Clean Code
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Clean Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Clean Code over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 230 171
Rank change year-on-year -91 -59 +38
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 878 1,594 3,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.59% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.66% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 698 825 1,080
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,300 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,886 £92,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Clean Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Clean Code in the UK

Clean Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Clean Code.

Salary trend for Clean Code in the UK

Clean Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clean Code over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Clean Code in the UK

Clean Code
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clean Code within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -72 761 £60,000 -14.29% 220
UK excluding London -93 536 £50,000 -13.04% 141
Work from Home -29 448 £62,500 -10.71% 136
London -65 288 £80,000 -0.37% 85
North of England +18 175 £50,000 -4.76% 36
North West +56 132 £50,000 -23.08% 29
Midlands +79 113 £50,000 -13.04% 29
South East -146 74 £57,500 -8.00% 27
West Midlands +58 73 £50,000 -23.08% 18
South West +7 69 £52,500 -1.87% 19
East Midlands +5 40 £50,000 +11.11% 11
Wales +6 37 £45,000 -26.92% 4
Yorkshire +11 35 £45,000 -10.88% 4
East of England -71 32 £45,000 +12.50% 19
Scotland -120 29 £60,000 -7.69% 7
North East -7 8 £58,750 +23.24% 3
Northern Ireland +10 7 £55,000 +57.14% 2

Clean Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (2.85%) WordPress
2 15 (1.71%) CMS
3 13 (1.48%) Confluence
4 11 (1.25%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.57%) Apache Solr
5 5 (0.57%) nginx
6 3 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.34%) SAS
7 2 (0.23%) Drupal
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.34%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.23%) Sketch
4 1 (0.11%) UXPin
4 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 23 (2.62%) Shopify
2 16 (1.82%) Magento
3 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 241 (27.45%) AWS
2 224 (25.51%) Azure
3 93 (10.59%) Serverless
4 91 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (8.20%) GitHub
5 72 (8.20%) SaaS
6 41 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (4.56%) GCP
8 36 (4.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (1.59%) npm
13 13 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.37%) Google Analytics
15 11 (1.25%) Amazon S3
16 10 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.14%) Google Play
16 10 (1.14%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.14%) HTTP
2 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.34%) Intranet
3 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.23%) Broadband
4 2 (0.23%) DNS
4 2 (0.23%) RS-232
4 2 (0.23%) RS-485
4 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 1 (0.11%) FTP
5 1 (0.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (14.69%) SQL Server
2 93 (10.59%) MySQL
3 69 (7.86%) Relational Database
4 58 (6.61%) NoSQL
5 47 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (4.44%) Oracle Database
7 36 (4.10%) MongoDB
7 36 (4.10%) RDBMS
8 26 (2.96%) DynamoDB
9 19 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 18 (2.05%) Redis
11 14 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.68%) Big Data
14 4 (0.46%) DocumentDB
14 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 213 (24.26%) Git
2 92 (10.48%) Jenkins
3 58 (6.61%) Cucumber
4 56 (6.38%) Postman
5 47 (5.35%) Selenium
6 42 (4.78%) Bitbucket
7 41 (4.67%) JIRA
8 40 (4.56%) Visual Studio
9 36 (4.10%) JDeveloper
10 16 (1.82%) Cypress.io
11 15 (1.71%) JUnit
11 15 (1.71%) PHPUnit
11 15 (1.71%) TeamCity
12 14 (1.59%) Appium
12 14 (1.59%) GitLab
13 13 (1.48%) webpack
14 9 (1.03%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.91%) Moq
15 8 (0.91%) MSTest
16 7 (0.80%) gulp
General
1 244 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 105 (11.96%) Finance
3 56 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (5.47%) Retail
6 40 (4.56%) Law
7 38 (4.33%) Marketing
8 37 (4.21%) Banking
9 30 (3.42%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.85%) Public Sector
11 22 (2.51%) Games
12 17 (1.94%) Back Office
13 16 (1.82%) Local Government
14 15 (1.71%) Legal
15 14 (1.59%) Tech for Good
16 13 (1.48%) Advertising
17 12 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (1.03%) Aviation
18 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 603 (68.68%) Developer
2 245 (27.90%) Senior
3 183 (20.84%) Senior Developer
4 120 (13.67%) Software Engineer
5 112 (12.76%) Software Developer
6 111 (12.64%) .NET Developer
7 105 (11.96%) Lead
8 88 (10.02%) Full Stack Developer
9 66 (7.52%) PHP Developer
10 54 (6.15%) C# Developer
11 36 (4.10%) Backend Developer
11 36 (4.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 36 (4.10%) React Developer
11 36 (4.10%) Ruby Engineer
11 36 (4.10%) Senior .NET Developer
12 30 (3.42%) Senior Software Developer
13 29 (3.30%) Junior
14 27 (3.08%) Junior Developer
14 27 (3.08%) Lead Developer
15 26 (2.96%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (32.35%) .NET
2 269 (30.64%) React
3 219 (24.94%) CSS
4 201 (22.89%) HTML
5 163 (18.56%) Node.js
6 138 (15.72%) REST
7 126 (14.35%) RESTful
8 117 (13.33%) .NET Core
8 117 (13.33%) AngularJS
9 97 (11.05%) .NET Framework
10 88 (10.02%) Vue
11 83 (9.45%) ASP.NET
12 75 (8.54%) Laravel
13 67 (7.63%) GraphQL
14 64 (7.29%) Entity Framework
15 55 (6.26%) jQuery
16 45 (5.13%) HTML5
17 42 (4.78%) Kafka
18 41 (4.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 41 (4.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (6.83%) Greenfield Project
2 54 (6.15%) Mobile App
3 37 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 34 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 31 (3.53%) Algorithms
6 27 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (2.73%) Virtual Team
8 20 (2.28%) Blog
9 19 (2.16%) Client/Server
10 18 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.48%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (1.37%) NHS
14 11 (1.25%) AS400
14 11 (1.25%) iSeries
15 7 (0.80%) IoT
15 7 (0.80%) Oculus
15 7 (0.80%) Virtual Reality
16 4 (0.46%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.33%) Android
2 29 (3.30%) Apple iOS
3 25 (2.85%) Linux
4 19 (2.16%) Windows
5 7 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.68%) Unix
7 2 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (37.02%) Agile
2 244 (27.79%) Problem-Solving
3 232 (26.42%) Software Engineering
4 215 (24.49%) DevOps
5 212 (24.15%) CI/CD
6 183 (20.84%) Full Stack Development
7 166 (18.91%) Design Patterns
8 161 (18.34%) Microservices
8 161 (18.34%) Unit Testing
9 142 (16.17%) Computer Science
10 125 (14.24%) TDD
11 101 (11.50%) Code Quality
12 100 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 99 (11.28%) Test Automation
14 95 (10.82%) Mentoring
15 93 (10.59%) Scrum
16 90 (10.25%) Fintech
17 89 (10.14%) MVC
18 82 (9.34%) User Experience
19 74 (8.43%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 406 (46.24%) JavaScript
2 318 (36.22%) C#
3 218 (24.83%) Java
4 166 (18.91%) TypeScript
5 159 (18.11%) SQL
6 122 (13.90%) Python
7 108 (12.30%) PHP
8 46 (5.24%) Go
8 46 (5.24%) Ruby
9 36 (4.10%) Bash
9 36 (4.10%) Perl
10 30 (3.42%) Kotlin
11 29 (3.30%) VB.NET
12 21 (2.39%) Bicep
12 21 (2.39%) C
13 13 (1.48%) Swift
14 12 (1.37%) C++
14 12 (1.37%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.25%) RPG
15 11 (1.25%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 145 (16.51%) Degree
2 99 (11.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (2.28%) Master's Degree
4 19 (2.16%) Security Cleared
5 18 (2.05%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.46%) PhD
8 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.23%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (16.06%) QA
2 38 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.25%) GDPR
4 7 (0.80%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.68%) WCAG
6 3 (0.34%) WAI
7 2 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 121 (13.78%) Docker
2 19 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 92 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.76%) Terraform
3 13 (1.48%) Grafana
4 5 (0.57%) Ansible
4 5 (0.57%) Kibana
5 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.11%) Consul
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 101 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.72%) Oracle
3 47 (5.35%) Google
4 11 (1.25%) IBM
5 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
6 7 (0.80%) Adobe
7 6 (0.68%) Actuate
7 6 (0.68%) Confluent
7 6 (0.68%) Databricks
7 6 (0.68%) F5
7 6 (0.68%) WooCommerce
7 6 (0.68%) Xamarin
8 5 (0.57%) New Relic
8 5 (0.57%) Northgate
8 5 (0.57%) PayPal
8 5 (0.57%) WorldPay
9 4 (0.46%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.34%) Rackspace
10 3 (0.34%) Splunk