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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 121 180
Rank change year-on-year -62 +59 +21
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 25 50 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.30% 1.47% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.73% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 22 23 34
10th Percentile - £42,350 -
25th Percentile £24,000 £54,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £72,061 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,842 £78,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%

All Process & 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 5,798 2,893 5,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.09% 84.96% 78.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,358 1,876 3,238
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,144 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.29%

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 2 August 2026.

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 2 August 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
Birmingham -35 21 £35,000 -41.67% 9
Worcestershire - 2 £42,500 - 1
Shropshire -24 1 £62,500 -3.85% 3
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
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 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (12.00%) dbt
3 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.00%) Serverless
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.00%) Copilot Studio
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Boomi
5 1 (4.00%) Dagster
5 1 (4.00%) iPaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Prefect
5 1 (4.00%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) MariaDB
2 2 (8.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
3 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
General
1 8 (32.00%) Marketing
2 5 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Retail
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Digital Executive
2 8 (32.00%) Digital Marketing Executive
2 8 (32.00%) Marketing Executive
2 8 (32.00%) Trainee
3 4 (16.00%) RPG Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Python Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) PHP Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Site Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Graduate C# Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.00%) EDI
3 4 (16.00%) CSS
4 3 (12.00%) Blazor
4 3 (12.00%) HTML
4 3 (12.00%) REST
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (8.00%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (8.00%) SOAP
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.00%) D3.js
6 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.00%) Flask
6 1 (4.00%) jQuery
6 1 (4.00%) JSON
6 1 (4.00%) NumPy
6 1 (4.00%) RESTful
6 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) AS400
1 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (16.00%) iSeries
2 2 (8.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) Sports Betting
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (32.00%) Digital Marketing
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.00%) DevOps
5 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.00%) SDLC
6 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.00%) Collaborative Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
7 2 (8.00%) Incident Response
7 2 (8.00%) LLM
7 2 (8.00%) Observability
7 2 (8.00%) Prompt Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 2 (8.00%) Service-Level Objective
7 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 9 (36.00%) C#
3 7 (28.00%) Python
4 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (16.00%) RPG
5 4 (16.00%) RPG IV
5 4 (16.00%) RPG/400
6 3 (12.00%) PHP
6 3 (12.00%) T-SQL
7 2 (8.00%) Java
8 1 (4.00%) Bash
8 1 (4.00%) C++
8 1 (4.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) IBM
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Informatica
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) HubSpot
3 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow