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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 177 174
Rank change year-on-year +43 -3 +87
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 38 41 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.17% 0.68% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.85% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 19 19 23
10th Percentile £51,150 £41,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,125 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £66,829 £69,550
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +3.85%

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 2,808 4,819 3,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.21% 79.61% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,784 2,521 2,732
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,375 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Clean Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 16 £60,000 +33.33% 6
Staffordshire - 10 £60,000 - 2
Warwickshire - 5 £70,000 - 1
Shropshire - 3 £65,000 - 3
Coventry - 2 £82,500 - 2
Walsall - 1 £33,000 -
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Clean Code
England

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 13 (34.21%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) IIS
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.63%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 24 (63.16%) Azure
2 21 (55.26%) AWS
3 15 (39.47%) GCP
4 13 (34.21%) SaaS
5 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (13.16%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (13.16%) Entra ID
6 5 (13.16%) GitHub
7 2 (5.26%) Serverless
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (65.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.16%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.89%) Data Hub
3 3 (7.89%) SQL CLR
4 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.63%) MySQL
4 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Bitbucket
1 13 (34.21%) Cucumber
1 13 (34.21%) GitLab
1 13 (34.21%) JIRA
1 13 (34.21%) Maven
1 13 (34.21%) Selenium
1 13 (34.21%) SonarQube
1 13 (34.21%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (2.63%) NUnit
General
1 17 (44.74%) Finance
2 13 (34.21%) Banking
2 13 (34.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Back Office
5 2 (5.26%) Marketing
5 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Games
6 1 (2.63%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Software Engineer
2 15 (39.47%) Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Software Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Blazor Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Lead
6 3 (7.89%) Head of Development
6 3 (7.89%) Lead Developer
6 3 (7.89%) SaaS Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior
7 2 (5.26%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.26%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Development Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Lead Python Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Lead Software Developer
7 2 (5.26%) PHP Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (44.74%) Spring
2 16 (42.11%) Spring Boot
3 15 (39.47%) CSS
3 15 (39.47%) HTML
3 15 (39.47%) React
4 14 (36.84%) Hibernate
5 13 (34.21%) JPA
5 13 (34.21%) Kafka
5 13 (34.21%) Redux
6 12 (31.58%) .NET
7 11 (28.95%) Entity Framework
8 9 (23.68%) .NET Framework
9 7 (18.42%) Blazor
10 5 (13.16%) .NET Core
10 5 (13.16%) RESTful
11 4 (10.53%) Dapper ORM
12 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET
12 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
12 2 (5.26%) React Native
12 2 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (34.21%) Enterprise Software
1 13 (34.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (13.16%) Onboarding
4 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
5 3 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (7.89%) Private Cloud
5 3 (7.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (5.26%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.63%) Mobile Games
7 1 (2.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
1 3 (7.89%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.63%) Android
2 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) CI/CD
2 24 (63.16%) DevOps
3 22 (57.89%) Agile
3 22 (57.89%) Software Engineering
4 21 (55.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (55.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (55.26%) TDD
5 20 (52.63%) Microservices
6 18 (47.37%) Test Automation
7 15 (39.47%) Containerisation
7 15 (39.47%) Front End Development
8 13 (34.21%) Performance Optimisation
8 13 (34.21%) SDLC
9 7 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (18.42%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (15.79%) Data Privacy
10 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
11 5 (13.16%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (68.42%) SQL
2 18 (47.37%) Java
3 15 (39.47%) JavaScript
4 14 (36.84%) C#
5 5 (13.16%) Bicep
5 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.53%) Python
7 3 (7.89%) PHP
7 3 (7.89%) VB
8 2 (5.26%) Go
8 2 (5.26%) VBA
9 1 (2.63%) C
9 1 (2.63%) Scala
9 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (36.84%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (44.74%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (44.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) Solace
2 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) VMware