Refactoring Contract Job Trends in the North East

Refactoring
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Refactoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.76% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 - -
75th Percentile £483 - -
90th Percentile £489 - -
England median daily rate £543 £590 £615
% change year-on-year -8.05% -4.07% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 348 282 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 87.88% 92.76% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 135 151
10th Percentile £178 £305 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £575
90th Percentile £591 £712 £710
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 9
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.13 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.91 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.27% +5.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Refactoring job vacancy trend in the North East

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Refactoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the North East region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £450 - 1
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Discovery
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform