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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 173 162
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 +83
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 16 30 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.74% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.80% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 11 11 44
10th Percentile £57,500 £38,750 £36,503
25th Percentile £60,000 £41,875 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.98% +17.27%
75th Percentile £79,395 £74,144 £70,313
90th Percentile £80,000 - £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -7.14%

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 4,421 3,764 4,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.99% 92.35% 86.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 1,681 3,474
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,200 £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 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +7 11 £73,801 +23.00% 4
Staffordshire -2 3 - - 2
Coventry - 2 £60,000 -
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 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) SaaS
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) Azure
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (18.75%) GCP
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (12.50%) dbt
6 2 (12.50%) GitHub
6 2 (12.50%) Pulumi
6 2 (12.50%) Serverless
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (6.25%) PaaS
7 1 (6.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (12.50%) Redis
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JUnit
1 2 (12.50%) Maven
1 2 (12.50%) Mockito
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Development Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 3 (18.75%) PHP Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Python Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Python Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Development Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) React
1 3 (18.75%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) Django
2 2 (12.50%) gRPC
2 2 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.25%) Blazor
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) JSP
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Data Science
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Coaching
4 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (25.00%) ETL
4 4 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
4 4 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
4 4 (25.00%) SDLC
4 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (18.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) PHP
3 3 (18.75%) VBA
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 2 (12.50%) Go
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft