Refactoring Contracts in England

Refactoring
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Refactoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Refactoring over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 557 519
Rank change year-on-year +82 -38 -46
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 63 98 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.22% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 75 221
10th Percentile £400 £402 £463
25th Percentile £406 £411 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -20.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £766 £600 £750
90th Percentile £850 £700 £800
UK median daily rate £581 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +16.25% -20.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £68.37 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £69.69 £38.75 £75.00
Median hourly rate £71.87 £42.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.11% -46.88% -
75th Percentile £72.19 £46.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £72.37 £48.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £47.73 £50.38
% change year-on-year +46.66% -5.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Refactoring 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 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring 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 Refactoring within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +77 32 £710 +49.47% 17
South East +26 15 £406 -1.52% 11
North of England +32 10 £413 -15.38% 7
North West +27 9 £413 - 6
West Midlands +30 1 - - 1
Midlands +26 1 - - 5
South West +10 1 £413 -36.54% 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Refactoring
UK

Refactoring
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 2 (3.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) CMS
2 1 (1.59%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) FLEXCUBE
1 2 (3.17%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.22%) AWS
2 11 (17.46%) Azure
3 8 (12.70%) Serverless
4 6 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 6 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (9.52%) GitHub
4 6 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.17%) GCP
6 2 (3.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.59%) Kong
7 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Firewall
1 1 (1.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) Relational Database
2 6 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.59%) MySQL
4 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Power BI
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) JIRA
2 9 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 7 (11.11%) Git
4 6 (9.52%) GitLab
5 5 (7.94%) LoadRunner
5 5 (7.94%) TeamCity
6 4 (6.35%) Cucumber
6 4 (6.35%) Gradle
6 4 (6.35%) Selenium
7 2 (3.17%) HP UFT
7 2 (3.17%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.59%) Toad
General
1 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (17.46%) Front Office
4 8 (12.70%) Finance
5 7 (11.11%) Banking
6 2 (3.17%) Marketing
7 1 (1.59%) Automotive
7 1 (1.59%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (47.62%) Developer
2 11 (17.46%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 11 (17.46%) React Developer
3 8 (12.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 7 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (9.52%) C++ Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (7.94%) C# Developer
6 5 (7.94%) UI Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Architect
7 4 (6.35%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
7 4 (6.35%) Front Office Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Java Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Senior
7 4 (6.35%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.17%) Salesforce Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.57%) React
2 11 (17.46%) Reactive Extensions
2 11 (17.46%) Redux
3 9 (14.29%) REST
4 6 (9.52%) AngularJS
4 6 (9.52%) CSS
5 5 (7.94%) WPF
6 4 (6.35%) .NET
7 3 (4.76%) RAML
8 2 (3.17%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.17%) Next.js
8 2 (3.17%) SOAP
8 2 (3.17%) Spring
9 1 (1.59%) HTML
9 1 (1.59%) HTML5
9 1 (1.59%) Jest
9 1 (1.59%) Node.js
9 1 (1.59%) RESTful
9 1 (1.59%) Web Services
9 1 (1.59%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) CCTV
2 7 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.94%) Fixed Income
4 4 (6.35%) Legacy Code
5 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.59%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.46%) Windows
2 9 (14.29%) Linux
3 5 (7.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (53.97%) Agile
2 17 (26.98%) Software Engineering
3 13 (20.63%) Design Patterns
4 12 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (19.05%) DevOps
5 11 (17.46%) Economics
5 11 (17.46%) Electronic Trading
6 10 (15.87%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (14.29%) OCR
7 9 (14.29%) SDLC
7 9 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (14.29%) User Experience
8 8 (12.70%) CI/CD
8 8 (12.70%) Containerisation
8 8 (12.70%) Full Stack Development
9 7 (11.11%) Clean Code
9 7 (11.11%) Scrum
9 7 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (36.51%) C#
2 22 (34.92%) SQL
3 13 (20.63%) TypeScript
4 12 (19.05%) Java
5 10 (15.87%) C++
6 7 (11.11%) Python
7 6 (9.52%) Bash
8 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
8 4 (6.35%) Kotlin
8 4 (6.35%) PHP
9 2 (3.17%) SOQL
9 2 (3.17%) SOSL
10 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (20.63%) SC Cleared
1 13 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.76%) Degree
3 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (12.70%) ISO 9001
2 8 (12.70%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) GRC
3 1 (1.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 9 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
1 8 (12.70%) Terraform
2 6 (9.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Oracle
2 5 (7.94%) HP
3 3 (4.76%) Micro Focus
3 3 (4.76%) OpenText
4 2 (3.17%) Databricks
4 2 (3.17%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace