Refactoring Contracts in England

Refactoring
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 483 551
Rank change year-on-year +56 +68 -23
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 47 57 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 78
10th Percentile £390 £400 £374
25th Percentile £419 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +10.53% -24.00%
75th Percentile £825 £789 £598
90th Percentile £863 £850 £683
UK median daily rate £650 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +23.81% +10.53% -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £68.37 £36.50
25th Percentile - £69.69 £38.75
Median hourly rate - £71.87 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +69.11% -46.88%
75th Percentile - £72.19 £46.25
90th Percentile - £72.37 £48.50
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £47.73
% change year-on-year - +46.66% -40.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,171 31,821 44,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.22% 86.48% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,511 20,850 31,044
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,250 1,565
10th Percentile £14.21 £12.92 £10.68
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.02 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -20.49% -2.14% +52.24%
75th Percentile £63.29 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.64% +1.39% +42.97%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +73 37 £775 +2.65% 58
South East +31 4 £475 +18.75% 17
North of England +8 2 £443 +7.27% 15
Yorkshire +11 1 £425 - 5
Midlands +10 1 £385 - 7
North East - 1 £460 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £385 - 2
Refactoring
UK

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.13%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 19 (40.43%) AWS
2 11 (23.40%) Azure
3 6 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (12.77%) Serverless
4 5 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
4 5 (10.64%) IaaS
4 5 (10.64%) PaaS
4 5 (10.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (8.51%) GCP
6 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Stack
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (8.51%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.26%) ClickHouse
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.26%) TKPROF
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) DB2
4 1 (2.13%) KDB
4 1 (2.13%) Kdb+
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Power BI
4 1 (2.13%) Redis
4 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (34.04%) Git
2 10 (21.28%) TeamCity
3 8 (17.02%) Bitbucket
4 7 (14.89%) GitLab
5 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.26%) Eclipse
6 2 (4.26%) Gradle
6 2 (4.26%) IntelliJ
6 2 (4.26%) Maven
6 2 (4.26%) Subversion
7 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.13%) Mocha
7 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (38.30%) Banking
2 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
3 13 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (25.53%) Finance
4 12 (25.53%) Investment Banking
5 11 (23.40%) Front Office
6 8 (17.02%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.26%) Retail Banking
9 1 (2.13%) Law
9 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Developer
2 8 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Senior
4 6 (12.77%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) C# Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Architect
6 4 (8.51%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (8.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Qualitative Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Quantitative Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Quantitative Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Quantitative Analyst Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) .NET
2 10 (21.28%) gRPC
2 10 (21.28%) Kafka
2 10 (21.28%) Node.js
3 9 (19.15%) CSS
3 9 (19.15%) HTML
4 8 (17.02%) ASP.NET
4 8 (17.02%) ASP.NET Web API
4 8 (17.02%) React
5 7 (14.89%) HTML5
5 7 (14.89%) LESS
5 7 (14.89%) Sass
5 7 (14.89%) Tailwind CSS
6 6 (12.77%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.13%) Dapper ORM
7 1 (2.13%) Express.js
7 1 (2.13%) Jest
7 1 (2.13%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.38%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.26%) Equities
4 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) Tandem
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) DevOps
2 19 (40.43%) Microservices
3 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
4 11 (23.40%) OO
5 10 (21.28%) Analytics
5 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (19.15%) Clean Code
6 9 (19.15%) Containerisation
6 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (19.15%) Migration
6 9 (19.15%) Scrum
6 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
7 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (17.02%) OOP
7 8 (17.02%) SOA
7 8 (17.02%) Test Automation
8 7 (14.89%) Cloud Security
8 7 (14.89%) Task Automation
9 6 (12.77%) Agile
9 6 (12.77%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) Python
2 11 (23.40%) C#
2 11 (23.40%) Java
2 11 (23.40%) JavaScript
3 10 (21.28%) C++
4 9 (19.15%) TypeScript
5 8 (17.02%) SQL
6 5 (10.64%) Bash
6 5 (10.64%) Go
7 2 (4.26%) Scala
8 1 (2.13%) COBOL
8 1 (2.13%) JCL
8 1 (2.13%) PHP
8 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) SC Cleared
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.51%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) Kubernetes
2 10 (21.28%) Terraform
3 8 (17.02%) Ansible
4 6 (12.77%) Grafana
4 6 (12.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Oracle
2 3 (6.38%) Zscaler
3 2 (4.26%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Sybase
4 1 (2.13%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.13%) BT
4 1 (2.13%) Databricks
4 1 (2.13%) IBM
4 1 (2.13%) Openreach
4 1 (2.13%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.13%) Virgin Media