Clean Code Contracts in England

Clean Code
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Clean Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clean Code over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 301 314
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing Clean Code 253 406 604
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.84% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.94% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 293 460
10th Percentile £409 £426 £413
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £663
90th Percentile £725 £748 £725
UK median daily rate £570 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -1.81% +5.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £62.00 £73.80
25th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £74.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.68% +36.73%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £80.25
90th Percentile £80.50 £86.00 £80.40
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -9.68% +36.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Clean Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,491 43,355 63,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.40% 90.10% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,435 45,445
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,535 1,743
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Clean Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in England

Clean Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in England.

Daily rate trend for Clean Code in England

Clean Code
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clean Code in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clean Code in England

Clean Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clean Code in England.

Hourly rate trend for Clean Code in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -4 185 £600 - 111
South East +24 26 £675 +22.73% 53
North of England +22 12 £469 +7.14% 41
South West -30 10 £450 -18.74% 24
North West +18 8 £463 +8.82% 30
Midlands +33 7 £393 -12.78% 35
East of England +14 7 £500 -23.11% 23
West Midlands +28 5 £335 -16.25% 25
Yorkshire +6 3 £600 +33.33% 8
East Midlands +13 2 £675 +35.00% 10
North East - 1 £375 - 4
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Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (6.32%) CMS
2 7 (2.77%) Apache
3 3 (1.19%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.79%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.40%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 80 (31.62%) Azure
2 64 (25.30%) AWS
3 51 (20.16%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (15.81%) Azure Service Bus
5 34 (13.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 34 (13.44%) GCP
6 33 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (5.14%) Serverless
8 12 (4.74%) Azure Pipelines
9 7 (2.77%) GitHub
10 6 (2.37%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.98%) Azure App Service
12 4 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.58%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.58%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (1.19%) Datadog
13 3 (1.19%) SaaS
13 3 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.67%) HTTP
2 7 (2.77%) FTP
3 3 (1.19%) DHCP
3 3 (1.19%) DNS
3 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 28 (11.07%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (9.49%) Apache Cassandra
4 19 (7.51%) MongoDB
5 17 (6.72%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.72%) Relational Database
6 14 (5.53%) Oracle Database
7 13 (5.14%) Oracle Database 11g
8 12 (4.74%) MySQL
9 5 (1.98%) GIS
9 5 (1.98%) Spatial Data
10 3 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.19%) Redis
11 2 (0.79%) Big Data
11 2 (0.79%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.79%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 71 (28.06%) Git
2 15 (5.93%) Cypress.io
3 10 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.77%) JIRA
5 5 (1.98%) webpack
6 4 (1.58%) Babel
7 3 (1.19%) GitLab
7 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.79%) Selenium
9 1 (0.40%) Ant
9 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.40%) JMeter
9 1 (0.40%) JUnit
9 1 (0.40%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.40%) MSTest
9 1 (0.40%) NUnit
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.40%) Subversion
9 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 58 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (12.25%) Finance
3 27 (10.67%) Back Office
4 25 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.30%) Banking
6 11 (4.35%) Front Office
7 10 (3.95%) Marketing
8 9 (3.56%) Advertising
9 7 (2.77%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.58%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.19%) Electronics
12 3 (1.19%) Law
12 3 (1.19%) Local Government
13 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (62.85%) Developer
2 60 (23.72%) Senior
3 35 (13.83%) Senior Developer
4 23 (9.09%) Lead
4 23 (9.09%) Scala Developer
5 22 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 20 (7.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (7.91%) React Developer
7 16 (6.32%) C# Developer
7 16 (6.32%) Python Developer
8 14 (5.53%) Azure Developer
8 14 (5.53%) Full Stack Developer
9 13 (5.14%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 13 (5.14%) Software Developer
10 12 (4.74%) JavaScript Engineer
11 11 (4.35%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.35%) Technical Leader
12 9 (3.56%) Backend Developer
12 9 (3.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 9 (3.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (26.09%) .NET
2 60 (23.72%) React
3 52 (20.55%) .NET Core
4 50 (19.76%) CSS
5 48 (18.97%) HTML
6 40 (15.81%) RESTful
7 34 (13.44%) Node.js
8 32 (12.65%) Kafka
9 23 (9.09%) Akka
10 20 (7.91%) Redux
11 19 (7.51%) ASP.NET
12 18 (7.11%) jQuery
13 15 (5.93%) Express.js
14 14 (5.53%) ASP.NET MVC
15 12 (4.74%) REST
16 11 (4.35%) Jest
16 11 (4.35%) XML
17 10 (3.95%) YAML
18 8 (3.16%) GraphQL
18 8 (3.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.95%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (2.37%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.98%) Fixed Income
5 5 (1.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.58%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.58%) Derivative
6 4 (1.58%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.19%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.19%) Contactless
7 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.79%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.79%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.95%) Android
2 8 (3.16%) Apple iOS
2 8 (3.16%) Linux
3 4 (1.58%) Windows
4 3 (1.19%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (52.57%) Agile
2 115 (45.45%) TDD
3 103 (40.71%) DevOps
4 62 (24.51%) OO
5 57 (22.53%) Software Engineering
6 56 (22.13%) OOD
7 46 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (17.39%) Microservices
9 40 (15.81%) Front End Development
10 38 (15.02%) Pair Programming
11 37 (14.62%) API Management
12 33 (13.04%) Unit Testing
13 31 (12.25%) CI/CD
14 28 (11.07%) Secure Coding
15 25 (9.88%) Computer Science
16 24 (9.49%) Full Stack Development
17 23 (9.09%) Code Quality
17 23 (9.09%) Design Patterns
17 23 (9.09%) Machine Learning
17 23 (9.09%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 81 (32.02%) JavaScript
2 80 (31.62%) C#
3 58 (22.92%) TypeScript
4 51 (20.16%) SQL
5 44 (17.39%) Bicep
6 33 (13.04%) Java
7 32 (12.65%) Python
8 26 (10.28%) Scala
9 24 (9.49%) Go
10 14 (5.53%) C++
10 14 (5.53%) PL/SQL
11 8 (3.16%) Bash
12 7 (2.77%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.77%) PHP
13 6 (2.37%) Objective-C
13 6 (2.37%) Swift
14 4 (1.58%) Perl
15 3 (1.19%) Rust
16 2 (0.79%) C
16 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.70%) Degree
3 20 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.37%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.93%) Accessibility
2 14 (5.53%) WCAG
3 4 (1.58%) MiFID
3 4 (1.58%) QA
System Software
1 37 (14.62%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.93%) Docker
3 4 (1.58%) zsh
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (13.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.98%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.70%) Oracle
3 20 (7.91%) Typelevel
4 7 (2.77%) Google
5 5 (1.98%) Apple
5 5 (1.98%) ESRI
6 4 (1.58%) SAP
6 4 (1.58%) Virgin Media
7 3 (1.19%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.79%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.40%) Brio
9 1 (0.40%) Confluent
9 1 (0.40%) Databricks
9 1 (0.40%) Informatica
9 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.40%) Sun
9 1 (0.40%) VMware