Refactoring Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Refactoring
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Refactoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 114 136
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 +26
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 7 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.44% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.20% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £468 - £360
25th Percentile £476 £713 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £725 £483
Median % change year-on-year -29.72% +50.26% -11.47%
75th Percentile £542 £738 £580
90th Percentile £586 - £657
UK median daily rate £521 £595 £615
% change year-on-year -12.44% -3.25% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,396 1,512 2,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.24% 88.27% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 883 1,345
10th Percentile £238 £215 £250
25th Percentile £383 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 46 54
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.95 £18.77 £16.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +16.14% +9.06%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.05
90th Percentile £53.75 £31.44 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.21% -24.93% +24.64%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Refactoring job vacancy trend in Scotland

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Refactoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in Scotland

Refactoring
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Refactoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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
Edinburgh +7 5 £504 -30.52%
Glasgow - 2 £550 - 2
Refactoring
UK

Refactoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) AWS CDK
1 3 (42.86%) React
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) Next.js
3 1 (14.29%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Mac OS
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Service Design
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) Disk Encryption
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Product Management
4 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) API Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Health Informatics
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) DICOM
2 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (14.29%) HL7
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 13485
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) vRealize
2 1 (14.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) VMware