Hybrid/Remote Clean Code Job Trends

Clean Code
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Clean Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 122 268
Rank change year-on-year -36 +146 -42
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 411 430 236
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.64% 2.60% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.77% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 244 198 136
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,188 £47,750 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £74,358
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year - +6.12% -5.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,211 15,506 18,481
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.62% 93.82% 88.04%
Number of salaries quoted 14,358 8,387 11,009
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,031 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Clean Code and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Clean Code job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Clean Code
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Clean Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Clean Code

Clean Code
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Clean Code over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Clean Code salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Clean Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 8 (1.95%) WordPress
2 6 (1.46%) SAS
3 3 (0.73%) Apache
3 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.73%) Camunda
3 3 (0.73%) CMS
3 3 (0.73%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.49%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.49%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) JBoss
5 1 (0.24%) Moodle
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (1.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 233 (56.69%) AWS
2 137 (33.33%) SaaS
3 113 (27.49%) GCP
4 103 (25.06%) Azure
5 82 (19.95%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (10.95%) GitHub
7 41 (9.98%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (9.98%) Serverless
8 23 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (5.11%) Snowflake
10 18 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (3.41%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.41%) dbt
13 13 (3.16%) Power Platform
14 12 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
14 12 (2.92%) Google Compute Engine
14 12 (2.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 12 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (2.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.57%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.16%) SMS
3 12 (2.92%) AMQP
4 9 (2.19%) BGP
4 9 (2.19%) VLAN
4 9 (2.19%) VPN
5 7 (1.70%) 5G
5 7 (1.70%) Broadband
6 4 (0.97%) Firewall
6 4 (0.97%) HTTP
7 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (20.92%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (18.73%) SQL Server
3 46 (11.19%) Redis
4 27 (6.57%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.08%) MySQL
6 23 (5.60%) DynamoDB
7 19 (4.62%) MongoDB
8 18 (4.38%) NoSQL
9 13 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.68%) Power BI
11 9 (2.19%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.19%) Metadata
11 9 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (2.19%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.49%) Flink
Development Applications
1 86 (20.92%) Git
2 82 (19.95%) TeamCity
3 17 (4.14%) JUnit
4 13 (3.16%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.19%) GitLab
6 6 (1.46%) Claude Code
7 5 (1.22%) Selenium
8 4 (0.97%) Crashlytics
8 4 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.97%) Maven
8 4 (0.97%) MLflow
8 4 (0.97%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.97%) XCTest
9 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.73%) Mockito
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.73%) Subversion
10 2 (0.49%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 120 (29.20%) Finance
2 119 (28.95%) Retail
3 115 (27.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 115 (27.98%) Law
4 104 (25.30%) Social Skills
5 98 (23.84%) Banking
6 74 (18.00%) Financial Institution
7 73 (17.76%) Back Office
8 38 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
9 26 (6.33%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.92%) Health Technology
10 12 (2.92%) Tech for Good
11 11 (2.68%) Marketing
12 7 (1.70%) Games
13 5 (1.22%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.73%) Legal
14 3 (0.73%) Local Government
15 2 (0.49%) Billing
15 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 166 (40.39%) Developer
2 131 (31.87%) Senior
3 123 (29.93%) Software Engineer
4 65 (15.82%) Lead
5 58 (14.11%) Senior Developer
6 47 (11.44%) Software Developer
7 44 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (8.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 31 (7.54%) Java Engineer
10 26 (6.33%) .NET Developer
11 25 (6.08%) Java Software Engineer
11 25 (6.08%) Lead Software Engineer
11 25 (6.08%) Team Leader
12 24 (5.84%) Software Team Leader
13 22 (5.35%) Java Developer
13 22 (5.35%) Lead Developer
14 20 (4.87%) C# Developer
14 20 (4.87%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 19 (4.62%) Lead Software Developer
15 19 (4.62%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (36.01%) Terraform
2 79 (19.22%) .NET
3 66 (16.06%) React
4 50 (12.17%) Node.js
5 42 (10.22%) RESTful
6 41 (9.98%) REST
7 33 (8.03%) CSS
8 31 (7.54%) Spring
9 29 (7.06%) .NET Core
9 29 (7.06%) AngularJS
9 29 (7.06%) HTML
9 29 (7.06%) Vue
10 25 (6.08%) Spring Boot
11 23 (5.60%) JSON
12 20 (4.87%) .NET Framework
12 20 (4.87%) ASP.NET
13 18 (4.38%) Next.js
13 18 (4.38%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (4.14%) Blazor
14 17 (4.14%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 122 (29.68%) Cloud Native
2 81 (19.71%) Product Ownership
3 55 (13.38%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (9.73%) Blog
5 22 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.65%) Algorithms
8 14 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.41%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.68%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.19%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.46%) Clustering
14 5 (1.22%) IoT
15 4 (0.97%) PKI
16 3 (0.73%) Online Gambling
16 3 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
16 3 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.81%) Linux
2 22 (5.35%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.65%) Android
4 14 (3.41%) Unix
5 12 (2.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (58.64%) CI/CD
2 188 (45.74%) Software Engineering
3 147 (35.77%) DevOps
4 139 (33.82%) Agile
5 131 (31.87%) Mentoring
6 129 (31.39%) Microservices
7 126 (30.66%) Test Automation
8 113 (27.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 100 (24.33%) AI
10 97 (23.60%) Continuous Deployment
11 93 (22.63%) Full-Stack Development
12 85 (20.68%) Deployment Automation
13 83 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
14 76 (18.49%) Coaching
15 74 (18.00%) Fintech
16 67 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
17 63 (15.33%) Disruptive Innovation
18 56 (13.63%) Containerisation
19 50 (12.17%) Collaborative Culture
20 49 (11.92%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 150 (36.50%) Java
2 98 (23.84%) SQL
3 95 (23.11%) C#
3 95 (23.11%) Python
4 80 (19.46%) TypeScript
5 77 (18.73%) JavaScript
6 30 (7.30%) Go
7 17 (4.14%) Ruby
8 16 (3.89%) Bash
9 15 (3.65%) PHP
10 13 (3.16%) T-SQL
11 12 (2.92%) Kotlin
12 9 (2.19%) C++
12 9 (2.19%) Swift
13 5 (1.22%) Groovy
14 4 (0.97%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.97%) Perl
15 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.49%) C
16 2 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (15.33%) Degree
2 42 (10.22%) Security Cleared
3 36 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (0.97%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.73%) ICAEW
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.92%) QA
2 32 (7.79%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.65%) GDPR
4 13 (3.16%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.19%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) WAI
7 1 (0.24%) WAI-ARIA
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (19.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 127 (30.90%) Kubernetes
2 87 (21.17%) Grafana
3 15 (3.65%) Ansible
4 14 (3.41%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.22%) Puppet
7 3 (0.73%) Istio
7 3 (0.73%) linkerd
7 3 (0.73%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.49%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.49%) Packer
9 1 (0.24%) Argo
9 1 (0.24%) Kibana
9 1 (0.24%) logstash
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (9.49%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.03%) Google
3 14 (3.41%) Salesforce
4 12 (2.92%) Informatica
4 12 (2.92%) OpenAI
4 12 (2.92%) Splunk
5 9 (2.19%) Talend
6 6 (1.46%) Databricks
6 6 (1.46%) New Relic
7 5 (1.22%) Oracle
8 4 (0.97%) Amplitude
8 4 (0.97%) Braze
9 2 (0.49%) Sony
10 1 (0.24%) Netlify
10 1 (0.24%) Sage
10 1 (0.24%) SAP
10 1 (0.24%) VMware
10 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce