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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 129 176
Rank change year-on-year -62 +47 -3
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 25 39 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.28% 1.20% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.40% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 23 20 19
10th Percentile - £51,450 £41,750
25th Percentile £24,000 £54,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,625 £79,063 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,075 £84,375 £66,829
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

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 6,251 2,795 4,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.27% 86.11% 79.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,599 1,780 2,504
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,009 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.21% +0.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £66,650
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -7.90%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -24 23 £50,000 -16.67% 15
Shropshire -25 1 £62,500 -3.85%
Solihull - 1 £65,000 - 4
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 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 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) SaaS
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (12.00%) dbt
4 3 (12.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.00%) Boomi
6 1 (4.00%) Dagster
6 1 (4.00%) Prefect
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.00%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Redis
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (32.00%) Marketing
2 5 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) 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 5 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.00%) RPG Developer
5 3 (12.00%) C# Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Site Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) SQL Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.00%) EDI
3 4 (16.00%) REST
4 3 (12.00%) .NET Core
4 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (12.00%) Blazor
4 3 (12.00%) Terraform
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (8.00%) CSS
5 2 (8.00%) Entity Framework
5 2 (8.00%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (8.00%) SOAP
6 1 (4.00%) D3.js
6 1 (4.00%) Flask
6 1 (4.00%) Node.js
6 1 (4.00%) NumPy
6 1 (4.00%) React
6 1 (4.00%) RESTful
6 1 (4.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) AS400
1 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (16.00%) iSeries
2 2 (8.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Sports Betting
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Agile
1 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (32.00%) Digital Marketing
2 7 (28.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 6 (24.00%) DevOps
3 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) SDLC
4 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) AI
6 3 (12.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.00%) Microservices
6 3 (12.00%) OOP
7 2 (8.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
7 2 (8.00%) Incident Response
7 2 (8.00%) LLM
7 2 (8.00%) Prompt Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) C#
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) Python
3 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.00%) RPG
4 4 (16.00%) RPG IV
4 4 (16.00%) RPG/400
4 4 (16.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) C++
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) PHP
5 1 (4.00%) Ruby
5 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) IBM
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) HubSpot
3 1 (4.00%) Informatica
3 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow