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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 711 752 489
Rank change year-on-year +41 -263 +102
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 197 244 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.25% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 137 133 431
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £64,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,250 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.93% +21.74% +27.78%

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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 7 May 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 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +35 164 £62,500 -16.67% 54
UK excluding London +35 145 £60,250 -13.93% 42
Work from Home +51 103 £60,000 -20.00% 42
North of England +68 40 £62,500 +28.21% 8
London +25 40 £77,500 +3.33% 16
South West -2 39 £60,000 -25.00% 6
North West +31 28 £60,000 +20.00% 6
South East +3 28 £60,500 -13.57% 11
Wales +29 18 £62,500 - 1
East of England +27 15 £40,000 -50.00% 1
Yorkshire +88 12 £75,000 +57.89% 2
Scotland -61 4 £60,000 - 6
West Midlands +11 1 - - 1
Midlands -5 1 - - 8

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 10 (5.08%) Confluence
2 7 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.52%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) IIS
4 1 (0.51%) Tornado
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.02%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.51%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.02%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.02%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (35.03%) AWS
2 63 (31.98%) Azure
3 23 (11.68%) GitHub
4 22 (11.17%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.63%) Heroku
6 16 (8.12%) OpenShift
6 16 (8.12%) SaaS
7 13 (6.60%) Amazon S3
8 12 (6.09%) Amazon ECR
8 12 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (6.09%) IBM Cloud
8 12 (6.09%) OCI
8 12 (6.09%) Route 53
9 8 (4.06%) Serverless
10 6 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.54%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.03%) Firebase
12 4 (2.03%) IaaS
12 4 (2.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) Internet
2 2 (1.02%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (25.38%) SQL Server
2 25 (12.69%) MySQL
3 21 (10.66%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (6.60%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (6.60%) MongoDB
5 13 (6.60%) NoSQL
5 13 (6.60%) RDBMS
6 12 (6.09%) DB2
7 11 (5.58%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.05%) GIS
9 5 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.52%) Big Data
12 2 (1.02%) Power BI
13 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 42 (21.32%) Git
2 25 (12.69%) GitLab
3 16 (8.12%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.09%) JIRA
5 8 (4.06%) LabVIEW
6 7 (3.55%) Selenium
7 5 (2.54%) Moq
8 4 (2.03%) NUnit
8 4 (2.03%) webpack
9 3 (1.52%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.52%) Gradle
10 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.51%) Vagrant
General
1 37 (18.78%) Finance
2 33 (16.75%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.64%) Electronics
4 18 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (8.12%) Public Sector
7 15 (7.61%) Retail
8 12 (6.09%) Legal
9 11 (5.58%) Marketing
10 9 (4.57%) Tech for Good
11 5 (2.54%) Games
12 4 (2.03%) Aviation
12 4 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.03%) Law
13 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (1.02%) Public Speaking
15 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (58.88%) Developer
2 77 (39.09%) Senior
3 43 (21.83%) Senior Developer
4 24 (12.18%) Software Developer
5 23 (11.68%) Lead
6 17 (8.63%) Salesforce Developer
7 16 (8.12%) .NET Developer
7 16 (8.12%) Software Engineer
8 14 (7.11%) Technical Leader
9 13 (6.60%) Java Developer
9 13 (6.60%) PHP Developer
10 12 (6.09%) Analyst
10 12 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.09%) Full Stack Developer
11 10 (5.08%) Full Stack Engineer
11 10 (5.08%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
12 9 (4.57%) Architect
12 9 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (4.57%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (4.06%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (47.21%) .NET
2 52 (26.40%) React
3 30 (15.23%) AngularJS
4 29 (14.72%) CSS
5 27 (13.71%) Spring
6 24 (12.18%) HTML
7 20 (10.15%) Node.js
8 19 (9.64%) REST
9 17 (8.63%) Lightning Web Components
9 17 (8.63%) Visualforce
9 17 (8.63%) Vue
10 15 (7.61%) JSON
10 15 (7.61%) XML
11 14 (7.11%) .NET Core
11 14 (7.11%) ASP.NET
12 13 (6.60%) Laravel
13 12 (6.09%) Spring XD
14 9 (4.57%) .NET Framework
15 8 (4.06%) jQuery
15 8 (4.06%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (6.09%) Blockchain
2 12 (6.09%) e-Learning
3 9 (4.57%) Virtual Team
4 8 (4.06%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (4.06%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.55%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.05%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.05%) IoT
7 5 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.54%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.03%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.03%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.52%) Clustering
9 3 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.52%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.69%) Windows
2 16 (8.12%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.55%) Unix
4 6 (3.05%) Linux
5 5 (2.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (47.72%) Agile
2 60 (30.46%) DevOps
3 54 (27.41%) Mentoring
4 52 (26.40%) Test Automation
5 47 (23.86%) Full Stack Development
6 45 (22.84%) Software Engineering
7 42 (21.32%) TDD
8 41 (20.81%) CI/CD
9 39 (19.80%) Microservices
10 38 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (13.71%) Coaching
12 26 (13.20%) Scrum
13 23 (11.68%) OOP
14 22 (11.17%) Computer Science
14 22 (11.17%) Migration
15 21 (10.66%) Artificial Intelligence
16 20 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (9.64%) Containerisation
18 18 (9.14%) Product Strategy
18 18 (9.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 73 (37.06%) C#
2 56 (28.43%) Java
3 50 (25.38%) JavaScript
3 50 (25.38%) SQL
4 43 (21.83%) Python
5 35 (17.77%) TypeScript
6 29 (14.72%) PHP
7 17 (8.63%) Apex Code
8 11 (5.58%) VB.NET
9 10 (5.08%) T-SQL
10 9 (4.57%) Bash
11 7 (3.55%) Ada
11 7 (3.55%) Go
12 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.03%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.52%) VBA
15 2 (1.02%) C
15 2 (1.02%) C++
15 2 (1.02%) Haskell
15 2 (1.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (17.77%) Degree
2 17 (8.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.58%) DBS Check
4 7 (3.55%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.03%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.58%) QA
2 4 (2.03%) DICOM
2 4 (2.03%) HL7
2 4 (2.03%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 32 (16.24%) Docker
2 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (16.24%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.17%) Terraform
3 12 (6.09%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.03%) Ansible
5 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.69%) Oracle
3 17 (8.63%) Salesforce
4 12 (6.09%) Dynatrace
4 12 (6.09%) IBM
4 12 (6.09%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.09%) Sybase
5 11 (5.58%) Xamarin
6 8 (4.06%) Google
7 6 (3.05%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.03%) SAP
9 3 (1.52%) Sparx
9 3 (1.52%) VMware
10 2 (1.02%) New Relic
11 1 (0.51%) Databricks
11 1 (0.51%) Dell
11 1 (0.51%) UiPath
11 1 (0.51%) YouTube