Refactoring Contracts with Work from Home Options

Refactoring
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 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 322 405 464
Rank change year-on-year +83 +59 -18
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 27 59 146
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.24% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.26% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 41 120
10th Percentile £434 £374 £463
25th Percentile £505 £406 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +27.89% -24.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £813 £600 £700
90th Percentile £850 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +10.53% -24.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +68.67% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £47.73 £80.00
% change year-on-year +46.66% -40.34% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,102 22,417 40,338
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.99% 89.73% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,786 15,844 29,294
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 517 543
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £14.30
25th Percentile £25.25 £28.62 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +38.98% +54.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.60
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Refactoring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Refactoring trend for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Refactoring.

Refactoring daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Refactoring daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Refactoring.

Refactoring hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (14.81%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) CMS
2 2 (7.41%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (14.81%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.70%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.70%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Table
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) Pulumi
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) JIRA
2 5 (18.52%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) Balsamiq
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Front Office
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) C# Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 5 (18.52%) React Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Architect
4 4 (14.81%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
4 4 (14.81%) Front Office Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) React
2 8 (29.63%) AngularJS
3 5 (18.52%) Reactive Extensions
3 5 (18.52%) Redux
4 4 (14.81%) REST
5 3 (11.11%) .NET
6 2 (7.41%) CSS
6 2 (7.41%) HTML
6 2 (7.41%) HTML5
6 2 (7.41%) Next.js
6 2 (7.41%) Web Services
7 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.70%) Jest
7 1 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (3.70%) Nuxt
7 1 (3.70%) RESTful
7 1 (3.70%) SOAP
7 1 (3.70%) Visualforce
7 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Code
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Agile
1 10 (37.04%) Design Patterns
2 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
3 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 5 (18.52%) Clean Code
4 5 (18.52%) Code Quality
4 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (18.52%) Economics
4 5 (18.52%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (18.52%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (18.52%) Front End Development
4 5 (18.52%) Migration
4 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
5 4 (14.81%) Data Migration
5 4 (14.81%) Data Security
5 4 (14.81%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (14.81%) Test Strategy
6 3 (11.11%) Database Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) C#
3 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 5 (18.52%) Java
4 5 (18.52%) PHP
4 5 (18.52%) Python
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) Go
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) Perl
6 1 (3.70%) SOQL
6 1 (3.70%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) CSPO
2 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) SAP