Clean Code Job Trends in the West Midlands

Clean Code
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Clean Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 178 144
Rank change year-on-year +25 -34 +109
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 23 29 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.44% 0.65% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.72% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 17 12 20
10th Percentile £54,500 £39,000 £42,360
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,663
90th Percentile £84,000 - £70,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,350 4,004 2,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.76% 90.34% 89.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,245 1,803 2,440
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,311 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,860 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Clean Code job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Clean Code
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in the West Midlands

Clean Code
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Birmingham +21 15 £73,801 +18.08% 9
Staffordshire -9 4 £60,000 +41.18% 9
Coventry - 2 £60,000 - 9
Shropshire - 2 £66,250 - 6
Clean Code
England

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (8.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) SaaS
2 11 (47.83%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub
4 3 (13.04%) Serverless
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (8.70%) dbt
5 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.70%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.35%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (17.39%) Data Lake
2 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Redis
4 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JUnit
1 2 (8.70%) Maven
1 2 (8.70%) Mockito
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) NUnit
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Back Office
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
2 10 (43.48%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Software Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Development Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) PHP Software Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Python Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) SaaS Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Software Development Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead
6 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead Python Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Spring
2 4 (17.39%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) RESTful
3 3 (13.04%) .NET
3 3 (13.04%) .NET Framework
3 3 (13.04%) Entity Framework
3 3 (13.04%) React
4 2 (8.70%) Blazor
4 2 (8.70%) Django
4 2 (8.70%) gRPC
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (4.35%) CSS
5 1 (4.35%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (4.35%) HTML
5 1 (4.35%) JSP
5 1 (4.35%) React Native
5 1 (4.35%) Spring MVC
5 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Android
3 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Agile
1 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
1 10 (43.48%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
3 7 (30.43%) Microservices
4 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Analytics
5 5 (21.74%) Data Integration
5 5 (21.74%) Data Science
5 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) TDD
5 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 4 (17.39%) AI
6 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
6 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
6 4 (17.39%) ETL
6 4 (17.39%) Logical Data Model
6 4 (17.39%) Physical Data Model
6 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Python
3 6 (26.09%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) C#
5 3 (13.04%) PHP
5 3 (13.04%) VBA
6 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) Bicep
6 2 (8.70%) Go
6 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
6 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.35%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO 9001
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Databricks
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle