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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 233 173
Rank change year-on-year -98 -60 +32
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 876 1,584 3,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 1.60% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.67% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 696 824 1,083
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £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 £73,784 £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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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 18 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 18 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 -72 759 £60,000 -14.29% 263
UK excluding London -84 540 £50,000 -13.04% 180
Work from Home -27 451 £62,500 -10.71% 146
London -71 283 £82,250 +2.44% 111
North of England +41 176 £50,000 -4.76% 39
North West +65 133 £50,000 -23.08% 27
Midlands +61 113 £50,000 -9.09% 32
South East -137 76 £57,500 -8.00% 51
West Midlands +62 73 £50,000 -23.08% 24
South West +6 70 £55,000 +2.80% 22
East Midlands +14 40 £50,000 +11.11% 8
Wales 0 37 £45,000 -26.92% 6
Yorkshire +11 35 £45,000 -10.00% 8
East of England -64 32 £45,000 +12.50% 23
Scotland -130 29 £60,000 -7.69% 7
North East -7 8 £58,750 +23.24% 5
Northern Ireland 0 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 (1.26%) 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 (2.63%) Shopify
2 16 (1.83%) Magento
3 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 240 (27.40%) AWS
2 228 (26.03%) Azure
3 94 (10.73%) Serverless
4 92 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (8.33%) GitHub
6 71 (8.11%) SaaS
7 42 (4.79%) GCP
8 41 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (4.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 27 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.60%) npm
14 12 (1.37%) Google Analytics
15 11 (1.26%) Amazon S3
16 10 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.14%) Azure Functions
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 (14.73%) SQL Server
2 94 (10.73%) MySQL
3 70 (7.99%) Relational Database
4 60 (6.85%) NoSQL
5 48 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (4.45%) Oracle Database
7 36 (4.11%) MongoDB
7 36 (4.11%) RDBMS
8 26 (2.97%) DynamoDB
9 20 (2.28%) Redis
10 19 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 14 (1.60%) 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%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 213 (24.32%) Git
2 90 (10.27%) Jenkins
3 55 (6.28%) Cucumber
3 55 (6.28%) Postman
4 45 (5.14%) Selenium
5 41 (4.68%) Bitbucket
6 40 (4.57%) JIRA
6 40 (4.57%) Visual Studio
7 36 (4.11%) JDeveloper
8 15 (1.71%) Cypress.io
8 15 (1.71%) GitLab
8 15 (1.71%) JUnit
8 15 (1.71%) PHPUnit
8 15 (1.71%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.48%) Appium
9 13 (1.48%) webpack
10 9 (1.03%) IntelliJ
11 8 (0.91%) Moq
11 8 (0.91%) MSTest
12 7 (0.80%) gulp
General
1 243 (27.74%) Social Skills
2 108 (12.33%) Finance
3 57 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (5.59%) Retail
6 40 (4.57%) Law
7 38 (4.34%) Marketing
8 37 (4.22%) Banking
9 30 (3.42%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.85%) Public Sector
11 21 (2.40%) Games
12 17 (1.94%) Back Office
13 16 (1.83%) Local Government
14 15 (1.71%) Legal
15 13 (1.48%) Tech for Good
16 12 (1.37%) Advertising
16 12 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.03%) Aviation
17 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 600 (68.49%) Developer
2 246 (28.08%) Senior
3 182 (20.78%) Senior Developer
4 123 (14.04%) Software Engineer
5 112 (12.79%) .NET Developer
5 112 (12.79%) Software Developer
6 104 (11.87%) Lead
7 88 (10.05%) Full Stack Developer
8 66 (7.53%) PHP Developer
9 54 (6.16%) C# Developer
10 37 (4.22%) Backend Developer
10 37 (4.22%) Senior .NET Developer
11 36 (4.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 36 (4.11%) React Developer
11 36 (4.11%) Ruby Engineer
12 30 (3.42%) Senior Software Developer
13 29 (3.31%) Junior
14 27 (3.08%) Junior Developer
14 27 (3.08%) Lead Developer
15 26 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (32.53%) .NET
2 270 (30.82%) React
3 220 (25.11%) CSS
4 202 (23.06%) HTML
5 163 (18.61%) Node.js
6 138 (15.75%) REST
7 125 (14.27%) RESTful
8 117 (13.36%) .NET Core
8 117 (13.36%) AngularJS
9 97 (11.07%) .NET Framework
10 88 (10.05%) Vue
11 83 (9.47%) ASP.NET
12 76 (8.68%) Laravel
13 67 (7.65%) GraphQL
14 64 (7.31%) Entity Framework
15 55 (6.28%) jQuery
16 45 (5.14%) HTML5
17 43 (4.91%) Kafka
18 41 (4.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 40 (4.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.74%) Greenfield Project
2 54 (6.16%) Mobile App
3 37 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 35 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 31 (3.54%) Algorithms
6 27 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 20 (2.28%) Blog
10 19 (2.17%) Client/Server
11 17 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (1.37%) NHS
14 11 (1.26%) AS400
14 11 (1.26%) 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 (4.34%) Android
2 28 (3.20%) Apple iOS
3 26 (2.97%) Linux
4 19 (2.17%) Windows
5 7 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.68%) Unix
7 2 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (37.44%) Agile
2 243 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
3 235 (26.83%) Software Engineering
4 218 (24.89%) DevOps
5 210 (23.97%) CI/CD
6 184 (21.00%) Full Stack Development
7 167 (19.06%) Design Patterns
8 161 (18.38%) Microservices
8 161 (18.38%) Unit Testing
9 143 (16.32%) Computer Science
10 125 (14.27%) TDD
11 101 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (11.42%) Code Quality
13 98 (11.19%) Test Automation
14 94 (10.73%) Mentoring
15 93 (10.62%) Scrum
16 90 (10.27%) MVC
17 89 (10.16%) Fintech
18 81 (9.25%) User Experience
19 75 (8.56%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 406 (46.35%) JavaScript
2 319 (36.42%) C#
3 217 (24.77%) Java
4 167 (19.06%) TypeScript
5 160 (18.26%) SQL
6 123 (14.04%) Python
7 109 (12.44%) PHP
8 46 (5.25%) Go
9 43 (4.91%) Ruby
10 36 (4.11%) Bash
10 36 (4.11%) Perl
11 30 (3.42%) Kotlin
12 29 (3.31%) VB.NET
13 21 (2.40%) Bicep
13 21 (2.40%) C
14 13 (1.48%) C++
15 12 (1.37%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.26%) RPG
16 11 (1.26%) RPG IV
16 11 (1.26%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 146 (16.67%) Degree
2 100 (11.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (2.28%) Master's Degree
4 18 (2.05%) Security Cleared
5 17 (1.94%) 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 (16.10%) QA
2 38 (4.34%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.26%) GDPR
4 7 (0.80%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.68%) WCAG
6 3 (0.34%) WAI
7 2 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 122 (13.93%) Docker
2 19 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 94 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.88%) Terraform
3 14 (1.60%) 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 (11.53%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.74%) Oracle
3 48 (5.48%) Google
4 11 (1.26%) 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