Refactoring Contracts in the North of England

Refactoring
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Refactoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Refactoring over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 201 228
Rank change year-on-year +28 +27 -52
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 11 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.088% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.097% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile £406 £375 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -13.16% +2.70%
75th Percentile £419 £438 £500
90th Percentile - - £550
England median daily rate £525 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +10.53% -24.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £68.37 - -
25th Percentile £69.69 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - -
75th Percentile £72.19 - -
90th Percentile £72.37 - -
England median hourly rate £71.87 £42.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +69.11% -46.88% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Refactoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,961 5,179 6,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.44% 90.65% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,405 3,586 4,652
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £565
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 204 268
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.85 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +50.87% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.05 £35.86
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £60.82
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in the North of England

Refactoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in the North of England

Refactoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in the North of England

Refactoring
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
North West +29 10 £413 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Serverless
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (27.27%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Automotive
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) AWS DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) React
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Kanban
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
3 4 (36.36%) Software Deployment
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
5 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
6 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
6 1 (9.09%) Observability
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Bash
1 4 (36.36%) Java
1 4 (36.36%) PHP
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google