The first table below looks at the demand for Refactoring skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Refactoring over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Refactoring
Rank 284 273 291
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +18
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 35 43 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.288% 0.327% 0.291%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.369% 0.429% 0.385%
Number of salaries quoted 32 40 44
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £72,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -20.68%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,000 £50,000
10% offered a salary of more than £87,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.93% +8.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
9475 10022 11961
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 77.91% 76.30% 75.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8154 9133 10675
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Refactoring
London

Refactoring
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Refactoring across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Refactoring Jobs Demand Trend

Refactoring
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Refactoring across the City of London region.

City of London Refactoring Salary Trend

Refactoring
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Refactoring across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Refactoring Salary Histogram

Refactoring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Refactoring also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Refactoring.

1 30 (56.60%) Agile Software Development
1 30 (56.60%) SQL
2 26 (49.06%) Scrum
3 24 (45.28%) Java
4 22 (41.51%) TDD
5 20 (37.74%) JavaScript
6 18 (33.96%) OO
7 17 (32.08%) CSS
8 14 (26.42%) SQL Server
8 14 (26.42%) Software Engineering
8 14 (26.42%) Finance
8 14 (26.42%) jQuery
9 13 (24.53%) Telecoms
9 13 (24.53%) C#
9 13 (24.53%) HTML
9 13 (24.53%) XML
10 12 (22.64%) PHP
10 12 (22.64%) HTTP
10 12 (22.64%) Git (software)
11 11 (20.75%) MVC
12 10 (18.87%) Unit Testing
12 10 (18.87%) JSON
12 10 (18.87%) Computer Science
13 9 (16.98%) T-SQL
13 9 (16.98%) C++
13 9 (16.98%) .NET
13 9 (16.98%) Linux
13 9 (16.98%) OOP
14 8 (15.09%) Web Services
14 8 (15.09%) LDAP

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Refactoring also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Refactoring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (32.08%) CSS
2 14 (26.42%) jQuery
3 13 (24.53%) HTML
3 13 (24.53%) XML
4 10 (18.87%) JSON
5 9 (16.98%) .NET
6 8 (15.09%) Web Services
7 7 (13.21%) Hibernate
7 7 (13.21%) OAuth
7 7 (13.21%) Spring
8 6 (11.32%) RESTful
8 6 (11.32%) SAML
8 6 (11.32%) OpenID
8 6 (11.32%) REST
9 5 (9.434%) .NET Framework
9 5 (9.434%) XHTML
9 5 (9.434%) DHTML
9 5 (9.434%) ASP.NET
9 5 (9.434%) JDBC
9 5 (9.434%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.434%) CMS
2 4 (7.547%) Mule
2 4 (7.547%) Magento
2 4 (7.547%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (3.774%) ColdFusion
3 2 (3.774%) ColdFusion MX
4 1 (1.887%) IIS
4 1 (1.887%) Apache
4 1 (1.887%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (11.32%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.887%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.64%) HTTP
2 8 (15.09%) LDAP
3 6 (11.32%) SSL
4 5 (9.434%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (9.434%) ADSL
4 5 (9.434%) Broadband
5 2 (3.774%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.774%) HTTPS
5 2 (3.774%) Internet
6 1 (1.887%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.42%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.32%) MySQL
2 6 (11.32%) Big Data
3 5 (9.434%) Redis
3 5 (9.434%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.434%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.434%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (7.547%) CouchDB
5 3 (5.660%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (5.660%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (5.660%) VLDB
6 1 (1.887%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.887%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.887%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.887%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
6 1 (1.887%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 12 (22.64%) Git (software)
2 7 (13.21%) Subversion
3 5 (9.434%) Visual Studio
3 5 (9.434%) ERwin
4 4 (7.547%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.660%) JUnit
5 3 (5.660%) Selenium
5 3 (5.660%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (3.774%) WebDriver
6 2 (3.774%) MSTest
6 2 (3.774%) PHPUnit
6 2 (3.774%) NUnit
6 2 (3.774%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.887%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.887%) Maven
7 1 (1.887%) Moq
7 1 (1.887%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.887%) JsTestDriver
7 1 (1.887%) Capybara
7 1 (1.887%) FxCop
General
1 14 (26.42%) Finance
2 13 (24.53%) Telecoms
3 6 (11.32%) Back Office
4 5 (9.434%) Legal
5 3 (5.660%) Billing
6 2 (3.774%) Banking
7 1 (1.887%) Front Office
7 1 (1.887%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.887%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (67.92%) Developer
2 11 (20.75%) Software Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Senior Developer
3 7 (13.21%) C# Developer
4 6 (11.32%) Programmer
4 6 (11.32%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.434%) Software Developer
5 5 (9.434%) Database Designer
5 5 (9.434%) PHP Developer
5 5 (9.434%) Designer
6 4 (7.547%) Java Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Senior Java Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Agile Coach
6 4 (7.547%) Big Data Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Junior Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Technical Leader
6 4 (7.547%) Java Software Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Junior
6 4 (7.547%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Computer Science
2 4 (7.547%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.660%) Web 2.0
3 3 (5.660%) Derivative
4 2 (3.774%) New Media
5 1 (1.887%) Animation
5 1 (1.887%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.887%) Clustering
5 1 (1.887%) Social Network
5 1 (1.887%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.887%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.887%) Open Source
5 1 (1.887%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.98%) Linux
2 2 (3.774%) Android
2 2 (3.774%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.774%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) Agile Software Development
2 26 (49.06%) Scrum
3 22 (41.51%) TDD
4 18 (33.96%) OO
5 14 (26.42%) Software Engineering
6 11 (20.75%) MVC
7 10 (18.87%) Unit Testing
8 9 (16.98%) OOP
9 8 (15.09%) Kanban
10 7 (13.21%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (13.21%) SOA
11 6 (11.32%) Code Coverage
11 6 (11.32%) Pair Programming
12 5 (9.434%) Migration
12 5 (9.434%) Regression Testing
12 5 (9.434%) E-Commerce
12 5 (9.434%) Data Modelling
12 5 (9.434%) Business Analysis
13 4 (7.547%) Web Development
13 4 (7.547%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 30 (56.60%) SQL
2 24 (45.28%) Java
3 20 (37.74%) JavaScript
4 13 (24.53%) C#
5 12 (22.64%) PHP
6 9 (16.98%) T-SQL
6 9 (16.98%) C++
7 6 (11.32%) Perl
8 5 (9.434%) PL/SQL
8 5 (9.434%) Ruby
8 5 (9.434%) PHP5
9 4 (7.547%) Scala
9 4 (7.547%) Python
10 2 (3.774%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.887%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.887%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.887%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (7.547%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.434%) Oracle
3 1 (1.887%) Sun
3 1 (1.887%) Cadence
City, London
My client a innovative telecommunications company based in the heart of Central London are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who has a passion for/ expert knowledge in...
IT Talent Solutions
Salary: £75000 - £90000 per annum + bonus work from home
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Refactoring, Continuous integration and SOLID principles. The team is a mix between Scrum/Kanban... - NoSQL databases, specifically MongoDB and experience with Ruby and/or F# would also be...
Prism Digital
Salary: £55000 - £80000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Primarily you'll work on legacy code, refactoring wherever possible, however, you'll also get involved in brand new strategic projects where you'll have the chance to...
Argyll Scott International
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
My client a innovative telecommunications company based in the heart of Central London are looking for a Senior Software Agile Engineer who has a passion for/ expert knowledge...
IT Talent Solutions
Salary: £75000 - £100000 per annum + bonus pension work from home
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
As a SQL Developer you will be working with 2 senior Database Administrators performing refactoring and data migration from Microsoft SQL 2002 to Microsoft SQL 2012. As the...
bridgenoble
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Connectus
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013