Refactoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Refactoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Refactoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 704 722 494
Rank change year-on-year +18 -228 +110
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 192 252 1,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.25% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 133 137 446
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £64,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £89,750 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +26.13% +23.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Refactoring 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Refactoring.

Salary trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +47 160 £61,500 -18.00% 45
UK excluding London +57 146 £60,000 -14.29% 28
Work from Home +64 101 £60,000 -20.00% 26
North of England +76 41 £62,500 +28.21% 7
South West +26 38 £60,000 -25.00% 4
London +29 35 £76,250 +1.67% 15
South East +10 29 £60,500 -13.57% 9
North West +29 28 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Wales +30 18 £62,500 -
East of England +24 15 £40,000 -50.00% 1
Yorkshire +101 13 £75,000 +57.89% 1
Scotland -63 4 £60,000 +12.15% 1
West Midlands +21 1 - - 1
Midlands +2 1 - - 5

Refactoring
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 9 (4.69%) Confluence
2 8 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.56%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) Tornado
Applications
1 3 (1.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.04%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.52%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.04%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.04%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (34.90%) AWS
2 60 (31.25%) Azure
3 22 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.94%) GitHub
5 17 (8.85%) Heroku
6 15 (7.81%) SaaS
7 14 (7.29%) OpenShift
8 12 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (5.73%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.73%) Serverless
10 10 (5.21%) Amazon ECR
10 10 (5.21%) IBM Cloud
10 10 (5.21%) OCI
10 10 (5.21%) Route 53
11 6 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.60%) Azure Functions
13 4 (2.08%) Firebase
14 3 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.56%) Kong
14 3 (1.56%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) Internet
2 2 (1.04%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (24.48%) SQL Server
2 25 (13.02%) MySQL
3 20 (10.42%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (6.77%) NoSQL
7 12 (6.25%) DynamoDB
8 11 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (5.73%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.73%) RDBMS
9 10 (5.21%) DB2
10 6 (3.13%) GIS
11 5 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.56%) Big Data
14 2 (1.04%) Power BI
15 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
15 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
15 1 (0.52%) DocumentDB
15 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (22.40%) Git
2 25 (13.02%) GitLab
3 14 (7.29%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.73%) JIRA
5 8 (4.17%) LabVIEW
6 6 (3.13%) Selenium
7 5 (2.60%) Moq
8 4 (2.08%) NUnit
8 4 (2.08%) webpack
9 3 (1.56%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.56%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.52%) Gradle
10 1 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (18.23%) Finance
1 35 (18.23%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.90%) Electronics
3 18 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.81%) Retail
5 14 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.77%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.25%) Legal
8 10 (5.21%) Marketing
9 9 (4.69%) Tech for Good
10 5 (2.60%) Games
11 4 (2.08%) Aviation
11 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.08%) Law
12 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.04%) Public Speaking
14 1 (0.52%) Advertising
14 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (60.42%) Developer
2 73 (38.02%) Senior
3 42 (21.88%) Senior Developer
4 24 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 19 (9.90%) Lead
6 17 (8.85%) Salesforce Developer
7 16 (8.33%) .NET Developer
8 14 (7.29%) Software Engineer
8 14 (7.29%) Technical Leader
9 13 (6.77%) Analyst
9 13 (6.77%) Full Stack Developer
9 13 (6.77%) PHP Developer
10 12 (6.25%) Java Developer
11 10 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.69%) Architect
12 9 (4.69%) Full Stack Engineer
12 9 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (4.69%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
13 8 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (47.40%) .NET
2 49 (25.52%) React
3 27 (14.06%) AngularJS
3 27 (14.06%) CSS
4 24 (12.50%) Spring
5 22 (11.46%) HTML
6 20 (10.42%) Node.js
7 19 (9.90%) REST
8 17 (8.85%) Lightning Web Components
8 17 (8.85%) Visualforce
9 15 (7.81%) Vue
9 15 (7.81%) XML
10 14 (7.29%) .NET Core
10 14 (7.29%) ASP.NET
11 13 (6.77%) JSON
11 13 (6.77%) Laravel
12 10 (5.21%) Spring XD
13 9 (4.69%) .NET Framework
14 8 (4.17%) jQuery
14 8 (4.17%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.21%) Blockchain
1 10 (5.21%) e-Learning
1 10 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (4.69%) Virtual Team
3 8 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.13%) IoT
6 5 (2.60%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.60%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.08%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.56%) Clustering
8 3 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.56%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.56%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.98%) Windows
2 16 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.17%) Unix
4 6 (3.13%) Linux
5 5 (2.60%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (48.44%) Agile
2 57 (29.69%) DevOps
3 50 (26.04%) Test Automation
4 49 (25.52%) Mentoring
5 47 (24.48%) Full Stack Development
6 43 (22.40%) Software Engineering
7 42 (21.88%) TDD
8 39 (20.31%) CI/CD
9 38 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (19.27%) Microservices
11 26 (13.54%) Scrum
12 25 (13.02%) Coaching
12 25 (13.02%) OOP
13 22 (11.46%) Computer Science
14 20 (10.42%) Migration
15 19 (9.90%) Artificial Intelligence
15 19 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (9.38%) Data Modelling
16 18 (9.38%) Software Testing
16 18 (9.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (39.06%) C#
2 52 (27.08%) Java
2 52 (27.08%) SQL
3 47 (24.48%) JavaScript
4 43 (22.40%) Python
5 33 (17.19%) TypeScript
6 29 (15.10%) PHP
7 17 (8.85%) Apex Code
8 11 (5.73%) VB.NET
9 10 (5.21%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.65%) Ada
10 7 (3.65%) Bash
10 7 (3.65%) Go
11 6 (3.13%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.08%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.56%) VBA
14 2 (1.04%) C
14 2 (1.04%) C++
14 2 (1.04%) Haskell
14 2 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (18.75%) Degree
2 17 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.73%) DBS Check
4 6 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.56%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.69%) QA
2 4 (2.08%) DICOM
2 4 (2.08%) HL7
2 4 (2.08%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (15.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (15.10%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.42%) Terraform
3 10 (5.21%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.08%) Ansible
5 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.46%) Oracle
3 17 (8.85%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.73%) Xamarin
5 10 (5.21%) Dynatrace
5 10 (5.21%) IBM
5 10 (5.21%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.21%) Sybase
6 6 (3.13%) Google
6 6 (3.13%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.08%) SAP
8 3 (1.56%) Sparx
8 3 (1.56%) VMware
9 2 (1.04%) New Relic
10 1 (0.52%) Databricks
10 1 (0.52%) Dell
10 1 (0.52%) UiPath
10 1 (0.52%) YouTube