Refactoring Contracts in the North of England

Refactoring
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 174 209
Rank change year-on-year +8 +35 +20
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 2 12 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.061% 0.26% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.31% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £417 £416 -
25th Percentile £424 £430 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £456 £413
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% +10.61% -13.16%
75th Percentile £454 £480 £438
90th Percentile £458 £492 -
England median daily rate £700 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +40.00% +11.11% -28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
England median hourly rate - £71.87 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +69.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,955 3,922 5,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.84% 85.13% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,898 2,403 3,468
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 364 203
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.94 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £27.50 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +55.19% -36.03% +45.79%
75th Percentile £57.93 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £59.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

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

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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 22 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
Yorkshire +8 1 £425 -15.00% 5
North East - 1 £460 - 2
Refactoring
England

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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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA