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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 186 157
Rank change year-on-year +50 -29 +109
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 29 36 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.66% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.78% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 22 13 18
10th Percentile £53,875 £34,750 £41,204
25th Percentile £57,500 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £78,780 £74,144 £67,788
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,829 £70,375
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -3.70%

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 3,041 4,623 3,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.84% 85.11% 92.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,058 2,108 2,454
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,988 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 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 26 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 18 £70,651 +5.21% 6
Staffordshire +12 4 £60,000 +41.18% 4
Shropshire - 3 £65,000 - 10
Coventry - 2 £60,000 - 4
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%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.45%) IIS
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) 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 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
5 4 (13.79%) GitHub
6 3 (10.34%) Serverless
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.90%) dbt
7 2 (6.90%) Pulumi
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.45%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
3 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.90%) Redis
6 1 (3.45%) Data Hub
6 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.45%) MySQL
6 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.45%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) JUnit
1 2 (6.90%) Maven
1 2 (6.90%) Mockito
2 1 (3.45%) NUnit
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Back Office
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 10 (34.48%) Senior
3 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Java Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Software Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Blazor Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Development Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Lead
5 3 (10.34%) Lead Developer
5 3 (10.34%) PHP Software Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Python Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) SaaS Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Software Development Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) .NET Framework
2 6 (20.69%) Entity Framework
2 6 (20.69%) Spring
3 5 (17.24%) RESTful
4 4 (13.79%) Blazor
4 4 (13.79%) REST
5 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
5 3 (10.34%) React
5 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.90%) CSS
6 2 (6.90%) Dapper ORM
6 2 (6.90%) Django
6 2 (6.90%) gRPC
6 2 (6.90%) HTML
7 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
7 1 (3.45%) HTML5
7 1 (3.45%) JSON
7 1 (3.45%) JSP
7 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.90%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile Games
5 1 (3.45%) NHS
5 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Android
3 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 13 (44.83%) Agile
2 13 (44.83%) DevOps
3 10 (34.48%) Mentoring
4 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (27.59%) Microservices
4 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
5 7 (24.14%) TDD
6 6 (20.69%) AI
6 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 6 (20.69%) Unit Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Analytics
7 5 (17.24%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
7 5 (17.24%) Data Integration
7 5 (17.24%) Data Science
8 4 (13.79%) Data Privacy
8 4 (13.79%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) SQL
2 9 (31.03%) C#
3 7 (24.14%) Java
3 7 (24.14%) Python
4 4 (13.79%) Bicep
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.34%) PHP
5 3 (10.34%) VBA
6 2 (6.90%) Bash
6 2 (6.90%) Go
6 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.90%) VB
7 1 (3.45%) C
7 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
3 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 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) VMware