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

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 232 170
Rank change year-on-year -103 -62 +30
Permanent jobs citing Clean Code 856 1,564 4,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 1.59% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.67% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 684 820 1,068
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,200 £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 85,989 93,723 157,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.40% 95.55% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 60,364 55,437 82,675
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 26 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 26 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 -83 744 £60,000 -14.29% 279
UK excluding London -89 529 £50,000 -13.04% 208
Work from Home -39 436 £62,500 -10.71% 143
London -80 275 £82,000 +2.13% 129
North of England +25 171 £50,000 -4.76% 41
North West +62 130 £50,000 -23.08% 28
Midlands +57 111 £50,000 -9.09% 32
South East -133 76 £57,500 -8.00% 79
West Midlands +65 75 £50,000 -23.08% 24
South West +14 69 £57,500 +7.48% 19
Wales 0 36 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -3 36 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Yorkshire -3 33 £45,000 -10.00% 6
East of England -51 33 £45,000 +12.50% 22
Scotland -125 27 £60,000 -7.69% 9
North East -3 8 £55,000 +15.37% 9
Northern Ireland -1 6 £55,000 +57.14% 4

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 (2.92%) WordPress
2 15 (1.75%) CMS
3 14 (1.64%) Confluence
4 11 (1.29%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.70%) Apache Solr
6 5 (0.58%) nginx
7 3 (0.35%) Apache
7 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.35%) IIS
7 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.35%) SAS
7 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.23%) Drupal
8 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.35%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.23%) Sketch
3 1 (0.12%) UXPin
3 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 23 (2.69%) Shopify
2 16 (1.87%) Magento
3 3 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 242 (28.27%) AWS
2 232 (27.10%) Azure
3 94 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
4 83 (9.70%) Serverless
5 74 (8.64%) GitHub
6 69 (8.06%) SaaS
7 42 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (4.79%) GCP
9 36 (4.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 27 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (1.64%) npm
15 12 (1.40%) Google Analytics
16 11 (1.29%) Amazon S3
17 10 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
17 10 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.17%) Azure Functions
17 10 (1.17%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.17%) HTTP
2 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.35%) Intranet
3 3 (0.35%) 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 (0.12%) FTP
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (15.30%) SQL Server
2 95 (11.10%) MySQL
3 62 (7.24%) Relational Database
4 59 (6.89%) NoSQL
5 50 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (4.32%) MongoDB
7 27 (3.15%) Oracle Database
8 26 (3.04%) DynamoDB
9 24 (2.80%) RDBMS
10 20 (2.34%) Redis
11 19 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 14 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.70%) Big Data
17 4 (0.47%) DocumentDB
17 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 3 (0.35%) Looker
Development Applications
1 201 (23.48%) Git
2 84 (9.81%) Jenkins
3 51 (5.96%) Postman
4 49 (5.72%) Cucumber
5 41 (4.79%) Bitbucket
5 41 (4.79%) Selenium
6 40 (4.67%) JIRA
6 40 (4.67%) Visual Studio
7 24 (2.80%) JDeveloper
8 16 (1.87%) GitLab
9 15 (1.75%) PHPUnit
9 15 (1.75%) TeamCity
10 14 (1.64%) JUnit
11 13 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.52%) webpack
12 12 (1.40%) Appium
13 9 (1.05%) IntelliJ
13 9 (1.05%) Moq
13 9 (1.05%) MSTest
14 7 (0.82%) CMake
General
1 246 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 109 (12.73%) Finance
3 58 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (5.84%) Retail
6 39 (4.56%) Law
7 38 (4.44%) Marketing
8 37 (4.32%) Banking
9 31 (3.62%) Manufacturing
10 24 (2.80%) Public Sector
11 20 (2.34%) Games
12 17 (1.99%) Back Office
13 16 (1.87%) Local Government
14 15 (1.75%) Legal
15 12 (1.40%) Advertising
15 12 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.40%) Tech for Good
16 9 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.93%) Aviation
18 6 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 598 (69.86%) Developer
2 245 (28.62%) Senior
3 182 (21.26%) Senior Developer
4 113 (13.20%) Software Engineer
5 110 (12.85%) .NET Developer
6 109 (12.73%) Software Developer
7 101 (11.80%) Lead
8 87 (10.16%) Full Stack Developer
9 67 (7.83%) PHP Developer
10 54 (6.31%) C# Developer
11 38 (4.44%) Backend Developer
12 37 (4.32%) React Developer
13 36 (4.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 36 (4.21%) Senior .NET Developer
14 30 (3.50%) Senior Software Developer
15 29 (3.39%) Junior
16 27 (3.15%) Junior Developer
16 27 (3.15%) Senior C# Developer
16 27 (3.15%) Senior Software Engineer
17 26 (3.04%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (33.41%) .NET
2 260 (30.37%) React
3 219 (25.58%) CSS
4 202 (23.60%) HTML
5 151 (17.64%) Node.js
6 131 (15.30%) REST
7 126 (14.72%) RESTful
8 118 (13.79%) .NET Core
8 118 (13.79%) AngularJS
9 101 (11.80%) .NET Framework
10 90 (10.51%) Vue
11 84 (9.81%) ASP.NET
12 77 (9.00%) Laravel
13 68 (7.94%) Entity Framework
13 68 (7.94%) GraphQL
14 56 (6.54%) jQuery
15 44 (5.14%) HTML5
16 42 (4.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 40 (4.67%) Kafka
18 38 (4.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.89%) Greenfield Project
2 54 (6.31%) Mobile App
3 37 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 34 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 31 (3.62%) Algorithms
6 27 (3.15%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (2.69%) Virtual Team
9 20 (2.34%) Blog
10 19 (2.22%) Client/Server
11 17 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.40%) NHS
13 11 (1.29%) AS400
13 11 (1.29%) iSeries
13 11 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (0.70%) IoT
14 6 (0.70%) Oculus
14 6 (0.70%) Virtual Reality
15 4 (0.47%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.44%) Android
2 27 (3.15%) Apple iOS
2 27 (3.15%) Linux
3 20 (2.34%) Windows
4 7 (0.82%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.70%) Unix
6 2 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Debian
6 2 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (38.43%) Agile
2 234 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
3 225 (26.29%) Software Engineering
4 208 (24.30%) DevOps
5 204 (23.83%) CI/CD
6 183 (21.38%) Full Stack Development
7 152 (17.76%) Unit Testing
8 151 (17.64%) Design Patterns
9 147 (17.17%) Computer Science
9 147 (17.17%) Microservices
10 123 (14.37%) TDD
11 101 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 96 (11.21%) Test Automation
13 94 (10.98%) Mentoring
14 92 (10.75%) MVC
15 89 (10.40%) Code Quality
15 89 (10.40%) Scrum
16 87 (10.16%) Fintech
17 79 (9.23%) User Experience
18 77 (9.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 389 (45.44%) JavaScript
2 321 (37.50%) C#
3 200 (23.36%) Java
4 169 (19.74%) TypeScript
5 154 (17.99%) SQL
6 111 (12.97%) Python
7 109 (12.73%) PHP
8 34 (3.97%) Go
9 31 (3.62%) Ruby
10 30 (3.50%) Kotlin
10 30 (3.50%) VB.NET
11 24 (2.80%) Bash
11 24 (2.80%) Perl
12 21 (2.45%) Bicep
12 21 (2.45%) C
13 13 (1.52%) C++
14 11 (1.29%) RPG
14 11 (1.29%) RPG IV
14 11 (1.29%) RPG/400
14 11 (1.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (17.52%) Degree
2 105 (12.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (2.34%) Master's Degree
4 17 (1.99%) Security Cleared
5 16 (1.87%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.82%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.47%) PhD
8 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.23%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (14.60%) QA
2 38 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.29%) GDPR
4 7 (0.82%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.70%) WCAG
6 2 (0.23%) SEPA
6 2 (0.23%) WAI
System Software
1 121 (14.14%) Docker
2 19 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 94 (10.98%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.21%) Terraform
3 15 (1.75%) Grafana
4 5 (0.58%) Kibana
5 4 (0.47%) Ansible
6 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 103 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.61%) Google
3 46 (5.37%) Oracle
4 11 (1.29%) IBM
5 9 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 6 (0.70%) Actuate
6 6 (0.70%) Adobe
6 6 (0.70%) Confluent
6 6 (0.70%) Databricks
6 6 (0.70%) F5
6 6 (0.70%) WooCommerce
6 6 (0.70%) Xamarin
7 5 (0.58%) New Relic
7 5 (0.58%) Northgate
7 5 (0.58%) PayPal
7 5 (0.58%) WorldPay
8 4 (0.47%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.35%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.35%) HP
9 3 (0.35%) Splunk