Refactoring Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Refactoring
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Refactoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.28% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £424 - £401
25th Percentile £441 - £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £405
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.14%
75th Percentile £541 - £411
90th Percentile £561 - £414
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - £405
% change year-on-year - - -42.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 558 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.90% 86.38% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 349 579
10th Percentile £302 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £575 £573 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 6
10th Percentile - £15.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £18.14 £18.74
Median hourly rate £19.63 £32.50 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% +54.71% -2.29%
75th Percentile £26.13 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.63 £97.18 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -26.20% +57.89% -11.63%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Refactoring job vacancy trend in Leeds

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in Leeds

Refactoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delphi Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Delphi
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker