Refactoring Contracts in Edinburgh

Refactoring
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Refactoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Refactoring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £473
25th Percentile - - £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £532
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.83%
75th Percentile - - £547
90th Percentile - - £547
Scotland median daily rate - £575 £532
% change year-on-year - +8.08% -9.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Refactoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Code Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematical Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks