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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 517 532
Rank change year-on-year +44 +15 -69
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 60 109 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.23% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.25% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 85 211
10th Percentile - £364 £463
25th Percentile £400 £375 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -28.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £704 £544 £750
90th Percentile £850 £650 £800
UK median daily rate £519 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +15.28% -28.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £68.37 - -
25th Percentile £69.69 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.74% - -
75th Percentile £72.19 - -
90th Percentile £72.37 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £48.87 £20.75
% change year-on-year +43.25% +135.49% -

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 31,431 42,926 64,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.01% 89.99% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,589 30,110 45,551
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £449 £431
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 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,282 1,521 1,725
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.96 £15.99 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.20 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
% change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%

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 25 May 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 25 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 +59 32 £615 +29.47% 26
North of England +40 11 £500 +21.21% 2
South East -5 11 £400 +6.95% 13
North West +29 9 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
Midlands +31 1 - - 8
West Midlands +10 1 - - 3
South West +9 1 £413 -36.54% 6
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 4 (6.67%) CMS
1 4 (6.67%) Confluence
1 4 (6.67%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) FLEXCUBE
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) AWS
2 10 (16.67%) Azure
3 8 (13.33%) Serverless
4 6 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (6.67%) GCP
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.67%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub
8 1 (1.67%) Kong
8 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) JIRA
2 9 (15.00%) Cypress.io
3 8 (13.33%) Git
4 6 (10.00%) GitLab
5 5 (8.33%) Gradle
6 4 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 4 (6.67%) Selenium
7 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
8 2 (3.33%) Android Studio
8 2 (3.33%) HP UFT
8 2 (3.33%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
9 1 (1.67%) Toad
9 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Front Office
4 8 (13.33%) Finance
5 7 (11.67%) Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Automotive
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Law
7 1 (1.67%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (46.67%) Developer
2 9 (15.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 9 (15.00%) React Developer
3 7 (11.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 7 (11.67%) Software Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) C++ Developer
4 6 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Architect
6 4 (6.67%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
6 4 (6.67%) Front Office Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior
7 3 (5.00%) UI Developer
8 2 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Lead
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (31.67%) React
2 9 (15.00%) AngularJS
2 9 (15.00%) Reactive Extensions
2 9 (15.00%) Redux
3 8 (13.33%) REST
4 7 (11.67%) CSS
5 5 (8.33%) Next.js
6 4 (6.67%) HTML
6 4 (6.67%) HTML5
6 4 (6.67%) Web Services
7 3 (5.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (5.00%) RAML
7 3 (5.00%) Spring
7 3 (5.00%) WPF
8 2 (3.33%) .NET
8 2 (3.33%) Jest
8 2 (3.33%) Node.js
8 2 (3.33%) Nuxt
8 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.67%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) CCTV
2 7 (11.67%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (8.33%) Legacy Code
4 3 (5.00%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.67%) Animation
6 1 (1.67%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
2 9 (15.00%) Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Android
4 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (56.67%) Agile
2 21 (35.00%) Software Engineering
3 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
3 11 (18.33%) DevOps
4 10 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 10 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (16.67%) SDLC
5 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (15.00%) Economics
5 9 (15.00%) Electronic Trading
5 9 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 9 (15.00%) OCR
5 9 (15.00%) Software Testing
5 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (13.33%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 8 (13.33%) User Experience
7 7 (11.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.67%) SQL
2 18 (30.00%) C#
3 15 (25.00%) Java
4 14 (23.33%) TypeScript
5 10 (16.67%) C++
6 9 (15.00%) Python
7 8 (13.33%) Bash
8 7 (11.67%) Kotlin
9 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
9 4 (6.67%) PHP
10 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.67%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.67%) Swift
11 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 6 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) ISO 9001
1 8 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (11.67%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.00%) Terraform
3 6 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (6.67%) Google
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (3.33%) Databricks
3 2 (3.33%) HP
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.67%) Ab Initio