Refactoring Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Refactoring
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Refactoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 2 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.10% - 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.03%
75th Percentile £588 - £419
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £575 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +21.05% +18.75% +6.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,548 820 1,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.59% 85.86% 81.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 577 752
10th Percentile £375 £325 £360
25th Percentile £482 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +10.48%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £657
90th Percentile £730 £664 £725
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 62 128
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £17.69
25th Percentile £16.64 £25.15 £39.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £37.44 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +26.86% -34.71% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.55 £75.00 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £57.00 £21.58 £57.35
% change year-on-year +164.19% -62.38% +14.70%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Refactoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Refactoring job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Refactoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Refactoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 6 August 2026. 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
Southampton - 2 £575 - 1
Refactoring
South East

Refactoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft