine Learning
11 218 (26.49%) Data Science
12 216 (26.25%) Creative Thinking
13 215 (26.12%) Performance Metrics
13 215 (26.12%) Personalization
14 212 (25.76%) TDD
15 198 (24.06%) Front End Development
16 196 (23.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 192 (23.33%) Containerisation
18 180 (21.87%) SDLC
19 172 (20.90%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 385 (46.78%) TypeScript
2 346 (42.04%) JavaScript
3 340 (41.31%) Python
4 274 (33.29%) SQL
5 232 (28.19%) Java
6 138 (16.77%) C#
7 32 (3.89%) PHP
8 18 (2.19%) Go
9 14 (1.70%) C++
10 11 (1.34%) C
11 9 (1.09%) Swift
11 9 (1.09%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.09%) VB.NET
12 8 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.97%) Ruby
13 7 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.73%) Bash
15 5 (0.61%) Dart
15 5 (0.61%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 284 (34.51%) Degree
2 215 (26.12%) PhD
3 78 (9.48%) AWS Certification
4 33 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 26 (3.16%) Security Cleared
6 7 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (22.11%) QA
2 29 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.31%) WCAG
4 18 (2.19%) GDPR
5 4 (0.49%) NCSC
6 2 (0.24%) CDISC
6 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 227 (27.58%) Docker
2 9 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.73%) Firmware
4 4 (0.49%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.36%) LXC
6 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 206 (25.03%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.65%) Terraform
3 13 (1.58%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.46%) Grafana
5 11 (1.34%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (0.61%) Argo
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.36%) Kibana
9 1 (0.12%) Ansible
Vendors
1 157 (19.08%) Solace
2 28 (3.40%) Google
3 26 (3.16%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.31%) Oracle
5 18 (2.19%) HP
6 10 (1.22%) SAP
7 9 (1.09%) VMware
8 8 (0.97%) Okta
9 6 (0.73%) New Relic
10 4 (0.49%) Databricks
11 3 (0.36%) DevExpress
11 3 (0.36%) IBM
11 3 (0.36%) Sage
12 2 (0.24%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.24%) Sybase
13 1 (0.12%) Apple
13 1 (0.12%) EMC
13 1 (0.12%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.12%) Splunk
13 1 (0.12%) Telerik