Refactoring Contracts in the North West

Refactoring
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 112 149
Rank change year-on-year -10 +37 +41
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 3 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.42% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.49% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.09%
75th Percentile £375 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £565 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +7.62% +10.53% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.87 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.87 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.60% +43.74% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,934 2,021 2,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.07% 84.42% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,236 1,852
10th Percentile £278 £301 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 184 169
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.90 £33.61 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.97% +1.83% +43.48%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £63.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Manchester +2 3 £350 - 5
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (33.33%) Rational Rhapsody
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) Laravel
2 1 (33.33%) JavaFX
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Swing
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
1 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
1 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Management
1 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Test Management
1 1 (33.33%) UML
1 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft