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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 179 167
Rank change year-on-year +44 -12 +102
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 29 34 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.86% 0.63% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.77% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 22 10 18
10th Percentile £53,875 £38,250 £40,878
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,375 £75,230 £69,685
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -

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 2,900 4,434 3,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.52% 82.16% 93.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,835 2,065 2,520
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,795
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 +31 17 £73,801 +9.90% 8
Staffordshire - 4 £60,000 - 3
Coventry - 3 £60,000 - 2
Shropshire - 3 £65,000 - 1
Walsall - 1 £33,000 -
Warwickshire - 1 £70,000 - 3
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 (6.90%) IIS
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) SaaS
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
3 12 (41.38%) AWS
4 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (17.24%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
5 5 (17.24%) GitHub
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (13.79%) GCP
7 3 (10.34%) Serverless
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.90%) dbt
8 2 (6.90%) Pulumi
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (3.45%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.90%) Data Hub
4 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.90%) Redis
4 2 (6.90%) SQL CLR
5 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JUnit
2 1 (3.45%) Maven
2 1 (3.45%) Mockito
2 1 (3.45%) NUnit
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Back Office
3 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Marketing
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Games
5 1 (3.45%) iGaming
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Developer
2 8 (27.59%) Senior
3 7 (24.14%) Software Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (17.24%) Java Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Blazor Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Lead
7 3 (10.34%) Development Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Lead Developer
7 3 (10.34%) PHP Software Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Python Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) SaaS Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Software Development Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Head of Development
8 2 (6.90%) Lead Software Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) .NET
2 8 (27.59%) .NET Framework
2 8 (27.59%) Entity Framework
3 5 (17.24%) Blazor
3 5 (17.24%) RESTful
3 5 (17.24%) Spring
4 4 (13.79%) .NET Core
5 3 (10.34%) Dapper ORM
5 3 (10.34%) React
5 3 (10.34%) REST
5 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.90%) CSS
6 2 (6.90%) Django
6 2 (6.90%) gRPC
6 2 (6.90%) HTML
6 2 (6.90%) React Native
7 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
7 1 (3.45%) JSON
7 1 (3.45%) JSP
7 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
3 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (6.90%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
5 2 (6.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.45%) Mobile Games
6 1 (3.45%) NHS
6 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
2 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.45%) Android
3 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 14 (48.28%) DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) Agile
4 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (27.59%) Mentoring
5 8 (27.59%) Microservices
5 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
5 8 (27.59%) TDD
6 7 (24.14%) AI
7 6 (20.69%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
8 5 (17.24%) Analytics
8 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (17.24%) Data Privacy
8 5 (17.24%) Unit Testing
8 5 (17.24%) User Experience
8 5 (17.24%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) SQL
2 11 (37.93%) C#
3 7 (24.14%) Python
4 6 (20.69%) Java
5 5 (17.24%) Bicep
5 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
6 4 (13.79%) PHP
7 3 (10.34%) Go
7 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 3 (10.34%) VB
7 3 (10.34%) VBA
8 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
9 1 (3.45%) Bash
9 1 (3.45%) C
9 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
9 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) ISO 9001
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Terraform
2 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle