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 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 364 430
Rank change year-on-year +47 +66 -26
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 50 33 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.21% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 43
10th Percentile £359 £374 £406
25th Percentile £433 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +26.32% -26.92%
75th Percentile £813 £623 £581
90th Percentile £863 £713 £710
England median daily rate £566 £513 £450
% change year-on-year +10.44% +13.89% -25.00%

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 12,466 15,434 23,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.12% 88.70% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,342 10,968 16,824
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 285 263
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.24 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £23.88
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.16 £41.04
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% -26.51% +14.00%
75th Percentile £50.56 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.70 £69.20 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.59
% change year-on-year -34.02% -6.09% +56.12%

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

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in London over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in London

Refactoring
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

Refactoring
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 15 July 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
Central London 0 2 - - 3
South London 0 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 (2.00%) Appian
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
1 1 (2.00%) MQSeries
1 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) AWS
2 13 (26.00%) Azure
3 7 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.00%) GCP
5 3 (6.00%) Azure API Management
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Storage
5 3 (6.00%) IaaS
5 3 (6.00%) PaaS
5 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.00%) GitHub
6 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.00%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.00%) ClickHouse
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.00%) Power BI
3 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.00%) TKPROF
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.00%) DB2
4 1 (2.00%) KDB
4 1 (2.00%) Kdb+
4 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) Redis
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (30.00%) Git
2 10 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 8 (16.00%) Bitbucket
4 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.00%) GitLab
6 2 (4.00%) Eclipse
6 2 (4.00%) Gradle
6 2 (4.00%) IntelliJ
6 2 (4.00%) Maven
6 2 (4.00%) Subversion
7 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.00%) JIRA
7 1 (2.00%) Log4j
7 1 (2.00%) Mocha
7 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (2.00%) tSQLt
General
1 21 (42.00%) Banking
2 17 (34.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (26.00%) Investment Banking
5 12 (24.00%) Finance
5 12 (24.00%) Front Office
6 8 (16.00%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
8 3 (6.00%) Law
9 2 (4.00%) Retail Banking
10 1 (2.00%) Digital Health
10 1 (2.00%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (2.00%) Legal
10 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Developer
2 11 (22.00%) Senior
3 8 (16.00%) Senior Developer
4 7 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Architect
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Qualitative Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Quantitative Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Banking Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 2 (4.00%) QA Tester
7 2 (4.00%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.00%) Kafka
1 11 (22.00%) Node.js
1 11 (22.00%) React
2 10 (20.00%) gRPC
3 9 (18.00%) .NET
3 9 (18.00%) CSS
3 9 (18.00%) HTML
4 8 (16.00%) ASP.NET
4 8 (16.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 7 (14.00%) HTML5
5 7 (14.00%) LESS
5 7 (14.00%) Sass
5 7 (14.00%) Tailwind CSS
6 6 (12.00%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (6.00%) ADO
7 3 (6.00%) ARM Templates
7 3 (6.00%) YAML
8 2 (4.00%) OAuth
8 2 (4.00%) RESTful
9 1 (2.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.00%) Legacy Code
3 3 (6.00%) Credit Risk
3 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) Equities
4 2 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.00%) Linux
4 1 (2.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) DevOps
2 19 (38.00%) Microservices
3 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (26.00%) Software Engineering
4 13 (26.00%) Test Automation
5 12 (24.00%) Migration
5 12 (24.00%) OO
5 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (24.00%) Scrum
6 10 (20.00%) Agile
6 10 (20.00%) Analytics
6 10 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (18.00%) Clean Code
8 8 (16.00%) OOP
8 8 (16.00%) SOA
9 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (12.00%) Risk Management
10 6 (12.00%) Task Automation
10 6 (12.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) Java
2 12 (24.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (22.00%) Python
3 11 (22.00%) TypeScript
4 10 (20.00%) C++
5 9 (18.00%) C#
6 7 (14.00%) SQL
7 6 (12.00%) Go
8 5 (10.00%) Bash
9 3 (6.00%) Bicep
9 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.00%) COBOL
10 1 (2.00%) JCL
10 1 (2.00%) Ruby
10 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.00%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) FATCA
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) HL7
2 1 (2.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.00%) Terraform
3 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.00%) Ansible
4 3 (6.00%) Grafana
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Oracle
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) Zscaler
4 2 (4.00%) Google
4 2 (4.00%) IBM
4 2 (4.00%) Splunk
4 2 (4.00%) Sybase
4 2 (4.00%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.00%) Kony
5 1 (2.00%) Pega
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.00%) RedGate
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce