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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 234 175
Rank change year-on-year -89 -59 +37
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 901 1,600 3,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 1.58% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.65% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 702 840 1,078
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £54,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 -65 777 £60,000 -14.29% 234
UK excluding London -71 556 £50,000 -13.04% 150
Work from Home -25 469 £62,500 -10.71% 139
London -55 290 £82,500 - 92
North of England +32 181 £47,500 -11.63% 38
North West +71 136 £47,500 -26.92% 27
Midlands +78 117 £50,000 -11.11% 32
West Midlands +70 75 £50,000 -23.08% 21
South West +2 73 £55,000 -8.33% 21
South East -141 73 £57,500 -8.00% 28
East Midlands +10 42 £50,000 +11.11% 11
Wales +5 38 £45,000 -25.00% 5
Yorkshire +9 37 £45,000 -10.00% 8
East of England -59 33 £45,000 +12.50% 20
Scotland -124 32 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Northern Ireland +13 9 £55,000 +57.14% 2
North East -5 8 £58,750 +17.30% 3

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 24 (2.66%) WordPress
2 14 (1.55%) CMS
3 13 (1.44%) Confluence
4 11 (1.22%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.55%) nginx
6 4 (0.44%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.33%) Apache
7 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.33%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) Drupal
8 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) Moodle
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.22%) Sketch
4 1 (0.11%) UXPin
4 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 23 (2.55%) Shopify
2 15 (1.66%) Magento
3 3 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 243 (26.97%) AWS
2 223 (24.75%) Azure
3 111 (12.32%) Serverless
4 90 (9.99%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (8.21%) SaaS
6 73 (8.10%) GitHub
7 41 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (4.44%) GCP
9 35 (3.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 27 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (1.55%) npm
14 13 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (1.33%) Google Analytics
16 10 (1.11%) Amazon S3
16 10 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.11%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.11%) Google Play
16 10 (1.11%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.11%) HTTP
2 4 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.33%) Intranet
3 3 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.22%) Broadband
4 2 (0.22%) DNS
4 2 (0.22%) RS-232
4 2 (0.22%) RS-485
4 2 (0.22%) SSL
5 1 (0.11%) FTP
5 1 (0.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (14.32%) SQL Server
2 90 (9.99%) MySQL
3 68 (7.55%) Relational Database
4 56 (6.22%) NoSQL
5 47 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (4.33%) Oracle Database
7 36 (4.00%) RDBMS
8 35 (3.88%) MongoDB
9 25 (2.77%) DynamoDB
10 19 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 18 (2.00%) Redis
12 14 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.67%) Big Data
16 4 (0.44%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 3 (0.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 227 (25.19%) Git
2 96 (10.65%) Jenkins
3 62 (6.88%) Cucumber
4 58 (6.44%) Postman
5 50 (5.55%) Selenium
6 43 (4.77%) Bitbucket
7 42 (4.66%) JIRA
8 40 (4.44%) Visual Studio
9 36 (4.00%) JDeveloper
10 17 (1.89%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.78%) JUnit
12 15 (1.66%) PHPUnit
12 15 (1.66%) TeamCity
13 14 (1.55%) Appium
13 14 (1.55%) GitLab
14 13 (1.44%) webpack
15 8 (0.89%) IntelliJ
16 7 (0.78%) CMake
16 7 (0.78%) Moq
16 7 (0.78%) MSTest
General
1 244 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 103 (11.43%) Finance
3 56 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (5.22%) Retail
6 39 (4.33%) Law
7 37 (4.11%) Marketing
8 36 (4.00%) Banking
9 29 (3.22%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.77%) Public Sector
11 21 (2.33%) Games
12 17 (1.89%) Back Office
13 16 (1.78%) Local Government
13 16 (1.78%) Tech for Good
14 13 (1.44%) Legal
15 12 (1.33%) Advertising
15 12 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.00%) Aviation
16 9 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 602 (66.81%) Developer
2 241 (26.75%) Senior
3 179 (19.87%) Senior Developer
4 138 (15.32%) Software Engineer
5 114 (12.65%) .NET Developer
6 112 (12.43%) Software Developer
7 109 (12.10%) Lead
8 86 (9.54%) Full Stack Developer
9 64 (7.10%) PHP Developer
10 51 (5.66%) C# Developer
11 45 (4.99%) Java Engineer
12 36 (4.00%) Backend Developer
12 36 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 36 (4.00%) React Developer
12 36 (4.00%) Ruby Engineer
12 36 (4.00%) Senior .NET Developer
13 34 (3.77%) Java Software Engineer
14 30 (3.33%) Senior Software Developer
15 29 (3.22%) Junior
16 27 (3.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (31.96%) React
2 285 (31.63%) .NET
3 220 (24.42%) CSS
4 202 (22.42%) HTML
5 164 (18.20%) Node.js
6 145 (16.09%) REST
7 124 (13.76%) RESTful
8 115 (12.76%) AngularJS
9 114 (12.65%) .NET Core
10 97 (10.77%) .NET Framework
11 87 (9.66%) Vue
12 85 (9.43%) ASP.NET
13 74 (8.21%) Laravel
14 67 (7.44%) GraphQL
15 62 (6.88%) Entity Framework
16 53 (5.88%) jQuery
17 47 (5.22%) HTML5
18 43 (4.77%) Kafka
19 42 (4.66%) Web Services
20 39 (4.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 60 (6.66%) Greenfield Project
2 54 (5.99%) Mobile App
3 37 (4.11%) Cloud Native
4 33 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 31 (3.44%) Algorithms
6 27 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (2.55%) Virtual Team
9 20 (2.22%) Blog
10 19 (2.11%) Client/Server
11 18 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
14 12 (1.33%) NHS
15 11 (1.22%) AS400
15 11 (1.22%) iSeries
16 7 (0.78%) IoT
16 7 (0.78%) Oculus
16 7 (0.78%) Virtual Reality
17 5 (0.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.11%) Android
2 28 (3.11%) Apple iOS
3 25 (2.77%) Linux
4 18 (2.00%) Windows
5 7 (0.78%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.67%) Unix
7 2 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (36.18%) Agile
2 260 (28.86%) Problem-Solving
3 249 (27.64%) Software Engineering
4 217 (24.08%) CI/CD
5 214 (23.75%) DevOps
6 184 (20.42%) Design Patterns
7 183 (20.31%) Full Stack Development
7 183 (20.31%) Microservices
8 177 (19.64%) Unit Testing
9 142 (15.76%) Computer Science
10 124 (13.76%) TDD
11 120 (13.32%) Code Quality
12 111 (12.32%) Mentoring
13 100 (11.10%) Test Automation
14 96 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 94 (10.43%) Scrum
16 91 (10.10%) Continuous Integration
16 91 (10.10%) Fintech
17 89 (9.88%) MVC
18 85 (9.43%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 406 (45.06%) JavaScript
2 339 (37.62%) C#
3 240 (26.64%) Java
4 167 (18.53%) TypeScript
5 163 (18.09%) SQL
6 139 (15.43%) Python
7 107 (11.88%) PHP
8 64 (7.10%) Ruby
9 45 (4.99%) Go
10 37 (4.11%) Bash
11 36 (4.00%) Perl
12 30 (3.33%) Kotlin
13 29 (3.22%) VB.NET
14 21 (2.33%) Bicep
14 21 (2.33%) C
15 13 (1.44%) Swift
16 12 (1.33%) C++
17 11 (1.22%) RPG
17 11 (1.22%) RPG/400
17 11 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 146 (16.20%) Degree
2 100 (11.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 20 (2.22%) Security Cleared
4 19 (2.11%) SC Cleared
5 7 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.44%) PhD
7 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (15.87%) QA
2 38 (4.22%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.22%) GDPR
4 7 (0.78%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.67%) WCAG
6 3 (0.33%) WAI
7 2 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 122 (13.54%) Docker
2 19 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 92 (10.21%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.66%) Terraform
3 12 (1.33%) Grafana
4 6 (0.67%) Ansible
5 4 (0.44%) Kibana
6 2 (0.22%) Consul
6 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 100 (11.10%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.66%) Oracle
3 47 (5.22%) Google
4 11 (1.22%) IBM
5 9 (1.00%) Atlassian
6 7 (0.78%) Adobe
7 6 (0.67%) Actuate
7 6 (0.67%) Confluent
7 6 (0.67%) F5
7 6 (0.67%) WooCommerce
7 6 (0.67%) Xamarin
8 5 (0.55%) Databricks
8 5 (0.55%) New Relic
8 5 (0.55%) Northgate
8 5 (0.55%) PayPal
8 5 (0.55%) WorldPay
9 4 (0.44%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.33%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.33%) HP
10 3 (0.33%) Splunk