Refactoring Contracts in London

Refactoring
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 313 360 431
Rank change year-on-year +47 +71 -35
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 40 31 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.20% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 46
10th Percentile £406 £500 £403
25th Percentile £500 £559 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £693 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +45.79% -29.63%
75th Percentile £838 £841 £593
90th Percentile £863 £850 £700
England median daily rate £690 £600 £500
% change year-on-year +15.00% +20.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - £71.87 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +69.11% -46.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in London

Refactoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South London +9 4 - -
Central London +4 1 £375 - 4
East London - 1 £500 - 1
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (2.50%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
2 10 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (12.50%) Azure Stack
3 5 (12.50%) IaaS
3 5 (12.50%) PaaS
3 5 (12.50%) Serverless
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (7.50%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.00%) ClickHouse
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.00%) TKPROF
4 1 (2.50%) KDB
4 1 (2.50%) Kdb+
4 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Redis
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) Git
2 10 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 8 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 6 (15.00%) GitLab
5 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.00%) Eclipse
6 2 (5.00%) Gradle
6 2 (5.00%) IntelliJ
6 2 (5.00%) Maven
6 2 (5.00%) Subversion
7 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.50%) Mocha
General
1 17 (42.50%) Banking
2 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 12 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (30.00%) Investment Banking
4 11 (27.50%) Finance
4 11 (27.50%) Front Office
5 8 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) DataOps Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Qualitative Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Quantitative Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) .NET
1 10 (25.00%) Node.js
2 8 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 8 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 8 (20.00%) CSS
2 8 (20.00%) gRPC
2 8 (20.00%) HTML
2 8 (20.00%) Kafka
2 8 (20.00%) React
3 7 (17.50%) HTML5
3 7 (17.50%) LESS
3 7 (17.50%) Sass
3 7 (17.50%) Tailwind CSS
4 6 (15.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.50%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (2.50%) Jest
5 1 (2.50%) JWT
5 1 (2.50%) Nunjucks
5 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Credit Risk
3 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.00%) Equities
4 2 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) DevOps
2 17 (42.50%) Microservices
3 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
4 12 (30.00%) Analytics
5 11 (27.50%) Containerisation
5 11 (27.50%) OO
6 9 (22.50%) Scrum
7 8 (20.00%) Agile
7 8 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (20.00%) OOP
7 8 (20.00%) SOA
8 7 (17.50%) Cloud Security
8 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
9 6 (15.00%) Data Science
9 6 (15.00%) Migration
9 6 (15.00%) Risk Management
9 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (15.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) Python
2 11 (27.50%) Java
3 10 (25.00%) C#
3 10 (25.00%) C++
4 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
4 9 (22.50%) TypeScript
5 5 (12.50%) Scala
5 5 (12.50%) SQL
6 4 (10.00%) Bash
7 3 (7.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (22.50%) Terraform
3 7 (17.50%) Ansible
4 5 (12.50%) Grafana
4 5 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (7.50%) Zscaler
3 2 (5.00%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Sybase
4 1 (2.50%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.50%) TIBCO